{"id":91,"date":"2021-08-31T09:42:11","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T07:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sizimmermann.de\/arsreginae\/?p=91"},"modified":"2021-09-03T10:55:04","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T08:55:04","slug":"their-lives-are-full-enough-of-sacrifices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sizimmermann.de\/arsreginae\/archives\/91","title":{"rendered":"\u201cTheir lives are full enough of sacrifices\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cThe 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.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Fragment from \u201cA Christmas Tale\u201d by Queen Marie of Romania \u2013 the second queen of Romania, who was writing fairy tales about her Kingdom Romania for English-speaking children, following the example of the first queen of Romania, Elisabeth (Carmen Sylva), who did just the same in her mother tongue, German, some decades before Marie.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-92\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sizimmermann.de\/arsreginae\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/marie_fairybook-1024x432.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"950\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sizimmermann.de\/arsreginae\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/marie_fairybook-1024x432.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sizimmermann.de\/arsreginae\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/marie_fairybook-300x126.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sizimmermann.de\/arsreginae\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/marie_fairybook-768x324.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sizimmermann.de\/arsreginae\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/marie_fairybook.jpg 1350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>Read the whole tale in:<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Child of the Sun: Royal Fairy Tales and Essays by the Queens of Romania, Elisabeth (Carmen Sylva, 1843-1916) and Marie (1875-1938)<\/strong>. Selected and edited, with an introduction and bibliography by Silvia Irina Zimmermann. [Series of the Research Center Carmen Sylva \u2013 Princely Archive of Wied, vol. 9], 315 pages, 54 illustrations (7 colored), Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag (Ibidem Press), 2020, 315 pages, 54 illustrations (7 colored), ISBN-13: 978-3-8382-1393-4.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sizimmermann.de\/writing-queens-romania\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.sizimmermann.de\/writing-queens-romania<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Image: Cover and title page of the volume \u201cThe Queen of Roumania\u2019s Fairy Book\u201d, ca. 1923 (private collection S.I. Zimmermann).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe 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.\u201d Fragment from \u201cA Christmas Tale\u201d by Queen Marie of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sizimmermann.de\/arsreginae\/archives\/91\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;\u201cTheir lives are full enough of sacrifices\u201d&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-queen-marie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sizimmermann.de\/arsreginae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sizimmermann.de\/arsreginae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sizimmermann.de\/arsreginae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sizimmermann.de\/arsreginae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sizimmermann.de\/arsreginae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sizimmermann.de\/arsreginae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97,"href":"https:\/\/www.sizimmermann.de\/arsreginae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/97"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sizimmermann.de\/arsreginae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sizimmermann.de\/arsreginae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sizimmermann.de\/arsreginae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sizimmermann.de\/arsreginae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}