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Marie of Romania

Marie of Romania
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Marie wearing her regalia. Photograph by George Grantham Bain.
Queen consort of Romania
Tenure 10 October 1914 – 20 July 1927
Coronation 15 October 1922
Born (1875-10-29)29 October 1875
Eastwell Park, Kent, England
Died 18 July 1938(1938-07-18) (aged 62)
Pelișor Castle, Sinaia, Romania
Burial 24 July 1938
Curtea de Argeș Cathedral
Spouse Ferdinand I, King of Romania
Issue
Full name
Marie Alexandra Victoria
House Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Father Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh
Mother Maria Alexandrovna of Russia
Signature
Full name
Marie Alexandra Victoria

Princess Marie of Edinburgh, more commonly known as Marie of Romania (Marie Alexandra Victoria; 29 October 1875 – 18 July 1938), was the last Queen consort of Romania as the wife of King Ferdinand I.

Born into the British royal family, she was titled Princess Marie of Edinburgh at birth. Her parents were Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh and Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia. Marie's early years were spent in Kent, Malta and Coburg. After refusing a proposal from her cousin, the future King George V, she was chosen as the future wife of Crown Prince Ferdinand of Romania, the heir apparent of King Carol I, in 1892. Marie was Crown Princess between 1893 and 1914, and became immediately popular with the Romanian people. Marie had controlled her weak-willed husband even before his ascension in 1914, prompting a Canadian newspaper to state that "few royal consorts have wielded greater influence than did Queen Marie during the reign of her husband".

After the outbreak of World War I, Marie urged Ferdinand to ally himself with the Triple Entente and declare war on Germany, which he eventually did in 1916. During the early stages of fighting, Bucharest was occupied by the Central Powers and Marie, Ferdinand and their five children took refuge in Moldavia. There, she and her three daughters acted as nurses in military hospitals, caring for soldiers who were wounded or afflicted by cholera. On 1 December 1918, the province of Transylvania, following Bessarabia and Bukovina, united with the Old Kingdom. Marie, now Queen consort of Greater Romania, attended the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, where she campaigned for international recognition of the enlarged Romania. In 1922, she and Ferdinand were crowned in a specially-built cathedral in the ancient city of Alba Iulia, in an elaborate ceremony which mirrored their status as queen and king of a united state.


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