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GRIM TALE OF A KING'S DEATH.
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in a homo paper. Lady Paget, from ber ResixyE FUND high position as wife of a-British Ambas Mtor and from her intimate Trimships with so many Sovereigns" in Europe, in- cluding Queen Victiria, had exceptional Jnowledge of Court life and is not afrail of divulging semis lüf its most closely hidden ocrets...
Perhaps the most extraordinary story of the many which, she tells in there two absorbing volumes is one concerning King Luiz of Portugal, grandfather of King Manoel, who died in 1888:
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From Lady Paget the reader can dis! cover that the Empres Frolerick of tier- many (the eldest daughter of Queen Victoria aud mother of the ex-Kaiser) took a "funny morning meal consisting of
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She was a Radical in politics and a free- thinker in religion, inclinations which, alas! have done her so much harm in the country which her husband was to govern Home day..
Of the Austrian Empress Elizabeth, wife of Francis Joseph and famous in her day for her beauty. Lady Paget gives anut altogether flattering account. She had big feet and big hands, it appear, and she bad also disentoure teeth. After her son, the Crown Prince Radolph, had committed suicide, she behaved in strange Fashion:
The palace guard bas orders never to take any notice of her carriage, the sen tinels present do arms, the ladim ard gentlemen, the explores and servants of the Burg (the Palace) when they meet her on the stairs or in the passages must pass on without saluting ce looking at her. Her life is described as one of alloyed selfishness,"
That the Crown Prince Rudolph was Insane seems clear from Lady Paget's ex- periences. A few days before his, strange death, nho tells us:
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he was given out that he had died of 4 heart ratoppage fo Lady Paget's husband
was to his great astonishment taken to see the body. When he came.
back he said: His expression is quite peace. ful, only he has such an old kind of night cap drawn over his forehead.""Then he blow his brains out I said this only to the Reuses, who came to say good-bye. They all thought me quite mad, and the Princess said the night-cap was to keep ice on his forehend. Lady Paget, unhappily, whs right
Several ghost stories are told by Lady Paget. The first is of Drayton, in Eng
Jand:
One night as I was lying wide awake in bod I heard tee rustle of a silk dress behind the curtains at the Icot end of the bed; then, a wind swept over mo and I distinct ly heard the sound as of a body, falling un the floor, this was a little more than could stand and jumping out of bed," rushed into the next roots, where I spent a greater part of the night hulled ou The sola ad troubled by horrid night
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Next morning she was told by the family that it was odd that people always heard things in that room. It was the room in whien, in Tudor clays, Duchess of Nor folk used to hide her lovers.
When Lady Paget was in waiting ça the Empress Frederick at Patsium, she
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1 lived in constant droad of meeting the White Lady (who autounces death to the Hohenzollers), especially as there was a report that try had seen her, not so very far from the part occupied by us outside her usual beat. Countess Editha Hake, one of the Queen's ladies, had told me herself how she had seen her gliding through her room in the gloaming one winter afternoon as she was lying ill in buil
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One of Lady Paget's most important disclosures is that the ex-Kaiser's quarrel with his uncle Edward VII. (then Princeton) of Wales) was picked deliberately,
The Prince tried to effect a reconciliation and pt to General Swaine, military attache at Berlin and personal friend of the Em- peror Williams, a latter, very proper and conciliatory, but Swaine, not being able to get an audience, sent this letter to the Emperor, why next day, at the parade, turned his back upon him, and Swaine asked for his recall,
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