King Florin Cioaba died of a heart attack while on holiday in Turkey
last week. His body was carried in an air-conditioned glass covered
coffin down a four mile route in Sibiu, Transylvania. Thousands of Roma
turned out for the funeral of their self-styled King as he was laid to
rest in his hometown in Transylvania.The 58-year-old Romania's King of
the Gypsies, who had taken to wearing a king's crown as the leader of
the minority community, became famous around the globe for arranging a
marriage for his 12-year-old daughter.After watching her storm out of
the church to avoid becoming a child bride, 'King' Cioaba became an
advocate for education for Roma girls and began preaching that girls
should not marry before the age of
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