Bucharest, July 19.
Marie Alexandrina Victoria, Dowager Queen of Rumania and granddaughter of Queen Victoria, died at 5 pin. yesterday at the age of 62, succumbing after a long illness from. infection of the liver.
King Carol, her son, Crown Prince Michael, her grandson, other members of the Royal Family and the Prime Minister, Patriarch Myron Cristea, were present at the end, as well as a number of doctors, including a German specialist who had travelled to Sinaia (the Summer Palace) from Dresden, where the Queen had originally been taken ill.
A Council of Ministers met in the Palace last night to discuss the programme of the neral of Queen Marie, The Prime Minister ordered all the authorities to go into mourning.
"Theatres have been closed and shop: will be closed on the day of the funeral, while private houses are already draped with flags.
The Queen will be buried, probably on Sunday, in the vault of the church known as Curcia de near the remains of her King Ferdinand. AN defunct Rumanian royalty are interred in this churel A British Princess Queen Marie of Rumania was a Princess of the British Royal Family, Óor she was a daughter of Prince Albert, Duke. of Edinburgh, the second son of Queen Victoria.
Born at Eastwell Park, October 29, 1875, she was educated in Englan and in the same surroundings as the British Royal Family. She married Prince Ferdinand of Hohenzollern on January 16, 1893, at Sigmaringen in Germany, and the wedding was one of the most brilliant functions of an age of many Royal marriages. She was crowned Queen of Rumania on October 15, 1922, having been proclaimed Queen in October 1914—the coronation being postponed by the advent of the Great Wa It was during the however, and the terrible years for her coun-{ry that followed, that Queen Mari by her great patriotism and services for her people attained inter-motional prominence.
At the outbreak of the Great War, the King announced that Rumania would remain neutral unless attacked, but his government's sympathy in {he conflict was indicated when the King was shouted down during a Speech from the Throne in November, 1915.
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