Official website of His Imperial Majesty King Roman
Welcome to the official website of His Imperial Majesty King Roman who is the Royal Sovereign of East Europe, Grand Duke of Lithuania, as well as Grand Duke / Prince / Duke of around 30 other regions (see below), including Courland (Latvia) and Moldova, all legally advised and long uncontested.

H. M. King Roman, Royal Sovereign of East Europe, Grand Duke of Lithuania, was born at 23 Eildon Street, Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland, son of Grand Prince Roman Emil, Count of Lubraniec Dambski (Boryslaw 02 Jul 1901 - 22 Nov 1967 Gliwice, carried in procession to Warsaw in 1988), and Katherine Mann (Linlithgow 21 Nov 1913 - 08 Feb 2011 Torquay).

Katherine Mann's father was Belgian (George Alphonse Henri Waersegers (Bruxelles 1857-1932 Linlithgow), and her mother Dutch (Henriette Josephine Joanna Sambler (Amsterdam 1867-1943 Linlithgow) and descended from Sir Anthony van Dyck, court painter to King Charles I and three other kings of England (Charles II, James 1 and James 2).                             

Lieutenant Roman Dambski I of Lubraniec resided at 45 Buckingham Terrace, Edinburgh, Scotland, from 1940, when he was posted there with Polish Corps 7 Rifles.

As a qualified chemical engineer, he was stationed at the Paderewski Hospital attached to Edinburgh University, and did not return to Poland until 1947 - King Roman's stepmother Princess Paulina Dambska was surprisingly discovered in 1946 to have survived the war after having been officially declared dead.

On 13 November 1927, Count Roman Dambski of Lubraniec civilly married Princess Paulina (Mostyska 30 Mar 1905 - 04 Feb 1993 Warsaw), first child of Prince Wladislaw Ignacy Marek Gedroyc (1862-1943 Zubracze) at Lwow, and she became Paulina Dambska.

Prince Roman I fathered two children by Katherine Mann, namely Ronald Victor Charles (King Roman) in 1942 and Christine Elizabeth Catherine in 1945, and succeeded as Grand Duke of Lithuania in 1943 on the death of Prince Wladislaw. Note: Princess Paulina was officially dead from 1940-1946.

King Roman  is an awarded humanitarian and charity founder. He has resided in Darwin, Australia, with his Filipino wife, since 1975, is an inventor and author, and enjoys annual SeaCruises.                                                            

His Imperial Majesty King Roman is Royal Sovereign of East Europe, Grand Duke of Lithuania, since 1967, and by Letters Patent since 12 February 1993, as well as Count of Lubraniec. Around 30 other titles legally accrue.

Like King William I of England who reigned from France, and King George I of Great Britain who reigned from Germany and left the running of their kingdom to parliament, His Imperial Majesty King Roman, Royal Sovereign of East Europe, Grand Duke of Lithuania, currently reigns from Darwin, Australia, and leaves the running of his Realm to respective civil parliaments. His titles are independant of external recognition.

His Imperial Majesty King Roman, Royal Sovereign of East Europe, Grand Duke of Lithuania, by his Royal Sovereign rank and status, has legally accrued title to around 30 other countries and towns also (see below), including Courland (now called Latvia) and Moldova.

His Imperial Majesty King Roman, Royal Sovereign of East Europe, Grand Duke of Lithuania, wishes to federate Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, and others, in a constitutional royal alliance, to give their peoples back the pride which is their true royal tradition.

This is also in line with the original desire and intention for Lithuania of the 23 April 1994 LBKS Congress, in Vilnius, when King Roman as Count of Lubraniec Dambski was made a founding senator.  

