Members of the Romanian Royal Family
List of the members of the Romanian Royal Family, listed alphabetically with photos when available. This list includes the names of each famous person in the Romanian Royal Family, along with information like where each person was born. If you're doing research on historic members of the Romanian Royal Family, then this list is the perfect jumping off point for finding out which notable people are included. The Romanian Royal Family has held prominence in the world dating back many years, so it's no wonder that many people have a fascination with its members. While this is not an exact family tree, it does show a list of many popular members of the Romanian Royal Family.
This list is made up of a variety of family members, including Queen Anne of Romania and Michael of Romania.
The information on this page of prominent Romanian Royal Family members can help answer the questions, โWho was in the Romanian Royal Family?โ and "Who is part of the Romanian Royal Family?- Photo: Metaweb (FB) / Public domainQueen Anne of Romania (Romanian: Ana; nรฉe Princess Anne Antoinette Franรงoise Charlotte Zita Marguerite of Bourbon-Parma; 18 September 1923 โ 1 August 2016) was the wife of Michael I of Romania, whom she predeceased.
- Photo: Metaweb (FB) / CC-BY-SA-2.0Michael I (Romanian: Mihai I [miหhaj]; 25 October 1921 โ 5 December 2017) was the last King of Romania, reigning from 20 July 1927 to 8 June 1930 and again from 6 September 1940 until his forced abdication on 30 December 1947. Shortly after Michael's birth, his father, Crown Prince Carol of Romania, had become involved in a controversial relationship with Magda Lupescu. In 1925, Carol was eventually pressured to renounce his rights to the throne and moved to Paris in exile with Lupescu. In 1927, Michael ascended the throne, following the death of his grandfather King Ferdinand I. As he was still a minor, a regency council was instituted which comprised his uncle Prince Nicholas; the Patriarch Miron Cristea; and the president of the Supreme Court, Gheorghe Buzdugan. The council proved to be ineffective and in 1930, Carol returned to Romania and replaced his son as monarch, reigning as Carol II. As a result, Michael returned to being heir apparent to the throne and was given the additional title of Grand Voievod of Alba-Iulia. Carol II was deposed in 1940, and Michael once again became king. Under the government led by the military dictator Ion Antonescu, Romania became aligned with Nazi Germany. In 1944, Michael participated in a coup against Antonescu, appointed Constantin Sฤnฤtescu as his replacement, and subsequently declared an alliance with the Allies. In March 1945, political pressures forced Michael to appoint a pro-Soviet government headed by Petru Groza. From August 1945 to January 1946, Michael went on a "royal strike" and unsuccessfully tried to oppose Groza's Communist-controlled government by refusing to sign and endorse its decrees. In November, Michael attended the wedding of his cousins, the future Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark in London. Shortly thereafter, on the morning of 30 December 1947, Groza requested a meeting with Michael where he was forced to abdicate. Michael was forced into exile, his properties confiscated, and his citizenship stripped. He married Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma in 1948, with whom he had five daughters, and eventually settled in Switzerland. Nicolae Ceauศescu's communist dictatorship was overthrown in 1989 and the following year Michael attempted to return to Romania, only to be arrested and forced to leave upon arrival. In 1992, Michael was allowed to visit Romania for Easter where he was greeted by huge crowds; a speech he gave from his hotel window drew an estimated one million people to Bucharest. Alarmed by Michael's popularity, the post-communist government of Ion Iliescu refused to allow him any further visits. In 1997, after Iliescu's defeat by Emil Constantinescu in the presidential elections of the previous year, Michael's citizenship was restored and he was allowed to visit Romania again. Several confiscated properties, such as Peleล Castle and Sฤvรขrลin Castle, were eventually returned to his family.
