Irina Walker

Irina Walker
Walker in September 2014
Born	(1953-02-28) 28 February 1953 (age 64) Lausanne, Switzerland
Spouse	John Kreuger (m. 1983; div. 2003) John Wesley Walker (m. 2007)
Issue	Michael de Roumanie Kreuger Angelica de Roumanie Kreuger
House	Romania
Father	King Michael I of Romania
Mother	Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma

Irina Walker (born 28 February 1953) is the third daughter of the former king of Romania, Michael I. She was stripped of her princess title that she held in pretence following involvement with illegal cockfighting at Irrigon, Oregon in 2013.

Walker was born in exile on 28 February 1953 at a birth clinic in Lausanne, Switzerland, the third daughter and child of King Michael I and Queen Anne. She was baptised in the Orthodox faith; her godmother and namesake was her father's maternal aunt Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark, Duchess of Aosta.

Walker spent her childhood at her family homes in Lausanne, Switzerland and in the United Kingdom at Ayot House, St Lawrence, Hertfordshire; During holidays she and her sisters spent time with their grandparents, Helen, Queen Mother in Florence, Italy at Villa Sparta and in Denmark with Princess Margaret and Prince Rene. She and her sisters were told "fascinating tales of a homeland they couldn't visit" by their father.

Her teenage years were spent in Europe with her family, where she and her sisters received primary and secondary education.

In her mid-twenties, as her two elder and two younger sisters went away to work and study, Irina stayed with her parents at their family home in Switzerland and later moved to the United States to work.

After 50 years of exile of the Romanian royal family from Romania, in 1990 Walker's eldest sister Margareta and younger Sophie visited Romania for the first time following the Romanian revolution and overthrow of the Communist dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu in December 1989; Walker along with the royal family were involved to help the Romanians.