Alexandrina Cantacuzino
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Alexandrina "Didina" Cantacuzino was a Romanian political activist, philanthropist and diplomat, one of her country's leading feminists in the 1920s and 1930s. A leader of the National Council of Roma
Cantacuzino, photographed ca. 1925
Alexandrina and husband Grigore Gheorghe Cantacuzino in the family car, August 1900
Cantacuzino in or around 1936
Alexandrina Cantacuzino (center, marked X), receiving visitors at the Zamora (Cantacuzino) Castle in Bușteni, ca. 1928
Ghica family
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The House of Ghica was a Romanian noble family of Albanian origin whose members held significant positions in Wallachia, Moldavia and later in the Kingdom of Romania, between the early 17th century an
Alexandrina Cantacuzino
…Kretzulescu boyaress from Wallachia, and the heiress of a large estate. Through Pallady's mother, Alexandrina descended from another boyar house, the Ghicas, who owned the manor in Ciocănești. The marriage produced four children in all, but Alexandrina was the only one to survive infancy. From an affair…
Grigore Ghica, the first Prince of Wallachia (1659–1660 and 1673–1678) from the Ghica family.
Grigore IV Ghica, Prince of Wallachia (1822–1828)
Portrait of Dora d'Istria by Petre Mateescu (1876).
Alexandru II Ghica, Prince of Wallachia (1834–1842)