BOY KING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 228, 27 September 1938, Page 7

BOY KING.

PLAYS AT INDIANS.

YUGOSLAVIA'S MONARCH.

ALREADY A CRACK SHOT. (Special.—By Air Matt.) BELGRADE, September 5. A king in Europe plays cowboys and Indians. He is Europe's youngest monarch. King Peter 11. of Yugoslavia, who, while thousands were pouring into Belgrade for his birthday celebrations recently, was imitating his favourite hero, Buffalo Bill . King Peter is now 15 and 15,000,000 of his subjects were wild with joy on the occasion of his birthday because the day coincided with the twentieth anniversary of the liberation of the country from the Austrian yoke. But while the city was ablaze with fireworks and special electric signs at night and the streets were filled with torchlight processions of singing peasants King Peter was busy with other things. He was building a tent. When it was finished he was able to fulfil his dream of playing cowboys and Indians "just like the real thing." King Peter got his love for Buffalo Bill when he was being educated in a Surrey preparatory school. His interest in all things British is being fostered by his tutor, Mr. C. C. Parrott, an Oxford graduate. Slim, dark-eyed King Peter is already a crack shot with pistol and rifle, and he is a dare-devil rider.

His day is so busy with his training for the throne which he will mount in three years' time—when he cornea of legal age—that he has to get up at dawn to play.