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Show KIK 10 QUEER 1 LOVE IT FIBST SIGHT Romance of Sovereigns of Rou-mania Rou-mania Recalled on Ruler's Seventy-second Birthday. Special Cable to The Tribune. BUCHAREST, May 13. King Charles of Roumania, who has just attained his seventy-second year, possesses a history few monarchs can equal. A prince of the house of I-lohcnzollern. at the conclusion of the revolution In Roumania he was asked by the people to be their king. Wiseacres shook their heads and scorned the Idea of this young prince even entertaining the notion of governing such wild subjects. On the eve of his departure for Bucharest, Bismarck Bis-marck said to him: "At any rate Roumania will be a pleasant pleas-ant memory to you " . But here even the iron chancellor was wrong, for in less than six months the young king had not only won over his people, but made Austria, Turkey and Russia acknowledge his position. Russia, at all events, had very good reason later to be thankful for the friendship of the young ruler, since everyone knows It was he who saved her from defeat at the hands of the Turks in 1877. The wooing of King Charles and Queen Elizabeth is one of the romances of a throne. 'They first met at a concert at j Cologne. After the ontertalnment. the princess and her mother drove to the Floral garden. There they sat down and to them presently came a party of young men. One of them looked very hard a"t the younger of the women, but she turned away from him. Then he Introduced himself, and soon the two were engaged In a lively conversation, which lasted two hours. "As we drove away," says the queen, "I exclaimed, 'There Is somebody with whom ono can enjoy talking- He is a really charming young man.' My mother said nothing at all." A few months later her mother Informed In-formed her .that the Prince of Roumania wanted her to become his wife Her answer an-swer was simplicity itself. "Let him come. He is the right one," she said. "In a very short time he returned," re-turned," says the queen, "and I remember re-member going toward him with my hand outstretched, which he raised to his Hps." And IL has been one long courtship ever since. |