TO LEAVE RUMANIA

Hawera Star, Volume L, 7 April 1931, Page 9

TO LEAVE RUMANIA

QUEEN HELENE ’.S DECISION.

CAROL’S ‘‘SETTLEMENTS.”

A Paris message to the “Hew York Times” dated December 13, says that reports that Queen Helene of Rumania will leave her country and come to Paris were confirmed from a reliable source. It, was stated that the Queen would go to Bordighera, one the Italian Riviera, and then come to Paris as had been arranged by the Rumanian Minister, M. Cesianu, who left Paris for Bucharest to confer on this matter ten days ago. M. Cesianu is an old and trusted friend of King Carol, who appointed him Minister here soon after the King assumed power. There is considerable speculation among friends of Magda Lupescu, Carol’s former companion here, as to her whereabouts. Until about the time when M. Cesianu went to Bucharest Mme. Lupescu was living quietly at the Chateau Bellemc in the Ornc district, which Carol presented to her. Since then she has disappeared, and her friends have been unable to learn her whereabouts.

Prince Cantaeuzcnc, Charge d’Affaires at the Rumanian Embassy in the absence of M. Cesianu, to-day said officially that Mme. Lupescu was in Switzerland, but. her friends say they- have reason to doubt this, because several times previously it has been reported that she was in Switzerland and this has been learned each time to bo untrue. She did at one time go to Vienna, but has never entered Rumania since Carol returned, they say. King Carol has settled for £125,000 claims arising from his matrimonial ventures. CAROL PA VS UP. Joseph Paul-Boncour, the noted lawyer, acting with the Rumanian Minister in Paris, Dinu Cesianu, says the dispatch, visited Mine. Zizi Lambrino in her villa at Neuilly and handed her a cheque for £IOO,OOO, receiving in return a signed renunciation of all her claims in behalf of herself and her son.

It is said that Mme. Magda Lupsccu also signed an agreement in Paris to relinguish all claims on the King and received a cheque for £25,000 and the deeds to a castle in Transylvania.

The document signed by Mme. Lambrino, who contracted a morganatic marriage with Carol in Odessa in 1918, states that neither her nor her 11-year-old son, Mirren, will ever make any claims on the King and it recognises the annulment of the marriage as officio 1.

Tlio Rumanian Legation in Paris, the “Express” adds, has been instructed fo rent a villa for Queen Helene, who is expected to make her permanent home in the French capital.