The heart of British-born
queen Marie of Romania was finally laid to rest on Tuesday after criss-crossing
the nation for 77 years.
Encased in a small silver
casket, the heart was brought to Pelisor Castle in the Carpathian Mountains and
placed in the room where, in the former royal family's words, it "beat for
the last time".
The wife of King Ferdinand I,
who reigned from 1914 to 1927, Marie died in 1938.
Her body was interred at the
monastery in the town of Curtea de Arges, but she wanted her heart to be laid
to rest in a specially built chapel in the Black Sea town of Balcic, which was
home to the queen's favourite summer residence.
But the region was returned
to Bulgaria in 1940 and the royal family was forced to move the heart to a
temporary location in Bran castle in the Carpathian Mountains.
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