#Queen Maria of Romania

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Romanov Rare Footage Analysis:

This footage was taken while the Romanov family was visiting Romania in 1914. In the foreground we see Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna bouncing up and down in a silly way. One might wonder why she is doing this. To find out we have to analyze this piece of rare footage.

Anastasia seems to be talking to someone in a white dress and a hat on. That person is who i believe to be Princess Marie “Mignon” of Romania (later Queen of Serbia). In the background of this footage we also see Queen Elisabeth of Romania (far right with baby Prince Mircea of Romania being held by someone), Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna, and Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna (talking with people), and Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna who we see towards the end of the clip holding what looks like a Brownie Box Camera which the Romanov family used to take pictures.

Now what are Anastasia and Mignon doing? My belief is that Mignon went to greet Anastasia by naturally curtsying (which was the correct protocol) and Anastasia also did the same thing at the same time. I think Anastasia was doing several small curtsies afterward to kind of make a joke out of the moment (hence the giddy bouncing we see in the footage). OTMAA always felt embarrassed or shocked when close members of their family, or anyone at all, treated them with their normal official rules that the protocol demanded (aka curtsying or using official titles). Anastasia probably wanted to break the ice in that moment or make a funny joke of the curtsying at the same time thing. Also we can see the two girls having a good laugh so that could also be why Anastasia is bouncing so much. In the end of the footage we see Tatiana come up to the two girls with her camera ready and it looks like she is going to take a picture of them. The following photo could be the one she took but I’m not sure that it is.

Here are some other photos from the day that this footage was taken:

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Princess Maria of Romania, later Queen Maria of Yugoslavia on the wedding day in 1922

Serbian vintage postcard

[elsalouisa]

"Of Grandmamma Empress my recollections are still more vague. On a journey somewhere we were brought to her in the train. She was lying on a very low bed that was all draped in sky blue. I have the hazy vision of a pale emaciated woman with a thin, waxen face and long, white, beautiful hands. I remember we had been taken away from our tea which did not please us very much, and we stared “non-understandingly” at the very sad-looking woman in her blue-curtained bed. I think that she was being transported somewhere to the South of France. She had already been an invalid for several years, and, as I have heard since, had more reasons than ill-health for being sad. That is my only recollection of Grandmamma Empress, Mamma’s Mamma".

Marie, queen of Romania "The story of my life"

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𝙲𝚑𝚘𝚌𝚘𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚌𝚊𝚛𝚍𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚁𝚘𝚢𝚊𝚕 𝚠𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚗 👑✨🍫

(𝙿𝚊𝚛𝚝 𝟸 𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝟺)

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Queen Sophia of Greece, née Princess Sophia of Prussia.

Princess Beatrice, Duchess of Galliera, née Princess Beatrice of Edinburgh.

Empress Maria Feodorovna, née Princess Dagmar of Denmark.

Queen Marie of Romania, née Princess Marie of Edinburgh.

Queen Victoria, née Princess Alexandrina Victoria of Kent.

Queen Margherita of Italy, née Princess Margherita of Savoy.

Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, née Princess Alix of Hesse.

Princess Louise of Schaumburg-Lippe, née Princess Louise of Denmark.

Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain, née Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg.

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Crown Princess Helen of Romania, Princess Ileana of Romania, Princess Maria of Romania and Crown Prince Carol of Romania in 1921, shortly after the princely’s couple arrival in Romania following their wedding.

Source: ANF.

[royal-confessions]

“When I found out that Princess Elizabeth of Romania aka the Queen of Greece flirted with her brother in law King Alexander of Yugoslavia, 😶I lost respect for her! I wonder how Princess Mignon felt about this…or she ever knew about this..” - Text & Image Submitted by abigaaal

[loiladadiani]

Portraits of Romanovs (and Relations) by Nicholas Panagiotti Zarokilli

Nicholas Pannagiottis Zarokilli was born in Turkey in 1879. He was a painter particularly fond of creating pictures of beautiful women. From 1912 to 1920, Zarokilli produced paintings for publications like MoToR, Modern Priscilla, Women’s Home Companion, The Green Book, McCall’s, and The Saturday Evening Post.

