#Helen queen mother of Romania

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Crown Princess Helen of Romania, Princess Ileana of Romania, Princess Maria of Romania and Crown Prince Carol of Romania in 1921, shortly after the princely’s couple arrival in Romania following their wedding.

Source: ANF.

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Rare photo of King Constantine I of Greece with his children and brother (?) (from left to right) Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark (?), Prince George, Princess Helen, Prince Alexander of Greece and Denmark, early 1900s

Source: Princess Victoria of Wales’s private albums

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Oh Sitta you were so pretty!! 🥹🤍

Her Majesty the Queen Mother Elena of Romania wearing Queen Sophie’s Tiara.

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Royal Birthdays for today, May 2nd:

Yongle Emperor, Emperor of China, 1360

Eleanor of Aragon, Queen of Portugal, 1402

Eleanor of Viseu, Queen of Portugal, 1458

Catherine II, Empress and Autocrat of All the Russias, 1729

Alberto, Prince of Naples and Sicily, 1792

Helen of Greece and Denmark, Queen Mother of Romania,1896

Faisal II, King of Iraq, 1935

Moshoeshoe II, King of Lesotho, 1938

Nathalie of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, German Princess, 1975

Charlotte of Wales, British Princess, 2015

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Happy belated birthday to Helen, princess of Greece and Denmark, Queen mother of Romania<3

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Queen Victoria's Currently living Eldest Decendants and Eldest Ever Descendants

This list is as of 19 April 2024

CURRENTLY LIVING

The Lady Pamela Hicks (19 April 1929) (95 years, 0 months, 0 days)

Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner (12 February 1932) (92 years, 2 months, 7 days)

Count Bertram Friedrich zu Castell-Rüdenhausen (12 July 1932) (91 years, 9 months, 7 days)

Mrs. Anne Mary Sibylla Liddell-Grainger (28 July 1932) (91 years,8 months, 22 days)

Princess Caroline Mathilde Adelheid Sibylla Marianne Erika von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha (5 April 1933) (91 years, 0 months, 14 days)

Princess Dorothea Charlotte Karin of Hesse (24 July 1934) (89 years, 8 months, 26 days)

Princess Margaretha Désirée Victoria, Mrs. Ambler (Sweden, 31 October 1934) ( 89 years, 5months, 13 days)

Countess Viktoria Adelheid Clementine Louise von Castell-Rüdenhausen-Von Huntington-Whiteley (26 Februrary 1935)(89 years, 1 months, 24 days)

Prince Edward George Nicholas Paul Patrick, The Duke of Kent (9 October 1935) (88 years, 6 months, 10 days)

Miss Elizabeth Alice Abel Smith (5 September 1936) (87 years, 7 months, 14 days)

Eldest LIVED Descendants:

On 12 June 2025, Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner will join this list if she is still living.

Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh (10 June 1921-9 April 2021) ( 99 years, 10 months, 11 days)

Princess Alice of Albany, Countess of Athlone (25/02/1883-03/01/1981) (97 years, 10 months, 10 days)

Queen Elizabeth II of The United Kingdom (21 April 1926-8 September 2022) ( 96 years, 4 months, 18 days)

King Mihai I of Romania (25/10/1921-05/12/2017) ( 96 years, 1 month, 11 days)

Count Carl Johan Bernadotte af Wisborg (Sweden) (31/10/1916-05/05/2012) (95 years, 6 months, 5 days )

The Lady Pamela Hicks (19 April 1929) (95 years, 0 months, 0 days)

Count Sigvard Bernadotte af Wisborg (of Sweden) (07/06/1907-04/02/2002) (94 years, 7 months, 28 days )

Lady Katherine Brandram (Princess of Greece and Denmark) (04/05/1913 02/10/2007) ( 94 years, 4 months, 27 days )

Infanta Dona Beatriz   Isabel Federica Alfonsa Eugénie Cristina Maria Teresia Bienvenida Ladislàa   of Spain, The Princess of Civitella-Cesi   (22/06/1909-22/11/2002) (93 years, 5 months, 1 day)

Patricia Edwina Victoria Mountbatten- Knatchbull  , The 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma (14/02/1924-13/06/2017) ( 93 years, 4 months)

FACTS:

The Duke of Edinburgh is the husband  and third cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, first cousin of Lady Katherine Brandram,  The Countess Mountbatten of Burma & Lady Pamela (Mountbatten) Hicks & uncle to Princess Dorothea Charlotte Karin of Hesse.  He is also a 1st cousin 1x removed of  Queen Sofia of Spain, King Constantine II of the Helenes and Princess Irene of Greece & Denmark and The Duke of Kent (The Duke of Kent’s mother Marina was The Duke of Edinburgh’s first cousin).

