A PRINCE’S CHILD

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12608, 19 November 1926, Page 8

A PRINCE’S CHILD

MOTHER SUES FOR SUPPORT POIGNANT LETTERS READ IN COURT CAROL ADMITTED PATERNITY - ••• Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Australian and N Z. Ca.blo Association. (Received November 19, 1 a.m.) PARIS, November 18. Poignant love-letters exchanged between Zizi Lambrino and Prince Carol of Rumania were read during the hearing of a case in which Lambrino is suing Carol for the school fees of her son, Mircea, and, furthermore, demanding that his name shall be entered in tne school records as a legitimate son.

When Carol was ordered to rejoin his regiment, after his wartime attempt to renounce the Rumanian succession, he wrote: ’“I cannot give you up, ever. I remain, your loving husband, father of the child you are expecting.”- ' . , Lambrino, sobbing, broke down when this passage was read. In the course of the opposing counsel’s heated argument, it was disclosed that Lambrino is also suing Carol for 10 million francs damages for alleged desertion. The evidence showed that the child was registered in Lambrino’s name, its father not being mentioned. After Lambrino had become domiciled in France, the headmaster of a French school refused to admit the child, on the grounds of its illegitimacy. Counsel for the defence argued that tho marriage had been dissolved by the Rumanian courts, and that afterwards Lambrino accepted an arrangement by which she was granted, an income of 110,000 francs. Moreover, the tribunal was incompetent to decide, because both parties were foreigners, and the case concerned a question cf paternity, which did not come under French law.