My Own Affairs

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CONTENTS

LIST OF PLATES

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 StEphanie 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

Title: My Own Affairs

Author: Louise, Princess of Belgium

Language: English

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MY OWN AFFAIRS

MY OWN AFFAIRS

By The Princess Louise of Belgium
With Photogravure Frontispiece and Eight Plates

Translated by Maude M. C. ffoulkes

CASSELL AND COMPANY, LIMITED
London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne
1921

I DEDICATE
THIS BOOK TO
the Great Man, to the Great King, who was

MY FATHER


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