He also designed World War I posters. The United States needed money for the war, so the artist created posters to try and encourage people to give for the cause.

Zarokilli was known well for his dry-point paintings. Drypoint is a printmaking technique of the intaglio family, in which an image is incised into a plate or "matrix" with a hard-pointed "needle" of sharp metal or diamond point. In principle, the method is practically identical to engraving.

He painted portraits for people such as the Queen of Spain, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Grand Duchess Anastasia, the King of Portugal, and Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Guggenheim. Landscapes were also his love, painting the cities of Venice, Madrid, and Seville.

The following is his rendering of several members of the Romanov family (and other relations.) I have seen some of these here and there before (several of you have them in your Tumblrs and always admired them; I think he captures the likenesses admirably. I found the ones here together and identified on the British Museum website (they were done between 1920 and 1922.)

These are the names of the easily recognizable "personages" in the paintings in the order they appear below:

Prince Felix Yusupof (wearing a suit)

Prince Felix Yusupof (head)

Princess Irina Alexandrovna

Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich (sitting)

Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich (bust)

Prince Andrei Alexandrovich

Prince Feodor Alexandrovich

Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna

Grand Duke Kyril Vladimirovich

Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna the Younger

Queen Marie of Romania (born Princess Marie Alexandra Victoria of Edinburgh) - Granddaughter of Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain (born Princess Victoria Eugenie Julia Ena of Battenberg (youngest granddaughter of Queen Victoria, Hessian Princess through the morganatic Battenberg line)

References

N.P. Zarokilli Archives | The Saturday Evening Post

Nicholas Panagiotti Zarokilli | British Museum

[officialromaniantranslatiuni]

Regina Maria printre căpeteniile indienilor Sioux.

„După ce mi-a cuvântat în mod misterios, bătrânul războinic și-a scos propria coroană de pene și a așezat-o pe capul meu ca să o păstrez. Pentru mine a fost o onoare colosală care nu se acordă femeilor decât cu ocazii foarte rare, dar am fost declarată de ei drept „Femeie Războinic”, titlu care își are ironia sa, căci eu mă aflam într-o misiune de pace.

Coroana de pene așezată cu toată seriozitatea pe capul meu: a trebuit să mă las jos pe o piele de bizon și am fost ridicată de toți indienii și purtată solemn la cortul lor și poftită înăuntru. Deoarece intrarea era foarte joasă și penele mele uriașe, a trebuit aproape să mă târăsc înăuntru, în mâini și în genunchi.

Aici, conform unui vechi obicei, ar fi trebuit să ne crestăm cu cuțite și să ne amestecăm sângele, dar lucru acesta a fost făcut într-un mod mult mai civilizat și într-o manieră umană: am fost doar înțepați cu un ac, iar sângele nostru a fost amestecat de ofițerul ce servea drept intermediar. Mi-au fost oferite daruri și am întors amabilitatea, oferindu-le broderii românești. Cu cântece și dansuri am fost condusă înapoi în tren. Scena a satisfăcut din plin și am fost nu numai interesați, ci și amuzați.”

Discursul ținut de Red Tomahawk :

ONORATĂ FEMEIE CĂPETENIE

[SIOUXII NU AU UN CUVÂNT PENTRU „DOAMNĂ” SAU „ÎNĂLȚIMEA VOASTRĂ” SAU „REGINĂ”, IAR CUVÂNTUL FEMEIE E FOLOSIT TOATĂ REVERENȚA ȘI TOT RESPECTUL]

