Word: carolers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Carol and Magda played a lot of bridge, walked their dogs. Friends insisted that Carol had always wanted to marry Magda, and that she had always refused. After all, there was the chance that he might be King again some day, and what would Papa Lupescu have said? Last year, a U.S. friend, speaking to a critic of the couple, summed up their status: "For 23 years, she has been faithful to him. For 23 years, he has not looked at another woman. Which is more than you can say for yourself...
Magda shared Carol's first five-year exile (1925 to 1930). She shared his power when he returned to Rumania in 1930 and was crowned. She moved into a villa on Bucharest's Alea Elisa Filipescu, where she raised white turkeys. She was violently hated in the country (manifestoes attacked "this red-haired witch who exercises such an occult influence over our King"). When Edward VIII abdicated for Wally Simpson's sake, Carol thought it prudent to suppress the news in Rumania for a while-lest his subjects get ideas. But he refused to give Magda...
...under pressure from the Nazis, Carol and Magda had to flee Rumania. Afterward, Magda Lupescu's villa was opened to the public-at 10? admission...
...Elenas. Countess Rosie Waldeck once said: "Any $50-a-week American publicity man could have saved Lupescu all along." Carol hired a considerably more expensive publicity man (Russell Birdwell; fee: $35,000) to get them admitted to the U.S., but he failed. The couple went to Mexico City, where they lived quietly in the dignified old suburb of Coyoacan. Invitations to their small, candlelit parties were sought eagerly. Later they went to Brazil, where they stayed at Rio's Copacabana Palace...
...King was 53 years old. Magda never told anyone her age, but it was at least 50. Back in Rumania, young Mihai, Carol's son, was King now. It did not seem such a long time ago that little Mihai had asked innocently one day: "Who is Daddy's lady friend...