Word: stateswomanly
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Before the War, the strict Court discipline of genial German King Carol repressed her democratic sympathies and her natural abilities as stateswoman and businesswoman. With the coming of War, she shed her frivolous exterior, became a nurse and truly endeared herself to Rumanians who to this day call her "our Angel Queen" as they had called her "Angel without wings" when she married Ferdinand. She once said: "We hope that during our reign Rumania may grow in greatness and happiness. To consecrate all my efforts to the alleviation of misery and pain is the mission to which, as with...