King Carol II of Romania

Romanian Royalty House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen Carol I Ferdinand I Children    Prince Carol    Princess Elisabeth    Princess Marie    Prince Nicholas    Princess Ileana    Prince Mircea Grandchildren    Mircea Carol (morganatic child of Prince Carol)    Prince Michael Carol II Michael I Children    Princess Margarita    Princess Elena    Princess Irina    Princess Sophia    Princess Maria

Carol II of Romania, (15 October 1893 – 4 April 1953) reigned as King of Romania from June 8, 1930 until September 6, 1940. Eldest son of Ferdinand I, King of Romania, and his wife, Queen Marie, a daughter of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, the second eldest son of Queen Victoria. This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen is the cadet branch of the senior Swabian branch of the Hohenzollern dynasty, less known however than the Franconian branch which became Burgraves of Nuremberg and later ruled Brandenburg, Prussia and ultimately Germany in the centuries to 1918. ... Image File history File links This image depicts a seal, an emblem, a coat of arms or a crest. ... King Charles (right) and Queen Elizabeth of Romania Carol I, original name Karl Eitel Friedrich Zephyrinus Ludwig von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (April 20, 1839 - October 10, 1914) was elected prince of Romania in April 1866 following the overthrow of Alexander John Cuza, and proclaimed king on March 26, 1881. ... Ferdinand of Romania Ferdinand or Ferdinand I (August 24, 1865-July 20, 1927) was the king of Romania from October 10, 1914 until his death Born in Sigmaringen in southwestern Germany, Prince Ferdinand of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen became heir to the throne of his childless uncle, King Carol I of Romania... Princess Elisabeth of Romania (12 October 1894 - 14 November 1956) was the Queen Consort of King George II of Greece. ... King Ferdinand and Queen Marie of Romania, photographed in Belgrade in 1926 at the christening of her grandson Prince Peter of Yugoslavia. ... Prince Nicholas (1903-1978) was the second son of King Ferdinand and Queen Marie of Romania. ... Ileana of Romania and Archduke Anton of Austria Ileana of Romania Princess Ileana of Romania (1909-1991) was officially the youngest daughter of King Ferdinand and Queen Marie of Romania. ... Prince Mircea of Romania was born in 1913 and died in 1916. ... HRH Prince Carol of Romania (8 August 1920 - 27 January 2006) was the eldest son of King Carol II of Romania from his first marriage to Zizi Lambrino. ... King Michael I of Romania (born October 25, 1921), reigned as King of Romania (in Romanian Majestatea Sa Regele Mihai I al României) from July 20, 1927 to June 8, 1930, and again from September 6, 1940 until deposed on December 30, 1947: he has since lived in exile. ... King Michael I of Romania (born October 25, 1921), reigned as King of Romania (in Romanian Majestatea Sa Regele Mihai I al României) from July 20, 1927 to June 8, 1930, and again from September 6, 1940 until deposed on December 30, 1947: he has since lived in exile. ... Princess Margarita of Romania (b. ... Princess Elena (Helen) (born 15 November 1950) is a daughter of Michael (Mihai) I, King of Romania. ... Princess Marie (Maria) of Romania is the youngest daughter of Michael I (Mihai), King of Romania. ... October 15 is the 288th day of the year (289th in Leap years). ... 1893 (MDCCCXCIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... April 4 is the 94th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (95th in leap years). ... 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1953 calendar). ... The King of Romania was the title of the ruler of the Kingdom of Romania from 1881 until 1947 when Romania was proclaimed a republic. ... June 8 is the 159th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (160th in leap years), with 206 days remaining. ... 1930 (MCMXXX) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... This article is about the day of the year. ... 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ... Ferdinand of Romania Ferdinand or Ferdinand I (August 24, 1865-July 20, 1927) was the king of Romania from October 10, 1914 until his death Born in Sigmaringen in southwestern Germany, Prince Ferdinand of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen became heir to the throne of his childless uncle, King Carol I of Romania... Princess Marie of Edinburgh, later Queen of Romania (October 29, 1875 – July 18, 1938), was a member of the British Royal Family. ... Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Duke of Edinburgh (6 August 1844- 30 July 1900), was the second son and fourth child of Queen Victoria and her husband, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. ... Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria) (24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837, and Empress of India from 1 January 1877, until her death. ...

