RUMANIAN BLAZE
KING’S. .COUNTRY CASTLE
VALUABLE CONTENTS . DE-
STROYED,
(Received 1 p.m.). BUCHAREST, April 17.
King Carol’s country residence, Foisehor Castle, at Cinaia, was destroyed by fire.. None of the valuable contents was saved, the King losing private papers, 20 works of art, including a Rembrandt, which alone was worth £20,000. He was asleep in the palace at Bucharest when the nows that the castle was on fire was received, dnd he hurriedly dressed and drove 50 miles to Cinaia at a breakneck speed .'to superintend the work "of the ‘ .Brigade,, but. the, wooden palace, which was his birthplace was. gutted. '
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Northern Advocate, 18 April 1932, Page 5
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