To push the romance along, Marie and her husband, Crown Prince Ferdinand, took Carol on a trip to Tsarkoye Selo, the Tsar's winter palace outside St. Petersburg, and later His Imperial Majesty & family visited the Rumanian royalty at Constantsa, ... Small wonder it is that the lobbies and bar of Bucharest's famed Athénée Palace swarm night & day with as conniving a group of spies, agents, buyers, diplomats, eavesdropping newsmen as ever inhabited a Grand Hotel. ...
bFerdinand/b of Bulgaria was observed locking himself in the bathroom, scared to death of assassins. Belgium's King Leopold II rode the train to Istanbul after making elaborate arrangements to infiltrate a Turkish man's harem. ... bCzar/b Nicholas II demanded that special cars be built for his visit to France, and some decades later the French President Paul Deschanel clumsily tumbled from one of these cars in the dead of night, an event that prompted such ridicule that he ...
borovets is the oldest winter resort, founded by bulgarian btsar ferdinand/b in 1896 and is closer to sofia, near samokov, to the north of the rila mountains. pamporovo is a modern purpose-built ski-resort in the western rhodope mountain ...