Carol is also considered to be the inspiration for the character Prince Charles of Carpathia in the 1953 play The Sleeping Prince and the 1957 related film The Prince and the Showgirl. "Ex-King Carol Weds Lupescu" was front-page news next to an article announcing a downed flying saucer in Roswell, New Mexico Carol appears in the 2016 World War II grand strategy video game Hearts of Iron IV, for the Death or Dishonor expansion, and can lead a royal dictatorship. He makes an appearance in the 2019 film as an antagonist along with his mistress. Ancestry See also Kings of Romania European interwar dictatorships List of covers of Time magazine (1930s) References Further reading Bucur, Maria. "King Carol II of Romania." in Balkan Strongmen: Dictators and Authoritarian Rulers of Southeast Europe ed. by Bernd J. Fischer (2007) pp 87–117. Easterman, Alexander Levvey. King Carol, Hitler and Lupescu (1942) online Fischer-Galați, Stephen A. Twentieth century Rumania (1991) online ; 592pp Ilie, Mihaela. "Processing the political image of a king: an overview of the interwar and communist discourse about Carol II of Romania." Revista de Științe Politice. Revue des Sciences Politiques 47 (2015): 206–215. online Ilie, Mihaela, "The Game Of Power: King Carol II and the Political Parties at the End of the Year 1937" Analele UniversitaNii din Craiova. Istorie, Anul XXIII Nr. 1(33)/2018 online Jelavich, Barbara. History of the Balkans (2 vol 1983) Jowitt, Kenneth, ed. Social Change in Romania, 1860–1940 (California UP, 1978) Michelson, Paul E. "Recent American historiography on Romania and the second world war" Romanian Civilization. (1996) 5#2 pp 23–42. Oțetea, Andrei, ed. A Concise history of Romania (1985) online Pavlowitch, Stevan K. A History of the Balkans 1804-1945 (Routledge, 2014). Quinlan, Paul D. The Playboy King: Carol II of Romania (Greenwood, 1995), popular. Roberts, Henry L. Rumania: Political Problems of an Agrarian State (Yale UP, 1951), scholarly Seton-Watson, R. W. History of the Roumanians (Cambridge UP, 1934). excerpt Seton-Watson, Hugh. Eastern Europe between the Wars (1946) online Spânu, Alin. "Foreign Intelligence Collaboration during King Carol II Dictatorship (1938-1940)." Romanian Military Thinking 1.2 (2020): 114–123. Stavrianos, L.S. The Balkans Since 1453 (1958), major scholarly history; online free to borrow Treptow, Kurt W., and Marcel Popa. Historical Dictionary of Romania'' (1996) 384pp External links 1893 births 1953 deaths 20th-century Kings of Romania Kings of Romania Eastern Orthodox monarchs Honorary members of the Romanian Academy Romanian philatelists Romanian people of