Prince Mircea of Romania

Prince Mircea of Romania (3 January 1913 Bucharest, Romania - 2 November 1916 Buftea, Romania).

Officially, Mircea was the third son and youngest child of Queen Marie and King Ferdinand of Romania. However, most historians now believe that Mircea's father was actually Prince Barbu Ştirbey. This is supported by the fact that Mircea and Prince Ştirbey had dark eyes, while Queen Marie and her husband, King Ferdinand, had blue eyes. King Ferdinand recognized him to avoid the scandal.

Prince Mircea died of typhoid in the autumn of 1916, during World War I at Buftea Palace, the home of the Ştirbey family.

Mircea's brother the subsequent King Carol II and his first wife Zizi Lambrino named their son (who was born in 1920) Mircea, in memory of Prince Mircea who had died four years previously.

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dipstyle=His Royal Highness
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1= 1. Prince Mircea of Romania
2= 2. Ferdinand I of Romania
3= 3. Marie of Edinburgh
4= 4. Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern
5= 5. Infanta Antónia of Portugal
6= 6. Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
7= 7. Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia
8= 8. Charles Anthony, Prince of Hohenzollern
9= 9. Princess Josephine of Baden
10= 10. Ferdinand II of Portugal
11= 11. Maria II of Portugal
12= 12. Albert, Prince Consort
13= 13. Victoria of the United Kingdom
14= 14. Alexander II of Russia
15= 15. Marie of Hesse
16= 16. Charles, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
17= 17. Marie Antoinette Murat
18= 18. Karl, Grand Duke of Baden
19= 19. Stéphanie de Beauharnais
20= 20. Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
21= 21. Maria Antonia, Princess of Koháry
22= 22. Pedro I of Brazil
23= 23. Maria Leopoldina of Austria
24= 24. Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
25= 25. Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
26= 26. Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn
27= 27. Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
28= 28. Nicholas I of Russia
29= 29. Charlotte of Prussia
30= 30. Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse
31= 31. Princess Wilhelmine of Baden

External links

* [http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/romania.html Royal House of Romania]