The star of King Boris

An inexpressible emotion could be read on the king's face. Her gaze enveloped the young girl so pale, visibly weakened by many material deprivations and moral sufferings, but still retaining her delicate beauty, her patrician grace, and above all the incomparable charm, the admirable radiance of her gaze. "Why didn't you tell me?..." he murmured. The first duty of a sovereign is to help his subje...