He became Catholic at the will of his parents and was later baptized Orthodox for political reasons.
(1894-1943) Bulgarian king. He ensured that Bulgaria sided with Germany in World War II. He was born on January 30, 1894, in Sofia. He died in the same place on August 28, 1943. He was the son of King Ferdinand I and Marie-Louise de Bourbon Parme. He became Catholic at the will of his parents and was later baptized Orthodox for political reasons. He graduated from Sofia Boys' High School. He participated in the Balkan War. He studied at the Bulgarian Military Academy and served in the Bulgarian general staff. He became king after his father abdicated on October 4, 1918.
Boris III (30 January 1894 – 28 August 1943), originally Boris Klemens Robert Maria Pius Ludwig Stanislaus Xaver (Boris Clement Robert Mary Pius Louis Stanislaus Xavier), was the Tsar of the Kingdom of Bulgaria from 1918 until his death in 1943.
According to the Treaty of Neuilv, signed on November 27, 1919, at the end of the First World War between the Allies and Bulgaria, Bulgaria agreed to return the lands it had captured in the war, to reduce its military power and not to establish an air force. Boris III did not deviate from the rules of this treaty. During this period, he followed a policy that approached France more.
The government was established by Stambuliyski, the leader of the peasants who made up 80% of the population at that time after the 1919 elections had made land reform and democratic changes in the legal system. Stambuliyski wanted to bring the country closer to Yugoslavia in order to establish a South Slavic union. However, in June 1923, as a result of a military coup under Alexandr Tsankov, supported by Boris III, Stambuliyski was executed.
With the marriage of Boris III to the Italian Princess Giovanna di Savoia in 1930, Bulgaria began to follow a policy closer to Italy. In the 1930s, he moved closer to Germany. In 1934, Boris III repealed the constitution and ruled the country without a parliament until 1938.
In 1941, Boris III granted the German armies the right to pass through their territory after Bulgaria entered the Pact of Three, which consisted of Germany, Italy, and Japan, but refused to declare war on the Soviet Union. He died in Sofia on 28 August 1943, just after meeting with Hitler.