Regina Elisabeta, alias Carmen Sylva
Queen Elizabeth, alias Carmen Sylva

Summary/Abstract: The article presents a biographical, spiritual and intellectual portrait of Queen Elizabeth of Romania, who signed as a poet under the pseudonym Carmen Sylva. She dedicated his life and thoughts to the Romanian people whose joys, sorrows and pains she shared until her last hour, spreading light and encouragement everywhere. For the good ones she used words of praise and for the bad ones, words of forgiveness. Therefore, in the souls of Romanians she remained a model of kindness, generosity, wisdom and forgiveness. She was wholeheartedly dedicated to the royal cause. Both the Queen and the King had a strong feeling of duty, honoring and loving hard work, facing with dignity all the difficulties they had in the 47 years of a reign dedicated to the public good and the prosperity of the Romanian nation. Carmen Sylva’s literature (the Latin pseudonym she used to sign her writings meaning “the song of the forest”), was rich and diverse. She cultivated all genres. She published translations, but also original works. She wrote poetry. Noble and sensitive by nature, Carmen Sylva knew how to combine ballad with romance, the atmosphere of lyrical song with the epic narrative. Her favorite themes were: motherly love, friendship, the bucolic atmosphere of the parental home.

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