Princess Elena of Romania

Princess Elena (Helen) (born 15 November 1950) is a daughter of Michael I (Mihai), King of Romania.

She was born in Lausanne, Switzerland and on 20 July 1983 she married Dr. Leslie Robin Medforth-Mills (8 December 1942 – 2 February 2002) in a civil ceremony at Durham and later in a Greek Orthodox church in Lausanne on 24 September of that year. The couple had two children:
*"Nicholas" Michael de Roumanie Medforth-Mills (b. Geneva, 1 April 1985)
*Elisabetta/Elizabeth "Karina" de Roumanie Medforth-Mills (b. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 4 January 1989)

They were divorced on 28 November 1991 ["Blood Royal - From the time of Alexander the Great to Queen Elizabeth II", by Charles Mosley, published for Ruvigny Ltd, London, 2002 (page 288) (ISBN 0-9524229-9-9)] .

Elena was remarried on 14 August 1998 at Peterlee to Alexander Philips Nixon McAteer (b. Easington, County Durham, 22 October 1964). She is second in the line of succession to the leadership of the Romanian Royal Family, followed by her son, and, as a descendant of Queen Victoria, she and her children are in the line of succession to the British Throne.

Titles, styles, honours and arms

Titles and styles

*15 November 1950 - present: "Her Royal Highness" Princess Elena of Romania

ee also

* Line of succession to the Romanian throne

References

External links

* [http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/romania.html Royal House of Romania]
* [http://www.familiaregala.ro The official website of The Romanian Royal Family]

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1= 1. Princess Elena of Romania
2= 2. Michael I of Romania
3= 3. Anne of Bourbon-Parma
4= 4. Carol II of Romania
5= 5. Helen of Greece and Denmark
6= 6. Prince René of Bourbon-Parma
7= 7. Princess Margaret of Denmark
8= 8. Ferdinand I of Romania
9= 9. Marie of Edinburgh
10= 10. Constantine I of Greece
11= 11. Sophia of Prussia
12= 12. Robert I, Duke of Parma
13= 13. Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal
14= 14. Prince Valdemar of Denmark
15= 15. Princess Marie of Orléans
16= 16. Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern
17= 17. Infanta Antónia of Portugal
18= 18. Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
19= 19. Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia
20= 20. George I of Greece
21= 21. Olga Constantinovna of Russia
22= 22. Frederick III, German Emperor
23= 23. Victoria, Princess Royal
24= 24. Charles III, Duke of Parma
25= 25. Princess Louise Marie Thérèse of France
26= 26. Miguel of Portugal
27= 27. Adelaide of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg
28= 28. Christian IX of Denmark
29= 29. Louise of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel)
30= 30. Robert, Duke of Chartres
31= 31. Princess Marie-Françoise of Orléans

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