Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.

Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.

Uncaptioned illustrations are decorative.

Index not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.

Occasional references to “Castlenau” have been changed to the predominantly-used “Castelnau”.

Page 52: “and the rest of her advisers” was missing “her”; changed here.

Page 57: “plenipotentaries” was printed that way.

Page 77: “considering their ages.” ends with a closing quotation mark for which there is no matching opening mark.

Page 144: “negotiate the bases of a treaty” was printed that way.

Page 146: There is no closing quotation mark for the phrase beginning “that is the principal point”.

Page 148: “of an alliance without a marriage” was printed as “or an alliance without a marriage”; changed here.

Page 185: There is an extra or a missing quotation mark in “making him many fine promises”; and then he said something about a marriage which I did not very well understand.”

Page 216: “projected match was undertaken” was printed that way.

Page 216: “she might lay upon them.” ends with a closing quotation mark for which there is no matching opening mark.

Page 238: There is no closing quotation mark for the sentence beginning “The Queen went to the length”.