BUCHAREST — Queen Anne of Romania, the loyal and modest wife of Romania’s last monarch, King Michael, died Monday afternoon, Romania’s royal house said. She was 92.

Queen Anne died at a hospital in Morges, Switzerland, surrounded by family including four of her daughters, a statement said.

Michael, 94, who is suffering from cancer, visited her every day, and she received the last rites on Sunday, the statement said.

Born Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma, she met Michael in November 1947 when they had both come for the wedding of the future Queen Elizabeth II and Philip Mountbatten in London.

In a 2013 documentary with Romanian public broadcaster TVR, Queen Anne said she was formally introduced to Michael, who was in uniform, at a reception at Claridge’s Hotel in London and she responded by clicking her heels and standing to attention. She said he proposed to her soon afterward, while driving.

Michael returned to Romania, and was forced to abdicate by the communists on Dec. 30, 1947, and moved into exile. He returned after communism ended and Queen Anne’s first visit to Romania was in Easter 1992.

‘‘Michael lost a country but won an exceptional woman,’’ commentator Stelian Tanase, an acquaintance of the royal couple, said. President Klaus Iohannis called her one of the ‘‘most important symbols of wisdom, dignity, and a beacon of moral conduit.’’

Queen Anne largely avoided the spotlight but is known for her wit and devotion to Michael.

The couple got married in an Orthodox ceremony in Athens in 1948 after Pope Pius XII refused to give Queen Anne, who was half French and half Danish, dispensation to marry a non-Catholic.

In 1966, they had another ceremony in a Catholic church in Monaco.

When she was younger, Queen Anne studied painting in New York and later volunteered for the French army during WWII.

She leaves her husband and their five daughters.