Romania's former King Michael I has died in Switzerland at the age of 96, a year after being diagnosed with cancer. King Michael ruled Romania twice, from 1927 to 1930 and then from 1940 to 1947 ...

Michael of Romania was a king without a throne at the end of World War Two. He had already spent seven years as sovereign: first as a child, when his father Carol II renounced the throne in 1927 ...

He was following what he considered his duty. He died in 2011. Michael of Romania died last month. He was roughly a generation older than Leka, born in 1921. His birthplace was Peles Castle ...