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| Carol II of Romania @Wikipedia |
(1893-1953)
King of Romania 1930-1940
Husband of:
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| Magda Lupescu |
1. Magda Lupescu (1899-1977), Princess of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, mar 1947-1953
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| Crown Prince Carol & Princess Helen of Greece |
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| Queen Helen of Romania @Royal Splendor |
2. Helen of Greece mar 1921, dis 1928
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| Crown Prince Carol & Joanna "Zizi" Lambrino |
3. Zizi Lambrino mar 1918-1919
Carol II's hedonistic personality.
Carol II's marital history.
". . . His flamboyant private life created constant problems. In 1917 he made a morganatic marriage to Zizi Lambrini, whom he divorced to marry Princess Helen of Greece (1921) and by whom he had a son, King Michael. In 1925 he renounced his right of succession to the throne, deserted his wife, and went into exile with his mistress Magda Lupescu. In 1930 he returned to Romania and became king in a coup that overthrew his son. . . ." (Houghton, Mifflin Co., 2003, p. 278)
"He possessed a hedonistic personality that contributed to the controversies marring his reign, and his life was marked by numerous scandals. Among them, marriages to Zizi Lambrino and Princess Helen of Greece and Denmark, daughter of King Constantine I of Greece. His continued affairs with Magda Lupescu obliged him to renounce his succession rights in 1925 and leave the country. Princess Helen eventually divorced him in 1928. King Ferdinand died in 1927 and Carol's five-year-old son ascended the throne as Michael I." (Alchetron)
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| Carol II of Romania @Wikipedia |
The pouting production of her won philandering--like mother, like son.
" . . . Missy took refuge in her affair with the Boyar Stirbey and in an intimate bond with her first Romanian son, Carol. Ecstatically, she began to envision the future with him on the throne and herself as the power behind it. Marie's relationship with Carol titillates me partly for its perversity. Always strong about her own sexual experiments, she saw no harm in meddling with his. Behind my closed lids explodes a bright bucolic image of Arnold Mohrlen, the Swiss teach whom Missy chose to educate her son. I can see Mohrlen and his pupil at the secluded pond they discovered in the woods near Cotroceni Palace, around 1900, when Carol was, say fifteen and had become the long-limbed teenager with a high, thick mop of blond hair and a sensuous serious mouth. It might also be relevant to mention here the Eiffel Tower dimensions of his equipment, luridly referred to by Alice-Leone Moat in her shocker about the Prince's most notorious affair. As Carol climbs naked from the pond, the tense, hazel-eyed professor gazes fixedly. Without Marie's seeming to take the slightest objection, tutor and student have become surprisingly intimate. The first consuming relationship outside family in the prince's young life has begun. Missy jokingly refers to them as 'two old maids.' . . . Only three years later, Marie will blame her son's carousing in bars and cabarets on Mohrlen, never once guessing the Carol is the pouting production of her own philandering and over-involvement." (The Romanian: Story of an Obsession)
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| Carol II of Romania @Wikipedia |
Carol II's lovers were:
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| @adevarul.ro |
1) Ella Filitti (d.1950)
Lover in 1913?
Natural offspring: Silviu
"The first love of the future King Charles II was lived with passion, pain, tenderness, different from all that followed. The prince spent his youth with Ella Filitti, to whom he swore eternal love and with whom he suffered because their love was forbidden. Even so, with the waves of youth, he offered her a promise ring and contemplated leaving all responsibilities to her. Ella Filitti was the first great love of Charles II. Before Zizi Lambrino and Elena Lupescu, Carol fell madly in love, at the age of 20, with her sister's friend, Elisabeta. The family separated them, and Ella was sent into exile in Paris." (adevarul.ro)
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| Magda Lupescu |
2) Magda Lupescu (1895-1977)
Romanian adventurer.
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"Enter 'Bibi.' In a marriage of convenience forced upon him by his family, Carol had not the slightest intention of remaining a faithful or even a discreet husband. He made no attempt to disguise his many extra-marital affairs, and few Rumanians, to whom mistresses are certainly not unusual,* would have given his peccadilloes a second thought had not His Royal Highness happened one night in the Cercul Militar to meet a voluptuous young woman named Magda Lupescu. Daughter of a small shopkeeper, divorced wife of an Army lieutenant, she also happened to be half-Jewish in a country stridently anti-Semitic. Notwithstanding, Carol fell for "Bibi"—as he called the titian-haired Magda—and for 16 years, through thick & thin, on and off the throne, in exile or at home, he was to stick by her and she by him.
