Her main research areas include Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) (with a particular interest for royal discourse), British culture and civilization, history, the age of constitutional monarchy in Europe, English teaching methodology and ESP (Legal English and Business English). She received her doctoral degree in 2013 with the distinction Summa cum laude at Université de Bretagne-Sud, Lorient, France. Her doctoral thesis is entitled “British and Romanian Constitutional Monarchies and Their Representations in the Royal Discourse of Queen Elizabeth II and King Mihai I”. Marina Cristiana Rotaru, Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest, The Department of Foreign Languages and Communication Marina-Cristiana Rotaru is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Foreign Languages and Communication of the Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest where she teaches ESP and Translation Studies. Marina Cristiana Rotaru, Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest In my investigation of memory remapping, I draw on Pierre Nora’s concept “lieu de mémoire” and aim to prove that the Golden Room in Pelişor Castle, a place that reflects the personality of the chatelaine and where the queen symbolically reconnected with her origins, has turned into a realm where Romanians have access to a part of their memory which communism did its best to extirpate. My analysis of Ilieşiu’s portrayal of the queen is circumscribed to the field of social semiotics, mainly to the concepts of “distance”, “angle” and “gaze” which Theo van Leeuwen uses in the visual representation of social actors. These two attempts illustrate how present-day Romanian society tries to regain parts of a common memory that was purposefully obliterated by the communist regime, and strives to rediscover and remap places of their shared memory. This article aims to investigate the manner in which the queen’s memory is kept alive, and draws on two distinct attempts to portray the queen: Sorin Ilieşiu’s documentary Queen Marie – The Last Romantic, the First Modern Woman and the Golden Room in Pelişor Castle, Queen Marie’s official residence in Sinaia, the royal resort in the Carpathians. Queen Marie is rightly considered one of the artisans of the Great Union, being regarded at the time and afterwards as “the living consciousness of Romanian unity, the symbol of confidence in final victory” (Boia 2001: 208). For such a time as this hundredth anniversary, it is only natural to call to mind people who made this ideal come true.
In 2018 Romania will celebrate the centenary of the Union of 1918, or the Great Union, when all Romanian provinces united into one state: Great Romania, a national ideal which Romanians strove for and achieved on the battlefield and which the Trianon Treaty of 1920 confirmed. Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest
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