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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...
Result: His Majesty on four evenings in succession gave his guards the slip. With a red-haired woman on his arm who appeared to be either his red-haired Jewish mistress, Magda Lupescu, or her famed double, King Carol ordered night club employes to "act as if you did not know my identity." Sedate and dominant, Mme Lupescu is not adept at Argentine rhythms. His Majesty, after sitting out one tango, called to a brunette to come and dance with him. He half rose, then was tugged firmly back into his chair by his red-head...
Friends of Carol II excused his London spree by saying that his Jewish mistress Magda Lupescu, whom he left behind in Paris, exerts a "motherly influence" upon the King, and that with this suddenly removed his "boyish and highly susceptible nature" got out of hand. At the Ritz in Paris the King soon sobered. "I do not believe war is imminent," he wisely told correspondents. "In fact, I am confident peace can be maintained. In this respect I have great hopes for the reign of Edward VIII. He is a man endowed with rare equilibrium - rare equilibrium ! My own country...
...Horrible Hohenzollern," buck-toothed King Carol II of Rumania, put his Jewish Mistress Magda Lupescu aboard his Royal Train at Bucharest and rattled off to Paris where Magda alighted and remained. His Majesty was brought to Dover on the British destroyer Montrose, received a 21-gun salute from Dover Cas tle, was met in London by the heir to the Throne, the Duke of York, and took up residence in the house of a sister of one time U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Mills. Her husband, the Irish Earl of Granard, was Master of the Horse to King...
That all this should have leaked out of King Carol's closely guarded summer palace was attributed by Rumanians to the fact that businesslike Mme Lupescu will sell anything at a fair price. At the close of last week's parley. Foreign Minister Nicholas Titulescu of Rumania announced with dignity and menace: "Mobilization of the Little Entente's armed forces will follow as a matter of course if the [Habsburg] dynasty is re-established in Vienna...