. Seven years at the Prussian court. Princess always accusedany one of her dependents who fell ill of makingthemselves ill. She was one of the most intolerably suspicioussort of women I ever came across. Detectives,as I said, were regularly employed at KleinGlienicke to watch and spy on any one in the estab-lishment ; but apart from this the Princess Leopoldseemed to suspect every one with whom she camemuch into contact of something—of trying to findout about her private affairs, of desiring to culti-vate her acquaintance for some special purpose,or even of trying to get money out of her. Ofte
. Seven years at the Prussian court. Princess always accusedany one of her dependents who fell ill of makingthemselves ill. She was one of the most intolerably suspicioussort of women I ever came across. Detectives,as I said, were regularly employed at KleinGlienicke to watch and spy on any one in the estab-lishment ; but apart from this the Princess Leopoldseemed to suspect every one with whom she camemuch into contact of something—of trying to findout about her private affairs, of desiring to culti-vate her acquaintance for some special purpose,or even of trying to get money out of her. Often,without any earthly reason, she would entertainthe most extraordinary suspicions of the characterof absolutely blameless people. She accepted asbeing literally true Davids hastily uttered state-ment about every person being a liar. I have heard her say that no one could everdeceive her, because she never put the least faithin anything that any one, even her own relatives,said to her. She was a woman devoid of friends. Friends 54. PRINCESS LEOPOLD OF PRUSSIA The Prince and Princess Leopold were the last thing she desired to have. She hadcertainly some extraordinary acquaintances, madeduring her incognito visits to England, with someof whom she kept up an occasional correspondence;but I think the pleasure she derived from thissort of acquaintance lay in the fact that thesepeople had no idea of her identity. Why thisshould please her I do not know, but I am quitesure that it did. Circumstances had, I think, embittered the wholecharacter and disposition of the Princess, and forthose unhappy circumstances she was not to blame. Before her marriage, from all I heard, thePrincess liCopold was a jolly, bright and happyyoung girl. She loved the man she married—of that I amsure; from a social point of view the marriage wascertainly a splendid one for her. She was butthe daughter of quite a minor Royal house, whilstthe Prince Leopold was a great Prussian Prince,ranking after the Empe
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