Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decided to retire to his country estates at Apthorpe. In Berlin account is made of King Frederick William IV; the Prussian royal children, with whom Lady Rose used to play; Prince Hohenlohe; Count Halzfeldt; Jenny Lind, singer; Meyerbeer, composer; Mendelssohn, famed pianist. In Vienna reference is made to the Emperor Franz Josef; the Empress Elizabeth; Prince Metternich. Journeys from Berlin to Calais, made by post, entailed crossing Belgian territory, and even here Lord and Lady Westmoreland were received with open arms by the Belgian Royal Family. Mention is made of King Leopold I and of his daughter, Princess Charlotte, later...
About Kaiser Wilhelm II. "At Berlin we dined one night with the Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia. The ex-Emperor of Germany was about 18 months old, and his father himself fetched him down after dinner to show him to Mamma (Lady Westmoreland). He was a pretty little fellow, although backward in walking, and with his arm limp and helpless; but they were very proud...
About Franz Josef. "The young Emperor was extremely fond of dancing, and it was one of his few relaxations. Always grave and dignified in manner and even shy, he chose his partners from among the best dancers (of whom my mother?Lady Rose?was one) and evidently it was the exercise that appealed to him rather than the social aspect...
Died. Refugion Limon, 89, at Monterey, Mexico. In 1867 he was one of the firing squad who executed the Emperor Maximilian...
...activities of the ex-Emperor and ex-Crown Prince have become so energetic that the Dutch authorities are alarmed. Twice within a few weeks the Imperial German flag has been raised on Dutch soil, once over a seaside villa in which the ex-Kaiser was visiting, and again at Wieringen, when a yacht called Hohenzollern flew it on the occasion of a mysterious visit to the ex-Crown Prince...