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Mary Karadja , born Marie Louise Smith 12 March 1868 in Stockholm, died in Locarno in 1943, was a Swedish-Turkish princess and author.
Mary Karadja was the youngest of four children to "liquor king" LO Smith and his first wife, Maria Lovisa Collin, and was schooled in retirement in Geneva between nine and 16 years of age. She married in April 1887 under the Greek Orthodox ritual with a Turkish prince and minister at the courts of Stockholm, Copenhagen and The Hague Jean Karadja Pasha , died in 1887) and had two children, Prince and later Romanian diplomat Constantin Karadja and Princess Despina (1892 - 1983). The couple first lived in Stockholm, then Hague and finally in London. After Jean's death Karadjas spent the multilingual Mary Karadja alternately in Belgium, Britain and France, but also had influence on the formation of spirit genomic associations in Sweden.
Mary Karadja was a versatile writer and wrote several poetry and prose books and plays and numerous spiritualist writings. During the years 1902-04 she published the spiritualist journal XXth century along with Lizzy Lind af Hageby (1878-1963) and Anna Synnerdahl. [translated from Swedish Wikipedia page]
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