HARROW BOYS KICK KING OF SPAIN
The proposal to send the Archduke Otto, son of the former Emperor Karl of Austria, to an English school has aroused much interest at Harrow. Eton and other English public schools. While the late Duke of Genoa was a boy at. Harrow he was elected King of Spain by the Cortes, trd, though he was a very popular youth, all the other students soon began making a point of kicking hint at every opportunity, so aa to be able to boast in later life o» having once kicked the King of Spain. However, King Victor Emmanuel 11., fearing dynnstio complications, forbade acceptance of the proffered crown, and so the kicking of the nenrking all went for nothing.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12354, 26 January 1926, Page 12
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123HARROW BOYS KICK KING OF SPAIN New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12354, 26 January 1926, Page 12
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