Joanna Marie Valentina "Zizi" Lambrino (3 October 1898 – 11 March 1953) was the first wife of the later King Carol II of Romania. They had one son, Carol, born in 1920, in Bucharest.
Born in the former Byzantine, Phanariot Rangabe-Lambrino family, the daughter of General, Constantin Lambrino (d. 1916) and his wife, Euphrosine Alcaz (1875-1930), Joanna Lambrino met Crown Prince Carol in Iaşi in 1918, during the First World War where the Romanian royal court had adjourned to keep its distance from a German invasion. She was sister to his best friend Lulu.Journalist A.L. Easterman would later write that "Carol fell violently in love and was at no pains to dissemble it".
Carol "smuggled" her across the former Russian frontier and they were unlawfully married in the Orthodox Cathedral of Odesa, Ukraine.The Government had the Crown Prince arrested and confinedin Bistrița Monastery for seventy-five days. In August 1919 the Romanian Supreme Court ruled the marriage unconstitutional, unlawful and annulled it, Carol signed documents of renunciation of the throne .
However the affair cooled and Zizi Lambrino accepted a pension and exile in France with her son Mircea Gregor Carol Lambrino (8 August 1920 – 27 January 2006). On the fall of the monarchy her pension was stopped.
Zizi Lambrino died in poverty in a hospital ward in Neuilly-sur-Seine, near Paris, France, on 11 March 1953.Her former husband, the now ex-King Carol II, died in exile in Estoril, Portugal shortly after on 4 April 1953.
Born in the former Byzantine, Phanariot Rangabe-Lambrino family, the daughter of General, Constantin Lambrino (d. 1916) and his wife, Euphrosine Alcaz (1875-1930), Joanna Lambrino met Crown Prince Carol in Iaşi in 1918, during the First World War where the Romanian royal court had adjourned to keep its distance from a German invasion. She was sister to his best friend Lulu.Journalist A.L. Easterman would later write that "Carol fell violently in love and was at no pains to dissemble it".
Carol "smuggled" her across the former Russian frontier and they were unlawfully married in the Orthodox Cathedral of Odesa, Ukraine.The Government had the Crown Prince arrested and confinedin Bistrița Monastery for seventy-five days. In August 1919 the Romanian Supreme Court ruled the marriage unconstitutional, unlawful and annulled it, Carol signed documents of renunciation of the throne .
However the affair cooled and Zizi Lambrino accepted a pension and exile in France with her son Mircea Gregor Carol Lambrino (8 August 1920 – 27 January 2006). On the fall of the monarchy her pension was stopped.
Zizi Lambrino died in poverty in a hospital ward in Neuilly-sur-Seine, near Paris, France, on 11 March 1953.Her former husband, the now ex-King Carol II, died in exile in Estoril, Portugal shortly after on 4 April 1953.
Joanna Marie Valentina "Zizi" Lambrino (3 October 1898 – 11 March 1953) was the first wife of the later King Carol II of Romania. They had one son, Carol, born in 1920, in Bucharest.
Born in the former Byzantine, Phanariot Rangabe-Lambrino family, the daughter of General, Constantin Lambrino (d. 1916) and his wife, Euphrosine Alcaz (1875-1930), Joanna Lambrino met Crown Prince Carol in Iaşi in 1918, during the First World War where the Romanian royal court had adjourned to keep its distance from a German invasion. She was sister to his best friend Lulu.Journalist A.L. Easterman would later write that "Carol fell violently in love and was at no pains to dissemble it".
Carol "smuggled" her across the former Russian frontier and they were unlawfully married in the Orthodox Cathedral of Odesa, Ukraine.The Government had the Crown Prince arrested and confinedin Bistrița Monastery for seventy-five days. In August 1919 the Romanian Supreme Court ruled the marriage unconstitutional, unlawful and annulled it, Carol signed documents of renunciation of the throne .
However the affair cooled and Zizi Lambrino accepted a pension and exile in France with her son Mircea Gregor Carol Lambrino (8 August 1920 – 27 January 2006). On the fall of the monarchy her pension was stopped.
Zizi Lambrino died in poverty in a hospital ward in Neuilly-sur-Seine, near Paris, France, on 11 March 1953.Her former husband, the now ex-King Carol II, died in exile in Estoril, Portugal shortly after on 4 April 1953.
Born in the former Byzantine, Phanariot Rangabe-Lambrino family, the daughter of General, Constantin Lambrino (d. 1916) and his wife, Euphrosine Alcaz (1875-1930), Joanna Lambrino met Crown Prince Carol in Iaşi in 1918, during the First World War where the Romanian royal court had adjourned to keep its distance from a German invasion. She was sister to his best friend Lulu.Journalist A.L. Easterman would later write that "Carol fell violently in love and was at no pains to dissemble it".
Carol "smuggled" her across the former Russian frontier and they were unlawfully married in the Orthodox Cathedral of Odesa, Ukraine.The Government had the Crown Prince arrested and confinedin Bistrița Monastery for seventy-five days. In August 1919 the Romanian Supreme Court ruled the marriage unconstitutional, unlawful and annulled it, Carol signed documents of renunciation of the throne .
However the affair cooled and Zizi Lambrino accepted a pension and exile in France with her son Mircea Gregor Carol Lambrino (8 August 1920 – 27 January 2006). On the fall of the monarchy her pension was stopped.
Zizi Lambrino died in poverty in a hospital ward in Neuilly-sur-Seine, near Paris, France, on 11 March 1953.Her former husband, the now ex-King Carol II, died in exile in Estoril, Portugal shortly after on 4 April 1953.
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