Elizabeth

( Carmen Sylva ), Dowager Queen of Roumania, born at Neuwied, principality of Wied, in 1843, died at Bucharest, 2nd March, 1916. In 1869 she was married to Prince Charles of Hohenzollern, who became King of Roumania in 1881. Queen Elizabeth, or, as she was generally known, Carmen Sylva (her pen-name), was not only a patron of Roum an i an writers and artists, but herself a distinguished author. Among her works, which were all, with the exception of one, written in German, are: The Bard of the Dimbovitza , Pilgrim Sorrow , A Real Queen's Fairy Tales , and From Memory's Shrine . In 1914 she was made an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Literature of Great Britain.