"He ran away with her in 1925, and in the very hotel from which his father had once renounced his throne, he was said to have penned a similar letter. Mihai, Carol's son, was declared next in succession. Then King Ferdinand died, and little Mihai was put on the throne surrounded by a regency consisting of his uncle, Prince Nicholas, Patriarch Miron Cristea, Supreme Court President George Buzdugan." (Playboy Into Statesman @Time)
"He met Elena Lupescu, the love of his life, in 1925. With her alabaster skin, green eyes and Titian hair, she came from a converted Jewish family in Iasi. Cunning, greedy and ambitious, she was to be by Carol’s side until his death in 1953. . . . Carol and Lupescu spent the war years wandering about South America before settling in Portugal. Carol tended his stamp collection and lived a life of luxury before dying of a heart attack in 1953. His coffin was kept amongst the tombs of Portuguese kings in the Cathedral of Sao Vicente de Fora in Lisbon, draped in a fading Romanian royal flag, before it was buried in the Cathedral of Curtea de Arges in 2003. Lupescu was buried separately. Carol and Mihai never met again." (Carol the Playboy King)
"On October 25, 1921, Mihai (the future king) was born. After a heavy birth, the doctors recommended sexual intercourse for two years, and forbidden her second pregnancy. Princess Elena goes to Greece, to his family, to recover.
Carol II remains in the country, makes a suite of mistresses, then settles at young redhead Elena Lupescu, a divorced Jew who had had sentimental relations with various soldiers. They are known in 1925 to watch the film "Nibelungii" broadcast by the Royal Carol Cultural Foundation, invited by a former director of the foundation.
So began one of the most commented love stories in history. He whispered that it had been a love at first glance. The monarch buys a house on her brother's name. Becomes the woman cared for and the "uncorrected queen". He's saying "Duduia". She was the woman "versed in making love", who knew what she wanted from life: money, fame, power, wrote Constantin Argetoianu in his "Memories". Soon, Bucharest was full of "wild and extravagant" stories that triumphed at the Court. The young man was hard to give up his old knowledge. One evening, when the king came to his feet, a lieutenant Don had to withdraw by jumping through the window." (Ziarul Metropolis)
" . . . Carol II was engaged in a highly public affair with his mistress, Madame Magda Lupescu, a slender redhead with creamy skin and green eyes who had supplanted other women to become the king's chief concubine and confidant, Interestingly, she was also Jewish." (Death on the Black Sea: 12)
" . . . Crown Prince Carol (eloped) with another commoner, Elena (later better known as Magda Lupescu, who was already married. . . The following year the ex-Crown Prince divorced Princess Helen and his enduring affair with the red-haired Madame Lupescu came to scandalise European high society and feed the gossip column for the next twenty-five years. Yet, astonishingly, in a coup in 1930, Carol grabbed the throne from his son Michael and, with Madame Lupescu always at his side, reigned disastrously as Carol II until 1940. . . ." (The Very Nearly Man: An Autobiography: 224)
"Lupescu has generally been depicted as manipulative and insatiably ambitious, in terms of both consumption and power. This psychological profile fits in some ways better than Carol's as an authoritarian personality. For while he was very much driven by some of his desires, especially his love of Lupescu, he did not seem concerned with amassing personal wealth and power as has been alleged of Lupescu. But these comparisons between the two are speculative since the only evidence of their motivations are offered by contemporary observers who mostly had high personal stakes in their relationship with Carol or Lupescu." (Balkan Strongmen: Dictators and Authoritarian Rulers of South Eastern Europe: 94)
Magda, a Soviet spy?.
