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Princess Maria Of Romania (1870-1874)
Maria of Romania may refer to: * Marie of Romania (1875–1938), queen of Romania from 1914 to 1917 as the wife of King Ferdinand I * Maria of Yugoslavia Maria (born Princess Maria of Romania; 6 January 1900 – 22 June 1961), known in Serbian as Marija Karađorđević ( sr-Cyrl, Марија Карађорђевић), was Queen of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes from 1922 to 1929 and Queen of Yu ... (1900–1961), queen of Yugoslavia and daughter of King Ferdinand I of Romania * Princess Maria of Romania (1870–1874), daughter of King Carol I * Princess Maria of Romania (born 1964), daughter of King Michael I {{hndis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Of Romania
Marie (born Princess Marie Alexandra Victoria of Edinburgh; 29 October 1875 – 18 July 1938) was the last queen of Romania from 10 October 1914 to 20 July 1927 as the wife of Ferdinand I of Romania, King Ferdinand I. Marie was born into the British royal family. Her parents were Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh (later Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha), 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 Ferdinand, then crown prince of Romania, in 1892. Marie was crown princess between 1893 and 1914, and became immediately popular with the Romanian people. After the outbreak of World War I, Marie urged Ferdinand to ally himself with the Triple Entente and declare war on German Empire, Germany, which he eventually did in 1916. During the early stages of fighting, the national capital Bucharest was occupied by the Cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Of Yugoslavia
Maria (born Princess Maria of Romania; 6 January 1900 – 22 June 1961), known in Serbian as Marija Karađorđević ( sr-Cyrl, Марија Карађорђевић), was Queen of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes from 1922 to 1929 and Queen of Yugoslavia from 1929 to 1934 as the wife of Alexander I of Yugoslavia, King Alexander I. She was the mother of Peter II of Yugoslavia, King Peter II. Her citizenship was revoked, and her property was confiscated by the Yugoslav communist regime in 1947, but she was posthumously rehabilitated in 2014. Early life Maria was born on 6 January 1900, at Friedenstein Palace in Gotha, a town in Thuringia, in the German Empire. She was named after her maternal grandmother, Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, and was known as ''Mignon'' in the family to distinguish her from her mother. Her parents were Prince Ferdinand I of Romania, Ferdinand of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen – Ferdinand I of Romania – and Princess Marie of Romania, Marie of Edi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princess Maria Of Romania (1870–1874)
Princess Maria of Romania (; 8 September 18709 April 1874) was the only child of Prince (later King) Carol I of Romania and his wife, Elisabeth of Wied. Life Princess Maria was born in Bucharest as the first Princess of Romania that was also of the House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, on . After a month, in , she was baptised as a Romanian Orthodox at the monastery of Cotroceni (near the site of the present-day Cotroceni Palace).''A history in pictures'', p. 13/14 In her family, the young princess was nicknamed "''Mariechen''" (a possible homage to her parents' German heritage) or "''Itty''" (derived from little). Everyone who knew Maria described her as a beautiful and precocious young child, as she was said to look at maps and identify different countries for fun at the age of only two and a half. Maria had no prospect of inheriting her father's throne; the 1866 Constitution limited succession to males. Death On , the Princess became ill with scarlet fever. An epidemic had bee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
