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To King Mihai it must have appeared as if the confused and scandalous state of affairs long chronic inside the Rumanian Royal Family had now spread to the kingdom at large in a more appalling form. When he was in his cradle his father was two-timing with the now forgotten Mme. Zizi Lambrino. When he was a lad of five Mihai was made King under a Regency, but three years later, in 1930, Scapegrace Carol flew back from exile and with Army backing took the throne from his son. Jesuitical historians last week could recall nobody else since the world began who was King before & after his father.
Mihai, today aged 18, is King in little more than courtesy. He came officially of age last year and was certified to have passed his final examinations taken orally in the presence of his father, but Mihai I is just a simple royal youth who likes to tinker with motorboats, cars and radio sets. Lulu Malaxa, daughter of Rumania's richest industrialist, has long been Mihai's playmate, but her father was jailed last week as a suspected grafter and the young King seemed to take no interest. Over the air waves Rumanians heard new Dictator Antonescu say significantly to new Puppet King Mihai: "Sire, a prayer to God to help Your Majesty and me!"