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Princess Margareta of Romania
Margareta, Custodian of the Crown of Romania (born 26 March 1949) is the eldest daughter of King Michael I and Queen Anne of Romania. She assumed her father's duties in March 2016, upon his retirement, and has claimed the headship of the House of Romania since his death on 5 December 2017. She also heads the Princess Margareta of Romania Foundation.Until 2011, she also used the style of a princess of Hohenzollern. Margareta has four sisters and no brothers or children. Her heir-presumptive is her next sister, Princess Elena of Romania. According to the defunct royal constitutions of 1923 and 1938, women were barred from wearing the crown, and Margareta and her sisters would not be in the line of succession to the throne. On 30 December 2007, King Michael designated Margareta as heir presumptive to the throne by an act that is not recognized by the Romanian Republic and lacks legal validity without approval by Romania's Parliament. On the same occasion, Michael also requested that, should the Romanian Parliament consider restoring the monarchy, the Salic law of succession not be reinstated, allowing female succession. According to the new statute of the Romanian Royal House as declared by Michael, no illegitimate descendants or collateral lines may claim dynastic privileges, titles or rank and any such are excluded from the Royal House of Romania and from the line of succession to the throne. - Photo: Metaweb (FB) / Public domain
Princess Elena of Romania
Princess Elena of Romania (born 15 November 1950) is the second daughter of King Michael I and Queen Anne of Romania. She is currently first in the line of succession to the former Romanian throne and headship of the House of Romania as her elder sister Margareta has no issue. - Photo: Metaweb (FB) / Public domain
Princess Irina of Romania
Irina Walker (born Princess Irina of Romania on 28 February 1953) is the third daughter of King Michael I and Queen Anne of Romania. She was stripped of her title, styles and rights to the throne following involvement with illegal cockfighting and arrest at Irrigon, Oregon in 2013. - Photo: Metaweb (FB) / Public domain
Princess Maria of Romania
Maria of Romania or similar names can refer to: Queen Maria of Romania (1875โ1938), wife of King Ferdinand I and grandmother of King Michael I Princess Maria of Romania (1900โ1961), queen of Yugoslavia and daughter of King Ferdinand I Princess Maria of Romania (1870โ1874), daughter of King Carol I Princess Maria of Romania (born 1964), daughter of King Michael I - Photo: Metaweb (FB) / Public domainPrincess Sophie of Romania (Romanian: Sofia; born 29 October 1957) is the fourth daughter of King Michael I of Romania and Queen Anne.
Prince Nicholas of Romania
Nicholas Michael de Roumanie Medforth-Mills, formerly Prince Nicholas of Romania, (born 1 April 1985) is the eldest child and only son of Princess Elena of Romania and Robin Medforth-Mills. As a grandson of Michael I, the former king of Romania, he was third in line to the defunct throne of Romania according to a new family statute enacted in 2007, that also conferred the title of a "prince of Romania" on him which was abrogated in 2015. The statute and the titles it confers have no standing in present Romanian law.- Photo: Metaweb (FB) / CC-BY
Prince Radu of Romania
Prince Radu of Romania (born Radu Duda on 7 June 1960, known as Prince Radu of Hohenzollern-Veringen from 1999 to 2007) is the husband of Margareta of Romania, head of the House of Romania and a disputed pretender to the former Romanian throne. On 1 January 1999, he was given the name, not title, of "Prince of Hohenzollern-Veringen" by Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Hohenzollern, the Head of the Sigmaringen branch of the Hohenzollern family. He has also called himself "Radu Hohenzollern-Veringen-Duda". Since 2007, when he had his legal name changed from "Radu Duda" to "Radu al Romรขniei Duda", Radu no longer uses the name of Hohenzollern. The Fundamental Rules of the Romanian Royal Family, proclaimed by former King Michael I on 30 December 2007, gave Radu the title of "Prince of Romania", with the style of "Royal Highness", which King Michael had given him earlier on 5 January 2005.Radu was born in Iaศi, Socialist Republic of Romania, the elder of the two children of Professor Dr. Renรฉ Corneliu Duda and his wife Dr. Gabriela Eugenia Duda nรฉe Constandache. His only brother is Professor Gabriel Dan Duda. In 1996, he married Princess Margareta, eldest daughter of King Michael I of Romania and Queen Anne. As spouse of the heir to the Crown Princess, Radu often accompanies his wife, sometimes even solo, to support social projects and promote the Romanian economy. He is also the patron and a member of numerous Romanian charities and organisations. Paul-Philippe Hohenzollern
Paul-Philippe Hohenzollern (born 13 August 1948), also known as Prince Paul of Romania and Paul Lambrino, is the son of Carol Lambrino and Hรฉlรจne Henriette Nagavitzine. His father was the elder son of King Carol II of Romania and Zizi Lambrino. Paul-Philippe claims that he and not Princess Margareta is the rightful head of the royal house of Romania.
