Queen Mary of Romania, nurse in World War 1: Two novel press photographs

Abstract

In the observation of the Centennial of the founding of the unified Romanian Kingdom, we present two press photographs that were recently uncovered in a private collection. Both are documents of the period cropped from the French journal Excelsior. Given the fact that this journal was distributed in France during World War I when transportation was difficult, and that the number of copies was reduced, many of them being destroyed, these pictures remained unknown to historians of the period. The pictures document the very well-known commitment of the Romanian Queen in offering healthcare support to the wounded soldiers of World War I.