Queen Elizabeth II is a 3rd cousin of The Countess Mountbatten of Burma, Lady Pamela Mountbatten, The Duke of Edinburgh. She is the wife of The Duke of Edinburgh. Through her marriage, she is an aunt to  Princess Dorothea Charlotte Karin of Hesse. She is a first cousin of The Duke of Kent.

Lady Pamela Hicks is a 3rd cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, a first cousin of  The Duke of Edinburgh, her big sister was The Countess Mountbatten of Burma.

Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner is a third cousin of The Countess Mountbatten of Burma, The Duke of Edinburgh, Queen Elizabeth II & Lady Pamela Hicks.

The Countess of Althorne was the last surviving grandchild of Queen Victoria. By her marriage,  The Countess of Althorne was also a great aunt of Queen Elizabeth II-she married QEII’s grandmother’s brother

King Mihai I of Romania was the last monarch of Romania, he was also a great grandchild of Queen Victoria twice-once through his mother (via Victoria, Princess Royal) and once through his father (via Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha)

Sweden’s Count Carl Johan Bernadotte af Wisborg & Count Sigvard Bernadotte af Wisborg were brothers as well as uncles to King Carl XVI Gustaf, Princess Margareta, Mrs. Ambler, Princess Birgitta of Sweden, Princess of Hohenzollern,  Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld,  Princess Christina, Mrs. Magnuson, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, Princess Benedikte of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg & Queen Anne-Marie of Greece.

Countess Viktoria Adelheid Clementine Louise von Castell-Rüdenhausen-Von Huntington-Whiteley  was a great granddaughter of Prince Leopold, The Duke of Albany, thus a great great granddaughter of Queen Victoria. She is also the younger sister of  Count Bertram Friedrich zu Castell-Rüdenhausen.

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Queen Marie of Romania, Crown Prince Carol, Crown Princess Helen, Queen Maria of Serbia, King George II and Queen Elisabeth of Greece, c. 1924.

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Princess Helen of Romania, née Princess Helen of Greece and Denmark, later Queen Mother of Romania. By Philip de László.

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Princess Irene of Greece (Duchess of Aosta); Princess Helen of Romania (born Princess Helen of Greece; Queen Mother of Romania); and the Countess of Törring-Jettenbach (born Princess Elizabeth of Greece), 1934

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OTMAA Contemporaries: Princess Helen of Greece and Denmark.

Born 1896, she was between Olga and Tatiana in age, and correspondence exists between her and a few of the Grand Duchesses. They were double second cousins through both the British (Queen Victoria) and Danish (Christian X) lines, and related more distantly through Tsar Nicholas I.

She was the unfortunate princess who ended up marrying Carol of Romania, who had been linked to Olga and Maria in their lifetimes.

Outwardly a dutiful, well-mannered proper princess, she had a hidden sense of humor and talent for mimicry that delighted her mother-in-law, Queen Marie of Romania.

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“The first thing you saw in her was her smile. She was smiling all the time.”

— His Excellency Jean Marie Musy in a documentary on Helen, Queen Mother of Romania.

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Women of the House of Romanov, part III

Grand Duchess Yelisaveta Mikhailovna. Daughter of Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich and Charlotte von Württemberg.

Grand Duchess Yekaterina Mikhailovna. Daughter of Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich and Charlotte von Württemberg. Mother of Helene zu Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Prinzessin von Sachsen-Altenburg

Grand Duchess Olga Konstaninovna. Daughter of Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich and Alexandra von Sachsen-Altenburg. Mother of Alexandra of Greece and Denmark and Maria of Greece and Denmark.

