Question: Did Romania have monarchy?

Romanian royal family



Romanian royal family
HM The Custodian of the Crown
HRH Prince Radu*

HRH Princess Elena

HRH Princess Sophie

HRH Princess Maria

HRH Prince Paul‡
HRH Princess Lia‡
HRH Prince Carol Ferdinand‡
HRH Prince Alexander‡
*
‡Status disputedvt
The Kingdom of Romania (Romanian: Regatul României) was a constitutional monarchy in Central-Eastern Europe, ruled by a royal family that was a branch of the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen dynasty. The kingdom existed from 1881, when Carol I of Romania was proclaimed king, until 1947, when the last king, Michael I of Romania, abdicated and the Parliament proclaimed Romania a republic. Soon after, upon the establishment of the constitution of 13 April 1948, Romania became a socialist republic, a regime that lasted until 1989.
Members of the former royal family include the daughters of the late, former, King Michael of Romania. Some descendants have adopted the surname "of Romania". There are also descendants of Michael's older half-brother Carol Lambrino (also known as "Carol Hohenzollern" and "Carol Mircea Grigore of Romania" or, in Romanian, al României, on his amended, Romanian birth certificate[1]), whose legitimacy was disputed and who were not recognised as royal during the reigns of Ferdinand, Carol II and Michael.
King Michael publicly renounced for himself, the former queen, and their five daughters any claim to the titles of "Prince/Princess of Hohenzollern", styles which were in any case not recognised under German laws since 1919 but had been attributed, along with the Romanian royal titles, to members of the Romanian dynasty in such subsequently-published sources as the Almanach de Gotha and Burke's Guide to the Royal Family.[2]
Descendants of King Michael




Romanian RoyaltyHouse of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen 
House of Romania
Carol I
Queen
Princess Elisabeth of Wied
Children
Princess Maria
Ferdinand I
Queen
Princess Marie of Edinburgh
Children
Carol II
Elisabeth, Queen of the Hellenes
Maria, Queen of Yugoslavia
Nicholas, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
Princess Ileana
Prince Mircea
Carol II
Consort
Princess Helen of Greece and Denmark
Children
Michael I
King Michael I
Consort
Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma
Children
Princess Margareta
Princess Elena
Princess Irina
Princess Sophie
Princess Marie
Grandchildren
Nicholas Medforth-Millsvt
Princess Margareta of Romania (b. 1949, age 70)
m. (1996) Radu Duda, assumed the title Prince Radu of Romania (b. 1960, age 59)
Princess Elena of Romania (b. 1950, age 69)
div. (1983–1991) Leslie Robin Medforth-Mills (1942–2002, age 59)
m. (1998) Alexander Philips Nixon (McAteer) (b. 1964, age 55)
Nicholas Michael de Roumanie Medforth-Mills (b. 1985, age 34)
m. (2017) Alina Maria Binder (b. 1988, age 31)
Elisabeta Karina de Roumanie Medforth-Mills (b. 1989, age 30)
Mrs. Irina Walker (born Princess of Romania) (b. 1953, age 66)
div. (1983–2003) John Kreuger (b. 1945, age 74)
m. (2007) John Wesley Walker (b. 1945, age 73)
Michael Torsten de Roumanie Kreuger (b. 1985, age 34)
m. (2011) Tara Marie Littlefield (b. 1982, age 37)
Kohen Kreuger (b. 2012, age 7)
Angelica Margareta Bianca de Roumanie Kreuger (b. 1986, age 32)
m. (2009) Richard Robert Knight (b. 1984, age 35)
Courtney Bianca Knight (b. 2007, age 12)
Diana Knight (b. 2011, age 8)
Princess Sophie of Romania (b. 1957, age 62)
div. (1998–2002) Alain Michel Léonce Biarneix (de Laufenborg) (b. 1957, age 62)
Elisabeta Maria Bianca Elena de Roumanie Biarneix (b. 1998, age 21)
Princess Marie of Romania (b. 1964, age 55)
div. (1995–2003) Kazimierz Wiesław Mystkowski (b. 1958, age 61)
Daughters of Romania's kings, such as Margareta, Elena, Irina and Sophie, as well as their descendants, had no rights of succession to the Romanian throne during the monarchy's existence, in accordance with the Salic law enshrined in both the defunct royal Romanian Constitution of 1938 and the Statute of the Romanian royal house, dated 1884. On 30 December 2007 in a private ceremony,[3][4] King Michael issued a declaration in the form of a statute,[5] an act of symbolic significance in the absence of its approval by the Parliament,[6][7] promulgating new Fundamental Rules of the Royal Family of Romania.[8]
Michael decided to add his daughters and their children to the headship of the royal house, further explicitly banning any other foreigners belonging to any other royal or princely house from succeeding. On the same occasion he asked the Romanian Parliament to abolish the Salic law, should it consider restoring the monarchy.[9] By the same act, Michael designated his grandson Nicholas de Roumanie Medforth-Mills as a future member of the deposed royal family and future "Prince of Romania" with the style of "Royal Highness," effective either on his 25th birthday, 1 April 2010, or upon Michael's death, whichever might occur sooner. On 1 August 2015, however, King Michael issued a declaration retracting the style "Royal Highness" and "of Romania" previously conferred upon Nicholas, also excluding him from the line of succession to the headship of the dynasty, noting that his successors in that capacity should be persons of "principled modesty and morality."[10] Children and consorts of the members of the family who do not bear a royal title are not recognised as members of the former royal family, according to the new rules.
Family of Carol Mircea Hohenzollern
Paul-Philippe of Romania (born 1948), son of Carol Mircea Lambrino
wed Lia-Georgia Hohenzollern (née Triff) (born 1949), with issue:
Carol Ferdinand al României (born 2010)
Alexander Hohenzollern (born 1961), son of Carol Mircea Lambrino, unmarried.
Past members of the royal family
King Carol I (1839–1914) (Reign: 1881–1914)
m. Queen Elisabeth (1843–1916)
Princess Maria (1870–1874)
King Ferdinand I (1865–1927) (Reign: 1914–1927)
m. Queen Marie (1875–1938)
King Carol II (1893–1953) (Reign: 1930–1940)
m. Queen Helen (1896–1982)
King Michael I (1921–2017) (Reign: 1927–1930 and 1940–1947)
m. Queen Anne (1923–2016)
Princess Elisabeth (1894–1956)
Princess Maria (1900–1961)
Prince Nicholas (1903–1978)
Princess Ileana (1909–1991)
Prince Mircea (1913–1916)
Family tree




