Sick Queens

Princes Andreja and Tomislav of Jugoslavia were indulging in a knockdown & drag-out fight in the Royal Palace at Belgrade last week when His Majesty Peter II poked his head into the Royal nursery.

"Stop it, you kids!" piped King Peter. "Do you want to worry Mama and Granny?"

Widowed Queen Marie of Jugoslavia was painfully ill of shock, gallstones, and infected teeth. Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania, her mother to whom she is "Mignon," was recuperating from an attack of influenza brought on by the bitter weather during King Alexander's funeral. Both sick women worried mightily about Dowager Queen Marie's youngest daughter, the Archduchess Ileana, expecting another baby and running a dangerous fever in Vienna.

An Associated Pressman, admitted to the Royal Palace, found Marie of Rumania slightly red-nosed, but still regal, draped theatrically in a high-backed armchair.

"No kind of sorrow is new to me," said the mother of Rumania's scapegrace Carol. "No sad experience is unknown to me, because life for a Queen can be just as hard as it is for anyone else.

"Perhaps I can assist in guarding and advising Mignon. She is so magnificently modest and unselfish. She lived so entirely for her King, her country and her children. Today she is lost.

"She naturally turns to her mother. I represent strength, consolation and sympathy. She finds in me royal stamina, patience and resourcefulness coupled with the sad courage of one who has stood alone, facing Fate."

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