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Queen Marie on the Tutrakan military disaster. “It is said that they have been machine-gunned. If true, it’s downright monstrous!”
During the First World War, Queen Marie of Romania was involved in numerous relief actions, while also having an active role on the political stage. Immediately following the death of King Carol I and Romania’s subsequent entry into the war, the queen started keeping...
Why did Romania remain neutral at the outbreak of the First World War?
When a young Serbian by the name of Gavrilo Princip gunned down Franz-Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, on June 28, 1914, no one thought that it would lead to four years of bloody military confrontations. The Austro-Hungarian ultimatum addressed to...