Within royal palaces : a brilliant and charmingly written inner view of emperors, kings, queens, princes and princesses ... . inette, ofFrance, which no one was allowed to pass without prostratinghimself before it. He insisted that the servants who waitedon him at the table should do so on their knees without look-ing up. If they forgot this injunction by any mischance. HisMajesty would box their ears, kick them, or else spit in theirface. During the last months of his life he used to sufferterribly from pains in the back of his head, which were sosevere that he used to wear a kind of gutta-pe
Within royal palaces : a brilliant and charmingly written inner view of emperors, kings, queens, princes and princesses ... . inette, ofFrance, which no one was allowed to pass without prostratinghimself before it. He insisted that the servants who waitedon him at the table should do so on their knees without look-ing up. If they forgot this injunction by any mischance. HisMajesty would box their ears, kick them, or else spit in theirface. During the last months of his life he used to sufferterribly from pains in the back of his head, which were sosevere that he used to wear a kind of gutta-percha cap filledwith ice at his meals. So anxious was he to obtain funds for the continuance ofhis building operations that he sent emissaries requestingloans, among others to the Emperor of Austria and Brazil, to 4o6 WITHIN ROYAL tALACES. the Shah of Persia, and to the King of Sweden. He succeededin obtaining money from Queen Isabella of Spain, and fromthe Khedive of Egypt. His emissaries had commencednegotiations with tlie Comte de Paris for a loan of ^8,000,000,which the Rothschilds had agreed to advance on the French. STATE SLEIGH OF THE REGENT OF BAVARIA. pretenders guarantee. The loan was to have been made onthe condition that the Kinor should do his best to neutralizeBismarcks policy in case of war between France and Ger-many. It was probably partly due to this and the complica-tions which might have resulted therefrom which incited THE ROYAL FAMILY OF BAVaRIA, 407 Prince Bismarck at the time to give his consent to thedeposition of his most devoted admirer. It may be added asindicative of the diseased state of the Kings brain that hewas greatly interested in the perfection of a flying-machine,and assuredly the inventor of Keeleys motor would havefound a warm patron in the royal crank. Among other things contained in the report of the medicalfaculty about the Kings mental condition was a statement ofDr. Loehr, Director of the Bavarian Archives, to the effectthat Ludwig wis
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