He could not change his nature, and what he did do entirely concurred with his methods from the time he ascended the throne.
As long as the King lived there was the positive assurance that Roumania would not side against us, for he would have prevented any mobilisation against us with the same firm wisdom which had always enabled him to avert any agitation in the land.

He would then have seen that the Roumanians are not a warlike people like the Bulgarians, and that Roumania had not the slightest intention of risking anything in the campaign.

A policy of procrastination in the wise hands of the King would have delayed hostilities against us indefinitely.
Immediately after the outbreak of war Bratianu began his game, which consisted of entrenching the Roumanian Government firmly and willingly in a position between the two groups of Powers, and bandying favours about from one to the other, reaping equal profits from each, until the moment when the stronger of the two should be recognised as such and the weaker then attacked.
Even from 1914-16 Roumania was never really neutral.

She always favoured our enemies, and as far as lay in her power hindered all our actions.
The transport of horses and ammunition to Turkey in the summer of 1915 that was exacted from us was an important episode.

Turkey was then in great danger, and was asking anxiously for munitions.