ROUMANIAN DYNASTY

Taranaki Daily News, 3 December 1926, Page 7

ROUMANIAN DYNASTY

IS DETHRONEMENT LIKELY? o QUEEN’S HURRIED RETURN PRINCE CAROL’S POSITION By Telegraph—Prose Assc.—Copyright. Received Dee. 2, 8 p.m. Paris, Dee. 2. An alarmist report that a state of siege has been declared at Bucharest, is discredited, but the fact remains that Queen Marie cut short her stay in Paris after consultation with General Angelesco, Marshal of the Roumanian Court, who brought her the latest advices from Bucharest. The Queen departed by the ordinary train, without even waiting for dinner and in such a rush that she broke a pearl necklace on the station platform. Professor Hartmann will not operate on King Ferdinand until after the Queen’s arrival. The operation is evpeeted to remove the King’s life from danger, but his advisers feel that it would be unwise to take any risks until he has seen the Queen. It is expected that Queen Marie will be made a member of the Council of Regency, which at present consists of Princess Helen, Prince Nicholas, the head of the P.-umanian Church and the President of the Court of Cassation. In such a combination the Queen would obviously be the dominating force.

General Angeleseo informed Prince Carol that he would be permitted to see his father in his private capacity, but the possibility of his reinstatement as heir to the throne was, however, more remote. The prince himself shows no disposition to break with Madame Lupesco, the wife of a wealthy Roumanian with whom he is said to he living, or to become reconciled with Princess Helen. KING'S APPEAL TO NATION. PROFOUND IMPRESSION CAUSED. Received Dec. 2, 8 p.m. Bucharest, Dee. 1. King Ferdinand’s message to the nation has created a profound impression. It is believed it was intended to impress upon the army and other officers who are sympathtie with Prince Carol that intrigues or adventures on his behalf will not he tolerated. CLAIM AGAINST PRINCE CAROL. MORGANATIC WIFE’S SUIT. Faris, Dec. 1. The Court hearing the suit of Madame Lambrino decided that it was infeompetent to pronounce on the case. Madame Lambrino and Prince Carol were absent. Madame Lambrino is appealing. The following calbegram gives details of the case referred to:— Poignant love letters exchanged between Madame Zizi Lambrino and Prince Carol were read in a case in which Madame Lambrino is suing Prine© Carol for the school fees of her son Mircea, ‘ and furthermore demanding that his nam shall be entered in the school records as the legitimate son. When Prince Carol was ordered to rejoin his regiment after his wartime attempt to renonce the Roumanian succession, he wrote: “I cannot give you up ever. I remain your loving husband and the father of the child you arc expecting.” Madame Lambrino sobbingly broke down at this passage. In the course of opposing counsel’s heated argument it was disclosed that Madame Lambrino is also suing Prince Carol for ten million francs damages for alleged desertion. The evidence showed that the child had been registered in Lam'brino’s name, and the father was not mentioned. After Madame Lambrino had become .domiciled in France the headmaster of a French school refused to admit the child on the grounds " illegitimacy. Counsel for the defence argued that the marriage had been dissolved by the Roumanian courts, after which Madame Lambrino accepted an arrangement whereby she was granted an income of 119,000 francs; moreover, the tribunal wai incompetent to decide the case because both parties were foreigners, and the case concerned a question of paternity which did not come under the French law.