Editing Michael I of Romania (section)

==Personality and personal interests==
[[File:1944 Jeep - Ziua Independenței 2018 (Independence Day 2018).jpg|thumb|A 1944 [[Willys Jeep]] from Michael's collection that belonged to General [[George S. Patton]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.romaniaregala.ro/jurnal/25-octombrie-2014-la-multi-ani-majestate/|title=25 octombrie 2014: La mulți ani, Majestate!|language=ro|work=romaniaregala.ro|date=25 October 2014}}</ref>]]
Aged 16, when Michael was crown prince, he hit a bicyclist while driving a car, causing the cyclist's death. The incident was censored in contemporary press, but appears in the official Censorship Records, and is confirmed by the memoirs of the former prime minister [[Constantin Argetoianu]].<ref>Vlad Teodorescu (25 March 2013) [https://web.archive.org/web/20131102061348/http://www.evz.ro/detalii/stiri/accidente-rutiere-regele-mihai-nicu-ceuasescu-1029556.html "Secrets of the car crashes caused by King Michael] and [[Nicu Ceausescu]]," [[Evenimentul Zilei]]</ref><ref>Sorin Semeniuc (14 January 2013) [https://web.archive.org/web/20130129064429/http://www.7est.ro/stiri/reportaj/18788-accidentul-regelui-mihai-secretul-ingropat-timp-de-75-de-ani.html "King Michael's accident, the secret buried for 75 years"], "7 Est" daily</ref>

Michael was head of the [[Cercetaşii României|Romanian Boy Scouts]] in the 1930s.<ref name="Nieuwe_Tilburgsche_Courant">{{Cite news
  | title = Nog een foto van Kroonprins Michael van Roemenië, die onlangs aan boord van de torpedohoot "Principessa Maria" tijdens een zwaren storm in de Zwarte Zee in levensgevaar heeft verkeerd. Men ziet den Prins als leider der Roemeensche padvinders, in welke functie hij zijn vader, Koning Carol, op 2en Kerstdag de gelukwenschen namens de padvindersbeweging overbracht.
  | newspaper = Het nieuws van den dag voor Nederlandsch-Indië
  | language = Nl
  | date = 11 January 1938
| url = http://kranten.kb.nl/view/article/id/ddd%3A010226567%3Ampeg21%3Ap010%3Aa0116
  | access-date = 29 August 2010
| archive-date = 17 July 2011
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110717185659/http://kranten.kb.nl/view/article/id/ddd:010226567:mpeg21:p010:a0116
  | url-status = dead
  }}</ref> He was passionate about cars,<ref>{{in lang|ro}} Andrei Săvulescu. {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20120929074812/http://hem.passagen.se/vlad/rm.gif ''King Michael – Car Driver, Mechanic, Professional Pilot'']}}, [[Humanitas publishing house]], [[Bucharest]], 1996</ref> especially military jeeps.<ref>[http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/king-michael-of-rumania-driving-down-steps-leading-out-of-news-photo/50864710 "King Michael of Rumania driving down steps leading out of Sinaia palace,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131216072720/http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/king-michael-of-rumania-driving-down-steps-leading-out-of-news-photo/50864710 |date=16 December 2013 }} Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images, 1 April 1946</ref><ref>[http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/king-michael-of-rumania-driving-down-steps-leading-out-of-news-photo/50864714 "King Michael of Rumania driving down steps leading out of Sinaia palace,"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131216072723/http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/king-michael-of-rumania-driving-down-steps-leading-out-of-news-photo/50864714 |date=16 December 2013 }} Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images, 1 April 1946</ref> He was also interested in aircraft, having worked as a test pilot during exile.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aviatori.ro/galerie.php?gallery_id=13|title=King Michael air pilot|website=www.aviatori.ro|access-date=27 March 2013|language=ro|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130731132555/http://www.aviatori.ro/galerie.php?gallery_id=13|archive-date=31 July 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://evz.ro/regele-mihai-in-anii-exilului-fermier-pilot-de-teste-broker.html |title=Regele Mihai, în anii exilului: fermier, pilot de teste, broker |publisher=Evz.ro |access-date=5 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170925225957/http://evz.ro/regele-mihai-in-anii-exilului-fermier-pilot-de-teste-broker.html |archive-date=25 September 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Shortly after the Second World War, Michael became interested in [[Moral Rearmament]], which was introduced to him by his first cousin Prince Richard of Hesse-Cassel,<ref>{{cite book |last=Petropoulos |first=Jonathan |date=12 August 2008 |title=Royals and the Reich: The Princes von Hessen in Nazi Germany |publisher=Oxford University Press|pages=365–366|isbn=9780199713196 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sDjRCwAAQBAJ |access-date=7 December 2017}}</ref> and as Swiss residents after 1956 he and Queen Anne paid numerous visits to the [[Caux Palace Hotel|MRA conference centre]] of [[Caux, Switzerland|Caux]], where he found solace for the loss of his country and his émigré status as well as new hope for future reconciliation.<ref>See for instance in the film "Crossroad, the story of Frank Buchman" (1974), towards the end (1:07 to 1:08), King Michael's speech describing his relation to [[Frank Buchman]] [http://www.iofc.org/historical-iofc-films MRA historical films] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171112125533/http://www.iofc.org/historical-iofc-films |date=12 November 2017 }}, last access on 7 December 2017.</ref>