Michael I of Romania
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Michael, King of the Romanians, Prince of Hohenzollern[1][2][3] (born October 25, 1921), reigned as King of the Romanians (Romanian: Maiestatea Sa Mihai I Regele Românilor, literally "His Majesty Michael I King of the Romanians") from July 20, 1927 to June 8, 1930, and again from September 6, 1940, until forced to abdicate by the communists backed up by orders of Stalin to the Soviet armies of occupation on December 30, 1947. A great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria and a third cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, he is one of the last surviving heads of state from World War II,[4][5][6][7] the others being Simeon II of Bulgaria [8] and King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
Referencecs [change]
- ↑ "Compression", Time, January 12, 1948
- ↑ "Milestones", Time, June 21, 1948
- ↑ Genealogy of the Royal Family of Romania, retrieved October 2, 2006
- ↑ World War II—"60 Years After: Former Romanian Monarch Remembers Decision To Switch Sides", RFE/RL, May 6, 2005
- ↑ Oliver North, “Looking for Leadership”, Human Events, April 14, 2006
- ↑ Peter Kurth, "Michael of Romania"
- ↑ Craig S. Smith, "Romania’s King Without a Throne Outlives Foes and Setbacks", The New York Times, January 27, 2007
- ↑ Simeon Saxecoburggotski, Encyclopædia Britannica
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