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'''Prince Radu of Romania''' (born '''Radu Duda''' 7 June 1960, also known as '''Prince Radu of Hohenzollern-Veringen''' from 1999 to 2007) is the husband of [[Princess Margareta of Romania|Crown Princess Margareta of Romania]], head of the [[House of Romania]] and a pretender to the former Romanian throne. On 1 January 1999, he was given the name, not title,<ref name = "Farce-english">[http://www.nineoclock.ro/index.php?page=detalii&categorie=politics&id=20090611-510772 “Radu Duda’s title of Hohenzollern is a farce”], [http://www.nineoclock.ro Nine O'Clock], 12 June 2009</ref><ref name="Farce">{{ro}} [http://www.cotidianul.ro/karl_friedrich_de_hohenzollern_titlul_de_hohenzollern_al_lui_radu_duda_este_o_farsa-87743.html "Karl Friedrich of Hohenzollern: „Radu Duda's Hohenzollern title is a farce“] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090612202714/http://www.cotidianul.ro/karl_friedrich_de_hohenzollern_titlul_de_hohenzollern_al_lui_radu_duda_este_o_farsa-87743.html |date=12 June 2009 }}, [[Cotidianul]], 10 June 2009</ref><!-- Translated quote:"We are called Hereditary prince of Hohenzollern. (…) This is not a title, but strictly a name."--> of "Prince of Hohenzollern-Veringen" by [[Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Hohenzollern]], the Head of the [[Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen|Sigmaringen]] branch of the Hohenzollern family. He has also called himself "Radu Hohenzollern Veringen Duda".<ref>{{ro icon}} [http://www.cotidianul.ro/index.php?id=16726&art=40834 "The Actor Duda in The Role of A Lifetime: Prince Consort of Romania]," [[Cotidianul]], 3 January 2008</ref><ref>[http://www.cancelarie.ro/declaratii/Hohenzollern_Veringen_Duda_Radu.pdf 2005 "Income Statement," filled out in Romanian by Hohenzollern Veringen Duda, Radu] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070108201657/http://www.cancelarie.ro/declaratii/Hohenzollern_Veringen_Duda_Radu.pdf |date=8 January 2007 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.cancelarie.ro/declaratii/Hohenzollern_Veringen_Duda_Radu_i.pdf 2005 "Interest Statement," filled out in Romanian by Hohenzollern Veringen Duda, Radu] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928125953/http://www.cancelarie.ro/declaratii/Hohenzollern_Veringen_Duda_Radu_i.pdf |date=28 September 2007 }}</ref><ref>{{ro icon}} [http://www.cancelarie.ro/declavere_h.html "Income Statement", Prime-Minister's Chancellery Website as of 14 July 2006]</ref><ref>{{ro icon}} [http://www.romimpwatch.org/ro/newsPage.php?id_news=2018 "Public Letter to The SRI Director", Romanian Imprisonment Watch, Visby, Sweden, 17 September 2004]</ref> Since 2007, when he had his legal name changed from "Radu Duda" to "Radu al României Duda", Radu no longer uses the name of [[Hohenzollern]].<ref name="Name">{{ro}} [http://www.cotidianul.ro/principele_radu_nu_exista_un_candidat_la_presedintie_cu_numele_de_hohenzollern-87915.html Prince Radu: There is no presidential candidate named Hohenzollern], [[Cotidianul]], 11 June 2009</ref>
'''Prince Radu of Romania''' (born '''Radu Duda''' 7 June 1960, also known as '''Prince Radu of Hohenzollern-Veringen''' from 1999 to 2007) is the husband of [[Princess Margareta of Romania|Crown Princess Margareta of Romania]], head of the [[House of Romania]] and a pretender to the former Romanian throne. On 1 January 1999, he was given the name, not title,<ref name = "Farce-english">[http://www.nineoclock.ro/index.php?page=detalii&categorie=politics&id=20090611-510772 “Radu Duda’s title of Hohenzollern is a farce”], [http://www.nineoclock.ro Nine O'Clock], 12 June 2009</ref><ref name="Farce">{{ro}} [http://www.cotidianul.ro/karl_friedrich_de_hohenzollern_titlul_de_hohenzollern_al_lui_radu_duda_este_o_farsa-87743.html "Karl Friedrich of Hohenzollern: „Radu Duda's Hohenzollern title is a farce“] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090612202714/http://www.cotidianul.ro/karl_friedrich_de_hohenzollern_titlul_de_hohenzollern_al_lui_radu_duda_este_o_farsa-87743.html |date=12 June 2009 }}, [[Cotidianul]], 10 June 2009</ref><!-- Translated quote:"We are called Hereditary prince of Hohenzollern. (…) This is not a title, but strictly a name."--> of "Prince of Hohenzollern-Veringen" by [[Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Hohenzollern]], the Head of the [[Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen|Sigmaringen]] branch of the Hohenzollern family. He has also called himself "Radu Hohenzollern Veringen Duda".<ref>{{ro icon}} [http://www.cotidianul.ro/index.php?id=16726&art=40834 "The Actor Duda in The Role of A Lifetime: Prince Consort of Romania]," [[Cotidianul]], 3 January 2008</ref><ref>[http://www.cancelarie.ro/declaratii/Hohenzollern_Veringen_Duda_Radu.pdf 2005 "Income Statement," filled out in Romanian by Hohenzollern Veringen Duda, Radu] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070108201657/http://www.cancelarie.ro/declaratii/Hohenzollern_Veringen_Duda_Radu.pdf |date=8 January 2007 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.cancelarie.ro/declaratii/Hohenzollern_Veringen_Duda_Radu_i.pdf 2005 "Interest Statement," filled out in Romanian by Hohenzollern Veringen Duda, Radu] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928125953/http://www.cancelarie.ro/declaratii/Hohenzollern_Veringen_Duda_Radu_i.pdf |date=28 September 2007 }}</ref><ref>{{ro icon}} [http://www.cancelarie.ro/declavere_h.html "Income Statement", Prime-Minister's Chancellery Website as of 14 July 2006] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060826055853/http://www.cancelarie.ro/declavere_h.html |date=26 August 2006 }}</ref><ref>{{ro icon}} [http://www.romimpwatch.org/ro/newsPage.php?id_news=2018 "Public Letter to The SRI Director", Romanian Imprisonment Watch, Visby, Sweden, 17 September 2004] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050913164855/http://www.romimpwatch.org/ro/newsPage.php?id_news=2018 |date=13 September 2005 }}</ref> Since 2007, when he had his legal name changed from "Radu Duda" to "Radu al României Duda", Radu no longer uses the name of [[Hohenzollern]].<ref name="Name">{{ro}} [http://www.cotidianul.ro/principele_radu_nu_exista_un_candidat_la_presedintie_cu_numele_de_hohenzollern-87915.html Prince Radu: There is no presidential candidate named Hohenzollern]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, [[Cotidianul]], 11 June 2009</ref>
The Statute of the Romanian Royal Family,<ref name="Statute">[http://www.familiaregala.ro/upload/p0002_FundamentalRules.pdf Fundamental Rules of the Royal Family of Romania] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921060913/http://www.familiaregala.ro/upload/p0002_FundamentalRules.pdf |date=21 September 2013 }}, [http://www.familiaregala.ro/ The Romanian Royal Family website] as retrieved on 8 January 2007</ref> proclaimed by former King Michael I on 30 December 2007, gave Radu the title of "Prince of Romania", with the style of "[[Royal Highness]]", which King Michael had given him earlier on 5 January 2005.<ref>{{ro icon}} [http://www.princeradu.ro/?id2=0005&lng= Prince Radu], [http://www.princeradu.ro/ Prince Radu's website] as of 12 September 2008</ref>
The Statute of the Romanian Royal Family,<ref name="Statute">[http://www.familiaregala.ro/upload/p0002_FundamentalRules.pdf Fundamental Rules of the Royal Family of Romania] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921060913/http://www.familiaregala.ro/upload/p0002_FundamentalRules.pdf |date=21 September 2013 }}, [http://www.familiaregala.ro/ The Romanian Royal Family website] as retrieved on 8 January 2007</ref> proclaimed by former King Michael I on 30 December 2007, gave Radu the title of "Prince of Romania", with the style of "[[Royal Highness]]", which King Michael had given him earlier on 5 January 2005.<ref>{{ro icon}} [http://www.princeradu.ro/?id2=0005&lng= Prince Radu], [http://www.princeradu.ro/ Prince Radu's website] as of 12 September 2008</ref>


