Monday, July 20, 2009

Helen will return to Roumania says Hohenlohe Prince

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 July 20, 1931

The Hereditary Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, who is a first cousin of King Carol of Roumania, has told the Associated Press that Queen Helen will be returning to Roumania. He says that the Queen, who is the former wife of King Carol, left Bucharest to visit family in England, but she expects to return to Bucharest in the fall before her son, Crown Prince Michael's tenth birthday.
Prince Gottfried reached Paris this afternoon, "having traveled part of the way from Bucharest with the Queen, who went straight through to London."

He told a reporter: "There was no question of her being forced to leave Roumania. King Carol consented to the trip but that was all. I ought to know, because I was the intermediary.

"The Queen told me one day she would like to go abroad and when I put it to the King he said he expected people would say what they said -- that he forced her to leave.

"Both the King and Queen are sick of seeing wild stories about them in the newspapers. They are divorced like thousands of other people and they have a son which necessitates their seeing each other occasionally. They will meet again in the fall when she plans to return to plan Michael's education. There is no question of a reconciliation and there was never any question of annulling the divorce."

The Hereditary Prince stayed for three weeks in Bucharest, where he lived at the Royal Palace. He said he had "seen nothing to indicate that Mme. Magda Lupescu was in the city. The Hereditary Prince's mother, Alexandra, is the Dowager Queen Marie's sister. His wife, the former Princess Margarita of Greece, is Helen's first cousin.

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