A KING GROWN UP.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20541, 16 February 1935, Page 15

A KING GROWN UP.

Many may have been wondering how King Peter of Yugoslavia, who is the youngest king in Europe, fills up his time, states a London writer. At first a great effort .was made to send him back to his preparatory school in England, and there is not the least doubt that would have been the very best thing possible for him and for Yugoslavia. Unfortunately, the Constitution of the country forbade the king leaving it for any but brief visits. Now we hear that he has an English tutor who looks after him and his younger brothers and a few chosen compatriots of his own age, who are encouraged to try to forget that their fellow pupil id the king. Now that he has come to the throne he line a whole bedroom to himself, a small, very simple room, his brothers occupying a much more pretentious room near by. Anything like self-indulgence is rigorously ruled out. Up he lias to get at 6.30 every morning. His breakfast is on the English pattern, taken with his brothers and consisting of tea, porridge, 6ome meat, bread and butter and mar malade. A real English breakfast! His lessons sound terrible for a lad of eleven; five modern languages, principles of statecraft, history of his country and dynasty, and military science. We must suppose that there ie the usual background of reading, writing and arithmetic, with spelling and so forth. At any rate, part of the day is spent with his mother and brothers in simple family life, when he is able to forget the shadow hanging over him and can really be himself.