To a bright young boy, one of the great advantages of being brought up in the Greek Orthodox Church is that you have two birthdaysyour own real birthday and your name day, the day in the Church calendar assigned to your patron saint. Last week cannons booming at dawn woke Bucharest to help celebrate little King Mihai's real birthday, his eighth. In, the ornate National Cathedral, His Majesty, proud of his first long trousers, marched up the aisle with green-&-gold Generals to hear a Te Deum, marched down again to review two...
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