Grand Duchess Maria Aleksandrovna. Daughter of Tsar Aleksandr II and Marie von Hessen und bei Rhein. Mother of Marie of Edinburgh, Queen of Romania; Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha; and Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, infanta de España.

Grand Duchess Vera Konstantinovna. Daughter of Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich and Alexandra von Sachsen-Altenburg. Mother of Elsa von Württemberg, Prinzessin zu Schaumburg-Lippe and Olga von Württemberg, Prinzessin zu Schaumburg-Lippe.

Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna. Daughter of Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaevich and Cäcilie Auguste von Baden. Mother of Alexandrine zu Mecklenburg, Dronning af Danmark and Cecilie zu Mecklenburg, Kronprinzessin des deutschen Kaiserreichs.

Grand Duchess Kseniya Aleksandrovna. Daughter of Tsar Aleksandr III and Dagmar af Danmark. Mother of Princess Irina Aleksandrovna.

Grand Duchess Yelena Vladimirovna. Daughter of Grand Duke Vladimir Aleksandrovich and Marie zu Mecklenburg. Mother of Olga of Greece and Denmark; Elisávet of Greece and Denmark, Gräfin zu Toerring-Jettenbach; and Marina of Greece and Denmark, Duchess of Kent.

Grand Duchess Olga Aleksandrovna. Daughter of Tsar Aleksandr III and Dagmar af Danmark.

Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna. Daughter of Grand Duke Pavel Aleksandrovich and Alexandra of Greece and Denmark.

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Queen Mother Helen in Romania

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Currently there is no known photos of the wedding of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Princess Alix of Hesse and By Rhine on 14 November 1894 ( 26 November 1894 N.S.) at the Grand Church of the Winter Palace.Of course they may still be in the Russian Archives,not yet released

On 19 April 1894, Tsarevich Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov of Russia was at the wedding of Ernst-Ludwig Grand Duke of Hesse, to their mutual cousin,Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Nicholas had also obtained permission from his parents, Tsar Alexander III and Empress Marie Feodorovna, to propose to Ernst's younger sister, Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine.The Emperor and Empress had initially been opposed to the match. However, Nicholas, who had first met Alix a decade earlier in St. Petersburg when Alix's sister, Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine, married Nicholas's uncle, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich Romanov of was not to be dissuaded. Furthermore, Tsar Alexander's health was beginning to fail.

Shortly after arriving in Coburg, Nicholas proposed to Alix. However, Alix, who was a devout Lutheran, rejected Nicholas's proposal, as in order to marry the heir to the throne, she would have to convert to Russian Orthodoxy.However, Alix's cousin, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, who had been at the wedding, insisted that it was her duty to marry Nicholas, despite her religious scruples.Elisabeth also spoke with her, insisting that there were not that many differences between Lutheranism and Orthodoxy. At the prompting of the Kaiser, Nicholas proposed for the second time, and she accepted.

On 1 November 1894, Alexander III died at Maly Palace, Livadia, leaving twenty-six-year-old Nicholas as the next Tsar of Russia. The following day, Alix, who had arrived at Livadia several days earlier in order to receive the dying Tsar's blessing, was received into the Russian Orthodox Church as Grand Duchess Alexandra Feodorovna.Alix had apparently expressed her wish to take the name Catherine, but decided to take the name Alexandra on Nicholas's request.

Guests

The groom's family

•The Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna of Russia ~ mother of Nicholas II

•Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna Romanova of Russia ~ sister of Nicholas ll

•Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich Romanov of Russia ~ brother-in-law and first cousin once removed) of Nicholas II

•Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich Romanov of Russia, brother of Nicholas II

•Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna Romanova of Russia, sister of Nicholas II

•Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich Romanov of Russia ~ paternal uncle of Nicholas II

Grand Duchess Marie Pavlovna Romanova of Russia (the Elder) ~ paternal aunt by marriage of Nicholas II

•Grand Duke Kyril Vladimirovich Romanov of Russia ~ paternal first cousin of Nicholas II

•Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich Romanov of Russia ~ paternal first cousin of Nicholas II

•Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich Romanov of Russia ~ paternal first cousin of Nicholas II

•Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna Romanova of Russia ~ paternal first cousin of Nicholas II

•Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich Romanov of Russia ~ paternal uncle of Nicholas II

•Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich Romanov of Russia ~ paternal uncle of N0icholas II

Grand Duchess Elisabeth Feodorovna Romanova of Russia ~ sisters-in-law and paternal aunt by marriage of Nicholas II

•Grand Duke Pavel Alexandrovich Romanov of Russia ~ paternal uncle of Nicholas II

•Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna Romanova of Russia ~ paternal grandaunt by marriage of Nicholas II

•Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich Romanov of Russia ~ first cousin,once removed of Nicholas II

•Grand Duchess Elizaveta Mavrikievna Romanova of Russia ~ first cousin once removed by marriage of Nicholas II

•Grand Duke Dmitri Konstantinovich Romanov of Russia ~ first cousin once removed of Nicholas II

•Duchess Vera of Württemberg, first cousin once removed of Nicholas II (representing the King of Württemberg)

•Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaevich Romanov of Russia ~ paternal granduncle of Nicholas II

•Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich Romanov of Russia ~ first cousin once removed of Nicholas II

•Grand Duke Georgiy Mikhailovich Romanov of Russia ~ first cousin once removed of Nicholas II

•Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich Romanov of Russia ~ first cousin once removed of Nicholas II

•King Christian lX of Denmark ~ maternal grandfather of Nicholas II

•King George l of the Hellenes ~ maternal uncle of Nicholas ll

•Queen Olga of the Hellenes ~ maternal aunt and first cousin once removed of Nicholas II

•Prince George of Greece and Denmark ~ first cousin of Nicholas II

•Prince Valdemar of Denmark ~ maternal uncle of Nicholas II

The bride's family

•Grand Duke Ernst-Ludwig of Hesse and by Rhine ~ brother of Alexandra Feodorovna

•Princess Irene of Prussia ~ Sister of Alexandra Feodorovna

•Prince Henry of Prussia ~ brother-in-law and maternal first cousin of Alexandra Feodorovna (representing the German Emperor)

•Edward, Prince of Wales ~ uncle of both Alexandra and Nicholas (representing the Queen of the United Kingdom)

•Alexandra,Princess of Wales ~ aunt of both Alexandra and Nicholas (representing the Queen of the United Kingdom)

•The Prince George,Duke of York ~ Alexandra and Nicholas' mutual first cousin

•Alfred,Duke and Duchess of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha ~ uncle of Alexandra Feodorovna and uncle by marriage of Nicholas ll

•Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna Romanova,Duchess of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha ~ aunt of Nicholas ll and aunt by marriage of Alexandra Feodorovna

•Ferdinand, Crown Prince of Romania, husband of Alexandra and Nicholas' mutual first cousin (representing the King of Romania)

Foreign Royalty

•Mecklenburg : Duke John Albert of Mecklenburg ~ second cousin once removed of Nicholas II (representing the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin)

•Grand Duchy of Baden : Prince Wilhelm and Princess Maria Maximilianovna of Baden, second cousin once removed of both Nicholas and Alexandra, and first cousin once removed of Nicholas II (representing the Grand Duke of Baden)

•The Duke of Leuchtenberg, first cousin once removed of Nicholas II

Prince George Maximilianovich and Princess Anastasia of Leuchtenberg, first cousin once removed of Nicholas II and his wife

•Grand Duchy of Oldenburg : Duke Alexander Petrovich and Duchess Eugenia Maximilianovna of Oldenburg, second cousin once removed and first cousin once removed of Nicholas II (cousin of the Grand Duke of Oldenburg)

•Grand Duchy of Oldenburg : Duke Peter Alexandrovich of Oldenburg ~ second cousin of Nicholas II

•Grand Duchy of Oldenburg : Duke Constantine Petrovich of Oldenburg ~ second cousin once removed of Nicholas II

•Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz : Duke Georg Alexander of Mecklenburg-Strelitz ~ second cousin once removed of Nicholas II (nephew of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz)

•Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz : Duke Karl Michael of Mecklenburg-Strelitz ~ second cousin once removed of Nicholas II

