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wife, Is expected in Milan about
January Z.
HAD ONLY ONE LOVE.

HAD ONLY ONE LOVE.
When Crown Prince Carol of Ru-
ma mia eloped with Zyzis Lambrino
in 1918 there was only one accomplice
He was Henry Sirdici who arranged
the passports and bought the railroad
tickets which got the prince and the
daughter of the cavalry colonel out
of Ruma MIA. He accompanied them
1T was difficult to keep attention
away from them" Sirdici said later
They sat together in a compartment
and she sang softly to him. The
prince looked serene and confident, as
| never saw him before"
At the border. after they had passed
through the Rumanian lines, they
We're stopped by the Austrians. when
a official recognized Crown Prince
Carol. The elopement hung suspe nded
while the Austrian headquarters con
sidered The consequences of letting II
happen 10 Rumania. The enmlty of
Queen Marie of Ruma MIA for the Ger
mans was considered. and the border
officials were instructed to let the
crown prince and his tiancee pass.
They were married on Russian soil
at Odessa.
Charged German Plot.
1T was German plot" Queen
Marie often said since. She never
seemed able TO understand how her
son felt about Zyzis Lambrino. Marie's
own marriage to Ferdinand of Ru-
mania had been arranged by diplo-
mats.
Their son Carol had arranged his
own. He had never paid much atten-
ton to girls until he met Iyzis. the
sister of one of his school friends
Jean l.ambrinu, son of "A deceased
colonel Of cavalry who had comma nd
ed one of the regiments Of the court.
The prince was 81 then and SO was
ZyZis That was in 1918.
For three wears their friendship
grew until some one whispered TO the
queen that Prince Carol was in love
with a cavalry coloneis daughter-a
Rumanian. Queen Marie had planned
to have him marry royal wife
chosen outside Rumania with proper
statesmanlike regard for an adVa n
taeeous union of dYnasties. The
Grand Duchess Olga of Russia seemed
to be the choice of the Ruma MAN dip
lomatS. H.ater she was ma ssa cred by
the Bolsheviks with the rest of the
Romanoff family at Ekaterinhers)
Father Had Love Affair.
Were il not for Queen Marie. it
might have been easier for Prince
Carols father to have understood the
affection their son had formed for
wis Lambrino. Ferdinand himself
had such romance in his youth, but
il was not his first: so after some re-
sistence he permitted his Rumanian
love to he replaced by Marie. daughter
of the Duke of Edinburgh and grand
daughter of Queen Victoria of Eng
land.
wis Lambrino was Carols first
romance and apparently she has re-
NAMED his only romance. King Ferdi-
nand comma nded his son to cast Iyzis
off. Queen Marie implored him. her
favoI'ite son, to remember his position
and to consider the dynasty of Ru-
mania The synod of the Orthodox
Greek Church annulled the marriage
on the ground that bans had not been
properly announced.
Carol calmly proposed to abdicate
his rights TO succession and remarry
ZyZis with all the bans that might
he necessary. Thrones are unstable, =
he told his father. Il prefer the GER
tainty OF having the wife | desire in
stead of the chance OF succession"
Thereupon his father ordered him
into arrest for - days at the monas-
terry of Horai iva, while the royal fam
lily deliberated. Iyzis Iambrino was
sent back to her family in Jassy and
warned to stay there under pain of
regal displeasure.
Correspondence was smuggled he
tween the prince and the coionel's
daughter. and friends attempted to
arrange clandestine meetings. But
the Rumanian state police was active.
and one by one the friends who at
tempted to help disap peared and were
not heard from again.
The prince grew respondent. and
his health failed until even the King S
doctor advised letting him see Zyzis.
BY order Of King Ferdinand, there
fore. and in the presence of the most
was permitted to talk exactly an hour
to her prince.
Shot Self in Leg.
After that, in 1919. King Ferdina nd
undertook to prescribe "a trip around
the world for Prince Carol just as the
prince heard ZyZis was about To bear
him a child. lie promptly shot him
self in the leg In order to inca pacitate
himself. And once more he wrote
his father that he wished TO renounce
der to be happy with Zyzis Lam
brine.
The attention of the world was
taken by this Balkan romance, while
the Rumanian statesmen declared it
was becoming an international scan
DIAL. Carol was persuaded at last by
the entrea ties of his mother and the
arguments of his father, and agreed
to marry the wife they might select
for reasons of state. While they ar
ranged it, he made a trip around the
world. and spent two weeks in the
United States during 1920. When he
returned to Ruma mia he found his
royal parents had arranged mar.
rage for him with Princess Elena.
eldest daughter Of King Constantin
of Greece. who died in exile at Pa
lermo. The marriage took place in
Athens, in March, 1921, and son,
Michael, was born by the end OF the