CAROL AND MME. LUPESCU

Evening Star, Issue 20587, 12 September 1930, Page 9

CAROL AND MME. LUPESCU

MEETING IN RUMANIA COURT ASTONISHED BERLIN, August .20. What will be tho result of the interview that has just taken place between King Carol of Rumania and Mme Lupescu, the beautiful woman for whom lie once abandoned his right to the throne which he has now ascended? That is the question which is being discussed as eagerly here as in Bucharest, the Rumanian capital. It had been hoped that, for the good of Rumania, the two lovers had agreed to part for ever. The King’s appeal to Princess Helen, the wife who had divorced him, to resume her place by his side as Queen, strengthened the hope that Mme Lupescu’s hold over him had more or less ceased. COURT CONSTERNATION.

The news that the auburn beauty had followed her lover to Rumania caused consternation. Her presence at Sinaia, where the Royal Family and Court live in summer, embarrassed the relatives and the politicians, who are trying to bring about a reunion of the King and his former wife, and menaced the hope of seeing Carol and Helen crowned together as King and Queen. Mme Lupescu had the tact to leave Sinaia the day on which Princess Helen and her son. the little Crown Prince and ex-King Michael, were expected to arrive.

She travelled in a motor car driven by a colonel of the Rumanian army (says a telegram received her© to-day from Bucharest via Ploesti and Bucharest to a little place called Snagow. twenty miles from the capital, where she is staying on an estate belonging to Prince Nicholas, the King’s brother. She was accompanied by Mme Dumitrescu. wife of the King’s former private secretary, and appears to have settled down to await events. A LAST FAREWELL? King Carol, accompanied by Prince Nicholas and M. Goga, formerly Minister of the Interior arrived at Snagow for a short visit, and the first meeting of Mme Lupescu and her lover since he loft Paris to become King took place. What will be the result? Did this beautiful woman re-establish her ascendancy over tho King, or was the meeting the occasion of a last farewell? Princess Helen, who has been placed in a position of unparalleled difficulty, lias already made it clear that she will not sacrifice the dignity and the feelings of a woman for political ends. Has Mine Lupescu deprived the Rumanian people of the right to greet tho mother of tho heir to tho throne as a crowned Queen? That is the question which is being asked all over Rumania and is being repeated here. The message says that there is great bitterness iu Rumania against' Mine Lupescu. BUCHAREST. August 20. Tho newspaper 4 Lupta ’ understands that the coronation of King Carol will take place at Alba Julia on September 21. The King of Jugo-Slavia will be the only head of a State to attend.