King Ferdinand I and Queen Marie of Romania
after their Coronations on October 15, 1922, in Alba Iulia.

The last coronation in Europe in this century was that of King Ferdinand I of Romania and his wife Queen Marie in a non-denominational ceremony on October 15, 1922, in the main public square in front of the newly built Coronation Cathedral of the Reunification in Alba Iulia, a major city in the new Romanian province of Transylvania. (The ceremony was non-denominational because, although Romania was overwhelmingly Orthodox, the King was a devout Catholic and his wife was then an Anglican.) King Ferdinand's two successors, King Carol II and King Mihai I, however, had only swearing-in ceremonies. (King Carol II, upon ascending the Throne in the summer of 1930, did schedule a coronation in Alba Iulia for the following September; but, a few weeks before the planned ceremony, the coronation was postponed (never to be re-scheduled, because of the complicated situation with Carol's ex-wife, Queen Helen, who due to their divorce obviously could not be crowned with him, but was nonetheless functioning in Romania as "Queen Mother Helen.")