Queen Maria of Romania - Part II
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I present today the Queen Maria of Romania - Part II ...
After giving birth to Carol (1893), Elizabeth (1894) and Marioara (1899), Princess Maria will be the world's one of the most splendid women in Europe.
Intelligent and full of vitality, Mary embodies also the romantic ideal of any man, being healthy, noble in attitudes and very woman.
In the photo with Carol. Image Source
The relationship between Queen Maria and King Ferdinand
expressed quite real was reported by Martha Bibescu:
"This glowing being, of course the most beautiful princess and perhaps the most beautiful woman in Europe at that time, was made to eclipses. I realize, over the years, that she has helped to achieve fate through the contrast between the orbiting neighbor and the shadow that this man is looking for for his sacrifice .. Being the queen's husband is a difficult role to play even when you are a king, he held him for thirty-six years, and was grateful to the end of that which leaves him all shadow because it was light. "
Maria and Ferdinand
Queen Maria, known to her history as Queen Soldier, thanks to her involvement in the world of war that spanned the entire planet at the beginning of the 20th century.
Maria in the Balkan War of 1913-1914
The Cholera Sick Nurse!
In 1914, before being crowned King Ferdinand won the Balkan War,
the Cadrilater returned to Romania.
Arthur Gould Lee, British senior officer and writer about Maria:
"People were enthusiastic about her exuberance and admired her spirit, especially the incredible courage demonstrated during the 1913 Balkan wars, when she not only fainted through the first-line trenches under the beating of fire, but she showed a fearless disgust that came out of in the face of contagious diseases in hospitals. "She did not care about the risks, she was standing at the end of the young soldiers who died of the cholera, shedding tears for each of them, holding his younger dying man for hours, telling him all the sincerity as she replaced her mother, and then, when she saw the end of her coming, taking her arms and leaning her head on her shoulder until she gave her soul. "
On 14 October 1914, after the death of his uncle King Carol I,
Ferdinand became king of Romania and Maria, Queen of Romania
The ascension of King Ferdinand and Queen Maria in 1914 marked Romania's period of neutrality during the First World War.
Two years of 1914-16, when Maria worked diligently to get her husband to follow her chosen path: joining our country to the Allies (England), against the Central (Germany).
Romania declared war on the Central Powers on August 27, 1916.
Maria during the First World War
It was nicknamed 'The Wounded Mother' and 'Queen Soldier'.
He worked directly at the front in campaign hospitals and coordinated the work of a charitable foundation.
"Doctors have often tried to persuade me to wear rubber gloves while walking among typhus patients, but I resist, because all the soldiers kiss my hand and I can not let them kiss a rubber hand." - Maria
"Many days have remained in the midst of my soldiers, and God has allowed me to be of some help; days of dreadfulness, days of darkness, when I saw things that I would never be able to forget. " – Maria.
The French Ambassador to Bucharest, Charles de Saint-Aulaire, made an anthological statement for those times:
" There is one man at the Palace and that is the Queen."
Return to Bucharest, 1 December 1918
The First World War ended on November 11, 1918.
Immediately after the truce was signed, the King and Queen made their triumphal entry to Bucharest after two years of refuge in Iasi.
"We really came back, we returned home after a two-year surcharge. Do I hate to say the big word? We came back triumphant ... " - Maria
"I had the feeling that even the houses and stones in the cobblestone were screaming, ovating, rejoicing with the crowd. " - Maria
"Transylvania, Bucovina, even Bessarabia! Great Britain! It seemed to me that I was dizzy when I realized the greatness of fate. " - Maria
Thanks to his intervention at the 1918 Peace Conference in Paris, he was born ROMANIA MARE: Transylvania, Bucovina, Moldova, Bessarabia and Muntenia Reunited!
She pleaded for the cause of the people whose queen was, reminding the Western allies of the enormous sacrifice of the Romanian Army.
Once the Great Union of 1918 was recognized, Ferdinand and Maria crowned kings on October 15, 1922, in Alba Iulia.
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Educative posts.. She was an amazing woman.. Never heard of her but now i do.. Thanks so much for educating me