King of Romania (1893-1953). Autograph letter card and autograph draft for a telegram signed. In French. N. p. Oblong 12mo. Together 2 pp. Mounted on paper (4to).
$ 2,657 / 2.500 €
(85884/BN56559)
The draft is addressed to the French inventor Édouard Belin, accepting an invitation: "C'est avec la plus grande joie que j'ai l'occasion de visiter les merveilleuses inventions de Mr Bellin". - In the letter card, Carol thanks the recipient for condolences on the death of his father King Ferdinand I of Romania on 20 July 1927: "Bien qu'un peu tardivement, a cause du grand malheur qui m'a frappé, mais pas moins sincèrement je vous remercie pour les condoléances que vous m'avez envoyés". - Carol lived in exile in Paris from 1926 to 1930 due to his morganatic marriage to Magda Lupescu and his subsequent exclusion from the line of succession.