LOVE BEFORE A CROWN

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3325, 1 November 1919, Page 5

LOVE BEFORE A CROWN

It . ‘ii. Prince Nicholas, who has now been [i'ecognfsed_s_-{as heir _tq:-ittheggiiiié throne of ‘R~ouma_l_:lia',‘is a 1 Eton ihoy‘ years old. It, announced ;' Council of Ministers, after dei:l§§r‘éfc:?= ; 1 il_ig‘;upon the apt of_renunciation’-Ina_dé- V. by Prince Charfés§"foliowing his %‘.ia6:_~=;; -5 W gan—ati{§. marriage, _decide_d~ to rg‘:__c_ogr_liso.'_. .Ni9hola§.’ 3 This completes the romance which surrounded the renunciation by wPrince i.Charles.' A year‘ ago he and Mile. ;'Lam‘brino left Bucharest secretly, and ‘crossed the frontier to Odessa in a.’ 'motor—car. Here they were ‘married. j Qfficers were sent from Bucharest, ;and found the Prince in a restaurant.. _ f"_l‘_hey insisted on ‘his going back, and, reaching the Roumania capital, net :vv'as sentencedto six Weeks’ irnprisozi-+ _~ ment for leaving his regiment withoufif ‘notification. -. - ‘ I ;J:e.gree to his marriage being annulled” _‘lhe question of his status Was left uin-a * altered. ‘ But he refused to give up hie wife! ‘and was then given the alter_nati_v»3 ofi igiving up his wife or of resuming his ficommand at the front. To this he! 1' replied that he would remain a soldier! ibut would keep his sword. A few; ; days later he “Wrote a formal remincia-4 ition of his rights as Crown Prince. '