Word: gruitch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...piloted his own trimotored plane back to Berlin, King Peter vanished into the guarded precincts of the Jugoslav Court and what he did there would have remained unknown had not the 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...
...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...
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