 While walking in the Garden on September 30, 1920, King Alexander was bitten by a pet monkey (whose pet it is not revealed) and he died of sepsis three weeks later.His death ushered the return of his deposed father, King Constantine I who had been deposed for his pro-German sympathies during the First World War.Upon his return to power, King Constantine assisted in the defeat of his political nemesis, Venizelos in the November 1920 General Election.