PLEBIAN WIFE TRUSTS PRINCE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLI, Issue 9290, 11 August 1920, Page 5

PLEBIAN WIFE TRUSTS PRINCE.

"He will come back to me' before that," gaily declares -Crown Prince Carol's morganatic wife, fascinating Zizi Lambrino,, referring to the two years' duration set for the cruise on which his royal parents, King Ferdinand and Queen Marie, have sent him, hoping hereby to wean him from her. "On ( the American coast he will manage to escape and put himself .under the protection of the American laws." While the Prince was imprisoned at Bistrita for refusing to give up his wife he hit on a way of finding out when his first child was born-. As the King and ; Queen and the Senate had agreed that no letters should pass between the young couple, a ruse was heeded. And the Prince thought of it.

President Gorga, of the Roumanian Parliament, is said to have had the most influence "on the Prince, after his wife. So when a. son was born a friend cabled to the Prince in Gorga's name: "Goods reached Bucharest this morning.*' .■ , The gaolers, two staff officers, let the. dispatch go to the Prince,' who read it, then turning to them, said:— t, "Congratulate 'me. I'm a father." The Prince declared' his ambition was to be a simple Roumanian officer, and walk out with his wife and children oil Sunday afternoons.

Ten degrees of frost was registered at the Domain weather station this morning. The maximum temperature yesterday was 46 decrees, and the minimum last night 28. The barometer registers at 29.52 in.