Prince Nicholas of Romania
| Prince Nicholas | |
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| Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen | |
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| Born |
3 August 1903 Peleş Castle, Sinaia, Romania |
| Died | 9 June 1978 (aged 74) Madrid, Spain |
| Spouse | Ioana (Joanna) Dumitrescu-Doletti Thereza Lisboa Figueira de Mello |
| House | House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen |
| Father | King Ferdinand I of Romania |
| Mother | Princess Marie of Edinburgh |
| Religion | Romanian Orthodox |
Prince Nicholas of Romania (Romanian: Principele Nicolae a României; 3 August 1903 – 9 June 1978), later known as Prince Nicholas of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, was the fourth child and second son of King Ferdinand I of Romania and his wife Queen Marie.
In 1927 after the death of his father, Nicholas was appointed as one of the three regents for his minor nephew King Michael I. His position as regent ended in 1930 with the return of his elder brother Prince Carol to Romania to take over as King of Romania due to the instability.
In later 1930 he was stripped of his titles and privileges and exiled from the Royal Court, due to King Carol II's disapproval of his marriage. In 1942 after the removal of King Carol II from the throne and King Michael's second reign, Nicholas had also been stripped of his Romanian honours and therefore started using the title of Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen of the house to which he belonged.
He died in exile on the 9th of June 1978 in Madrid, Spain.
Nicholas was born on the 3rd of August 1903 in Peleș Castle, Sinaia as the son of Crown Prince Ferdinand of Romania and his wife Princess Marie of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Edinburgh. His siblings were Carol II of Romania, Elisabeth of Romania, Queen Maria of Yugoslavia, Princess Ileana of Romania and Prince Mircea of Romania.
Nicholas was the younger brother of Carol, heir apparent, who renounced his rights of succession on 12 December 1925. When Ferdinand died in 1927, he was succeeded as king by Carol's five-year-old son, Michael; Nicholas himself had been proposed as heir-apparent when Carol married the commoner Zizi Lambrino in 1918 (a marriage later annulled). Given Michael's youth, a regency council had to be formed (20 July), and Prince Nicholas was forced to abandon his career in the British Royal Navy in order to return home to serve on the council, alongside Gheorghe Buzdugan and Patriarch Miron Cristea.
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