Marie of Romania


Princess Marie of Edinburgh, more commonly known as Marie of Romania , was the last Queen consort of Romania as the wife of King Ferdinand I.

Marie was the eldest daughter and second child of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, and the former Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, respectively the son of Queen Victoria and the daughter of Emperor Alexander II. She was born at her parents residence, Eastwell Manor in Kent, onOctober 1875, at 1030160a.m., in the presence of her father. Her birth was celebrated by firing the Park and Tower guns. She was named Marie Alexandra Victoria, after her mother and grandmothers, but she was informally known as Missy. The Duke of Edinburgh wrote that his daughter promises to be as fine a child as her brother and gives every evidence of finely developed lungs and did so before she was fairly in the world. As a grandchild of the reigning British monarch in the male line, Marie was formally styled Her Royal Highness Princess Marie of Edinburgh from birth.

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