Meant To Resign Throne?

New York Times 100 years ago today, March 19, 1913:
King Said His Son Ought to Have It for Capture of Yanina.
By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times.
    VIENNA, Wednesday, March 19.— The tragic end of King George of Greece has aroused much sympathy in Vienna. His Majesty was a personal friend of Emperor Francis Joseph, whom he visited in October last. The fiftieth anniversary of his ascension to the throne was to be celebrated in October next.
    The conquest of Yanina filled King George with indescribable joy. His staff say that he behaved as though he were thirty years younger. At a dinner which he recently gave at Salonika he said in proposing the health of the Crown Prince:
    "My son gave me the happiest day of my life."
    After dinner, in conversing with one of his guests the King said:
    "The great victory of my son has made me so happy because I see all my dreams realized. Under my fifty years' rule Greece has become great and almost all Hellenism in Europe has been liberated. As a father, and King I could not desire a finer epilogue. When Constantine took Salonika I made him Generalissimo. Now that the victorious strife is at an end the only reward for him can be the throne."
    The guests were under the impression that the King contemplated resigning after the fiftieth anniversary of his accession next October, in favor of the Crown Prince.