Within royal palaces : a brilliant and charmingly written inner view of emperors, kings, queens, princes and princesses ... . ns and would ride till the ascentgrew too steep for her horse, then leaving the latter with herattendant jaeger she would seize her alpenstock and go on 526 WITHIN ROYAL PALACES. her way over the gigantic boulders, breathing with delight theicy blast from the snow covered summits of the course there Is danger in such expeditions but the youngArchduchess is used to the mountains, and keeps to the right path regardlessof the fiercewinds tearinof ather cloth
Within royal palaces : a brilliant and charmingly written inner view of emperors, kings, queens, princes and princesses ... . ns and would ride till the ascentgrew too steep for her horse, then leaving the latter with herattendant jaeger she would seize her alpenstock and go on 526 WITHIN ROYAL PALACES. her way over the gigantic boulders, breathing with delight theicy blast from the snow covered summits of the course there Is danger in such expeditions but the youngArchduchess is used to the mountains, and keeps to the right path regardlessof the fiercewinds tearinof ather clothes andof the proximityof the yawningabysses beneathher. A n Incidentwhich gives aclue to the de-cision and en-ergy of her char-acter is the com-plete cessationo f Intercoursebetween herselfand her foster,or adopted sisterPrincess AglaeAuersperg, wholoslnof her moth-er when she was yet a tiny baby was adopted by EmpressElizabeth and brought up entirely with Archduchess were literally like twin sisters until some time beforethe death of Archduke Rudolph. About that time a rumor became current In Court circles. ARCHDUCHESS VALERIE. THE IMPERIAL FAMILY OF AUSTRIA. ^2^ that Crown Prince Rudolph was paying a good deal of atten-tion to pretty Aglae, who shortly after started on a voyage tothe East under the escort of an old governess. It was only afew months later that the tragedy of Meyerling brought sor-row and consternation all over the Austro-Hungarian Empire,and many people connected the apparent disgrace of beauti-ful Aglae with Rudolphs violent death, notwithstanding thefact of his apparently passionate and openly avowed love forBaroness Marie-Vetesra. When Princess Aglae returned toVienna some months ago it became almost a certainty inevery bodys mind that something was radically wrong. Fornot only did the Empress refuse to receive her, but Archduch-ess Valerie meeting her former beloved friend accidently inpublic looked her straight in the face without a gleam of
Size: 1365px × 1831px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, booksubjectcourtsandcourtiers
