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romanovsonelastdance · 3 months

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The Russian Imperial Family in Romania, 1914.

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foreverinthepagesofhistory · 8 months

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Romanov Rare Footage Analysis:

This footage was taken while the Romanov family was visiting Romania in 1914. In the foreground we see Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna bouncing up and down in a silly way. One might wonder why she is doing this. To find out we have to analyze this piece of rare footage.

Anastasia seems to be talking to someone in a white dress and a hat on. That person is who i believe to be Princess Marie “Mignon” of Romania (later Queen of Serbia). In the background of this footage we also see Queen Elisabeth of Romania (far right with baby Prince Mircea of Romania being held by someone), Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna, and Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna (talking with people), and Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna who we see towards the end of the clip holding what looks like a Brownie Box Camera which the Romanov family used to take pictures.

Now what are Anastasia and Mignon doing? My belief is that Mignon went to greet Anastasia by naturally curtsying (which was the correct protocol) and Anastasia also did the same thing at the same time. I think Anastasia was doing several small curtsies afterward to kind of make a joke out of the moment (hence the giddy bouncing we see in the footage). OTMAA always felt embarrassed or shocked when close members of their family, or anyone at all, treated them with their normal official rules that the protocol demanded (aka curtsying or using official titles). Anastasia probably wanted to break the ice in that moment or make a funny joke of the curtsying at the same time thing. Also we can see the two girls having a good laugh so that could also be why Anastasia is bouncing so much. In the end of the footage we see Tatiana come up to the two girls with her camera ready and it looks like she is going to take a picture of them. The following photo could be the one she took but I’m not sure that it is.

Here are some other photos from the day that this footage was taken:

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foreverinthepagesofhistoryy · 4 months

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♡︎ Mignon + Ileana ♡︎

#this pic is so cute 🤍#princess Marie of Romania #mignon of Romania #Queen Marie of Yugoslavia #princess Ileana of Romania #Ileana of Romania #romanian royal family #romania #1910s #1914

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drosera-nepenthes · 2 years

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Queen Maria of Yugoslavia and her three sons: Peter, Andre, and Tomislav

#Queen Maria of Yugoslavia #Mignon of Romania #King Peter of Yugoslavia #1930s #Prince Andre of Yugoslavia #Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia

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adini-nikolaevna · 4 months

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Born on this date in 1900, Princess Maria (“Mignon”) of Romania, great-granddaughter of Emperor Alexander II of Russia.

#princess maria mignon of romania #hohenzollern-sigmaringen #romanov relatives

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nobeerreviews · 7 months

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Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain.

-- Mignon McLaughlin

(Cluj, Romania)

#nostalgia #distance #lost #pain #travel photography #mignon mclaughlin #cluj #romania #quote

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la-belle-histoire · 4 months

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Princess Maria “Mignon” of Romania (later Queen of Yugoslavia), late 1910s.

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royal-confessions · 7 months

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“When I found out that Princess Elizabeth of Romania aka the Queen of Greece flirted with her brother in law King Alexander of Yugoslavia, 😶I lost respect for her! I wonder how Princess Mignon felt about this…or she ever knew about this..” - Text & Image Submitted by abigaaal

#Elisabeth of Romania #Queen Maria of Yugoslavia #abigaal

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heavyarethecrowns · 11 months

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Queen Marie of Romania pregnant with Princess Marie (Mignon)

Royal Bumps Fashion

#queen marie of romania #fashion #bump

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royalsofhistory · 8 months

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Can you pls talk about king Alexander I of Yugoslavia & his wife mignon.

Does he was loyal to her? Did they had a loving marriage?.

I tried so hard to find some info but it's so hard!😭

Hi! Of course, I’ll try to, to the best of my knowledge.

I’m not entirely convinced whether the match was one of true love or not, but I do believe the two had respect for one another.

Alexander had fallen in love with Tatiana, Tsar Nicholas II’s second daughter, when he was a child, and he intended on marrying her, but his marital aspirations came crumbling when the Romanovs were slaughtered by the Bolsheviks. To quote Hannah Pakula, “he never fell in love again”. Mignon, too, had declared she was never going to marry amidst the marriage events of her siblings. In spite of Alexander’s heartbreak, he still expressed his wish for “practical matters, such as the consolidation of his dynasty”.