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===Europe of Regions===
===Europe of Regions===


Radu initiated a project to promote Romania's major interests and to strengthen Romania’s bilateral relations. Its aims are to encourage and promote economic, cultural, and educational partnerships between Romanian regions and different European regions, as well as to raise awareness about Romania through meetings, conferences, and lectures. It will involve Prince Radu visiting up to four different regions a year, meeting local businessmen, political and local administration leaders, university teachers and students, Romanian communities and the press. Regions covered so far are the Italian regions of [[Tuscany]] and [[Sicily]] (provinces of [[Palermo]], [[Caltanisetta]], [[Enna]], and [[Catania]]), the French regions of [[Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur]] and [[Aquitaine]] (Pays Beaumontois). The Europe of Regions initiative will continue with visits to the Lands of Germany, to Spain, and further regions of France and Italy.<ref>[http://www.princeradu.ro/index.php?page=articol&aid=1231&cid=247 Prince Radu] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927011701/http://www.princeradu.ro/index.php?page=articol&aid=1231&cid=247 |date=27 September 2007 }}</ref><ref>{{it icon}} [http://www.balcanicooperazione.it/dalle_regioni/sicilia_e_romania_a_braccetto_nell_unione_europea Balcani Cooperazione]. Balcanicooperazione.it. Retrieved on 29 November 2011.</ref><ref>[http://www.unict.it/Pagina/Portale/Home/Canali_informativi/Comunicati_stampa/0/2006/09/20/6761_.aspx Comunicati stampa – Università degli Studi di Catania]. Unict.it (20 September 2006). Retrieved on 29 November 2011.</ref><ref>[https://www.provincia.ct-egov.it/moduli/cstampa/cstampas2.asp?id=4241 cstampa – moduli – Provincia Regionale di Catania] {{dead link|date=May 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref><ref>[http://www.comune.catania.it/portale/cstampa/cstampas2.asp?id=385 Comune di Catania] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208055053/http://www.comune.catania.it/portale/cstampa/cstampas2.asp?id=385 |date=8 December 2015 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.ziua.ro/display.php?id=207612&data=2006-09-21 Stiri pe scurt: ZIUA<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.mclink.it/com/inform/art/06n10121.htm * Inform *]. Mclink.it. Retrieved on 29 November 2011.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.consiglio.regione.toscana.it/news-ed-eventi/Comunicati-stampa/comunicato/testo_comunicato.asp?id=6856 |accessdate=3 December 2006 }}{{dead link|date=May 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>
Radu initiated a project to promote Romania's major interests and to strengthen Romania’s bilateral relations. Its aims are to encourage and promote economic, cultural, and educational partnerships between Romanian regions and different European regions, as well as to raise awareness about Romania through meetings, conferences, and lectures. It will involve Prince Radu visiting up to four different regions a year, meeting local businessmen, political and local administration leaders, university teachers and students, Romanian communities and the press. Regions covered so far are the Italian regions of [[Tuscany]] and [[Sicily]] (provinces of [[Palermo]], [[Caltanisetta]], [[Enna]], and [[Catania]]), the French regions of [[Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur]] and [[Aquitaine]] (Pays Beaumontois). The Europe of Regions initiative will continue with visits to the Lands of Germany, to Spain, and further regions of France and Italy.<ref>[http://www.princeradu.ro/index.php?page=articol&aid=1231&cid=247 Prince Radu] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927011701/http://www.princeradu.ro/index.php?page=articol&aid=1231&cid=247 |date=27 September 2007 }}</ref><ref>{{it icon}} [http://www.balcanicooperazione.it/dalle_regioni/sicilia_e_romania_a_braccetto_nell_unione_europea Balcani Cooperazione]. Balcanicooperazione.it. Retrieved on 29 November 2011.</ref><ref>[http://www.unict.it/Pagina/Portale/Home/Canali_informativi/Comunicati_stampa/0/2006/09/20/6761_.aspx Comunicati stampa – Università degli Studi di Catania]. Unict.it (20 September 2006). Retrieved on 29 November 2011.</ref><ref>[https://www.provincia.ct-egov.it/moduli/cstampa/cstampas2.asp?id=4241 cstampa – moduli – Provincia Regionale di Catania] {{dead link|date=May 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref><ref>[http://www.comune.catania.it/portale/cstampa/cstampas2.asp?id=385 Comune di Catania] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208055053/http://www.comune.catania.it/portale/cstampa/cstampas2.asp?id=385 |date=8 December 2015 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.ziua.ro/display.php?id=207612&data=2006-09-21 Stiri pe scurt: ZIUA<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><ref>[http://www.mclink.it/com/inform/art/06n10121.htm * Inform *]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}. Mclink.it. Retrieved on 29 November 2011.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.consiglio.regione.toscana.it/news-ed-eventi/Comunicati-stampa/comunicato/testo_comunicato.asp?id=6856 |accessdate=3 December 2006 }}{{dead link|date=May 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>


===The Friendship Tour===
===The Friendship Tour===


The Friendship Tour is a similar initiative created to promote Romania's major interests, mainly in the United States of America, aiming to encourage, promote, and support Romanian partnerships in the economic, educational, and cultural domains. Visits are planned to 3–4 states each year to meet local businessmen and women, politicians, and local administration, university teachers and students, as well as the Romanian [[diaspora]]. The aim is also to raise awareness about Romania’s potential and to strengthen bilateral relations. The Friendship Tour kicked off with a ten-day visit to the states of [[Illinois]], [[Indiana]], and [[Massachusetts]], during which Prince Radu met with governors, mayors, state congressmen, professors, students, businessmen, journalists, and American citizens of Romanian origin. The Friendship Tour II and The Friendship Tour III plan to reach five other USA states.<ref>[http://www.princeradu.ro/index.php?page=articol&aid=1018&cid=234 Prince Radu] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927011610/http://www.princeradu.ro/index.php?page=articol&aid=1018&cid=234 |date=27 September 2007 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.southbendtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060225/News01/602250499/-1/NEWS01/CAT=News01 Prince stops in South Bend]. South Bend Tribune (26 December 1991). Retrieved on 29 November 2011.</ref><ref>http://www.roembus.org/embassynews/2006/22feb_principele_Radu.htm</ref>
The Friendship Tour is a similar initiative created to promote Romania's major interests, mainly in the United States of America, aiming to encourage, promote, and support Romanian partnerships in the economic, educational, and cultural domains. Visits are planned to 3–4 states each year to meet local businessmen and women, politicians, and local administration, university teachers and students, as well as the Romanian [[diaspora]]. The aim is also to raise awareness about Romania’s potential and to strengthen bilateral relations. The Friendship Tour kicked off with a ten-day visit to the states of [[Illinois]], [[Indiana]], and [[Massachusetts]], during which Prince Radu met with governors, mayors, state congressmen, professors, students, businessmen, journalists, and American citizens of Romanian origin. The Friendship Tour II and The Friendship Tour III plan to reach five other USA states.<ref>[http://www.princeradu.ro/index.php?page=articol&aid=1018&cid=234 Prince Radu] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927011610/http://www.princeradu.ro/index.php?page=articol&aid=1018&cid=234 |date=27 September 2007 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.southbendtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060225/News01/602250499/-1/NEWS01/CAT=News01 Prince stops in South Bend]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}. South Bend Tribune (26 December 1991). Retrieved on 29 November 2011.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.roembus.org/embassynews/2006/22feb_principele_Radu.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2006-12-03 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060926024422/http://www.roembus.org/embassynews/2006/22feb_principele_Radu.htm |archivedate=26 September 2006 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>


