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My New Book: the biography of Princess Ileana of Romania

16 Wednesday Feb 2022

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Diana Mandache, Ileana, Princess of Romania, Corint Books, February 2022, 304 pages, 250 photos (b&w, color ill.), softcover, Romanian language.

The book is the biography of Princess Ileana, the youngest child of Queen Marie and King Ferdinand of Romania. Through her mother, she is also a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria of Great Britain. She grew up in the shadow of the impressive personality of her mother, from whom she inherited a remarkable ease to communicate with people from all social strata from aristocrats, her British royal relatives, to the peasants of the Romanian countryside.

She was educated in Romania and Britain, at Heathfield School, Ascot. The princess was dedicated and had a natural talent for charitable work, and was also a gifted public speaker. In 1931 she married Anton of Habsburg-Lothringen, Archduke of Austria. Her new, Habsburg dynastic identity came as a crossroads moment for the dynasty in a convulsive period of Austrian history. After the ascension of Hitler and annexation of Austria, Ileana managed to move permanently back to Romania in the spring of 1944, at Bran Castle, working as a medical nurse at a hospital she founded there. Princess Ileana has also witnessed the communist takeover of Romania in the aftermath of the war. In 1948, after the forced abdication of King Michael, instrumented by the Romanian communist government at the orders of Stalin, Ileana, together with Anton and their six children went into exile, after a tortuous period settling in the United States. She then began a cycle of conferences at American and British institutions dedicated to Romania’s tragic situation under communism, pleading for the liberation of her country. She also answered the enquiries of the US Congress investigating the accession of communism and its effects in Europe. Following a difficult period in her life due to family tragedies, she decided to take monastic vows and founded a nuns’ Orthodox Monastery in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania, being the mother abbess there. Ileana was able only once again to see her country, visiting Romania for a few days in September 1990, after the fall of the communist dictatorship. She died on 21 January 1991, in the United States, being buried in the cemetery of the monastery she helped found in Pennsylvania. Her life is intimately intertwined with the history of the 20th century and its dramatic moments and periods. The book is based on never published before documents from US, British, Romanian, and Swiss archives, as well as photographs provided by her immediate family.

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The King’s Exile (Exilul Regelui), 2nd edition, 2021

08 Friday Oct 2021

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The King’s Exile (Exilul Regelui),2021, second edition, 432 pages, photos, Romanian language only.

 The book details King Michael’s exile period, together with that the Romanian political emigration connected with the monarch, permanently spied on by Romania’s communist regime’s secret services. It gathers in one place previously unpublished documents from the archives of the former communist secret services, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, etc.

Contents:

1.      Monarchy and exile (Sovereigns and rights; The fears instilled to the communists by the Juan Carlos model; Historical experiences: matrimonial alliances and dynasties, losing the throne; The Commencing of the exile, and the repudiation of abdication);

2.      The King and his family (Royal marriage; the New family; the King’s mother; Uncle Pavlos; aunt Irene; The King in England; Celebrations; The Princesses in exile; Imago mundi, etc);

3.     The Sovereign, the 10th May [former national day] and the government in exile (Rivalry; Radescu and the King; the new Romanian National Committee and Visoianu; Kersten Committee; The Exile between survival and surveillance; Crossroads)

4.      Files, agents and codes (The King’s File; Complementary files; Nicolette Franck)

5.      «Liberté pour la Roumanie!» (Switzerland, the heart of exile; Revolution and post-communism)

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Documents (most from the communist secret services files and the diplomatic archives of Romania, USA; also extracts from the international press of the time relevant to the subject; transcripts from the Voice of America, Free Europe, BBC; transcriptions of King Michael’s interviews)

Bibliography; Index.

Kersten Committee, King Michael – min. 3:15- 4:52 & min. 24:47 – 26:05.

Source: HEARING BEFORE SELECT COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE INCORPORATION OF THE BALTIC STATES INTO THE USSR – National Archives and Records Administration.

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The funeral of HIRH Maria Magdalena v. Holzhausen, Archduchess of Austria

06 Monday Sep 2021

Posted by Diana Mandache in European royal families, Funerals, Obituaries, Romanian Royal Family

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Baroness Maria Magdalena von Holzhausen, Archduchess of Austria, Dame of honour and devotion of the Sovereign Order of Malta, passed away on 18 August 2021.

The family will pray the Holy Rosary on 8 September at 6 pm in the Margaret Chapel in St. Petersfriedhof, Salzburg. The Holy Requiem and the burial will take place on 9 September at 2 pm in St. Peter’s Abbey, Salzburg . A Holy Mass will be read also on September 24 at 4.30 pm in St. Michael’s Church, Vienna.

My condolonces to the family

Rest in peace, dear Archduchess! You will be remembered and honoured!

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