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Tuesday, July 28, 2015

King Simeon's Amazing Life

From CNN.  I concur with Christiane Amanpour. 


I have met King Simeon on several occasions.  A truly kind and generous man, who has survived numerous traumas in his life - from the death of his father, thus becoming king at age 6 to a brutal Communist takeover of Bulgaria (his uncle Prince Kyril, one of his regents, was forced to dig his own grave) to exile, and more recently, the death of his beloved eldest son, Crown Prince Kardam,


http://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2015/07/24/intv-amanpour-bulgaria-king-b.cnn/video/playlists/amanpour/

1 comment:

  1. I am currently reading the biography of his father (King Boris III, a crown of thorns) and he also had a fascinating and sad life. Eva McDonald

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