RUMANIAN SCANDAL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19447, 1 October 1926, Page 13

RUMANIAN SCANDAL.

PRINOE AND HIS AMOURS.

ORDERED TO DROP TITLE. Sun. BUCHAREST, Sept. 29. The Kiug and Queen of Rumania are greatly distressed by the publicity which is being given to the doings of the e,.:Crd'wn Princo Charles and Madsm Lupescu. The latter is tho wife cf a Rumanian officer for whoso sako tho Prince renounced his rights to the throna The two are now touring French and Spanish resorts together. This has resulted in the Legation issuing an injunction to Charles to drop the title of Prince, to which ho has no right in view of his renunciation of the throne, ttnd to adopt the plain title of Mr. Charles Caraiman. The crisis was readied when Madam Lupescu won a prize for tho best-dressed woman and claimed tho reward under tho narno of Princess Charles of Romania. The ex-Crown Princo Charles of Rumania on August 31, 1918, married in Odessa Cecilie Lambrino, a member of a good Rumanian family. His mother, however, succeeded in July, 1919, in breaking up this union. The marriage was declared null and void, as was the Prince's renunciation of the succession. After the collapse of the Central Powers he marched tnto Budapest with the Rumanian troops. In the summer of 1919 he was sent on a long tour abroad and in November he became engaged at Lucerne to the eldest daughter of ex-King Constantino of Greece, Princess Helen, whom ho married in 1921. On October 25, 1921, a son, Princo Michael, was born to Charles. His second renunciation took place in peculiar circumstances early in 1926. Prince Charles, after going to England to be present at the funeral of Queen Alexandra, betook himself to \ enice accompanied by Madam Lupescu. From there ha addressed a letter to his father in which ho once more renounced the succession to tho throno and tho rank and title of prince. In December, 1925, he had visited Milan, whore his companion registered in her own name of Madam Lupescu. At that timo Charles expressed the intention of taking tho name of Monastireanu and going in for business. His renunciation was accepted and his son Michael proclaimed heir to the throne. Tho rumours that Charles had acted chiefly from political motives found support in the attitude of tho Opposition, which was in his favour. Iri February, 1926, it was even reported that he had withdrawn his renunciation, that ho would eventually return to Rumania and that the decree depriving him of tiis status would not be enforced. Later ho went to Paris with Madam Lupescu, having informed Princess Helen that he had given up married life with Her and that she was at liberty to take divorce proceedings, which, however, she declared she had no intention of doing. Meanwhile Madam Lambrino brought an action in Paris for 100,000 fnines damages for desertion, and claimed that her son Mircea should have tho right to bear the name of Hohenzollern. Tho Judge, on May 18, 1926, held that he was not competent to decido tho caso, as tho parties wero not domiciled in France.