Word: lambrino
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...this she meant that before the World War Carol did all he could to thwart her schemes to marry him off to the Grand Duchess Olga of Russia; and that in 1918 he added insult to injury by marrying one Mlle. Zyzis Lambrino, beautiful daughter of a Roumanian officer, at Odessa. In 1919 Queen Marie secured the annulment of the morganatic 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...