Romanian Royal Family - Family of Michael

Family of Michael

• HM King Michael
  HM Queen Anne
  • HRH Crown Princess Margarita, born on (1949-03-26) 26 March 1949 (age 64)
    HRH Prince Radu, born on (1960-06-07) 7 June 1960 (age 52)
  • HRH Princess Helena (Elena), born on (1950-11-15) 15 November 1950 (age 62)
    Alexander Philips Nixon McAteer, born on (1964-10-22) 22 October 1964 (age 48)
    • HRH Prince Nicholas, born on (1985-04-01) 1 April 1985 (age 28)
    • Karina de Roumanie Medforth-Mills, born on (1989-01-04) 4 January 1989 (age 24)
  • HRH Princess Irina, born on (1953-02-28) 28 February 1953 (age 60)
    John Wesley Walker, born on (1945-12-30) 30 December 1945 (age 67)
    • Michael de Roumanie Kreuger, born on (1985-02-25) 25 February 1985 (age 28)
    • Angelica de Roumanie Kreuger, born on (1986-12-29) 29 December 1986 (age 26)
      Richard Robert Knight
      • Countney Bianca Knight, born on (2007-05-31) 31 May 2007 (age 5)
  • HRH Princess Sophie, born on (1957-10-29) 29 October 1957 (age 55)
    • Elisabeth-Maria Biarneix, born on (1999-08-15) 15 August 1999 (age 13)

The children of Princess Elena, Princess Irina, and Princess Sophie have no rights to the Romanian throne according to both the defunct royal Constitution of 1923 and the defunct Law of the Statute of the Romanian royal house dated 1884. On December 30, 2007 in a private ceremony, King Michael signed into effect a new such Statute, an act with eminently symbolic importance in the absence of its approval by the Parliament requested by Michael himself, in an attempt to replace the old 1884 Law of the Statute. Through the new Statute called Fundamental Rules of the Royal Family of Romania, Michael decreed his grandchildren into the line of succession to the throne and to the headship of the Royal House and explicitly banned any other foreign prince belonging to any other royal or princely house from succeeding. On the same occasion he asked the Romanian Parliament to change the Salic law should it consider restoring the monarchy (see "Line of succession to the Romanian throne"). Through the same act, Michael also designated Nicholas de Roumanie Medforth-Mills as a future member of the Royal Family and future "Prince of Romania" with a "Royal Highness" style effective either on his 25th birthday, April 1, 2010, or upon Michael's death, whichever occurs sooner. Children or consorts of the members of the royal family of Romania who do not bear a Royal title, are not recognized as members of the Royal Family according to the new rules, but only as members of the larger family of King Michael I and of the Royal House.