Showing posts with label queen marie of romania. Show all posts
Showing posts with label queen marie of romania. Show all posts
The Rolls Royce, formerly the property of HRH Princess Maria of Romania, Queen of Yugoslavia, being auctioned at Christies.
She was the daughter of King Ferdinand and of Queen Marie of Romania. She became by marriage Queen of Yugoslavia and after her husband's assassination and following WWII she lived in England where she died. As a great grand daughter of Queen Victoria she is buried together with the other British Royal Family at Frogmore near Windsor.
Princess Mignon of Romania and all the Princesses and Queens of Romania make the object of an Anthology entitled: "Blouse Roumaine - the Unsung Voices of Romanian Women"
Born the daughter Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh - the second son of Queen Victoria and to Maria Romanovna, daughter of Tzar Alexander II of Russia, Marie was styled a Princess of Great Britain and Ireland and before her marriage she was addressed as HRH Princess Marie of Edinburgh. In 1893, aged 18, she married Ferdinand of Hohenzollern, Crown Prince of Romania. In 1914, she became "Her Majesty Queen Marie of Romania".
Her marriage to Ferdinand was dictated by political considerations and she grew to love her husband who was a shy and retiring man, keener on Botany than on affairs of State. This union was encapsulated by the classic verse by Dorothy Parker:
"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 Roumania."
Ferdinand died in 1927 and Marie survived him by 11 years. They are both burried in the royal crypt in the Monastery church of Curtea de Arges, in the Carpathians.
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