THE KING OF ROUMANIA.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5356, 14 February 1916, Page 7

THE KING OF ROUMANIA.

It is of primary importance, says Edward Legge, in the “Pall Mall Gazette” (first, to remember that, although King" Ferdinand is a Holienzollern, he is not a member of the branch of that House of which the Emperor William 11. is the chief; and, secondly, that up to now he has not developed any indication of a desire to kowtow to the Kaiser. In the accepted 'usage of the phrase, then, lie is not, as his Bulgarian namesake has proved himself to be, pro-German. His consort—Princess Marie, one of the daughters of the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh—has always been, and remains at this great crisis in Roumania’s history, pro-British and pro-tßiussian. to the core. King Ferdinand received his early education from a private tutor, in whose charge he remained for several years. He then proceeded to the Gymnasium of Dusseldorf, on whose books are to be, found the names of very many of the Princely Houses of Germany, and there passed his examination in the honours classes, and took liis degree in 188 b, at the ago of 18. He is exceedingly popular in Roumaaiia, and his popularity shared by his Consort, who was taken to their hearts by the Roumanians frmp the day of her first appearance among them as the bride of their future Monarch. Her delightful manner, her freedom from everything approaching affectation, her genuine desire to please and be pleased, her interest in all around hoi - , captured the simple-minded, warm-hearted people of the new kingdom, who soon came to regard her as one 'of themselves.