Diamond Wedding

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	Publisher: RAO Year of publication: 2008 No. of pages: 128 ISBN: 978 973 103 708 0

On 10 June 1996, we celebrated our engagement at Versoix. We had chosen for our engagement the same day as that of the marriage of Their Majesties in Athens, in 1948. Twelve years have passed since then. During this time, we have seen photographs, read books, heard the accounts of Their Majesties and other members of the family about that far-off but at the same time recent event, in the summer of the year 1948, in Athens.

 

The love story of the King and Queen goes further than the personal destiny of one man and one woman, whose love has been measured with the duration of a lifetime. It is the story of an exile, of a country, of a destiny squandered by an incomprehensible century; it is the story of a nation struck down by others and in itself astray.

 

This year is the sixtieth anniversary of their wedding. The “Diamond Wedding”, as the celebration of those who remain united together during six uninterrupted decades of marriage is known.

 

The King and the Queen are people who do not like personal disclosures or crafted words. Although their devotion to their country and for each other is evident, they do not like this to be described or lauded.

 

Let us then regard this book as a story in pictures, in which the people of today may bathe their eyes in love, beauty, hope and pride. And as a homage to the King and Queen.

 

I hope that the generation that we have raised will continue the work that the King and his forbears have done. Our family belongs to this country. I am convinced that our descendents will have the strength and inspiration to identify themselves with the soul of the land. (…) There is a poetry that Romania possesses, I have seen it. In the Romanian forests, on the plains, everything sings. My children have devoted themselves to this idea, and this is how they have discovered their identity. The King raised his daughters for this.

 

The Romanian people is endowed with enormous talent. People should be allowed to take heart, because they have been completely downtrodden. If only Romanians would once more come to be proud of themselves!