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Marie (born Princess Marie Alexandra Victoria of Edinburgh; 29 October 1875 – 18 July 1938) [note 1] was the last queen of Romania from 10 October 1914 to 20 July 1927 as the wife of King Ferdinand I.
Princess Maria was born in Bucharest as the first Princess of Romania that was also of the House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, on 8 September [O.S. 27 August] 1870. After a month, in October [O.S. September] 1870, she was baptised as a Romanian Orthodox at the monastery of Cotroceni (near the site of the present-day Cotroceni Palace). [1]
On 12 January 2009, Princess Maria of Romania was booked in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, on the charge of "failure to appear." Although divorced from her husband since 2003, she was booked under the name "Marie Mystkowski." The princess was released the same day on a $200.00 bond. [16] The case was administratively closed in October 2015.
On an official visit to lobby for international support of her beleaguered country amid the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, Queen Marie of Romania expresses her frustration that the press coverage is ...
Maria of Romania may refer to: Marie of Romania (1875–1938), queen of Romania from 1914 to 1917 as the wife of King Ferdinand I; Maria of Yugoslavia (1900–1961), queen of Yugoslavia and daughter of King Ferdinand I of Romania; Princess Maria of Romania (1870–1874), daughter of King Carol I
The Romanian royal family (Romanian: Familia regală a României) constitutes the Romanian subbranch of the Swabian branch of the House of Hohenzollern (also known as the House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen), and was the ruling dynasty of the Kingdom of Romania, a constitutional monarchy in Central-Eastern Europe.
As a writer, Daggett was the author of several books, including In Lockerbie Street (1909, an appreciation of poet James Whitcomb Riley), [8] [9] Women Wanted: The Story Written in Blood Red Letters on the Horizon of the Great World War (1918, a book about women and World War I), [10] and a well-reviewed biography of Marie of Romania (1926 ...
On 23 February 1918, when Romania was on the brink of defeat, Boyle first met Queen Marie, who was lying dejected on her sofa as she heard the news that Romania had asked for an armistice with Germany. [15] Although Marie was only a queen consort, she was vastly more popular with the Romanian people than her husband, King Ferdinand. At the time ...