WHO IS THE HEIR PRESUMPTIVE TO THE THRONE OF ROMANIA?

 

Genealogy:

Attached is a chart showing the genealogy of the Romanian Royal Family.

The Romanian Royal House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen.

Bibliography:

King Carol II of Romania:

Lengyel, Emil. "The Situation That Made Carol King of Rumania." Current History, Vol. 32: 1085-1089 (September 1930).

Bolitho, Hector. Roumania Under King Carol. London: Eyre and Spotiswoode, 1939.

von der Hoven, Baroness Helena. King Carol of Romania. London: Hutchinson, 1940.

Easterman, A. L. King Carol, Hitler and Lupescu. London: Victor Gollancz, 1942.

von Kürenberg, Joachim. Carol II und Madame Lupescu. Bonn: Athenäum Verlag, 1952.

Hillgruber, Andreas. Hitler, König Carol und Marschall Antonescu. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1954.

Cartland, Barbara. The Scandalous Life of King Carol. London: Frederick Muller, 1957.

Paul, Prince of Hohenzollern-Roumania. King Carol II: A life of my grandfather. London: Methuen, 1988.

Lungu. Dov B. Romania and the Great Powers 1933-1940. Durham: Duke University Press, 1989.

Quinlan, Paul D. The Playboy King: Carol II of Roumania. Westport & London: Greenwood Press, 1995.

Iona Lambrino (1st wife of King Carol II):

Lambrino, Jeanne. Mon Mari le Roi Carol. Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1950.

Queen Helen of Romania (2nd wife of King Carol II):

Lee, Arthur Gould. Helen, Queen Mother of Rumania. London: Faber and Faber, 1948.

Elena Lupescu (3rd wife of King Carol II):

Lupescu, Elena. "Autobiography," London: Sunday News, 1927.

Lupescu, Elena. "Memorii," Realitatea nr. 5 (reprint of 1927 "Autobiography"). Bucharest: Editura Jurnal de Bucuresti, 1990.

Moats, Alice-Leone. Lupescu. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1955

King Mihai I of Romania:

Bocca, Geoffrey. :"Michael of Roumania." Kings Without Thrones. The Uneasy Heads: Report on European Monarchy.. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1959.

Curley, Jr., Walter J. P. ""Rumania: His Majesty King Michael I." Monarchs-In-Waiting. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1973.

Fenyvesi, Charles."Refugee from Eastern Europe: King Michael." Splendor In Exile: The Ex-Majesties of Europe. Washington: New Republic Books, 1979.

King Ferdinand I of Romania

Bent, Silas. "The Passing of King Ferdinand of Rumania." Current History, Vol. 26: 974-980 (September 1927).

Hélène Vacaresco (Woman King Ferdinand I was forbidden to marry):

Vacaresco, Hélène. Kings and Queens I Have Known. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1904.

Queen Marie of Romania (Wife of King Ferdinand I):

Marie, Queen of Roumania. My Country. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1916.

Marie, Queen of Roumania. The Country That I Love. London: Duckworth, 1925.

Marie, Queen of Roumania. Crowned Queens. London: Heath, Cranton, 1929.

Marie, Queen of Roumania. The Story of My Life. 1875-1914. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934.

Marie, Queen of Roumania. Ordeal; The Story of My Life. 1914-1918. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935.

Daggett, Mabel Potter. Marie of Roumania: The Intimate Story of the Radiant Queen. New York: George H. Doran, 1926.

Elsberry, Terence. Marie of Romania: The Intimate Life of a Twentieth Century Queen. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1972.

Pakula, Hannah. The Last Romantic: A Biography of Queen Marie of Roumania. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984.

Prince Nicolae of Romania (Younger brother of King Carol II):

Nicolae, Prnntul de Hohenzollern. "Memorii," in În umbra coroanei româniei. Edited by Gheorghe Busatu. Isai:Editura Moldova, 1991.

Princess Ileana of Romania (Youngest sister of King Carol II):

Ileana, Princess of Romania, Archduchess of Austria. I Live Again. New York & Toronto: Holt, Rinehart & Company, 1952.

King Carol I:

Carol I, King of Romania. Reminiscences.. New York: Harpers 1899.

Queen Elizabetha of Romania (wife of King Carol I):

Elisabeth, Queen of Roumania. From Memory's Shrine: The Reminiscences of Carmen Sylva. Translated by Edith Hopkirk. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1911.

Elisabeth, Queen of Roumania. Letters and Poems of Queen Elizabeth (Carmen Sylva). 2 vols. Boston: Bibliophile Society of Boston, 1920.

Roosevelt, Blanche. Elizabeth of Roumania. London: Chapman and Hall, 1891.

Burgoyne, Elizabeth. Carmen Sylvia, Queen and Woman. London: Thornton Butterworth, 1940.