Evening star., 1948-01-11
Mihai's S Marriage
To Anne Is Off for
Present, Aide Says
BY the Assoeiosed Press

LAUSANNE, SWltZerlanQ, Jan. l0.
An aide to former King Mihai OF
Romania said today that Mihai's
expected marriage to Princess Anna
of Bourbon-Parma is of, at least
for the immediate future.
The 24-year-old princess inter-
rupted her journey from Copen-
hagen to meet the former monarch
and announced she was going In
stead to Luxembourg.
The dramatic announcement to
the kings abdication and postpone
ment of the romantic rendezvous
was explained by Maj. Jacques Ver-
gotti, Mihai's spokesman, who said
. love "entanglement" right now
could be used by Romanian Com
munists to destroy his hopes OF
eventually returning to his throne.
Maj. Vergotti had no comment on
subsequent speculation In the Swiss
press that Anne might come on to
Switzerland after all. He had said
the fact she had gone to Luxem-
bourg obviously Indicated" no Sc
cret wedding was contemplated.
dispatches from Luxembourg
said the princess and her mother
spent the afternoon at the ducal
palace and rumors she had de-
parted for Switzerland and could
not be confirmed)
Political Reasons Blamed.
Most persons in the encourage of
the Prince of Hohenzollern, as 26-
year-old Mihai is now known, have
stressed that he abdicated for ''po-
litical reasons" and not to marry
the girl he loves
Romanian Communists have ap-
peared to be trying to give the i'm
preston that Mihai was all unstable
playboy, following in the footsteps
of his father, former King Carol II,
who once renounced his rights to
the throne for romantic reasons.
The unhappy state of Mihai and
Anne's love affair was disclosed
when the Danish princess, looking
pale and tired, got off the train at
Liege, Belgium, in midjourney from
Copenhagen to Lausanne, with her
mother, Princess Margrethe. She
transferred to an automobile and
said she was going instead to
Luxembourg, where she has rela-
tives, "for an undetermined period
and have a little rest
She said she did not expect Mihai
-, !, orad aHdoH urolllV'
II have no definite plan yet. I
might go to Paris but this is not
certain. You see we have been
having such a lot of troubles and
changings that no settlement could
have been made up to now
Expected Ring From Mihai.
Earlier in her journey, she had
told neWspap apermen maybe Mihal
would have a ring for her when
she reached Switzerland, and that
their engagement was mot official,
though everybody seems to know
about it,"
Asked to explain this development,
Maj. Vergotti did not appear sur
prised. The first hint that some
thing might be amiss in Anne's
love journey came Thursday, when
Mihai's aides insisted, despite Cop
nehagen announcements, that there
were no present plans for the
princess to visit Switzerland.
Today Maj. Vergotti had an "I-
told-you-so" smile.
He said Mihai really loves" Anne
who is ideally suited to be his wife,
and he may eventually" marry her.
But no wedding for. the mo-
ment," he added. !,
Going into the background Of the
situation, he said Mihai's unofficial
engagement to Anne was only "an-
other reason" why he was forced
from the throne.
The Romanian government wanted
to foresta1l an "upsurge of the kings
popularity" which would have fol-
lowed a royal wedding and made
him more difficult to unseat, he eX-
planned.
The marriage then would have
been to Mihais advantage, he
added, but now it would give "the
wrong impression"
Tito's Visit Blamed.
He blamed Marshal Tito of Yugo-
slavia for considerable responsibility
for the abdication of the Romanian
king.
He said Tito spent a week in
Bucharest, while Mihai was away
In Switzerland last December, and
Imposed the principles of the COM
intern" on the Romanian govern
ment, so that when the king re-
turned to his capital December 21
the decision had already been made
to abolish the crown and make Ro-
mania a popular republic" like the
rest Of the Soviet-sphere Balkan
countries.
THAT meant a Communist re-
public" said Maj Vergotti.
1.-THE government represented the
kings faithful subjects as being
fed up with the monarchy. There
was not much more to be said"
Maj. Vergotti said one of Mihai's
immediate concerns was his
finances, and the fate of relatives
and friends still in Romania for