==Personality==
==Personality==
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===''Securitate'' informer===
===''Securitate'' informer===


Prince Radu has been, as are many other prominent public figures, the target of press attacks<ref>{{ro icon}} [http://www.banateanul.ro/articol/ziar/timisoara/probleme-la-castel/10349/ "Troubles at The Castle"], Banateanul, 3 May 2006</ref><ref>[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=16772 "Romania's Holocaust Progress in Serious Question" by Richard Carlson and Richard Gooding, Front Page Magazine, 28 January 2005]. Frontpagemag.com. Retrieved on 29 November 2011.</ref> for having been an informer for [[Communist Romania]]'s dreaded<ref>[http://www.birn.eu.com/en/1/180/3014/ "Securitate Ghosts Haunt Romanian Politics,"] Balkan Insight, 30 June 2006</ref><ref>[http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/8839.html "A Romanian Looks at Her Secret File (Why Few Do)," London Daily Telegraph, 2 December 2004]</ref><ref>[http://www.axisglobe.com/news.asp?news=10192 "007 News," AXIS INFORMATION AND ANALYSIS, 3 January 2007] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930015014/http://www.axisglobe.com/news.asp?news=10192 |date=30 September 2007 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.rri.ro/arh-art.shtml?lang=1&sec=9&art=2623 "Having or Not Having Collaborated with the Securitate"] [http://www.rri.ro/index.shtml?lang=1 Radio Romania International] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081107065255/http://www.rri.ro/index.shtml?lang=1 |date=7 November 2008 }}, 4.06.2007</ref> ''[[Securitate]]'', the [[secret police]], during [[Nicolae Ceauşescu]]'s dictatorship.
Prince Radu has been, as are many other prominent public figures, the target of press attacks<ref>{{ro icon}} [http://www.banateanul.ro/articol/ziar/timisoara/probleme-la-castel/10349/ "Troubles at The Castle"], Banateanul, 3 May 2006</ref><ref>[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=16772 "Romania's Holocaust Progress in Serious Question" by Richard Carlson and Richard Gooding, Front Page Magazine, 28 January 2005]. Frontpagemag.com. Retrieved on 29 November 2011.</ref> for having been an informer for [[Communist Romania]]'s dreaded<ref>[http://www.birn.eu.com/en/1/180/3014/ "Securitate Ghosts Haunt Romanian Politics,"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110710204937/http://birn.eu.com/en/1/180/3014/ |date=10 July 2011 }} Balkan Insight, 30 June 2006</ref><ref>[http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/8839.html "A Romanian Looks at Her Secret File (Why Few Do)," London Daily Telegraph, 2 December 2004]</ref><ref>[http://www.axisglobe.com/news.asp?news=10192 "007 News," AXIS INFORMATION AND ANALYSIS, 3 January 2007] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930015014/http://www.axisglobe.com/news.asp?news=10192 |date=30 September 2007 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.rri.ro/arh-art.shtml?lang=1&sec=9&art=2623 "Having or Not Having Collaborated with the Securitate"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716063003/http://www.rri.ro/arh-art.shtml?lang=1&sec=9&art=2623 |date=16 July 2011 }} [http://www.rri.ro/index.shtml?lang=1 Radio Romania International] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081107065255/http://www.rri.ro/index.shtml?lang=1 |date=7 November 2008 }}, 4.06.2007</ref> ''[[Securitate]]'', the [[secret police]], during [[Nicolae Ceauşescu]]'s dictatorship.


''Căminul românesc'' magazine from [[Geneva]]<ref>{{ro icon}} [http://adevarul.ro/news/societate/franck-un-securist-casa-regala-1_50abcdec7c42d5a6638070ba/index.html "Franck: A Securitate Man in The Royal House"], Adevarul, 13 October 2006</ref><ref>[http://www.axisglobe.com/article.asp?article=1098 "Eurasian Secret Services Daily Review," AXIS INFORMATION AND ANALYSIS, 16.10.2006] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090415165009/http://www.axisglobe.com/article.asp?article=1098 |date=15 April 2009 }}</ref> published an article by Nicolette (Nicoleta) Franck, a journalist close to King Michael, about whom she wrote many books.<ref>[http://www.foreignaffairs.org/19780401fabook14479/nicolette-franck/la-roumanie-dans-l-engrenage.html La Roumanie dans l'Engrenage. Nicolette Franck. Paris and Brussels: Elsevier Sequoia, 1977, 269 pp. – review by Foreign Affairs, April 1978]. Foreignaffairs.org (1 April 1978). Retrieved on 29 November 2011.</ref> The article alleged that Radu Duda was a ''Securitate'' agent infiltrated in the Royal House so as to compromise it, on orders from [[Ion Iliescu]], the former high ranking Communist who served as [[President of Romania]] and was, allegedly, a friend of Radu's father, also a former high ranking Communist. No proof of these allegations was offered.
''Căminul românesc'' magazine from [[Geneva]]<ref>{{ro icon}} [http://adevarul.ro/news/societate/franck-un-securist-casa-regala-1_50abcdec7c42d5a6638070ba/index.html "Franck: A Securitate Man in The Royal House"], Adevarul, 13 October 2006</ref><ref>[http://www.axisglobe.com/article.asp?article=1098 "Eurasian Secret Services Daily Review," AXIS INFORMATION AND ANALYSIS, 16.10.2006] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090415165009/http://www.axisglobe.com/article.asp?article=1098 |date=15 April 2009 }}</ref> published an article by Nicolette (Nicoleta) Franck, a journalist close to King Michael, about whom she wrote many books.<ref>[http://www.foreignaffairs.org/19780401fabook14479/nicolette-franck/la-roumanie-dans-l-engrenage.html La Roumanie dans l'Engrenage. Nicolette Franck. Paris and Brussels: Elsevier Sequoia, 1977, 269 pp. – review by Foreign Affairs, April 1978] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927201722/http://www.foreignaffairs.org/19780401fabook14479/nicolette-franck/la-roumanie-dans-l-engrenage.html |date=27 September 2007 }}. Foreignaffairs.org (1 April 1978). Retrieved on 29 November 2011.</ref> The article alleged that Radu Duda was a ''Securitate'' agent infiltrated in the Royal House so as to compromise it, on orders from [[Ion Iliescu]], the former high ranking Communist who served as [[President of Romania]] and was, allegedly, a friend of Radu's father, also a former high ranking Communist. No proof of these allegations was offered.


