The Boy Who Was a King

Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha's life was marked by sudden twists of fate. As a six-year-old, he inherited the Bulgarian throne after his father's death. However, just three years later, he was overthrown and exiled at the age of nine. Fifty years passed before he could return to Bulgaria, where he was welcomed back with cheers. He formed a political party and became Prime Minister, but struggled to overcome the country's 80% unemployment rate. Eventually, he found himself in a new kind of exile, as his popularity waned.