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THE CHINA MAIE,

SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1954.

KING PETER'S OWN

OWN STORY

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Exiled from his country since World War Two, Yugoslavia's monarch tells in his own words the story of his eventful young life and colourful, though short, reign. The story opens today.

ANOTHER CHINA MAIL SATURDAY SPECIAL

NE cold, grey day in February 1962 I stood in St George's Chapel, Windsor, as millions paid their lust homage to King George VI. 1 was thinking of his leadership In the grim his clays of the

war, of constancy and courage, and

My father was too moved to go into the room; unclo who brought me showed me to my father.

I was told the universal story Wad my of the "stork" by my parents,

nwalted und and

the newcomer'si appearance with curiosity!

A boy! My father, relieved and happy, took me in his arms, remarking to my uncle that 1 looked like an older version of my grandfather, King Ferdinand of Rumania.

The traditional 101 guns were of his boundless friendship fired over Belgrade to announce towards those exiled from the birth of the Crown Prince. their countries.

coln My christening closely elled with another royni cele A great king lay dead. bration. On the following day For me, personally, "Uncle Uncle Paul married to

Princess Olga of Greece, Bertie was dead.

I honoured and respected him for the advice und sympathy he had given me. I know that he, too, in his turn, had an affection for

me.

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streets

Was

Old Custom

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My first toy motor car given me as a Christmas present in 1927, and I found that the corridor in front of my father's study in the royal palace made a perfect race-track. My father tolerated the frightful clanking of the pedals for a while, but it was not long before I had orders to go elsewhere.

Indulgent as he was, he be came really angry with me on occasions.

Once, wearied no doubt by his heavy duties, he suggested we should go for a walk 10- gether. When I flatly refused,

e seized me, thok my trousers down, and heal

soundly with his gold-handled walking stick.

Uncle Berlic, then Duke of When i was six we moved York, acted as proxy godfather from the old palace in Belgrade on behalf of his father. King to the new palace at Dedinje, George V and among other magnificent building On the

were

It was impossible, standing in members of the family present top of a hill.

maternal grandparente the chapel,

We children and our nurses avoid recalling we

Queen King Ferdinand the death

of my father, Alexander } uf Yugoslavia, heth of

slavia, Marie of Rumania, Queen que pecupied the small cottage butt

In the shape of a kidney, Grecce and Princess murdered Marseilles.

Iliana of Rumanin, my mother's sisters, and also her 1aw mysodo an

}]-year-

brother, Crown Prince Curol of old

buy Tollowing եւ coflin

Humania. Through Whic alicels Bajutai.

vur

The assassin's bullet wrench- ed the from a nappy childhood, to put me on the throne of a country winch was at the very rentre of the maelstrom of International politics.

own

of

It is an old Serbien custom that a bride should hold i young baby in her arms after her marriage ceremony.

It was

i who was held in the arms of Uncle Paul's wife.

me

I remember Nurse Bell, my Today I can only watch the

of Her care rising tension between Tiw and first nanny.

not Was

very imaginative. Russia, and share the fear of Somehow I got tired of lemon non many of my

country men

what juice, rice pudding, und that one day, perhaps not 50

she called "pap." But she ceT - far distant, the Lension WB1

succeeded In futtoniug become too great and another tally

like a little meiden" ngh precipitate ♫ third world war.

us is the story of a King: For 17 years I have been Intimately concerned. with events that have become

Europeas very fabric of

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Palace in Belgrade,

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Downstairs my father, King Alexander, and my uncle, Prince Paul, waited agitation.

The up: balloon.

1

was

She taught me

prayers in English.

say my

In London

fur

were

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The property was adminis- tered like a battleship, by two naval oficers. There toda bakery, a carpenter's shop, machine shop, and a general store which could supply any- thing from a needle to car spares, ut cost price.

UR elegant Russian butler. Surka, bonsted that he had been a general in the Imperial Army, though this WOA proved.

never

Professor Kostle, headmaster of the King Peter primary school in Belgrade, came every murning

the Lo

paluce to instruct me.

