RUMANIA: Erratum

TIME, May 26: "Queen Marie, whose pen name is Carmen Sylva. . . ."

"Carmen Sylva" was the pen name of Queen Elizabeth (died in 1915), aunt of the present Monarch and wife of King Carol I of Rumania who died on Oct. 7, 1914. She wrote with facility in English, French, German, Rumanian. The most noteworthy of her writings: Les Pensees d'une Relne (1882), Cuvinte Sufletesci (1888); two poems, Sappho and Hammerstein.

Some of her works were written in collaboration with Mite Kremnitz, one of her maids of honor, sometimes under the pseudonyms of...

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