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...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...
During the past several weeks Prince Barbu Stirby's chauffeur has been cashing at the Bank Generale, in Bucharest, large checks drawn against the Royal Exchequer, in virtue of His Highness' former authority as Keeper of the Privy Purse. Officials of the Bank Generale all know that the Prince has ceased to hold that office. Yet the chief teller paid the checks on sight, paid...
Eventually last week a director of the Bank Generale remarked casually to Prince Barbu Stirby upon his recent large drafts on the Privy Purse. "But I have signed no such checks!" exclaimed His Highness, "I could not! Surely you know that I am no longer Keeper of the Privy Purse...
...shorten a long tale, the chauffeur was arrested, confessed that he had forged Prince Stirby's signature, vowed that he had smuggled the $36,000 to confederates outside Rumania, Among the many bitter -enemies of Prince Barbu Stirby the charge was heard, last week, that he was probably his chauffeur's confederate...