Marie of Edinburgh (Marie Alexandra Victoria; 29 October 1875 – 10 July/18 July 1938) was
QueenA queen consort is the wife of a reigning king. A queen consort usually shares her husband's rank and holds the feminine equivalent of the king's monarchical titles...
of
RomaniaThe Kingdom of Romania was the old Romanian state based on a form of parliamentary monarchy between 13 March 1881 and 30 December 1947, specified by the first three Constitutions of Romania...
as spouse of King Ferdinand of Romania.
Early life
She was born on 29 October 1875, at
Eastwell ParkEastwell Park was an English stately home in the civil parish of Eastwell, adjoining Ashford in Kent, that for a time served as a royal residence....
in
KentKent , originally Cantia, is a county in southeast England, and is one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the River Thames estuary. The ceremonial county boundaries of Kent include the shire county of Kent...
, the eldest daughter of
Prince Alfred, Duke of EdinburghAlfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was the third Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha reigning between 1893 and 1900. He was also a member of the British Royal Family, the second son and fourth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha...
and Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia. Her father was the second-eldest son of
Queen VictoriaVictoria was the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837, and the first Empress of India of the British Raj from 1 May 1876, until her death...
and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. Her mother was the only surviving daughter of
Alexander II of RussiaAlexander II Nikolaevich , also known as Alexander the Liberator was the Emperor, or Czar, of the Russian Empire from 3 March 1855 until his assassination in 1881...
and
Maria Alexandrovna of HesseMarie of Hesse and by Rhine was a princess of the Grand Duchy of Hesse and, as Maria Alexandrovna , Empress consort of Alexander II of Russia. She was born at Darmstadt, the capital of the Grand Duchy, and died at Saint Petersburg...
. She was baptised in the Private Chapel of
Windsor CastleWindsor Castle, in Windsor in the English country of Berkshire, is the largest inhabited castle in the world and, dating back to the time of William the Conqueror, is the oldest in continuous occupation...
on 15 December 1875 and her godparents were the Empress and
TsarevitchAlexander III Alexandrovich reigned as Emperor of Russia from 13 March 1881 until his death in 1894.-Early life:...
of Russia, the Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, the
Princess of WalesAlexandra of Denmark was Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Empress of India from 1901 to 1910 as the consort of Edward VII....
and the
Duke of ConnaughtPrince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn was a member of the shared British and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha royal family who, between 1911 and 1916, served as the Governor General of Canada...
. As her father was in the
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she spent much of her early childhood abroad, particularly in
MaltaMalta , officially the Republic of Malta , is a densely populated developed European country in the European Union. The Southern European island nation is an archipelago that includes the inhabited islands of Malta, Gozo and Comino, along with a number of smaller, uninhabited islands...
.
Marriage
In her youth, Princess Marie was considered a suitable match for marriage to the royalty of Europe. Her first cousin,
Prince George of WalesGeorge V was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 1910 through World War I until his death in 1936...
, later King George V, fell in love with her and proposed marriage. Marie's father and George's father approved of the marriage, but Marie's mother disdained the British Royal Family and was keen to see her daughters marry outside its court.
Princess Marie married
Crown Prince Ferdinand of RomaniaFerdinand was the King of the Romanians from 10 October 1914 until his death.-Early life:Born in Sigmaringen in southwestern Germany, the Roman Catholic Prince Ferdinand Viktor Albert Meinrad of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, later simply of Hohenzollern, was a son of Prince Leopold of...
, nephew of
King Carol I of RomaniaCarol I of Romania, original name Prince Karl Eitel Friedrich Zephyrinus Ludwig of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, later simply of Hohenzollern Carol I of Romania, original name Prince Karl Eitel Friedrich Zephyrinus Ludwig of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, later simply of Hohenzollern Carol I of Romania,...
in
SigmaringenSigmaringen is a town in southern Germany, in the state of Baden-Württemberg. Situated on the upper Danube, it is the capital of the Sigmaringen district....
