WIFE OR THRONE?

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 45, 18 November 1918, Page 2

WIFE OR THRONE?

In answer to pleas that he desert his bride of humble birth, Crown Prince Charles of Rumania has replied that thrones are so unstable- nowadays I hat he preferred (ho certainty if having the wife he wanted to tho ehanco of losing the succession.

Tire eccnpade of Hie Crown Prince in going to Odessa nnd marrying Cccilie J.ambriiig, the daughter of' a major in tlrn- Rumanian Army, reopens tho'question of the Humaniali .dynastic succession. When King Ferdiiwnd heard tf tho manriage he ordered that the Crown Prince be given ?."> days' folilary confinement- for absenting himself without .leave from his garrison.. King: Ferdinand «lso sent an emissary to Bemlcr, Bsssol'abia, where the vourig couple spent their honeymoon, with inslructions to try to undo the. marriage, but lo no avail. The bride refused to part with her wedding ring, and the Crown Prince declined to leave her.

Crown Prince Charles has not yet voluntarily renounced his rights to succession, and the King is : eported (0 bo very -angry. The Rumanian Coiistitulion does not contain a clause barring a morKanatieally married Crown Prince from succession to Hip throne. (

The present case has a. piniKint fc.v hire in Hint it recalls that King Feirdinand in his youth had a lovn affair wilh Helen A ? acnresco. his mother's lady of.honour. Preminr Cnlargiu threatened to resign if the King did not veto tho uroposed union, nnd it came lo nothing. Should the Crown Prince Charles irciionnce his rights of succession, his brother Nicholas would become (lie heiranparent. Nicholas is 15 years old, and phvsieally locale.

There, is 'much excited gossip in Bucharest, according to a telegrn.m lo the "Vnssisi'hi , Zeituiiir." of Berlin, as to what, would happen in 'he eventuality of Queen Marie, who is strongly antiGerman, becoming repent.