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Simeon Sakskoburggotski

Simeon II
Simeon Sakskoburggotski.jpg
Tsar of Bulgaria
Reign 28 August 1943 – 15 September 1946
Predecessor Boris III
Successor Monarchy abolished
Vasil Kolarov (Acting President)
Regents
Premiers
7th Head of the House of
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry
Tenure 14 April 2010 – present
Predecessor Prince Johannes Heinrich
Heir apparent Prince Kardam (2010–2015)
Prince Boris (2015–present)
Born (1937-06-16) 16 June 1937 (age 79)
Sofia, Tsardom of Bulgaria
Spouse Margarita Gómez-Acebo y Cejuela (m. 1962)
Issue
Regnal name
Simeon II of Bulgaria
House Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry
Father Boris III of Bulgaria
Mother Giovanna of Italy
Religion Bulgarian Orthodoxy
Signature
48th Prime Minister of Bulgaria
In office
24 July 2001 – 17 August 2005
President Petar Stoyanov
Georgi Parvanov
Deputy
Preceded by Ivan Kostov
Succeeded by Sergei Stanishev
Personal details
Political party

National Movement for Stability and Progress (2001–2009)

Independent (2009-)
Regnal name
Simeon II of Bulgaria
Styles of
Simeon II of the Bulgarians
Royal Monogram of King Simeon II of Bulgaria.svg
Reference style His Majesty
Spoken style Your Majesty
Alternative style Sir

National Movement for Stability and Progress (2001–2009)

Simeon Borisov Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (or Sakskoburggotski) (born 16 June 1937) is a Bulgarian politician and former monarch. During his reign as Simeon II, King (or Tsar) of Bulgaria, from 1943 to 1946 he was a minor, the royal authority being exercised over the kingdom on his behalf by a regency. The regents were Simeon's uncle Prince Kiril, General Nikola Mihov and the prime minister, Bogdan Filov. In 1946 the monarchy was abolished as a consequence of a referendum, and Simeon was forced into exile. He returned to his home country in 1996 and formed the political party National Movement for Stability and Progress and became Prime Minister of the Republic of Bulgaria from July 2001 until August 2005. In the next elections he, as a leader of NDSV, took part in a coalition government with the ex-communist party BSP, and in 2009 after NDSV failed to win any seats in the Parliament, he left politics.

Simeon is one of the three last living heads of state from the time of World War II (the others are former King Michael I of Romania and Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet), the only living person who has borne the title "Tsar", and one of only two former monarchs in history to have become the head of government through democratic elections (the other is the now-deceased Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia).


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