Word: mihai
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Marie. Though she had no part in the ceremony, her motherly and grandmotherly heart could not be otherwise than quickening and aglow. The Speech from the Throne (of her six-year-old grandson King Mihai) was about to be read by Prince Nicholas of Rumania (her slightly weak-chinned 25-year-old son), thus opening the first freely-elected Parliament in the history of the Kingdom...
...course only one woman fits this description. She is Dowager Queen Marie's daughter-in-law, Princess Helen of Greece and Rumania, mother of Boy King Mihai of Rumania...
...King Alexander's sister-in-law, Princess Ileana of Rumania, royal aunt of Rumanian Boy King Mihai, was in Stockholm last week, incognito, and was presented by the Royal Swedish Yacht Club with a 22-meter (66 foot) racing yacht...
...gave utterance to these lines was, of course, the Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania. Last week, she and her daughter-in-law, Princess Helen, mother of Baby King Mihai, jointly received in audience the new Peasant Prime Minister of Rumania, Juliu Maniu - he who has just overthrown the corrupt, oligarchical gov ernment of onetime Prime Minister Vintila Bratiano (TIME, Nov. 12 et seq.). To the Dowager Queen and the Princess-Mother-of-a-King, Peasant Maniu revealed a truly staggering state of affairs. He declared that upon coming into power, last fortnight, he found in the Royal Treasury a cash...
Stern and ominous though the situation seemed, Dowager Queen Marie was not without words of cheer: "Hasn't Rumania a small, bright star on her horizon?-Our little King Mihai, our tender but lovely hope. He is our symbol, and just because we are a young country and because of our struggles and griefs, what sweeter symbol could we have than a little innocent child, around whom one and all, great and small, rich and poor, unite to guide and help and protect-little Mihai, our King...