He played the violin while I song, but I fear my voice was Luneful. In fact it croaked like a frog.

never

There was a secret door Into my father's study. One pressed

library.

lot of

The King had shooting and fishing rights near Bled, Here Peter, aged G. caught his first fish, a rain- bow trout, a foot long.

FEW days later my father was, receiving the president and committee of the Slovenian Union of Fishing Clubs, He Lold mo to well how I had caught my first fish, and how big it was. I stretched out both urms as far as i could, but I caught my father's eye, blushed and gradually

diminished the gesture to the real size.

They all roared with laughter,

sald and the president

"For thut, my

boy, you can join vur club, for true fishermen always exaggerate."

During the summer holidays at Bled, my brothers und I often went to see our cousins Alexander

and Niki at Uncle

Paul's chalet a Bakinj, about

an hour's drive from Bled.

The chalet was on the shores of another

Lake surrounded by tar mountains, not very

from the source of the Hiver Save.

Was pressive sight to see the middle ela

wall of sulid rock about 00011.

high, and then tumble down into the lake through a canyon.

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It was here that the Duke of Kent, who was staying as Prince mel Paul's guest at the ume, and became engaged to Princess Marina

of Greece, youngest of Princess sister

ví Olgu Yugoslavia.

A NEW PICTURE OF YUGOSLAVIA'S PETER

and

Д

he

later becaine Fortunately

und very placid, easy-going un- socluble us he is now.

Andrej.

boru

a year after Tommy, was his complete op- posite. He was a Lanky, pale young fellow, with soft brown huir. He Was a particularly "good" boy, and a keen intelligent student.

His

delicate health and thoughtful nature made him real mother's darling. It seems that the extra care he received in early youth was either mis- placed or a great success, as of the three of us he is now the loughest, biggest and tallest.

Both my brothers

word parsing educated in England, from

Preparatory Sandroyd King Alexander attended a

Public review at School to Oundle royal military

to Clare College, Blanitza on his seventh birth- School, and day in 1930.

Cambridge, where they studied agriculture, and are now both farming in England.

»EPRESENTATIVE companies

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of all the Yugoslav Te giments and the complate Bel- grade garrison were assembled. All the regiments, which had

carried their previously

own individual hags, now bore the same one for the first time.

ended

Let

on

In 1933 a Norwegian nurse- maid, £ Miss Ellen Matzow, to oul came

Micu hotp Crowther. She was only 22 and called her "Smutze." I When we went to ked Ellen. Bled that winter she taught me to ski and took an active part in all my games.

we

A Cloud

manoeuvres

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on

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marines and mine sweepers based there, or in dry dock.

I was allowed to visit them and Recompany them

torpedo practice. I learnt quite a lot about seamanship.

When our

stay at Herceg Novi came to an end

we all embarked on the super destroy- er Dubrovnik, which had only been delivered from Glasgow a and went few months before, up the coast to Split.

On my 11th birthday I called to my father's room,

tung in his pyjamas with

him. Ho Drug round asked: "How would you like to

go to school in England?"

Was

Mo

This was quite a surpiraet "I'd love to," answered

alcopily, My mother sold: "We have

to send you to Sand- at Cobham, In

decided royd School, Surrey,"

They had selected the school where my Auntie Bea'y three sons (tho is the Infanta Beatrice of Spain) had been educated.

The

time waa vory ahor! between this announcement and my departure. Looking back, 1 realise that those few daya were hopelessly inadequate for me to learn all I needed to know about my father and his responsibilities.

Problems

he

Only July 14, 1924, I went to England tor the

tline. Nurse Bell was eager her home in Harrogate holiday. but my parents unwilling to have her leave me, "Give me the baby," she said world history. This is not a bluntly, and I'll take him with a button pad a door of the My father said: "Let us roll story

gid

of protocol,

me" and so she did. This was bookcase opened Into his up our glorious old flags with It is court gossip and intrigue.

much to the horror of many a tale of adventure in real life.

