Word: ileana
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...last week when effeminate Count Alexander ("Lexel") von Hochberg, descendant of the ancient and glorious Piast Kings of Poland, son of the German Prince of Pless, at last-in the words of the official Rumanian communique-"consented to permit the breaking of his engagement with H. R. H. Princess Ileana of Rumania" (TIME...
Bucharest papers confidently asserted that Dowager Queen Marie, who was houseboating on the Nile with Princess Ileana last week, had persuaded her daughter, who is of age and has a private fortune of $260,000, that she must not marry the Count...
With his major international problem thus well in hand, M. Maniu turned reluctantly to a pile of documents just brought by special courier from the Rumanian Legation at Berlin, dealing with the ab normality of Count Alexander von Hochberg, fiance of Princess Ileana of Rumania (TIME...
What could the Rumanian Government do? Princess Ileana is not in line for the Throne, has a private fortune of $260,000, and is of age. The King of England can forbid the marriage of any member of the Royal Family, but the King and the Government of Rumania have such power only where the marriage involves the Throne. Moreover Dowager Queen Marie backed her daughter, called Count Alexander "an extremely sympathetic person, especially welcome to me because of his English blood."?His mother was Mary Theresa ("Daisy") Cornwallis-West, kinswoman of the English Earl De La Warr...
...court reception in Belgrade in 1926. H. M. Queen Marie of Jugoslavia exclaimed in the hearing of numerous persons, "it was disgusting of mother [Queen Marie of Rumania] to take that Miss Stirby with her to America!" Thus putting the stamp of royalty on the popular belief that Princess Ileana's father was not the late King Ferdinand of Rumania but is Prince Barbu Stirby. The wide currency of this belief in the Balkans was a decisive factor in thwarting efforts by Queen Marie of Rumania to arrange a marriage between Princess Ileana (legitimate under Rumanian law) and Tsar Boris...