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Michael I ( Romanian: Mihai I [miˈhaj]; 25 October 1921 – 5 December 2017) was the last king of Romania, reigning from 20 July 1927 to 8 June 1930 and again from 6 September 1940 until his forced abdication on 30 December 1947.
Dec 6, 2017 · The last living head of state from the Second World War, Michael was a shy and courageous monarch who resisted fascism and communism. He was deposed in 1947 and spent decades in exile, but remained a symbol of hope for many Romanians.
Dec 5, 2017 · King Michael of Romania, who was credited with pre-emptively saving thousands of lives in World War II when, at 22, he had the audacity to arrest the country’s dictator, a puppet of Hitler,...
Dec 5, 2017 · King Michael I of Romania, who died on Tuesday (December 5), reigned twice in the country, but most of his life was spent in exile. The former monarch was born the son of Carol II of Romania....
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Dec 5, 2017 · Michael of Romania was a king without a throne at the end of World War Two. He had already spent seven years as sovereign: first as a child, when his father Carol II renounced the throne in...
Dec 5, 2017 · Romania’s former King Michael I, a onetime boy monarch who later engineered the ouster of pro-Nazi strongman Gen. Ion Antonescu during World War II, only to be forced at gunpoint to abdicate by...
The 1944 Romanian coup d'état, better known in Romanian historiography as the Act of 23 August ( Romanian: Actul de la 23 august ), was a coup d'état led by King Michael I of Romania during World War II on 23 August 1944.
