25 Tuesday Oct 2016
HM King Michael of Romania during his first reign
I would like to wish HM King Michael of Romania a happy 95 th birthday!
see also https://jurnaldeistoric.wordpress.com/2016/10/25/ani-formatori-regele-mihai-scolar/
22 Wednesday Jun 2016
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Exilul Regelui de Diana Mandache, King Michael of Romania, Romanian Royal Family, The King's Exile by Diana Mandache
Exilul Regelui by DM, publisher: Curtea Veche Publishing, June 2016. Romanian language only. 386 pages (color photos – 16 pages).
My new book entitled ‘Exilul Regelui’ (The King’s Exile), was published a short while ago by Curtea Veche Publishing. It is presented as a softcover (with flaps) volume containing 386 pages, including 16 pages of photos. 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 It gathers in one place previously unpublished documents from the archives of the former communist secret services, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, etc.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)
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.
31 Tuesday May 2016
Your are kindly invited to the book launch of my latest work: “Exilul Regelui” – The King’s Exile. Speakers: Indrei Ratiu, Andrei Muraru, Diana Mandache
Book signing
Saturday 4 June, 5 pm at Bookfest – Curtea Veche Publishing, Pavilion C2 (Romexpo), Bucharest
25 Sunday Oct 2015
Posted in Anniversaries & Birthdays, Romanian Royal Family
King Michael as a school pupil, May 1937 (#phisicslaboratory #1937 #phisicseducation). Photo credit: Diana Mandache http://www.royalromania.wordpress.com
I would like to wish HM King Michael of Romania a very happy 94th birthday!
HM King Michael of Romania: “I have served the Romanian nation throughout a life that has been long and full of events, some of them happy, many of them unhappy. (…) After freedom and democracy, the most important things to be gained are identity and dignity“. (discourse in the Parliament of Romania with the occasion of the 90th birthday celebration, 25 Oct. 2011)
07 Sunday Jun 2015
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Cotroceni Palace, King Carol I of Romania, King Carol II of Romania, King Ferdinand of Romania, King Michael of Romania, Queen Elizabeth of Romania, Queen Marie of Romania, Romanian Royal Family
Diana Mandache, “The Cotroceni Royal Palace” (Cotroceniul regal), 216 pp, 213 ill. (Sepia & colour), Curtea Veche Publishing, 2015, hardback, dust jacket, 1st edition, Romanian language.
The text is structured over five chapters:
Sources of documents and photographs. Notes
The book is based on newly unearthed sources that bring to light the history of one of the most important royal palaces in Romania and eastern Europe. A modern palace was first built for the princely couple 120 years ago in Bucharest on the place of a medieval residence that belonged to the Princes of Walachia, later Romania. King Carol I lived initially in this princely residence of Bucharest just during the summers or temporarily. Between 1893-1895 a new palace was built by the French architect Paul Gottereau, and in 1913-1915 a new wing was built in the Neo-Romanian style by the architect Grigore Cherchez. The grand rooms of the palace were modified starting with 1900 and also during the 1920s. Cotroceni became famous once King Ferdinand and Queen Marie of Romania made it their official residence. Two catastrophic earthquakes affected the palace, in 1940 and 1977. The palace was restored in the last decade of communism at the orders of dictator Ceausescu. The former royal palace was envisaged by him to becoming a place to host high level foreign guests. Today its royal quarters function as a museum. The text is accompanied by previously unpublished photographs from archives and private collections.
Alfred Duke of Edinburgh and of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Prince Ferdinand of Romania, King Carol I of Romania, Emperor Franz Joseph, Princess Marie of Romania, Cotroceni, September 1896
