No engagement for Nicholas

October 4, 1928

By special cable to the New York Times.   "Europe's gossips today again were treated to what they thought a bit choice of scandal in connection with the Rumanian court, but only for a short time."   The court is denying reports that former Crown Carol's younger brother, Prince Nicholas,  "eloped with a Rumanian society woman and gone to Paris."
An "official communique" stated that the Prince went to Paris "for medical treatment" and is expected to return to Bucharest on Saturday.
The AP reports that Prince Nicholas has been in Paris for several days.  His visit has "given rise to rumors  that he also had become involved in an escapade of a character similar to his brother's.  This has been denied by the Rumanian Legation in Paris.
One rumor, published in a Budapest newspaper, said that Prince Nicholas "had eloped with a Rumanian girl of aristocratic lineage and was living at the Paris villa of his brother." 
Legation officials "insisted energetically that the rumor of an elopement was false," but there has been no denial "of another report that on the visit to Paris Prince Nicholas was in the company of a woman, who, however, was said to be not of the Bucharest aristocracy."