In an article published by the ''[[Adevărul]]'' daily, Prince Radu denied allegations of his supposed involvement with the ''[[Securitate]]'': "I have not collaborated with the ''Securitate''…in 1986 there was an attempt to recruit me. I refused politely and I was never contacted again."<ref>{{ro icon}} [http://www.adevarulonline.ro/2006-09-01/Prima%20Pagina/principele-radu-in-malaxorul-dosarelor_196842.html "Prince Radu Caught in the Files Grinder"], Adevărul, 1 September 2006</ref> The article revealed that in 1989 Radu’s name was found on a list of 1,000+ people entitled "support persons" of the ''Securitate''. In another interview for the same daily,<ref>{{ro icon}} [http://www.adevarulonline.ro/2006-09-02/Prima%20Pagina/am-inceput-demersul-legal-pentru-a-dovedi-ca-n-am-colaborat_196927.html "Prince Radu: I Have Begun Legal Procedures To Prove I Was Not An Informer", Adevărul, 2 September 2006]</ref> Radu explained that in 1986 he had been asked by the ''Securitate'' to collaborate due to his successful career as an actor: "Everybody who was somebody knew that there was this risk" to be called upon by ''Securitate'' to become an informer. At that time Radu had been working on an [[Iaşi]] stage as a theatre graduate for two years and was about to go on his second and last theatre tour abroad to [[Israel]],<ref>{{ro icon}} [http://evz.ro/articole/detalii-articol/640165/Radu-Duda-principele-din-guvern/ "Radu Duda, The Prince in The Government"], Evenimentul Zilei, 28 January 2004</ref> accompanying two renowned Romanian actors. The former head of the local Iaşi branch of the ''Securitate'' explained in an interview<ref>{{ro icon}} [http://www.cotidianul.ro/index.php?id=6786&art=17152&cHash=a223811804 "Prince Radu on The List of Secu' Supporters"], Cotidianul, 2 September 2006</ref> that a "support person" such as Duda and the other people on the 1,000+ list were not informers, did not sign any agreement with the ''Securitate'', nor did they receive money, but were Communist Party members, in particular people who traveled abroad, targeted by the ''Securitate'' with the Party's approval to carry out well-defined missions for a limited period of time. He also confirmed in a subsequent interview<ref>{{ro icon}} [http://evz.ro/articole/detalii-articol/430570/Cum-il-informa-Secu-pe-Iliescu/ "How Secu informed Iliescu"], Evenimentul Zilei, 16 February 2007</ref> that the list in question is real.
In an article published by the ''[[Adevărul]]'' daily, Prince Radu denied allegations of his supposed involvement with the ''[[Securitate]]'': "I have not collaborated with the ''Securitate''…in 1986 there was an attempt to recruit me. I refused politely and I was never contacted again."<ref>{{ro icon}} [http://www.adevarulonline.ro/2006-09-01/Prima%20Pagina/principele-radu-in-malaxorul-dosarelor_196842.html "Prince Radu Caught in the Files Grinder"]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, Adevărul, 1 September 2006</ref> The article revealed that in 1989 Radu’s name was found on a list of 1,000+ people entitled "support persons" of the ''Securitate''. In another interview for the same daily,<ref>{{ro icon}} [http://www.adevarulonline.ro/2006-09-02/Prima%20Pagina/am-inceput-demersul-legal-pentru-a-dovedi-ca-n-am-colaborat_196927.html "Prince Radu: I Have Begun Legal Procedures To Prove I Was Not An Informer", Adevărul, 2 September 2006]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Radu explained that in 1986 he had been asked by the ''Securitate'' to collaborate due to his successful career as an actor: "Everybody who was somebody knew that there was this risk" to be called upon by ''Securitate'' to become an informer. At that time Radu had been working on an [[Iaşi]] stage as a theatre graduate for two years and was about to go on his second and last theatre tour abroad to [[Israel]],<ref>{{ro icon}} [http://evz.ro/articole/detalii-articol/640165/Radu-Duda-principele-din-guvern/ "Radu Duda, The Prince in The Government"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090402064710/http://www.evz.ro/articole/detalii-articol/640165/Radu-Duda-principele-din-guvern/ |date=2 April 2009 }}, Evenimentul Zilei, 28 January 2004</ref> accompanying two renowned Romanian actors. The former head of the local Iaşi branch of the ''Securitate'' explained in an interview<ref>{{ro icon}} [http://www.cotidianul.ro/index.php?id=6786&art=17152&cHash=a223811804 "Prince Radu on The List of Secu' Supporters"], Cotidianul, 2 September 2006</ref> that a "support person" such as Duda and the other people on the 1,000+ list were not informers, did not sign any agreement with the ''Securitate'', nor did they receive money, but were Communist Party members, in particular people who traveled abroad, targeted by the ''Securitate'' with the Party's approval to carry out well-defined missions for a limited period of time. He also confirmed in a subsequent interview<ref>{{ro icon}} [http://evz.ro/articole/detalii-articol/430570/Cum-il-informa-Secu-pe-Iliescu/ "How Secu informed Iliescu"], Evenimentul Zilei, 16 February 2007</ref> that the list in question is real.


It has also been reported<ref>[http://evz.ro/articole/detalii-articol/636756/The-Watchtower-The-king-and-the-jester/ "The King and The Jester"], Evenimentul Zilei, 18 December 2003. Evz.ro (22 December 1989). Retrieved on 29 November 2011.</ref> that "many of the royal family's supporters have stopped offering financial aids after Radu Duda joined the Royal House. Wealthy Romanians in exile, who have been surveyed by the communist era political police ''Securitate'' even in subway stations, considered the compromise as intolerable."
It has also been reported<ref>[http://evz.ro/articole/detalii-articol/636756/The-Watchtower-The-king-and-the-jester/ "The King and The Jester"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090223131455/http://www.evz.ro/articole/detalii-articol/636756/The-Watchtower-The-king-and-the-jester/ |date=23 February 2009 }}, Evenimentul Zilei, 18 December 2003. Evz.ro (22 December 1989). Retrieved on 29 November 2011.</ref> that "many of the royal family's supporters have stopped offering financial aids after Radu Duda joined the Royal House. Wealthy Romanians in exile, who have been surveyed by the communist era political police ''Securitate'' even in subway stations, considered the compromise as intolerable."


In 2005 Prince Radu sued Marco Houston and Sena Julia Publications, the publishers of ''[[Royalty Magazine]]''. The case arose due to an article that was published in the magazine in 2004. On 15 July 2010, Prince Radu obtained a Statement in Open Court<ref name="Statement">[https://web.archive.org/web/20110113101032/http://www.carter-ruck.com/Documents/Prince_Radu-SiOC.pdf Statement in Open Court], submitted by Marco Houston, solicitor Guy Davis representing Houston in the High Court of London, 16 July 2010.</ref> from Marco Houston, editor of ''[[Royalty Magazine]]'', acknowledging that all the accusations were untrue, that Prince Radu was never a member or collaborator of the ''Securitate'', and that this should never have been published. The statement also confirmed that the Collegium of the National Council for the Study of the ''Securitate'' Archives has found Prince Radu did not support in any way the ''Securitate''.
In 2005 Prince Radu sued Marco Houston and Sena Julia Publications, the publishers of ''[[Royalty Magazine]]''. The case arose due to an article that was published in the magazine in 2004. On 15 July 2010, Prince Radu obtained a Statement in Open Court<ref name="Statement">[https://web.archive.org/web/20110113101032/http://www.carter-ruck.com/Documents/Prince_Radu-SiOC.pdf Statement in Open Court], submitted by Marco Houston, solicitor Guy Davis representing Houston in the High Court of London, 16 July 2010.</ref> from Marco Houston, editor of ''[[Royalty Magazine]]'', acknowledging that all the accusations were untrue, that Prince Radu was never a member or collaborator of the ''Securitate'', and that this should never have been published. The statement also confirmed that the Collegium of the National Council for the Study of the ''Securitate'' Archives has found Prince Radu did not support in any way the ''Securitate''.
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===Military rank===
===Military rank===


