ensive--The King of kings an ill-behaved
brute--Eats like a pig and affronts Queen--Wiped off
greasy hands on my state robe--When ten thousand
gouged-out eyes carpeted his throne--Offers of jewels--"Does
he take me for a ballet girl?"--The Shah almost
compromises me--King, alarmed, abruptly ends
dinner--I receive presents from him 135

CHAPTER XXIX

THE SHAH COMPROMISES ME IN PUBLIC

Has only eyes for me at the grand manoeuvres, and I can't
drive him from my carriage--Ignores the King and the
military spectacle--Calls me his adored one--Court in
despair--Shah ruins priceless carpets to make himself
a lamb stew 139

CHAPTER XXX

MY LIFE AT COURT BECOMES UNBEARABLE

Laughter a crime--Disappointed Queen lays down the law
for my behavior--Frederick Augustus sometimes fighting
drunk--Draws sword on me--Prince George would have
me beaten--To bed with his boots on 143

CHAPTER XXXI

PRISON FOR PRINCES THAT OPPOSE THE KING

Duke of Saxony banished--Cut off from good literature
even--Anecdote concerning the Grand Dauphin and his
"kettledrums"--A royal prince's garrison life--His association
with lewd women 147

CHAPTER XXXII

PRINCE GEORGE SHOWN THE DOOR BY GRAND-DUCHESS MELITA

A royal lady who walks her garden attired in a single diaphanous
garment--Won't stand for any meddling--Called
impertinent--My virtuous indignation assumed--A
flirtation at a distance--An audacious lover--The
Grand Mistress hoodwinked--Matrimonial horns for
Kaiser--The banished Duke dies--Princes scolded like
school-boys 151

CHAPTER XXXIII

MELITA'S LOVE AFFAIRS AND MINE

The Grand Duchess tells me how she cudgeled George--Living
dictaphone employed--Shows him who is mistress
of the house--Snaps fingers in Prince George's
face--Debate about titles--"A sexless thing of a husband"--Conference
between lover and husband--Grand
Duke doesn't object to his wife's lover, but lover objects
to "his paramour being married" 157

CHAPTER XXXIV

MORE ABOUT THE SWEET ROYAL FAMILY LIFE

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