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Born in Sigmaringen in southwestern Germany, the Roman
Catholic Prince Ferdinand of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen was a son of Prince
Leopold of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and princess Antonia of Portugal and
Kohary (1845-1913), daughter of Queen Maria II and her consort, Ferdinand of
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha of Kohary, himself from that Slovakian-originated family.
Following the renunciations of his father and elder brother Prince Wilhelm
of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, young Ferdinand became the heir to the throne
of his childless uncle, King Carol I of Romania in November 1888. The
Romanian government did not require his conversion to Eastern Orthodoxy from
Catholicism, allowing him to continue with his born creed, but it was
required that his children be raised Orthodox, then the state religion of
Romania.
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