Romanian Royal House

The Kingdom of Romania (Romanian: Regatul României) was a constitutional monarchy in Southeastern Europe, ruled by a royal family that was a branch of the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen dynasty. The Kingdom existed from 1881, when prince Carol I of Romania was proclaimed King, until 1947, when the last king, Michael I of Romania, abdicated and the Parliament proclaimed Romania a republic. Soon after, after the establishment of the constitution of 13 April 1948, Romania became a socialist republic, a regime that lasted until 1989.

Members of the former royal family include the daughters of the late, former, King Michael of Romania. Some descendants have adopted the surname "of Romania". There are also descendants of Michael's older half-brother Carol Lambrino (also known as "Carol Hohenzollern" and "Carol Mircea Grigore of Romania" or, in Romanian, al României, on his amended, Romanian birth certificate)), whose legitimacy was disputed and who were not recognised as royals during the reigns of Ferdinand, Carol II and Michael.

King Michael publicly renounced for himself, the former queen, and their five daughters any claim to the titles of "Prince/Princess of Hohenzollern", styles which were in any case not recognised under German laws since 1919 but had been attributed, along with the Romanian royal titles, to members of the Romanian dynasty in such subsequently-published sources as the Almanach de Gotha and Burke's Guide to the Royal Family.

Daughters of Romania's kings, such as Margareta, Elena, Irina and Sophie, as well as their descendants, had no rights of succession to the Romanian throne during the monarchy's existence, in accordance with the Salic law enshrined in both the defunct royal Romanian Constitution of 1938 and the Statute of the Romanian royal house, dated 1884. On 30 December 2007 in a private ceremony, King Michael issued a declaration in the form of a statute, an act of symbolic significance in the absence of its approval by the Parliament, promulgating new Fundamental Rules of the Royal Family of Romania.

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