RUMANIAN ROYAL DRAMA

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19501, 3 December 1926, Page 13

RUMANIAN ROYAL DRAMA

QUEEN HUBBIES HOME.

KING'S COMING OPERATION.

GKEAT ISSUES INVOLVED.

COUNCIL OF REGENCY.

PRINCE CHARLES' AMOUR.

By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright.

(Received 9.55 p.m.) A. and N.Z. PARIS, Dec. 2.

Queen Marie of Rumania has left Paris on her homeward journey.

An alarmist report to the effect that a state of siege has been declared in Bucharest is discredited, but the fact remains that the Queen cut short her stay in the French capital after a consultation with General Angelesco, Marshal of the Rumanian Court, who brought the latest news from Bucharest.

Queen Marie departed unexpectedly by an ordinary train without dinner. Such was her rush that she broke her pearl necklace on the station platform. Professor Hartrnann, who left Paris yesterday for Bucharest, will not perform the operation on King Ferdinand until after the arrival of the Queen. ' The operation is expected to remove Ferdi nand's.life from danger, but his advisers feel it would be unwise to take risks until he has seen the Queen.

It is expected that Marie will be made a member of the Council of Regency which at present consists of Princess Helen, Prince Nicholas, the head of the Rumanian Church and the president ol the Court of Cassation. In such a combination the Queen would obviously be the dominating force. General Angelesco informed Prince Charles that he would be permitted to see his father in his private capacity. The possibility of his reinstatement as heir to the throne, however, is' more remote. The Prince shows no disposition to break off his relations with Madame Lupesco or to become reconciled to his wife,, Princess Helen. *• The Court which heard the suit of Madamo Lambrinoy the first wife of Prince Charles, for the recognition of her -son's right to his name as the child of the Prince, decided that it was incompetent to pronounce on the case.

Madame Lambrino and Charles were absent from Court. The former intends to appeal.

A despatch from Bucharest says King Ferdinand's message to the Rumanian nation has created a profound impression It is believed that it was intended to impress army and other officers who are sympathetic with Prince Charles that intrigues and adventures on his behalf will not be tolerated.