A QUEEN’S DEATH.
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CARMEN SYLVA’S END
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BUCHAREST, Jan. 19. The circumstances of the death of Carmen Sylva, late Queen of Kouiniania, in iier Roumanian castle during the German occupation in 1910, have just been revealed. The Queen, who was seventy years of age, had been suffering from a cataract, and became subject to s-pells of melancholia. Finally the suffering of her country during the German occupation made her decide on suicide. On a. bitter February night she took a hot bath. Then she dismissed the servants. Lightly clad, she stood at an open window, being for many minutes exposed to an icy blast from the Transylvanian Alps. • When so chilled that she was unable to stand it any longer she closed the window and went to bed. Pneumonia immediately set in, and in four days Carmen Sylva died with a smile on her lips.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 21 January 1925, Page 5
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152A QUEEN’S DEATH. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 21 January 1925, Page 5
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