A LONELY MONARCH

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 5 May 1911, Page 2

A LONELY MONARCH

The "loneliest monarch in Europe," is how King Peter has been described. He is a man without either friends or amusements, whom other monaEchs have refused to know, and whose personality and very thoughts are impenetrable.

Peter Karageorgevitch is an unhappy man because his occupation is gone. All his life he plotted and intrigued to gain the Servian throne. The years he spent in his little villa at Geneva were devoted to negotiations with conspirators. Conspiracies were meat and drink to him. He thought of nothing but his cipher correspondence with the Karageorge party in Belgrade and the clandestine meetings with his supporters in Switzerland.

Having walked to the throne over the bodies of an assassinated King and Queen he has no further need for conspiracies. His future is fairly assured. It would be a kindness to Peter Karageorgevitch if he lost his crown and were sent back to Geneva to resume his intrigues by post.