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...modest half-Byzantine, half-Venetian house riding the terraces above the Black Sea at the quiet port of Balcic the late Queen Marie of Rumania lived some of her happiest days. Born a British princess, she learned to love Rumania as if she belonged there. So Rumanians thought it strange that she liked so much to have Bulgarian calla lilies around her Balcic house and that she insisted on having them tended by Bulgarian gardeners. In her will Queen Marie devised that though her body should rest in the royal crypt near Bucharest, her heart should be enshrined at Balcic...
Last week Balcic was part of the 3,000 square miles of southern Dobruja claimed by Bulgaria and ceded to her, in all but final title, by Rumania (see map). The area was taken by Rumania in 1913 after Bulgaria was beaten in Balkan War II. It is a land of dry hills and windswept steppes, remarkably fertile considering its poor watering. Its population, according to Rumanian claims, is 77,000 Rumanians, 143,000 Bulgarians and 129,000 Turks...
...wish, in the chapel of her beloved country Castle Balcic overlooking the Black Sea, a mauve-lined silver casket containing the heart of the late Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania was enshrined...
...described as violet Cardinal. While her body was laid last week beside that of King Ferdinand in the royal vault, her heart was cut out by her instructions, to be placed in a mauve-lined silver casket, enshrined in the chapel at Marie's beloved country Castle Balcic...
Birthday. Queen Marie of Rumania; at Balcic...