ler's Germany and Stalin's USSR, Romania lost Basarabia and Northern Bucovina to USSR and northwestern Transilvania to Hungary. All of this happened without any violence. Carol was then left without any internal or external political support, facing rallies throughout the country militating against him. The people blamed his for the loss of these territories and for the violence in the political life in the country. In 1940 Carol gave up most of his decision-making powers in favor of General Ion Antonescu who later becomes the head of state. More bad fortune comes to Carol when on the next day Antonescu forces Carol to renounce his thrown and give it to Michael, who becomes for the second time King of Romania. Being only 19, Antonescu was still the actual new ruler of Romania.Carol then leaves Romania for good on September 7, 1940 together with his mistress Elena Lupescu, in a special train. He took with him lots of treasures from Romania. He lived for several years in some South American countries. Later he came back to Europe where he settled in Portugal. During WWII and immediately after that he had some unsuccessful attempts to regain the throne, contacting great powers like the Soviets. They only caused trouble to King Michael during negotiations with the allies. The Romanian political personalities did not give any support or attention to Carol on these attempts. In the end Carol marries Elena Lupescu in 1949. He then dies shortly after in 1953 of cancer. Elena Lupescu outlived him for almost 25 years and inherited his huge fortune. In dates there were some minor disagreements between different websites but most were consistent. Carol was looked at I think as kind of cowardice in some ways. He was not a respected leader, but was very much realized as an important leader in Romanian history. Although his untamed living habits were obviously not doing good for the country they were still looked at with not so much...