•Duchy of Saxe-Altenburg Prince Albert and Princess Helene of Saxe-Altenburg ~ third cousin once removed of both Nicholas and Alexandra, and second cousin once removed of Nicholas II (representing the Duke of Saxe-Altenburg)

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Royal Birthdays for today, May 2nd:

Yongle Emperor, Emperor of China, 1360

Eleanor of Aragon, Queen of Portugal, 1402

Eleanor of Viseu, Queen of Portugal, 1458

Catherine II, Empress and Autocrat of All the Russias, 1729

Alberto, Prince of Naples and Sicily, 1792

Helen of Greece and Denmark, Queen Mother of Romania,1896

Faisal II, King of Iraq, 1935

Moshoeshoe II, King of Lesotho, 1938

Nathalie of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, German Princess, 1975

Charlotte of Wales, British Princess, 2015

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Yesterday was 39 years since the death of HM Queen Mother Helen of Romania Princess of Greece and Denmark (2 May 1896 – 28 November 1982)

She was the queen mother of Romania during the reign of her son King Michael I (1940–1947).

Daughter of King Constantine I of Greece and his wife, Princess Sophia of Prussia, Helen spent her childhood in Greece, Great Britain and Germany. The outbreak of World War I and the overthrow of her father by the Allies in 1917 permanently marked her and also separated her from her favorite brother, the young Alexander I of Greece. Exiled in Switzerland along with most members of the royal family, Helen then spent several months caring for her father, plagued by disease and depression. In 1920, the princess met Carol, Crown Prince of Romania, who quickly asked her hand in marriage. Despite the bad reputation of the prince, Helen accepted and moved to Romania, where she soon gave birth to their only son, Prince Michael, in 1921.

Carol had divorced Helen on the grounds of incompatibility in 1928. However, once he reclaimed the throne, the government tried to have the divorce annulled. This was the last thing Carol wanted, so, it is reputed, he set about persecuting and defaming her. Faced with this situation, she fled to her mother’s villa near Florence, but in 1932, she returned to Bucharest to seek concessions regarding access to her son and to secure payment of her royal allowance. Achieving the latter, she was able to buy Villa Sparta.

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While Helen lived in Villa Sparta, King Carol II provoked tumult throughout Romania. When Carol was finally deposed and forced to flee to Brazil in 1940, Michael, by then 18, was again declared sovereign. King Michael asked Helen to return from Italy to Romania as Queen Mother. There, during World War II, Helen nursed the wounded. For her efforts to save Romanian Jews, she was later named one of Israel’s Righteous Among the Nations.

 

Michael ruled until December 30, 1947, resisting Soviet pressure to abdicate until, on Stalin’s orders, the Soviet army of occupation forced him to do so, threatening to kill thousands of Romanian students if he did not comply. He abdicated only at gunpoint, with the palace surrounded by troops and his telephone lines cut.

 

Some details of Queen Helen’s second exile from Romania are told by art historian John Pope-Hennessy, a frequent guest at Villa Sparta, in his autobiography, Learning to Look, My Life in Art (1991). He writes that the ‘heroic figure’ Queen Helen confided that when the communists took over Bucharest, she and her son were put under house arrest at Sinaia. She had local carpenters build double-bottomed boxes so they could take part of the royal art collection with them if and when they were able to leave the country.

 

Becoming too old to live alone, Helen finally left Fiesole in 1979. She then moved to a small apartment in Lausanne, located 45 minutes from the residence of Michael I and Anne, before moving in with them at Versoix in 1981. Helen, queen mother of Romania, died one year later on 28 November 1982, aged 86. She was buried without pomp in the Bois-de-Vaux Cemetery and the funerals were celebrated by Damaskinos Papandreou, the first Greek Orthodox Metropolitan of Switzerland.

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Eleven years after her death, in March 1993, the State of Israel gave Helen the title of Righteous Among the Nations in recognition for her actions during World War II towards Romanian Jews, several thousands of whom she managed to save from 1941 to 1944.The announcement was made to the royal family by Alexandru Șafran, then Chief Rabbi of Geneva.

