#头条创作挑战赛 #
The last royal family of Romania produced a pair of brothers and sisters, and the older brother rolled up money and his lover to be happy;
The younger sister supported the rebels, overthrew her nephew and left to find a young lover.
Princess Elizabeth of Romania
An ambitious person does not hate, they are aggressive and use all means to get what they want.
But the ambitious but low-minded people are different, especially if the siblings are also crown princes and princesses, who have brought disaster to the Romanian royal family.
Her Royal Highness the indifferent and arrogant princess
Princess Elizabeth of Romania, the second child of Ferdinand I and Princess Mary of Edinburgh. Her brother's name is Carol, and the two siblings were raised by their great-grandparents, Carol I's father, and were spoiled. But the brother and sister relationship is very good, perhaps because the two grew up together, they and the brothers and sisters behind them are not very harmonious.
Elizabeth with her brother and mother
Elizabeth has been a lazy personality since she was a child, ignoring people who do not look good, and even pursuing her with harsh words, so she is not popular in the marriage market. Greece and Romania were allied forces during the Balkan Wars, and in order to strengthen ties between the two sides, Prince George of Greece proposed to 16-year-old Elizabeth during the intervening war. Elizabeth rejected him and said harshly, "God created the prince and forgot to finish it." ”
Princess Elizabeth of Romania
With a "steel tooth", Elizabeth successfully did not marry at the age of 25. In modern times, 25 years old is the age of youth, but at the beginning of the 20th century, she was already an older young woman. Her mother, Queen Mary, was worried and went around looking for a suitable husband for her daughter. He also complained that his daughter was so ambitious, fat and mediocre in intelligence. This made Elizabeth and Queen Mary's already little mother-daughter relationship even worse. In Switzerland, the mother and daughter met the Greek royal family again, at a time when George was at a low point in his life, his father Constantine I was deposed, and the entire Greek royal family was forced into exile in Switzerland. Without hope, George proposed to Elizabeth again. Unexpectedly, this time Elizabeth agreed. Although George was still a small, poor and unattractive prince in her eyes, she did not love him. But she missed the pressure of missing the bloom period because there was no one to propose, and she couldn't wait for a marriage to be rescued.
Princess Elizabeth of Romania
Although George was penniless and had no status at this time, at least he was a prince. Queen Mary was so pleased that her eldest daughter could finally marry and invited George's family to Bucharest to be able to publicly announce their engagement. Soon after they arrived in Romania, the George family received good news.
Bad married life
The unexpected, the current king of Greece, George 's brother Alexander I, died unexpectedly, and political unrest broke out in Greece immediately after the king's death. After a referendum, the popular population supported the return of the deposed monarch Constantine I to the throne. In other words, Elizabeth's future husband went from a bald prince to a prince of the country. It was simply fantastic, and the Romanian royal family quickly took charge of the marriage, and soon Elizabeth, 27, married 31-year-old Crown Prince George of Greece, the future George II.
Elizabeth with her husband George II
But when Elizabeth arrived in Greece, she did not expect life here to be so "difficult". Because of years of war in Greece, the entire royal family lived tightly, although George claimed to be the crown prince, but the couple did not even have an independent palace. The royal family is huddled together, and Elizabeth has to deal not only with her mother-in-law Sophie, but also with her husband's large family. Elizabeth did not understand Greek very well, but her mother-in-law, Queen Sophie, and other relatives liked to get together and talk in Greek. Elizabeth didn't know what they were talking about and felt excluded from her in-laws.
Princess Elizabeth of Romania
More importantly, she and her husband George are less and more separated, George sits on the front line all year round, Elizabeth feels lonely, and there is no time to cultivate feelings at all. Elizabeth became pregnant a few months after her marriage, but soon miscarried, complications of the miscarriage were typhoid fever and pleurisy, Elizabeth was also psychologically devastated after this physical injury, she was very depressed and moved back to Bucharest to live with her family.
Princess Elizabeth of Romania
Elizabeth had not lived in Bucharest for long, when she heard that because of the defeat in the Greco-Turkish War, her father-in-law Constantine I was forced to abdicate, and her husband George ascended the throne and became George II, and Elizabeth hurried back to Greece and became Queen of Greece. Then, before the queen's position could warm up, another military coup overthrew the supreme ruler of Greece and the couple were forced into exile in Romania.
