Romania’s royal history

carmen March 11, 2010 5 comments Europe, Romanian history, Romanian Monarchy, Romanian Royal Family, Royal Families

For those passionate about history Diana Mandache’s blog is a real gold mine. Diana lives in Bucharest now, but she “has worked and lived for many years in London“.

Being a “historian by profession“ and in possession of an impressive “collection of antique postcards, photographs, engravings and other documents on royalty subjects and also a voluminous library of reference books on the same subjects” and having a “special interest in Royal history” she has started Royal Romania – an interesting and complex weblog about Romanian Monarchy and Romanian Royal Family.

Romania was a kingdom until the 30th of December 1947; on that day King Michael was forced by the communists to abdicate and leave for exile together with the whole Royal Family. Only after 1990 they could return to Romania.

This blog is important at the same extent for specialists, Romanians and foreigners who want to find out about real Romanian history, too.

It has also a marvellous collection of photos and a long list of Royal Websites links.

About the author

Carmen Cristal
Carmen was born and raised in Bucharest, the city where she currently lives. She worked in the Sales Department of a radio station for 15 years. Along with some friends, Carmen recently founded a small company that deals with website development and online promotion. She loves English, listening to music, establishing connections and meeting new people and has a real passion for Ireland. Carmen is attracted by foreign cultures and she likes very much to travel (whenever it is possible!)
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5 Comments

liz

on Mar 11, 2010
at 11:44 am

Thanks for this Carmen! I found it such an interesting blog, especially since I was only vaguely aware of Romania’s history as a monarchy.

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Ana

on Mar 11, 2010
at 3:57 pm

You know, I wasn’t aware either that Romania was a monarchy once. Thanks!

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Carmen

on Mar 12, 2010
at 1:15 am

@liz – thanks Liz, I also find her blog fascinating because it has so much and accurate information & photos about royal families (I have a special interest for that topic)
@Ana – thanks Ana, it is my greatest satisfaction to make others aware of how interesting Romania is

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Jennifer Eremeeva

on Mar 31, 2010
at 3:17 am

Carmen: Was very pleasantly surprised to see you mention Diane’s blog: she’s on my blogroll and I love her site!! It’s not often you find a fellow Romanian royalty fan! Good to know you!

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Carmen

on Apr 01, 2010
at 6:07 pm

@Jennifer – thank you.
I was also very pleasantly surprised to discover Diane‘s blog . There are a lot of royalty fans but they don‘t like to be very “visible“ these days from various motives.
“Studied“ a little your blog too and appreciated your sense of humor. I‘ll come back.

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