Imperial Requiem: Four Royal Women and the Fall of the Age of Empires (101 page)

22. Viktoria Luise,
The Kaiser’s Daughter
, p. 2.

23. Anonymous,
Real Crown Prince
, p. 15.

24. Schwering,
Berlin Court Under William II
, pp. 60–61.

25. German Crown Prince,
Memoirs
, p. 4.

26. Carter,
George, Nicholas and Wilhelm
, p. 274.

27. Röhl,
Kaiser Wilhelm II
, p. 104.

28. Cecil,
Wilhelm II
, p. 82.

29. Bothmer,
Sovereign Ladies
, p. 210.

30. Viktoria Luise,
The Kaiser’s Daughter
, p. 6.

31. New York Times
, June 11, 1908.

32. Ibid., September 5, 1904.

33. Ibid., June 5, 1905.

34. Viktoria Luise,
The Kaiser’s Daughter
, p. 55.

35. German Crown Prince,
Memoirs
, p. 282.

36. Robert Zedlitz-Trützschler,
Twelve Years at the Imperial German Court
(London: Nisbet, 1924), p. 99.

37. Mme. la Marquise Fontenoy,
Secret Memoirs of William II of Germany and Francis Joseph of Austria
(London: Hutchinson, 1900), vol. 1, p. 193.

38. Catherine Radziwill,
The Disillusions of a Crown Princess
(New York: John Lane, 1919), p. 86.

39. Edwards,
Matriarch
, pp.142–143.

40. May, Princess of Wales, to George, Prince of Wales, undated, in
Queen Mary
, Pope-Hennessy, p. 386.

41. William Shawcross,
Queen Elizabeth: The Queen Mother
(Toronto: HarperCollins, 2009), p. 106.

42. Carter,
George, Nicholas and Wilhelm
, p. 199.

43. Cook,
Prince Eddy
(Kobo desktop version), ch. 12, para. 7.

44. Carter,
George, Nicholas and Wilhelm
, p. 198.

45. Edward, Duke of Windsor,
A King’s Story
(London: Cassell, 1951), pp. 24–25.

46. Eulalia, Infanta of Spain,
Courts and Countries After the War
(New York: Dodd, Mead, 1925), pp. 111–112.

47. May, Princess of Wales, to Hélène Bricka, September 13, 1904, in
Queen Mary
, Pope-Hennessy, p. 390.

48. May, Princess of Wales, to Hélène Bricka, December 19, 1905, in ibid, p. 391.

49. Edward Legge,
King George and the Royal Family
, (London: Grant Richards, 1918), vol. 1, p. 72.

50. Royal address of George, Prince of Wales, November 18, 1905, in
The King to His People
, King George V, p. 77.

51. Wakeford,
Three Consort Queens
, p. 170.

52. May, Princess of Wales, to Augusta, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, April 7, 1906, in
Queen Mary
, Pope-Hennessy, p. 395.

53. Dennison,
The Last Princess
, p. 264.

54. Edwards,
Matriarch
, p. 157.

55. Pope-Hennessy,
Queen Mary
, p. 400.

56. Gelardi,
Born to Rule
, p. 141.

57. Duff,
Queen Mary
, p. 126.

58. May, Princess of Wales, to Augusta, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, May 31, 1906, in
Queen Mary
, Pope-Hennessy, pp. 401–402.

59. Duff,
Queen Mary
, p. 126.

60. Maud’s husband, King Haakon VII (1872–1957), was born Prince Carl of Denmark. His father, King Frederick VIII, was the eldest son of King Christian IX—the “grandfather of Europe.” King Frederick and Maud’s mother, Queen Alexandra, were siblings. This meant Haakon and Maud were first cousins. As a member of the Danish royal family, Haakon was also a first cousin to King George V, Tsar Nicholas II, and King Constantine I of Greece.

61. Pope-Hennessy,
Queen Mary
, pp. 401–402.

62. John Van der Kiste,
Edward VII’s Children
(Stroud, Gloucester: Alan Sutton Publishing 1989), p. 109.

63. Gelardi,
Born to Rule
, p. 147.

64. Wakeford,
Three Consort Queens
, p. 169.

65. Hough,
Born Royal
, p. 44.

10: Life’s Unexpected Trials

1. Norman Stone,
Europe Transformed, 1878–1919
, 2nd ed., (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 1999), p. 166.

