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Mircea Grigore Carol “Carol Lambrino” Hohenzollern

1920 – 2006

About

He was the son of Crown Prince Carol of Romania, the future King Carol II, and his first wife, Joanna Marie Valentina "Zizi" Lambrino. His name was registered as Mircea Grigore Carol Lambrino at the time of his birth. His paternal grandfather, King Ferdinand, forced the annulment of his parents' marriage in January 1919 in the Supreme Court of Romania and Carol was born outside the 300-day period allowed to permit legitimacy, on January 8, 1920, although the legality of the annulment has been questioned. His father published a letter on the front page of the Romanian daily newspaper Epoca, dated January 17, 1920, in which he recognized his paternity of the child A Portuguese court ruled on April 2, 1955 that Carol was the legitimate first-born son of King Carol II and allowed him to claim the surname Hohenzollern in place of Lambrino. The Portuguese ruling was recognised in France by an Exequatur of the Tribunal of the Grande Instance of Paris on March 6, 1957. A Romanian court