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Her Eternal Crown: Queen Marie of Romania and the Baha’i Faith, Della L Marcus, pp157-8
Haifa, Palestine
3 December 1929
Her Majesty
The Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania Bucharest
Your Majesty:
I have received, through the intermediary of my dear Bahà’i sister, Miss Martha Root, the autographed portrait of your Majesty, bearing in simple and moving terms the message which your Majesty has graciously been pleased to write in person. I shall treasure this most excellent portrait, and I assure you that the Greatest Holy Leaf and the Family of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá share to the full my feelings of lively satisfaction at receiving so strikingly beautiful a photograph of a Queen whom we have learned to love and admire.
I have followed during the past few years with profound sympathy the disturbed course of various happenings in your beloved country, which I feel must have caused you much pain and concern. But whatever the vicissitudes and perplexities which beset your Majesty’s earthly path, I am certain that even in your saddest hours you have derived abundant sustenance and joy from the thought of having, through your glowing and historic utterances on the Bahà’i Faith as well as by your subsequent evidences of gracious solicitude for its welfare, brought abiding solace and strength to the multitude of its faithful and long-suffering adherents throughout the East. Yours, surely, dearly-beloved Queen, is the station, ordained by Bahà’u’llàh in the realms beyond, to which the strivings of no earthly power can ever hope to attain.
I have, immediately upon the publication of the second volume of ‘The Bahà’i World’ by the American Bahà’i Publishing Committee, forwarded directly to Bucharest, to the address of your Majesty and that of H.R.H. Princess Ileana, copies of this most recent and comprehensive of Bahà’i publications. I will take the liberty of presenting in the course of the coming year the third volume of this same publication, which I trust will prove of interest to your Majesty.
May I, in closing, reiterate the expression of profound appreciation and joy which the Family of ‘Abdu’l-Bahà and Bahi’is in every land universally feel for the powerful impetus which your Majesty’s outspoken and noble words have lent to the onward march of their beloved Faith.
The Family also join me in extending to your Majesty, as well as to H.R.H. Princess Ileana, a most cordial welcome, should your Majesty ever purpose to visit the Holy Land, to ‘Abdu’l- Bahà’s home in Haifa, as well as to those scenes rendered so hallowed and memorable by the heroic lives and deeds of Bahá’u’lláh and ‘Abdu’l-Bahà.
With deepest affection,
Shoghi
1929-12-03 to Queen Marie w/ invite to pilgrimage
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