Word: ferdinands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...began at 2:15 a.m. when King Ferdinand I, 61, died at the Castelui Palace, in the arms of Queen Marie. "I feel so tired," said Ferdinand, "so tired. . . and yet I feel no pain." Thus six years of acute suffering from a cancerous growth were ended, at last, for His Majesty Ferdinand Victor Albert Mainrad von Hohen-zollern-Sigmaringen, King of Rumania, and successor to the Tsars of Russia as Defender of the Holy Sepulchre...
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...
...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...
...Excluded Mourners. Mlle. Helene Vacarescu, a Rumanian poetess who has received the French Cross of the Legion of Honor in recognition of her talent, was informed last week at Paris that if she sought to attend the funeral of King Ferdinand she would be stopped by Rumanian frontier guards...
...answer is suggested by an engagement ring still worn by Mile. Vacarescu, now an aged spinster. The ring was given her by Ferdinand in the '80s, when he was but a prince and she was the favorite lady-in-waiting to the late Queen Elizabeth of Rumania, better known by her pen name, "Carmen Silva." Queen Elizabeth, sympathizing with the lovers, permitted them to be constantly together. When news of this came to strict, arbitrary King Carol of Rumania, he broke off the affair by the ruthless step of banishing Mile. Vacarescu from Rumania, and later sending Queen Elizabeth into...