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“Queen Marie” is an in-depth, fascinating look at a little-known member of the British Royal family. Maria di Sassonia-Coburgo-Gotha was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria’s, and became the Queen of Romania after marrying King Ferdinand.
Samuel Goldwyn’s dramatic film about Queen Marie focuses on her passionate attempts to help her adopted country at the Versaille Peace Treaty talks in Paris following WWI. The film is directed by Alexis Sweet Cahill, and stars Roxana Lupo as the aristocratic and beautiful queen.
Romania had been devastated by WWI, and the country’s hopes were riding on their Queen’s mission to Paris to assist with the 1919 peace talks. She is apparently the lone female in the male-dominated talks, and as such she wasn’t permitting a seat at the table. She hoped to lobby for international recognition of Romania’s unification at the Peace Treaty. Most of the allied leaders, including British Prime Minister Lloyd George and