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Mother. Helen of Greece and Denmark. Religion. Romanian Orthodox. Signature. Michael I ( Romanian: Mihai I [miˈhaj]; 25 October 1921 – 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.
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Dec 5, 2017 · Dec. 5, 2017. King Michael of Romania, who was credited with pre-emptively saving thousands of lives in World War II when, at 22, he had the audacity to arrest the country’s dictator, a puppet ...
Mar 27, 2024 · Michael (born October 25, 1921, Sinaia, Romania—died December 5, 2017, Aubonne, Switzerland) was the king of Romania and, during World War II, a principal leader of the coup d’état of August 1944, which severed Romania’s connection with the Axis powers. After his father—the future king Carol II — had been formally excluded from the ...
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Michael I ( Romanian: Mihai I [ miˈhaj]; 25 October 1921 – 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.
Dec 5, 2017 · Romania’s former King Michael I, a onetime boy monarch who later engineered the ouster of pro-Nazi strongman Gen. Ion Antonescu during World War II, only to be forced at gunpoint to abdicate by ...
Dec 5, 2017 · He was 96. Michael, who played a pivotal role in Romania’s switch to the Allied cause following a coup in 1944, spent decades in exile working as a chicken farmer and aircraft pilot. He finally got his citizenship back in 1997, eight years after the collapse of communism. Michael’s death leaves only two people alive who headed their nations ...
Dec 6, 2017 · The last living head of state from the Second World War, Michael was a shy and courageous monarch who resisted fascism and communism. He was deposed in 1947 and spent decades in exile, but remained a symbol of hope for many Romanians.