JUGOSLAVIA: Sick Queens

Princes Andreja and Tomislav of Jugoslavia were indulging in a knockdown & drag-out fight in the Royal Palace at Belgrade last week when His Majesty Peter II poked his head into the Royal nursery.

"Stop it, you kids!" piped King Peter. "Do you want to worry Mama and Granny?"

Widowed Queen Marie of Jugoslavia was painfully ill of shock, gallstones, and infected teeth. Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania, her mother to whom she is "Mignon," was recuperating from an attack of influenza brought on by the bitter weather during King Alexander's funeral....

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