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| | H-Net Review: Gudrun Staedel-Schneider on The Playboy King: Carol II of Romania |
 | | His book presents a traditional factual chronology of the life of Carol of Hohenzollern in eight chapters, explaining his family background and early years as well as his well-known scandalous relations with various women up to his final exile in Portugal. |
 | | The author introduces the reader to Carol as a child and adolescent (Chapter 2), to Carol as womanizer (Chapter 3), and to Carol under the influence of Elena Lupescu (Chapters 4-6). |
 | | It is easy, and maybe true, to say that Carol was lacking a balanced personality, that he was wax in the hands of lower and middle class women, but according to the known literature, Carol was steadfast, once he had chosen his partner; this fact is not mentioned. |
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