 

AS HEARD ON JOHN LAWS MORNING SHOW ON RADIO 2SM & SEEN ON CHANNEL 7 TV SUNRISE  -   H.I.M. King Roman, Royal Sovereign, Humanitarian, Gentleman, does not drink, smoke, swear, or do drugs. He is former Royal Navy Reserve and was 1st Group Leader of the Port Darwin Sea Scouts & Venturers
These Royal Arms are the full Arms of His Imperial Majesty King Roman, showing the Dambski arms in the 1st quarter of the shield, the ancient arms (Vytis) of Lithuania in the 2nd and 3rd, and the Gedroyc arms in the 4th, supported by a Griffon and a Unicorn, with the motto All for God underneath.
Letters Patent 1993 acknowledging His Royal Highness Prince Roman II, The Grand Duke of Lithuania, and Count of Lubraniec (Dambski).

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Other Titles Legally Accrued to His Majesty King Roman

As well as being His Imperial Majesty King Roman of Royal Sovereign East Europe, Grand Duke of Lithuania, and Count 

of Lubraniec Dambski; His Imperial Majesty is also the Grand Duke of Belarus, Ukraine, Livonia, Novgorod, and Vladimir; Prince of Courland, Moldova, Kiev, and Minsk; Prince/Duke of Bryansk, Chernobyl,  Gedroyc, Grodno, Kosovo, Lvov, Ossetia, Oswiecim, Palanga, Polock, Pskov, Ratno, Rostov, Santok, Smolensk, Starodub, Trakai, Turau, Tver, and Vitebsk; Imperator. Unofficially reigning from Darwin, Australia, since 1993.                               Earlier King Roman

H. I. M. King Roman

H. I. M. King Roman, Royal Sovereign of East Europe and Grand Duke of Lithuania, reigns over his Realm from Darwin, Australia, and leaves running of constituent countries to their duly elected civil governments and civil sovereigns.


H. I. M. King Roman is honorary First Admiral for Lithuania & Ukraine, and honorary First General for Belarus (which is landlocked).

Contrary to views stated elsewhere, Lithuania (and Belarus and Ukraine) is, currently and unusually, a constitutional state with a real monarch awaiting full and proper official acknowledgment.

King Roman formerly served in the Royal Naval Reserve (U.K.) and was the 1st Group Leader of the Port Darwin Sea Scouts & Venturers. He is a qualified coxswain and Australian Yachting Federation yachting instructor.

He also served in the Royal Air Force (U.K.) and in the Citizens Military Forces (Aust.), and was a Patrol Officer / Kiap in Papua New Guinea.

Brief History of Lithuanian Succession
Historically there are two Lithuanias, the lesser Lithuania we know today, and the great Lithuania of 1569, which included the regions of Belarus and Ukraine when it was inherited by Prince Roman's royal step-ancestry the Princes Gedroyc. 

(Neighbouring Kaliningrad, a separated part of Russia to the west, was known as Little Lithuania.)

In 1251, Mindaugas, the Grand Duke of Lithuania, became King of Lithuania. He was crowned in 1253 with a crown sent by Pope Innocent IV, and was assassinated 10 years later in 1263.

In the 14th century, Grand Duke Gediminas (1316-1342) married three times and had 13 children. He made Vilnius his capital in 1322, was proclaimed King of Lithuania in 1341, and died at the siege of Wielowa in 1342 before being crowned.

Grand Duke Vytautas - the Great - (1350-1430) had one child to his first of two marriages. He was proclaimed King of Lithuania in January 1429, and died at Trakai in 1430 before his crown arrived from the Holy Roman Emperor.

In 1386 Grand Duke Jogaila of Lithuania married the young Polish King Jadwiga and became King of Poland - note that, as with the Polish word for Prince which can also mean Duke, the Polish word for King can also mean Queen, as with Jadwiga. 

In 1569, Lithuania and Poland were federated by the Union of Lublin. Krakow, in the south of Poland, was at this time the king's capital.

The same year, 1569, the last of the royal Lithuanian-Polish bloodline from Jogaila, King Zygmunt II, historically elevated Prince Gedroyc to Grand Prince for (Great) Lithuania by LP Poland 1569. Gedroyc was a princely bloodline whose inheritance is patented from the 13th-20th century.