In January 2018, it was announced that the remains of King Carol II would be moved to the new Archdiocesan and Royal Cathedral, along with those of Queen Mother Helen. In addition, the remains of Prince Mircea would also be moved to the new cathedral. His remains are currently interred at the Bran Castle's Chapel.

Queen Mother Helen of Romania was reburied at the New Episcopal and Royal Cathedral in Curtea de Argeș on 19 October 2019.

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Χθες συμπληρώθηκαν 39 χρόνια από τον θάνατο της Βασίλισσας Μητέρας Ελένης της Ρουμανίας Πριγκίπισσας της Ελλάδας και της Δανίας (2 Μαΐου 1896 – 28 Νοεμβρίου 1982)

Ήταν η βασίλισσα μητέρα της Ρουμανίας κατά τη διάρκεια της βασιλείας του γιου της, βασιλιά Μιχαήλ Α' (1940-1947).

Κόρη του βασιλιά Κωνσταντίνου Α΄ της Ελλάδας και της συζύγου του, πριγκίπισσας Σοφίας της Πρωσίας, η Ελένη πέρασε τα παιδικά της χρόνια στην Ελλάδα, τη Μεγάλη Βρετανία και τη Γερμανία. Το ξέ��πασμα του Α' Παγκοσμίου Πολέμου και η ανατροπή του πατέρα της από τους Συμμάχους το 1917 τη σημάδεψαν οριστικά και τη χώρισαν επίσης από τον αγαπημένο της αδερφό, τον νεαρό Αλέξανδρο Α' της Ελλάδας. Εξόριστος στην Ελβετία μαζί με τα περισσότερα μέλη της βασιλικής οικογένειας, η Ελένη πέρασε στη συνέχεια αρκετούς μήνες φροντίζοντας τον πατέρα της, μαστιζόμενη από αρρώστιες και κατάθλιψη. Το 1920, η πριγκίπισσα γνώρισε την Κάρολ, τον διάδοχο της Ρουμανίας, ο οποίος της ζήτησε γρήγορα το χέρι για γάμο. Παρά την κακή φήμη του πρίγκιπα, η Ελένη δέχτηκε και μετακόμισε στη Ρουμανία, όπου σύντομα γέννησε τον μονάκριβο γιο τους, τον Πρίγκιπα Μιχαήλ, το 1921.

Η Κάρολ είχε χωρίσει με την Έλεν λόγω ασυμβίβαστου το 1928. Ωστόσο, μόλις ανέκτησε τον θρόνο, η κυβέρνηση προσπάθησε να ακυρώσει το διαζύγιο. Αυτό ήταν το τελευταίο πράγμα που ήθελε η Κάρολ, οπότε, όπως λέγεται, άρχισε να τη διώκει και να τη δυσφημεί. Αντιμέτωπη με αυτήν την κατάσταση, κατέφυγε στη βίλα της μητέρας της κοντά στη Φλωρεντία, αλλά το 1932 επέστρεψε στο Βουκουρέστι για να ζητήσει παραχωρήσεις σχετικά με την πρόσβαση στον γιο της και να εξασφαλίσει την πληρωμή του βασιλικού της επιδόματος. Επιτυγχάνοντας το τελευταίο, μπόρεσε να αγοράσει τη Villa Sparta.

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Ενώ η Ελένη ζούσε στη Βίλα Σπάρτη, ο Βασιλιάς Κάρολος Β' προκάλεσε αναταραχή σε όλη τη Ρουμανία. Όταν η Κάρολ τελικά καθαιρέθηκε και αναγκάστηκε να καταφύγει στη Βραζιλία το 1940, ο Μάικλ, στα 18 του τότε, ανακηρύχθηκε και πάλι κυρίαρχος. Ο βασιλιάς Μιχαήλ ζήτησε από την Ελένη να επιστρέψει από την Ιταλία στη Ρουμανία ως Βασίλισσα Μητέρα. Εκεί, κατά τη διάρκεια του Β' Παγκοσμίου Πολέμου, η Ελένη φρόντιζε τους τραυματίες. Για τις προσπάθειές της να σώσει τους Ρουμάνους Εβραίους, ονομάστηκε αργότερα ένας από τους Δικαίους μεταξύ των Εθνών του Ισραήλ.

