Word: barbu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...girl at her marriage, Princess Marie was not long in mastering the arts of Balkan intrigue. She quickly allied herself with the powerful bourgeois Bratianu family which had founded the modern Kingdom of Rumania by revolting against Turkish rule in 1877. Princess Marie's favorite soon became Prince Barbu Stirbey, Chamberlain of the King's Household and, more important, brother-in-law of Ion Bratianu. Prince Ferdinand came to the throne in 1914, a weakling from the start, and thereafter the real power in Rumania was lodged in the hands of the Bratianus, Prince Stirbey and Queen Marie...
...private telephone line last week connected Mrs. Simpson's town house with Buckingham Palace. Europeans recalled that Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania had a similar private wire from her palace to the home of Prince Barbu Stirbey until this was torn out by order of Her Majesty's angered son King Carol...
...hearing of numerous persons, "it was disgusting of mother [Queen Marie of Rumania] to take that Miss Stirby with her to America!" Thus putting the stamp of royalty on the popular belief that Princess Ileana's father was not the late King Ferdinand of Rumania but is Prince Barbu Stirby. The wide currency of this belief in the Balkans was a decisive factor in thwarting efforts by Queen Marie of Rumania to arrange a marriage between Princess Ileana (legitimate under Rumanian law) and Tsar Boris of Bulgaria...