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    Default Marie of Romania

    In America, Queen Marie of Romania is known, if at all, as the punchline of Dorothy Parker's quip:
    Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
    A medley of extemporanea,
    And love is a thing that can never go wrong
    And I am Marie of Roumania.
    I am curious as to how Romanians see her today. The impression I got was that she was Queen Victoria's daughter who was more or less stranded there as the result of a royal marriage but took her position seriously. She went way beyond her duties to build up the recently-freed Turkish province as a European nation proud of its heritage and folklore. She made sure Romania did well at the Conference of Versailles.

    Yet her castle at Bran is now the centerpiece of the Romanian tourist industry not as her home but that of the fictional Dracula.
    Last edited by Loddfafner; 11-14-2010 at 11:50 PM.

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