Word: bucharest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thus far) had carried Rumania's 26-year-old King Michael and pretty Princess Anne Antoinette Franchise Charlotte of Bourbon-Parma through a lyrical, whirlwind courtship amidst the glitter of a British royal wedding and the dark second act of a Communist coup d'état in Bucharest...
...themselves in Switzerland* under the chaperonage of her mother, Princess Margrethe, and his uncle, Prince Nicholas. There was still no official announcement of betrothal. Political considerations, Michael's finances ($3,000 in cash, four automobiles, and a diamond-and-ruby medal given him by Stalin were all that Bucharest let him take out), and the safety of members of the royal entourage still in Rumania were plot complications still to be unraveled. But the promise of a happy ending seemed certain. As Anne's father put it: "They're engaged all right...
...hours later, Dimitrov hustled off to Bucharest on a larger mission. Rumania's boss woman and fellow Communist, Foreign Minister Ana Pauker, gave him a welcome fit for a Balkan king. At his disposal was a palace just vacated by ex-King Michael's Aunt Elizabeth, who had decided to avoid Communist Ana's iron mop by following her nephew to Switzerland. Between champagne toasts and speeches brimming with declarations of love for Soviet Russia, Pauker and Dimitrov signed, in behalf of their countries, a 20-year pact of alliance...
...night last week, Michael was preparing for a New Year's party at his palace in Sinaia near Bucharest, when the telephone rang. It was a summons to Bucharest from the king's first minister, Communist stooge Petru Groza, "to discuss important matters." The king set off at 3 a.m., was received in the Villa Elizabeth by Groza and comrades, who handed him an instrument of abdication, complete and ready for the king's signature. Said Michael: "If I refuse to sign you cannot force me." "In that case," replied Groza suavely, "thousands will be arrested. Rumania...
Three days later Michael and Mama arrived in Bucharest. If there was to be a royal Rumanian wedding, the marriage would be made in Moscow...