KING PETER

Northern Advocate, 28 December 1934, Page 5

KING PETER

TUITION IN ENGLAND. RIGHT TO RESUME. (Received 9 a.m.) BELGRADE, December 27. Jurists have decided that there is no obstacle to King Peter resuming his studies in England. The Constitution provides that the Monarch must not be absent from the country for more than six months in any year, but this does not preclude him from going ito school in England. The Dowager Queen Marie is anxious that the boy shall return as soon as possible to England, but he is not likely to do so before next May.

King Peter, of Yugoslavia, is the most important boy in Europe, says the Belgrade correspondent of the “Daily Mail.” Peter definitely left his childhood behind him when he took farewell of his Yorkshire nurse, Miss Sylvia Crowther, who has looked after him for seven years. He is considered to be too old now for a nurse’s care. King Alexander’s death entirely changed young Peter’s life. He no longer lives with his two younger brothers in a bungalow near Dedinjc Palace, but occupies the Royal suite. The boy King sleeps in his dead father’s big bedroom, alongside his mother’s, and is attended with all the importance of Kingship. His experiences, including his return from England with his widowed mother, the funeral procession, and the lowering of his coffin into the vault, have subtly changed him. Peter has lost some of his boyishness and poses for photographs with the accustomed bearing of a celebrity. He is not eager to return to his English school, as his mother wishes, owing to the novelty of the Kingship. He is also attached to his English tutor. The King is sufficiently boyish, however, to delight in steering an electric boat on the palace lake and ordering his brothers about. He rarely plays with them and usually sees them only at tea time. ’ ■ '