I have always said it was only the Parliament who decided on the matter in case of restoration. Those that deny this accept things that have never been decided by the Parliament.
Cory said:acknowledgment of the lack of legitimacy of the republic in Romania
Cory said:compromises with the republican establishment
Is it known when the trial will start? If it remains unclear, what other ioptions does the association have to get more people to their side to see the supposed illegitimacy of the Romanian republic?
Do you know how manu members the national convention has? So we can get an idea how widely the illegitimacy of the republic is supported?
The lack of legitimacy of the republic is quite accepted by many and certainly not only by the monarchists involved in the National Convention for Constitutional Monarchy.
She is the one who does not her nephew around the palace so your arguments are based on nothing.
The truth is maybe not comfortable but that's it.
The initial draft was withdrawn. A new draft will be submitted this week according to Romania Insider: https://www.romania-insider.com/royal-house-draft-bill/
Wow, that's a lot of gymnastics to make king Mihai say something he never did just to promote your own favorite candidate while doing away with the existent male heirs (as that is the premise of the whole discussion). If the king had intended to only allow for male heirs but female line male heirs were fine he would have xhanged his line of succession to two persons: his grandsons. He didn't, however, he included his daughters and granddaughters (and later removed several of his off-spring).An article written by Radu Albu Comanescu, who works at Babeş-Bolyai University doing research in International Relations and International History and Politics.
The Heir to the Romanian Crown: Nicholas de Roumanie
Ziua de Cluj _ Moştenitorul Coroanei României_ Nicholas de Roumanie
Google translation
The translation is never good to get to understand everything written in the article. Those, who speak romanian, get a better information of it.
Wow, that's a lot of gymnastics to make king Mihai say something he never did just to promote your own favorite candidate while doing away with the existent male heirs (as that is the premise of the whole discussion). If the king had intended to only allow for male heirs but female line male heirs were fine he would have xhanged his line of succession to two persons: his grandsons. He didn't, however, he included his daughters and granddaughters (and later removed several of his off-spring).
I am sure it is a little confusing for people on the street but I would not include the archbishop among that group nor the royal watchers who hail him as their prince. To me it's rather easy: either you accept Mihai's decisions: in that case he was a prince for 5 years and 4 months and no longer is one and Margareta is currently the head of the family who is the current authority on these matters. Or you don't and in that case he never was a real prince nor is Margareta the current head of the family.Thank you so much for another lesson of yours...
It might not be hard to understand for us knowing a lot about Royalty and titles because it is part of our interests. But the average person "from the street" is often mystified!
The difference between Nicolae and the children of these spanish princesses you named or the Casiraghis (who are also often wrongly called "Prince Pierre Casiraghi", for instance) in Monaco is that these persons, other than King Mihai´s grandson, have never been titled Prince/ Princess and have not stripped of it again only by an intrigue of a jealous, childless aunt!
However, when it would have become clear that Margareta was not to have children most likely BOTH children of Elena would have been promoted to prince and princess. So, we would have had prince Nicolae and princess Karina of Romania. In that situation, grandchildren in line of succession would need to ask permission to marry to remain in line to the throne. Under the current circumstances it doesn't seem likely that Margareta would have approved Nicolae's marriage (and especially not if presented after the fact) - and him having a child out of wedlock would probably have meant that he would have been pressured to voluntarily give up his rights to the throne (Monaco is the only monarchy that is extremely lenient; Luxembourg would be an example that seems more comparable and even princes that ended up marrying the mothers of their children had to give up their place in line to the throne) but would have been stripped of his rights at the latest at his wedding day. Making Karina the new heir of her generation.
For the Romanian of the Street a Custudian Queen or an ex prince , they don't know them as their Country is governed by a Sociaist President.
For the Church it seems different , mainly they are for King Michael's Eldest Daughter. (I remember the King's Funerals) .
Princess Margareta has an important press service and all their events are posted but I don't konw in Romanian newspapers .
Nicolae is also asking the press , giving interviews , twitter etc...for his own activites
I wonder what sort Event his wedding will be in Romania. Perhaps the non coming of his family will steal the show. I am sure Nicolae has friends who will attend to be seen on TV and pay the coast of the Wedding. The Romanian of the Street will continue their own life without any interest for the 30 September Wedding in Sinaia.
I am not sure the Duke of Vendome will come he will have his 5th Child at that moment
Karina is attending her brother and sister-in-law's religious wedding, in what is unlikely a move sanctioned by the Custodian of the Crown.
It is worth remembering that King Michael granted Nicholas the style and title of "HRH Prince of Romania" jure sanguinis (see for reference the Fundamental Rules of the Royal House of Romania). Given this, it is unlikely that the king would have taken the step to strip the style and title - it was accorded as part of Nicholas' birthright, effectively, based on the wording of the Fundamental Rules.
Plenty of Romanian monarchists are of the mind that Crown Princess Margarita and Prince Radu pressured King Michael into signing the document that stripped Prince Nicholas of his title and position in the line of succession. This could have taken the form of actual pressure exerted on the elderly king (who in 2015 was, along with his wife...though not to the same degree as the Queen, suffering from the typical memory deficits that can accompany being in one's nineties), or simply flying to Switzerland and presenting the King with a document to sign without totally explaining it to him. Review the positing on the Royal Household's blog about this visit to the king, and you can see that he is surrounded by people who solely visited him for the purpose of ensuring that his signature was affixed to the document they had drafted. Michael had been living in Switzerland full time since late 2014; his wife's health had deteriorated more swiftly than this; the king's oldest and youngest daughters (the only offspring to reside in Romania at the time) visited on occasion but were no means omnipresent: there is little likelihood that the king had any idea of the tensions that had built up between his eldest daughter and his grandson.
This is not a totally unlikely or unheard of scenario - people have done things to hold onto their wealth and positions that are far worse than throwing their nephew under the bus. Many observers tend to forget that the Romanian royal family (or, the Head of it, rather) is not stricken by poverty as was the case in exile.