Narcis Dorin Ion
Abstract. As the title suggests, the article “The Ion I. C. Brătianu government and the management of the trial filed against the former Crown Prince Carol of Romania in Paris, in 1926,” analyzes, based on unpublished archive documents, the involvement of the authorities in Bucharest and of the Romanian diplomats in Paris, in solving – favorable for the former Crown Prince Carol of Romania and, implicitly, for the Royal Family – of the trial that Ioana Maria Valentina Lambrino had filed, at the Seine Court, against the one who had been her temporary husband, between 1918 and 1919. After renouncing the rights of heir to the throne, the former prince who would become a simple citizen under the name Carol Caraiman, would remain in the attention of the Royal Family, of the political class and even of a part of the Romanian society. Although seemed to lead a quiet existence in Neuilly, the former Crown Prince would have big problems caused by his former lover and wife from the time of the Great War, Ioana Maria Valentina (Zizi) Lambrino, who was not satisfied only with the life annuity received from the Romanian state but tried, following a trial, to get as much as possible from the one with whom she had a son, Carol Mircea Grigore Lambrino. A trial whose solution was in good collaboration between the government led by Ion I. C. Brătianu and the French authorities, all with the knowledge and consent of King Ferdinand I and Queen Marie, the one so affected by the reckless gestures of her first born.
Keywords: Crown Prince Carol of Romania, Carol Caraiman, Ioana Maria Valentina (Zizi) Lambrino, King Ferdinand I, Queen Marie, Ion I. C. Brătianu, Carol Mircea Grigore Lambrino, Elena Lupescu, George G. Mârzescu, Constantin Hiott, Constantin Diamandy, general Nicolae Condeescu, I. G. Duca, Joseph Paul Boncour, trial, Seine Court, Paris, Neuilly.