Word: caroled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Carol II." Since "Prince Carol" has thus far lived quietly as a private person, in Paris, he caused great excitement last week by referring to himself as "King Carol II" in communicating to newsgatherers the statement that he would see no one. Reputedly Carol received last week a message from his sister, Queen Marie of Jugoslavia, imploring him not to attempt to return to Rumania, even for the funeral of their father, and advising him not to call himself "Carol II." Seemingly he resolved to take his sister's advice, although newsgatherers and photographers surrounded Carol's villa...
...codicil added to the original will, Prince Carol is cut off from the inheritance of any real estate but is bequeathed some 6,600,000 lei in cash ($400,000). Queen Marie of Jugoslavia cannot, as a foreign sovereign, own Rumanian real estate, and therefore was willed a legacy in cash and securities. The Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania will receive an income and the use of several palaces during life;" but the residual bulk of the king's fortune and estates was willed chiefly to King Michael? ($30,000,000), Princess Ileana and Prince Nicholas...
...codicil of King Ferdinand concluded: "I cannot close without remembering with all my heart my dear son Carol, for whom I wish a happy time in the new life which he has chosen against our wishes. ... I demand that he shall not return until all the constitutional authorities allow...
...Curtea de Arges, the Dowager Queen Marie broke down completely, and sobbed aloud, swooned. She recovered at last, sufficiently to lay upon the grave a wreath of lilies, which she had picked herself, and a large pillow of white roses sent from Paris by Prince Carol. Near her there stood during the ceremony her son-in-law, King Alexander of Jugoslavia, her brother-in-law, Prince Hohenzollern-Sigmarigen, and the deposed King George II of Greece. Airplanes dropped flowers, and the earth trembled slightly at a long farewell salute of 101 guns...
...Since King Ferdinand's career passed chiefly among persons now dead, and amid situations now altered or vanished, the briefest summary suffices. His late uncle, Carol von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen was the first King of Rumania, having achieved that rank from mere princehood through the masterful intrigue of his great minister, the late Jon Bratiano (father of the present Dictator). Prince Ferdinand succeeded his childless uncle as King in October, 1914. He had married, in 1893, a granddaughter of British Queen Victoria, the Princess Marie of Saxe-Coburg und Gotha (later Windsor). During the War, King Ferdinand & Queen Marie saw their...