BOY AS PEACEMAKER

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21649, 20 May 1932, Page 9

BOY AS PEACEMAKER

BRINGING PARENTS TOGETHER KING CAROL AND EX-WIFE. - The 10-ycar-old Crown Prince Michael brought about a dramatic reconciliation recently between his divorced parents, King Carol of Rumania and the beautiful Princess Helen. No longer an unthinking child, the • sturdy heir to the throne* is supremely conscious of the tragedy to Rumania and to himself of a continued separation between bis father and mother, both of whom he worships. I Since the return to Rumania of Princess Helen, Michael has been spending half his time with his mother and half with his father. Ho sleeps at the palace of Cotroccni with the king and spends the afternoons and evenings with the princess at Kisileff. In ooth palaces he has been working hard to bring his parents together. i The boyish intervention had its first success on Easter Sunday, when a goodlooking young man, wearing a suit of well-cut English clothes and driving a small two-seater car, arrived outside the palace of Kisileff and walked into the main hall unannounced. It was King Can , paying his first call on Princess Helen since her arrival. He had purposely discarded his military uniform to make his visit more informal and to appear less strained. ■> It is stated that King Carol most charming in manner and considerate to his ex-wife, and that the first meeting passed off pleasantly. As a result of this meeting the Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania, King Carol’s mother, immediately proposed a dinner party at Cotroceni, at which all members of the royal family in Bucharest should take part. Princess Helen accepted the invitation, thus making possible a second step towards complete reconciliation.