Queen Marie of Romānia

"King Ferdinand was the kindest of souls and was always ready to listen to feminine pleadings when I tried to prevent any unkindness or even justified retaliation. I was never for revenge: I would rather make a friend of my enemy. Power in itself wields almost unfair privileges and these according to my conceptions, must never be misused, especially not on the side of harshness or anything which could in the least resemble spite.... I am not one of those in favour of 'an eye for an eye.' It is so sad to become suddenly 'the past,' and I did everything I could not to accentuate 'the new master' attitude, so irresistible to many."
-- Queen Marie, Ordeal: The Story of My Life


King Ferdinand I and Queen Marie

"But each man must work out his own salvation; it is only by living that we learn to live. Another's experience seldom helps us; step by step we must fight our own battles, solve our own difficulties, scramble out of the holes and traps into which we fall. My mother's experience could not be mine, nor mine my children's. We are one and all solitary wanderers in spite of the love we meet along the way...."
-- Queen Marie, The Story of My Life


Queen Marie

ARTICLES BY QUEEN MARIE

"A Queen in a Crisis: 'It is No Sinecure to be the Queen of a Country'"
Ladies' Home Journal, December 1918, p. 8
"The Vanished Tsarina"
The Living Age, 4 October 1919, pp. 16-18
"Some Memories of the Russian Court"
The Living Age, 11 October 1919, pp. 157-160
"The Fallen Czar"
Woman's Home Companion, July 1920
"A Resurrected Army"
The Living Age, 16 July 1921, pp. 131-134
"Modern Fashions"
The Living Age, 7 February 1925, pp. 297-300
"Lulaloo--A Fairy Tale Told by a Queen"
Good Housekeeping, March 1925, pp. 20-23, 191-194, 197-198
"My Mission"
Cornhill Magazine, October, November, and December 1939


Queen Marie

"The moment one becomes more interested in other people than in oneself, shyness disappears. Ease of manner is not vanity, but victory over oneself."
-- Queen Marie, The Story of My Life

RELATED LINKS

Princess Ileana of Romania
Queen Elisabeth of Romania
Orthodox Monastery of the Transfiguration: monastery founded by Princess Ileana
Monarchs of Romania: list of Romanian rulers and information
HM King Mihai I and the Romanian Monarchy
Romānia & Constitutional Monarchy: King Mihai I
Michael--Former King of Romania
Anne--Former Queen of Romania
Princess Margarita of Romania
Romanian Coins: portraits of King Carol I, King Ferdinand, Queen Marie, King Carol II, and King Mihai
International: Romanian links
Queen Victoria: Queen Marie's grandmother
Empress Frederick: Queen Marie's aunt
Grand Duchess Elisabeth: Queen Marie's aunt and cousin
Grand Duchess Victoria: Queen Marie's sister
Lost Splendor by Prince Felix Yussupov
The Alexander Palace Time Machine: Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra, and family--Queen Marie's cousins
Genealogy of the Romanov Imperial House by Timo Haapanan
Princess Daisy of Pless: Queen Marie's friend
Mohandas K. Gandhi: "International Peace" and "Women"


King Mihai I

"It is the spirit that counts, not the word. There may be more hate in the world than love. But love is strongest, and one day, even if I am not to live to see it, it must conquer."
-- Queen Marie, quoted in Marie of Romania: The Intimate Life of a Twentieth Century Queen by Terence Elsberry

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