,
GermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium,...
on 10 January 1893. The bride was 17 years old and the groom was 10 years her senior. (Marie's father did not become Duke of Coburg-Gotha until a few months later.) The marriage, which produced three daughters and three sons, was not a happy one. Her correspondence with her longtime secret confidante, the American dancer
Loie FullerLoie Fuller Loie Fuller Loie Fuller (also Loïe Fuller; (January 15 1862 – January 1 1928) was a pioneer of both modern dance and theatrical lighting techniques.-Career:...
, revealed "the distaste, which grew to revulsion" that Marie felt for her husband. The last two children were born after Marie met her long-time lover,
Barbu ŞtirbeyPrince Barbu Ştirbey was briefly Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Romania in 1927. He was the son of Prince Alexandru Ştirbey and his wife Maria Ghika-Comăneşti, and grandson of another Barbu Dimitrie Ştirbey , who was Prince of Wallachia and died in 1869.He married Princess Nadèje Bibescu about...
, and historians generally agree that Prince Mircea was his son (having brown eyes like Ştirbey, unlike Marie and Ferdinand), while Ileana's paternity is under discussion, as was her second daughter, Princess Maria,the future Queen of Yugoslavia (known as Mignon) Their eldest sons, Carol and Nicholas, and eldest daughter, Elisabeth, were quite certainly biologically Ferdinand's.
Affair with Cantacuzene
In 1897, while still Crown Princess, Marie began a romantic liaison with Lieutenant Zizi Cantacuzene. The affair and subsequent scandal became widely known and was quickly terminated by King Carol I. However by autumn 1897, during the height of the scandal, Marie became pregnant. After fleeing back to her mother in Coburg, Marie mysteriously gave birth to a child who has disappeared from history. It has been suggested that the child was either stillborn or quickly placed in an orphanage. Whatever the truth, 'the story of this mysterious child of Marie of Romania was one secret "she ... took ... to the grave."'
Birth of Maria, future Queen of Yugoslavia
In 1899 Marie, pregnant with Mignon, pleaded with King Carol I to allow her to give birth to her daughter in Coburg, where her father was Duke. After he refused Marie declared, 'right to his face' that the child she was carrying was in fact
Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich of RussiaGrand Duke Boris Vladimirovich of Russia was a son of Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich of Russia, a grandson of Czar Alexander II of Russia and a first cousin of Czar Nicholas II. He followed a military career and was a Major General in the Russian Army. He took part in the Russo-Japanese War and...
's. The horrified King relented and so Marie gave birth to her daughter, also called Marie though always known as Mignon, in the peaceful surroundings of Coburg. Following this, whether in earnest or merely to deflect criticism from the dynasty is unknown, Crown Prince Ferdinand officially recognised the child as his.
Birth of Prince Nicolas
Marie's fourth child and second son, Prince Nicolas, was born in August 1903. The appearance of Pauline Astor, the sister of Marie's close friend and confidant
Waldorf AstorWaldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor was a businessman and politician and a member of the prominent Astor family....
, along with an Astor family doctor during the birth fanned speculation that the father of Prince Nicolas was in fact Astor and not Crown Prince Ferdinand. As with Mignon, Ferdinand accepted the child as his own and as he grew up Nicolas came to resemble his Hohenzollern relatives rather than the Astors.
Queen and Queen Mother
In 1914, Carol I died and Ferdinand ascended the throne of Romania. Crown Princess Marie then became styled
Her Majesty The Queen of Romania. Due to
World War IWorld War I , also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All Wars, was a global military conflict which involved most of the world's great powers, assembled in two opposing alliances: the Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance...
, they were not crowned as king and queen until 1922.
Marie had become a Romanian patriot, and her influence in that country was large. A.L. Easterman writes that King Ferdinand was "a quiet, easy-going man, of no significant character… it was not he, but Marie who ruled in Romania." He credits Marie's sympathies for the Allies as being "the major influence in bringing her country to their side" in the war.
