The Archive · 1939

Every Inch A King

'There is something poignant about the three boy Kings—Cour-years-old Faisal 11 of Iraq, 1-years-old Peter of Yugoslavia," and M4-years-old 'Ananda of 'That' (Siam).

Faisal is the world's youngest monarch, and was suddenly elevated to the throne early this year when hiis father, King Ghazi, was killed in a motoring smash, Poter of Yugoslavia ascended the throne when his father was assassmoted, "Thus both boys had kingship pre~ maturely thrust upon them through the deaths by violence of their fathers.

When Poter was told that his father was dead and that he must become King, he suffered a double grief, the ess of hig father and the loss of his Boyhood.

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