After the civil war: Greece, so very rich in her intellectual heritage and ancient history, is poor in natural wealth and scant in public resources, and so her royal family has on the whole been of limited fortune compared with the kings of the world..

Perhaps it is this very trait that has kept Their Majesties the King and Queen of Greece far from material surfeit, and hence from arrogance and wantonness... for the wealth of kings is most often a road to corruption. Thus King Paul and Queen Frederica have become known for their modesty, their closeness to the people, and their sincere and loving concern for its interests.

These lofty qualities showed themselves in Her Majesty Queen Frederica in a special way in 1947, shortly after the civil war in the northern provinces of Greece, which ended in those days in a grievous national catastrophe that separated thousands of children from their parents and cast them out, flock upon flock, in a state of misery, famine, and nakedness... Her Majesty awoke to this danger, answered the mothers' appeals, and resolved to save the young of the Greek countryside from the consequences of homelessness and deprivation.