RUMANIA: More Carol-ings

Birthday. At Sinaia, some 75 miles north of Bucharest, capital of Rumania, in the Royal Palace, Michael I, World's youngest king, celebrated the sixth anniversary of his birth. All year long he has been a good boy. His mother, Princess Helene, wife of the errant and onetime Crown Prince Carol, said so. And so blue-eyed "Mickey," as he is called within the court, received lots of presents. It is usual to say that the little boy-king prefers his toys to his throne—that it is usual when newspaper correspondents have nothing else to...

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