MARIE OF RUMANIA SERIOUSLY ILL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 51, 16 March 1937, Page 5

MARIE OF RUMANIA SERIOUSLY ILL

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Grave Suspicions of Poisoning . / RIGID CENSORSHIP

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(Received 16, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, March 15. The Daily Telegraph 's Bucharest correspondent says that the Dowager Queen Marie has been seriously ill for two days. The country was kept in complete ignorance because she is suffering from poisoning. M. Udarenu, Marshal of the Court, was taken seriously ill simultaneously, suffering from similar symptoms. His eomplaint is described as appendicitis. There are grave suspicions of the possibility of sinister Teasons, especially in view of the elaborate police and military precautions. A rigid censorship is in force. The Bucharest correspondent of the British United Press Association says that a member of Queen Marie 's staff issued a statement that the Queen had "had a slight attack of influenza for three days, but now is much improved. She is confined to her private apartments but is not in bed." According to a Bucharest P.A. cable, Queen Marie 's condition considerably improved overnight. ■% Queen Marie was born at Eastwell Park, Kent, in 1875, the eldest daughter of Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, second son of Queen Victoria. In 1893 she rnarried Prince Ferdinand, afterward King of Rumania. From thi8 marriage six children were born: Prince Charles, who married Princess Helen of Greece; Princess Elizabeth, married to the exKing George of Greece; Princess Marie, later Queen of Yugoslavia; the Princes Nicolas and Mircea, and Princess Ileana. Queen Marie has taken a great interest in the development of her adopted country. She has written extensively for the American and other Press.