"However, it is known that at some point in his career he ran the notorious Madame Lupescu, 'the bane of Romania.' When, it what capacity and for how long are not known. Possibly she was recruited during those troubled days of June 1930 when Crown Prince Carol, having renounced the throne for her forbidden love, changed his mind and left her alone at their chateau outside Paris. His father, King Ferdinand, having expired, he spirited himself back in the night to Bucharest to reclaim his birthright and prevailed over palace cabals. Soon after, Lupescu rejoined him in the royal palace, scandalizing the common folk, disrupting internal politics and setting up her own camarilla of court favorites. To the new King Carol II she remained the irresistible Duduia, while to her he was ever the devoted Chou-Chou. Possibly, as rumor had it, she was acting for the Soviets four years later, when she persuaded her lover to establish diplomatic relations with the USSR. The move brought Romania little benefit: the Soviet Union did not recognize its annexation of Bessarabia and did not return its $34 million gold reserve, removed in WWI. But the Soviet Union itself gained little benefit, at least int he political sphere: Carol's sexual immaturity, financial corruption and lame-brained social programs played into the hands of the domestic fascists, the Iron Guard, who steadily gained ground, despite his despotic persecutions. Following the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact in August 1939, Stalin seized Bessarabia and Bukovina, Hungary grabbed Transylvania and Bulgaria claimed Dobruja, dismantling Greater Romania. Then the Iron Guard took over the remainder with Carol's son Michael as figurehead monarch, driving the hapless king and consort to Spain." (A Death in Washington: Walter G. Krivitsky and the Stalin Terror: 39)
Magda's personal & family background.
" . . . Carol and Magda Lupescu met at the Cercul Militar (Army Club) in 1924. She was the daughter of a Mr. Wolf from Jassy, who was either a junk peddler, a chemist, a moneylender or a salesman of automobile parts---no one ever quite knew which, because after his daughter took up with Carol he retired. Magda was a big, vivacious girl, with a creamy skin and flaming red hair. She was married to a Lieutenant Tampeanu whom she later divorced. After the divorce, she tactfully Latinized her maiden name of Wolf to Lupescu." (Life Magazine: 80)
"Elena Wolff (1895-1977, known as 'Magda Lupescu' -- Lupescu is the Romanian equivalent of the German Wolff), a daughter of Nicolas Grünberg, a Jewish pharmacist, who adopted the name Nicolas Wolff, and his wife née Elizei Falk." (Biography Base)
Lupescu, the wife of an army officer and daughter of a Jewish chemist from Jassy. When she became Carol's mistress, King Ferdinand carried out his threat and barred him from the succession. Carol and Magda lived together in Switzerland from 1925 to 1930, Carol's marriage to Princess Helen being dissolved in 1928. . . ." (Who's Who In World Politics: 75)
"Four years after Michael's birth, Carol fell in love with the red-haired, half-Jewish wife of an army officer. Often referred to as Magda, the voluptuous. Elena divorced her husband and took the name of Lupescu, a latinized version of her maiden name, Wolf. Warned by his mother of stern measures if he did not end the liaison, Carol sent his mistress out of the country. But after representing King Ferdinand at the funeral of King Edward VII's widow Queen Alexandra, in London toward the close of the year, Carol left for Milan to be reunited with Mme. Lupescu. Soon, having brought royal prestige to a new low, he renounced all rights to the throne again. . . ." (Royalty Who Wait: 194)
" . . .Outside Romania, Elena Lupescu was known as 'Magda,' as was Krivitsky's consort of 1923. However, Quinlan (81) believes that an Italian journalist gave Lupescu that name after mixing her up with a Russian circus rider in 1926." (A Death in Washington: 426)
Affair's aftermath.
"Forced to abdicate in 1940, he fled into exile with Lupescu, his mistress, leaving his now 19-year-old son (1940-47) to take the throne. King Carol and Lupescu left Romania in the dead of the night in late 1940, in a nine car railway train fitted with the country's gold and art treasures. He had asked for asylum in Germany, but Hitler, because of Lupescu's Jewish origins, refused to have them. Crossing the Atlantic they settled first in Mexico, then in Brazil. There they remained throughout the war, eventually marrying in 1946. King Carol bestowed upon Lupescu the title of Royal Princess. After the King died in Brazil. she lived with Carol's former Prime Minister, Erners Urdarreanu. She died in 1977." (A Travel Guide to Jewish Europe: 677)
3) Maria Martini.
