. Their majesties as I knew them; personal reminiscences of the kings and queens of Europe . QUEEN AMELIE OF PORTUGAL THEIR MAJESTIES ASI KNEW THEM PERSONAL REMINISCENCES OF THEKINGS AND QUEENS OF EUROPE BY XAVIER PAOLI TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BY A. TEIXEIRA DE MATTOS ILLUSTRATED STURGIS & WALTONCOMPANY 1911 All rights reserved Copyright 1911By STURGIS & WALTON COMPANY Set up and electrotyped. Published March, 1911 ^? ©CU297372 ^. M. XAVIER PAOLI INTRODUCTION M. XAVIER PAOLI THE chamberlain OF THE FRENCH REPUBLICAND THE FRIEND OF SOVEREIGNS IT was in 1903, and the King of England wasmaking his
. Their majesties as I knew them; personal reminiscences of the kings and queens of Europe . QUEEN AMELIE OF PORTUGAL THEIR MAJESTIES ASI KNEW THEM PERSONAL REMINISCENCES OF THEKINGS AND QUEENS OF EUROPE BY XAVIER PAOLI TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BY A. TEIXEIRA DE MATTOS ILLUSTRATED STURGIS & WALTONCOMPANY 1911 All rights reserved Copyright 1911By STURGIS & WALTON COMPANY Set up and electrotyped. Published March, 1911 ^? ©CU297372 ^. M. XAVIER PAOLI INTRODUCTION M. XAVIER PAOLI THE chamberlain OF THE FRENCH REPUBLICAND THE FRIEND OF SOVEREIGNS IT was in 1903, and the King of England wasmaking his first official journey in France sincesucceeding Queen Victoria on the throne ofGreat Britain. In the court of the British Em-bassy in Paris, where the sovereign had taken uphis residence, a group of journalists, pencil andnotebook in hand, was crowding importunate,full of questions, around a vivacious little gentle-man, very precisely dressed in black, wearing thered rosette of the Legion of Honour in the button-hole of his silk-faced frock coat. An impressivesilk hat, sHghtly tipped, sheltered a head of abun-dant wavy white hair, strikingly in contrast withthe mans still youthful appearance; at the utmosthe seemed to be hardly fifty years old. His aristocratic bearing might have been that ofa diplomat of the Empire or a Tuscan sensitve features of his finely oval face—^the vi INTRODUCTION straight, deli
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