However, the idea of a marriage between Mignon and Alexander came through the auspices of Romanian politician, Take Ionescu, who supported Balkan unity. He spoke to Mignon about the “lonely young man, an orphan with a mentally unstable brother, a poor rich king in an empty palace, who was looking for a queen to brighten his life and give him a family”, which intrigued the ever so kindhearted Romanian princess.

The following passages are cited from Hannah Pakula’s book:

[…] Alexander vas invited to Sinaia for the Christmas holidays, "the time of all the year," according to the Princess, "when it must be most sad to be alone without family." A week or so after New Year's, Mignon took her suitor through the snow-covered forests on a tour of Castle Peles. They were gone some time. When they returned, she was leading him by the hand. The King of Yugoslavia spoke no English. "Mother, we have arranged it," said Mignon, who burst into tears and ran quickly out of the room.

Queen Marie was concerned. Although she knew Alexander had an excellent personal reputation and that the alliance would be extremely popular both countries, he was, in her words, "an outsider of unsure race." Shy, communicative, the King of Yugoslavia volunteered nothing about himself. Marie could not understand how her daughter could have accepted him so readily without knowing him better […]. The Princess herself seemed to have no anxieties, announcing her new status with pride to everyone around and insisting upon telegraphing government officials herself.

I interpret Mignon’s eagerness to become engaged with Alexander as a show of her empathetic nature, but also of attraction. Upon their marriage celebrations, Alexander purchased an incredibly exquisite but expensive set of jewels for his soon-to-be wife.

Now… I haven’t found much information about their actual marriage. It’s a rather vague subject. However, I think it was an agreeable one, but not exclusively loving. His mother-in-law described Alexander as “capricious”, and Mignon as “having developed a dependency on other women”. Please note that it was believed that Mignon was romantically interested in women and she allegedly had an affair with a former classmate from Heathfield School, Rosemary Cresswell, also a lady-in-waiting to her, after her husband's death. In terms of Alexander’s loyalty, there was an incident involving his sister-in-law, Elisabeth, which took place soon after Peter’s birth. Elisabeth was being very flirtatious towards Alexander, a fact which greatly bothered Mignon, but it was never mentioned if it was mutual. I haven’t read about any other cases of “infidelity”.

The only reaction on Mignon’s part after Alexander’s death that I was able to find was the following, noted by Marie of Romania: “She was extremely calm and wonderfully dignified, but her hands were shaking”.

I wish I could further elaborate, but I only possess so much information on the subject you’ve mentioned.

Unfortunately, as you’ve mentioned, resources (especially primary resources, like their diaries which have yet to be published, if they ever will be) on them are rather limited. However, I’ve managed to gather a few, though I’m afraid they might not be very accessible, since they’re not all available in English, but here they are nevertheless:

English language sources:

• The many works of Stephen Graham on King Alexander of Yugoslavia, such as Alexander of Yugoslavia: The Story of the King who was Murdered at Marseilles. You can read it here. Also, Alexander of Yugoslavia: The Strong Man of the Balkans, which you can read here.

• The website of the Royal Family of Serbia, that you can access here.

• The Last Romantic: A Biography of Queen Marie of Romania by Hannah Pakula. You can read it here.

• And of course, The story of my life by Queen Marie of Romania. Her memoirs are always very insightful and useful. You can read them here.

Romanian language sources:

• Mignon. Principesa României, Regina Iugoslaviei by Diana Mandache. It’s a very solid piece of work on Mignon, though, unfortunately, the biography has yet to be digitalised and translated into English.

• A ten page article on Mignon also written by Diana Mandache and published by the Romanian National Museum of History Journal that you can read here. It’s in Romanian, but you can use Google Translate to read it, if you’ve got the patience.

Serbian language sources:

• Marija Karađorđević - Kraljica Majka by Danica and Srđan Čolović.

• Marija Karađorđević: Kraljica Plem by Vojislava Latković.

Hope this helps :D

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romanovsonelastdance · 3 months

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The Russian Imperial Family visit Romania, 1914.

On the left we see Nicholas II on horseback with King Carol of Romania. On the right, we see Prince Nicolae of Romania and his sister Mignon with Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna.

