Show king peter Is youngest ruler in world today belgrade eleven year old king peter a gentle child with a troubled and inquiring look on his face nowadays Is by many years the youngest monarch in the world but there Is one living ruler who ascended th the throne nt fit an earlier age queen wll WI helmina of tile the netherlands was only ten when she acceded in 1800 next in youthful accession came three oriental rulers the sultan 0 of morocco was only sixteen when he came to tile the throne in 1927 the king of afghanistan was nineteen find and the king of iraq twenty one when they became kings last year the temporary king michael of rumania was only seven on ills accession king peter has a tradition 0 of hard and long ions working hours bero before re him one day tf it he la is to follow in the bruot footsteps of his late father it was p pos S sible to have audience of the scholarly kin king alexander in the palace at 8 in the morning by which time tie he had motored down from the little palace he had built a few years ago outside the capital the air there was considered rl better for the health of his children than that of the city |