Imperial Requiem: Four Royal Women and the Fall of the Age of Empires (96 page)

29. Bothmer,
Sovereign Ladies
, p. 199.

30. Ibid.

31. Hibbert,
Queen Victoria
, p. 443.

32. Urusula von Eppinghoven,
Private Lives of the Kaiser and Kaiserin of Germany: Secret History of the Court of Berlin
(New York: Henry W. Fischer, 1909) , vol. 1, pp. 180–181.

33. Crown Princess Victoria of Germany to Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, May 7, 1878, in
Young Wilhelm: The Kaiser’s Early Life, 1859–1888
, trans. Jeremy Gaines & Rebecca Wallach (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998), John C. G. Röhl, p. 330.

34. Cunliffe-Owen,
Imperator et Rex
, pp. 53–54.

35. Prince Wilhelm of Prussia to Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, undated, 1879, in
Young Wilhelm
, Röhl, p. 337.

36. Röhl,
Young Wilhelm
, p. 349.

37. Karl Shaw,
Royal Babylon: The Alarming History of European Royalty
(Kobo desktop version, 2011: retrieved from
http://www.kobobooks.com
), chap. 5, para 42.

38. Diary entry of June 1, 1880, in
Gone Astray: Some Leaves From An Emperor’s Diary
(New York: John Lane, 1918), Wilhelm II, German Emperor and King of Prussia, pp. 92–93.

39. Empress Augusta of Germany to Princess Augusta Victoria, February 20, 1880, Parcel No. 14, Hohenlohe Letters, Langenburg Hausarchiv.

40. Lance Salway,
Queen Victoria’s Grandchildren
(London: Collins & Brown, 1991), p. 13.

41. Georg Hinzpeter to Princess Augusta Victoria, February 7, 1882, Rep. 53A, Brandenburg-Preussischen Hausarchiv, Berliner Hauptarchiv.

42. Princess Augusta Victoria to Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, September 23, 1880, in
Young Wilhelm
, Röhl, pp. 360–361.

43. Princess Augusta Victoria to Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, undated, 1880, in ibid., p. 361.

44. Princess Augusta Victoria to Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, undated, January 1881, in ibid.

45. Thomas August Kohut,
Wilhelm II and the Germans: A Study in Leadership
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), p. 63.

46. New York Times
, February 26, 1881.

47. Bothmer,
Sovereign Ladies
, p. 204.

48. Crown Princess Victoria of Germany to Queen Victoria, February 27, 1881, in
The Letters of Empress Frederick
(London: Macmillan, 1928), ed. Sir Frederick Ponsonby, p. 214.

49. Diary entry of February 27, 1881, in
Gone Astray
, Wilhelm II, p. 94.

50. Crown Princess Victoria of Germany to Queen Victoria, March 21, 1880, in
The Letters of Empress Frederick,
Ponsonby, p. 210.

51. Gelardi,
In Triumph’s Wake
, p. 295.

52. Carter,
George, Nicholas and Wilhelm
, p. 9n.

53. Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen to Dr. Ernst Schweninger, undated, 1903, in
Young Wilhelm
, Röhl, p. 109.

54. Röhl,
Young Wilhelm
, p. 354.

55. Paul-Louis Hervier,
The Two Williams: Studies of the Kaiser and the Crown Prince
(London: Eveleigh Nash, 1916), p. 111.

56. Anonymous,
The Real Crown Prince: A Record and An Indictment
(London: George Newnes, n.d.), p. 9.

57. Diary entry of May 6, 1881, in
Gone Astray
, Wilhelm II, p. 94.

58. Nine months after the wedding, Frederick Ferdinand succeeded his father and became the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg. He inherited the title Duke of Schleswig-Holstein in 1931 when the Augustenburg line became extinct.

59. Gelardi,
In Triumph’s Wake
, p. 300.

60. Dennison,
The Last Princess
, p. 160.

61. Pope-Hennessy,
Queen Mary
, pp. 52–53.

62. Sarah Bradford,
King George VI
(London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989), p. 20.

63. The calculation is based upon
http://www.measuringworth.com/calculators/exchange/result_exchange.php
(viewed on April 14, 2011).