From 1572, when King Zygmunt II died, until 1795 when Czarina Catherine the Great of Russia took Lithuania, Poland-Lithuania was ruled by elected kings. However, the royal bloodline Gedroyc continued to be patented for Lithuania through the 19th century, at Vilnius in 1811 and several times at St Petersburg through to 1873.

Recent Hereditary Succession is: Grand Prince Tadeusz Gedroyc (1734-1811) who married Anna Towianska; through Antoni Stanislaw Gedroyc (1755-1830) and Julijana Miedzichowska; Ignacy Rafal Antoni Gedroyc (1793-1873) and Elzbieta Dobrzanska; Jaroslaw Jan Gedroyc (1832-1912) and Paulina Orda - LP 1873 St Petersburg; to Wladislaw Ignacy Marek Gedroyc (1862-1943), who married Renee, Marquise de Pourbaix, at Horodec in 1904.

Prince Wladislaw's first child and heir Princess Paulina, Prince Roman's stepmother, was born at Mostyska in 1905.

In 1943, Prince Wladislaw Gedroyc (1862-1943) died at Zubracze, from which time the Lithuanian Royal House of Dambski began.
Government

"The good of the people is the highest law" - Cicero

King Roman, Grand Duke, is Royal Sovereign of  East Europe, Grand Duke of Lithuania, and reigns from Darwin, Australia, while elected representatives do the everyday running of the countries through their respective parliaments. King Roman continues to seek full restoration of a constitutional Monarchy, and federation of inherited and accrued countries, whether under his own royal sovereignty or that of one or more of his grantees.

Since introduction of republican systems in 1991, the new Lithuanian nobility society or LBKS (Lietuvos Bajoru Karaliskoji Sajunga), of which King Roman was elected a Founding Senator on 23 April 1994 in Vilnius, applauded the reformation of a Grand Duchy in Lithuania, but left Lithuania's Royal Tradition in limbo after subsequent elections in 1996.

Lithuania is currently the spearhead King Roman seeks to use to bring about a restoration of this Royal Tradition and pride throughout his Sovereign Realm. However, any other country within the Realm may propose to lead this change through direct approach to King Roman.

If you are able and would like to generously support and assist King Roman, please use the Contact form page. You will be rewarded proportionally to your generousity.

* By the legal principle of assent by silence, the several governments of Lithuania, and the Lithuanian Nobility Society, have continued to recognize and acknowledge without demurr the Royal Rank and Sovereign Status of Grand Duke Roman II since 1967, patented in February 1993, who became King in May 2005, and crowned himself (according to precedents including Napoleon Bonaparte of France) in July 2010.

Nobility Society

"An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may                       run about in a lovely way, but in  fact it's dead" - Nancy Mitford, Noblesse Oblige, 1956

King Roman, Grand Duke of Lithuania and Count of Lubraniec, attended a nobility congress in Vilnius on 23 April 1994, at the invitation of convenor Chevalier Jonas Stankus.

King Roman gave an exhortation on restoring the Grand Duchy, and received applause from the about 400 nobles attending. King Roman was also elected a Founding Senator of the new nobility society which was called LBKS or Lietuvos Bajoru Karaliskoji Sajunga (Royal Society of Lithuanian Nobility).

The LBKS, now LRUN, had new elections in 1996 since when it apparently lost focus, and is like a chicken running around without its head.

King Roman seeks full (constitutional) restoration of the Lithuanian Monarchy in order to stir up pride in the people's hearts, and reduce a suicide rate which is one of the highest in the world. King Roman wishes the same for Belarus and Ukraine, and other countries in his  Realm.

