In the words of Romania's Queen Maria... written almost 100 years ago...I found someone who expressed my heart for Romania. So I quote her here because I can't say it any better.

                                   Suzie Benforado   

        Once I was a stranger to this people; now I am one of them, and, because I came from so far, better was I able to see them with their good qualities and with their defects.

        Their country is a fruitful country, a country of vast plains, of waving corn, of deep forests, of rocky mountains, of rivers that in spring-time are turbulent with foaming waters, that in summer are but sluggish streams lost amongst stones. A country where peasants toil 'neath scorching suns, a country untouched by the squalor of manufactories, a country of extremes where the winters are icy and the summers burning hot.

        At first it was an alien country, its roads too dusty, too endless its plains. I had to learn to see its beauties —to feel its needs with my heart.  Little by little the stranger became one of them, and now she would like the country of her birth to see this other country through the eyes of its Queen.

        Yes, little by little I learnt to understand this people, and little by little it learned to understand me.  Now we trust each other, and so, if God wills, together we shall go towards a greater future!

My Country written in 1916 by

Maria Queen of Romania