There was much talk of secret tunnels connecting the Chausius nomenclature palaces in Primavera and Dorobanca with key locations in Bucharest, especially during the psychotic 1989. But no one saw them and no one photographed them.

Interspersed with all this mythology is the real story of a house with an exceptional history. House on Grigore Mora street no. 42 belonged to the Romanian princess Ileana, it was the headquarters of the Soviet KGB and the residence of Tancei Georgiou, one of the daughters of Gheorghe Georgiou Dei.

In 1940, when the construction of the villa began on Grigore Mora street, no. At the age of 42, the Romanian Princess Ileana was a nurse.

The Romanian Princess Ileana was the youngest daughter of Queen Maria and King Ferdinand. The most beautiful princess and the most beloved Queen Mother, who called her “the child of my soul” in her memoirs.

Princess Ileana married Archduke Anton of Austria at the age of 22 at Pelissor Palace in Sinai, with whom she had six children. In 1944, he founded the Red Cross Hospital in Brasov, and in Bran he built the “Heart of Queen Mary” hospital, which operated until 1948 with the support of the International Red Cross.

On January 4, 1948, Princess Ileana left the villa in Dorobant for good; she was forced to leave the country after the forced abdication of King Mihaj I. 1948 was also the year that the Mediterranean-style villa would be nationalized.

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