Brief Biography of King Roman

  • Born son of Prince Roman Dambski on 7th March 1942, Edinburgh, Scotland
  • 1958 - Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award
  • Graduated Science & Languages (incl. Latin) Trinity Academy - 1960
  • SAC in Royal Air Force (incl. RAF Steamer Point, Aden) - 5 years
  • Emigrated to Melbourne, Australia - 1967
  • Public Works Department (Accounts) / Flight Training / Singer on Radio 3DB & GTV9
  • Patrol Officer PNG - 3 years (see photo opposite)
  • 1972 - Bodyguard to Prince Philip at Port Moresby Royal Agricultural Show
  • Customs Officer (Preventive) Dover / Royal Naval Reserve Medic
  • Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department / Department of Law - 3 + 8 years
  • Retired 1986
  • Radio Presenter 8Top-FM - 6 yrs - 1st Group Leader Port Darwin Sea Scouts - Yachting Instructor, Coxswain
  • Church of the Reconciliation Bishop & Order of St. Basil Prior - 10 years
  • Doctor of Naturopathy 1988 / Doctor of Divinity 1990
  • Founder 1st President Filipino Club Darwin Inc. charity - 1990
  • Grand Duke of Lithuania, Count of Lubraniec Dambski, LP 1993
  • Founder Archbishop / President Universal Family Ministry - 10 years
  • Founder 1st President NT Filmmakers Association Inc. - 2001
  • Sovereign Royal Lithuanian Order 2004 / Monarch of East Europe - 2005
  • The Amazing Adventures of Professor John Hudson (2010) - Red Lead Press
  • The Thinking Person's Royal Encyclopedia (2011) - Red Lead Press
  • The Casebook of Sir Sherlock Holmes (2012) - Barnes & Noble / Amazon

Exec. Officer, HM Customs, 1974 

Senior Man, RAF Bridgnorth, 1961 

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Arms above of three joined trees are those of Count Roman Dambski of Lubraniec and are displayed on the road into Lubraniec (photo taken by King Roman in 1992).
The royal tomb of Prince Wladislaw Ignacy Marek Gedroyc (1862-1943 Zubracze), hereditary Grand Duke of Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, is marked by a plaque which corrected his birth year from 1860 to 1862.
The royal tomb of Princess Renata (Binche 1860-1953), Marquise of Pourbaix, who married Prince Wladislaw Gedroyc in 1904 at Horodec, and gave birth to their heir Princess Paulina the following year.
Prince Wladislaw and Princess Renee.
Princess Paulina
The Royal Tomb of Roman Emil Dambski (Boryslaw 1901-1967 Gliwice, 1988 Warsaw), inscribed Count of Lubraniec and Grand Duke of Lithuania, is at Brama IV in Warsaw. Prince Roman I married Princess Paulina at Lwow in 1927. In 1988, Prince Roman I was transferred to Warsaw in procession from Gliwice where he had died in 1967, the year his son, later to become King Roman, emigrated to Australia.
H. I. M. King Roman, Grand Duke of Lithuania, fronting the original LBKS Senate on 23 April 1994 in Vilnius, Lithuania, and in the second photo (below) heading to nobility congress at the Town Hall where the meeting was held.  Unfortunately, convenor Jonas Stankus is obscured by King Roman in the above photo. (You can just see the top of his head if you look carefully!)
Nobility heading from the Cathedral to the Town Hall for the  Congress of 23 April 1994, which gathered the aristocracy. Photo insert is current LBKS HQ.
Confirmation from King Augustus III of Poland of Count of Lubraniec Dambski to ancestor Kazimierz Jozef in 1748.
"When I want a peerage,                         I shall buy it like an honest man"                - Lord Northcliffe

All titles of Royalty and Nobility are conferred by Letters Patent, and inheritable, normally by primogeniture, the first in line of each generation. Title Grantees will also receive further privileges yet to be individually determined.

Grand Prince Roman I 

Brit. War & Peace Medals of Roman I 

Patrol Officer, Port Moresby, 1972 

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Lithuania                       Belarus                      Ukraine                            Moldova                        Latvia

at Eurovision Song Contest 2013 (courtesy of YouTube) - He congratulates the Winners, and especially likes Belarus, and Ukraine which got 3rd place. 

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