POIGNANT LOVE LETTERS READ.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18008, 19 November 1926, Page 11

POIGNANT LOVE LETTERS READ.

PRINCE CAROL’S FORMER WIFE SUES FOR FEES TO KEEP SON AT SCHOOL. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Association. PARIS, November 17. Poignant love letters exchanged between Madame Lambrino and Prince Carol were read in a case, in which Madame Lambrino is suing Prince Carol for the school fees of her son, Mircea and, furthermore, demanding that his name shall be entered on the school records as a legitimate son. When Prince Carol was ordered to rejoin his regiment after his wartime attempt to renounce his Rumanian succession, he wrote: “I cannot give you up. I ever remain your loving husband and the father of the child you are expecting.” Madame Lambrino sobbingly broke down at this passage. In the course of the opposing counsel’s heated argument it was disclosed that Madame Lambrino was also suing Prince Carol for 10,000,000 francs damages for alleged desertion. The evidence showed that the child was registered in Madame Lambrino’s name and the father was not mentioned. After Madame Lambrino had become domiciled in France the head master of a French school refused to admit the child on the grounds of illegitimacy. Counsel for the defence argued that the marriage had been dissolved by the Rumanian courts after wjxich Madame had accepted an arrangement wherebv 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 the question of paternity, which did not come under French law. -