sentences:  Back in his native principality, Giorgi Gurieli faced a coup engineered by his own mother, Elene, on whose instigation Dadiani, Abashidze, and the duke of Racha intervened with their troops to expel Giorgi and replace him with his younger brother, Kaikhosro III Gurieli, the unfrocked monk and Elene's favorite son.Giorgi fled to Akhlatsikhe under the protection of an Ottoman pasha.There he met his exiled predecessor as king of Imereti, Giorgi VII, who married Gurieli's sister Tamar.