Princess Ileana of Romania, Archduchess of Austria
Ileana was born in Bucharest on 5 January 1909, the youngest daughter of Queen Marie of Romania and King Ferdinand I of Romania. Although it was rumored that Ileana's true father was her mother's lover, Prince Barbu Ştirbey, the king admitted paternity.
In Sinaia on 26 July 1931, Ileana married the Archduke Anton of Austria, Prince of Tuscany. This marriage was encouraged by Ileana's brother, King Carol II, who was jealous of Ileana's popularity in Romania and wanted to get her out of the country. After the wedding, Carol claimed that the Romanian people would never tolerate a Habsburg living on Romanian soil, and on these grounds refused Ileana and Anton permission to live in Romania.
After Michael I of Romania abdicated, Ileana and her family were exiled from the newly Communist Romania. The years from 1950 to 1961 were spent lecturing against communism, working with the Romanian Orthodox Church in the United States, writing two books: I Live Again, a memoir of her last years in Romania, and Hospital of the Queen's Heart, describing the establishment and running of the hospital.
On 29 May 1954, Ileana and Anton officially divorced and she married secondly in Newton, Massachusetts, on 20 June 1954, to Dr. Stefan Nikolas Issarescu (Turnu-Severin, 5 October 1906 - Providence, 21 December 2002).
In 1961, Princess Ileana entered the Orthodox Monastery of the Protection of the Mother of God, in Bussy-en-Othe, France. Her second marriage ended in divorce in 1965. On her tonsuring as a monastic, in 1967, Sister Ileana was given the name Mother Alexandra. She moved back to the United States and founded the Orthodox Monastery of the Transfiguration in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania, the first English language Orthodox monastery in North America.
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In January 1991, she suffered a broken hip in a fall on the evening before her eighty-second birthday, and while in hospital, suffered two major heart attacks. She died four days after the foundations had been laid for the expansion of the monastery.
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Ileana was not just beautiful, she had an exceptionally giving heart and powerful faith.
@andrewthornhill7042
2 жыл бұрын
@Joanna Backman Like her mother.
Ileana with the Tsarevich Alexei Romanov 2:06
@kratosgod7705
3 жыл бұрын
ERA SU NOVIA
3:47 my favorite picture of her.
@justaroot4315
4 жыл бұрын
Mine too...
Beautiful princess and family
O minune de printesa,atat de frumoasa...
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The music is from anime "the wind is rising"
wonderful
Wow strong women of god powerful faith
Didn't you used to have a video of Princess Ileana posted with a different soundtrack?? I saw it about a year ago, and I remember the music was simply gorgeous.... was hoping I could get the name of the composer.
Powerful faith amen.
very beautiful when she was young
@myunknownland9272
2 жыл бұрын
Aren't we all. 😂😂😂
@mashtali1
2 жыл бұрын
@@myunknownland9272 of course not
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Any reasons why she divorced twice?
@barahona68
2 жыл бұрын
@@vc4879 Any reason why you know so many interesting details? I once met one of her grandsons but he hardly spoke of her.
@barahona68
2 жыл бұрын
@@vc4879 thank you.
What? The beautiful Queen Mary of Romania cheated on her husband? She had an affair.. Very good.
Regina maria zici că a consumat LSD in pozele din video! 😂😂😂