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# Marie of Edinburgh, granddaughter of Queen Victoria and Alexander II, was the last Queen of Romania
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/mariia-edinburgskaia-vnuchka-korolevy-viktorii-i-aleksandra-ii-byla-poslednei-korolevoi-rumynii/
- Published: 2025-04-06T09:59:24.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:30:37.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Aristocracy, Monarchies, People

She wrote sensual letters to George V and Nicholas II and was a veritable celebrity of her day. It is to this woman that the Entente owes Romania's abandonment of neutrality and its entry into the First World War on the side of Russia and Britain.

Queen Marie was much loved for her work with the Red Cross during the First World War, for her outstanding role at the Paris Peace Conference and for her theatrical sense of style in dress. The people adored her for her selfless help to the wounded at the front, while the propaganda that followed the fall of the monarchy accused the queen of debauchery and of taking part in orgies.

She was the second child of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, and Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia; her sisters were Grand Duchess Victoria Feodorovna, also known as Victoria Melita, Alexandra, Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, and Beatrice, Infanta of Spain and Duchess of Galliera.

Marie grew up in England and on Malta, and when her father became Grand Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, inheriting the title from his paternal uncle, the family moved to Germany. In 1893 Princess Marie married the Crown Prince of Romania. The couple had six children, among them Queen Maria of Yugoslavia and Queen Elisabeth of Greece. They became king and queen in 1914 and were crowned at a lavish ceremony in 1922.

Widowed in 1927, Queen Marie remained a prominent figure during the reign of her youngest grandson, King Michael, but after the return of his father (who had renounced the throne) in 1930, she was obliged to withdraw. She spent her remaining years in two of her residences, Bran Castle and Balchik Palace, and died at Peleș Castle in 1938\. Her body was buried in Romania, while her heart was initially interred at Balchik Palace, before being moved to Bran Castle when the palace became part of Bulgaria.

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