Dogged by a rumor of many years standing that Crown Prince Mihai is not quite bright, the Rumanian Royal Family continue to prove that “Mihai is a normal, healthy, happy boy.” Last week they proved it again when Mihai gave audience to a correspondent who inquired, “Might I ask Your Royal Highness a question that was asked me at my corporal’s examination? A difficult question?”
Mihai looked doubtful.
“I am sure His Royal Highness can answer,” encouraged Mihai’s tutor. “Go ahead, ask him.”
“The question is, Your Royal Highness, is it correct to say that the sun rises from the West, or in the West?”
“Why, uh,” said Crown Prince Mihai, then shrieked with laughter, “you don’t say it either way! The sun rises in the East!”
According to his tutor, East-knowing Mihai, 11, recently shot and killed his first deer.
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