"Shortly after Romania's accession to World War I, the prince became friends with Maria Martini, a high school student living near the Cotroceni palace. From an innocent love, a little girl is born, who was discreetly placed in an orphanage. Lovers have met in secret. The war broke them apart for a while. . . To keep him busy, secret police are facilitating an accidental encounter with Maria Martini, somewhere in Transylvania. The girl is paid to deviate her thought from Zizi. The prince bites the bait, consoles himself for three years in the younger arms, which will allot "Păsărica": "You must know that in this world, not wives are the most adored, but the moods." Martini shows signs of being pregnant. There is a husband, a gentleman named Leonescu, who had been trapped that he was forging checks and being in jail. The man is denied the punishment, is called the head of the station and married in secret to Maria. The girl was confiscated his letters and the diary, and as a marriage gift to the bridegroom they received enough money for a livelihood. The born child, a boy, was registered in the birth certificate named Leonescu." (Ziarul Metropolis)
"Carol (II of Romania) also had a son and a daughter by his next mistress Maria Martini, a high-school student." (Historical Boys Royal Costume)
"He fathered four children two of them with a schoolgirl, deserted his regiment, had dinner with Hitler, was awarded the Order of the Garter, left Romania in a train under a hail of bullets with 100 suitcases including priceless Old Masters, was married in a hotel room in Rio and died in Estoril aged 59. His dubious political record, and the company he kept, denied him his dearest wish, to spend the war years in the USA.
"Maria Martini, a high school student, who may well have been a minor, gave him a son and a daughter, who were immediately adopted. But four other women played a decisive role in the life of King Carol II of Romania. Zizi Lambrino, his first wife and a commoner, also provided him with a son, Carol, in a morganatic marriage contracted in Ukraine. His legitimate wife, Elena of Greece, was the mother of ex-King Mihai, whose behaviour throughout his long life has been impeccably correct." (Carol the Playboy King)
4) Zizi Lambrino (1898-1953)
Romanian society figure & royal mistress.
Born Joanna Maria Valentine Lambrino (Jan 7, 1896) in Bucharest, she was the daughter of Constantine Lambrino and his wife Euphrosine Alcaz. Dark-haired and attractive she became the mistress and then morganatic first wife (1918) of Crown Prince Carol (II) of Roumania, the son and heir of King Ferdinand I (1914 – 1927). The marriage took place at Odessa, in the Ukraine according to Russian Orthodox rites, but the union was not recognized by the royal family or by the Romanian government and was dissolved at the instance of Queen Marie (1919). Prince Carol wrote her a letter of renunciation and the government made her a cash settlement. Zizi then went to Paris where her son was born, but Carol quickly became indifferent and made a royal marriage with Princess Helen of Greece. Zizi never returned to Romania. Her son Mircea Carol Lambrino (1920 – 2006) later styled himself Prince Mircea von Hohenzollern, and though his claim was recognized as legitimate by the French courts (1955), it was not recognized by the Head of the House of Hohenzollern. Prince Mircea later died in London. Zizi Lambrino died in poverty in Paris (March 27, 1953) aged fifty-seven. (A Bit of History)
"Zizi Lambrino, the woman to whom blonde Queen Marie so objected, was her physical opposite. Nee Ioanna Maria Valentine, she was dark and plump, a Romanian bourgeoisie of Greek Phanariot descent. In the summer of 1913, she met Prince Carol, who was not quite twenty; and in the months that followed, her bedroom became papered with pictures of the prince, the way girls today paper theirs with pictures of rock stars. By 1918, at twenty-four, Prince Carol was head over heels for Zizi, despite the fact that members of royalty were prohibited from marrying native Romanians. He was so enthralled that he was willing to give up his future kingship, thumb his nose at the Romanian people and the hard-won legitimacy of the royal family. . . ." (The Romanian: Story of an Obsession)
"While still a Crown Prince, the future King had married commoner, Zizi Lambrino, in 1918 and renounced his succession to the throne. But four months later the marriage was dissolved on orders of the reigning Hohenzollern monarch, Ferdinand I, and Carol was reinstated. But by then Zizi was pregnant and on 8 January, 1920, gave birth to young Carol. The pair were banished to Paris, where Zizi spent the rest of her life, and the young Lambrino grew up with the stigma of illegitimacy hanging over him, even though he was a great-grandson of Queen Victoria." (The Very Nearly Man: An Autobiography: 224)
Zizi Lambrino & Carol II of Romania.
