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
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