I had washed him arm hearts and deep reverence: officials on both sides of the

enter by this means once and they have served us well. My life began in the carly

Channel, and 1 suspect they thought I would copy him, I this new flag 1 offer you be in morning of September 8, 1023, were well justified.

came in through the bookcase

the future the herole standard in a homely brass bedstead in

while he was engaged with on of

your regiments, around

In April 1034 my father the left wing of the Royal

important visitor. I was told, which you will unlie.

rented a large hotel at Herceg firmly. very

to get

get out

Novi in the Bay of Kotor. There seemed to be

buttons When this parade

Our train had two royal car- everywhere

in his office. I re- had birthday lunch with my

but old- with In London we stayed in

member

pressing three, while he mother and father in the Marble ringes of luxurious Claridges. We had Deveral talked to someone, and being Palace. Afterwards they led fashioned comfort,

had "Inherited" from Harrogate. Nurse most grained when in walked me down to the front entrance, Bell took me to the local photo- the Minister of Court and two

electric Austrian Empire. where a lovely little resist AD.C.al couldn't grapher's, and

car was standing. revealing

Then I was taken behind the kidney-shaped cottage, where a magnificent miniature train was

A cloud appeared during that standing. It worked on steam medium exactly like a real one, with otherwise cloudless holiday. An My father WDB of

my father in- by rein. One day the horse height and

an engine, tender, freight cars, English tutor, very dork com-

would be arriving shied and tossed me into one of plexioned, like many Serbs.

and open couches to sit in. This formed me, Ho

of the Czech

his in a week's time; a present

"But that's not how I want it. the palace garden

rose-beds was almost always in uniform, Government.

Was Cecil Parrot.

If everything Koe well, we which hadi beent freshly and always wore a pince-nez

Andy got a serious

shell have a parliamentary manured.

Infection.

Tommy went down monarchy as in England and with the same ailment, and

Scandinavia, in a very short followed. Mr Parrot arrived timo."

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weeks

my identity. The news spread and a crowd soon

gathered outside our hotel.

At the age of four I used to

ride in a basket, on horse led

had

I cut my thigh and have anti-tetanus injections in my stomach. This incident put me of horse-riding for ever.

Probably,

as a reaction,

Typical Pose

and suff, high collars.

elt

ho was

Hunting Lodge

His manner of talking was very thoughtful and very

kindly, A typical pose of his was to

I was eight years old before with one hand over hle paid my first visit to our hunt stomach-like Napoleon, and, as ing lodge at Han Pjesak later became very mechanically with Napoleon, the cause was Bosnia. it was situated on a

physiological. An attack As

batticfield during tiny boy, however, typhold which had almost killed high plateau which had been a

in Albania had left him world war. riding in motor cars either gave him

constant digestive trou- me hiccoughs or made mo sick. with

Guns,

shella, Indeed It

my blas. In seems that

Austrian helmets stomach gave me a great deal of trouble.

minded.

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Nurse Bell was replaced by Miss Crowther, also English, and known as "Crowdy." On doctor's orders, she made grapes, eaten whole, with akina and plps, the chief stem of

WITH

I

diet.

WITH the cunning of

youth sucked the grapes dry and tucked the skin and pips into the side of my mouth. Miss Crowther spotted the bulge in my check, and gave it a good press. I had to swallow the

fati

Another trick was to myself sick whenever WLO not

spite

of

of

he this,

the

It was almost as though knew that his days were num- bered and that he wanted which WA Inform me of all his own prob-

the lems and difficulties,

train that Ferdinand

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On this Frenz Archduke made bla fateful journey to Sarejevo.

name

Cor"

to

For the first time I felt that I was beginning to know him well and to know the burdens he carried on his shoulders, Ho discussed the dangers of Com- munism. He tried to unburden

himself completely to me though he felt we might not meet again.

while I was convalescent. We Then he gave me one anal soon became good friends. Ho plece of advice "Whatever impressed me as being a good happens, whatever you do, re- 1x sport.

member that your duty, even if could hardly write English it makes you unpopular, Is to and was very bad at maths, protect the unity of Yugo- the future of the We worked hard every morning slavia, for and in the afternoons went out world depend on it."

