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...himself to all his Dominions and to India from time to time. During such absences Queen Mary and a Council of State will reign in London with powers delegated by the King. They start reigning next month when His Majesty & friends move into the flamboyantly modernistic French Château de I'Horizon at Juan-les-Pins which he has rented from oldtime Actress Maxine Elliott. Last week Britons viewed bug-eyed in their illustrated papers pictures of this Hollywood setting, complete with ''artificial moonlight" and a practical joke swimming chute. Fun is had when a guest...
...shocked by their state of decay, gave the Comité $1,000,000. His workmen did a thorough Rockefeller job of repair. Later Mr. Rockefeller gave $2,080,000 more, some of it to restore the War-shelled Cathedral of Reims and to put the château of Fontainebleau in shape...
Leaving the parade ground, King Carol and his red-headed Magda Lupescu made a sentimental journey to the suburban château where for more than four years they lived in exile (TIME, June 16, 1930). Taking the Blue Train to Nice, they were up until dawn, dancing in the streets at a city fete. Next day His Majesty, 42, motored out to the villa of famed Dr. Serge Voronoff, monkey-gland rejuvenator...
...lived at a lively time. A contemporary of Henry VIII, Erasmus, John Calvin, Rabelais, Machiavelli, he came to the French throne when monarchy meant owning the country. Only 20 when he became king, he found it delightful to be an autocrat. Did he want a château? He built it. A woman? He took her. The Mona Lisa? He bought it. Another province? He raised an army. But his political ambitions ended by embroiling him in a complicated series of expensive wars, and at the battle of Pavia he was captured by the German Emperor Charles V, imprisoned...
Solal founded a political newspaper: power and riches poured into his hands. Aude adored her husband until she discovered his secret: he had transported the Jewish colony of Cephalonia to the cellars of his princely château. Daytimes he was a tycoon and a Cabinet Minister; at night he reverted to the wailing Jew. Aude was horrified and left him. Then Solal abandoned everything for her-faith, riches, power-and became a renegade, but her love for him was dead. He went downhill fast. With the last of his strength he went in search of her, found her happy...