Maria of Romania

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For her mother, Queen Marie of Romania, please see Marie of Edinburgh.

Princess Mignon

House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

Carol I

Queen Consort
Elisabeta
Children
Princess Maria
Ferdinand I
Queen Consort
Maria
Children
Prince Carol
Elisabeth, Queen of Greece
Marie, Queen of Yugoslavia
Prince Nicholas
Ileana, Archduchess of Austria
Prince Mircea
Carol II
Queen Consort
Elena
Children
Prince Michael
Michael I
Queen Consort
Ana
Children
Princess Margarita
Princess Elena
Princess Irina
Princess Sophie
Princess Maria

Princess Marioara or Marie of Romania (Marie von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, 6 January 1900 – 22 June 1961) as Queen Marija was the Queen Consort of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia. She was known as Mignon in the family to distinguish her from her mother.

Maria was born in Gotha, Thuringia in Germany, during the reign of her maternal grandfather Duke Alfred of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, and during the Romanian reign of her putative great-uncle King Carol I. Her mother was Princess Marie, a daughter of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, a son of Queen Victoria. Her maternal great-grandfather was Tsar Alexander II of Russia. Maria's legal father was Crown Prince Ferdinand of Romania but her paternity is contested by some that cite a remark of her mother's claiming that Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich of Russia was Maria's biological father.^{[citation needed]}

She married King Alexander I of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes on 8 June 1922. Maria and Alexander had three sons:

She became Yugoslav Queen Mother when, following the assassination of King Alexander in Marseille in 1934, her oldest son became Peter II of Yugoslavia, the last Yugoslav king.

Marie died in exile in London on 22 June 1961.