sentences:  Mircea Carol (8 August 1920 – 27 January 2006) is the issue of King Carol II's first marriage to Zizi Lambrino, which marriage had been declared null and void on 18 January 1919 by a Romanian court.In 1955, however, a Portuguese court declared Mircea Carol as former King Carol II's legitimate son, a ruling later confirmed by a Parisian court .The court rulings allowed him to bear the surname Hohenzollern and to inherit a portion of his father's properties, but did not confer upon him any dynastic rights to the defunct Romanian throne or rights to bear a princely title and style, despite his use of both.