The Empress Frederick: a memoir

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Anonymous. The Empress Frederick: a memoir
The Empress Frederick: a memoir
Table of Contents
PREFACE
ILLUSTRATIONS
CHAPTER I. CHILDHOOD AND GIRLHOOD
CHAPTER II. BETROTHAL
CHAPTER III. OPINION IN BOTH COUNTRIES
CHAPTER IV. MARRIAGE
CHAPTER V. EARLY MARRIED LIFE
CHAPTER VI. BIRTH OF PRINCE WILLIAM
CHAPTER VII. ADVICE FROM ENGLAND
CHAPTER VIII. DEATH OF THE KING OF PRUSSIA
CHAPTER IX. FIRST RELATIONS WITH BISMARCK
CHAPTER X. THE WAR OF THE DUCHIES
CHAPTER XI. HOME LIFE AND RELIGION
CHAPTER XII. THE AUSTRIAN WAR: WORK IN THE HOSPITALS
CHAPTER XIII. THE FRANCO-GERMAN WAR
CHAPTER XIV. PUBLIC AND PRIVATE ACTIVITIES
CHAPTER XV. THE CROWN PRINCE’S REGENCY
CHAPTER XVI. SILVER WEDDING: THE CROWN PRINCE’S ILLNESS
CHAPTER XVII. THE HUNDRED DAYS’ REIGN
CHAPTER XVIII. EARLY WIDOWHOOD: THE FALL OF BISMARCK
CHAPTER XIX. THE PLANNING OF FRIEDRICHSHOF: VISIT TO PARIS
CHAPTER XX. LIFE AT FRIEDRICHSHOF
CHAPTER XXI. LAST YEARS
INDEX
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Anonymous
Published by Good Press, 2021
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In October 1848 the Royal children, crossing in the yacht Fairy from Osborne on their way to Windsor, witnessed a terrible accident—the sinking of a boatload of people in a sudden squall. It made a deep impression on all the children, and the Princess Royal kept thinking of it all that night.
It is about this time that Lady Lyttelton observes: “The Princess Royal might pass, if not seen but only overheard, for a young lady of seventeen in whichever of her three languages she chose to entertain the company.”
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