"Former King Carol II of Romania and his wife Magda Lupescu, now the Princess Elena of Romania, living more lavishly than any other Estoril exiles in Portugal, 1950. Known rather for his romantic misadventures than for any leadership skills, Carol was first married to "Zizi" Lambrino, daughter of a Romanian general; and the marriage was annulled by decision of the Ilfov Tribunal in 1919. He next married Princess Helen of Greece and Denmark, but the marriage soon collapsed in the wake of Carol's affair with Elena "Magda" Lupescu , the daughter of a Jewish pharmacist and his Roman Catholic wife. As a result of the scandal, he renounced his right to the throne in December of 1925 in favour of his son who became King in July of 1927. Carol also had a son and a daughter by his mistress Maria Martini, a high-school student. Returning to the country unexpectedly on June 7, 1930, Carol reneged on the renunciation and was proclaimed King the following day." (Elegant Exile: King of Romania, 1950 @Noted l'Hotel))
5) A high school student.
"At nineteen, he left the palace to get a taste of the streets his mother had yearned for when she was just his age. On Bulevardul Kiseleff he gaped at the women in tight-waisted dresses and enormous hats choked with feathers and flowers, as young, sometimes corseted, officers with waxed moustaches made X-rated comments about their private parts. . . Carol was by now already a 'deadbeat dad.' An early affair with a high school student had led to a child, who was immediately placed in an orphanage by the embarrassed royal family. But the end of this early affair only pushed him more emphatically into bohemian circles, until he fell madly for the headstrong, deliciously plump Zizi Lambrino." (The Romanian: Story of an Obsession)
October 15, 1893 – Birth of King Carol II of Romania. Carol was the eldest son of Ferdinand I and Marie of Edinburgh, he became crown prince upon the death of his grand-uncle, King Carol I in 1914. He was the first of the Hohenzollern kings of Romania to be born in the country (both of his predecessors were born and grew up in Germany and only came to Romania as adults). Carol, by contrast, spoke Romanian as his first language and was the first member of the Romanian royal family to be raised in the Orthodox faith. He possessed a hedonistic personality that contributed to the controversies marring his reign, and his life was marked by numerous scandals. Among them, marriages to Zizi Lambrino and Princess Helen of Greece and Denmark, daughter of King Constantine I of Greece. His continued affairs with Magda Lupescu obliged him to renounce his succession rights in 1925 and leave the country. Princess Helen eventually divorced him in 1928. King Ferdinand died in 1927 and Carol's five-year-old son ascended the throne as Michael I. Carol returned to Romania in 1930 and replaced the regency that had been in place. His reign was marked by re-alignment with Nazi Germany, adoption of anti-semitic laws and ultimately evolved into a personal dictatorship beginning with 1938. On 6 September 1940, he was forced by his Prime Minister Ion Antonescuto leave the country and withdraw abroad into exile. He was succeeded by his son Michael. Carol remained in exile for the rest of his life. He was never to see his son, King Michael, after his 1940 departure from Romania. Michael could see no point in meeting his father who had humiliated his mother so many times via his open affairs and did not attend his father's funeral. #romanianroyalty #romanianroyals #carolii #marieofedinburgh #ferdinandiofromania #michaeliofromania #hohenzollernsigmaringen #royals #royalty #royaleurope
Carol II Photo Gallery.
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References:
Flaming Love of Carol, Magda Defied Tradition, Upset Throne @The Brooklyn Daily Eagle
La Fuga del Rey Carolo II de Rumania @Los Reynolds de Miguel
King Carol II of Romania @Alexander Palace Time Machine.
King Carol II, Queen Mother Helen, Wives and Descendants @The Royal Forums.
King Charles the Second @Stelian Tanase.
King Ferdinand of Romania @Unofficial Royalty.
Magda Lupescu @Wikiwand.
Man Without a Country Now, but Has $4,000,000 Saved Up for a Rainy Day @The Milwaukee Journal.
Mysterious Magda Lupescu, Junk Dealer Is Pictures As Real Power Behind King Carol's Throne @The Pittsburgh Press.
Odoricai @ Blogspot.
Ultimii Regi ai Romaniei @Stelian Tanase.
Pictures.
Carol II of Romania @Pinterest.
House of Romania @ Pinterest.
The Royal Family of Romania @ Pinterest.
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