During the war she volunteered as a Red Cross
nurseA nurse is a healthcare professional who, in collaboration with other members of a health care team, is responsible for: treatment, safety, and recovery of acutely or chronically ill individuals; health promotion and maintenance within families, communities and populations; and, treatment of...
to help the sick and wounded and wrote a book,
My Country to raise funds for the Red Cross, but these were by no means her most notable contributions to the war effort. With the country half-overrun by the German army, she and a group of military advisers devised the plan by which the Romanian army, rather than retreating into Russia, would choose a triangle of the country in which to stand and fight; and through a letter to Loïe Fuller she set in motion the series of events that brought a timely American loan to Romania, providing the necessary funds to carry out the plan. (Fortuitously, the young woman from the U.S. embassy who delivered the letter to Fuller was the former ward of
Newton D. BakerNewton Diehl Baker, Jr. was an American politician of the United States Democratic Party. He served as the 37th mayor of Cleveland, Ohio from 1912 to 1915 and as Secretary of War from 1916 to 1921....
, by this time serving as U.S. Secretary of War. Fuller and the young woman traveled from Paris to Washington, DC and secured an audience with Baker who, along with U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
Carter GlassCarter Glass was a newspaper publisher and American politician from Lynchburg, Virginia. He served many years in Congress with the Democratic Party. He was a key figure in developing the U.S. legislation which created the system of Federal Reserve Banks, and then served as the U.S...
, arranged the loan.)
After the war ended, the Great Powers decided to settle affairs at
VersaillesThe Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The other Central Powers on the German side of...
. The Romanian objective was to secure the Romanian-inhabited territories from the now-defunct Austria-Hungary and Russian Empire, thereby uniting all Romanian-speakers in a single state. Romanian diplomats at the Peace conference sought to achieve recognition by the Allies of the Unions of
BessarabiaOn , Bessarabia proclaimed union with the Kingdom of Romania.-Governorate of Bessarabia:The 1812 Treaty of Bucharest between the Ottoman Empire and the Russian Empires provided for the Russian annexation the eastern half of the territory of the Principality of Moldavia, including Khotyn and Budjak...
,
BukovinaBukovina is a historical region on the northern slopes of the northeastern Carpathian Mountains and the adjoining plains...
, and
TransylvaniaUnion of Transylvania with Romania was declared on by the assembly of the delegates of ethnic Romanians held in Alba Iulia.The national holiday of Romania, the Great Union Day occurring on December 1, commemorates this event...
with Romania, proclaimed during 1918. With the Romanian delegation losing ground in the negotiations, Prime Minister Ionel Bratianu called upon the Queen to travel to France. Marie famously declared that "Romania needs a face, and I will be that face," astutely calculating that the international press was growing tired of the endless negotiations and would be unable to resist the glamour of a Royal Visit. The arrival of the so-called
Soldier Queen was an international media sensation and she argued passionately that the Western powers should honour their debt to Romania (which had suffered a casualty rate proportionately far greater than Britain, France or the USA). Behind the scenes, she alternately charmed and bullied the Allied leaders into backing the Romanian cause. As a direct result of her charismatic intervention, Romania won back the initiative and successfully achieved all its pre-conference aims, eventually expanding its territory by 60%, gaining
BessarabiaBessarabia is a historical term for the geographic entity in Eastern Europe bounded by the Dniester River on the east and the Prut River on the west...
,
BukovinaBukovina is a historical region on the northern slopes of the northeastern Carpathian Mountains and the adjoining plains...
,
TransylvaniaTransylvania is a historical region in the central part of Romania. Bounded on the east and south by the Carpathian mountain range, historical Transylvania extended in the west to the Apuseni Mountains; however, the term frequently encompasses not only Transylvania proper, but also the historical...
, as well as parts of the
BanatThe Banat is a geographical and historical region in Central Europe currently divided between three countries: the eastern part lies in Romania , the western part in Serbia , and a...
,
CrişanaCrişana is a historical region of Romania and Hungary, named after the three tributaries of the Criş River that flow through it: the Crişul Alb , Crişul Negru and Crişul Repede...
