Tuesday, August 02, 2016

Queen Anne of Romania, the wife of the last monarch who spent most of his life in exile, dies at 92

Born Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma in Paris on Sept. 18, 1923, she met Michael in November 1947, when both of them were in London for the wedding of the future Queen Elizabeth II and Philip Mountbatten.

In a 2013 documentary by the Romanian public broadcaster TVR, Anne said that she had been formally introduced to Michael, who was in uniform, at a reception at Claridge’s Hotel in London, and that she had responded by clicking her heels and standing to attention.

Michael returned to Romania and was forced to abdicate by the Communists on Dec. 30, 1947. He then went into exile .... http://www.nytimes.com