Royal Profile: Prince Radu of Romania
Prince Radu of Romania was born 7 June 1960 as the son of Prof. René Duda and doctor Gabriela Constandache {Source}.
Radu grew up in Romania, graduating from the Costache Negruzzi High School in Iași in 1979, and from the University of Drama and Film in Bucharest in 1984 {Source}. After graduation, he began a career as an artist, spending twenty years performing in Romania and around Europe{Source}. He began the artistic director of the first art therapy project for abandoned children in Romania's orphanages in 1993{Source}.
In 1994, while working within the orphanages, he met the woman who would later become his wife while she was visiting orphanages as part of her work for The Princess Margareta Foundation. He married Princess Margareta, Custodian of the Royal Crown of Romania on 21 September 1996{Source}. Two years later, his father-in-law granted him the title Radu, Prince of Hohenzollern-Veringen {Source}.
In 2002, he graduated from the National College of Defence of Romania, and the George C. Marshall College in Garmisch, Germany {Source}. 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 {Source}
In September 2002, he was appointed as Special Representative of the Romanian Government for Integration, Co-operation and Sustainable Development. He is also 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.
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. The Romanian Prince consort holds several high patroanges {Source}:
Radu grew up in Romania, graduating from the Costache Negruzzi High School in Iași in 1979, and from the University of Drama and Film in Bucharest in 1984 {Source}. After graduation, he began a career as an artist, spending twenty years performing in Romania and around Europe{Source}. He began the artistic director of the first art therapy project for abandoned children in Romania's orphanages in 1993{Source}.
In 1994, while working within the orphanages, he met the woman who would later become his wife while she was visiting orphanages as part of her work for The Princess Margareta Foundation. He married Princess Margareta, Custodian of the Royal Crown of Romania on 21 September 1996{Source}. Two years later, his father-in-law granted him the title Radu, Prince of Hohenzollern-Veringen {Source}.
In 2002, he graduated from the National College of Defence of Romania, and the George C. Marshall College in Garmisch, Germany {Source}. 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 {Source}
In September 2002, he was appointed as Special Representative of the Romanian Government for Integration, Co-operation and Sustainable Development. He is also 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.
Prince Radu is the author of several books:
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, through conferences in Romania and around Europe, in countries such as the United Kingdom, France, Finland, etc{Source}.
- 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'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, through conferences in Romania and around Europe, in countries such as the United Kingdom, France, Finland, etc{Source}.
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. The Romanian Prince consort holds several high patroanges {Source}:
- The Romanian Traditional Karate Federation
- EUROPAfest International Festival (Jeunesses Musicales)
- Summer Schools "Leaders Romania"
- National School Contest "The Queens of Mary Maria"
- The Royal Camerata of the National University of Music, Bucharest
- Annual Symposium "Dimitrie Cantemir" of Cantemir National College, Iasi
- International Film Festival Bucharest
- Association "Youth Initiative for Modernization of Romania", Cluj
- European Observatory of Plurilingvism (Paris, France)
- Of the Romanian Fencing Federation
- Of the Romanian Archery Federation
- The Royal Choir (University of Music in Bucharest)
- Association of Economics Students in Romania
- Of the Romanian Pigeons Breeders Federation
- Of the Academic High School of Fine Arts in Chisinau
- National Paralympic Committee Romania
- Volunteers Association Invictus Romania
Since September 2012, at Adjud gymnasium "Prince Radu"
From 2015, his Majesty Margareta and Prince Radu founded four royal scholarships: King Carol I and Queen Elizabeth (annually for two students of the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest) and King Ferdinand I and Queen Maria (annually for two students University of the Academy of Sciences of Chisinau).
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