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Carol of Rumania and his red-haired Madga Lupescu, who went through a provisional marriage ceremony last July when Magda appeared to be dying, decided to make it good & legal this week or maybe next. In Rio de Janeiro there would be a sort of Double Carrick B. knot: the first twist civil, the second Greek Orthodox...
Then Magda Lupescu fell ill of pernicious anemia. She looked frail and joked about how easily she grew tired...
...Carol and Magda played a lot of bridge, walked their dogs. Friends insisted that Carol had always wanted to marry Magda, and that she had always refused. After all, there was the chance that he might be King again some day, and what would Papa Lupescu have said? Last year, a U.S. friend, speaking to a critic of the couple, summed up their status: "For 23 years, she has been faithful to him. For 23 years, he has not looked at another woman. Which is more than you can say for yourself...
...friends to his Copacabana suite (in which the Windsors had once stayed). He talked with them nervously, then he led them into the bedroom. Magda wore a white satin bed-jacket. She was dying, the doctors said. In the presence of the six witnesses, ex-King Carol married Magda Lupescu.* She assumed the title of Princess Elena of Rumania, the same name that Carol's bitter, blonde wife had once borne. Reporters said that the ex-King cried during the ceremony, but this was later denied...
Married. Carol Hohenzollern, 53, exiled King (Carol II) of Rumania; and Elena (Magda) Lupescu, 50, his mistress of 23 years; in an "in extremis" ceremony at her Rio de Janeiro bedside where she was thought to be dying of pernicious anemia (see FOREIGN NEWS...