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...Lambrino marriage, and tried to pack Carol off on a trip around the world, "to efface the memory of Zyzis." Carol thwarted her temporarily by shooting himself in the leg, and thus delayed his world tour of forgetfulness until 1920. When he returned, the indomitable Marie (backed by King Ferdinand) saw to it that he married the not positively homely Princess Helen of Greece. Zyzis is the mother of three children, whom Carol admits to be his. The Princess Helen has borne Prince Michel, now a backward and rather sickly child of four...
Last week King Ferdinand of Roumania read to the Crown Council a letter in the autograph of Crown Prince Carol which had been postmarked at Venice: "I have irrevocably decided to renounce all my rights as heir to the Roumanian throne and as a member of the royal family. I bind myself during six years not to return to Roumania, and also after the lapse of this period never to tread Roumanian soil again except with the permission of the King and the Roumanian Parliament...
...another of Carol's innumerable declarations that he has long wanted to abandon royal state and live as a commoner with Zyzis. In 1919 he wrote a similar epistle, and he is thought to have written many before and since. What startled the world was that this time King Ferdinand, instead of hushing up the offer of abdication, rushed it through the Crown Council and ordered the Roumanian Parliament to convene for the purpose of declaring Carol's baby son, Michel, the Crown Prince...
Arthur Hopkins has the furnishings from the workshop of Robert Edmond Jones, and has cast Louis Calhern, Frank Conroy and Ferdinand Gottschalk in Miss Taylor's support. All are eminently suitable...
Having once conciliated the Powers, "Prince Ferdinand" speedily pushed his advantage and became "Tsar Ferdinand" when Bulgaria emerged as a completely autonomous kingdom out of the Bos-nia-Herzegovina squabbles in 1908. The Powers recognized this title in 1909, and Ferdinand built up his country, which he styled "Mon Oeuvre," by tireless devotion to public works and by obtaining the annexation to Bulgaria of a part of Thrace in 1913. On Oct. 3, 1918, Tsar Ferdinand was forced by the victorious Allies to abdicate in favor of the present Tsar Boris. He has led a superficially retired existence since then...