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She remained at the monastery until her death on January 21, 1991. She served as abbess from 1969 until her retirement in 1981. She moved back to the United States and founded the Orthodox Monastery of the Transfiguration in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania. Later in 1967, Sister Ileana was tonsured a nun and given the name Mother Alexandra. In 1967, after her children had grown, Princess Ileana entered the Orthodox Monastery of the Protection of the Mother of God, in Bussy, France. In 1960, her marriage to Stefan Issarescu ended in divorce. Stefan Nikolas Issarescu on June 20, 1954. On Ileana officially divorced Archduke Anton and shortly later married Dr.

She also wrote a memoir of her last years in Romania and a book describing the establishment and running the hospital. In the United States, Ileana lectured against communism and worked with the Romanian Orthodox Church in the United States. However, after King Michael I of Romania abdicated on December 30, 1947, Ileana and her family were exiled from Communist Romania.Īfter leaving Romania, Princess Ileana and her children traveled through Austria, to Switzerland, to Argentina, and then in 1950 to the United States. There, she was joined by Archduke Anton who was placed under house arrest by the Red Army after Romania was occupied by the Soviet Union. Included among those at the hospital, Princess Ileana sheltered and treated wounded aviators shot down during their raids on Romanian oilfields. In 1940, she and her children moved back to Romania where she began another hospital called the Hospital of Queen's Heart in honor of her mother Queen Maria of Romania. Living in Austria, as World War II began, Ileana established a hospital at their castle, Sonneburg, for wounded Romanian soldiers after her husband was drafted into the German Luftwaffe. On July 26, 1931, Ileana was married to Archduke Anton of Austria and Prince of Tuscany, a marriage encouraged by Ileana's brother, King Carol II, who was jealous of her popularity and wanted her out of Romania. Princess Ileana earned her navigator's papers and owned and sailed the yacht 'Isprava' for many years. She also was the organizer of the Girl Reserves of the Red Cross and of the first school of Social Work in Romania. Before her marriage, Ileana was the organizer and chief of the Romanian Girl Guide Movement. Ileana was born in Bucharest, Romania on Januas Her Royal Highness Ileana, Princess of Romania, Princess of Hohenzollern.

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