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Mistress Romania tells the story of the glamorous Magda Lupescu, the first wife of Crown Prince Carol of Romania and later the lover of King Mihai. It is the only book to explore her life in detail, and is the most important contribution yet to be made on this remarkable woman's life and career.
A shrewd, ambitious woman, Magda was a born entrepreneur. She was a successful literary author, writing a series of novels, short stories and children's books. She was also a devoted public figure, tirelessly campaigning for a number of causes. She was an important figure in the early history of women's suffrage, and she worked hard to promote peace and understanding between Romania and Russia.
In 1923, she met Crown Prince Carol, then a married army officer, and they began a passionate affair. Although they could never marry legally because Romanian law said that only royals could be married, they had a great deal of fun. They traveled extensively, lived in a succession of lavish places and surrounded themselves with controversial industrial magnates and adventurers. They were adored by the British press, and Carol and Magda frequently appeared in swanky mondain occasions wearing their most expensive furs.
But behind closed doors, their happiness was short-lived. It wasn't just the spies of the British government that were uneasy with their reckless, free-wheeling lives. Romanian spies were also unhappy with the ill-considered policies of their political mentor, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej. His rash measures, which included herding the rebellious peasants into state farms and confiscating their property, would have dire consequences for the country's future. In private, Pauker and her followers argued that he was being too extreme, but they were powerless to stop his inexorable march toward madness.
Despite the warnings of their mentors, Ana and Gheorghiu-Dej remained together. They were at ideological loggerheads, but Ana had the more mettle, and she was willing to sacrifice her bourgeois personal concerns for the greater good of Romania. She was also a powerful woman who could hold her own in edgy discussions with the men in her inner circle.
Ultimately, the two runaways were expelled from Great Britain when Scotland Yard discovered that they were manufacturing political manifestoes in a cellar and plotting their return to Romania. Upon their return, Carol's former renunciation of his succession rights was invalidated and he ruled again as King of Romania. Both he and Magda died in 1977, and they are interred in the Curtea de Arges Monastery, alongside his mother Queen Marie of Edinburgh. Mistress Romania is an indispensable addition to the literature on Romanian history. It's a fascinating read, and the authors have done a superb job of making their subject accessible to readers with little previous knowledge of the period.