Carol II of Romania

Carol II reigned as King of Romania fromJune 1930 untilSeptember 1940. He was the first of the Hohenzollern kings of Romania to be born in the country . Carol, by contrast, spoke Romanian as his first language and was the first member of the Romanian royal family to be raised in the Orthodox faith. He possessed a hedonistic personality that contributed to the controversies and misrule that marred his reign. In 1940, he was forced to abdicate and withdraw into foreign exile.

Carol was born in Pele Castle. Carol grew up under the thumb of his dominating greatuncle King Carol I, who largely excluded his parents, the Germanborn Crown Prince Ferdinand and the Britishborn Crown Princess Princess Marie from any role in bringing him up. Romania in the early 20th century had a famously relaxed Latin sexual morality, and in this environment, Princess Marie pursued a series of love affairs with various, predominantly Romanian men who offered her more emotional and sexual satisfaction than her husband Ferdinand could. For his part, Ferdinand fiercely resented being cuckolded. The stern Carol I felt that Marie was unqualified to raise Prince Carol because of her love affairs, whereas Marie regarded the king as a cold, overbearing tyrant who would crush the life out of her son. The childless Carol I treated Prince Carol as his surrogate son and thoroughly spoiled him by indulging his every whim. Ferdinand was a rather shy and weak man who was easily overshadowed by th

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