I believe that readers know or have heard of the love king Edward VIII in British history, he was originally the second generation of the British Windsor Dynasty, but for the beloved beauty Mrs. Simpson, voluntarily gave up the British throne, Edward VIII and Mrs. Simpson's love story, has been touching future generations.
However, in history, the monarch who loves beauty and does not love Jiangshan is not only Edward VIII, but also the Shunzhi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty in Chinese history, who gave up Jiangshan for the sake of the beauty Dong Efei willingly renounced.
In addition to the two typical love kings of Edward VIII of the United Kingdom and the Shunzhi Emperor of China, there is also a love king in the history of the European country romania, who is very similar to Edward VIII, and also voluntarily gave up the throne for the sake of beauty, but his popularity is much lower than that of Edward VIII.
The King of Romania was Carol II.
Carol II of the Hohenzollern dynasty of Romania
Romania was historically the territory of the Ottoman Empire, and after the decline of the Ottoman Empire, the Romanians took the opportunity to fight for independence and established the "Kingdom of Romania" in 1881 AD, ruled by the Hohenzollern dynasty, and the founding king was Carol I.
Carol I had no children, so he designated his nephew Ferdinand I to succeed to the throne of Romania, who was the father of Carol II, the protagonist of this article.
Carol II was the eldest son of Ferdinand I, and according to the law of succession to the throne, his status as the heir to the throne of his father should be unstable, but Carol II was born with a temperamental nature and liked to chase beautiful women, he was not interested in the throne at all, gave up the throne many times for beautiful women, and did things that disgraced the Romanian royal family.
Carol II in his youth
Carol II's first marriage was with a commoner woman. As a young man, Carol II served in the army and fell in love with a commoner woman, Lampolina, who was determined to marry Lampolina, but the entire royal family opposed it, and the succession law stipulated that if the crown prince married a commoner, the right to inherit the throne would be invalid.
The flesh-and-blooded Carol II, knowing that he would lose the throne, was still determined to marry Lamporina, and he openly became a deserter and took Lampolina to Ukraine to secretly marry, and the two had a son. Soon after, the Romanian court annulled Carol II's marriage to Lampolina and forcibly restored his succession to the throne.
Ferdinand I was so outraged by the actions of his son Carol II that he forcibly married Princess Helen from the Greek dynasty of Glücksburg, and the two had a son, the last King of Romania, Mikhail I.
A few years later, Carol II was once again restless, and he met Elena, the wife of an officer, at a ball. Elena was beautiful and beautiful, and Carol II's heart was completely captured by her, and the two soon developed a lover relationship.
Carol II with Elena
When Carol II's relationship with Elena's lover was exposed, it caused another uproar, and Ferdinand I was extremely angry and disappointed with his son. In order to avoid public opinion, Carol II took Elena to live in France, voluntarily gave up the right to inherit the throne, and ceded the right to inherit the throne to his son Mihay I.
In 1927, Ferdinand I died and was succeeded by his grandson Mihay I. Since Mikhail I was only a few years old, several members of the paraphyletic royal family served as regents, but these regents had no political influence, and the fascist forces in the country incited popular sentiment, coupled with the ongoing economic crisis, led to political turmoil in Romania.
At this critical juncture, Carol II abruptly returned to Romania from France in 1930 and forced his son to cede the throne to himself. In this way, Carol II, who originally voluntarily gave up the throne, inherited the throne of his son and became a king, which is an extremely rare king in world history when a father inherits the throne of his son.
Soon after, Carol II announced his divorce from Princess Helen of Greece, married Elena, and became queen, and also practiced an almost fascist dictatorship, colluding with Hitler and Mussolini. After the outbreak of World War II, the continuous opposition to fascism in Romania led to carroll II no longer being able to continue to rule Romania, and he abdicated in 1940 and his son Mihayi I was reinstated.
Elena in her later years
After the abdication of Carol II, he went into exile with Queen Elena, with a small group of loyal Janissaries and a large amount of gold and silver money. Carol II spent the rest of his life in Portugal until his death in 1953 at the age of 60, when his beloved Queen Elena was widowed and continued to live until 1978, at the age of 71, leaving neither son nor daughter.
This is the Romanian history of the love of the Beauty does not love the country of the love of the king Carol II, his popularity is not as high as the British Edward VIII, but the love story is more tortuous, aside from other aspects, he is definitely a love king, until the end with Queen Elena, Queen Elena also for him to the end.
Carol II in his later years