For six months fat-cheeked Carol of Rumania has found Mexico City's suburb Coyoacan an agreeable place for his exile, complete with his red-haired mistress Elena ("Magda") Lupescu, a luxurious eight-room maisonette, two high-powered automobiles, valet, maid, two Cuban houseboys, two French poodles, two Pekingese, and former Lord Chamberlain Ernest Udarianu, who is something of a lap dog himself. There the exiled King has pleasured himself with poker, backgammon, golf, visits to the El Patio nightclub, and a social whirl with some of the fastest climbers in Mexico.
But recently Carol has begun to miss the privileges and perquisites of...
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