Source: Alison Mutler, The Associated Press, December 5, 2017
BUCHAREST, Romania — King Michael I, Romania’s former monarch, who was forced to abdicate by the communists in the aftermath of the Second World War, died on Tuesday. He was 96.
Michael, who played a pivotal role in Romania’s switch to the Allied cause following a coup in 1944, spent decades in exile working as a chicken farmer and aircraft pilot. He finally got his citizenship back in 1997, eight years after the collapse of communism.
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