One of the descendants of on of Romania’s old Cantacuzino royal family worked all his life for a living, he has no royal wealth and no palace but magazines call him “the Prince”.
Once every two years all the Cantacuzino family members who live throughout the world in an European capital. The event first occurred in 1998 for the first time and has been going on ever since, the reunion concluding with a family picture..
Such a picture hangs in the apartment of a Romania who emigrated in Belgium in 1972: Matei Cantacuzino.
Known by both Belgians and the Romanian-Belgian immigrants’ community as “the Prince”, the royal blooded Cantacuzino lives in a flat in Brussels and starts his life story by saying “ I am a descendant of the old Byzantine Emperors ...”.
His life story traces back to 1600 when the family became one of the rulers of the Romanian Kingdom(today’s Romanian southern area).
His mother’s grandfather was boier Bellu(a noble) who donated a real estate on which today stands the famous Romanian Bellu cemetery (here are buried many Romanian famous characters, writers, poets and such).
On his father’s side, he is related to King George Bibescu the one who freed rroma ethnics from slavery who was dethroned by the 1848 Romantic Revolution.
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