Author(s): Hannah Pakula

European

The granddaughter of Queen Victoria and Tsar Alexander II of Russia, at 17 Marie married the Crown Prince of Roumania. Drawing upon the young queen's diaries and letters, this book describes her struggle to gain an independent footing in the male-dominated court of Roumania, her early years as one of the most admired beauties of Europe, and the decisive period during World War I when she all but ran the Roumanian Government.