Princess Ileana of Romania, 1920s.

The Russian Imperial Family in Romania, 1914.

♡︎ Mignon + Ileana ♡︎

Three royal women who became nuns: Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia (1864–1918), Princess Alice of Battenberg (1885–1969) and Princess Ileana of Romania (1909-1991).

Your December 1st post, Ileana or Romania as minimalist as I could

Which prospect do you think Has a higher chance with alexei ? Princess Ileana of Romania or Princess Elizabeth of Greece and Denmark?

Hi! Thanks for the question and I'm so sorry for the very late reply!

This is a difficult one to answer as it's all guesswork.

In terms of wider family relations, it appears that no one really liked Carol (I don't blame them!!) when they visited in 1913, and Queen Marie of Romania wasn't particularly enthusiastic about Alix in her memoirs. She also explicitly said that she did NOT want to have someone with haemophilia in her family due to the suffering it brings. She mentioned being concerned about Carol marrying one of OTMA because of the possibility they could be a carrier of the haemophilia gene. I don’t know if she knew that Alexei had haemophilia when she knew the Romanov family, but I think she might have avoided the match if she was aware. Although any of Alexei's children wouldn't have had haemophilia (only passes through the female line), the chance of him passing from a fatal attack at any moment certainly wouldn't be ideal for a marriage match.

Elizabeth and Alexei were very close in age, and there are some very sweet anecdotes about them meeting when they were children. Elizabeth's mother was Russian, which might have made the match more favourable. Also, they seemed to know each other far better than Alexei did Ileana, as Elizabeth and her family visited Russia pretty much yearly. Because of Marie of Romania's fears about haemophilia, and her dislike (and pitying) of Alix, I think that the match with Elizabeth would have been more favourable.

Which also brings up the fact that many boys that suffered from haemophilia sadly didn't live long into adulthood. Alix's brother Frittie passed away after an accident where he fell out of a window, and Henry of Prussia (Alix's nephew) passed away after falling off a chair. Tragically, most children died before they reached their teenage years. Some people with haemophilia lived considerably longer, though. Prince Waldemar of Prussia (a cousin) lived to age 59, until he passed away due to a lack of medical supplies for a blood transfusion. Alfonso of Spain died when he was 31 after a minor car crash caused internal bleeding, and his brother Gonzalo also passed away after a minor car accident, aged only 19. Most famously, Prince Leopold, son of Queen Victoria, died from a fall that resulted in cerebral haemorrhage.

We will never know for certain, I'm afraid, but those are my thoughts! What does anyone else think?

We started out as good playmates, my brother and him were quite close when we were younger, it was a fond memory for my brother but he recall little like me,and when it was time to go, he said something to me, in a way that I think was just a part of his jokes,"Someday I will come back and marry you." I remembered how it sounded, and now that I know English, I'm wondering if this is what he truly said to me because that is how I remembered the words. With only these few recollections of him,I cannot affirm that those words are correct, but one thing that I can affirm is that he has been whisked away from his life by the cruel murder they did,my playmate was long gone. -Prințesa Ileana: O privire din viața ei

Prințesa Ileana: O privire din viața ei (Romanian)

Princess Ileana: A glimpse of her life(English)

The Princess of Romania: Ileana a glimpse of her life (Another English trans)

Note:This book is really rare not much found in online source but a hard copy of that book

Sorry if you already answered question like that, coz I think you did (you can reblog or smth then)

Who do you ship OTMAA with?

Don’t worry bestie!

Olga: Dmitri “Mitya” Shakh-Bagov

Tatiana: Dmitri Malama

Maria: Lord Louis “Dickie” Mountbatten or Nikolai “Kolya” Demitrievich Demenkov

Anastasia: I honestly don’t ship her with anyone

Alexei: I don’t ship him with anyone out of love but I deeply support his cute friendship with Princess Ileana of Romania

Thank you for asking!

I would never even imagine working for disney, but by god i wish i would be put in charge to make a 2D animated adaptation for the romanian fairytale Ileana Simziana who has pretty much a canonically trans character (i ofc lack any skills to make that possible but i still dream about this everyday)

Super cute photos of Princess Ileana of Romania and Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich of Russia ✨

The Russian Imperial Family with the Romanian Royal Family, 1914.

Alexei and Prince Nicholas (Nicolae) sit on the ground; Olga has baby Prince Mircea in her lap, Tatiana has Princess Ileana on hers.

Greetings, darling. 💞 I didn't know Princess Ileana also became a nun, and was wondering if you could tell me more about it? What made her make such a decision etc., if it's known?

Thank you x

My first question on here, I’m emotional! And it’s coming from my favourite person in the whole world, too!💌 Thank you for asking such an intriguing question, I’m going to try to answer it to the best of my abilities and knowledge!

To give a little background information: after the communist regime was installed in Romania in 1948, the entire royal family, including Ileana, were exiled. She had to move from place to place around three different continents, before ending up in France, where she joined a convent and was given the name of “Mother Alexandra”. After these events, she moved to the United States, where she had resided prior to her moving back there and where she had written a couple of religious books in collaboration with the Orthodox Church in the US. There, she founded the first! English language Orthodox Monastery in the entire continent of Northern America and became an abbess (= she was basically in charge with the monastery). She passed away in 1991 and was buried in the cemetery of her monastery. I strongly believe that Ileana found refuge in her Orthodox beliefs, which were tied to the country of her birth, which she loved so very deeply, and that shatters my heart, for I deeply wish history would’ve been different and that she wouldn’t have had to leave, but one can’t unfortunately go back and change the course of history. To sum it up, I think the eternal love she bore for her home country and its values led to her decision of becoming a nun. She got to visit Romania one last time before dying.

"The Loneliness of Vlad the Impaler" by Ileana Toma