Ο Μιχαήλ κυβέρνησε μέχρι τις 30 Δεκεμβρίου 1947, αντιστεκόμενος στη σοβιετική πίεση να παραιτηθεί έως ότου, με εντολή του Στάλιν, ο σοβιετικός στρατός κατοχής τον ανάγκα��ε να το κάνει, απειλώντας να σκοτώσει χιλιάδες Ρουμάνους φοιτητές εάν δεν συμμορφωνόταν. Παραιτήθηκε μόνο υπό την απειλή όπλου, με το παλάτι περικυκλωμένο από στρατεύματα και τις τηλεφωνικές του γραμμές κομμένες.

Μερικές λεπτομέρειες της δεύτερης εξορίας της Βασίλισσας Ελένης από τη Ρουμανία αφηγείται ο ιστορικός τέχνης John Pope-Hennessy, συχνός επισκέπτης στη Villa Sparta, στην αυτοβιογραφία του Learning to Look, My Life in Art (1991). Γράφει ότι η «ηρωική φιγούρα» βασίλισσα Ελένη εκμυστηρεύτηκε ότι όταν οι κομμουνιστές κατέλαβαν το Βουκουρέστι, αυτή και ο γιος της τέθηκαν σε κατ' οίκον περιορισμό στη Σινάια. Έβαλε ντόπιους ξυλουργούς να κατασκευάσουν κουτιά με διπλό πάτο, ώστε να μπορούν να πάρουν μαζί τους μέρος της βασιλικής συλλογής έργων τέχνης εάν και όταν μπορούσαν να φύγουν από τη χώρα.

Καθώς έγινε πολύ μεγάλη για να ζήσει μόνη, η Έλεν άφησε τελικά το Fiesole το 1979. Στη συνέχεια μετακόμισε σε ένα μικρό διαμέρισμα στη Λωζάνη, που βρίσκεται 45 λεπτά από την κατοικία του Μιχάηλ και της συζύγου του Βασιλισσας Αννας πριν μετακομίσει μαζί τους στο Versoix το 1981. Η Ελένη βασίλισσα μητέρα της Ρουμανίας, πέθανε ένα χρόνο αργότερα, στις 28 Νοεμβρίου 1982, σε ηλικία 86 ετών. Κηδεύτηκε χωρίς μεγαλοπρέπεια στο νεκροταφείο Bois-de-Vaux την κηδεια τέλεσε ο Δαμασκηνός Παπανδρέου, ο πρώτος Ελληνορθόδοξος Μητροπολίτης Ελβετίας.

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Έντεκα χρόνια μετά τον θάνατό της, τον Μάρτιο του 1993, το Κράτος του Ισραήλ έδωσε στην Ελένη τον τίτλο της Δίκαιας Μεταξύ των Εθνών ως αναγνώριση για τις πράξεις της κατά τον Β' Παγκόσμιο Πόλεμο εναντίον των Ρουμάνων Εβραίων, αρκετές χιλιάδες από τους οποίους κατάφερε να σ��σει από το 1941 έως το 1944. Η ανακοίνωση έγινε στη βασιλική οικογένεια από τον Alexandru Șafran, τότε Αρχιραβίνο της Γενεύης.

Τον Ιανουάριο του 2018, ανακοινώθηκε ότι τα λείψανα του Βασιλιά Καρολου Β’ θα μεταφερθούν στον νέο Αρχιεπισκοπικό και Βασιλικό Καθεδρικό Ναό, μαζί με αυτά της Βασίλισσας Μητέρας Ελένης. Επιπλέον, τα λείψανα του πρίγκιπα Μιρτσέα θα μεταφερθούν επίσης στον νέο καθεδρικό ναό. Τα λείψανά του είχαν ενταφιάστει στο παρεκκλήσι του Κάστρου Μπραν.

Η Βασίλισσα Μητέρα Ελένη της Ρουμανίας κηδεύτηκε εκ νέου στον Νέο Επισκοπικό και Βασιλικό Καθεδρικό Ναό στο Curtea de Argeş στις 19 Οκτωβρίου 2019.

(Βίντεο στο 10ο Κολάζ)