Family tree

















 
Karl Anton
b.1811 - d.1885

Prince of
Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
r.1848–1849
Prince of Hohenzollern
r.1869–1885Josephine 
of Baden

b.1813 -
 d.1900Antónia
of Portugal

b.1845 – d.1913Leopold

b.1835 – d.1905Stephanie

b.1837 – d.1859  
Carol I
b.1839 – d.1914

Domnitor of the
United Principalities
r.1866-1881
King of Romania
r.1881-1914Elisabeth of Wied
b.1843 - d.1916

Queen consort 
of Romania
1869 – 1914Anton
b.1841 – 
d.1866Friedrich 
b.1843 –
 
d.1904Maria
Luise
b.1845 – d.1912William
b.1864–d.1927
Prince of
Hohenzollernn
r.1905–1927  
Ferdinand
b.1865 - d.1927

King of Romania
1914-1927Marie of Edinburgh
b.1875-d.1938

Queen consort
of Romania
1914–1927Karl Anton

b.1868-d.1919Maria

b.1870 – d.1874Zizi Lambrino
b.1898–d.1953 
Carol II
b.1893 - d.1953

King of Romania
1930-1940
Helen of Greece
b.1896 – d.1982

Queen Mother of Romania
1928–1982Magda Lupescu
b.1895 – d.1977Elisabeth
b.1894 — d.1956

Queen consort of Greece
1922–1924Maria
b.1900 — d.1961

Queen consort 
of Yugoslavia
1922-1934Nicholas
b.1903 - d.1978

Member of the Regency
1927-1930Ileana
b.1909– d.1991

Archduchess Anton of Austria 1931–1954 
 Mrs Stefan Issarescu 1956–1965
 Mother Alexandra 1967–1991 Mircea

b.1913—d.1916-->Carol Lambrino
b.1920 - 
d.2006  
Michael I
b.1921 - 
d.2017

King of Romania
1927–1930; 1940–1947
Anne of
Bourbon-Parma

b.1923 - d.2016Paul
b.1948Alexander
b.1961 
Margareta
b.1949
Custodian of the Crown of Romania 
 2017 - presentElena
b.1950Irina
b.1953Sophie
b.1957Maria
b.1964Carol
FerdinandNicholas
b.1985Elisabeta-Karina
b.1989Michael 
b.1985Angelica-Margaretta
b.1986Elisabeth-Maria
b.1999Kohen (b.2012)Courtney (b.2007)Diana (b. 2011)
See also
Line of succession to the Romanian throne
Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
Decorations of the Romanian Royal House




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