SERBIAN BOY KING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18590, 28 December 1934, Page 5

SERBIAN BOY KING

PHASES OE DAILY LIFE

SUBTLE CHANGE NOTED

LONDON, Dec. 10. “Kiny Peter, of Jugoslavia, is the most important boy in Europe,” says the Belgrade correspondent of the Daily Mail

Peter definitely left his childhood behind him when lie took farewell of his Yorkshire nurse, Miss Sylvia Crowther, who has looked after him for seven years. He is considered to bo 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 brotliters in a bungalow near Dedinje Palace, but occupies the Royal suite. “The boy King sleeps in his dead father’s big bedroom, alongside lus 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 father’s 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. Ho 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 Jiis brothers about, lie rarely plays with them and usually sees them only at tea time.”