Imperial Requiem: Four Royal Women and the Fall of the Age of Empires (107 page)

2. Norah Bentinck,
The Ex-Kaiser in Exile
(New York: George H. Doran, n.d.), p. 23.

3. Emperor Wilhelm II to Empress Augusta Victoria, November 11, 1918, in
The Kaiser’s Daughter
, Viktoria Luise, p. 139.

4. Bentinck,
The Ex-Kaiser in Exile
, pp. 33–34.

5. Ibid., p. 35.

6. Viktoria Luise,
The Kaiser’s Daughter
, p. 144.

7. Harding,
Imperial Twilight
, p. 129.

8. Brook-Shepherd,
The Last Habsburg
, p. 220.

9. Harding,
Imperial Twilight
, p. 129.

10. Brook-Shepherd,
Uncrowned Emperor
, p. 44.

11. Brook-Shepherd,
The Last Empress
, p. 136.

12. Ibid.

13. Brook-Shepherd,
Uncrowned Emperor
, p. 45.

14. Pope-Hennessy,
Queen Mary
, p. 510.

15. Diary entry of Queen Mary, January 21, 1919, in “Reflections on the ‘Lost Prince,’”
Royalty Digest
, Charlotte Zeepvat, iss. no. 141, vol. 12, no. 8, p. 4.

16. Edwards,
Matriarch
, p. 279.

17. Martin Kitchen,
Europe Between the Wars
, (New York: Longman, 2000), p. 22.

18. Bertrand M. Patenaude, “Food as a Weapon,”
Hoover Digest
, no. 1, (January 30, 2007), taken from
http://www.hoover.org/publications/hoover-digest/article/6135
(viewed on July 11, 2011).

19. Gelardi,
Born to Rule
, p. 282.

20. Queen Mary to Emily Alcock, February 2, 1919, in
Queen Mary
, Pope-Hennessy, p. 511.

21. Letter of Dr. Otto von Habsburg to the author, April 28, 2007.

22. New York Times
, February 16, 1919.

23. Brook-Shepherd,
Uncrowned Emperor
, p. 46.

24. Brook-Shepherd,
The Last Habsburg
, p. 224.

25. Brook-Shepherd,
The Last Empress
, p. 137.

26. Emperor Charles I to King George V, February 21, 1919, CV M1466/5, the Royal Archives, quoted in
The Last Habsburg
, Brook-Shepherd, pp. 224–225. The original letter was written in French: “
Majesté,
Je suis heureux de pouvoir venir remercier Votre Majesté de la si delicate attention de m’avoir envoyé le colonel Summerhayes. Je suis fort touché de cet acte si courtois et ne même temps j’en suis très reconnaissant. Le colonel est un homme charmant qui remplit sa mission avec beaucoup de tact d’amabilité. La situation dans le monde entier est très difficile surtout pour nous souverains. Que Dieu ait pitié de l’humanité souffrante et lui rende bientôt le repos don’t elle a si besoin! De Votre Majesté le bon frère et cousin, Charles
.
Eckartsau, 21 February 1919
.”

27. Diary entry of Colonel Edward Strutt, February 27, 1919, in
The Last Habsburg
, Brook-Shepherd, p. 232.

28. Brook-Shepherd,
The Last Empress
, p. 140.

29. Diary entry of Colonel Edward Strutt, February 27, 1919, in
The Last Habsburg
, Brook-Shepherd, pp. 232–233.

30. Brook-Shepherd,
Uncrowned Emperor
, p. 47.

31. Brook-Shepherd,
The Last Empress
, p. 141.

32. Diary entry of Colonel Edward Strutt, March 19, 1919, in
The Last Habsburg
, Brook-Shepherd, p. 240.

33. Brook-Shepherd,
The Last Empress
, p. 143.

34. Brook-Shepherd,
Uncrowned Emperor
, p. 50.

35. Diary entry of Colonel Edward Strutt, March 23, 1919, in
The Last Habsburg
, Brook-Shepherd, p. 244.

36. Brook-Shepherd,
The Last Empress
, p. 145.

37. Emperor Charles I to King George V, April 11, 1919, GV AA43/224, the Royal Archives, quoted in
The Last Habsburg
, Brook-Shepherd, p. 250. The original letter was written in French: “
Arrivé sur le sol hospitalier de la Suisse avec l’escorte militaire que le gouvernement de Votre Majesté a bien voulu mettre à ma disposition, je désire vous exprimer directement et sans délai les sentiments de gratitude que me fait éprouver l’appui sûr et généreux de l’empire britannique dans ces circonstances cruelles que je veux croire momentanées.… Je n’ai eu qu’à me louer, en particulier, des dispositions prises par le Colonel Strutt, qui m’a accompagné jusqu’ici et dont le caractère plein de droiture a ete hautement apprecié par moi. Charles. Wartegg, 11 April 1919.
”

