Regele Ferdinand și Regina Maria în sprijinul idealului unității naționale [Articol]

Abstract

King Ferdinand and Queen Mary in support of the ideal of romanian national unity. Since the moment he ascended to the throne as King of Romania, on September 28/October 11, 1914, Ferdinand i promised the representatives of the nation that he would be “a good Romanian”. King Ferdinand and Queen Mary, although of foreign descent, fully identified with the interests of the nation and acted accordingly for the unification of all territories inhabited by Romanians within the borders of the same state. they would endure, along with their subjects, the privations of war, the humiliations of defeat, and despair, but they would keep alive the hope for final victory and the righteousness of the national cause. While King Ferdinand, as the supreme commander of the army, dedicated himself to inspections at the front, military exercises and maneuvers, visiting hospitals with the wounded, and awarding distinctions to soldiers who distinguished themselves at the front, Queen Mary devoted her energies to visiting and caring for the wounded, as well as charitable actions for the benefit of the army. the Sovereigns had to endure the humiliations of concluding a separate peace with the enemy, but also the joy of initiating the process of achieving national unity through the union with the Kingdom of Romania of Bessarabia (March 1918). then they experienced the satisfaction of re-entering the fight alongside allies and finalizing the process of national unity through the union of Bukovina (november 1918) and, as a crowning achievement of previous stages, the union of transylvania, Banat, crișana, and Maramureș with the motherland. a new challenge for the Sovereigns of Romania would be to obtain international recognition of the borders established during 1918, especially Queen Mary managing, through her selflessness and personal charm, to convince the european political and diplomatic world of the righteousness of the cause and interests of the Romanian state. in gratitude for their commitment to the national ideal, the Romanians organized their coronation ceremony in alba iulia (October 1922) as a symbol of national unity.