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Daughter of former Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras dies, media: 34-year-old suffered cardiac arrest
2025-08-11 09:41:56 / BOTA
No news could have surprised and shocked the Greek public more than the death of Lena Samaras, a young woman, only 34 years old.
Relatives, friends and colleagues will bid him farewell today at noon, at 1:00 PM, at the Church of Saint Theodore of the First Cemetery of Athens.
Lena Samara was of course the first daughter of Antonis Samaras. However, upon hearing the news, nothing else mattered except the loss, the instinctive reaction of pure shock. Regardless of whether Lena Samara was indirectly famous and at the same time almost unknown to the general public and with her choice, everyone's thoughts automatically went to the immense suffering of her loved ones. Those who are forced to continue their lives from now on without her noble and discreet presence.
Few photos were found in the media archives, almost all of them family photos – and in all of them she appears happy, optimistic, positive, with a smile all over her face. And even less information was gathered amid the pressure to somehow build her profile from everything that had been made public before.
She was born in 1991, a year after her parents' wedding in May 1990 in Pylos. She was a student at the College of Athens until 2008, attending the most prestigious private school in Greece, an educational institution with which her family has close and long-standing ties.
As was perhaps obvious, Eleni-Danai Samara continued the tradition of her father Antonis and her uncle, architect Alexandros Samaras, who also graduated from the College – with the latter also serving as president of the educational institution.
Moreover, Lena is a descendant of Penelope, wife of the founder of the College, Stefanos Deltas, and daughter of Emmanuel Benakis. Heavy genes, heavy surname – even a heavy name since Eleni was baptized in memory of Antonis Samaras’ mother, Eleni Zanna.
After college, Lena graduated with a degree in civil engineering from Saint George's City College in London in the summer of 2015, when her father was no longer prime minister or president of New Democracy, a development that may have eased the burden of suffocating publicity from her shoulders.
She had followed some of Antonis Samaras' steps in politics, perhaps out of admiration and curiosity, especially during his 10-month term as Minister of Culture in 2009. But as for how she lived the last 10 years of her life, she chose to leave the traces of her memories only to her family and those she trusted. And so, unexpectedly, she passed away on the evening of Thursday, August 7, 2025.
Dizziness, transfer to Sismanoglio, blood tests and CT scan, referral to the Neurology Department of “Evangelismo” – and that was it. A 34-year-old woman suffered an epileptic seizure and cardiac arrest.
The official announcement of the Ministry of Health hides the widespread sadness of Greek society over the death of Lena Samaras behind neutral, official terminology: “During the investigation of the causes of her condition, the patient experienced rapid deterioration and despite the superhuman efforts of the hospital’s medical and nursing staff, the patient died on 07/08 at 22.29.”
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