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Marie was the last queen consort of Romania, as Princess Helen was accorded only the title of Queen Mother between 1940 and 1947. She was one of Queen Victoria's five crowned granddaughters and one of three to retain their positions as consort after the conclusion of World War I, alongside the Queen of Norway and the Queen of Spain .
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
King of Romania 1930–1940: Helen of Greece b.1896 – d.1982 Queen Mother of Romania 1928–1982: Magda Lupescu b.1895 – d.1977: Elisabeth b.1894 – d.1956 Queen consort of Greece 1922–1924: Maria b.1900 – d.1961 Queen consort of Yugoslavia 1922–1934: Nicholas b.1903 – d.1978 Member of the Regency 1927–1930: Ileana b.1909 – d.1991
All monarchs of modern Romania were male with the title of King of the Romanians, but all Romanian consorts were women with the title of Queen of Romania and style Majesty, rather than Queen of the Romanians. The following women were Queens of Romania as spouses of the kings of modern Romania between 1859 and 1947:
Elisabeth of Wied (Pauline Elisabeth Ottilie Luise; 29 December 1843 – 2 March 1916) was the first Queen of Romania as the wife of King Carol I from 15 March 1881 to 27 September 1914. She had been the princess consort of Romania since her marriage to then-Prince Carol on 15 November 1869. Elisabeth was born into a German noble family.
Helen, queen mother of Romania, died one year later on 28 November 1982, aged 86. She was buried without pomp in the Bois-de-Vaux Cemetery and the funerals were celebrated by Damaskinos Papandreou , the first Greek Orthodox Metropolitan of Switzerland.
The Kingdom of Romania (Romanian: Regatul României) was a constitutional monarchy that existed from 25 March [O.S. 13 March] 1881 with the crowning of prince Karl of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen as King Carol I (thus beginning the Romanian royal family), until 1947 with the abdication of King Michael I and the Romanian parliament's proclamation of ...
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