Life and Family
Anne is by tradition known as Her Majesty Queen Anne of Romania, although she married Michael after the loss of his throne. Anne and Michael have five daughters:
- Princess Margarita of Romania (born 1949); married Radu Duda, later Prince of Hohenzollern-Veringen
- Princess Elena of Romania (born 1950); married firstly, and later divorced from Robin Medforth-Mills; married, secondly, to Alexander Phillips Nixon McAteer
- Princess Irina of Romania (born 1953); married John Kreuger (divorced, 2003)
- Princess Sophie of Romania (born 1957); married Alain Michel Léonce Biarneix de Laufenborg (divorced, 2002)
- Princess Maria of Romania (born 1964); married Kazimierz Wiesław Mystkowski (divorced, 2003)
For further details about the princesses: see .
After their marriage, Anne and Michael lived first at Villa Sparta, the home of Michael's mother outside Florence, Italy. In 1949 they moved to Lausanne, Switzerland, and in 1951 to England, where they lived at Bramshill House, Hampshire, and later at Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire. In 1955 they returned to Switzerland and settled in Versoix near Geneva.
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