[lbo-talk] Romanian Prince in Detroit

Charles Brown charlesb at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us
Mon Oct 29 07:45:32 PDT 2007


His Serene Highness Prince Radu, as a special representative Ambassador of Good Will to strengthen relations between U.S. and the Romanian Government visited the Detroit City Council today.

This guy was _______.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radu_Duda%2C_Prince_of_Hohenzollern-Veringen

Since 2005 he is a Romanian Army Colonel and holds a doctorate in Military Science from the National Defence University of Bucharest.

Personality In an interview for "Observator Plus,"[28] Prince Radu talks frankly about himself. He says that during Communism he had lived in an amoral world which lacked models and in which it was difficult to have principles. He discovered the latter only when he met King Michael, when he realized that "life can be marked, here and there, by principles." Before that fateful meeting, Radu had had only ideals and "exercises of admiration" towards European or international personalities. In another interview[29], Radu enumerates some of the personalities from Eastern Europe he admires, such as Pope John Paul II, Lech Wałęsa, Václav Havel, and [sic] Nelson Mandela. During Communism, his family represented a source of inspiration for him, because in those corrupt times they remained honest people. Also, Radu believes that he could not have done things better than he has done in his life so far. He also says that he has very few friends.



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