, and
MaramureşMaramureş may refer to the following:*Maramureş, a geographical, historical, and ethno-cultural region in present-day Romania and Ukraine, that occupies the Maramureş Depression and Maramureş Mountains, a mountain range in North East Carpathians...
.
Ferdinand and Marie's son, the Crown Prince
CarolCarol II reigned as King of Romania from 8 June 1930 until 6 September 1940. Eldest son of Ferdinand I, King of Romania, and his wife, Queen Marie, a daughter of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, the second eldest son of Queen Victoria...
(later King Carol II), was never close to his father—by the time Carol was an adult, their antagonism became an "open breach"—but there continued to be a "deep bond of affection and sympathy" between Carol and Marie. Their relationship, however, deteriorated. The initial conflict came over Carol's objections to Marie's relationship with Prince Ştirbey; the breach was exacerbated as Marie attempted to steer Carol toward a dynastic marriage rather than allow him to choose his own bride. During Carol's exile in Paris, Loïe Fuller had befriended Carol and his mistress
Magda LupescuElena Lupescu , better known as Magda Lupescu, was the mistress of King Carol II of Romania and later , his wife.-Parents and siblings:...
; they were unaware of Fuller's connection to Marie. Fuller initially advocated to Marie on their behalf, but later schemed unsuccessfully with Marie to separate Carol from Lupescu. Eventually, when Carol became King and did not seek her counsel, the breach between mother and son became complete.
After the death of her husband in 1927, Queen Marie remained in Romania, writing books and her memoirs,
The Story of My Life. She died in
Peleş CastleToday a historical monument, Peleş Castle is a Neo-Renaissance castle placed in an idyllic setting in the Carpathian Mountains, near Sinaia, in Prahova County, Romania, on an existing medieval route linking Transylvania and Wallachia, built between 1873 and 1914; its inauguration was held in...
on 18 July 1938, and was buried next to her husband in the
MonasteryThe Cathedral of Curtea de Argeş is one of the most famous buildings in Romania, and stands in the grounds of a monastery, in Curtea de Argeş city. It is dedicated to Saint Nicholas....
of
Curtea de ArgeşCurtea de Argeş is a city in Romania, situated on the right bank of the Argeş River, where it flows through a valley of the lower Carpathians , on the railway from Piteşti to the Turnu Roşu Pass. It is part of the Argeş County....
. In accordance with her will, her heart was kept in a cloister at the
Balchik PalaceThe Balchik Palace is a palace in the Bulgarian Black Sea town and resort of Balchik in Southern Dobruja. The official name of the palace was the Quiet Nest Palace. It was constructed between 1926 and 1937, during the Romanian control of the region, for the needs of Queen Marie of Romania...
which she had built. In 1940, when
BalchikBalchik is a Black Sea coastal town and seaside resort in the Southern Dobruja area of northeastern Bulgaria. It is located in Dobrich Oblast and is 42 km northeast of Varna...
and the rest of Southern Dobrudja were returned to
BulgariaBulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a country in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe. Bulgaria borders five other countries: Romania to the north , Serbia and the Republic of Macedonia to the west, and Greece and Turkey to the south...
in accordance with the
Treaty of CraiovaThe Treaty of Craiova was signed on 7 September 1940 between the Kingdom of Bulgaria and the Kingdom of Romania. Under the terms of this treaty, Romania returned the southern part of Dobruja to Bulgaria and agreed to participate in the organization of a population exchange...
, Queen Marie's heart was transferred to
Bran CastleBran Castle , situated near Bran and in the immediate vicinity of Braşov, is a national monument and landmark in Romania. The fortress is situated on the border between Transylvania and Wallachia, on DN73...
. This had been her principal home for much of the early 20th century, and the artifacts with which she chose to surround herself (traditional furniture and tapestries, for example) can be seen by visitors today. Many of her other personal effects can be seen at the Maryhill Museum, formerly the home of
Sam HillSamuel Hill was a businessman, lawyer, railroad executive and advocate of good roads in the Pacific Northwest. He had a substantial impact on the economic development of the region in the early 20th century....
