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Elisabeth of Wied

Elisabeth of Wied – The Princess of the Wild Rose (Part four)

December 16, 2020 Moniek Bloks 1

Read part three here. As Queen of Romania, Elisabeth devoted much of time to the education of children and charitable works. She and her husband had begun to drift apart, so she also spent much time writing poetry, and some of it was published under the pseudonym E. Wedi. Carmen Sylva remained her principal pseudonym, [read more]

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Elisabeth of Wied

Elisabeth of Wied – The Princess of the Wild Rose (Part three)

December 14, 2020 Moniek Bloks 0

Read part two here. Shortly after her arrival in Romania, Elisabeth came down with the measles, but luckily she recovered quite quickly. Early in 1870, Elisabeth learned that she was pregnant. She gave birth to a daughter named Marie on 8 September 1870, and the birth was celebrated with a 21-gun salute. Elisabeth became devoted [read more]

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Elisabeth of Wied

Elisabeth of Wied – The Princess of the Wild Rose (Part two)

December 13, 2020 Moniek Bloks 0

Read part one here. Elisabeth’s father remained dangerously ill, and the family spent the winter of 1862-1863 in Baden-Baden for his health. To introduce Elisabeth into society during this sad time, the family opened their house to a larger circle of people. Elisabeth had been looking forward to it, but the death of good friend [read more]

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Elisabeth of Wied

Elisabeth of Wied – The Princess of the Wild Rose (Part one)

December 11, 2020 Moniek Bloks 0

Princess Elisabeth of Wied was born on 29 December 1843 as the first child and only daughter of Hermann, Prince of Wied, and his wife Princess Marie of Nassau. The Principality of Wied-Neuwied was mediatised in 1806, and so there was no actual land to rule anymore. Elisabeth was named after her godmothers Queen Elisabeth [read more]

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Germany Miscellaneous

Marie Eleonore of Albania – A story of courage and suffering

April 29, 2020 Raluca Elgyar 1

We are all familiar with the tragic story of Princess Mafalda of Savoy, the daughter of King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, who was arrested by the Gestapo in 1943, sent to Buchenwald concentration camp where she died a year later. But there is another royal story that is far less famous but equally tragic [read more]

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Queen Marie of Romania (2019) Film Review

December 10, 2019 Moniek Bloks 0

Queen Marie of Romania begins in 1919 with Marie handing out bread to starving people before whisked away due to safety concerns. Marie is scolded by her husband for going out, and he tells her that the negotiations of the Paris Peace Conference are not going well for Romania. Marie then writes to her cousin, [read more]

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