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...most disastrous times, many people sat in cafes, talked of other things. Rumanians were gradually learning many more unpleasant things than they already knew about their ex-King Carol, who abdicated last September (TIME, Sept. 16) with redheaded Magda Lupescu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Quakes and Carol | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

...stables costing 400,000,000 lei ($2,080,000). In these fantastic barns the walls were lined with mirrors, floors were made of costly faience, each groom had a three-room, electrically heated apartment, the horses themselves stood or lay on expensive mattresses. For her part, Mme. Lupescu had whimsically ordered many buildings in Bucharest torn down simply because she disliked their looks. Before he left Bucharest for a trip to Rome last week Rumania's new dictator, General Ion Antonescu, had put a stop to these demolitions. One of Mme. Lupescu's last acts before fleeing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Quakes and Carol | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

Under house arrest in a Seville hotel, ex-King Carol and his titian paramour Magda Lupescu earnestly sought the "protection" of President Roosevelt to keep the Gestapo from sending "The Lupe" and shady-dealing palace favorite Ernest Udarianu back to the Iron Guard. She is accused of having been directly responsible for the assassination of its Leader and No. 1 Rumanian Fascist, Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, he of having looted the Treasury for his royal master. Powerless and apparently in the hands of the Gestapo, Carol last week had time to contemplate that Europe was fast becoming too small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Autumn Roundup | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

...officially denied in Bucharest that the train had been fired on. Officially the Iron Guard announced that it had wanted to kill, not Carol II, but only his "Jewish Pompadour," Mme. Magda Lupescu. But in the Balkans nobody was fooled. An unsuccessful dictator had been driven from his country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: God Help Your Majesty | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

...breakfasted together every morning. The King supervised the Crown Prince's education, made it a point to play with the boy as much as possible. As time went on Father won Son over completely-so completely that by last summer Mihai even accepted the friendship of Mme Lupescu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Playboy into Statesman | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

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