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Michael I ( Romanian: Mihai I [miˈhaj]; 25 October 1921 – 5 December 2017) was the last king of Romania, reigning from 20 July 1927 to 8 June 1930 and again from 6 September 1940 until his forced abdication on 30 December 1947.

From his exile, King Michael I militated for his country and in the1950es of the last century he created the Romanian National Committee. After the fall of the communist regime, King Michael I came back to Romania and militated for his country all over the world. Previous Next Learn more News History Collections

Michael I of Romania was the last king of Romania from 1927 to 1930 and from 1940 to 1947. He was a Romanian prince, a German count, and a French knight. He was one of the last surviving heads of state from World War II and died in 2017 at 96.

Romania’s former King Michael I, a onetime boy monarch who later engineered the ouster of pro-Nazi strongman Gen. Ion Antonescu during World War II, only to be forced at gunpoint to abdicate by...

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Former Romanian King Michael I, who was forced to abdicate by the communists in the aftermath of World War II, died on Tuesday. He was 96. Michael, who played a pivotal role in Romania's switch to the Allied cause following a coup in 1944, spent decades in exile working as a chicken farmer and aircraft pilot. He finally got his citizenship back in 1997, eight years ...