Some sources<ref>{{ro icon}} [http://cotidianul.ro/index.php?id=7849&art=20183&cHash=4a3b257e9b "The Fascinating Military Rise of Prince Hohenzollern Duda"], Cotidianul, 11 November 2006</ref><ref>{{ro icon}} [http://www.cronicaromana.ro/opinii-in-contrasenspenalizari-si-autopenalizari.html "Penalties and Self-penalties"], Cronica Romana, 11 November 2006</ref> have contested the legality of Radu's rapid rise in the [[Romanian Army]] from a reserve lieutenant (''locotenent-major'' in Romanian) to the rank of active [[colonel]] in much less time than that prescribed for ordinary advancements. The former Chief of Army Staff has argued that his activation was done at Radu's own request, while his promotion was granted for "extraordinary" merits, such as Radu's lobby for Romania's admission into NATO. Radu's official response argues, however, that his own activation was not as a result of any unilateral request, but of a joint request of both the Royal House and the Defence Ministry.
Some sources<ref>{{ro icon}} [http://cotidianul.ro/index.php?id=7849&art=20183&cHash=4a3b257e9b "The Fascinating Military Rise of Prince Hohenzollern Duda"], Cotidianul, 11 November 2006</ref><ref>{{ro icon}} [http://www.cronicaromana.ro/opinii-in-contrasenspenalizari-si-autopenalizari.html "Penalties and Self-penalties"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090416045230/http://www.cronicaromana.ro/opinii-in-contrasenspenalizari-si-autopenalizari.html |date=16 April 2009 }}, Cronica Romana, 11 November 2006</ref> have contested the legality of Radu's rapid rise in the [[Romanian Army]] from a reserve lieutenant (''locotenent-major'' in Romanian) to the rank of active [[colonel]] in much less time than that prescribed for ordinary advancements. The former Chief of Army Staff has argued that his activation was done at Radu's own request, while his promotion was granted for "extraordinary" merits, such as Radu's lobby for Romania's admission into NATO. Radu's official response argues, however, that his own activation was not as a result of any unilateral request, but of a joint request of both the Royal House and the Defence Ministry.


==Political support==
==Political support==


Between September 2002 and September 2008, Radu maintained an official position as Special Representative of the Romanian Government under two successive administrations, that of the centre-left [[Social Democratic Party (Romania)|Partidul Social Democrat]] (PSD) coalition government as well as that of the centre-right [[Justice and Truth Alliance]] coalition government. Meanwhile, the main [[monarchist|pro-monarchist]] party [[Christian-Democratic National Peasants' Party (Romania)|Christian-Democratic National Peasants' Party]] (PNŢCD), which holds no seats in the parliament, has been rejecting any role for him or Princess Margareta in a restored monarchy.<ref>{{ro icon}} [http://www.ziua.ro/display.php?data=2002-03-01&id=84650 "PNŢCD Plans The Restoration of Monarchy through Prince Nicholas"], Ziua, 1 March 2002</ref><ref>{{ro icon}} [http://evz.ro/articole/detalii-articol/538501/PNTCD-cauta-un-Rege/ "PNŢCD Is Looking for A King"], Evenimentul Zilei, 1 March 2002</ref> In 2003, however, the [[Cluj County|Cluj]] branch of PNŢCD officially invited Princess Margareta to be its candidate to the Senate in the upcoming elections.<ref>{{ro icon}} [http://www.zf.ro/articol_28580/principesa_margareta__invitata_sa_candideze.html "Princess Margareta Invited to Run for Office"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070527094355/http://www.zf.ro/articol_28580/principesa_margareta__invitata_sa_candideze.html |date=27 May 2007 }}, Ziarul Financiar, 24 July 2003
Between September 2002 and September 2008, Radu maintained an official position as Special Representative of the Romanian Government under two successive administrations, that of the centre-left [[Social Democratic Party (Romania)|Partidul Social Democrat]] (PSD) coalition government as well as that of the centre-right [[Justice and Truth Alliance]] coalition government. Meanwhile, the main [[monarchist|pro-monarchist]] party [[Christian-Democratic National Peasants' Party (Romania)|Christian-Democratic National Peasants' Party]] (PNŢCD), which holds no seats in the parliament, has been rejecting any role for him or Princess Margareta in a restored monarchy.<ref>{{ro icon}} [http://www.ziua.ro/display.php?data=2002-03-01&id=84650 "PNŢCD Plans The Restoration of Monarchy through Prince Nicholas"], Ziua, 1 March 2002</ref><ref>{{ro icon}} [http://evz.ro/articole/detalii-articol/538501/PNTCD-cauta-un-Rege/ "PNŢCD Is Looking for A King"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090402072148/http://www.evz.ro/articole/detalii-articol/538501/PNTCD-cauta-un-Rege/ |date=2 April 2009 }}, Evenimentul Zilei, 1 March 2002</ref> In 2003, however, the [[Cluj County|Cluj]] branch of PNŢCD officially invited Princess Margareta to be its candidate to the Senate in the upcoming elections.<ref>{{ro icon}} [http://www.zf.ro/articol_28580/principesa_margareta__invitata_sa_candideze.html "Princess Margareta Invited to Run for Office"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070527094355/http://www.zf.ro/articol_28580/principesa_margareta__invitata_sa_candideze.html |date=27 May 2007 }}, Ziarul Financiar, 24 July 2003
</ref><ref>{{ro icon}} [http://evz.ro/articole/detalii-articol/623146/Principesa-la-Senat/ "The Princess in The Senate"], Evenimentul Zilei, 25 July 2003</ref> The former [[president of Romania]] [[Traian Băsescu]] does not appreciate Prince Radu<ref name="TPIAOTRH">[http://www.jurnalul.ro/articole/124462/the-president-is-afraid-of-the-royal-house! "The President is afraid of the Royal House!"], [[Jurnalul National]], 13 May 2008</ref> and thinks he is detrimental to the Romanians' public perception of the idea of monarchy.<ref>{{ro icon}} [http://www.gandul.info/politic/doi-ani-basescu-iliescu-au-sarit-iubire-ura.html?3928;312026 "In two years, Basescu and Iliescu jumped from love to hatred"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071028144639/http://www.gandul.info/politic/doi-ani-basescu-iliescu-au-sarit-iubire-ura.html?3928%3B312026 |date=28 October 2007 }}, [[Gândul]], 15 May 2007</ref><ref>{{ro icon}} [http://www.cotidianul.ro/index.php?id=10747&art=28744 "Basescu said Iliescu knew he would be accused of genocide"], [[Cotidianul]], 15 May 2007</ref> The Romanian historian and avowed monarchist [[Neagu Djuvara]] also considers Radu as detrimental, as an "undertaker" to the cause of the Romanian monarchy.<ref>{{ro icon}} [http://www.ziare.com/politica/guvern/monarhia-intre-curaj-si-lasitate-sondaj-ziare-com-1055294 "Monarchy – Between Courage and Cowardness. Opinion Poll by Ziare.com"], as retrieved on 8 December 2010</ref> On 17 September 2008 Radu resigned his governmental position.
</ref><ref>{{ro icon}} [http://evz.ro/articole/detalii-articol/623146/Principesa-la-Senat/ "The Princess in The Senate"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090706080844/http://www.evz.ro/articole/detalii-articol/623146/Principesa-la-Senat |date=6 July 2009 }}, Evenimentul Zilei, 25 July 2003</ref> The former [[president of Romania]] [[Traian Băsescu]] does not appreciate Prince Radu<ref name="TPIAOTRH">[http://www.jurnalul.ro/articole/124462/the-president-is-afraid-of-the-royal-house! "The President is afraid of the Royal House!"], [[Jurnalul National]], 13 May 2008</ref> and thinks he is detrimental to the Romanians' public perception of the idea of monarchy.<ref>{{ro icon}} [http://www.gandul.info/politic/doi-ani-basescu-iliescu-au-sarit-iubire-ura.html?3928;312026 "In two years, Basescu and Iliescu jumped from love to hatred"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071028144639/http://www.gandul.info/politic/doi-ani-basescu-iliescu-au-sarit-iubire-ura.html?3928%3B312026 |date=28 October 2007 }}, [[Gândul]], 15 May 2007</ref><ref>{{ro icon}} [http://www.cotidianul.ro/index.php?id=10747&art=28744 "Basescu said Iliescu knew he would be accused of genocide"], [[Cotidianul]], 15 May 2007</ref> The Romanian historian and avowed monarchist [[Neagu Djuvara]] also considers Radu as detrimental, as an "undertaker" to the cause of the Romanian monarchy.<ref>{{ro icon}} [http://www.ziare.com/politica/guvern/monarhia-intre-curaj-si-lasitate-sondaj-ziare-com-1055294 "Monarchy – Between Courage and Cowardness. Opinion Poll by Ziare.com"], as retrieved on 8 December 2010</ref> On 17 September 2008 Radu resigned his governmental position.


