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Princess Maria “Mariechen” Of Romania

1870 – 1874

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Only child of Carol I of Romania and Elisabeth of Wiede. Died at age 3 of scarlet fever. Originally buried at Cotroceni Palace, she was reinterred in the Cathedral of Curtea de Argeș with her mother. ∼ Princess Maria was born in Bucharest as the first Princess of Romania that was also of the House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, on 8 September [O.S. 27 August] 1870. After a month, in October [O.S. September] 1870, she was baptised as a Romanian Orthodox at the monastery of Cotroceni (near the site of the present-day Cotroceni Palace). In her family, the young princess was nicknamed "Mariechen" (a possible homage to her parents' German heritage) or "Itty". Everyone who knew Maria described her as a beautiful and precocious young child, as she was said to look at maps and identify different countries for fun at the age of only two and a half. It is said that sometime before she died, Princess Maria told her mother that she would someday like to be able to ride a star. Maria had no prospect

Name
Princess Maria “Mariechen” Of Romania
Locality
Curtea de Arges, România
Born
8 septembrie 1870
Died
9 aprilie 1874
Age
3 years
From
Bucharest, Bucuresti Municipality, Romania
Location
Curtea de Argeș Monastery ↗
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Cemetery
Curtea de Argeș Monastery
Locality
Curtea de Arges
Country
România
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