She was described in the 1952 memoirs of Crown Princess Cecilie, her husband's granddaughter:"Simple and modest by nature, she was a reserved and deeply religious woman of outstanding intellectual attainments.

her exceptional delicacy of feeling made her hate intrigue and gossip with all her heart and she could never believe or even say anything disparaging of her fellow-mortals.

Grandmama Marie was an accomplished horsewoman in her youth, and even in her later years she was an indefatigable mountain-climber.

At an early age she recognised Wagner's genius, and until the time of the war, although not a passionate "Wagnerian" she was one of the most faithful visitors to Bayreuth; she had been present, with my grandfather, at the first festival performances.

She was patron, among other institutions, of the "Marie-Freuen-Verein" in Mecklenburg; and the great esteem which she enjoyed in her country during her lifetime is preserved in the name of the "Marienhaus" in Schwerin, a nurses' training home and hospital which she founded.