ROUMANIAN ROYAL PRINCE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, Issue LIV, 14 August 1920, Page 3

ROUMANIAN ROYAL PRINCE

tiKI’AKATIOjT KROJt WIKK TOKIO, July 12. Prince Carlos, the Crown Prince of Eoumauia, who renounced Ills position as heir to the throne after marrying Mile. Zizi Lambrini the daughter of one of his father s subjects, after the deteal of. Iloumania in the war, is now in Japan on a certain mission. He declined to_ grant a personal interview regarding his marriage, which the Supreme Court of Eoumania has since declared invalid, on account of certain informalities. lie referred press correspondents to Colonel Arion, his personal aide-de-camp, who was formerly Roumanian Minister for Foreign Affairs. Colonel Arion said that the separation of the Prince and his wife was irrevocable, on both sentimental and legal grounds. The Prince had agreed absolutely to this course, making his title as heir flawless. He at first decided that if. judging him as a common citizen, the marriage was legal, he would fulfil his obligations and renounce the throne, but he was latterly convinced of the illegality of the marriage from botli a civil and religious viewpoint. [He therefore withdrew his renunciation of the heirship.

.Regarding an interview creditI ed to his mother, Queen Marie of I Roumania, by Reuter’s Agency, in which she alleged that her son’s marriage was the result of a German plot to entangle him, the Prince considere/.l that the story was certainly twisted, and he cabled from India to have it corrected. The marriage of Prince Carlos, the Crown Prince of Roumania, who is now 27, with the daughter of a commoner, was a romantic runaway match. Mile, Zizi Lambrini, who is reputed to be a very oeautifui girl, captured the Prince’s heart during the war, and, after the defeat of Roumania, they were married and ran away to Odessa. Subsequently the Prince formally renounced his position as heir to the throne. Efforts were made by his parents, the-King and Queen, to induce the Prince to return, but in August last year he I wrote to his father refusing to re 'nounce his morganatic bride, j Ultimately, he accepted the decision- of the Supreme Court that the marriage was invalid, and returned to Court, it having been decided that there was no power under the _ .Roumanian Constitution by which the Crown Prince could renounce his right of succession to the throne.