UNHAPPY PRINCE

Hokitika Guardian, 14 July 1931, Page 7

UNHAPPY PRINCE

LIFE OF RUMANIA’S HEIR,. LONDON, July 4. “ISe a pl'ince, rather than a well behaved little boy.” This was the advice that K'ng Carol, on his return to Bucharest, gave to his young son, Prince Michael, The King dismissed the boy’s English tutor, relaxed the earlier discipline and forbade hobbies, insisting that the boy should learn drill instead of playing with motor cars. This was Queen Helen’s bitterest blow. She had noticed that the child in early infancy showed many of his father’s" bad traits, such as stubbornness and lack of self-control. She set her heart upon correcting these faults by rearing the hoy in happy'surround ings, and not permitting him to play the roll of “boy-King.” Carol considered tins kind cf upbring ing effeminate. •. The Prince now leads an unhappy existence in his father’s ramshackle palace, half of which was burned downed during his grandfather’s reign, and the other half of which is inhabited by Ministers, generals, heads of departments, and artists en in pointing Carol’ portrait. The Queen, looking on, is compelled to s°e her sen reared in the manner .that she was most nn.vous to avoid for his sake, and for the country’s.