Imperial Requiem: Four Royal Women and the Fall of the Age of Empires (97 page)

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

4: “Bitter Tears”

1. Clay,
King, Kaiser, Tsar
, p. 156.

2. Gelardi,
From Splendor to Revolution
, p. 51.

3. Clay,
King, Kaiser, Tsar
, p. 156.

4. Ibid., p. 157.

5. For more information on the theories regarding Eddy, refer to Andrew Cook
, Prince Eddy: The King Britain Never Had
(Stroud, Gloucester: The History Press, 2011).

6. Queen Victoria to Princess Victoria of Battenberg, March 31, 1889, in
Advice to a Grand-daughter
, Hough, p. 100.

7. Queen Victoria to Princess Victoria of Battenberg, October 30, 1889, in ibid., p. 105.

8. Erickson,
Alexandra
, p. 36.

9. Prince Albert Victor of Wales to Prince Louis of Battenberg, October 7, 1889, Southampton University archive MB1/T77/f2, in Cook,
Prince Eddy
(Kobo desktop version, 2012; retrieved from
www.kobobooks.com
), chap. 7, para. 116-17.

10. Queen Victoria to the Empress Frederick, May 7, 1890, in
Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor
(London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1984), Anne Edwards, p. 24.

11. Queen Victoria to Princess Victoria of Battenberg, July 15, 1890, in
Advice to a Grand-daughter
, Hough, p. 106.

12. Queen Victoria to Princess Victoria of Battenberg, December 19, 1890, in
Queen Victoria in Her Letters and Journals
(New York: Viking Penguin, 1985), ed. Christopher Hibbert, p. 318.

13. Erickson,
Alexandra
, p. 43–44.

14. Tyler-Whittle,
The Last Kaiser
, p. 129.

15. Shaw,
Royal Babylon
(Kobo desktop version), chap. 5, para. 2.

16. John C. G. Röhl,
Wilhelm II: The Kaiser’s Personal Monarchy, 1888–1900
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001), p. 129.

17. Gordon Brook-Shepherd,
The Last Habsburg
(London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1968), p. 3.

18. Queen Emma of the Netherlands was the second youngest. She was a mere three months and ten days older than Dona. Her title as the youngest reigning consort was short-lived, lasting only fourteen months. On October 19, 1889, King Charles I ascended the Portuguese throne. His wife, Queen Amélie, was twenty-four.

19. Clay,
King, Kaiser, Tsar
, p. 139.

20. Röhl,
Wilhelm II
, p. 625.

21. Lamar Cecil,
Wilhelm II: Emperor and Exile, 1900–1941
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996), pp. 3–4.

22. Carter,
George, Nicholas and Wilhelm
, p. 96.

23. Feuchtwanger,
Albert and Victoria
, p. 95.

24. Carter,
George, Nicholas and Wilhelm
, p. 88.

25. Ibid., p. 97.

26. Diary entry of March 15, 1890, in
Gone Astray
, Wilhelm II, p. 200.

27. Gelardi,
In Triumph’s Wake
, p. 325.

28. Diary entry of July 5, 1890, in
Gone Astray
, Wilhelm II, pp. 204–205.

29. Schwering,
Berlin Court Under William II
, p. 56.

30. Clark,
Kaiser Wilhelm II
(Kobo desktop version), chap. 3, para. 11.

31. Shaw,
Royal Babylon
(Kobo desktop version), chap. 5, para. 51.

32. Cecil,
Wilhelm II
, p. 4.

33. John Van der Kiste,
Kaiser Wilhelm II: Germany’s Last Emperor
(Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing, 1999), p. 79.

34. Pakula,
An Uncommon Woman
, p. 539.

35. Gelardi,
Born to Rule
, pp. 25–26.

36. Arthur Gould Lee, ed.,
The Empress Frederick Writes to Sophie, Her Daughter, Crown Princess and Later Queen of the Hellenes: Letters 1889–1901
(London: Faber & Faber, 1955), p. 76.

37. Pakula,
An Uncommon Woman
, p. 539.

38. Empress Frederick, to Crown Princess Sophie of Greece, undated, 1890, in
The Empress Frederick Writes to Sophie,
ed. Gould Lee,
p. 74.

39. Spokane Falls Daily Chronicle
, December 18, 1890.

40. Pakula,
An Uncommon Woman
, p. 540.

41. Tyler-Whittle,
The Last Kaiser
, p. 145.

42. Pakula,
An Uncommon Woman
, p. 537.

43. Ibid., p. 540.

44. Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg was a first cousin to both Wilhelm and Augusta Victoria. Her mother, Princess Helena, was Queen Victoria’s daughter; and her father, Prince Christian, was Fritz Holstein’s younger brother. Marie Louise’s mother and Wilhelm’s mother were sisters, and Marie Louise’s father and Augusta Victoria’s father were brothers.

