Queen Marie of Romania and her Travels

Mariana Ploesteanu („Gheorghe Sincai” Institute for Social Sciences and the Humanities, Târgu-Mureş, Romania)

Email: icsu_ms@rdslink.ro

 

ABSTRACT:

Travel played a very important part in the life and diplomatic activity of Queen Marie of Romania. The map of her travels is impressively rich: she travelled either to Great Britain or Russia during her childhood and youth, either to Romania where, at the age of seventeen, she became the wife of Ferdinand of Hohenzollern, the heir of Romania’s throne or to France and Great Britain after the First World War with political and diplomatic aims, then to America and Greece, to Italy and Switzerland. In all these circumstances, Queen Marie wrote memorable accounts about the people and places she had seen during her voyages. Her “Pages of a Journal”, “The Story of my Life” and other writings prove not only her sensitivity, sense of beauty and moral values but also her involvement in the political and diplomatic life of Romania.