“Queen Marie of Romania, who once wrote: 'We are hardly ever arbiters of our own Fate: We must move, do, live, according to our several duties and our own desires and wishes have to be fitted in with what we can do more often than what we desire to do'.”
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Born to Rule: Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters of Queen Victoria
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