Carol Lambrino

Carol Mircea Lambrino ( born January 8, 1920 in Bucharest, † January 27, 2006 in London) was the firstborn son of the Romanian King Carol II He came from the Liaison Carols with the ballerina Zizi Lambrino. . Because of his parents' marriage unstandesgemäßen Lambrinos claims were not recognized on the throne of the House of Hohenzollern -Sigmaringen in Romania.

The marriage of Carol II, whom the reputation of a playboy surrounded, with the Romanian ballerina Zizi Lambrino was closed in 1918 in Odessa. A year later the connection was canceled again because the imported in the 19th century courtly rules forbade heir to the throne to marry Romanians. After the dissolution of her marriage Zizi Lambrino emigrated with her new born son and lived in Paris and London.

Lambrinos life was marked by the struggle for the recognition of his legal family lineage. In the 1950s, courts recognized him in Portugal and France as a legitimate son of Carol II. In Romania, he spoke only in 2003, a court 's legitimacy. This decision challenged Michael, the half-brother Lambrinos and Romanian king of 1927-1930 and 1940-1947, at. A final decision on appeal before the Supreme Court Romanian is still pending.

Lambrino lived in London. His native country he visited only in 1938 at the funeral of his grandmother Marie of Edinburgh. A second journey took him until 2005 back to Romania.

In his first marriage he married in 1948 Helene Navagatzine (* 1925). The marriage was divorced in 1958. Between 1960 and 1977 he was married to Thelma Williams ( 1930-1988 ). Since 1984 he lived until his death with Antonia Colville ( b. 1939 ) are married together. He died on 27 January 2006, several weeks after his 86th birthday after a long illness.