Ambition after divorce
During George and Elizabeth's exile in Romania, Elizabeth was overjoyed, while George was depressed. George was planning how to restore the country on the one hand, and on the other hand, he felt humiliated by his life under the fence. Elizabeth was jealous and hated her brother's wife and husband's sister, Princess Helen. She felt noble and had to live in exile because she married into poor and turbulent Greece. And Princess Helen enjoys the life of a queen because she is married to her brother... Her jealousy was not without reason, but it set the stage for the subversion of the dynasty.
Princess Elizabeth of Romania
George II hoped that Elizabeth would give him a child, but the two who were idle did not conceive another child anyway. The relationship between husband and wife, who did not have much affectionate friendship, became worse and worse, and Elizabeth, who could not get affection in her husband, began to have a beginning and end with many men, and even flirted with her brother-in-law King of Yugoslavia when visiting Yugoslavia... George also gradually cooled his heart and ran to England to be happy. In 1935, Elizabeth filed for divorce from the court without informing her husband, and George II was the last to hear the news, and he was sentenced by a Romanian court to "abandon the family".
Princess Elizabeth of Romania
Elizabeth, who remained in Romania, became happier after the death of her father Ferdinand I, because the government welcomed Elizabeth's dear brother Carol II as king. As the only member of the royal family to support Carol's love with her mistress Elena, Elizabeth's behavior was rewarded by her brother Carol, who gave a large amount of money to his sister, making Elizabeth's purse bulge.
Elizabeth with her mother and sister
Also because Elizabeth was the only family member who had a crush on Carol II's mistress Elena, Elizabeth began to play the role of Romanian First Lady when Queen Mary and Queen Helen were expelled successively. The ambitious Elizabeth amassed wealth everywhere and resolutely defended the dictatorship of her brother Carol, which became Carol's sharp blade against the princes and nobles. She used cruel means to suppress and persecute other members of the royal family, trampling these once high relatives and friends under their feet. Of course, Carol was also willing to give some benefits to her "useful" sister, and he gave Elizabeth a large amount of property, allowing her to rest assured and boldly support her little lover.
After the world was turned upside down, the whole body retreated
Carol II was deposed for perverse behavior, and he simply ran abroad with a lot of wealth to live a happy rich life. Mihai I came to power and welcomed back his mother, Princess Helen, as queen mother, leaving Elizabeth no longer able to be a domineer. Elizabeth, who had already tasted power, refused to give up, and she began to grow closer to the Romanian Communist Party and openly opposed her nephew.
Princess Elizabeth of Romania
We don't talk about politics, only positions. In the eyes of Romania's new king, Mihai, her aunt Elisabeth was a spy, supporting not only the anti-royal forces in the country, but even financial support for the guerrillas against her ex-husband's brother, King Paul I of Greece. Already in a cholera mess, the Romanian royal family could no longer withstand the wave of revolution, and in 1947, the 26-year-old Mihai government was overthrown and Romania became a republic.
Mihai I
I thought that I had made great contributions and could be prosperous from then on, but what Elizabeth did not expect was that after the establishment of the Republic, all members of the royal family were ordered to leave Romania and go into exile. Given Elizabeth's immense "contribution", give her three days to pack her bags. Elizabeth and her sister Elena left Romania on a special train after losing a large amount of property, settled in Zurich and eventually died in Cannes, France.
Little fresh meat painter Mark Favra
In the last years of her life, Elizabeth also had another scandal that disgraced the family. In Cannes, Elizabeth met a French painter named Marc Favre, and the two fell in love. The two once wanted to get married, but because the Hohenzollern family felt that Elizabeth was too ashamed to marry a commoner 30 years younger than her, they did not agree to the marriage. She then asked her cousin, Frederick the Prince of Hohenzollern, to give her lover a title as compensation, but the Prince refused. So Elizabeth did something unexpected to everyone, adopted Mark as her adopted son and left all her property to her sole heir.
Mihai, Elizabeth and Carol II
Whether men or women, ambition is not a sin. But having ambition but not matching strength and vision is a disaster for others. We do not judge Elizabeth's love life, after all, feelings are a matter of two people, such as drinking water and warming self-knowledge. Whether she has suffered or has other resentment we cannot relate to.
The Romanian royal family
Personally, perhaps Princess Elizabeth's life is dashing, rich, lover, and happy. But as a member of the royal family, what she did was short-sighted and cold, and pushed the Romanian royal family to its demise faster. Although the wave of revolution was unstoppable, Elizabeth pushed the broken royal carriage as it fell into the abyss, helping the Romanian royal family to disappear from history.
Princess Elizabeth of Romania
It was not until 1997 that the last monarch, Mihai I, regained Romanian citizenship and fulfilled his wish to return to his homeland, and Elizabeth died as early as 1956.