Marie of Romania
Marie of Romania (born Princess Marie Alexandra Victoria of Edinburgh; 29 October 1875 – 18 July 1938)[note 1] was the older daughter and second child of Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna Queen Marie of Romania was the last Queen Consort of Romania and the wife of King Ferdinand I of Romania Queen Marie and King Ferdinand I of Romania had 7 children and mother of Carol II of Romania Queen Elisabeth of Greece Queen Maria of Yugoslavia Nicholas Prince of Hohenzollern Sigmarigen Ileana Archduchess of Austria Prince Mircea and grand mother of Michael I of Romania.[2]
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| Queen consort of Romania | |||||
| 10 October 1914 – 20 July 1927 | |||||
| 15 October 1922 | |||||
| Born | Princess Marie of Edinburgh 29 October 1875 Eastwell Park, Kent, England | ||||
| Died | 18 July 1938 (aged 62) Pelișor Castle, Sinaia, Romania | ||||
| Burial | 24 July 1938[1] | ||||
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| House | Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | ||||
| Father | Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | ||||
| Mother | Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia | ||||
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Marie Of Romania Media
Marie, aged seven, in an 1882 portrait by John Everett Millais commissioned by Queen Victoria and exhibited at the Royal Academy
Princess Marie, photographed in 1888
Ferdinand and Marie, the Crown Prince and Princess of Romania, pictured after their 1893 marriage
Marie in a portrait by Henry Walter Barnett, c. 1902
Marie (far right) and her sisters in mourning after the death of their father in 1900
Marie's summer residence in Balchik
Queen Marie with her two eldest daughters in Paris, 1919
References
- ↑ United Press (19 July 1938). "Roumanian Queen to Lie in State at Son's Palace". Delaware County Daily Times (Beaver and Rochester, Penn.): 12.
- ↑ "Marie, Queen of Romania - National Portrait Gallery".
- Notes
- ↑ All dates in this article use the Gregorian calendar, which was not in use in Romania until 1919. The Julian calendar which Romania then used was 12 days behind before 1900 and 13 days behind after 1900.