(June 10, 1948 - August 1, 2016) (her death) (5 children) She met her future husband Michael in November 1947 in London, where they had both come for the wedding of the future Queen Elizabeth II and Philip Mountbatten. They became engaged soon afterward. Michael returned to Romania, but was forced to abdicate by the communists in December 1947. He went into exile, and returned after communism ended; Anne's first visit to Romania was at Easter 1992. The couple got married in an Orthodox ceremony in Athens in 1948, after Pope Pius XII refused to give Anne dispensation to marry a non-Catholic (Michael is Romanian Orthodox). *Crown Princess Margareta (b. 26 March 1949), married Radu Duda on 21 September 1996. *Princess Elena of Romania (b. 15 November 1950), married Robin Medforth-Mills on 20 July 1983 and was divorced on 28 November 1991. They have two children. She married secondly Alexander McAteer on 14 August 1998. *Irina Walker (b. 28 February 1953); born Princess Irina of Romania, she married John Kreuger on 4 October 1983, from whom she was divorced on 24 November 2003. They have two children. She married secondly John Wesley Walker on 10 November 2007. *Princess Sophie (b. 29 October 1957), married Alain Michel Biarneix on 29 August 1998 and was divorced in 2002, with a daughter. *Princess Maria (b. 13 July 1964), married Kazimierz Wiesław Mystkowski on 16 September 1995 and divorced in 2003