In a 2004 poll conducted by the PSD,<ref>''SDP Trails its Leader With 7% of the Votes'', [[Jurnalul National]], 18 August 2004</ref> of whose coalition government he was at that time the Special Representative, Prince Radu scored just 3.4% as a potential candidate in the upcoming Romanian presidential elections. In a more recent 2006 opinion poll<ref>[http://ziua.net/display.php?data=2006-05-04&id=198892 Romanians' view on monarchy], Ziua, 4 May 2006</ref> taken by an institute affiliated with the Royal House in running many of its public events<ref>{{ro icon}} [http://ue.mae.ro/index.php?lang=ro&id=31&s=22934&arhiva=true The Royal House launched the program "Romanian – A 30 year vision"], Foreign Affairs Ministry website, as of 3 November 2007</ref> and its hospitality management school,<ref>{{ro icon}} [http://www.princeradu.ro/index.php/rss2.php?id2=000100080003&lng= The Elisabeth Palace soirees from 2002 until today], [http://www.princeradu.ro/ the website of Prince Radu], as of 4 March 2008</ref><ref>{{ro icon}} [http://www.irecson.ro/news/index.php?id2=010001001 ''A prestigious presence in Bucharest – Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL) – Switzerland''], [http://www.irecson.ro/ Irecson website], retrieved on 4 March 2008</ref> 48.80% of those questioned answered that it would be good for Prince Radu to accept a state function, while 46.41% were of the opposite opinion. The same 2006 poll showed that 66% of the Romanians interviewed would like to see a more active involvement of the Royal House in the democratisation and development of Romania. In a 2008 poll, Radu was preferred as president of Romania by 2.6% of the Romanian electorate.<ref>{{ro icon}} [http://www.adevarul.ro/articole/sondaj-basescu-ramane-pe-locul-intai-in-preferintele-electoratului/342008 ''Poll: Basescu remains on the first position in the electorate's preferences''], [[Adevarul]], 20 February 2008</ref> In the presence of Princess Margareta, Prince Radu announced his candidacy for the Romanian Presidency in a press conference at the [[Elisabeta Palace]] in Bucharest, Romania, on 9 April 2009.<ref>[http://alina_stefanescu.typepad.com/romania_revealed/2009/04/prince-radu-is-running-for-president.html Romania Revealed: Prince Radu is running for President]</ref> Five months later, on 2 September 2009, he retracted his candidacy.<ref>{{ro icon}} [http://www.princeradublog.ro/jurnal/cum-stau-lucrurile-astazi/ "The state of things today"], princeradublog.ro, 2 September 2009</ref>
In a 2004 poll conducted by the PSD,<ref>''SDP Trails its Leader With 7% of the Votes'', [[Jurnalul National]], 18 August 2004</ref> of whose coalition government he was at that time the Special Representative, Prince Radu scored just 3.4% as a potential candidate in the upcoming Romanian presidential elections. In a more recent 2006 opinion poll<ref>[http://ziua.net/display.php?data=2006-05-04&id=198892 Romanians' view on monarchy]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, Ziua, 4 May 2006</ref> taken by an institute affiliated with the Royal House in running many of its public events<ref>{{ro icon}} [http://ue.mae.ro/index.php?lang=ro&id=31&s=22934&arhiva=true The Royal House launched the program "Romanian – A 30 year vision"], Foreign Affairs Ministry website, as of 3 November 2007</ref> and its hospitality management school,<ref>{{ro icon}} [http://www.princeradu.ro/index.php/rss2.php?id2=000100080003&lng= The Elisabeth Palace soirees from 2002 until today], [http://www.princeradu.ro/ the website of Prince Radu], as of 4 March 2008</ref><ref>{{ro icon}} [http://www.irecson.ro/news/index.php?id2=010001001 ''A prestigious presence in Bucharest – Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL) – Switzerland''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090402003442/http://www.irecson.ro/news/index.php?id2=010001001 |date=2 April 2009 }}, [http://www.irecson.ro/ Irecson website], retrieved on 4 March 2008</ref> 48.80% of those questioned answered that it would be good for Prince Radu to accept a state function, while 46.41% were of the opposite opinion. The same 2006 poll showed that 66% of the Romanians interviewed would like to see a more active involvement of the Royal House in the democratisation and development of Romania. In a 2008 poll, Radu was preferred as president of Romania by 2.6% of the Romanian electorate.<ref>{{ro icon}} [http://www.adevarul.ro/articole/sondaj-basescu-ramane-pe-locul-intai-in-preferintele-electoratului/342008 ''Poll: Basescu remains on the first position in the electorate's preferences''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120312040114/http://www.adevarul.ro/articole/sondaj-basescu-ramane-pe-locul-intai-in-preferintele-electoratului/342008 |date=12 March 2012 }}, [[Adevarul]], 20 February 2008</ref> In the presence of Princess Margareta, Prince Radu announced his candidacy for the Romanian Presidency in a press conference at the [[Elisabeta Palace]] in Bucharest, Romania, on 9 April 2009.<ref>[http://alina_stefanescu.typepad.com/romania_revealed/2009/04/prince-radu-is-running-for-president.html Romania Revealed: Prince Radu is running for President]</ref> Five months later, on 2 September 2009, he retracted his candidacy.<ref>{{ro icon}} [http://www.princeradublog.ro/jurnal/cum-stau-lucrurile-astazi/ "The state of things today"], princeradublog.ro, 2 September 2009</ref>