64. Pope-Hennessy,
Queen Mary
, p. 97.

65. Letter of Mary Adelaide, Duchess of Teck, June 6, 1883, in
Her Royal Highness Princess Mary Adelaide
, Cook, p. 125.

66. Woodward,
Queen Mary
, p. 74.

67. Duff,
Queen Mary
, p. 47.

68. Ibid., pp. 47–49.

69. Woodward,
Queen Mary
, p. 76.

70. Gelardi,
Born to Rule
, p. 17.

71. Packard,
Victoria’s Daughters
, p. 224.

72. Queen Victoria to Princess Victoria of Battenberg, June 27, 1884, in
Advice to a Grand-daughter
, Hough, p. 67.

73. Hibbert,
Queen Victoria
, p. 409.

74. Gelardi,
From Splendor to Revolution
, p. 107.

75. Kurth,
Tsar
, p. 28.

76. Tor Bomman-Larsen,
Kongstanken: Haakon & Maud—I
(Oslo: J. W. Cappelen, 2002), p. 119.

77. Clay,
King, Kaiser, Tsar
, p. 102.

3: Ninety-Nine Days

1. Duff,
Queen Mary
, p. 52.

2. Diary entry of Princess May of Teck, May 25, 1885, in ibid., p. 58.

3. Cook,
Her Royal Highness Princess Mary Adelaide
, vol. 2, p. 165.

4. Hibbert,
Queen Victoria
, p. 428.

5. Ibid.

6. Pope-Hennessy,
Queen Mary
, p. 151.

7. Princess May of Teck to Emily Alcock, July 25, 1887, in ibid.

8. E. J. Feuchtwanger,
Albert and Victoria: The Rise and Fall of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
(London: Hambledon Continuum, 2006), p. 202.

9. Hibbert,
Queen Victoria
, p. 430.

10. Ibid.

11. Wilhelm, German Crown Prince,
Memoirs of the Crown Prince of Germany
(New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1922), p. 34.

12. Hibbert,
Queen Victoria
, p. 430.

13. Cook,
Her Royal Highness Princess Mary Adelaide
, vol. 2, p. 177.

14. Pope-Hennessy,
Queen Mary
, p. 190.

15. Mary Adelaide, Duchess of Teck, to the Marchioness of Salisbury, April 18, 1889, in
Her Royal Highness
, Cook, p. 189.

16. Hibbert,
Queen Victoria
, p. 543.

17. Gelardi,
In Triumph’s Wake
, p. 332.

18. Carter,
George, Nicholas and Wilhelm
, p. 130.

19. Ibid., p. 21.

20. Tyler-Whittle,
The Last Kaiser
, p. 76.

21. Ibid., p. 78.

22. Bennett,
Vicky
, p. 215.

23. Röhl,
Young Wilhelm
, p. 362.

24. Pakula,
An Uncommon Woman
, p. 536.

25. Röhl,
Young Wilhelm
, p. 315.

26. Crown Princess Victoria of Germany to Queen Victoria, May 25, 1886, in
Letters of Empress Frederick
, Ponsonby, p. 231.

27. Eppinghoven,
Private Lives
, vol. 2, p. 311.

28. Catherine Radziwill,
The Royal Marriage Market of Europe
(New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1915), p. 32.

29. Hervier,
The Two Williams
, p. 112.

30. Christopher Clark,
Kaiser Wilhelm II: A Life in Power
(London: Penguin Books, 2009), p. 31.

31. Diary entry of March 9, 1888, in
Gone Astray
, Wilhelm II, pp. 146–147.

32. Empress Victoria of Germany to Queen Victoria, March 9, 1888, in
Letters of Empress Frederick
, Ponsonby, p. 287.

33. Charles Lowe,
The German Emperor William II
(London: Bliss, Sands, & Foster, 1895), p. 59.

34. Ibid., p. 60.

35. Gelardi,
In Triumph’s Wake
, p. 310.

36. Empress Victoria of Germany to Queen Victoria, March 16, 1888, in
George, Nicholas and Wilhelm
, Carter, p. 75.

37. Hibbert,
Queen Victoria
, p. 436.

38. Diary entry of Queen Victoria, April 26, 1888, in ibid., p. 437.

39. Ibid.

40. Gelardi,
In Triumph’s Wake
, p. 315.

41. Ibid., p. 316.

42. Queen Victoria to Princess Victoria of Battenberg, July 4, 1888, in
Advice to a Grand-daughter
, Hough, p. 95.

43. Clark,
Kaiser Wilhelm II
(Kobo desktop version), chap. 2, para. 1.

44. Pakula,
An Uncommon Woman
, p. 498.

45. Gelardi,
In Triumph’s Wake
, p. 319.

46. Ibid., p. 334.