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Show THE WEIGHT OF A CROWN Serious-Faced Boy, Ahmed Mirza, Is the Ruler of a Sinking Empire. London. At 11 years Ahmed Mirza. shah of Persia, "king of kings," wears on his face the expression of ineffable weariness. Perhaps it is the climate perhaps the earlier maturity of man in that warmer clime, but far more likely the care and trouble of being a king and son of a king. He is the second sec-ond son of the ex-shah Ali Mirza, and succeeded to the throne because his lather's eldest son's mother was not a Kajar princess. But wearing a crown in Persia is toying the bauble of a forgotten festival, fes-tival, as the blood of the Kajars may be a doubtful possession withal. |