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Deathbed Marriage For King and Lover

After 22 Years

DUMANIA'S twice deposed playboy, ex-King Carol, ha; brought to a climax 22 years' infatuation for a red headed Jewess, when, in circumstances almost melo dramatic, he married his mistress, Magda Lupescu, a; she lay close to death from anaemia, in the bedroom oi a Rio de Janeiro hotel.

Carol, it is said, sobbed convulsively during ^he cere mony. He conferred on this, his third wife, the style of Princess. The love affairs of this Han overian-eyed. Coburg-chinned. Clark Gablish great-grandson of Onepn Vir.torin. are as fantastic

as a tiouywooa film. Carol who was born in 1893, first rocked Europe's Royal circles when, at 24. he deserted his re giment to marry Zizi Lambrino, a Ruma n i a n commoner, who bore him a son. But when King Ferdinand and Queen Marie got over the shock they quickly set to work to break up the union. Carol was brought home, his bags packed, and sent off on a tour abroad. The following

year me mar- .. rADnl ? riage was de- * CAROL — a clared null and void On his return he cheerfully agreed to a marriage tcith Prin cess Helen of Greece. A year later their son, the present Kina Michael teas born. But Carol broke his tcife's heart when he started flirting tcilli a girt called Magda Lupescu. At the end of 1925 he went off to Milan. Mat?da went with him. Prom Venice he wrote his second note of renunciation of the Rumanian Throne. He declared he was eoine into busi ness. From Venice he went to Paris. Magda still with him. In 1926 he became reconciled ivith his mother. The following year his father died, and Carol made it known from abroad that if the people wanted him he was ready to. accept the throne. From England he planned to scatter copies of a manifesto by air all over Rumania. But the British Government confiscated his aeroplanes and 20.000 pamphlets, and told him that ho had overstayed his welcome. He teenl over to France and atcailed developments — tcith Magda. Meantime his wife iivorced him. Then. In 1930. circumstances played into his hands. A Gov ernment came into power in Rumania that closed a blind eye

to his philanderinRS, and negotiations were opened up for his return. But while these negotiations were in progress he made a sud den flight to Bucharest, and touched down to a mad wel come. Within a few days, his son, the Boy King Michael, was gently removed from the Throne and Carol Droclaimpri PTinir m

two conditions There was to be a reconciliation with his wife, a throw - over of Magda. There w a s some sort of im happy recon ciliation with Queen Helen, but it broke down. She was told to get out. Two months later Magda stepped in again. Her presence behind the scenes aided and hindered Carol. Said to have been one of the shrewest brains in Europe, this Drettv little red

. . .. . ... head might have Fantastic love life income queen except that she was a Jewess, and first plank in Rumanian Fascism which called itself the Iron Guard was anti-Semitism. Carol sat back, for seven years. He waited until Fascism over stepped the mark, and then re vised the Constitution setting himself up as King-Dictator. Bui if popular ivith his oicn people, Carol teas disliked by Russia and Germany became his policy teas to play off the Nazi Satan against the Soviet Delsebub. Prime Minister Antonescu told him that for the peace of the country he had better clear out and take Magda with him. From Rumania he and Magda went to Spain. They made a sudden dash for Lisbon, by suddenly accelerat ing their car over the bolder, and outdistancing the police car which was accompanying them, v From Portugal they went to I live in South America, where t now, in Brazil, the last sad I chapter is drawing to its close. I No matter tehat may be said I of Magda, for nearly a quarter ' of a century she had endured the sneers and snubs and pov erty of her lot. And for Carol, a quarter of a century's loyal devotion to the only teoman he has really loved, ends in a marriage without hope. — Warwick Lawrence

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