“How I came to take the name of Carmen Sylva as my nom de plume”

Queen Elisabeth (Carmen Sylva): “How I came to take the name of Carmen Sylva as my nom de plume“ Queen Elisabeth explains her pen name in an autobiographical tale for children, published in German in the volume “Märchen einer Königin” (1901) and in English translation in “A Real Queen’s Fairy Tales” (1901): “I have very …

Reminiscences of the war 1877/78

Reminiscences of the war 1877/78 – a fragment from the essay “Bucharest” (1893) by Queen Elisabeth of Romania (Carmen Sylva):   “A handsome young man had died in a tent opposite to mine, and the next morning dawned cold and dreary, for it was November. The fog shut us in like a wall, and the …