My new Book: MIGNON

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Balkans, European royal families, Mignon, Queen Marie of Serbia, royal history, Serbia, Serbian Royal family, Yugoslavia

Diana Mandache, “Mignon. Princess of Romania. Queen of Yugoslavia”, Curtea Veche, September 2018, hardcover, 276 pages, cca 200 ill., (Romanian language).

A modest and apparently unassuming personality, Mignon faced with great dignity personal tragedy and the misfortunes of her native and adopted countries’ during the two world conflagrations of the twentieth century. Today the old Yugoslavia doesn’t exist anymore, there are several independent states, but the admiration of many among her people still continues.

Maria – Mignon, Princess of Romania, was a great granddaughter of Queen Victoria, the second daughter of Queen Marie and King Ferdinand of Romania. At the age of 22 she became the queen consort of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia, and from that moment on her destiny become linked with the tragic fate of her husband and country.

Diana Mandache, “Mignon. Princess of Romania. Queen of Yugoslavia”, Curtea Veche Publishing, September 2018, hardcover, 276 pages, cca 200 ill., (Romanian language).

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My previous book published by Curtea Veche in November 2017: “The inheritance of Elena Lupescu and the communist state”, 288 pages + 32 pages with colour & b&w photos.

https://www.curteaveche.ro/autori/diana-mandache/pachet-diana-mandache.html

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New exhibition on the Romanian Royal Family

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Anne of Bourbon-Parma, Carmen Sylva, Casa Regala, Crown Princess Margarita, Familia regala, istoria regalitatii, King Carol I, King Ferdinand, King Michael of Romania, Mignon, Monarhia, Principesa Margareta, Queen Anne, Queen Elizabeth of Romania, Queen Marie of Romania, Regele Carol I, Regele Ferdinand, Regele Mihai, Regina Elisabeta, Regina Maria, Romanian Royal Family

The National History Museum of Romania in Bucharest is hosting a new exhibition on the Romanian Royal Family, scheduled for opening at the end of next week. I am one of the organisers and plan to write more in a forthcoming post about this important royal history event after 10 May (Romania’s National Royal Day) when the exhibition will be in full swing. I also contributed with a number of exhibits from my own collection, among them a series of letters between Queen Mother Helen and Prince Leonid Lieven. Stars of the exhibition are some rare portrait paintings loaned from the National Museum of Arts Queen Marie, King Carol I, King Ferdinand, Princess Elisabeta, King Michael and his mother Queen Helen. ©Diana Mandache

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Queen Maria of Yugoslavia: Radio Drama Audition in Bucharest

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Balkans, Eastern Europe, European royal families, Familia regala, Mignon, Queen Maria of Yugoslavia, Romania, Romanian Royal Family, Royalty, Serbia, Serbian Royal family, Yugoslavia

I had the wonderful opportunity today to participate at a premiere audition in Bucharest of a radio drama performance after a play written by the Serbian author Dragana Boskovic, having as subject a fictional Queen Maria of Yugoslavia during her last months of life struggling to get approval from the communist authorities to return home and die in her country.

Poster announcing Radio Romania's Mignon drama play (Mignon's picture: photograph from Diana Mandache collection) Poster graphics: Lucian David