Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Princess Helen celebrates birthday with no greetings from Carol

April 21, 1928

Princess Helen of Roumania celebrated her 32nd birthday today "by opening another clinic for sick mothers and their babies."
She received "scores of birthday greetings from royal personages all over the world," according to an AP dispatch, but "no remembrance from the errant Carol, who still lives leisurely in France with Mme. Lupescu on the half a million dollars left to him by the late King Ferdinand."
Princess Helen, the mother of Carol's son, the young King Michael, devotes a great deal of her time to charity work. She "regards Carol as a closed chapter in her life," and she has said that if he "ever puts foot in Roumania," she will leave the country.

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