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Carol II of Romania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Eldest son of Ferdinand I, King of Romania, and his wife, Queen Marie, a daughter of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, the second eldest son of Queen Victoria. |
 | | He next married, in Athens, Greece, (10 March 1921), Princess Helen of Greece and Denmark, in Romania Crown Princess Elena, but the marriage soon collapsed in the wake of the king's affair with Elena "Magda" Lupescu (1895?–1977), daughter of a Jewish pharmacist and his Roman Catholic wife. |
 | | Carol left Romania in a train laden with royal treasure: paintings by Old Masters such as Titian, Rubens, and Rembrandt, hundreds of canvasses, jewels, the armor that had decorated the walls of the royal palaces of Pelişor and Peleş. |
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