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Maria (born Princess Maria of Romania; 6 January 1900 – 22 June 1961), known in Serbian as Marija Karađorđević (Serbian Cyrillic: Марија Карађорђевић), was Queen of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes from 1922 to 1929 and Queen of Yugoslavia from 1929 to 1934 as the wife of King Alexander I. She was the mother of King Peter ...
Eastwell Park as it appeared between 1843 and 1894 (south facade). Marie was the eldest daughter and second child of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, and the former Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, respectively the son of Queen Victoria and the daughter of Emperor Alexander II.
Toggle Queen consorts of Yugoslavia subsection. 4.1 Karađorđević dynasty (1918–45) ... Maria of Romania: Ferdinand I of Romania (Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen)
However, the sharp opposition of Queen Maria of Yugoslavia, Peter II's mother, and the Yugoslav government-in-exile, which deemed it indecent to celebrate a wedding while Yugoslavia was dismembered and occupied, prevented for a while the marital project. For two years, the lovers had only brief meetings in the residence of the Duchess of Kent.
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
Ileana was born in Bucharest on 5 January 1909, the youngest daughter of Queen Marie of Romania and King Ferdinand I of Romania. Ileana had four older siblings: Carol, Elisabeth – later Queen of Greece, Princess Maria – later Queen of Yugoslavia, and Nicholas; and a younger brother Mircea. Her mother wrote in her memoirs:
Queen Elisabeth of Greece, on the left, dressed all in black, with her mother, Queen Marie of Romania and her sister, Queen Maria of Yugoslavia, at the wedding of her youngest sister, HRH Princess Ileana to HI&RH Archduke Anton of Austria, member of the Tuscany branch of the House of Habsburg, in Sinaia on 26 July 1931.
Mirka Grujić (Belgrade, 1869–1940) was a Serbian volunteer nurse during World War I, president of the Circle of Serbian Sisters, and was the honorary first lady-in-waiting of Queen Maria of Yugoslavia.