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Daughter, Daughter. She had red hair and green eyes, and a camellia-white complexion. They called her Magda, a good name for a voluptuous beauty of her type. She joined the Greek Orthodox Church, though her mother was a Roman Catholic Viennese dancer and her father a Jewish merchant (variously described as a moneylender, druggist, innkeeper, garageman). The story goes that Papa Lupescu was very fond of Carol, and liked to refer to him and Magda as "my children." Once, when Carol's brother Nicolas recklessly proposed to marry a commoner, Papa Lupescu chided Magda: "Daughter, daughter! What kind...
...Magda shared Carol's first five-year exile (1925 to 1930). She shared his power when he returned to Rumania in 1930 and was crowned. She moved into a villa on Bucharest's Alea Elisa Filipescu, where she raised white turkeys. She was violently hated in the country (manifestoes attacked "this red-haired witch who exercises such an occult influence over our King"). When Edward VIII abdicated for Wally Simpson's sake, Carol thought it prudent to suppress the news in Rumania for a while-lest his subjects get ideas. But he refused to give Magda...
...under pressure from the Nazis, Carol and Magda had to flee Rumania. Afterward, Magda Lupescu's villa was opened to the public-at 10? admission...
...King was 53 years old. Magda never told anyone her age, but it was at least 50. Back in Rumania, young Mihai, Carol's son, was King now. It did not seem such a long time ago that little Mihai had asked innocently one day: "Who is Daddy's lady friend...
...between matches, the tawny-eyed queen of U.S. amateur tennis got her first hint of trouble back home. The rulers of amateur tennis wanted to know whether Pauline Betz had turned pro. She ignored their cable, went back on court and proceeded to lose unexpectedly to Rumania's Magda Rurak. Pauline did not alibi; she said offhandedly: "Maybe I brought a little happiness to Rumania...