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proclamation. The marriage was

events about which the King told
me later, at Vichy. / shake my
head and ! am sorry for that
unfortunate young Prince, Carol.
How unwisely his royal parents
managed him. After all, it would
have been no real tragedy for
the heir TO a third-rate European
kingdom TO marry subject and
a countrywoman whom he ar
IDENTIFY loved. A similar marriage
has reformed many a wild young
prince. But the decree of annul-
ment interviewed. And Zizi Lam.
brine, expecting baby. learned
she was no longer a wife.
At the time, Carol was strick-
en-, full of solicitude for his lost
love. full Of rebellion towards his
autocratic parents. Contritely,
tenderly he wrote Zizi a letter
which was later read in a Paris
court, when the deserted girl was
suing to establish the legitimacy
Of her son, Mircea.
II am your husband. / am the
father Of your child. Whatever
happens, / will know how TO
shoulder my responsibilities"
And again Carol wrote:
My Dear Zizi-I want this
letter 10 serve you as recognition
from me that ! am the father of
the child you Will give birth to.
and that ! have never ceased,
despite the annulment proceed
ings, 10 consider myself your
husband"
My friend, Monsieur Jacques
Elias, who knew the royal fam
lily better than knew them. was
absolutely sure that Carol loved
hts first wife, Zizi Lambrino, and
might possibly have lived a de-
cent life, If married TO her. But
the plots at the Palace prevented,
as those plots spun on.
The next moves were 10 dis
tract Carol, and 20 discredit him
before his future subject. by
throwing other girls across
the path of this impressionable
prince.
All that followed then. made
me wonder. For Carol. while still
protesting TO Zizi his utter love.
While writing her that he would
consider himself always her hus-
band. was nightly meeting other
girls. taking on new and casual
attachments.
So. the Summer following the
end Of the war, Queen Marie
made a great fete at her castle
at Sinaia. set high upon lordly
cliffs above the Black Sea. The
women Of the house party she
gathered together then were
more notable for their feminine
appeal than for their iron clad
virtue.
A CERTAIN Madame Tam
~ peano, the wife of an army
officer. was one of the guests.
She had been invited by the
Queen for a special purpose. so
was told and so l believe. This
young woman was different. Red
nair famed on her well-poised
head; comfort and enticement
looked out of her fearless blue
eyes. There was dash. even ma
iesty to the swing of her fine
legs as she walked across the
emerald lawns OF Mamaia Cas-
lie.
Prince Carol shortly noticed
1er walking across those lawns.
one morning. very early. while
dew was pearly on the grass, he
noticed her. He dashed out,
ready for n morning swim.
Come" he shouted TO her,
come swim with me in the pool
down by the terrace The Black
Sea water in that pool makes
swimming jolly and"
Magda Lupescu Tampeano
smiled back:
"All right" she said, but why
the pool? Let us swim in the
Black Sea itself"
II was the sea itself Magnif-
icently she rode the waves. and
magnificent was his admiration
for her. And so a meeting Of mo-
ment 10 history began with a
swimming party.
Back in Bucharest the affairs
Of the royal prince and heir had
reached this contradiction:
In letters, Carol was writing to
zizi Lambrino, still in Russia:
Il love you. ! will always con-
slider myself YOUR husband"
In Bucharest, he was paying
devoted court TO the divorced
wife Of one of the officers of his