Background
Prince Mircea was born in Bucharest on 3 January 1913, as the third son and last child of the Crown Prince Ferdinand of RomaniaNote 2 and his wife, the Crown Princess Marie of Edinburgh.
Prince Mircea was born in Bucharest on 3 January 1913, as the third son and last child of the Crown Prince Ferdinand of RomaniaNote 2 and his wife, the Crown Princess Marie of Edinburgh.
He died aged three in 1916. He was baptised on 2 February 1913 at the Royal Palace (presently the National Museum of Art). Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia arrived by train to Bucharest to represent his father.
He was met there by King Carol I, Crown Prince Ferdinand and Prince Carol.
His godparents were the German Emperor Wilhelm II, King Carol I, Queen Elisabeth and Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia. His mother, the Crown Princess was absent due to a possible attack of phlebitis.
His governess was Mary GreenNote 3. The royal family had to quickly bury him on the grounds of Cotroceni Palace, before they went into exile to Iași, the old capital of Moldavia, the unoccupied part north-eastern Romania.
His death certificate was partially burnt.
His original tombstone read:
In 1941, Mircea was reburied, at the request of Princess Ileana, from Cotroceni to the little chapel of Bran Castle, close to the burial place of Marie"s heart. Mircea is an exclusively Romanian-used named that is derived from the Old Slavic mir meaning "peace" or "world". Prince Mircea was named after Mircea I of Wallachia, a medieval Romanian Prince of Wallachia who opposed a vigorous resistance to the Turks in the 14th century, and whose troops fought side by side with the Serbians on the fatal field of Kossovo.