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    Romania's Prince Paul recognized as royal

    By ALISON MUTLER | Associated Press – Wed, Feb 15, 2012

    BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania's top court has recognized Prince Paul Hohenzollern as the legitimate grandson of former King Carol II, ending a 21-year-legal battle.

    Paul has claimed he was illegally excluded from the royal family by his uncle, the former King Michael, who was the Romanian monarch twice.

    It was unclear what effect the ruling would have or whether Paul would make claims on royal family property. Paul welcomed the ruling Wednesday as a matter of "honor for my family."

    The 90-year-old Michael, who was forced to abdicate by the communists in 1947, says Tuesday's ruling does not give Paul any claims to the throne.

    The dispute between Michael and Paul centers around a love story from more than a century ago, when the heir to Romania's throne, Prince Carol, who is Michael's father, secretly married Zizi Lambrino, a Romanian aristocrat. The 1918 marriage was annulled because by law Romania's heir to the throne was obliged to marry a foreign princess.

    From this short-lived liaison, a child was born, Mircea Grigore, who was regarded as an illegitimate son.

    Carol's first son, Mircea, filed a request in a Lisbon court in 1955, demanding to be recognized as Carol's legitimate son. His request was granted. After communism ended in 1989, a Romanian court recognized the ruling passed in Lisbon, but Michael appealed it three times.

    After his marriage to Lambrino was dissolved, Carol later married Greece's Princess Elena, who bore him a son, Michael, Romania's last king. He was king from 1927 to 1930, and then from 1940 to 1947. He abdicated after Romanian Communists threatened to kill 1,000 young Romanians if he did not renounce the throne.

    Michael spent his life in exile in Switzerland and Britain. Romanian governments have often treated Michael, the only surviving leader from World War II, with suspicion and disdain.

    President Traian Basescu has called Michael's abdication "an act of treason" and refused to attend an address made by the monarch in October to mark his 90th birthday.

    However, many Romanians respect Michael, and view him as a patriotic figure who has more dignity than the nation's feuding politicians.

     

