Prince Mircea of Romania

	Styles of; Prince Mircea of Romania
Reference style	His Royal Highness
Spoken style	Your Royal Highness
Alternative style	Sir

Prince Mircea
Prince Mircea
	Prince Mircea of Romania
Detail Titles and styles
	HRH Prince Mircea of Romania
Royal house	House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
Father	Ferdinand I of Romania; Prince Barbu Ştirbey (biological father)
Mother	Marie of Edinburgh
Born	January 3, 1913; Bucharest, Romania
Died	November 2, 1916 (aged 3); Buftea Palace, Buftea, Romania

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House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

Carol I

Queen Consort:
Elisabeth
Children:
Princess Maria
Ferdinand I
Queen Consort:
Marie
Children:
Prince Carol
Elisabeth, Queen of Greece
Maria, Queen of Yugoslavia
Prince Nicholas
Ileana, Archduchess of Austria
Prince Mircea
Carol II
Children:
Prince Michael
Michael I
Queen Consort:
Anne
Children
Princess Margarita
Princess Elena
Princess Irina
Princess Sophie
Princess Maria

Prince Mircea of Romania (3 January 1913 Bucharest, Romania - 2 November 1916 Buftea, Romania).

Officially, Mircea was the third son and youngest child of Queen Marie and King Ferdinand of Romania. However, most historians now believe that Mircea's father was actually Prince Barbu Ştirbey. This is supported by the fact that Mircea and Prince Ştirbey had dark eyes, while Queen Marie and her husband, King Ferdinand, had blue eyes. King Ferdinand recognized him to avoid the scandal.^{[citation needed]}

Prince Mircea died of typhoid in the autumn of 1916, during World War I at Buftea Palace, the home of the Ştirbey family.

Mircea's brother the subsequent King Carol II and his first wife Zizi Lambrino named their son (who was born in 1920) Mircea, in memory of Prince Mircea who had died four years previously.