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 ...

While King Carol’s oldest was shunned for years as illegitimate, Michael went on to become “the puppet king of Romania’s Soviet-dominated government.” As a reward for his loyalty ...

They’re taking aim at this saintly work. The Romanian government is suing Christie’s auction house and a Russian billionaire to halt the sale of a painting by El Greco that it claims was ...