In the summer of 1944, Michael was 22 and coming into his own. The war was going badly for the Axis, which included Romania. Opponents of the Antonescu regime within Romania treated the king as a ...

Shortly before King Michael I abdicated the Romanian throne following the nation’s Soviet takeover in 1947, he illegally moved roughly 40 works from the royal palace’s national gallery to a ...

and is the grandson of the former King of Romania, Michael I, who was forced to abdicate the throne in 1947. According to a new family statute enacted in 2007, he was conferred the title of Prince on ...