RUMANIA'S “QUEEN"

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4605, 4 October 1934, Page 2

RUMANIA'S “QUEEN"

MADAME LUPESCUE'S INFLUENCE INCREASING. Bucharest, August 6. Rumania seems to have resigned herself to the romance between King Carol and Mme. Lupescu. The red-haired beauty who followed Carol from Paris when he went to claim his throne> and has remained beside him ever since, is still a power to reckon with here. There has been a complete change of public opinion in recent months towards the royal romance. Even the Iron Guard, the extremist organisation responsible for the assassination of the late Premier Duca, which sentenced Mme. Lupescu to death for her alleged undue influence over King Carol, has changed its mind. The Iron Guard now realises that if its members want to come into power in Rumania they must be on good terms with Mme. Lupescu, whose influence remains as great as ever. It is even reported that M. Codreanu, the leader of the Iron Guard, and once the arch-enemy of MmeLupescu, has established diplomatic relations with her. One sign of the times was a proposed amendment of the Constitution brought forward by the anti-Semitic leader of the Agrarian Party, which would permit the monarch to contract a morganatic marriage. But Carol wisely objected to such a plan. There is one mail, however, who does not sanction the relations between the King and Mme. Lupescu—M. Maniu, the former Premier. At the beginning of this week Carol went to his castle at Sinaia. Although her movements are kept secret, it is learned that Mine. Lupescu is now living in a small, elegantly-furnished bungalow near Sinaia.