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: …
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 …
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