Within royal palaces : a brilliant and charmingly written inner view of emperors, kings, queens, princes and princesses ... . e wounded with her own hands,andher untiring care and touching abnegation won for her the grat-itude and affection of all sufferers. Besides all this she is a o-oodmother and a devotedwife and she superin-tends the education ofher children, who arepassionately attached toher. If there were moreQueens like her therecertainly would beless revolutionary ten-dencies in all the mon-archies of Europe. Hitherto much un-pleasantness has ex-isted at the Court ofAthens, owing to
Within royal palaces : a brilliant and charmingly written inner view of emperors, kings, queens, princes and princesses ... . e wounded with her own hands,andher untiring care and touching abnegation won for her the grat-itude and affection of all sufferers. Besides all this she is a o-oodmother and a devotedwife and she superin-tends the education ofher children, who arepassionately attached toher. If there were moreQueens like her therecertainly would beless revolutionary ten-dencies in all the mon-archies of Europe. Hitherto much un-pleasantness has ex-isted at the Court ofAthens, owing to theabsence of all sympathybetween the Queen andher daughter-in-law, theCrown Princess. The t™ Q^^en of greece. latter is a sister of the Emperor of Germany, and Queen Olga,who is a Russian Grand Duchess by birth and who has re-tained all her Muscovite proclivities, strongly opposed themarriage of her son. She was consulted neither by the latternor by her husband about the proposed alliance,and althoughthe engagement lasted some eighteen months, during whichtime the Queen resided almost entirely In the north of Europe,. 6oO WITHIN ROYAL PALACES. she never once visited Berlin for the purpose of making theacquaintance of her daughter-in-law that was to be. Indeedher negflect to make the slightest effort toward becominsfpersonally acquainted with her sons future wife was of themost marked and pointed nature. From her youth up Queen Olga has always been taughtto reo^ard the Germans as the bitterest enemies of Russia andto look forward to a mortal and sanguinary conflict betweenthe Slavonic and Teutonic races as inevitable. That her eldestson should have allied himself with those whom she regardedas enemies, and that he should have contributed to the trans-formation of Greece from a Russian into a German outpostwas and still remains gall and wormwood to her, and conse-quently her attitude toward the Crown Princess has neverbeen of a very cordial nature. As the Crown Princess is exc
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