THEIR MAJESTIES AS I KNEW THEM

PERSONAL REMINISCENCES OF THE KINGS AND QUEENS OF EUROPE

XAVIER PAOLI

TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BY
A. TEIXEIRA DE MATTOS

ILLUSTRATED

New York
STURGIS & WALTON
COMPANY
1911

Set up and electrotyped. Published March, 1911

M. XAVIER PAOLI

CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
	INTRODUCTION	[v]
I	THE EMPEROR AND EMPRESS OF AUSTRIA	[3]
II	KING ALFONSO XIII	[41]
III	THE SHAH OF PERSIA	[81]
IV	THE TSAR NICHOLAS II AND THE TSARITSA ALEXANDRA FEODOROVNA	[127]
V	THE KING AND QUEEN OF ITALY	[165]
VI	GEORGE I, KING OF THE HELLENES	[199]
VII	QUEEN WILHELMINA OF THE NETHERLANDS	[229]
VIII	THE LATE KING OF THE BELGIANS	[259]
IX	THE ENGLISH ROYAL FAMILY	[301]
X	THE KING OF CAMBODIA AND HIS DANCING-GIRLS	[329]