In a modest half-Byzantine, half-Venetian house riding the terraces above the Black Sea at the quiet port of Balcic the late Queen Marie of Rumania lived some of her happiest days. Born a British princess, she learned to love Rumania as if she belonged there. So Rumanians thought it strange that she liked so much to have Bulgarian calla lilies around her Balcic house and that she insisted on having them tended by Bulgarian gardeners. In her will Queen Marie devised that though her body should rest in the royal crypt near Bucharest, her...
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