RED-HAIRED SIREN.

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXII, Issue 2514, 15 December 1927, Page 6

RED-HAIRED SIREN.

HELENE LUPESCU. RENUNCIATION. CAUSE OF PRINCE CAROL’S Paris, November 16. ‘T am regarded by the world as a common courtesan, an unscrupulous, selfish siren, for whose cheap caresses a Prince of Royal blood renounced a throne.” With these bitter words, Helene Lupescu, mistress of Prince Carol of Rumania, contemptuously known amongst opponents of the match as “that red-haired Jewess,” opens the intensely dramatic story of her fateful romance. Fqh months this woman, wb,ose love-match has thrown a nation into confusion, has kept proudly silent in the face of taunts, insults and salacious insinuations. But at last, after much persuasion, she has reluctantly consented to tell her own tragi: story. In a recent statement to the press she told of Prince Carol’s untiring devotion to her, and of his mental torments after his quarrel with his Royal parents. “I would like to throw myself at Queen Marie’s feet and tell her oi‘ Carol’s anguish,” she writes. She throws a startling new light on the intrigue that led up to Prince Carol’s renunciation of the Rumanian throne, and draws vivid pen pictures of both her husband and Queen Marie. She writes of her life with Prince Carol in their little house near Paris at which sensation-seekers come daily to stare, whispering among themselves coarse speculations about “the happenings in that mysterious villa of illicit love.” But most dramatic of all, she declares herself willing to sacrifice all to enable Prince Carol to regain the throne he wished. “I would stand aside this moment,” she says, “and give him every freedom to return to Princess Helen, his wife, if the way were smoothed for his going.”