VREAU SĂ-ȚI SPUN ACUM CÂTEVA CUVINTE. VEZI AICI PE ACEST SOLDAT [MAIORUL A.B. WELCH]. EL ESTE, PRIN ADOPȚIUNE, UNUL DINTRE AI NOȘTRI ȘI ÎI SPUNEM FRATE. EL MI-A SPUS CĂ EȘTI „CÂRMUITOAREA UNEI NAȚIUNI ȘI O FEMEIE RĂZBOINIC.” AM TRIMIS PESTE OCEAN MULȚI DINTRE TINERII MEI CA SĂ LUPTE CU DUȘMANUL. OAMENII TĂI AU FOST PRIETENI CU OAMENII MEI ȘI AU LUPTAT ÎN ACELEAȘI BĂTĂLII. MI SE SPUNE CĂ AI FOST ÎN ACEL RĂZBOI ȘI ATUNCI AI FĂCUT SACRIFICII. MI SE SPUNE CĂ MULȚI DINTRE TINERII TĂI AU FOST ÎNGROPAȚI DEPARTE DE ȚARĂ. NOI AM DISCUTAT DESPRE ACESTE LUCRURI. NOI VREM SĂ TE ONORĂM. O FEMEIE NU POARTĂ COROANĂ DE PENE DE VULTUR DECÂT DACĂ A SĂVÂRȘIT FAPTE EXTRAORDINARE DE EROISM. CONTRIBUȚIA PE CARE AI ADUS-O ÎN ACEL MARE RĂZBOI NE-A FĂCUT PE NOI, CARE SUNTEM DIN PREERII, SĂ TE ÎNDRĂGIM. SIMȚIM CĂ AVEM ÎN TINE UN CAMARAD PE CALEA RĂZBOIULUI.

DE ACEEA, ÎȚI OFER ACEST ÎNALT ÎNSEMN DE BRAVURĂ ȘI ÎȚI DAU NUMELE DE „WINYAN KIPANPI WIN” (FEMEIA PE CARE O CHEMI) ȘI EȘTI ACUM SORA MEA.

[queenalexandraofdenmark]

Mignon was so pretty‼️

Born on this date in 1900, Princess Maria (“Mignon”) of Romania, great-granddaughter of Emperor Alexander II of Russia.

[mioritic]

"'Mignon' amongst the peonies to which I always compared her (snapshot taken by myself)"

Photograph of Princess Maria of Romania (later Queen Maria of Yugoslavia) by her mother, Queen Marie of Romania, early 1900s.

Marie, Queen of Romania, The Story of My Life (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934)

[postcard-from-the-past]

Princess Maria of Romania, later Queen consort of Yugoslavia

Romanian vintage postcard

[the1920sinpictures]

1923 Maria, Queen of Romania and her son Prince Peter of Serbia.

[queenalexandraofdenmark]

Mignon! 🩷

Queen Maria of Yugoslavia, nee Romania.

Mignon is wearing what I believe are Grand Duchess Elizaveta Feodorovna's emeralds. They were given to Maria Pavlovna the Younger for a wedding present, who sold them to Alexander of Serbia/Yugoslavia after the revolution, who gave them to Mignon as a wedding gift.

[queenalexandraofdenmark]

~ ROYALS AND THEIR SIGNATURES ~

Part 2/3

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Queen Olga of Greece(Olga Constantinovna)

Queen Louise of Denmark(Louise of Hesse-Kassel)

Empress Victoria of Germany(Victoria, Princess Royal)

Queen Marie of Romania(Princess Marie of Edinburgh)

Grand Duchess Elisabeth Feodorovna(Princess Elisabeth of Hesse)

Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich

Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna

Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna

Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna

Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna

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Princess Maria “Mignon” of Romania (later Queen of Yugoslavia), late 1910s.

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Painting to Dress Match-up: Queen Maria's portrait and her Romanian traditional outfits

A 1924 photograph of artist Philip de László, Queen Maria of Romania and the royal portrait by de László, London, England

Philip de László (Hungarian, ) • Queen Maria of Romania • 1924

I'm only today beginning to read about her, though it appears from photographs as well as a couple of existing gowns, that she was a very well dressed woman.

Court Dress worn by Queen Maria of Romania for the Coronation of her cousin Nicholas II of Russia • 1896 • Maryhill Museum of Art, Goldendale, Washington.

She was passionate about Romanian folk art and costume. There are number of photos online of Maria in traditional Romanian outfits, which were her preferred attire for daytime wear.