Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-07-30
A RorAl IoYE ROMANCE.
The Future King OF Roumania's Attach
ment for a Maid of Honor.

Prince Ferdinand, nephew of Karl Won
Hohenzollern, King of Roumania and heir
presumptive to the throne, says the New
York Tribune, is now suffering from the
exigencies of what is called the ''raison
d Etat," of state policy. Political passions
and reciprocal jealousies of factions have
always ruled to such an extent in Rou-
mania as to prevent the peaceful develop
ment of the country even after the
provinces of Wallachia and Moldzvia were
released from the Turkish yoke and united
under the name of Roumania. The fami-
lies or clans of boyards necessarily fought
against one another in order to secure the
supreme power. Finally the Berlin con-
gress put an end to these internecine quar-
rels by appointing Karl Won Hohenzollern
Prince of Roumania in 1873, and he was
proclaimed king in 1881.
The country has been quiet and pros
porous since that time. The boyard fami-
lies have lost their political importance,
and it was tacitly agreed, as an article
of the Roumanian state code, that the
sovereign or his heir presumptive should
not marry Ronmanian woman. II was
feared that her family might take advan-
tage of her elevated position to undertake
some political intrigues or at least to pre-
tend to some domination over the other
great families Of the country.
Such are the motives which have caused
the ministers of King Karl and the politi-
cal leaders to protest against the intended
marriage of his nephew-for he has no
son-with Mile. Helen Vacaresco a lady
Of honor of the queen. The latter is
known as a remarkable writer and poet,
who has won wide and well-merited
celebrity under the nom de plume of
Carmen Sylvia" The radical, or rather
republican organ, the Romanul, of Bucha.
rest, is the only paper which has pleaded
in favor of the two lovers sacrificed by the
"raison d Fiat Nothing disparaging has
ever been said about the modest and beau
tiful Mile. Nacaresco. and no allusion is
| made even to the recent affair in which
her father and brother were unwillingly
implicated.
II has already been told how young
| Vacaresco, a secretary to his father, who
| is still Roumanian ambassador at Vienna
was forced to leave the ballroom OF the
German embassy for having accompanied
10 the ball lady whose presence was
obnoxious to Princess Won Reuss. the wife
| OF the German ambassador at the Austrian
court. The young man was exonerated
from any intentional breach of ctiquett,
| by tribunal Of honor. and his father wa.
dssuaded from provoking to a duel the
| Prince of Rcuss, who could not fight with
the son, his inferior in diplomatic rank.
The match between Prince Ferdinand
and Mile. Vacaresco is approved openly by
the Roumanian queen. The opinion o.
the king in regard to this poetical love af
fair is not yet known, but the Roumaniar
papers and politicians intimate plainly
that in case the marriage should take plac,
| Ferdinand would be compelled to abandon
! his rights ms heir presulntiye. II is sait
that an Interpolation on the subject may
be made in the chambers. Meanwhile TIL
young prince has been sent away from
Bucharest to reside in the, castle of Sig
maringen.