Queen Marie – ars reginae

“So I began to write fairy-tales”

by Silvia Irina ZimmermannEnglish, Queen Marie, Writing queens 24. September 2021Comments are Disabled

Queen Marie: “So I began to write fairy-tales” Queen Marie of Romania relates in her memoirs “The Story of My Life” (1934) the beginnings of her writing activity by the time she was Crown Princess of Romania, while the old Queen Elisabeth of Romania (Carmen Sylva) encouraged her first steps in fictional writing: …

“Their lives are full enough of sacrifices”

by Silvia Irina ZimmermannEnglish, Queen Marie 31. August 20213. September 20210 comments

“The poor often think that they must make sacrifices to God or to any power greater than themselves, it is a sort of way of keeping off ill-luck from their thresholds. And yet God knows their lives are full enough of sacrifices from beginning to end.” Fragment from “A Christmas Tale” by Queen Marie of …