Alexandrina Cantacuzino, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Alexandrina Cantacuzino

Romanian activist

Date of Birth: 20-Sep-1876

Place of Birth: Ciocănești, Dâmbovița County, Romania

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: politician, diplomat, suffragette

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Alexandrina Cantacuzino

  • Alexandrina "Didina" Cantacuzino (born Alexandrina Pallady, also known as Alexandrina Grigore Cantacuzino; Francized Alexandrine Cantacuzène; September 20, 1876 – late 1944) was a Romanian political activist, philanthropist and diplomat, one of her country's leading feminists in the 1920s and '30s.
  • A leader of the National Council of Romanian Women and the Association of Romanian Women, she served as Vice President of the International Council of Women, representing the International Alliance of Women, as well as Romania, to the League of Nations.
  • However, her feminist beliefs and international profile clashed with her national conservatism, her support for eugenics, and eventually her conversion to fascism. Cantacuzino was a member of Romanian nobility, and, after her marriage to the wealthy landowner Grigore Gheorghe Cantacuzino, claimed the title of "Princess".
  • Her elitism and her feminism led her to join the upper-class charity SONFR, of which she became President after World War I.
  • A wartime nurse, she became a herald of war remembrance initiatives (responsible, in large part, for the Mausoleum of Mara?e?ti).
  • After her involvement with the National Council of Romanian Women, she supported limited women's suffrage within a corporatist framework, losing the support of liberal women, but also building connections with fascist politicians.
  • Cantacuzino's policies within the Association of Romanian Women were mirrored in the legislation of World War II fascist regimes, beginning with the National Renaissance Front. Sympathetic toward the revolutionary fascist Iron Guard, of which her son Alecu was also an affiliate, Cantacuzino switched her support toward Ion Antonescu's government in early 1941.
  • Having earlier reported to the League of Nations on the damages caused by the Spanish Civil War, she was also critical of Antonescu over the 1941 Odessa massacre.
  • This was her last known public cause.
  • Cantacuzino died, in relative obscurity, not long after Antonescu's downfall.

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