    17 comments

    • GABRIELA
      GABRIELA  •  Bucharest, Romania  •  3 mths ago
      @william, Chicago(IL), jim and another ignorant:you are tipical american-I refer especially to the yankees- who think that it can compensate the education with "atitude" and apearence of education.Chek with your school district and find out about first grade enrolement,you might have a chance who knows!!!!!!!!Confederate Generals "Stonewall" Jackson and Lee were right in what it will look at the yankees!
    • GABRIELA
      GABRIELA  •  Bucharest, Romania  •  3 mths ago
      Romania has never had a Republican tradition, republic was imposed at Yalta in 1945 and as well as by Soviet tanks; on December 30, 1947 King Michael was forced to abdicate “in exchange” with life of 1000 Romanian students who supported the monarchy in the front of Royal Palace from Bucharest. Royal Romania was a respected and prosperous country and the Romanian state regressed with the Bolshevik Red Plague,terror imposed by stalin and as well as Roosevelt and Churchill's acceptance, in all countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Michael I, the last king of Romania, should be respected because that is the last leader alive during WW2.
      This Paul was used by republican regime after 1990 to hit the image of King Michael.All we know is the nephew of King Charles 2nd( king of ROMANIA between1930-1940 and MICHAEL's father), but this clown has no dynastic right .Case closed.
      • Henry
        Henry 3 mths ago
        I wish you had written the article, I may have been more informing. Thanks for your comment. I am a student of history and enjoyed your post extremely.
    • GABRIELA
      GABRIELA  •  Bucharest, Romania  •  3 mths ago
      jim and william, , if you look on a map, you know where is Europe and North America where it is?In case of a positive answer, how many States are in US ?I see that you wrote us from a gypsies caravan, do you have the current water and electricity?You are really idiots uneducated.OUR SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST bless ROMANIA , named by Pope JOHN PAUL the 2nd" SAINT VIRGIN garden", EU and NATO member, and one of the most loyal and powerful European allies of the United States of America. It is good that the Romanian soldiers, along with the Poles, have given so many sacrifices, the most important contingent after American and British in Iraq, Afghanistan etc.???
    • GABRIELA
      GABRIELA  •  Bucharest, Romania  •  3 mths ago
      @1040, WHAT???shut down, bolshevik zionist agent from NY?! payed by stb or kgb.We ROMANIANS have built and Holocaust Memorial in Bucharest!!!!!, for jews and gypsies!!!!WHERE IS DISCRIMINATION against jews and gypsies in ROMANIA????...as well discrimination again hungarians??!(udmr, party of hungarian minorities it is part of GOVERNMENT!! ) I read your comments at all articles about ROMANIA, you will drown in your own hatred.Read historical documents, hypocritical villain! This is as well as the old adage who says: A REPEATED LIES risk of falling, for some, one Truth.LIARS without honour! you and your friends should go back to the madhouse from where you escaped recently.Do not forget to take medication against your stupidity and ignorance!!!
      PS.
      Germany and Romanian Marshal Antonescu , a worthy descendant of Confederate Generals Lee and "Stonewall" Jackson, had to finish all of "sovietic animals" like you in WW2 as well as Polish Marshal Piłsudski in the Polish-Soviet War from 1919-1921. Thieves OF EARTHS charged that is not yours, inventors of the Bolshevik red plague and as well as of the Communism.Guys like you just do not realize that foolish and no one believes these lies?You have no clue.
      Or the world does not need to know the atrocities committed by soviet criminals in EUROPE , especially against Poland and Romania : most bitter enemies of the red plague , of the bolsheviks and the beasts who they have been???
    • thestraightguyfromcalifor ...
      thestraightguyfromcalifor ...  •  Calabasas, California  •  3 mths ago
      This in an attempt of the current stupid romanian government to discredit the former monarchy which was the only form of succesful government in the history of that country. Today's stupid, semi-comunist politicians of Romania are afraid that the romanians will realize sooner or later that reality.
    • Royal Ron
      Royal Ron  •  Pleasanton, California  •  3 mths ago
      Michael is a national hero of Romania. As for his half brother he has done nothing for Romania. Long live King Michael!
    • Martin
      Martin  •  Henderson, Texas  •  3 mths ago
      Well, if he doesn't have a claim to the now non-existent throne what is the point of being declared "royal"?
    • Harry
      Harry  •  San Jose De Guaymas, Mexico  •  3 mths ago
      1040. Well, you have to descriminate against somebody! Americans are trying to figure out where the money is in this deal. We forget that class still means something in most of Europe. In the U.S. you buy class and are not born with in it. As far as any property and such, most of the "estates" and such were turned into garbage dumps and more by the Communists. Had a good friend who returned to Eastern part of Germany some years back to "reclaim" his families estate. Found out the Russians had turned it into a garbage dump. The Russians were very good at those things. With a royal title you can be invited to top parties, charity balls etc. You just have to figure out how you are going to pay for it.
    • Max Fubar
      Max Fubar  •  3 mths ago
      Royals = Decendents of murdering warlords that killed anyone who disagreed that they ruled.
    • jim
      jim  •  Newark, California  •  3 mths ago
      This is the weird part of Europeans, the way they cling to a royalty. Im sure this is all because there is money somewhere but, cmon people, lets move past this royaly shmoyalty
    • ANN
      ANN  •  Newark, New Jersey  •  3 mths ago
      Jeebus chriss....now I can finally sleep at night.
    • Raven
      Raven  •  3 mths ago
      Good, now they have convicted him of the crime of being a monarch they should publicly hang him.
    • Yorick Hunt
      Yorick Hunt  •  3 mths ago
      They say his saliva cures psoriasis. Thank GOD for royalty!
    • Arthur
      Arthur  •  3 mths ago
      he can sit on the throne at my place... plenty of TP and magazines.
    • jim
      jim  •  Newark, California  •  3 mths ago
      This is the difference between educated people and those who are not. I asked why the Europeans claim allegiance to an outdated government - namely a person born to a title and I ask why do you still do that? I hypothesize that there is money there for him. I really dont get it. Instead of an intellectual reply I get called names. Everything I have read points to Max's comment = dictators that sometimes ruled benevolently, but more liklye killed anyone they disliked
    • william
      william  •  Chicago, Illinois  •  3 mths ago
      Royal Gypsies ! WOW
      • Michael
        Michael 3 mths ago
        An incredibly ignorant remark!
    • 1040
      1040  •  New York, New York  •  3 mths ago
      Why do Romanians discriminate against Hungarians, Germans & Serbs in the country?
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