==Titles, styles, honours and awards==
==Titles, styles, honours and awards==
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==See also==
==See also==
* [http://www.princeradu.ro Personal webpage]
* [http://www.princeradu.ro Personal webpage]
* An [http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=16772 article] about Radu Duda signed by a former US Ambassador, [[Voice of America]] director, and member of the U.S. delegation to the annual US-USSR Information Talks in Moscow and Washington, D.C., well-informed about ex-communist countries, [http://www.defenddemocracy.org/biographies/biographies_show.htm?doc_id=160038 Richard Carlson].
* An [http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=16772 article] about Radu Duda signed by a former US Ambassador, [[Voice of America]] director, and member of the U.S. delegation to the annual US-USSR Information Talks in Moscow and Washington, D.C., well-informed about ex-communist countries, [https://web.archive.org/web/20060501164216/http://www.defenddemocracy.org/biographies/biographies_show.htm?doc_id=160038 Richard Carlson].
* An [http://ro.novopress.info/?p=266 article] about Radu Duda's title and political activity.
* An [https://web.archive.org/web/20051012203351/http://ro.novopress.info/?p=266 article] about Radu Duda's title and political activity.
* {{IMDb name|1089576|Radu Duda}}
* {{IMDb name|1089576|Radu Duda}}


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Prince Radu of Romania
Prince Radu in April 2009
BornRadu Duda
(1960-06-07) 7 June 1960 (age 64)
Iași, Socialist Republic of Romania (now Republic of Romania)
Spouse
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(m. 1996)​
FatherProf. Dr. René Corneliu Duda[1]
MotherDr. Gabriela Constandache
Romanian royal family
Coat of arms of the Kingdom of Romania (1881-1947)
Coat of arms of the Kingdom of Romania (1881-1947)

*Titled according to private family rules

‡Status disputed

Prince Radu of Romania (born Radu Duda 7 June 1960, also known as Prince Radu of Hohenzollern-Veringen from 1999 to 2007) is the husband of Crown Princess Margareta of Romania, head of the House of Romania and a pretender to the former Romanian throne. On 1 January 1999, he was given the name, not title,[2][3] of "Prince of Hohenzollern-Veringen" by Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Hohenzollern, the Head of the Sigmaringen branch of the Hohenzollern family. He has also called himself "Radu Hohenzollern Veringen Duda".[4][5][6][7][8] Since 2007, when he had his legal name changed from "Radu Duda" to "Radu al României Duda", Radu no longer uses the name of Hohenzollern.[9] The Statute of the Romanian Royal Family,[10] proclaimed by former King Michael I on 30 December 2007, gave Radu the title of "Prince of Romania", with the style of "Royal Highness", which King Michael had given him earlier on 5 January 2005.[11]

Radu was born in Iași, Socialist Republic of Romania, the eldest of the two children of Professor. Dr. René Corneliu Duda and his wife Dr. Gabriela Duda née Constandache

In 1996, he married Crown Princess Margareta (then Princess Margareta, before the dynastic changes), eldest daughter of King Michael I of Romania and Queen Anne.

As spouse of the heir to the Crown Princess, Radu often accompanies his wife, sometimes even solo, to support social projects and promote the Romanian economy.[12]He is also the patron and a member of numerous Romanian charities and organisations.

Education and work

Radu graduated from the Costache Negruzzi High School in Iași in 1979, and from the University of Drama and Film in Bucharest in 1984, and had over twenty years of artistic activity in Romania as well as in other European countries, the Americas, Asia, and Africa. He was the artistic director of the first art therapy project for abandoned children in Romanian orphanages. The project, started in 1993, was developed in eight cities over six years. In 1994, while working as an art therapist in orphanages, he met Crown Princess Margareta, when she was touring the programmes of her Princess Margareta Foundation. On 21 September 1996 they were married in Lausanne, and on 1 January 1999 he was granted the title "Radu, Prince of Hohenzollern-Veringen".[13]

Prince Radu played a major role in the planning and organisation of the official tours undertaken by King Michael I in 1997 and 2002 for the integration of Romania into NATO, as well as creating the concept of the King's "Millennium Tour" of Romania in 2000. In the NATO tours the King visited the United Kingdom, Norway, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands, meeting heads of state and of government, and Radu accompanied the King on most of these visits.

In 2002, he graduated from the National College of Defence of Romania, and the George C. Marshall College, Garmisch, Germany. In August 2004 he participated in the two-week Program for Senior Executives in National and International Security at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.[14][15]

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

Since 2005, he has held the rank of colonel in the Romanian Army and holds a doctorate in Military Science from the Carol I National Defence University of Bucharest.

Prince Radu is the author of several books: Dincolo de mască (Bucharest: Unitext, 1997), L'Âme du masque (Brussels, 1998), Război, un exil, o viață (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 the Romanians), Seven (Bucharest: Nemira, 2003), The Royal Family of Romania (Bucharest: Humanitas, 2004), Persona (Bucharest: Nemira, 2006), The Elisabeta Palace (Bucharest: Humanitas, 2006).

Prince Radu has lectured and made 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, China, Egypt and the United Kingdom. He also appears regularly on television and publishes articles in the written press in Romania.

Prince Radu's lectures address topics related to Romania's integration into the Euro-Atlantic structures, defense, and security, geopolitics and diplomacy, culture, economics, and education. He has equally spoken out about the issue of ethnic minorities, in particular about the Romani minority, an important issue for Romania and South Eastern Europe today,[16][17][18][19] through conferences in Romania and around Europe, in countries such as the United Kingdom, France, Finland, etc. His activity report "2005 Annual Report and 2002–2004 Retrospective"[20] is available in English and Romanian on his official website.

Prince Radu currently serves on the Board of Advisors to the Global Panel Foundation, an NGO that works behind the scenes in crisis areas around the world.[21]

Initiatives

Europe of Regions

Radu initiated a project to promote Romania's major interests and to strengthen Romania’s bilateral relations. Its aims are to encourage and promote economic, cultural, and educational partnerships between Romanian regions and different European regions, as well as to raise awareness about Romania through meetings, conferences, and lectures. It will involve Prince Radu visiting up to four different regions a year, meeting local businessmen, political and local administration leaders, university teachers and students, Romanian communities and the press. Regions covered so far are the Italian regions of Tuscany and Sicily (provinces of Palermo, Caltanisetta, Enna, and Catania), the French regions of Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur and Aquitaine (Pays Beaumontois). The Europe of Regions initiative will continue with visits to the Lands of Germany, to Spain, and further regions of France and Italy.[22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29]

The Friendship Tour

The Friendship Tour is a similar initiative created to promote Romania's major interests, mainly in the United States of America, aiming to encourage, promote, and support Romanian partnerships in the economic, educational, and cultural domains. Visits are planned to 3–4 states each year to meet local businessmen and women, politicians, and local administration, university teachers and students, as well as the Romanian diaspora. The aim is also to raise awareness about Romania’s potential and to strengthen bilateral relations. The Friendship Tour kicked off with a ten-day visit to the states of Illinois, Indiana, and Massachusetts, during which Prince Radu met with governors, mayors, state congressmen, professors, students, businessmen, journalists, and American citizens of Romanian origin. The Friendship Tour II and The Friendship Tour III plan to reach five other USA states.[30][31][32]

Personality

In an interview for Observator Plus, Prince Radu talked frankly about himself. He says that during communism he had lived in an amoral world that lacked role models and where it was difficult to have principles. He discovered the latter only when he met King Michael, when he realized that "life can be marked, here and there, by principles."[33]

Controversies

Corruption accusations

BAE Systems,[34] one of the donors to Princess Margarita's charity, and its representatives, have been involved in a corruption scandal regarding the purchase by the Romanian Government of two decommissioned UK Royal Navy frigates refurbished by BAE, for which an alleged £7 million bribe was paid.[35] Some of this money, it is also alleged, "ended up in the pockets of the royal family of Hohenzollern".[36] The Gardianul newspaper,[37][38] noting that both Margarita and Radu, as Special Representative of the Government, had met a number of times formally or informally with the BAE Systems representatives before and after the signing of the governmental contract, inquired whether the royal family was involved in any lobbying on behalf of the company. In an official communique sent to the newspaper,[38] Radu denied any such lobbying activities, stating that as patron of the British-Romanian Chamber of Commerce in which BAE Systems is a member, he met with this as well as other British companies' representatives.

