Early Life
Prince Carol was born in Bucharest as son of Crown Prince Carol of Romania and his first wife, Zizi Lambrino. At the time of his birth he was registered with the name Mircea Grigore Carol Lambrino. His grandfather King Ferdinand forced the annulment of his parents marriage in January 1919 in the Supreme Court of Romania and Carol was born outside the 300-day period allowed to permit legitimacy, on 8th of August 1920. The legality of the annulment has been questioned.
After his birth, Carol and his mother were forced to leave Romania and settled in Paris. During his younger years and his reign, including during his personal dictatorship (1938–1940) when he held absolute power in Romania, King Carol II recognized his first-born Carol Mircea as a prince on several occasions. One of these situations was a letter published on the front page by the Romanian daily newspaper "Epoca" (17 January 1920). Signed by HRH Crown Prince Carol, the document is a statement in which the future king recognizes he is the father of Princess Ioana's baby-boy. More, the Princely House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen has always recognised them as princes of Hohenzollern (or the German style family name Prinz von Hohenzollern) as it becomes clear in correspondence between the late Prince Friedrich of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and the deposed King Carol II.
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