May you be Great and full of Honor, and may you forever stand towering among the nations.
MARIA of Romania was a crown princess and second queen of Romania born on 29 October 1875 at Eastwell Park, Broughton Lees, United Kingdom.
Queen MARIA born Marie Alexandra Victoria of Saxa-Coburg Gotha, was a princess of Great Britain and Ireland, being the granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.
Our Queen MARIA spent her childhood and adolescence at Eastwell Park, the family home in Kent She married on December 29, 1892, Ferdinand, Crown Prince of the Romanian throne, trying from the beginning and succeeding in the nation that had adopted her as Princess and starting from 1914 as Queen.
Art Lover and collector, supporting a number of artistic and literary figures with scholarships and money, Queen MARY is the author of interesting memories as well as stories and poems for children.
“I was not brought to Romania to be adored and pampered but to be part of the construction imagined by King Carol I. I was imported, to be polished, educated and trained according to the vision of a great man. “she wrote it on later because the Latin and Orthodox world of Bucharest was very different from the Anglo-Saxon and Protestant world in which she had grown –up.
1. Among the castles built by the Queen, we have the first and dearest one in Balcic, where at the request of the Queen's will, the Queen's heart was deposited until 1940, when it was brought to Bran Castle and after the war in the treasury of the National History Museum in Bucharest.
Balcic Castle, located on the shore of the Black Sea, was discovered by Queen MARIA during a walk through Dobrogea. It seems that this corner of the world reminded her of her childhood in MALTA. Balcic.The land is donated by Ioan Hrissovelonis to the queen, and the domain includes six houses for each child of Queen MARIA, Through the treaty of Craiova, the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen branch passes from Romania's property to the Bulgarian side with the branch of the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha family from which Queen Maria was also descended.
2. Pelisor Castle was built on the grounds of Peles Castle by King Carol I as the summer residence of the hereditary princes Ferdinand and Maria. Here we find, in turn, the Hall of Honor, King Ferdinand's Office, the Golden Bedroom, Queen Maria's Office, and the Golden Room.
3. Peleş Castle was built at the initiative of the first King of Romania, Carol I, on the Sinaia estate. Peles Castle, the Swiss chalet-looking building, composed of two floors proposed by Schultz, was decorated on the outside in German style, Fachwerk. The castle, completed in 1914, has 170 rooms and more than 30 bathrooms, and other edifices were built around the castle, such as the Pelişor castle (as a residence for Ferdinand and Maria), or the Foişorul (originally King Carol's hunting lodge). The building is currently owned by the Royal Family of Romania and houses the Peleș National Museum.
4. On December 1, 1920, at the initiative of Mayor Karl Ernst Schnell, the Brașov City Council donated the Bran castle to Queen Maria of Romania, as a sign of gratitude for her contribution to the creation of the Great Union. Upon the Queen's death in 1938, the castle was inherited by her favorite daughter, Princess Ileana, who married Archduke Anton, a member of the former Imperial Habsburg family. During the Second World War, Ileana returned with her family to the country and lived in Bran. On June 1, 2009, the castle came fully into the possession of Princess Ileana's heirs: Archduke Dominic of Habsburg, Archduchess Maria Magdalena Holzhausen, and Archduchess Elisabeta Sandhofer.
5. Built on the land received as a gift by Queen Maria and King Ferdinand I for the summer residence, the palace is built on the beach in Constanta, the Royal Palace was later gifted in 1927 by Queen Maria to Princess Ileana and her grandson King Mihai, with the exception of the land where the Queen is building Villa Cara-Dalga.
According to the agreement with her ex-husband King Carol II, Princess Elena ordered the sale of the palace in Mamaia to the army, thus purchasing a small villa in Florence which she named Sparta
Palatul Regal din Mamaia was composed of 12 rooms, 2 halls, 1 bedroom wardrobe, 1 buffet, three terraces, 4 bathrooms, and 4 closets, in the attic where Prince Mihai's room was later arranged, there were 7 rooms and a bathroom, and in the basement intended for the palace staff, there were 16 rooms, a bathroom, 4 toilets, a laundry, a cafe, a kitchen, and the garage.
Now back under the tutelage of the Romanian state, the Royal Palace in Mamaia is awaiting a new project of renovation, rehabilitation, and commissioning more viable and with immediate results, that would be a fixed-term public-private partnership that would bring Vila Regala into the tourist circuit.
TO MY COUNTRY AND TO MY PEOPLE, WHEN YOU READ THESE WORDS, MY PEOPLE, I WILL HAVE CROSSED THE THRESHOLD OF ETERNAL SILENCE WHICH REMAINS A GREAT MYSTERY FOR US. And yet out of the great love I love you, I would like my voice to reach once more even from beyond the silence of the grave. I had barely turned 17 when I came to you, I was young and ignorant but very proud of my native country, and I embraced a new nationality, I tried to become a good Romanian. No one is judged rightly while he lives, only after death is he remembered or forgotten. Perhaps you will remember me, because I loved you with all the strength of my heart and my love was strong, full of momentum: later it became patient, very patient, I bless you, beloved Romania, the land of my joy and sorrows. The Beautiful country I saw whole, whose destiny I was permitted to see fulfilled. May you be abundant forever, may you be great and full of honor, may you forever stand towering among the nations, and may you be honest, loved, and skilled.
A country without history and culture has no identity and it is her duty to preserve the cultural and historical heritage for future generations.
Unique tribute brought to Queen Maria In Paris as a gesture of gratitude a street is named after the Queen Mary of Romania name, toward the role that Queen MARIA had in the Paris Peace Conference, in 1919.
Considered the most Beautiful queen in Europe Queen MARIA became the face of the collection of pomades, powder, cologne, and Perfume, all under the same name, Mon Boudoir, in 1922. The base note of the perfume smelled of Violet flowers, the Queen’s favorite of IRIS but also has subtle notes of Patchouli and sandalwood.
Queen Maria perfume was recreated after 100 years, The original bottle of Queen Maria's perfume can also be seen at the Perfume Museum, located in Bucharest on Calea Dorobantilor, number 172, where the entrance is free.
www.reginamaria.org
www.peles.ro
www.bran-castle.com
www.dvoreca.com
www.resedinteregale.ro
By Ana Maria Cucu