A PRINCE’S ROMANCE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19952, 20 November 1926, Page 13

A PRINCE’S ROMANCE

PATHETIC LOVE LETTERS. CAROL OF RUMANIA SUED. (Pres* Association—Bj Telegraph—Copyright.; PARIS, November 17. Poignant love letters which were exchanged between Madame Lambrino and Prince Carol, were read in the case in which Madame Lambrino is suing; Prince Carol for school fees for her son Mircea ; and also demanding that his name shall be entered on the school records as his legitimate son.

When Prince Carol was ordered to rejoin his regiment after his war-time attempt to renounce the Rumanian succession, he wrote: “I cannot give you up. 1 will ever remain your loving husband and the father of the child you are expecting.” Madame Lambrino broke down at this passage, and sobbed. In the course of the opposing counsels’ heated argument, it was disclosed that Madame Lambrino yas also suing Prince Carol for 10,000,000 francs as damages for alleged desertion. The evidence showed child was registered as Madame Lambrino’s, the name of the father not being mentioned. After Madame Lambrino became domiciled in France, the head master of a French school refused to admit the child on the grounds of its illegitimacy. Counsel for the defence argued that the marriage had been dissolved by the Rumanian courts, after which Madame accepted an arrangement whereby she was granted an income of 110,000 francs. Moreover, the tribunal was incompetent to decide, because both parties were foreigners, and the case concerned a question of paternity which did not come under French law. Other letters included one written in November, 1920, when Prince Carol wrote: “The charm is broken. I have turned a new page, but don’t worry. Think only of your child; I will look after you.” In the following month he wrote his last letter: “I have fought and I have been vanquished. I am going to marry Princess Helen of, Greece. It is all against my principles, but she has agreed to be the consoler of a deeply-broken heart. You are going to curse me. but remember I will never abandon you.”—A. and N.Z. Cable.