Princess Maria “Mignon” of Romania (later Queen of Yugoslavia), late 1910s.
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Russia! My astonished child's eyes see huge palaces, beautiful parks, fountains, gardens, amazing gatherings of relatives, military parades, religious services in churches glittering with gold, jewels so breathtaking you can hardly believe they are real [... ] My eyes also see long corridors, vestibules, and halls, of a size beyond compare, opening one into another, and our feet trotting timidly over wide stretches of floors, so unbounded and polished, that we seemed to walk on ice. And everywhere, a very characteristic smell: a mixture of turpentine, Russian leather and cigarette smoke, with a fragrance, unique in its own way, that distinguished the imperial palaces. Imperial is the right word, fantastic, like in fairy tales [...] every superlative is at its place in that Russia of the Tsars, that Russia full of splendour, which today is no more...
- Queen Marie of Romania, “Story of My Life”
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The Russian Imperial Family with the Romanian Royal Family, 1914.
Alexei and Prince Nicholas (Nicolae) sit on the ground; Olga has baby Prince Mircea in her lap, Tatiana has Princess Ileana on hers.
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The Romanov sisters described by Queen Marie of Romania:
"I liked the girls, they were natural, gay, pleasant and quite confidential with me when their mother was not present; when she was there they always seemed to be watching her every expression so as to be sure to act according to her desires. I studied each of them in turns."
"Olga was not pretty, her face was too broad, her cheek-bones too high, but I liked her open, somewhat brusque way."
"Tatiana was taller and more handsome, but also more reserved. It is said that she was most like her mother in character and that there was a special understanding between them."
"Marie was shorter and plumper ; she had very fine eyes and a pleasant expression, but a too broad mouth somewhat marred an otherwise pleasing face."
"I was not much attracted to Anastasia, she had no particular sort of face, and I do not know why, but I would have said that she was rather shy and watchful. But this may have been only an impression. I was never with them long enough really to know them intimately."
SOURCES:
The Story of My Life - Marie of Romania
1914 formal photos by delicateflowers-of-the-past and romanovsonelastdance!
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Aftermath of George and Missy
“George was ‘not bitter’, neither was he heartbroken. As for Missy, when George saw her in June, she ‘seemed to know nothing at all about that tiresome & for us all most disagreeable business’, as Alix wrote: ‘Evidently she never cared one bit really about you or she would not now be so happy with her Ferdinand.’ George no longer cared. For one thing, he had found another young first cousin to admire: Xenia, a sister of Nicky of Russia.” (Jane Ridley, Never a Dull Moment).
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FOUR DAUGHTERS OF PRINCE ALFRED OF EDINBURGH AND GRAND DUCHESS MARIA ALEXANDROVNA OF RUSSIA💗🥺✨️
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Queen Marie of Romania and her military attire. The first uniform was worn during the parade which marked the Romanian Royal Family’s return to Bucharest in 1918, while the second one is her regimental uniform of the 4th Roșiori (Hussars) Cavalry Regiment.
Photographs taken by me.
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✵ January 10, 1893 ✵
Princess Marie of Edinburgh & Prince Ferdinand, Crown Prince of Romania
Later King and Queen of Romania
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"And I am Marie of Romania." Well, here she is for real. The arrival of Queen Marie of Romania at the Battery and Cortlandt Street, October 1926.
Photo: Frank M. Ingalls via NY Historical Society/Getty Images/Fine Art America
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Victoria Melita (then Grand Duchess of Hesse) and her sister Marie (then Crown Princess of Romania). 1896.
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Photograph of a ten month old Marie of Edinburgh, future Queen of Romania.
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CUTIEE Princess Ileana of Romania later on archduchess of austria
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Marie of Romania, daughter of Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna.
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Which prospect do you think Has a higher chance with alexei ? Princess Ileana of Romania or Princess Elizabeth of Greece and Denmark?
Hi! Thanks for the question and I'm so sorry for the very late reply!
This is a difficult one to answer as it's all guesswork.
In terms of wider family relations, it appears that no one really liked Carol (I don't blame them!!) when they visited in 1913, and Queen Marie of Romania wasn't particularly enthusiastic about Alix in her memoirs. She also explicitly said that she did NOT want to have someone with haemophilia in her family due to the suffering it brings. She mentioned being concerned about Carol marrying one of OTMA because of the possibility they could be a carrier of the haemophilia gene. I don’t know if she knew that Alexei had haemophilia when she knew the Romanov family, but I think she might have avoided the match if she was aware. Although any of Alexei's children wouldn't have had haemophilia (only passes through the female line), the chance of him passing from a fatal attack at any moment certainly wouldn't be ideal for a marriage match.
Elizabeth and Alexei were very close in age, and there are some very sweet anecdotes about them meeting when they were children. Elizabeth's mother was Russian, which might have made the match more favourable. Also, they seemed to know each other far better than Alexei did Ileana, as Elizabeth and her family visited Russia pretty much yearly. Because of Marie of Romania's fears about haemophilia, and her dislike (and pitying) of Alix, I think that the match with Elizabeth would have been more favourable.
Which also brings up the fact that many boys that suffered from haemophilia sadly didn't live long into adulthood. Alix's brother Frittie passed away after an accident where he fell out of a window, and Henry of Prussia (Alix's nephew) passed away after falling off a chair. Tragically, most children died before they reached their teenage years. Some people with haemophilia lived considerably longer, though. Prince Waldemar of Prussia (a cousin) lived to age 59, until he passed away due to a lack of medical supplies for a blood transfusion. Alfonso of Spain died when he was 31 after a minor car crash caused internal bleeding, and his brother Gonzalo also passed away after a minor car accident, aged only 19. Most famously, Prince Leopold, son of Queen Victoria, died from a fall that resulted in cerebral haemorrhage.
We will never know for certain, I'm afraid, but those are my thoughts! What does anyone else think?
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