Deseret Evening News | 1908-02-10 | Page 4 | Portugal's Boy King

PORTUGAL BOY KING KINO New Now York World Manuel II 11 heroines becomes comes king of ot Portugal at the age aso of ot eighteen Tho boy hoy king with whom he will Instinctively ho bo com corn compared pared Alfonso XIII ot of Spain was WI liter literally ally oily born to the throne succeeding to It with Ills his first breath Mary Alary Stuart be ho camo caine qu queen Jn of or Scotland while an nn In Iii Infant fant ant In arms irnis Edward VI was king of England at ten Charles IX ascend ascended ed eti the tho throne of ot Franco France at ten len and amid at nt thirteen was declared of ot age Pope lopo Leo X as Giovanni de d Medici was maulo mado a II cardinal at 13 Thoro It Ii no presumption of misfortune In Manuels youth In Alfonso he has lion the favorable ta augury of or a reign begun under equally grave conditions condition of or mutiny and anarchy but hUI continuing until the th nation surviving tho crisis of or a f disastrous war now en on Jays jaS JO exceptional prosperity In Tn Queen Victoria ho he has haB the example of ot tha tho most Illustrious reign of ot modern times begun beSlIn at exactly Ills his hl own age ago