Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, who died on Thursday aged 96, was King Michael’s third cousin and at her wedding to Duke Philip Mountbatten in 1948, Michael I first met her on Princess Anne of Bourbon, the future Queen Anne. Romania.

Queen Elizabeth II died Thursday evening at Balmoral Castle, Buckingham Palace announced.

Michael I is the great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria of Great Britain on both the maternal and paternal lines. He is a third cousin of Queen Elizabeth II.

Relations between the two royal families began in 1893, when Crown Prince Ferdinand married Princess Maria on December 28.

Subsequently, Michael I and Elizabeth II, as well as their children, the Prince of Wales and Crown Princess Margaret, met on the occasion of numerous events.

We bring to your attention an overview of the main meetings between Queen Elizabeth II and King Michael I

The wedding of the British Crown Princess Elizabeth and Duke Philip

King Mihai I with Queen Mother Helena and Duchess of Aosta at the wedding of Queen Elizabeth II-A / PHOTO: Dennis Lee Royle / AP / Profimedia

In 1947, King Mihai traveled to London accompanied by Queen Mother Helena on November 12 to attend the marriage of Princess Elizabeth, heir to the throne of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. On this occasion, King Mihai will meet Princess Ana de Bourbon, the future Queen Ana of Romania, for the first time.

According to Historia, in 1998, 50 years after their marriage, King Mihai admitted that he first saw the Princess of Bourbon-Parma in a report on the front, filmed in Morocco. He asked the cameraman to cut out the footage he was filming and turn it into photographs. Although they had heard of each other, they met for the first time in November 1947. Ana accompanied her parents to London, where they were invited to the wedding of Princess Elizabeth, the current Queen of Great Britain.

In fact, King Mihai also had a close relationship with Prince Philip, who was born in the same year 1921, and they spent several vacations in Romania, Mamaia and Sinai.

The wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Di

Mihai and Elizabeth met again in 1981 at the wedding of the Prince and Princess of Wales (Charles and Diana).

By the way, in the years 1950-1990, the Prince of Wales and Crown Princess Margareta, children, then teenagers, always meet in the royal residences in Great Britain.

After 1990, the Prince of Wales and Crown Princess Margareta met almost every year in Great Britain or Romania.

The Royal Family returns to London in November 1997 to celebrate the Golden Wedding of Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh.

King Michael I and Queen Anne are hosted at Buckingham Palace, while the Crown Princess and Prince Radu live on the yacht Britannia.

In 2002, King Michael and Queen Anne attended the funeral of the Queen Mother of Great Britain, and in November of the same year, King Michael, accompanied by Queen Anne, Crown Princess Margareta and Prince Radu, made a second royal visit. to NATO in London, where they are received by the British sovereign at Buckingham Palace.

In November 2008, King Mihai, Queen Ana, the Crown Princess and Prince Radu attended the Prince of Wales’ 60th birthday celebrations at Buckingham Palace.

In 2011, King Mihai, Crown Princess Margareta and Prince Radu attended the marriage of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, to the Duchess of Cambridge.

King Michael reunites with Elizabeth II, accompanied by the Crown Princess and Prince Radu, 2012, at Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee in London, Windsor and Ascot in May and June. King Michael I is then seated in a group photo to the right of Queen Elizabeth II.

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In the same year, King Michael is celebrated in November at the Guildhall and the Royal Savoy Chapel in London.