The "playboy king"

Known rather for his romantic misadventures than for any leadership skills, Carol (Romanian for "Charles") was first married in Odessa, Ukraine, 31 August 1918, in contravention of royal law, to Joanna Marie Valentina Lambrino, ("Zizi" Lambrino) (1898–1953), daughter of a Romanian general; they had one son, Mircea Gregor Carol Lambrino, and the marriage was annulled by royal decree in 1919. He next married, in Athens, Greece, (10 March 1921), Princess Helen of Greece and Denmark, in Romania Crown Princess Elena, but the marriage soon collapsed in the wake of the king's affair with Elena "Magda" Lupescu (1895?–1977), daughter of a Jewish pharmacist and his Roman Catholic wife. Magda Lupescu had formerly been the wife of Army officer Ion Tâmpenu. As a result of the scandal, he renounced his right to the throne in December 1925 in favour of his son by Elena, Michael (Mihai), who became King in July 1927. Helena divorced Carol in 1928. Carol had additional illegitimate children by a mistress, Maria Martini. Odessa or Odesa (Ukrainian Одеса, Russian Одесса, Turkish Hacıbey) is a Ukrainian portcity on the Black Sea and the center of countrys Odeska oblast. Population 1,012,500 (2004). ... August 31 is the 243rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (244th in leap years), with 122 days remaining. ... 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... Zizi Lambrino (born 1898, died 1953) née Joanna Marie Valentina Lambrino. ... HRH Prince Carol of Romania (8 August 1920 - 27 January 2006) was the eldest son of King Carol II of Romania from his first marriage to Zizi Lambrino. ... March 10 is the 69th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (70th in Leap years). ... 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Princess Helen of Greece and Denmark, who became Queen Helen of Romania, was born on May 2, 1896 in Athens, the third child of the King Constantine I, King of the Hellenes and his Queen, Sophie Dorothea Ulrica of Prussia. ... Elena Wolff and Carol II arriving in the Caribbean in 1940 Elena Wolff (1895 - 1977), perhaps better known as Magda Lupescu -- Lupescu is the Romanian equivalent of the German surname Wolff and Elena can be a shortened form of Magdalena -- was the mistress of king Carol II of Romania and... 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... King Michael and Queen Anne King Michael (Romanian Mihai) of Romania (born October 25, 1921) was the son of King Carol II and reigned from July 20, 1927 to June 8, 1930, and again from September 6, 1940 until December 30, 1947. ... 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Through all these adventures, he became known above all as a playboy king. Purported eyewitnesses even claim him to have gone with a famous prostitute, Foamea Neagră, from the Crucea de piatră district. There were rumors that he suffered from priapism. A fictionalized version of the episode is narrated by Petru Dumitriu in his novel Cronică de familie (Family Chronicle). Classic Playboy logo. ... Priapism (Greek πριαπισμός, the erection) is a painful and potentially harmful medical condition in which the erect penis (erection) does not return to its flaccid state (despite the absence of both physical and psychological stimulation). ...

Rule

Returning to the country unexpectedly on 7 June 1930, Carol was proclaimed King the following day. For the next decade he sought to influence the course of Romanian political life, first through manipulation of the rival Peasant and Liberal parties and anti-Semitic factions, and subsequently (January 1938) through a ministry of his own choosing, with a constitution (27 February) reserving ultimate power to the crown. In 1938, he banned the Iron Guard, which he had supported in the 1930s. June 7 is the 158th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (159th in leap years), with 207 days remaining. ... 1930 (MCMXXX) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... February 27 is the 58th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Stamp bearing the symbol of the Iron Guard The Iron Guard is the name most commonly given in English to an ultra-nationalist anti-Semitic, fascist movement and political party in Romania in the period from 1927 into the early part of World War II. Originally founded by Corneliu Zelea...

An excellent fictionalized account of life in Bucharest in the final years of Carol's reign can be found in Olivia Manning's novels The Great Fortune and The Spoilt City. Olivia Manning (March 2, 1911 – July 23, 1980) was a British novelist. ...

