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Newsgatherers jotted these words briskly, last week in Bucharest as the Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania gave out her first interview since the death of her consort, Ferdinand I, and the ascension under a Regency of her five-year-old grandson, King Michael I (TIME, Aug. 1). Soon the Queen Grandmother went on to speak in such vein that she revealed herself once more as a clever and attentive student of all that is written or implied about Her Majesty. She said...
...King of Rumania, Michael I, five years old, was playing solemnly by himself on the lawn of the Little Pelesh. To this small chateau, some 50 miles from Bucharest, he had been brought last week, following his investiture, and barely 18 hours after the death of his grandfather, King Ferdinand I. Even as His Majesty rolled over lazily on the soft turf and gazed idly down upon the wooded valley of Pelesh, statesmen were busy in Bucharest drafting his first proclamation...
Investiture. During the afternoon which followed the death of Ferdinand, a smart cavalcade of the Household Cavalry trotted through Bucharest as the advance guard of a procession. Came the Prefect of Police, then the Marshal of the Court. Came finally a State carriage, in which sat the young king between two royal ladies: 1) Princess Ileana (Michael's aunt) who rode in the procession because her mother, now only "Dowager Queen Marie," was "prostrate with grief"; 2) Princess Helene of Greece and Rumania (Michael's mother) who would now be queen had not her husband, onetime Crown Prince Carol, renounced...
...ceremony drew to a close and King Michael descended the Tribune he ran happily to Princess Helene, crying: "Let's go home, mama, I'm hungry." Soon a special train carried His Majesty swiftly to his distant chateau, the Little Pelesh. At Bucharest the royal grown-ups turned their attention to the funeral of King Ferdinand...
Ferdinand's Funeral. Three Greek Orthodox services were performed over the body of King Ferdinand: the first at the Castle in Sinaia, where he died; the second in the Chapel Royal of the Cotroceni Palace, in Bucharest; and the last at the ancient Cathedral of Curtea de Arges, a still medieval town 100 miles from Bucharest, where Rumania's royal ties lie buried. At the three services great censers filled the air with smoking perfume, and in Bucharest the priests intoned a resonant Gregorian chant, while the bearded Patriarch stood robed in Biblical and almost regal splendor. Cried the Dowager...