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Princess of Belgium Louise. My Own Affairs
My Own Affairs
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CHAPTER I. Why I Write this Book
CHAPTER II. My Beloved Belgium; my Family and Myself; Myself—as I Know Myself
CHAPTER III. The Queen
CHAPTER IV. The King
CHAPTER V. My Country and the Days of my Youth
CHAPTER VI. My Marriage and the Austrian Court—the Day after my Marriage
CHAPTER VII. Married
CHAPTER VIII. My Hosts at the Hofburg—the Emperor Francis Joseph and the Empress Elizabeth
CHAPTER IX. My Sister Stéphanie Marries the Archduke Rudolph, who Died at Meyerling
CHAPTER X. Ferdinand of Coburg and the Court of Sofia
CHAPTER XI. William II and the Court of Berlin—The Emperor of Illusion
CHAPTER XII. The Holsteins
CHAPTER XIII. The Courts of Munich and Old Germany
CHAPTER XIV. Queen Victoria
CHAPTER XV. The Drama of my Captivity and my Life as a Prisoner—The Commencement of Torture
CHAPTER XVI. Lindenhof
CHAPTER XVII. How I Regained my Liberty and at the Same Time was Declared Sane
CHAPTER XVIII. The Death of the King—Intrigues and Legal Proceedings
CHAPTER XIX. My Sufferings during the War
CHAPTER XX. In the Hope of Rest
INDEX
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Princess of Belgium Louise
Published by Good Press, 2021
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How strange are different temperaments: this one is more musical, that one is more learned, this one is more philosophical, that one is more imaginative; it seems as though Providence, in creating diversities in races and characters, had wished to instil into men's hearts the necessity of amalgamating their different talents, in order to be happy in this world. But Providence, whilst endowing men with genius, has neglected to make them less foolish and less wicked.
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