38. Brook-Shepherd
, Uncrowned Emperor
, p. 53.

39. Ibid., p. 54.

40. Ibid
.

24: The Quest for the Crown

1. Tyler-Whittle,
The Last Kaiser
, p. 326.

2. Viktoria Luise,
The Kaiser’s Daughter
, pp. 144–145, 148.

3. Carter,
George, Nicholas and Wilhelm
, p. 419.

4. Bentinck,
The Ex-Kaiser in Exile
, p. 35.

5. Wilhelm II,
The Kaiser’s Memoirs
, p. 338.

6. Viktoria Luise,
The Kaiser’s Daughter
, p. 147.

7. German Crown Prince,
Memoirs
, p. 107.

8. Bentinck,
The Ex-Kaiser in Exile
, pp. 35–36.

9. Wilhelm Hohenzollern to August von Mackensen, December 2, 1919, in
The Kaiser and His Court: Wilhelm II and the Government of Germany
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), John C. G. Röhl, p. 210.

10. MacDonogh,
The Last Kaiser
, p. 422.

11. Clark,
Kaiser Wilhelm II
, chap. 1, para. 42.
The Madness of Wilhelm II
was written by F. Kleinschrod.
Kaiser Wilhelm Periodically Insane!
was written by H. Lutz. H. Wilm wrote
Wilhelm II as Cripple and Psychopath
.

12. Viktoria Luise,
The Kaiser’s Daughter
, p. 145.

13. MacDonogh,
The Last Kaiser
, p. 422.

14. Carter,
George, Nicholas and Wilhelm
, p. 416.

15. Tyler-Whittle,
The Last Kaiser
, p. 311.

16. Clark,
Kaiser Wilhelm II
, p. 345.

17. MacDonogh,
The Last Kaiser
, p. 422.

18. Viktoria Luise,
The Kaiser’s Daughter
, p. 148.

19. New York Times
, March 11, 1922.

20. Ibid., March 17, 1919. Eitel-Fritz and Lotte divorced in 1926.

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

22. Brook-Shepherd,
Uncrowned Emperor
, p. 55.

23. Harding,
Imperial Twilight
, p. 143.

24. Ibid., p. 173.

25. Thomas Sakmyster,
Hungary’s Admiral on Horseback
(Boulder, CO: East European Monographs, 1994), pp. 95–96.

26. Harding,
Imperial Twilight
, p. 188.

25: The Last Journey

1. MacDonogh,
The Last Kaiser
, p. 426.

2. German Crown Prince,
Memoirs
, p. 283.

3. New York Times
, October 13, 1921.

4. Viktoria Luise,
The Kaiser’s Daughter
, p. 149.

5. New York Times
, July 18, 1920.

6. Viktoria Luise,
The Kaiser’s Daughter
, p. 150.

7. German Crown Prince,
Memoirs
, p. 184.

8. Bentinck,
The Ex-Kaiser in Exile
, p. 144.

9. German Crown Prince,
Memoirs
, p. 209.

10. New York Times
, December 1, 1920.

11. Bentinck,
The Ex-Kaiser in Exile
, p. 36.

12. Viktoria Luise,
The Kaiser’s Daughter
, p. 153.

13. Cecil,
Wilhelm II
, p. 296.

14. Viktoria Luise,
The Kaiser’s Daughter
, p. 150.

15. New York Times
, February 23, 1921.

16. German Crown Prince,
Memoirs
, p. 280.

17. MacDonogh,
The Last Kaiser
, p. 427.

18. Carter,
George, Nicholas and Wilhelm
, p. 419.

19. Lewiston Evening Journal
, April 11, 1921.

20. German Crown Prince,
Memoirs
, p. 281.

21. Viktoria Luise,
The Kaiser’s Daughter
, p. 151.

22. Ibid.

23. New York Times
, April 18, 1921.

24. Report of the Associated Press sent to
New York Times
, April 18, 1921.