Secret Memoirs

Secret Memoirs
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Henry W. Fischer. Secret Memoirs

Secret Memoirs

Table of Contents

THE STORY OF LOUISE, CROWN PRINCESS OF SAXONY

CHAPTER I

MOTHERHOOD

CHAPTER II

THE SWEET FAMILY

CHAPTER III

WEEPING WILLOW—EMBLEM ROYAL

CHAPTER IV

MY UNPLEASANT YOUTH

CHAPTER V

A FIERCE DISCIPLINARIAN

CHAPTER VI

LEOPOLD DEFENDS MY HONOR AT HIS PERIL

CHAPTER VII

PRINCES AND PRINCESSES DANCE TO THE TUNE OF THE WHIP

CHAPTER VIII

PLANNING TO GET A HUSBAND FOR ME

FOOTNOTES:

CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER X

MY POPULARITY RENDERS GEORGE DYSPEPTIC

CHAPTER XI

SCOLDED FOR BEING POPULAR

CHAPTER XII

ROYAL DISGRACE—LIGHTNING AND SHADOWS

CHAPTER XIII

UNSPEAKABLE LITTLENESSES OF PETTY COURTS

CHAPTER XIV

IMPERIAL RUSSIAN ETHICS TRANSFERRED TO DRESDEN

CHAPTER XV

ROYALTY NOT PRETTY, AND WHY

CHAPTER XVI

MORE JEALOUSIES OF THE GREAT

CHAPTER XVII

CHAPTER XVIII

I DEFY THEM

CHAPTER XIX

ATTEMPTED VIOLENCE DEFEATED BY FIRMNESS

CHAPTER XX

TITLED SERVANTS LOW AND CUNNING

CHAPTER XXI

BANISHMENT

CHAPTER XXII

"POOR RELATIONS" IN ROYAL HOUSES

CHAPTER XXIII

A SERVANT-TYRANT

CHAPTER XXIV

MORE TYRANNY OF A TITLED SERVANT

CHAPTER XXV

CHAPTER XXVI

FREDERICK AUGUSTUS CONTINUES VERY RAW

CHAPTER XXVII

PRINCE MAX MAKES LOVE TO ME

CHAPTER XXVIII

THE SHAH OF PERSIA FALLS IN LOVE WITH ME

CHAPTER XXIX

THE SHAH COMPROMISES ME IN PUBLIC

CHAPTER XXX

MY LIFE AT COURT BECOMES UNBEARABLE

FOOTNOTES:

CHAPTER XXXI

PRISON FOR PRINCES THAT OPPOSE THE KING

CHAPTER XXXII

PRINCE GEORGE SHOWN THE DOOR BY GRAND-DUCHESS MELITA

CHAPTER XXXIII

MELITA'S LOVE AFFAIRS AND MINE

CHAPTER XXXIV

CHAPTER XXXV

FLIRTATION DEVELOPS INTO LOVE

CHAPTER XXXVI

COUNT BIELSK MAKES LOVE TO THE CROWN PRINCESS

CHAPTER XXXVII

RAPID LOVE MAKING IN THE BOIS

CHAPTER XXXVIII

"IN LOVE THERE ARE NO PRINCESSES, ONLY WOMEN"

CHAPTER XXXIX

MY PUNISHMENT

FOOTNOTES:

CHAPTER XL

CHAPTER XLI

AN ATROCIOUS ROYAL SCANDAL

CHAPTER XLII

I LOSE ANOTHER OF MY LOVERS

CHAPTER XLIII

THE CROWN PRINCESS QUELLS A RIOT

CHAPTER XLIV

THE NEW LOVER, AND "I PLAY THE HUSSY FOR FAIR"

CHAPTER XLV

LOVE AND THE HAPPINESS IT CONVEYS

CHAPTER XLVI

CHAPTER XLVII

LOVE'S INTERMEZZO

CHAPTER XLVIII

GRAND MISTRESS TELLS HUSBAND I KEEP A DIARY

CHAPTER XLIX

ARISTOCRATIC VISITORS

CHAPTER L

TO LIVE UNDER KING'S AND PRINCE GEORGE'S EYE

CHAPTER LI

COLD RECEPTION—ENEMIES ALL AROUND

CHAPTER LII

PRINCE GEORGE REVEALS TO ME THE DEPTH OF HIS HATRED

CHAPTER LIII

REVOLVER IN HAND, I DEMAND AN EXPLANATION

CHAPTER LIV

CHAPTER LV

FRANCIS JOSEPH JOINS MY SAXON ENEMIES

FOOTNOTES:

CHAPTER LVI

I AM DETERMINED TO DO AS I PLEASE

CHAPTER LVII

I CONFESS TO PAPA

CHAPTER LVIII

MONSIEUR GIRON—RICHARD, THE ARTIST

CHAPTER LIX

THE PEOPLE THINK ME A WANTON

CHAPTER LX

CHAPTER LXI

A MAD HOUSE FOR LOUISE—PROBABLY

CHAPTER LXII

KING'S ILLNESS A BOON TO LOVERS

FOOTNOTES:

CHAPTER LXIII

WHAT I WILL DO WHEN I AM QUEEN

CHAPTER LXIV

THE KING IS ALIVE AND PUNISHMENT NEAR

CHAPTER LXV

FISTICUFFS DON'T SAVE MY CROWN

CHAPTER LXVI

ABANDONED

CHAPTER LXVII

FAMILY COUNCIL AT CASTLE

FINIS

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Henry W. Fischer

The Story of Louise, Crown Princess

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Mother immediately began to cry. She always had a flood of tears ready when father offered the slightest reprimand. Afterwards she upbraided father and us, the children. If it were not for her incessant prayers, she said, and for the Christian life she was leading, God would have destroyed the Tuscans long ago, and she wasn't sure that either of us would attain Paradise except for her intercession with the Almighty.

This and similar scenes and incidents disgusted me with religion early in life. Myself and all my brothers and sisters hated the very sight of the court chaplain who licked our mother's boots, while heaping punishments and indignities upon us.

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