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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.
May 31, 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.
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 of Hitler,...
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 6, 2017 · Michael (Mihai) I of Romania, exiled king, born 25 October 1921, died 5 December 2017. A distant cousin of the Queen, he was the last living head of state from the Second World War.
King Michael I of Romania (25 October 1921 – 5 December 2017), reigned as King of Romania for two periods. He was king from 20 July 1927 to 8 June 1930, and again from 6 September 1940, until forced to abdicate by the Communist Party of Romania.
Dec 5, 2017 · 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.
