[1] In her family, the young princess was nicknamed "Mariechen"[1] (a possible homage to her parents' German heritage) or "Itty" (derived from little).

[2] Everyone who knew Maria described her as a beautiful and precocious young child, as she was said to look at maps and identify different countries for fun at the age of only two and a half.

At Elisabeth's request, Maria's tombstone read the Bible verse, Luke 8:52: Weep not; she is not dead, but sleepeth.

[3] The coffin was covered with white satin, criss-crossed with silver lace ornaments and was as large as one for an adult, because the infant princess' body was enclosed in several decreasing size caskets placed one inside another.

[3]In another letter to Lascăr Catargiu,[3] he wrote: The sweetest memory which our lost daughter has left us as an inestimable treasure is her boundless love for the country in which she was born, a love so strong that despite her tender age she felt the pangs of homesickness during her first stay abroad.

[1] When Queen Elisabeth died in 1916, according to her wishes, her daughter's remains were exhumed and the casket placed on her coffin for the public procession.