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Dear readers,

I have a new website address at http://dianamandache.com/ The theme design of my new website is much more propitious for my writing, aims and purposes.

For those of you who have subscribed to my old site royalromania.wordpress.com, you should consider subscribing to this new one. All my old articles and images are also contained within the new site, so you should not have any problems in accessing them there.

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Diana

Queen Marie’s Driving License to be auctioned

27 Thursday Sep 2012

Posted by Diana Mandache in Bucharest, Events, Romanian Royal Family

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A Romanian auction house is scheduling a sale of the driving licence of Queen Marie, issued in the period when she was still a Crown Princess of Romania. The document was issued by The Touring Club of Munich, presumably for the use during her frequent visits of her mother, the Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. The young princess’ car make, mentioned on the papers, was a Mercedes 35h, no. of fabrication 5060, the series of the car engine being 7798. This is a fascinating item to be auctioned next week. I will keep you informed about the final result. The estimated price is € 2.000 – 4.000. The price is unrealistic in my opinion, typical of the local inexperienced antiques market. What a beautiful collector’s item! Diana

Price Realized € 5000

Romanian monarchs visiting the WP cemetery in Val du Pâtre, Alsace

12 Wednesday Sep 2012

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Queen Marie and King Ferdinand of Romania taking part in a commemoration service at the former war prisoner cemetery from Val du Pâtre (Soultzmatt) in Alsace, where the Romanian war prisoners were interned and a great number of them died between 1917-1918. They were captured during the German offensive of 1916 in Transylvania and the Romanian Kingdom. Continue reading »

1922 Coronation Souvenirs

30 Thursday Aug 2012

Posted by Diana Mandache in Anniversaries & Birthdays, Events, Exhibitions, Romanian Royal Family, Royal Ceremonies

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I would like to share with you, dear readers, a few wonderful examples of souvenirs, which I found in the archives, produced for the occasion of the Romanian Coronation in 1922, dedicated to King Ferdinand and Queen Marie.

The Romanian Regalia – new exhibition in Bucharest

29 Wednesday Aug 2012

Posted by Diana Mandache in Anniversaries & Birthdays, Bucharest, Events, Exhibitions, Romanian Royal Family, Royal Ceremonies, Weekly Picture

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I am pleased to announce the opening on 6th of September 2012 of an exhibition at the National History Museum of Romania dedicated to the anniversary of 90 years since the Coronation of the sovereign couple King Ferdinand and Queen Marie on 15 October 1922 in Alba-Iulia (Transylvania). DM

King Ferdinand I & Queen Marie of Romania w. Regalia, October 1922. Photos by Guggenberger Mairovits

Bucharest: First Scenes since the Declaration of War by King Ferdinand

28 Tuesday Aug 2012

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After the Declaration of War – the departure of a Romanian regiment for the front. The Crown Prince Carol of Romania (right, second) watches the men of a regiment of infantry proceeding on active service as they march through the streets on their way to the front.

Marie of Edinburgh acquiring the Romanian identity

07 Saturday Jul 2012

Posted by Diana Mandache in British Royal Family, Romanian Royal Family, Weekly Picture

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Marie of Edinburgh in her first Romanian peasant costume (Diana Mandache Collection)

Princess Marie in her first Romanian peasant costume (from the Arges ethnographic region) given to her by King Carol as a wedding gift. Romanian peasant dress was introduced for court festivities and ceremonies by Queen Elizabeth. The peasants were identified in the national ideology as the quintessential Romanians and many among the Romanian elite started in that period to follow the court’s example and express their national identity by wearing peasant attire when participating at national events and other festivities. Princess Marie from the very beginning wrote to her mother: «The other day there was a charity ball here, and everybody came in Romanian costumes, it looked so pretty».

[see D.M, 'Marie of Romania. Images of a Queen', RRB, 2007, p.16] Continue reading »