Princess Ileana of Romania
Princess Ileana of Romania, also known as Mother Alexandra, was the youngest daughter of King Ferdinand I of Romania and his consort, Queen Marie of Romania. She was a great-granddaughter of Emperor Alexander II of Russia, King Ferdinand II, Queen Maria II of Portugal, and Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. She was born as Her Royal Highness Princess Ileana of Romania, Princess of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen.
Princess Ileana of Romania with her second cousin, Tsesarevich Alexei of Russia
Princess Ileana of Romania
Queen Marie of Romania (left), Prince Nicolae of Romania and Princess Ileana of Romania aboard the SS Leviathan on 27 October 1926
Ferdinand I, nicknamed Întregitorul, was King of Romania from 1914 until his death in 1927. Ferdinand was the second son of Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern, and Infanta Antónia of Portugal, daughter of Ferdinand II of Portugal and Maria II of Portugal. His family was part of the Catholic branch of the Prussian royal family Hohenzollern.
Ferdinand in the 1920s
Ferdinand as a teenager, 1878
Wedding Medal of Ferdinand I of Romania 1893 by Anton Scharff. Obverse
Wilhelm and Ferdinand (British World War I poster)