RUMANIA’S BOY KING
WANTS TO KEEP THRONE. Little Michael, Rumania’s boy King, has already started hie political career. At the tender age of seven he is already feeling on his childish brow the uneasiness traditionally handed down to the wearer of a crown. As part of the ten-year anniversary celebrations of the foundation of a Greater Rumania a “golden book” has been prepared and laid out for the signature of leading personalities in the country. ‘ As the first of the signatories, King Michael took a pen in hand to inscribe his anniversary wish. “What are you going to write?” asked his tutor. “I am going to write, ‘I want my country to be strong and united so that I do not share the fate of Philipp,’ ” was the determined answer. The tutor, returning to the palace, reported the baby King’s pronouncement. It was discovered, on inquiry, that the Philipp he mentioned was the former Prince Philipp of Greece, who had been a playmate of the child monarch. Through the de-throning of King George of Greece,. Philipp became an exile.
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 June 1929, Page 9
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