, an American railroad businessman with whom Queen Marie corresponded much of her life. The famous museum, which lies in
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(U.S.A.) on the north side of the
Columbia RiverThe Columbia River is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. The river rises in the Rocky Mountains in British Columbia, Canada, flows northwest and then south into the U.S. state of Washington, then turns west to form most of the border between Washington and the state...
, displays much of Queen Marie's regalia, furniture, and other possessions, including her crown.
She was the 1,007th
DameA knight was a "gentleman soldier" or member of the warrior class of the Middle Ages in Europe. In other Indo-European languages, cognates of cavalier or rider are more prevalent suggesting a connection to the knight's mode of transport...
of the Royal Order of Queen Maria Luisa.
Religious beliefs
She is held in high esteem by members of the
Bahá'í FaithThe Bahá'í Faith is a monotheistic religion founded by Bahá'u'lláh in nineteenth-century Persia, emphasizing the spiritual unity of all humankind. There are an estimated five to six million Bahá'ís around the world in more than 200 countries and territories.The Bahá'í Faith teaches a doctrine of...
as she was the first Royal to declare faith in that religion. Her religious background was of the Church of England, although she is known to have incorporated herself into the Orthodox Christian beliefs of Romanian nationals. In her late years, she was approached by
Martha RootMartha Louise Root was a prominent traveling teacher of the Bahá'í Faith in the late 19th and early 20th century. Shoghi Effendi, the Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith called her "the foremost travel teacher in the first Bahá'í Century", and named her a Hand of the Cause posthumously...
, a well-recognized traveling teacher, on the topic of the Bahá'í Faith. Bahá'ís recognize Queen Marie of Romania as the first royal to have declared her belief in
Bahá'u'lláhBahá'u'lláh , born Mírzá usayn-`Alí Nuri , was the founder of the Bahá'í Faith...
.
In regard to the Bahá'í Faith, Queen Marie stated:
"It is like a wide embrace gathering all those who have long searched for words of hope… Saddened by the continual strife amongst believers of many confessions and wearied of their intolerance towards each other, I discovered in the Bahá'í teaching the real spirit of Christ so often denied and misunderstood."
Titles, styles, honours and arms
Titles and styles
- 29 October 1875 – 10 January 1893: Her Royal Highness Princess Marie of Edinburgh
- 10 January 1893 – 10 October 1914: Her Royal Highness The Crown Princess of Romania
- 10 October 1914 – 20 July 1927: Her Majesty The Queen of Romania
- 20 July 1927 – 18 July 1937: Her Majesty Queen Marie of Romania
British arms
As a male-line grandchild of a British Sovereign, Marie bore the arms of the kingdom, with an inescutcheon for Saxony, differenced by a five-point label argent, the outer pair of which bore anchors azure, the inner roses gules, and the central a cross gules. In 1917, the inescutcheon was dropped by royal warrant from
George VGeorge V was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 1910 through World War I until his death in 1936...
.
Issue
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Carol II of RomaniaCarol II reigned as King of Romania from 8 June 1930 until 6 September 1940. Eldest son of Ferdinand I, King of Romania, and his wife, Queen Marie, a daughter of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, the second eldest son of Queen Victoria...
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1893 |
1953 |
married fistly married Zizi Lambrino - add details Elena of Greece and DenmarkPrincess Helen of Greece and Denmark was the wife of King Carol II of Romania and the mother of King Michael I of Romania.-Princess of Greece:...
, sister of King George II of GreeceGeorge II, King of the Hellenes ruled Greece from 1922 to 1924 and from 1935 to 1947.-Early life, first period of kingship and exile:...
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ElisabethElisabeth of Romania was the Queen Consort of King George II of Greece. She was the daughter of King Ferdinand I of Romania and his wife, Marie of Edinburgh. Her full birth name was Elisabetha Charlotte Josephine Alexandra Victoria.She was born in the Peleş Castle...
