Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I tenei wa, i tutaki a Marie ki a Lieutenant Gheorghe Cantacuzène, he mema, ahakoa na roto i tetahi peka kore ture, o te whanau rangatira o Romania tawhito me te uri o Prince Șerban Cantacuzino. Ahakoa ehara i te tino ataahua, i tu mai a Cantacuzène ma te whakamahi i tana ahua whakakatakata me te ahua, me tana taranata i te eke hoiho. Kaore i roa ka uru te tokorua ki te aroha, engari i mutu ta raua hononga i muri i te mohiotanga o te iwi. Ahakoa i whakahe ia i te whanonga a Marie, i whakaae tona whaea kia haere mai ia ki Coburg i te wa, i te 1897, i te mea kua hapu ia. E whakapono ana te kaituhituhi a Julia Gelardi i whanau a Marie ki tetahi tamaiti i Coburg; ka mate pea te tamaiti, ka tukuna ranei ki tetahi whare mokopuna i muri tonu i tona whanautanga. He whakapae kei runga ko te tamahine tuarua a Marie, "Mignon", ko te tamahine a Cantacuzène, ehara i a Ferdinand. I roto i nga tau e whai ake nei, i whakapae hoki a Marie i te hononga aroha ki a Grand Duke Boris Vladimirovich o Russia, Waldorf Astor, Prince Barbu Știrbey me Joe Boyle. I te tau 1903, i whakatuwherahia e Ferdinand raua ko Marie te Pelișor Castle, he whare Art Nouveau i Sinaia i tukuna e Kingi Carol mo te tokorua kingi. I mōhio a Marie anake ki te whānuitanga o te tukinotanga i whakamahia hei whakamutu i te
Ko te 1907 Romanian Peasants' Revolt i te wa kua roa rawa ki te whakawhitiwhiti. I muri mai ka mau ia ki te kakahu i nga kakahu o te iwi, i te kaainga, i te iwi hoki, ka tiimata te ahua o te ahua i waenga i nga waahine taiohi.