KING AND A LETTER
WRONG ENVELOPE OPENED GIRL'S MESSAGE TO LOVER. Of all the letters that King Gustaf of Sweden opened on his seventy-fifth birllidny he probably was most pleased with the one beginning: “Darling, can yon meet me this evening at the usual rendezvous? ” . . The king was pleased, but so surprised that, he looked at the envelope again and found that this loving message was not for him after all, but addressed to a sailor on the warship Gustaf the 1? ifth.• Jhe letter was marked “ Strictly Private, and that is why the secretary had left it unopened when dealing with the correspondence. The king did not attend the rendezvous, but the sailor did; for King Gustaf opened no more of his letters until he had dictated a telegram telling the captain of the ship that the sailor was to he given leave that evening. _ It must have been a very puzzled captain and still more bewildered sailor, for neither could understand the king’s sudden interest in this particular subject. Not until the story came out in the newspapers did the sailor’s sweetheart know that she had addressed the king as “Darling.” She remarked: “Well, he certainly behaved like a darling.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22063, 20 September 1933, Page 14
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202KING AND A LETTER Otago Daily Times, Issue 22063, 20 September 1933, Page 14
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