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  1. 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.

  2. 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 ...

  3. King Michael I was buried on 16 December with full state honours in the Mausoleum of the Royal Family, on the grounds of the Curtea de Argeș Cathedral together his wife Queen Anne who died in 2016. [6] The funeral ceremony was led by Patriarch Daniel of Romania. [7] Queen Anne-Marie, her son Prince Nikolaos of Greece and Denmark and sister-in ...

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  4. 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 ...

  5. Dec 6, 2017 · King Michael of Romania was proud to have broken the mould of one of Europe’s tawdriest royal dynasties. His English grandmother Queen Marie of Romania, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria, was a ...

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  7. 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 ...

  8. Dec 5, 2017 · Romania's former King Michael I has died in Switzerland at the age of 96, a year after being diagnosed with cancer. King Michael ruled Romania twice, from 1927 to 1930 and then from 1940 to 1947 ...

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