Exile

Forced under first Soviet and subsequently Hungarian, Bulgarian, Italian and German pressure to surrender parts of his kingdom to foreign rule, he was outmaneuvered at last by the pro-German administration of Marshal Ion Antonescu, and abdicated in favour of Michael, settling ultimately in Portugal. State motto (Russian): Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь! (Transliterated: Proletarii vsekh stran, soedinyaytes!) (Translated: Workers of the world, unite!) Capital Moscow Official language None; Russian (de facto) Government Federation of Soviet republics Area  - Total  - % water 1st before collapse 22,402,200 km² Approx. ... Ion Antonescu. ...

Carol left Romania in a train laden with royal treasure: paintings by Old Masters such as Titian, Rubens, and Rembrandt, hundreds of canvasses, jewels, the armor that had decorated the walls of the royal palaces of Pelişor and Peleş. A death squad of Iron Guard legionnaires fired on the royal train, but failed to stop it. The sale in Portugal of much of this treasure gave him enormous wealth, which he spent lavishly, living a life of wasteful luxury. Titian. ... Pieter Pauwel (Peter Paul) Rubens (June 28, 1577 - May 30, 1640) was a Flemish baroque painter. ... This article is about the Dutch painter. ... PeliÅŸor Castle PeliÅŸor Castle (Romanian: Castelul PeliÅŸor ) was built between 1899 – 1903 by the order of King Carol I as the residence for his Royal family, the future King Ferdinand and Queen Marie, by the the architect Karel Liman in the Art Nouveau style. ... Peleş Castle Peleş Castle Peleş Castle (pronounced Pelesh), located in Sinaia, Romania is a castle built between 1873-1883. ... A death squad is an armed group that carries out, usually in secrecy, extrajudicial assassinations and forced disappearances of activists, dissidents and others perceived as interfering with a social or political status quo. ...

He and Magda Lupescu were married in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 3 June 1947, Magda styling herself thereafter as Princess Elena von Hohenzollern. Carol remained in exile for the rest of his life. Ipanema beach, in the South Zone, immortalised by Tom Jobim and Vinicius de Morais song The Girl from Ipanema Rio de Janeiro (meaning River of January in Portuguese), pron. ... June 3 is the 154th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (155th in leap years), with 211 days remaining. ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ...

His remains returned to Romania

Carol died in Portugal in 1953; his remains were returned to Romania in 2003. His remains now lie in the Curtea de Argeş monastery, but outside the church that is the burial place of most Romanian kings. His son and successor, Mihai did not participate in the ceremony, being represented by Princess Margarita and Prince Radu. 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... . Curtea de Argeş is a town in Romania, situated on the right bank of the Argeş river, where it flows through a valley of the lower Carpathians, on the railway from Piteşti to the Rothenthurm Pass. ... King Michael and Queen Anne King Michael (Romanian Mihai) of Romania (born October 25, 1921) was the son of King Carol II and reigned from July 20, 1927 to June 8, 1930, and again from September 6, 1940 until December 30, 1947. ... Princess Margarita of Romania (b. ...

Foreign honors

Styles of King Carol II of Romania
Reference style	His Majesty
Spoken style	Your Majesty
Alternative style	Sir

The UK awarded Carol the Order of the Garter. Image File history File links This image depicts a seal, an emblem, a coat of arms or a crest. ... A style of office, or honorific, is a form of address which by tradition or law precedes a reference to a person who holds a title or post, or to the political office itself. ... HM can signify: An abbreviation for His Majesty or Her Majesty — a form of address for a monarch and his/her consort — often prefixing something that (theoretically) belongs to said monarch such as HM Government, HM Ship, etc. ... The Garter is the most recognizable insignia of the Order of the Garter. ...

King Michael and Queen Anne King Michael (Romanian Mihai) of Romania (born October 25, 1921) was the son of King Carol II and reigned from July 20, 1927 to June 8, 1930, and again from September 6, 1940 until December 30, 1947. ... The King of Romania was the title of the ruler of the Kingdom of Romania from 1881 until 1947 when Romania was proclaimed a republic. ... King Michael and Queen Anne King Michael (Romanian Mihai) of Romania (born October 25, 1921) was the son of King Carol II and reigned from July 20, 1927 to June 8, 1930, and again from September 6, 1940 until December 30, 1947. ...

See also

• Kings of Romania