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Prince Radu of Romania

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HSH Prince Radu


HSH Radu, Prince of Hohenzollern-Veringen (born 7 June 1960 in Iaşi, Romania, as Radu Duda) is a member of the Romanian Royal Family. In 1996, he married HRH The Princess Margarita of Romania. Two years later (1999), he was named Prince of Hohenzollern-Veringen by the head of the Hohenzollern family.

He graduated from the University of Drama and Film in Bucharest, 1984, from the National College of Defence in Romania, class of 2002 and also the George C. Marshall College in Garmisch, Germany, 2003, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2004 Program for Senior Executives in National and International Security.

He is a Romanian Army Colonel (2005) and holds a PhD in Military Science from the National Defence University in Bucharest.

In September 2002 he was appointed Special Representative of the Romanian Government for Integration, Co-operation and Sustainable Development. He is also Advisor to His Majesty King Michael I of Romania, the Patron of the British-Romanian Chamber of Commerce, a Member of the Board of Directors of "House of NATO" Association in Bucharest and an Honorary Member of the Senate of "Aurel Vlaicu" University in Arad and of the University in Oradea (Romania).

He has had over 25 years of artistic career in Romania and in Europe, America, Asia and Africa. He was the Artistic Director of the first project in Romania of art therapy for abandoned children in orphanages. The project, founded in 1993, was developed in eight cities over six years.

Prince Radu played a major role in the concept, planning and organisation of the official tours undertaken by King Michael I in 1997 and 2002 for the integration of Romania in NATO. The King visited the United Kingdom, Norway, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Luxembourg and The Netherlands, meeting with heads of state and government. The Prince accompanied The King on most of these visits.

Since 1997, Prince Radu has regularly accompanied King Michael on his visits and created the concept of the King's "Millennium Tour" in his country for the year 2000. In the company of his wife, Princess Margarita, the Prince represents the Royal Family of Romania on various occasions.

Prince Radu is the author of Dincolo de mască (Bucharest: Unitext, 1997), L'Âme du masque (Brussels, 1998), Război, un exil, o viată (Bucharest, 2000; translated into English as Anne of Romania: A War, an Exile, a Life, Bucharest: Romanian Cultural Foundation, 2002), Michael of Romania: A Tribute (San Francisco and Bucharest, 2001), Kildine (Bucharest, 2003; a translation into Romanian of the fairy-tales book of Queen Marie of Romania), Seven (Bucharest: Nemira, 2003), The Royal Family of Romania (Bucharest: Humanitas, 2004), Persona (Bucharest: Nemira, 2006), "The Elisabeta Palace" (Bucharest: Humanitas, 2006)

Prince Radu lectures and makes speeches in Romania, Sweden, Finland, Austria, Japan, India, Lithuania, Hungary, Switzerland, Belgium, France, Ireland, Canada, Poland, the United States, Italy, Jordan, Thailand, Slovenia, Croatia, Azerbaijan and the United Kingdom. Prince Radu appears regularly on TV and publishes articles in the written press in Romania, as well as in Europe and the United States.

Prince Radu's lectures address topics relating to Romania's integration into Euro-Atlantic structures, defense and security, geopolitics and diplomacy, culture, economics, and education. He has equally spoken out about the issue of minorities, in particular about the Roma (Gypsy or Tzigane) minority, an important issue for South Eastern Europe today [1][2][3][4], through conferences in Romania and around Europe, in countries such as the United Kingdom, France, Finland, etc.

Prince Radu is, as are a number of other prominent public figures, the target of unsubstantiated press accusations of having been an informer of the Romanian communist intelligence agency (Securitate) during Ceausescu's dictatorship.

Prince Radu does not appear to have a coat of arms, as one was not specified by the princely decree which granted his name change. He uses a stylised monogram surmounted by a crown. Use of the monogram, while apparently not formally granted by any princely or royal authority, is widely accepted.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Prince Radu next to the Roma leader and parliamentarian Mǎdǎlin Voicu and EU representative Jonathan Scheele at a piano concert, May 15, 2006 (foto)
  2. ^ Prince Radu and the Roma leader Mǎdǎlin Voicu at a conference about ethnic minorities, January 27, 2006 (in Romanian)
  3. ^ Prince Radu on his lectures about the Roma minority in "When Royalty Meets Diplomacy", Prague Magazine, February 2005
  4. ^ "The Roma Minority in Romania and in South-Eastern Europe," by HSH Radu, Prince of Hohenzollern-Veringen, Chatham House, 5 June 2003
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