Securitate informer

Prince Radu has been, as are many other prominent public figures, the target of press attacks[39][40] for having been an informer for Communist Romania's dreaded[41][42][43][44] Securitate, the secret police, during Nicolae Ceauşescu's dictatorship.

Căminul românesc magazine from Geneva[45][46] published an article by Nicolette (Nicoleta) Franck, a journalist close to King Michael, about whom she wrote many books.[47] The article alleged that Radu Duda was a Securitate agent infiltrated in the Royal House so as to compromise it, on orders from Ion Iliescu, the former high ranking Communist who served as President of Romania and was, allegedly, a friend of Radu's father, also a former high ranking Communist. No proof of these allegations was offered.

In an article published by the Adevărul daily, Prince Radu denied allegations of his supposed involvement with the Securitate: "I have not collaborated with the Securitate…in 1986 there was an attempt to recruit me. I refused politely and I was never contacted again."[48] The article revealed that in 1989 Radu’s name was found on a list of 1,000+ people entitled "support persons" of the Securitate. In another interview for the same daily,[49] Radu explained that in 1986 he had been asked by the Securitate to collaborate due to his successful career as an actor: "Everybody who was somebody knew that there was this risk" to be called upon by Securitate to become an informer. At that time Radu had been working on an Iaşi stage as a theatre graduate for two years and was about to go on his second and last theatre tour abroad to Israel,[50] accompanying two renowned Romanian actors. The former head of the local Iaşi branch of the Securitate explained in an interview[51] that a "support person" such as Duda and the other people on the 1,000+ list were not informers, did not sign any agreement with the Securitate, nor did they receive money, but were Communist Party members, in particular people who traveled abroad, targeted by the Securitate with the Party's approval to carry out well-defined missions for a limited period of time. He also confirmed in a subsequent interview[52] that the list in question is real.

It has also been reported[53] that "many of the royal family's supporters have stopped offering financial aids after Radu Duda joined the Royal House. Wealthy Romanians in exile, who have been surveyed by the communist era political police Securitate even in subway stations, considered the compromise as intolerable."

In 2005 Prince Radu sued Marco Houston and Sena Julia Publications, the publishers of Royalty Magazine. The case arose due to an article that was published in the magazine in 2004. On 15 July 2010, Prince Radu obtained a Statement in Open Court[54] from Marco Houston, editor of Royalty Magazine, acknowledging that all the accusations were untrue, that Prince Radu was never a member or collaborator of the Securitate, and that this should never have been published. The statement also confirmed that the Collegium of the National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives has found Prince Radu did not support in any way the Securitate.

Princely title

On 1 January 1999, Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Hohenzollern, granted Radu an ad personam title of "Prince of Hohenzollern-Veringen" (German: Prinz von Hohenzollern-Veringen).[55] In August 2004, representatives of Friedrich Wilhelm's eldest son Karl Friedrich, Hereditary Prince of Hohenzollern, accused Radu of using the Hohenzollern name without permission as well as of having demanded "considerable" sums of money from whoever may be interested in buying it.[55] Karl Friedrich also warned Radu that the Hohenzollern family would take "legal measures" in case these things were to happen again and demanded that he cease to use the title of "Prince of Hohenzollern-Veringen". In a 2009 interview, Karl Friedrich re-iterated these demands and stated that his father has no right to issue titles in a republic, calling Radu's title "of Hohenzollern-Veringen" a "farce."[2][3] Since then King Michael has severed all ties with the House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, ordering that all such titles once used were no longer appropriate for use by any member of the Romanian Royal House.

Military rank

Some sources[56][57] have contested the legality of Radu's rapid rise in the Romanian Army from a reserve lieutenant (locotenent-major in Romanian) to the rank of active colonel in much less time than that prescribed for ordinary advancements. The former Chief of Army Staff has argued that his activation was done at Radu's own request, while his promotion was granted for "extraordinary" merits, such as Radu's lobby for Romania's admission into NATO. Radu's official response argues, however, that his own activation was not as a result of any unilateral request, but of a joint request of both the Royal House and the Defence Ministry.

Political support

Between September 2002 and September 2008, Radu maintained an official position as Special Representative of the Romanian Government under two successive administrations, that of the centre-left Partidul Social Democrat (PSD) coalition government as well as that of the centre-right Justice and Truth Alliance coalition government. Meanwhile, the main pro-monarchist party Christian-Democratic National Peasants' Party (PNŢCD), which holds no seats in the parliament, has been rejecting any role for him or Princess Margareta in a restored monarchy.[58][59] In 2003, however, the Cluj branch of PNŢCD officially invited Princess Margareta to be its candidate to the Senate in the upcoming elections.[60][61] The former president of Romania Traian Băsescu does not appreciate Prince Radu[62] and thinks he is detrimental to the Romanians' public perception of the idea of monarchy.[63][64] The Romanian historian and avowed monarchist Neagu Djuvara also considers Radu as detrimental, as an "undertaker" to the cause of the Romanian monarchy.[65] On 17 September 2008 Radu resigned his governmental position.

In a 2004 poll conducted by the PSD,[66] of whose coalition government he was at that time the Special Representative, Prince Radu scored just 3.4% as a potential candidate in the upcoming Romanian presidential elections. In a more recent 2006 opinion poll[67] taken by an institute affiliated with the Royal House in running many of its public events[68] and its hospitality management school,[69][70] 48.80% of those questioned answered that it would be good for Prince Radu to accept a state function, while 46.41% were of the opposite opinion. The same 2006 poll showed that 66% of the Romanians interviewed would like to see a more active involvement of the Royal House in the democratisation and development of Romania. In a 2008 poll, Radu was preferred as president of Romania by 2.6% of the Romanian electorate.[71] In the presence of Princess Margareta, Prince Radu announced his candidacy for the Romanian Presidency in a press conference at the Elisabeta Palace in Bucharest, Romania, on 9 April 2009.[72] Five months later, on 2 September 2009, he retracted his candidacy.[73]

Titles, styles, honours and awards

Styles of
Prince Radu of Romania
Reference styleHis Royal Highness
Spoken styleYour Royal Highness
Alternative styleSir

The titles mentioned are not based in present Romanian law but in the Statute of the Romanian Royal Family, signed by former King Michael I of Romania on 30 December 2007.[74]

  • 7 June 1960 - 1 January 1999: Mr Radu Duda
  • 1 January 1999 - 5 January 2005: His Serene Highness Prince Radu of Hohenzollern-Veringen
  • 5 January 2005 - 30 December 2007: His Royal Highness Prince Radu of Hohenzollern-Veringen

Civil name (1 January 1999 - 30 December 2007): Radu Hohenzollern-Veringen Duda

  • 30 December 2007 – Present: His Royal Highness Prince Radu of Romania[75]

Civil name (30 December 2007 - Present): Radu al României Duda

Dynastic honours
National state honours
Foreign honours
Award

Filmography

See also

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