My father seemed to make a together in a boat looking for

last-minute effort to teach me much history as possible.

on.

foresta

for

first

and rusty were to bo a great lover of food, being found lying about in the forest caves.

- a fine loot for a child

The immense virgin had also great attraction me. There were one stags.

and quito foxes, wolves, number of big bears. Whenever we went in the forest wo had game- to be followed

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a great

gourmet I remember опо occasion holiday. when, after finishing his usual French style lunch, ho nounced, "Im

What hungry. are the officers having?"

He then had 4

second meal of Serbian dishes being served

that day to his officers.

"And the servants, what are they having

today?"

Keeper with a rica

I remember was Royce. I was allowed to sit

Á sill simpler meel brought before him which ho Needless ate with enjoyment.

next

our 1923 Roll

the chauffeur

to say he suffered for this operate the petrol pump. banquet afterwards.

My Mother

4

Prince Peter sailed "Pirate" boat in the Bay of Kotor

which resembled a fjord, bordered by rocky Jolly mountains. He flew the

FELIS

One morning early in Sep. tember the whole family loft Blod to accompany me Ds far as the frontier.

To School

Reper. He found a large, As wo alowly climbed the

beautiful cave leading to an

to

and The taught mo chauffeur, "Bozo," almost everything there is know about a car.

to

I

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the

Auto-

other cave, reached only by mountains towards swimming. Wanting to bury trian frontier my father gave

me little parting advice. some treasure, he collected a

"Now, Peter," he said, "you lot of coins, a clock and some have to realise that from now artificial Jewellery,

on you should not behave as á

but like any other! strong Prince,

young boy, wooden box, lined with oll

want paper and sealed with pitch. I hard and to make some good

with marked the outside of it skulls, crossbones, pirate mess be good to have later on. My mother, Queen Marie make known to the family as "Mig

nges and curses waming that ways remember that you will

box be a dish non" - was great-grand-

a representative of our long and painful country, and that people will Judge by your behaviour;

to my liking. Miss daughter of

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That winter all three of us brothers had whooping cough After fow daya we enjoyed it very much, because one had no need to work.

Crowther, however, was always She had been educated mainly Scaring

ono. step ahead.

Whenever I in Rumania, but in the English was sick after a little milk or way.

education

People

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you

to work

friends. You will find they will

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any person opening the would dio death. Then Mr Parrot and swam to the end of the little make it good behaviour." curve early one morning,

he It was nice to hear him say other pudding, she would wait At the age of 18, the com- I trained myself to continue carrying the box and I a torch. also that he intended to pay a

visit patiently, until the bout was plated her

to England and 1 secured my treasure to one State with a the whooping nolaes long after

and I of the totagmites, with a stout would see me then this at over, and then make mo eat year at Heathfeld School, near the disease was over,

Informed fresh lot.

took great pleasure in giving a rope. I

Farrot least seemed a sure opsis in the Ascot..

Sho was a calm and gentle care to people either In the that if he did not wear nover desert of the unknown that 'I She was no doubt

would was to enter, good person although on occasions street, at school, or at the bob to divulge the location

Yet as I looked back to him and extremely capable woman, she could be very strict

"with" She skating club, by having fits of bo obliged to do away

as he stood, kindly but 1, always considered her a

Her chief beauties were her of them, so that everybody was to whiten. He sword solemnly and never liked her much.

-group that wayad me off at the. lovely skin, HOT

penetrating running away from me

Lor never to tell.

It was to be

Lour

froniler post, I was seeing him They resented the fact that I blue eyes, and her very long miles.

I was very and My brother Tomislay's small, before I returned to and my for the fast Lisa, was educated, by a foreigner blonde hair.

treasure again. 10.1184 but she stayed on until after when she eventually had it cut vital fice was topped by

short.....

shock of dark hair. my father's death;

Her driving was excellent and

a

holy teror. The palace staff was indulgent with the children, whooping cough right in front him and leave his bones there tearfully

erect, among the little

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ady brother Tornislav was very fast; I never knew a better born when I was four years old, woman driver.

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He had an extremely nervour and energeile, temperament ant was. vivacious and mischievous,

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