ested at the palace gate
and conducted out of the kingdom by high police officials.

* * * * *

_Other Royalties Mentioned in This Volume_

Louise refers, in her Diary, to the Kaiser as "cousin." If there be any
relationship between her and William, it is that imposed by the Saxon
marriage, Saxon princes and princesses having frequently intermarried
with the royal and princely Hohenzollerns, despite the differences of
religion. There are four courts of Saxony despite that of Dresden:
Weimar, Meiningen, Altenburg and Coburg and Gotha.

The latter duchy's ruler, Karl Eduard, is of English descent, a son of
the late Duke of Albany. Hence, Louise's cousinship with Victoria
Melita, sometime Grand Duchess of Hesse, now Grand Duchess Kyril of
Russia.

Of course, Louise is closely related to all the Orleans and Bourbons.

Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, who died on the scaffold at Paris,
October 16, 1793, she calls her great-grand-aunt and namesake, claiming,
at the same time, most of the Kings and princes of France of the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as relatives.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I

MOTHERHOOD

PAGE

A sterile Royal Family once fruitful--Diary true record of
self--Long legs of Countess Solms--A child only because
he can't help it--Wet nurse to Socialist brat--Royal
permit for nursing--Royal negligee talk--A Saxon
failing 1

CHAPTER II

THE SWEET FAMILY

Husband loving, but family nasty--Money considerations--Brutal
caresses in public--Pests in the family--Awful
serenity--Meddle with angels' or devils' affairs--Father-in-law's
gritty kiss 7

CHAPTER III

WEEPING WILLOW--EMBLEM ROYAL

A pious fraud--Theresa Mayer--Character of the Queen--Mopishness
rampant 11

CHAPTER IV

MY UNPLEASANT YOUTH

Father hard to get along with--Royal imaginations--Kings
cursing other kings--Poverty and pretense--Piety that
makes children suffer--Up at five to pray on cold
stones--Chilblains and prayer 15

CHAPTER V

A FIERCE DISCIPLINARIAN

Diamonds used to punish children--Fac