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Their Majesties as I Knew Them
Personal Reminiscences of the Kings and Queens of Europe

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Title: Their Majesties as I Knew Them

Personal Reminiscences of the Kings and Queens of Europe

Author: Xavier Paoli

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QUEEN AMELIE OF PORTUGAL


THEIR MAJESTIES AS I KNEW THEM

PERSONAL REMINISCENCES OF THE KINGS AND QUEENS OF EUROPE

BY

XAVIER PAOLI

TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BY
A. TEIXEIRA DE MATTOS

ILLUSTRATED

New York
STURGIS & WALTON
COMPANY

1911

All rights reserved

Copyright 1911
By STURGIS & WALTON COMPANY


Set up and electrotyped. Published March, 1911


M. XAVIER PAOLI


CONTENTS

CHAPTER      PAGE
  INTRODUCTION v
I THE EMPEROR AND EMPRESS OF AUSTRIA 3
II KING ALFONSO XIII 41
III THE SHAH OF PERSIA 81
IV THE TSAR NICHOLAS II AND THE TSARITSA ALEXANDRA FEODOROVNA 127
V THE KING AND QUEEN OF ITALY 165
VI GEORGE I, KING OF THE HELLENES 199
VII QUEEN WILHELMINA OF THE NETHERLANDS 229
VIII THE LATE KING OF THE BELGIANS 259
IX THE ENGLISH ROYAL FAMILY 301
X THE KING OF CAMBODIA AND HIS DANCING-GIRLS 329

INTRODUCTION

M. XAVIER PAOLI

THE "CHAMBERLAIN" OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC AND THE FRIEND OF SOVEREIGNS

It was in 1903, and the King of England was making his first official journey in France since succeeding Queen Victoria on the throne of Great Britain. In the court of the British Embassy in Paris, where the sovereign had taken up his residence, a group of journalists, pencil and notebook in hand, was crowding importunate, full of questions, around a vivacious little gentleman, very precisely dressed in black, wearing the red rosette of the Legion of Honour in the buttonhole of his silk-faced frock coat. An impressive silk hat, slightly tipped, sheltered a head of abundant wavy white hair, strikingly in contrast with the man's still youthful appearance; at the utmost he seemed to be hardly fifty years old.

His aristocratic bearing might have been that of a diplomat of the Empire or a Tuscan aristocrat. The sensitive features of his finely oval face—the straight, delicately formed nose, the piercing eyes, now bright with shrewd humour, now soft with gentle sympathy—all spoke the judicial mind, the penetrating observation, which could scrutinise the most secret thoughts, recognise the slightest shades of feeling.

Calmly, manfully, smilingly, with courtesy, the little gentleman sustained the assault of the reporters and warded off their indiscreet curiosity.

"What did the King say to M. Loubet?"

"Gentlemen, the King has told me none of his secrets."

"Did he not come for the purpose of completing a treaty of military alliance with us, and is he not to have this evening an important interview with the Minister of Foreign Affairs?"

"His Majesty had a

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