Show Carols Carol's L Life fe and Loves Romance With Lupescu Closely Parallels That of Edward Wally Editors Editor's note Here follows the second article in a series of four on the fantastic career of King ex-King Carol of Rumania This tells among other things the story of his marriage to the buxom daughter of an army colonel and how they were separated by his father The other two articles written for the Special News Service of the Associated Press and Salt Lake Telegram will appear in Wednesday and Thursday editions By ROGER D. D GREENE NEW YORK Sept 17 The P-The The romance of King ex Carol II H of ol Rumania and his commoner sweetheart art Magda Lupescu in inmany inmany inmany many ways way strangely parallels paralleL the love drama of King ex-King Edward Edward Edward Ed Ed- ward VITI and Wallis Warfield Both women were divorcees Both figured in the changes of royal cr crowns Both offered to surrender their theil love to save the throne And both eventually won Like Edward Carol was head head- strong stron tr n E Each Ea c c was a headlined prince charming And Carol also renounced his throne though the circumstances circumstances' were different and left and left with the woman I love loveIt It By By coincidence Carol and Magda last week even spent the night in the same suite of hotel rooms in Barcelona Spain which were occupied by the duke and the duchess of Windsor in their flight from war-ravaged war France last summer I It was in the late that Magda reportedly became re remorseful remorseful remorseful re- re over over keeping Carol from froth his his' throne and offered to give him up Carols Carol's first romantic escapade came in August 1916 when Rumania Rumania Rumania Ru Ru- mania entered the World war and the year old crown prince commanded a regiment regiment- Driven back into Mold Moldavia via by the Germans Carol and his troops camped at the town of ol Jassy where he met the buxom daughter of a Rumanian army Colonel colonel Jeanne Zizi Lambrino and fell fen violently in love Leaving his regiment Carol eloped with Zizi to Odessa where they were married married mar mar- ried ned at the Orthodox church The elopement was a a. bitter blow to Carols Carol's mother Queen Marie Mane who dreamed of ol a great union of dynasties through marriages marriages mar mar- of ol state Already as Caros Caro's Carols Carol's Car Car- ol's os prospective bride she had chosen the Grand Duchess Olga of ol Russia who later was was was' massacred massacred massacred mas mas- sacred by bolsheviks with the rest of the imperial family at Royal influence quickly had the Rumanian high court of ol justice declare the marriage null nun nullan nunan an ano l void and Carol was clapped into a monastery for 75 days to reconsider While WhilO friends contrived to smuggle notes from the monastery monas monas- tery to Zizi Carol manifested alarming signs of despondency and failing health until his father fathel King Ferdinand relented enough nough to permit him to see Zizi Curiously enough Carol was Wa only following the example of ol his father 30 ye years rs earlier when Ferdinand fell fen in love with a beautiful i commoner Elena Va- Va caresco and remained with her herfor herfor herfor for three years despite parental displeasure Carol insisted that he wanted to renounce his status as heir apparent and in 1919 when Zizi was about to have a child and King Ferdinand order ordered d a world tour for Carol the prince promptly shot himself in the leg The child a boy named Mircea was born January 8 1920 and when the official register omitted omitted omitted omit omit- ted mention of ol the boys boy's paternIty paternity paternity pater pater- Carol wrote Zizi a letter acknowledging ing his parenthood Except for clandestine meetings meetings meetings meet meet- ings they were still separated I love and adore you Zizi S he wrote I desire you eternally and this separation forced by my mother burns into my heart A thousand kisses Under increasing pressure by Queen Marie Matie however Carol consented to a globe girdling trip in 1920 stopping off oll in the United States for two weeks When he returned he found every detail had been arranged without his nis knowledge for his marriage to the classically beauS beautiful beautiful beau beau- S Princess Elena of Greece Amid glittering gUttering pomp and pageantry pageantry pageantry Carol and and Helen asElena as asElena asElena Elena became known were married married mar mar- ried ned in Athens Greece on March 10 1921 On October 25 1921 a son Mihal was born born and and Carol having having hayIng hav hay ing fulfilled his duty of providing providing providing pro pro- viding a royal rpyal heir to the succession succession sion Lion soon returned to Zizi thet the colonels colonel's daughter But before long It was the hapless turn to weep as she stared dully at another letter letter letter let let- ter from the errant prince Forget The charm is broken I love my country more than you A new star had risen in the orbit of ol Carols Carol's tangled love life Tomorrow The first first exi exile e and a coup |