The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-04-29
PRINCE CAROL
STILL UNITED.
TO WIFE NO. |
Discover His Marriage to French
Girl Not AnnuIled Before
He Wed Helene. =
BY NEWTON c. PARKE.
IntePnatlonal News Service.

| PARIS, April 29.-That Crown
Prince Carol sf Rumania commit
ted bigamy when he married Prin-
cess Helene, daughter Of King Con-
stantine Of Greece, is the sensation
al charge made by the Gazette de
Lauzanne. S
BABY BORN TO FIRST WIFE.
| The Swiss newspapre declares 1t
can prove that the heir to the Ru-
manian throne never annulled his
marriage to his former sweetheart,
Jeanne Marie Valentine Lambrino,
before he married the Greek princess
and that the previous marriage WAS
legal in every way. Furthermore,
adds the newspaper, the Rumapian
crown prince is the father of baby
boy born to his first wife.
The love affair of Carol and Mile.
Lambrino, daughter of a Rumanian
general, received but scant attention
| in the newspapers because 1t passed
through a period when the war was
engrossing public attention. BY court
order the Rumanian censor ruthless
| ly- eliminated from all press dis
patches nearly all references to Mile.
lLsmbrino. One Rumanian newspapers.
, witch had hinted at some of the
facts was suppressed.
FAMILY WELL KNOWN.
The Lambrino family is one Of the
! best known in Rumania and enjoyed
the Intimacy OF the court. This in
| timacy increased when the Germans
| invaded Rumania and the royal fam
| lily sought refuge in Jassy where
| the seat OF government was installed.
Prince Carol visited Mile. Lam
brino nearly every evening at Jassy
until his regiment was sent to the
Moldavian mountains for the express
purpose of breaking up the court
| ship. But Carol was determined to
marry the generals daughter, and by
a private courier sent her a letter
urging her to elope with him to
Odessa He promised her that under
no circumstances would he ever
| marry another woman. and that IL
his father persisted in his opposition
he would renounce his right to the
Rumanian throne.
SLIPS AWAY TO ODESSA.
Mile. Lambrino slipped away to
Odessa incognito and alone. There,
| according to the Gazette de Lauzanne
the marriage was legally celebrated
| in the Petrowska Cathedral The
prince wore his uniform and all his
| decorations. Two Russian officers
were witnesses and the Rumanian
| consul at Odessa sent his Fluctuations
to the newly welded pair.
The following day the crown prince
wired the news to his father and ask
ed permission to return to Rumania.
The King consented, but in his rely
| reminded Carol that he had taken
French leave from his regiment and
| would have to be punished by seventy
hve days imprisonment special
train took the young couple to the
Rumanian frontier. There 1t was met
by an automobile. The bride was
forced to leave the train and was
taken to the home of her grandm other.
The crown prince continued on his
way to the Monastery of Orava, whero
he served his prison term.
| VISITED BY HIS FATHER.
During this Imprisonment, Carol re-
ceived several visits from his father
who urged him to sign a document
annulling the marriage. When Carol
refused. plans were made for him to
visit the Far East in the hope he
would forget his young bride.