AMBITIOUS TO RULE?

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12618, 1 December 1926, Page 7

AMBITIOUS TO RULE?

CAROL CAUSING ANXIETY QUEEN WILL SEE HIM IN PARIS KING'S DAYS ARE NUMBERED Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received November 30, 7.40 p.m.) LONDON, November 29. A wireless from -tlio steamer Berengaria intimates that Queen Mario will spend a day or two in Paris. This is interpreted to mean that King Ferdinand’s condition is not so desperate as it has been reported, and also that the Queen is anxious to meet Prince Carol, presumably with the idea of impressing upon him the necessity of conforming to the Rumanian constitutional law. On the other hand, advices from Bucharest suggest that, despite officia I denials, Ferdinand's days are numbered. Certainly there is a temporary improvement, but his life under the most

favourable view, is to be measured by weeks. Carol remains quiet at Neuilly. Madame Lambrino, his morganatic wife, resides a couple of streets away. She shrugs her shoulders at the idea of Carol being a candidate for the throne. Her main object is to obtain French legal recognition of her right to use the name of Hohenzollern. The Court of Appeal will deliver its decision on this claim in a few days. PARIS, November 29. It is reported that Prince Carol secretly agreed that his wife should .return and reside in Rumania, for dynastic reasons. There is no suggestion that the arrangement necessitates his breaking off his relations with Madame Lupescu, his mistress.