Simeon II's reign

Simeon II 's life

II. Tsar Simeon of Bulgaria, full name Simeon Borisov Sakskoburgotski, was the last Tsar of Bulgaria between 1943 and 1946. He was born on June 16, 1937 in Sofia, III. As a child of Tsar Boris and Princess Johanna of Savoy, Italy. His father, III. After the death of Tsar Boris in 1943, he became Tsar when he was only 6 years old. Since he was a minor, a three-member governing council exercised the power of the head of state in his stead. Bulgaria became a republic in 1946, and Tsar Simeon was forced to emigrate. After the war, the three regents were arrested and executed, and another regent took over. He first lived in Egypt from 1946 to 1951, where he graduated from the British Military College in Alexandria. He then moved to Spain for fifty years, where in 1955, when he came of age, he declared himself Tsar of Bulgaria. 1962. On January 21, he married Margarita Gomez-Acebo y Cejuela, a Spanish noblewoman. Four sons and one daughter were born from the marriage. He never renounced his title de jure, de facto in 2001, when he swore an oath in the Bulgarian parliament to the new constitution, which defined Bulgaria as a republic, on the occasion of his election as prime minister. II. Simeon's life and reign had a significant impact on the history of Bulgaria, and his story remains an important part of the national heritage.

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II. Tsar Simeon of Bulgaria, full name Simeon Borisov Sakskoburgotski, was the Tsar of Bulgaria between 1943 and 1946, and later, between 2001 and 2005, he also became the country's Prime Minister. Tsar Simeon was still a child when he ascended the throne, and due to his minor age, the governing council exercised the power of the head of state in his stead. .Simeon carried out economic reforms during his prime ministership, the purpose of which was to modernize the Bulgarian economy and prepare for joining the European Union.


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