In Sinaia on 26 July 1931, Ileana married the Archduke Anton of Austria, Prince of Tuscany. Before King Michael’s abdication Marriage She was an avid sailor: she earned her navigator’s papers, and owned and sailed the “Isprava” for many years. Ileana was the organizer of the Girl Reserves of the Red Cross, and of the first school of Social Work in Romania. Later Princess Ileana was involved in Guiding in Austria and served as president of the Austrian Girl Guides from 1935 until Girl Guiding and Scouting were banned in 1938 after the Anschluss. Girl Guidingīefore her marriage, Ileana was the organizer and Chief of the Romanian Girl Guide Movement. Her younger brother Mircea was also claimed to be the child of Prince Ştirbey even though the king also claimed to be his father. Ileana had four older siblings: Carol, Elisabeth – later Crown Princess of Greece, Princess Maria – later Queen of Yugoslavia – and Nicholas. Although it was rumored that Ileana’s true father was her mother’s lover, Prince Barbu Ştirbey, the king admitted paternity. Ileana was born in Bucharest on 5 January 1909, the youngest daughter of Queen Marie of Romania and King Ferdinand I of Romania.
Ileana of Romania as a young child Ileana with her work in the Red Cross during the War This is her bio from Wikipedia: Birth and early life Princess Ileana of Roumania as a teen a real beauty in body and soul Princess Ileana of Romania The monastery is still open for pilgrims and serves as a blessing for those who seek refuge from the world into a Christ-centered life. Her worldly name was Princess Ileana of Romania, but her tonsured name was Alexandra, eventually she became known as Mother Alexandra as the igoumena of the Monastery of the Transfiguration in Ellwood City, Pa. Although she passed away in 1982, her life still inspires, serving as a testament to the attractiveness of the ascetic life that Orthodox theology encourages. Here’s an unconventional life: A princess, great-grand daughter of Queen Victoria of England and Czar Alexander II of Russia, twice divorced, founder of the European equivalent of the Girls’ Scouts, gives up her pampered princess life to found and direct the first English-language Orthodox monastery in rural Pennsylvania.
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