L’héritage politique, social et artistique de Carmen Sylva (Élisabeth de Roumanie) dans l’œuvre de la reine Marie de Roumanie

A much more politically influential figure than her predecessor, Queen Elizabeth of Romania, Crown Princess Maria, who became Queen of Romania in 1914, owes more to the former than one might think. This study reconstructs the history of the personal relationship between the two sovereigns by means o...

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Main Author: Romanița Constantinescu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: OpenEdition 2023-06-01
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/cher/14841
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description A much more politically influential figure than her predecessor, Queen Elizabeth of Romania, Crown Princess Maria, who became Queen of Romania in 1914, owes more to the former than one might think. This study reconstructs the history of the personal relationship between the two sovereigns by means of Queen Elizabeth’s correspondence with King Carol I, published in its entirety in 2018. While Queen Elizabeth’s role in shaping and establishing the young princess as a writer is widely acknowledged, Queen Elizabeth’s influence in terms of role-playing, staging appearances, devising communication strategies, and everything related to the representation of power on the public stage, as Maria was to practice it, has been ignored. In this regard, unreserved credit was given to Maria’confessions in her memoirs, which, however, are often ambivalent, oscillating between admiration for Elizabeth and the need to establish a certain distance, to better define a personal profile. The study shows what expectations Mary faces, expectations generated by Elizabeth’s prodigious work, and how she manages to meet them so that she enjoys recognition and consolidates her authority in relation to the previous model.
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L’héritage politique, social et artistique de Carmen Sylva (Élisabeth de Roumanie) dans l’œuvre de la reine Marie de Roumanie
Recherches
Queen Elizabeth of Romania (Carmen Sylva)
Queen Maria of Romania
Representation of power by female sovereigns
queen-writers
queen-nurses
title L’héritage politique, social et artistique de Carmen Sylva (Élisabeth de Roumanie) dans l’œuvre de la reine Marie de Roumanie
title_full L’héritage politique, social et artistique de Carmen Sylva (Élisabeth de Roumanie) dans l’œuvre de la reine Marie de Roumanie
title_fullStr L’héritage politique, social et artistique de Carmen Sylva (Élisabeth de Roumanie) dans l’œuvre de la reine Marie de Roumanie
title_full_unstemmed L’héritage politique, social et artistique de Carmen Sylva (Élisabeth de Roumanie) dans l’œuvre de la reine Marie de Roumanie
title_short L’héritage politique, social et artistique de Carmen Sylva (Élisabeth de Roumanie) dans l’œuvre de la reine Marie de Roumanie
title_sort l heritage politique social et artistique de carmen sylva elisabeth de roumanie dans l oeuvre de la reine marie de roumanie
topic Queen Elizabeth of Romania (Carmen Sylva)
Queen Maria of Romania
Representation of power by female sovereigns
queen-writers
queen-nurses
url http://journals.openedition.org/cher/14841
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