Here and there in the war area . I wore by the invitation of theConsistorium one of their beautiful old copes,and had one of their leading clergy toattend me. The feeling between us andSweden is far too friendly to be lightlybroken. In Sweden as in Norway we are fortunatein having a Princess of Great Britain andIreland in the royal family. The Queen ofSweden is a first cousin of the GermanEmperor and naturally makes no secret ofher sympathies. Vve should not expect it tobe otherwise; but her mother, the GrandDuchess Louise of Baden, one of the mostrespected and revered ladies in Germany, toldm
Here and there in the war area . I wore by the invitation of theConsistorium one of their beautiful old copes,and had one of their leading clergy toattend me. The feeling between us andSweden is far too friendly to be lightlybroken. In Sweden as in Norway we are fortunatein having a Princess of Great Britain andIreland in the royal family. The Queen ofSweden is a first cousin of the GermanEmperor and naturally makes no secret ofher sympathies. Vve should not expect it tobe otherwise; but her mother, the GrandDuchess Louise of Baden, one of the mostrespected and revered ladies in Germany, toldme only a few weeks before the war beganthat she should never forget the great kindnessshown to her as a girl by Queen Victoria, whenshe went to London for the Great Exhibitionof 1851, and would always keep a warm cornerin her heart for England and the English. And remember, she said to me at parting, that every day I pray that there may not bewar between my people and yours, and I hopeyou will do the same. I know, too, how fully. < Q< zw QM toO au M a, u w I H THROUGH NORWAY AND SWEDEN 227 she has interested herself in the arrangementsmade for British prisoners at Mannheim, thecamp—I think it is the only one—where ourfellow-countrymen are confined in the GrandDuchy of Baden. I cannot think, therefore,that the Queen of Sweden, though she must beGerman in sympathy, can have been broughtup with anything but kindly feelings towardsourselves, however those feelings may havebeen modified and changed of late; The Crown Princess is our own PrincessMargaret of Connaught, deeply respectedby every one in Sweden, especially by thewhole British community. Her influence,like that of Queen Maud in Norway, hasbeen simply of inestimable value. She hasalways been frankly true to the principles inwhich she has been brought up and loyal toher own Church. On the second Sunday inMay when I was at Stockholm, she attendedthe early, morning and evening services ; andat the latter, which was a
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