#romanov #nicholas ii #maria nikolaevna #otma #carol I of romania #nicolae of romania #nicholas of romania #maria of romania #mignon of romania #romanian royal family #my collection

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foreverinthepagesofhistory · 8 months

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My belief is that Mignon went to greet Anastasia by naturally curtsying (which was the correct protocol)

i thought curtsying is for someone with higher ranking

Hi anon! Yes Mignon first went to curtsy to Anastasia but then they both did it to each other at the same time like I said :)

Also yes curtsying was for really any high ranking royal women to do to eachother or for people to do to them so it was both normal that they were curtsying eachother!

#answered ask #anastasia nikolaevna #mignon of romania #princess marie of romania

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aloneinstitute · 2 years

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Fotografia digitalmente colorida da jovem princesa Maria da Romênia, futura rainha da Iugoslávia. Filha do rei Fernando I com a rainha Maria de Saxe-Coburgo-Gota, a princesa Maria descendia de muitas famílias reais importantes, como os Romanov da Rússia, os Hanôver do Reino Unido e os Bragança de Portugal e Brasil. Como a princesa recebera em batismo o mesmo nome de sua mãe e de sua avó, a grã-duquesa Maria Alexandrovna, ela era mais conhecida por seus parentes pelo apelido de "Mignon", para distingui-la das mais velhas. Durante os anos da Primeira Guerra Mundia, ela e suas irmãs, Isabel e Helena, trabalharam como enfermeiras ao lado da mãe, prestando auxílio aos soldados feridos em combate. Embora não se enquadrasse na ditadura dos padrões de beleza das mulheres super magras da família real, como suas primas inglesas e russas, Maria era considerada por muitos uma moça de feições agradáveis e bonita. Em 1922, enquanto ela e sua família passavam as férias no Castelo de Peleş, localizado nas proximidades de Sinaia, a princesa conheceu o futuro rei Alexandre I da Iugoslávia, por quem acabou se enamorando. Poucas semanas depois, aquele romance primaveril evoluiria para um relacionamento mais sério, com um pedido formal de casamento. Os dois se uniram em matrimônio no dia 8 de junho daquele mesmo ano, na Catedral de São Miguel, em Belgrado.

#princessmariaofromania #mariadaiugoslavia #princesamariadaromenia #romenia #romania #iugoslavia #royalwedding #royalbride #casametoreal #royalfamily #dpedroi #rainhavitoria #queenmariaofromania #mariaiideportugal #historia #history #rainhastragicas #belgrado

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drosera-nepenthes · 2 years

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Princess Elisabeth of Romania with her younger siblings Maria (Mignon) and Nicolae.

#Elisabeth of Romania #Queen Maria of Yugoslavia #Nicolae of Romania #1900s #Romanian Royal Family

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adini-nikolaevna · 1 year

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Crown Princess Marie of Romania with her three eldest children.

#queen marie of romania #king carol ii of romania #princess elisabetha of romania #princess maria of romania #princess mignon of romania #portrait

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early20thcenturynerd · 4 years

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“I used to predict that this third child I was carrying would be a child of tears, because in those days there was not a night that I did not weep myself to sleep, but my previsions were wrong. [...] She was from her first day a child of joy and sunshine, for these miracles do come to pass. Gay, smiling and astonishingly loving from her tenderest infancy, she was more than a consolation, she was a revelation, and I loved her with a love difficult to describe; I could not let her out of my sight, she was a message of peace and hope. We christened her Marie after my mother and her mother before her, but we called her Mignon and this name has stuck to her for ever. To us all she is and always will be Mignon, only Mignon. [...]

Mignon was all smiles and passivity, she was pleased with everything, she would docilely join in with the others’ games, but without ever any desire to lead or dominate. Her nature was based upon sweetness and patience, not unmixed with indolence: she seemed born to be the souffre-donleur of all the others. She never complained or felt aggrieved and there was an almost sleepy and instinctively indulgent look in her long-shaped blue eyes.”

- Marie of Romania

Happy Birthday Mignon!

#maria of yugoslavia #maria of romania #history #1900s #1910s #1920s #1930s #mignon of romania

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