Within royal palaces : a brilliant and charmingly written inner view of emperors, kings, queens, princes and princesses ... . some man, but he hasthe upright bearing and soldierly carriage that distinguished his36 (561) 5^2 WITHIN ROYAL PALACES. race. Owing to the expression of intense sadness which rare-ly leaveshis face, he looks much older than his years. Hismanners are singularly attractive ; they seem to combine insome subtle fashion the stately courtesy of a grand-seigneur with the s i m p lekindliness of afriend. His life hasnot been happy, ashis face shows clear-ly enough ; menwith who
Within royal palaces : a brilliant and charmingly written inner view of emperors, kings, queens, princes and princesses ... . some man, but he hasthe upright bearing and soldierly carriage that distinguished his36 (561) 5^2 WITHIN ROYAL PALACES. race. Owing to the expression of intense sadness which rare-ly leaveshis face, he looks much older than his years. Hismanners are singularly attractive ; they seem to combine insome subtle fashion the stately courtesy of a grand-seigneur with the s i m p lekindliness of afriend. His life hasnot been happy, ashis face shows clear-ly enough ; menwith whom allthings have gonewell have not sucheyes as his. Hewas only fifteen atthe revolution of48, when his elderbrother, the pre-sent Emperor, wascalled to the narrow-minded and abso-lutely antagonisticto any idea of pro-gress, he was andstill is the absoluteantithesis of hisbrother, the Emperor, excepting as far as kindness and ex-quisite courtesy are concerned. He manages always to keephis personal opinions and views entirely to himself and is souncommunitative that he might pass for sullen were it not for. AKCHDXJKE CHAEIiES LOTJIS. THE IMPERIAL FAMILY OF AUSTRIA. rg^ the mobile and constantly changing expression of his facewhich in itself is a ^ In 1883 the Archduke was appointed Governor of Galicia,and two years later, he was promoted to the more importantoffice of Viceroy of Tyrol. The Tyrolese soon became en-thusiastically devoted to their handsome young ruler, whotreated them with such punctilious courtesy; and when hebrought among them his bride, a Saxon Princess, the wholepopulation united in giving her a welcome such as no Sover-eign had received there for centuries. Within a year, however,the young Archduchess—she was only seventeen—died withterrible suddenness. One morning she was seemingly in perfecthealth, and before nightfall she was dead. Charles Louis waspassionately attached to his wife, and when she died, his griefwas so intense that
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