45. Carter,
George, Nicholas and Wilhelm
, p. 129.

46. Eppinghoven,
Private Lives
, vol. 2, p. 295.

47. Röhl,
Wilhelm II
, p. 361.

48. Queen Marie of Romania,
The Story of My Life
(London: Cassell, 1934), vol. 2, p. 227.

49. Diary entry of Empress Augusta Victoria, undated, September 1892, in
The Kaiser’s Daughter
, Viktoria Luise, p. 1.

50. Diary entry of Queen Victoria, December 5, 1891, in
Queen Victoria in Her Letters
, Hough, p. 320.

51. Augusta, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz to George, Duke of Cambridge, December 25, 1891, in
Queen Mary
, Pope-Hennessy, p. 207.

52. Hibbert,
Queen Victoria
, p. 541.

53. Pakula,
An Uncommon Woman
, p. 556.

54. Queen Victoria to the Empress Frederick, undated, November 1891, in
Queen Mary
, Pope-Hennessy, p. 172.

55. Duff,
Queen Mary
, p. 75.

56. Queen Victoria to the Empress Frederick, December 16, 1891, in
Queen Mary
, Pope-Hennessy, p. 204.

57. Ibid., p. 41.

58. Queen Victoria to the Empress Frederick, November 19, 1891, in ibid., p. 196.

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

60. Pope-Hennessy,
Queen Mary
, pp. 198–199.

61. Queen Victoria to Princess May of Teck, December 13, 1891, in
Matriarch
, Edwards, p. 41.

62. Princess May of Teck to Augusta, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, December 16, 1891, in
Queen Mary
, Pope-Hennessy, p. 208.

63. Gould Lee,
The Empress Frederick Writes to Sophie,
p. 103.

64. Edwards,
Matriarch
, p. 42.

65. Duff,
Queen Mary
, p. 77.

66. Augusta, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, to Mary Adelaide, Duchess of Teck, December 7, 1891, in
Matriarch
, Edwards, p. 42.

67. Cook,
Prince Eddy
(Kobo desktop version), chap. 11, para. 27.

68. Interview of Lady Frederick Willens by James Pope-Hennessy, 1958, ibid., ch. 12, para. 24.

69. Gyles Brandreth,
Philip and Elizabeth: Portrait of a Royal Marriage
(London: W. W. Norton, 2004), p. 53.

70. Mary Adelaide, Duchess of Teck, to Queen Victoria, January 14, 1892, in ibid., pp. 51–52.

71. Princess May of Teck to Queen Victoria, undated, January 1892, Z95/6, Queen Mary Papers, the Royal Archives in
Queen Mary
, Pope-Hennessy, p. 215.

72. Diary entry of Queen Victoria, January 14, 1892, in
Queen Victoria in Her Letters
, Hibbert, p. 321.

73. Pope-Hennessy,
Queen Mary
, p. 213.

74. Princess May of Teck to Emily Alcock, February 13, 1892, in
Matriarch
, Edwards, p. 53.

5: A Touch of Destiny

1. Robert’s maternal grandmother, Princess Caroline of Naples and Sicily, was the half sister of Maria Pia’s father, King Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies.

2. Arturo Beech and David McIntosh,
Empress Zita of Austria, Queen of Hungary (1892–1989)
(Eurohistory: North Pacific Heights, 2005), p. 2.

3. Henry’s death left the Bourbons without any direct, male-line heirs to the French throne. This prompted them to formally renounce their claims to the throne. This renunciation made the Orléans branch of the royal family the official pretenders to the throne.

4. Beech and McIntosh,
Empress Zita of Austria
, p. 2
.

5. Thomas de Notre-Dame du perpétual secours, “Empress Zita, French Princess, Empress and Regent of Austria-Hungary,”
The Catholic Counter-Reformation in the XXI
^e
Century: He is Risen!
, no. 28, (February 2010), p. 1.

6. Empress Zita to Gordon Brook-Shepherd, April 22, 1968, in
The Last Empress: The Life and Times of Zita of Austria-Hungary, 1892–1989
(London: HarperCollins, 1991), Gordon Brook-Shepherd, p. 7.

7. Brook-Shepherd,
The Last Habsburg
, p. 17.

8. Princess May of Teck to Prince George of Wales, January 14, 1893, in
Matriarch
, Edwards, p. 64.