Mircea of Romania

Prince Mircea was the youngest child of Crown Prince Ferdinand of Romania, later to rule as King Ferdinand I, and his wife, Princess Marie of Edinburgh, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria and Tsar Alexander II of Russia. He died at Buftea, about 20 miles from Bucharest, of typhoid fever, when enemy troops were approaching Bucharest. He was buried quickley on the grounds of Cotroceni Palace. Prince Mircea was reburied in 1941, at the request of his sister, Princess Ileana, at the chapel of Bran Castle, close to the burial place of Queen Marie's heart. In January 2018, it was announced that the remains of Prince Mircea, King Carol II, and Queen Mother Helen, would be moved to the Mănăstirea Curtea de Argeș.