Queen Marie, who was born into the British Royal Family as the granddaughter of Queen Victoria, became one of the most popular royal figures in European history.
In 1930, Queen Marie became a member of the Baha'i Faith, which she found "vastly appealing." Given her own religiously divided family, she was particularly attracted to the idea of humanity's unification under one faith
Queen Marie visited North America in 1926 and her initial arrival was in New York on October 18th.
To give one small example of the state of women's rights in her era, Queen Marie gave birth to her first child only nine months after the marriage, in October 1893. Although she requested the use of chloroform in order to ease the pains of labor, doctors were reluctant to do so, believing that "women must pay in agony for the sins of Eve." After Marie's mother and Queen Victoria insisted, King Carol eventually allowed the use of the drug on his niece-in-law.