Word: andreja
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ambitious parents busy themselves in Belgrade trying to wangle their moppets into the Charles Dickens Kindergarten. There they learn from Serbian teachers what passes for English, the tongue in which Boy King Peter and his little brothers Prince Tomislav and Prince Andreja do most of their shouting, squabbling and chattering. Last week the social advantages of being an alumnus or alumna of the Charles Dickens Kindergarten were again evident in Belgrade as news went forth that a dozen scholars had been given a party by King Peter & Brothers at the white marble Dedinje Palace...
...subjects to climb in behind, sedately drove the car around his palace grounds. Meanwhile, 7-year-old Prince Tomislav was out on the Palace lake, piloting other moppets in the King's electric boat. Astonishing, however, was the turn of royal duty done by 6-year-old Prince Andreja. Moppets lisped in Serbian-English after the party that "Pwinth Andwea wode us on the electwic wailway awound and awound and awound...
...Princes Andreja and Tomislav of Jugoslavia were indulging in a knockdown & drag-out fight in the Royal Palace at Belgrade last week when His Majesty Peter II poked his head into the Royal nursery...
...sister-in-law of one of his mother's ladies-in-waiting blabbed. According to Mrs. Slavko Gruitch (née Mabel Dunlop of Clarksburg, W. Va.), the 11-year-old King broke the news of Alexander's death to his brothers Prince Tomislav, 7, and Prince Andreja, 5, who had been kept away from the funeral and told nothing whatever by anybody for the past two weeks...
...King Peter remembered," said Mrs. Gruitch, "that Tomislav and Andreja had been to the seashore often and played with toy boats. So Peter told his brothers that King Alexander had gone off in a ship to France and that the ship had struck a big wave, high as the palace. Their father, Peter said, is still in the waves. They will have to wait and he may not come back any more. "King Peter is an unspoiled, child of natural grace," wound up Mrs. Gruitch...