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Queen Marie of Romania

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The Resume

    (October 29, 1875-July 18, 1938)
    Born Princess Marie of Edinburgh
    Married King Ferdinand of Romania
    Queen of Romania (1914-1927)
    Queen Dowager of Romania (1927-1938)

Why she might be annoying:

    She had an enormous ego.
    She said of herself: ‘Marie of Romania, the most wonderful woman in the world. A woman like that is only born once a century.’
    Her father-in-law, King Carol I, died in 1916, but because of World War I, she and her husband weren't formally crowned until 1922.
    She had an affair with Grand Duke Boris of Russia.
    She claimed one of her daughters was sired by Boris and not King Ferdinand.
    Dorothy Parker mentioned her in a really depressing poem:
    ‘Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
    A medley of extemporanea
    And love is a thing that can can never go wrong
    And I am Marie of Romania.’

Why she might not be annoying:

    She was the Princess Diana of Romania.
    She was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria and Tzar Alexander II.
    She loved gypsy culture.
    She worked as a Red Cross nurse during World War I.
    She wrote children’s books.
    Her daughter Micea died at age four.
    She went to Versailles after World War I to regain territory Romania had lost.
    She was a member of the Ba’hai faith.

Credit: The Truffle


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 28 Votes: 39.29% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 7 Votes: 85.71% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 13 Votes: 84.62% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 7 Votes: 28.57% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 12 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 16 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 27 Votes: 51.85% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 95 Votes: 57.89% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 12 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 15 Votes: 73.33% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 64 Votes: 57.81% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 42 Votes: 61.90% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 44 Votes: 52.27% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 94 Votes: 63.83% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 104 Votes: 56.73% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 73 Votes: 50.68% Annoying