ROYAL QUARREL

Evening Star, Issue 22620, 12 April 1937, Page 11

ROYAL QUARREL

KING CAROL AND BROTHER PRINCE NICHOLAS RESIGNS RANK AND TITLES Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright BUCHAREST, April 11. (Received April 12, at 10 a.m.) Prince Nicholas, the only brother of King Carol, has resigned his rank and titles as a protest against King Carol’s refusal to recognise the validity of his morganatic marriage in 1931 with a divorcee, Madame Saveanu, nee Dimitresch Tohany, and to legitimise the son of the union, giving him the title of prince and his mother the title of princess.

As Prince Nicholas, in accordance .with the law providing that a member of the Royal Family marrying without permission of the King, becomes a commoner, the marriage will now be valid, and the couple will probably go abroad.

Prince Nicholas headed the Regency Council for three years until King Carol claimed the throne. The courts, immediately after the marriage, pronounced it invalid, but Prince Nicholas and his wife were permitted to undergo two years in exile in Paris instead of his serving his sentence of two months in a fortress.

An official communique regarding the banishment of Prince Nicholas explains that the Supreme Court in 1931 declared his marriage with Madame Saveanu illegal. Enforcement of the decision was postponed, as it was hoped that Prince Nicholas would realise that the marriage was incompatible with the prestige of the reigning house. The quarrel between King Carol and Prince Nicholas, which is a long-stand-ing one and personal, aggravated by differences with Madam© Lnpescu and Madame Saveanu, recently acquired a political complexion, as Prince Nicholas is in close contact with the Fascist Iron Guard.