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Marie of Romania

1875 - 1938

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Marie (Romanian: Maria; born Princess Marie Alexandra Victoria of Edinburgh; 29 October 1875 – 18 July 1938) was the last queen of Romania from 10 October 1914 to 20 July 1927 as the wife of King Ferdinand I. Marie was born into the British royal family. Her parents were Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh (later Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha), and Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia. Marie's early years were spent in Kent, Malta and Coburg. After refusing a proposal from her cousin, the future King George V, she was chosen as the future wife of Ferdinand, then crown prince of Romania, in 1892. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marie of Romania is the 807th most popular politician (up from 2,069th in 2019), the 227th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 440th in 2019) and the 55th most popular British Politician.

Marie of Romania was most famous for being the wife of King Ferdinand of Romania.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Marie of Romania ranks 807 out of 19,576. Before her are Pedro I of Brazil, Alexander IV of Macedon, Ptolemy IX Lathyros, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Boris Godunov, and Osman III. After her are Hostilian, Raymond Poincaré, John Zápolya, Archduke Otto of Austria, Louis the Stammerer, and Nader Shah.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1875, Marie of Romania ranks 15. Before her are D. W. Griffith, Ibn Saud, Ferdinand Porsche, Jeanne Calment, Mileva Marić, and Gerd von Rundstedt. After her are Albert I of Belgium, Mikhail Kalinin, Henry Hallett Dale, Jim Corbett, Vesto Slipher, and Gilbert N. Lewis. Among people deceased in 1938, Marie of Romania ranks 8. Before her are Muhammad Iqbal, Edmund Husserl, Maud of Wales, Charles Édouard Guillaume, Karel Čapek, and Konstantin Stanislavski. After her are Georges Méliès, Mary Mallon, Faustina Kowalska, Nikolai Bukharin, Kanō Jigorō, and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Marie of Romania ranks 227 out of 8,785. Before her are George Stephenson (1781), John Harvard (1607), W. H. Auden (1907), William John Macquorn Rankine (1820), Humphry Davy (1778), and T. E. Lawrence (1888). After her are Joseph Priestley (1733), Ringo Starr (1940), C. S. Lewis (1898), Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (1935), Æthelstan (895), and John Wycliffe (1324).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Marie of Romania ranks 55. Before her are Robert Clive (1725), Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover (1771), Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (1900), Princess Charlotte of Wales (1796), Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon (1930), and Æthelbald, King of Wessex (831). After her are Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (1935), Æthelstan (895), Clementine Churchill (1885), Boudica (33), Henry III of England (1207), and Horace Walpole (1717).

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