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1894 |
1956 |
married King George II of GreeceGeorge II, King of the Hellenes ruled Greece from 1922 to 1924 and from 1935 to 1947.-Early life, first period of kingship and exile:...
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| Marie |
1900 |
1961 |
married King Alexander I of YugoslaviaAlexander I Karađorđević was the first king of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia as well as the last king of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes .-Childhood:Alexander Karađorđević was born in Cetinje in Principality of Montenegro in December 1888...
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Nicholasalign=right|Prince Nicholas of Romania was the second son of King Ferdinand I and Queen Marie of Romania.-Biography:...
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1903 |
1978 |
married Ioana Dumitrescu-Doletti then Thereza Lisboa Figueiroa de Mello |
| Ileana Princess Ileana of Romania was the youngest daughter of Ferdinand I of Romania, King of the Romanians, and his consort Queen Marie of Romania. She was born Her Royal Highness Princess Ileana of Romania, Princess of Hohenzollern...
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1909 |
1991 |
married Archduke Anton of Austria, Prince of Tuscany Archduke Anton of Austria Prince Imperial of Austria, Prince Royal of Hungary and Bohemia, Prince of Tuscany; .Anton was the seventh of ten children born to Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria, Prince of Tuscany and...
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MirceaPrince Mircea of Romania .Mircea was the third son and youngest child of Queen Marie and King Ferdinand of Romania...
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1913 |
1916 |
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Quote
She once encountered a proselytizer from a religious group. She said "I have met ..... I did not like him. He seemed to me to be a snob. He spoke of God as if He were the oldest title in the
Almanach de GothaThe Almanach de Gotha was a respected directory of Europe's highest nobility and royalty. First published in 1763 at the ducal court of Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, it was regarded as an authority in the classification of monarchies, ducal houses, families of former rulers, and...
. And all that business about telling one's sins in public -- He wanted me ... me ... to get up before my children and confess everything I had ever done! It is spiritual nudism! Ça se ne fait pas."
Literature
- Marie was famously parodied in Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker was an American writer and poet, best known for her caustic wit, wisecracks, and sharp eye for 20th century urban foibles....
's poem "Comment":
- Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
- A medley of extemporanea;
- And love is a thing that can never go wrong,
- And I am Marie of Romania.
- The interaction of the queen and the Bahá'í faith--interviews with Martha Root, correspondence with the latter and other Bahá'í representatives, articles on Bahá'í faith's behalf, etc--is discussed in Her Eternal Crown: Queen Marie of Romania and the Bahá'í Faith, by author Della L. Marcus.
- Science fiction author Joanna Russ also mentions Marie of Romania in her 1975 novel, The Female Man.
- In The Romanian: Story of an Obsession
The Romanian: Story of an Obsession is a novel by Bruce Benderson. The autobiographical novel describes Benderson's encounters and journeys with a male Romanian street hustler through Romania and Hungary, whom he meets while on a journalism assignment and falls in love with...
, Bruce BendersonBruce Benderson is an American author who lives in New York. He attended William Nottingham High School in Syracuse, New York and then Binghamton University...
soliloquizes, among other things Romanian, on the relationship between Marie, her son King Carol IICarol II reigned as King of Romania from 8 June 1930 until 6 September 1940. Eldest son of Ferdinand I, King of Romania, and his wife, Queen Marie, a daughter of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, the second eldest son of Queen Victoria...
and his mistress Magda LupescuElena Lupescu , better known as Magda Lupescu, was the mistress of King Carol II of Romania and later , his wife.-Parents and siblings:...
.
- The Romanian Navy Type 22 frigate Regina Maria
HMS London was a Type 22 frigate of the Royal Navy, originally named Bloodhound but renamed London at the request of the Lord Mayor of London.She was flagship of the Royal Navy task force during the First Gulf War....
(formerly HMS London in the Royal NavyThe Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of HM Armed Forces . From the beginning of the 18th century until well into the 20th century, it was the most powerful navy in the world, playing a key part in establishing the British Empire as the dominant world power from 1815 until the early...
) is named after her.
Ancestry
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