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In America, Queen Marie of Romania is known, if at all, as the punchline of Dorothy Parker's quip:
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.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.
Yet her castle at Bran is now the centerpiece of the Romanian tourist industry not as her home but that of the fictional Dracula.
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