RUMANIA: Other Grandmama

The famed grandmama of Baby King Mihai of Rumania was reported, last week, to be planning for next Fall a second triumphal tour of the U. S.

If only the report had concerned King Mihai's other grandmama it would have been news.

The Other Grandmama does not endorse face creams, hair nets, whatnots. She is not photographed. Obscure and lonely, she lives in a small villa near Florence, forgotten, poor, and seldom addressed as "Your Majesty."

Once the Other Grandmama's eldest brother was called King, Kaiser and All Highest War Lord. She has been...

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