THE CROWN PRINCE OF BULGARIA.
The Crown Prince of Bulgaria,' a fwt months ojdei- thnn his distant kiiisniflni the Priuco of Walts, celebrated his com l iris; of age with due ceremony at Sofia itrtho eatly days of 1912, Ho took his oath of allegiance as a soldier then, and the record tsf the Buigars during last year's rod .autumn was an even more intense prklo and delight to , him than to Tsar Ferdinard, for heisßulgar-bofii. In his childhood Prince Boris Was the unconscious centro of some domestic heart-burning. His father fell in With tho Tsar of Russia's wish and hiid him rocciv-otl into tho Orthodox Cluvrrii, tin act liis mother, an ardent Roman Catholic, 'who was one of tho. niai.iy children of Robert, Duke of Perms, strongly opnosed. ' She died in 1899, the day following the birth of her fourth chiltl and seeontl daiiphtcr, who boars tho l.inmo of \ her wonderful paterli.nl tjra.ndnirtth.cr,' JViricess Clbniclitttvo, daughter of Louis l'liilippb. A weH-set-np,' Rood-lookins; young mftij, the Crown Prince is still young.to think of inatrimoiW, but his father's Kvibjcois like tho story of his love for Princess Elizabeth ok Rumania, a beautiiul (troat-grrtiiddnnifhtor of tho Into Oupoii Victoria, tt wlioni ho pifdjSod •his lifc-IoHK devotion when he had only seen her photograph, aiwi stwli au n\\\ancp is not onf of the questioii. The heir to. Bulgaria .finds the wisest and kindest of stepmothers in the Tsarina Eloo«oro, a .Princess of Pewss'KosIritz, whoni tlvo then Priisce Fcrdhiaiul married in 1908.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1969, 28 January 1914, Page 8
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248THE CROWN PRINCE OF BULGARIA. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1969, 28 January 1914, Page 8
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