(Continued from page 1) their efforts prior to the war to encircle Germany with a ring of antiexpansionist "forces.
This twice-married, twice-divorced Of Queen Victoria, ie World War that he aroused wezldwide curios had disappearest. For several days Whéreabcufs. Court. "and diplomats were b deem. The then idered.
5-year-old o 1 town had married—married a simple girl with no royal or even noble blood in her veins, Miss Zizi Lambrino, the daughter of an artillery major. They eloped to Odessa where they were married.
Pressure was brought upon Carol by the outraged family to break with his young bride and to return to Bucharest.
For months he resisted, but finally after the marriage had been declared void by a Rumanian court in June, 1919, he consented to recognize the annulment decree, although his "mor-fanatic" wife Was expectant at that time. (She gave birth to a boy in January of the following year.)
Tu the meantime his parents had selected a bride of equal birth for him in Princess Helen of Greece.
Carol, now in a meek mood, consented, and the marriage was celebrated with great pomp at Athens on March 10, 1921.
Peace and happiness in the royal family now seemed assured, moreover as a son, Prince Michael, w born to the couple on October 25 in the same year.
Their bliss was not, however, of long duration.
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