File photo taken on Oct. 25, 2011 shows Romania's former King Mihai I in Bucharest, Romania. Romania's former King Mihai I died on Tuesday at the age of 96 at his residence in Switzerland, the ...

To the A.P.’s Joseph Morton, King Mihai last week told the story of his dramatic palace coup which flip-flopped Rumania from the Axis to the Allied camp (TIME, Sept. 4). Seven times since early 1942 ...

The Custodian of the Crown, Margareta, states, on the eve of the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II, that King Mihai, the one who "changed the destiny of an entire continent on August 23, ...

Thousands of people of all ages stood in several lines, through the night, waiting to pay their last respects before the catafalque of King Mihai I. Young, old people and children, most of them ...

To a bright young boy, one of the great advantages of being brought up in the Greek Orthodox Church is that you have two birthdays—your own real birthday and your name day, the day in the Church ...

It`s hard to be the king. When the royal responsibilities come without a country, it`s even harder. Such is the plight of Michael, twice-exiled monarch of Romania. That`s King Mihai I to his loyal ...

The Romanian State Patrimony Protocol Authority (RAAPPS) will ask King Mihai to put up with the administration costs of Elisabeta Palace, Romanian agency Mediafax informs. The fees have been deducted ...

BEING king in Romania is an awkward business. And not just because the country is a republic. Although the former King Mihai abdicated in 1947, he still seems to have the power to complicate ...

Why did the king of Romania strip grandson Prince Nicolae of his succession rights? Was it because he looked unkempt—or ordered pizza in the palace? European Editor at Large One might have thought ...