BOY KING OF YUGOSLAVIA.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 4404, 13 October 1934, Page 1

BOY KING OF YUGOSLAVIA.

TO RETURN TO SCHOOL IN ENGLAND. London, October 10. After having been proclaimed King of Yugoslavia twelve hours after his father’s death, King Peter H. who is aged 11 years, left his preparatory school in Cobham, Surrey, this morning, for London. Here he met his grandmother. Queen Marie of Rumania, with whom he travelled to Paris to join his mother, Queen Marie of Yugoslavia. On their arrival at Calais they left for Paris under a strong police guard. After seeing the body of her husband placed aboard the Yugoslavian destroyer Dubrovnik, at Marseilles, Queen Marie of Yugosalvia left for Paris by train to meet her mother and son. French warships escorted the Dubrovnik when it left Marseilles. King Peter’s housemaster awakened bim at 6 a.m. before the other boys were astir and told him to dress quickly to receive an urgent message. The boy was taken to the headmaster’s study where the news of King Alexander’s death was disclosed. Then he was driven to the Yugoslav Legation in London. He cast a quick glance at the flag at half-mast as a battery of Press photographers snapped him. Victoria Station was heavily guarded, with police when the King and his grandmother, Queen Marie of Rumania, departed for Paris. The approaches were thronged with thousands of sympathisers. King Peter smiled in response to the cheers and shouts of “Good Luok.” King Peter, under his father’s will, returns to school in Euglnnd after the funeral.