Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-08
QUEEN MARIE WORKING FOR TRIP
TO u. S-MAYBE AS MATCHMAKER
Wants to Bring Princess
LLAMA on Democratic
Visit to Friends.
Trying Hard to Overcome
Objections of Bratiano
and Some Others.

By Cable to The Star and New York World.
PARIS, August Queen Marie of
Rumania wishes to go to the United
States this Winter on what she eX-
poets will be the most successful per-
sonal mission Of her life.
She has the consent Of King Ferdi-
nand and also that of Premier Avar-
esco. But it is not yet at all certain
that she will succeed in going. Her
trip is opposed by former Premier
Bratiano. who, in or out Of Office. Is
the most powerful man in Rumania.
The Queen is flooded with invita-
lions from the United States. During
and since the war she has come to
know hundreds of Americans who
wish her to visit their country, some
because they like her and believe in
her and others because they can thus
have a Queen and princess as guests.
For, If she goes, the young Princess
LLAMA would accompany her. She
has been trying to accept their invita-
lions for several years, but never
until a fortnight ago did she succeed
in getting the Rumanian government
to let her go to America in the man.
ner she desires. as Europe's most
democratic ruler on q social visit with
out a ponderous program Of official
engagements.
Chafes at Delay.
Queen Marie chafes at delay. In
her frank way she says:
II want to go while the people l
know in America will still recognize
me. I'm so. I'm not always going to
remain the same, you know"
Just before King Ferdinand came to
France for the cure she got his con-
sent and he persuaded AVaresco to
let her take the trip in her own way.
Bratiano is opposed simply because
he does not want the Queen to go in
democratic manner. But as soon as
Bratiano learned this he became
active.
Prof. Lupu, leader of the Peasants
party, also is opposed to the Queens
going to America, and that is another
obstacle. Lupu says Marie cannot
pretend to be democratic when she
obliged her son Carol to divorce his
wife, Nine. LambrinO, after the birth
of Il legitimate child, because she was
not royal.
He is against all political activities
on her part.
May DO a Little Match Making.
What Lupu does not realize. how
ever, is that Marie, the renowned
matchmaker, 'mother-in-laW of the
Balkans" has half in mind the max
ing Of Il democratic gesture. if she
ever gets to the United States. by
raising no objection if her beloved
daughter LLAMA makes a rich Ameri-
can marriage. Some of her American
friends have been busy for months
suggesting to Marie the names of
eligible young American bachelors
with millions of dollars, but Marie is
keeping the question of choice to her
self until she has chance to look
the country over. Also she has not
entirely given up hope of getting the
Prince of Wales.
Her royal cousins are worried over
the whispers about the Queens
thoughts of getting an American SON
in-laW.
1t is going a long way, they say
for a queen to write for newspapers
on how to keep young, and even far
Their for her to lend her name to help
advertise an American cosmetic, as
she has done. But to bring q plain
American son-in-law into the royal
family of Europe would be carrying
her personal campaign into their own
European circles, and this they con-