2. W. Bruce Lincoln,
In War’s Dark Shadow: The Russians Before the Great War
(New York: Dial Press, 1983), p. 295.

3. Gelardi,
Born to Rule
, pp. 117–118.

4. Tsar Nicholas II to Empress Marie Feodorovna, October 19/November 9, 1905, in
The Letters of Tsar Nicholas and Empress Marie
, Bing, pp. 186–187.

5. Grand Duke Alexander,
Once a Grand Duke
, p. 225.

6. Elizabeth Narishkin-Kurakin,
Under Three Tsars: The Memoirs of the Lady-in-Waiting Elizabeth Narishkin-Kurakin
, ed. René Fülöp-Miller (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1931), p. 190.

7. V. N. Kokovtsov,
Out of My Past: The Memoirs of Count Kokovtsov
, trans. Laura Matveev, ed. H. H. Fisher (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1935), pp. 130–131.

8. Grand Duke Alexander,
Once a Grand Duke
, p. 227.

9. A. A. Mossolov,
At the Court of the Last Tsar
, trans. E. W. Dickes (London: Methuen, 1935), p. 139.

10. Gelardi,
Born to Rule
, p. 119.

11. Kurth,
Tsar
, p. 85.

12. Ibid., p. 120. Anna was originally born Anna Taneyeva but was married briefly to Alexander Viroubov. In an interesting twist, Anna was a descendent of Nicholas II’s great-great-grandfather Tsar Paul I. Through marriage, she and Alexandra were third cousins.

13. Ibid., p. 121.

14. Helen Rappaport,
The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg
(New York: Saint Martin’s Press, 2008), p. 60.

15. William Le Queux,
Love Intrigues of the Kaiser’s Sons
(New York: John Lane, 1918), p. 21.

16. Radziwill,
Royal Marriage Market
, p. 39.

17. Arthur Davis,
The Kaiser As I Know Him
(New York: Harper Brothers, 1918), p. 43.

18. Lowe,
German Emperor William II
, p. 29.

19. Anonymous,
The Kaiser’s Heir
, p. 28.

20. Empress Augusta Victoria to Emperor Wilhelm II, undated, 1892, in
Wilhelm II
, Röhl, p. 623.

21. Edward Lyell Fox,
William Hohenzollern & Co
(New York: Robert M. McBride, 1917), p. 33.

22. Radziwill,
Disillusions of a Crown Princess
, p. 90.

23. New York Times
, November 6, 1907.

24. Diary entry of George, Prince of Wales, November 13, 1907, GV/PRIV/GVD, George V Papers, the Royal Archives, quoted in
George, Nicholas and Wilhelm
, Carter, pp. 297–298.

25. Wilhelm II, German Emperor, King of Prussia,
The Kaiser’s Memoirs
, trans. Thomas R. Ybarra (London: Harper & Bros., 1922), p. 117.

26. New York Times
, November 17, 1907.

27. Van der Kiste,
Queen Victoria’s Children
, pp. 185–186.

28. Carter,
George, Nicholas and Wilhelm
, pp, 297–298.

29. New York Times
, October 22, 1908.

30. Viktoria Luise,
The Kaiser’s Daughter
, p. 8.

31. Radziwill,
Royal Marriage Market
, pp. 38–39.

32. New York Times
, November 17, 1907.

33. The calculation is based upon
http://www.measuringworth.com/ppowerus/?redirurl=calculators/ppowerus/
(viewed on April 2, 2011).

34. Diary entry of George, Prince of Wales, August 2, 1909, GV/PRIV/GVD, King George V Papers, the Royal Archives, quoted in
George, Nicholas and Wilhelm
, Carter, p. 319.

35. Massie,
Nicholas and Alexandra
, p. 182.

36. Ibid.

37. Edwards,
Matriarch
, p. 172.

38. Diary entry of May, Princess of Wales, May 4, 1910, in
Queen Mary
, Pope-Hennessy, p. 412.

39. Packard,
Victoria’s Daughters
, pp. 332–333.

40. Diary entry of Queen Mary, May 6, 1910, in
Queen Mary
, Pope-Hennessy, p. 412.

41. Diary entry of King George V, May 6, 1910, in
Matriarch
, Edwards, p. 180.

42. Brandreth,
Philip and Elizabeth
, p. 56.

43. John Van der Kiste,
Crowns in a Changing World: The British and European Monarchies, 1901–36
(London: Grange Books, 1993), pp. 71–73.

44. Michael Farquhar,
Behind the Palace Doors: Five Centuries of Sex, Adventure, Vice, Treachery, and Folly from Royal Britain
(New York: Random House, 2011), pp. 277–278.

45. Duff,
Queen Mary
, p. 135.