Word: peter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Revolution, Peter dear, is when the people go mad," explained Great-aunt Beatrice...
Twelve-year-old King Peter II heard this verdict with visible relief. A serious, bookwormish boy, His Majesty has been plugging hard not only at his studies but in his carpentry shop. This started when the King told his mother the Queen that he needed more spending money and Her Majesty replied that by making small wooden articles and selling them to courtiers His Majesty could make as much pocket money as would be good...
...King's birthday last September his sales were going so well that the Queen raised his regular allowance from $3 to $15 per week, the raise being granted on condition that Peter II keep accounts on his shop. During the winter this fretted His Majesty even more than his cramming for examinations. Last week the court physician described the King as "over-worked," approved a vacation which His Majesty will spend this year bathing, fishing and mountain-climbing on the Dalmatian seacoast until mid-September...
Royal tutors meanwhile told anecdotes in Belgrade about the.ir pupil. "Why do trees have leaves?" asked His Majesty. "To breathe," explained English Tutor C. C. Parrott. "Indeed?" said King Peter. "Then how do trees breathe all winter after they have lost their leaves...
Another time Peter II asked his Spanish great-aunt, the Infanta Beatrice, cousin by marriage of ousted Alfonso XIII, "What is a revolution...