Prince Kyril of Bulgaria, Prince of Preslav (November 17, 1895 - February 1, 1945) was the second son of Ferdinand I of Bulgaria and his first wife Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma. He was a younger brother of Boris III of Bulgaria. In September 1936 Prince Kyril accompanied King Edward VIII on a whistle-stop tour of Bulgaria. 17 November is also the name of a Marxist group in Greece, coinciding with the anniversary of the Athens Polytechnic uprising. ... 1895 (MDCCCXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... February 1 is the 32nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma was the princess-consort of Bulgaria as the first wife of Ferdinand of Bulgaria, the then prince-regnant, and Tsar after her death, and became mother of Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria. ... Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria (January 30, 1894 – August 28, 1943), originally Boris Klemens Robert Maria Pius Ludwig Stanislaus Xaver, son of Ferdinand I, came to the throne in 1918 upon the abdication of his father, following Bulgarias defeat in World War I. This was the countrys second... King Edward VIII King of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, King of Ireland Emperor of India His Majesty King Edward VIII, (Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David), later His Royal Highness The Duke of Windsor (23 June 1894 – 28 May 1972) was the second British monarch of the...

Present at the death of his brother, Tsar Boris on August 28, 1943, Prince Kyril was appointed head of a regency council by the Bulgarian parliament, to act as Head of State until the late Tsar's son, Simeon II of Bulgaria became 18. August 28 is the 240th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (241st in leap years), with 125 days remaining. ... 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ... Regent, from the Latin, a person selected to administer a state because the ruler is a minor or is not present or debilitated. ... A parliament is a legislature, especially in those countries whose system of government is based on the Westminster system modelled after that of the United Kingdom. ... Queen Elizabeth II, is the Head of State of 16 countries including: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Jamaica, New Zealand and the Bahamas, as well as crown colonies and overseas territories of the United Kingdom. ... Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha as Prime Minister of Bulgaria Tsar Simeon II of Bulgaria (born June 16, 1937) was the last Tsar of Bulgaria from 1943 to 1946, and was Prime Minister of Bulgaria from 2001 until August 2005. ...

Prince Kyril, with the widowed Tsaritsa, Giovanna di Savoia, daughter of the Italian king, led the State Funeral for his brother Tsar Boris III on 5th September 1943 at the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Sofia, thereafter across the city to the main railway station where the funeral train waited to take the body to the 12th century Rila Monastery in the mountains. Thereafter the three consecutive governments made efforts to extricate themselves from Bulgaria's agreements with Germany, notably that which permitted their use of the railway to Greece and the German troops stationed along it for protection. A Bulgarian Delegation travelled to Cairo in an attempt to negotiate with the United States and Great Britain but failed, the latter refusing to meet them without the participation of the Soviet Union. The St. ... Rila Monastery with the medieval tower The Rila Monastery (Bulgarian: Рилски манастир, Rilski manastir) is the largest and most famous Eastern Orthodox monastery in Bulgaria. ... Nickname: Al Qahirah (The Triumphant City) Egypt: Site of Cairo (top center) Coordinates: Government  - Governor Dr. Abdul Azim Wazir Area  - City 210 km²  (81. ...

Despite Sofia's continuous diplomatic ties with the Soviet Union, at the end of August 1944 that country declared war on Bulgaria and Soviet armies crossed the Romanian border. The Fatherland Front, a coalition of the Communist Party, the left-wing of the Agrarian Union, the Zveno group, and a few pro-Soviet politicans who had returned from exile in the Soviet Union, executed a Soviet-backed military coup on the 9 September and seized power. In modern usage, the term communist party is generally used to identify any political party which has adopted communist ideology. ... Soviet redirects here. ... A coup détat, or simply a coup, is the sudden overthrow of a government, usually done by a small group that just replaces the top power figures. ...

On the night of 1 February 1945, Kyril, former Prime Minister Professor Bogdan Filov, General Nikola Mihov, and a range of former cabinet ministers and advisors were executed. Their death sentences had been pronounced earlier that day by a "People's Tribunal." Bogdan Filov (1883 - 1945) was a powerful politician in Bulgaria during Germany and became a university professor and historian in Bulgaria. ...

References

• Bulgaria in the Second World War by Marshall Lee Miller, Stanford University Press, 1975.
• Boris III of Bulgaria 1894-1943, by Pashanko Dimitroff, London, 1986, ISBN 0-86332-140-2
• Crown of Thorns by Stephane Groueff, Lanham MD., and London, 1987, ISBN 0-8191-5778-3
• The Betrayal of Bulgaria by Gregory Lauder-Frost, Monarchist League Policy Paper, London, 1989.
• The Daily Telegraph, Obituary for "HM Queen Ioanna of the Bulgarians", London, 28 February 2000.