. Eight journeys abroad. to go withthem. It was the introduction of the son of Prince KarlTheodore to the Peers on taking his seat in the House. The royal party came in carriages and we went up to (itis snowing hard as I write) the third floor and entered a smallgallery at the end of the great hall. About twenty or twenty-five ladies were seated in it, and before the elder Baroness sat down she spoke and shook hands with two ladies at our right 586 GERMANY and told me it was Princess Karl Theodore, a beautiful womanand mother of the young Prince to be presented. I wish I could describe the uni
. Eight journeys abroad. to go withthem. It was the introduction of the son of Prince KarlTheodore to the Peers on taking his seat in the House. The royal party came in carriages and we went up to (itis snowing hard as I write) the third floor and entered a smallgallery at the end of the great hall. About twenty or twenty-five ladies were seated in it, and before the elder Baroness sat down she spoke and shook hands with two ladies at our right 586 GERMANY and told me it was Princess Karl Theodore, a beautiful womanand mother of the young Prince to be presented. I wish I could describe the uniforms and orders. TheRegent is 88, too old to be present, but his son and all theyoung Princes were there and the Ministers and the President and two others sat at a high desk and one belowat a table. The two marched down the aisle and all the othersrose and the young Prince Franz Josef appeared between themin cavalry officers uniform with helmet and plume. The oath was read to him and he held up his right hand. BURG ADELMANNSFELDEN, ELWANGEN, WURTEMBERG and said Ich schware, then he brought his heels togetherand bowed to the President, then to the Ministers, then to thePeers and went and took the seat next to his Father. Thelatter I was most interested to see as he is the great oculistand does a great amount of good. The Princess helps him inhis work and reads to the blind people during their is a grandmother but looked very young. Baron von Soden is also a Peer of the Realm, which is thereason we sat in the gallery with Royalty. Count Adelmann was very much amused at our havingonly two hours in Munich and getting in with Princes andPrincesses. 587 EIGHT JOURNEYS ABROAD My tickets from Cook in Venice sent us by Lindau and Ifound I had to come by Augsburg and Ulm, so I went to Cookand he said they would redeem the unused tickets in came in a fast train arriving at —found Count andCountess Adelmann waiting for us in the station and Widmanto
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