New Britain herald., 1927-07-27
QUEEN MARIE BEGS THOSE IN AMERICA
 ID REMEMBER HER
In Associated Press Interview She Denies Oft Heard Charges
 Of Political Ambition
JUST BROKEN.-H HEARTED, LONELY WIDOW, SHE SAYS

LONELY WIDOW, SHE SAYS Weeps Over Firing Son, Carol, and
 Sorrow He Caused King-Declares
 She Draws No Class Distinctions
 and if Daughter Really Loved An
 American She Would Not Oppose
 Marriage.
 Bucharest, Rumania, July 27 R A plea to the people of America not to forget her in her sorrow was made by Queen Marie when she re- ceived the A. P. correspondent at Cotroceni palace while King Ferdi- nand lay dead in an adjoining room. She spoke in tender terms of her husband, how he would have liked before he died to have seen the former Crown Prince Carol; and characterized as 'cruelly false" words of her critics and adversaries that she was an ambitious woman who wanted to be queen after the kings death.
 Her Soul Is Scared.
 "Death has torn my heart and scared my soul." she said; it has taken from me my dear husband and the gentlest and most dutiful of kings. l shall sit cloistered and alone in this little room to bear the agony which God has thrust upon me. Let not the people of America forget me in my sorrow. Let the women espe cially give me their sisterly love and consolation. I am only a widow now. My throne is gone. I need the support of my dear American friends to bear the slings and arrows which even in death are directed against me by the outside world"
 A Pathetic Picture
 With a huge crucifX resting on the wall just above her head, and with her face enveloped in deep black veil relieved by a mantle of pure white, which gave her fea- lures a far greater beauty and spirituality than any jeweled crown, Marie resembled a mother superior in a convent more than a queen, her words, spoken from the depths of her soul and at times broken by convusive sobs. were accentuated in their solemnity and pathos by the atmosphere of death which per vaded the palace.
 Dramatic Interview
 Probably no interview was ever before given in more dramatic or sombre setting. Only the untitled shuffling of peasants footsteps passing the kings coffin in the ad- jacent death chamber could be heard. Burning incense and flick ering candles cast an eerie pail over the room. One could not escape a sense of awe as he sat between the dead king and the living queen. At her side were a Bible and other re- ligious books, and in front of her was an exquisite illuminated holy ikon.
 The queen, whom Americans so recently knew by her vivacity, youth full animation and glowing personal ity, now was a stricken, tragic fig ure, conscious not only of the loss of her royal consort, but of her throne and prestige.
 Denies Being Ambitious
 My critics and adversaries say I am an ambitious woman, that I wanted the regency. that l wanted to be a modern Cleopatra. that I wished to be queen," she went on. This is cruelty false. I wish only to be allowed to carry on the kings work for the good of all Rumania. In any station of life when a hus- band dies. it is the duty of the widow to stay at home and look after the children. The king was the father of the Rumanian people. am their mother. Surely they still want me to guide them, not only as queen. but as mother. With the king gone, I shall have a two- fold duty to perform for my coun- try his own and mine.
 Kings Mind Clear
 Throughout the kings long. re- curing illnesses, his mind was per fectly clear and normal. Had wanted to succeed him upon his death as absolute ruler of Rumania, need only have asked him and his choice would have been supreme. But as matter of fact, we never once discussed the question in spite of the fact that from time to time various persons and political groups urged me insistently to become sole regent.
 Those who think evil things of me say I dislike my daughterin-la Helen Carols wife); that I am jealous of her; that I even begrudge
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