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Funeraliile Reginei Maria
The funeral of Queen Maria pf Romania

Author(s): Smaranda Bilț, Chira Jurcă
Subject(s): History
Published by: MUZEUL NAȚIONAL DE ISTORIE A ROMÂNIEI
Keywords: funeral; Queen Maria; Balcic; Quadrilater; Curtea de Argeș

Summary/Abstract: The main source of documentation has constituted the newspapers of the collections of the National Museum of History of Romania. We can not, however, reconstruct, briefly, the year of the queen's suffering caused by an incurable disease, the passage through Bukovina, which she sees for the last time, when she arrives at Peli, where she dies. Similarly, according to the newspapers, the funerals were restored, beginning with those of Peli ° or Pele ", continuing with the ceremonies of Cotroceni and the Royal Palace of Bucharest and ending with the funeral in the crypt of The Church of the Monastery of Curtea de Argeş, and the "adventures" of Queen Mary's heart, which, in accordance with the wishes of the august sovereign, was introduced into two tapes placed in a white marble urn, All this buried in the church - built by the Queen - by Stella Maris de Balcic. In September 1940 when the Quadrilater returning to Bulgaria, the heart was deposited very close to the castle of Bran

  • Issue Year: 1/2001
  • Issue No: 13
  • Page Range: 292-299
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Romanian