[99] Prince Frederick William, the “Frittie” of these letters, born the 6th of the previous month of October, and who was killed by a fall from a window on the 29th of May, 1873.
[100] On the 10th, 11th, and 12th of January, 1871, before Le Mans.
[101] Prince Henry Charles Woldemar of Schleswig-Holstein, Governor of the Fortress of Mayence. He died on the 20th of January, 1871.
[102] Daughter of the Duke of Abercorn.
[103] The late Mr. John Mitchell, the librarian of Old Bond Street.
[104] Princess Alix, born on the 6th of June.
[105] Two children who were carried away by a “spate” while playing at Monaltrie Burn, near Balmoral (11th of June, 1872), and swept into the river Dee and drowned. See “More Leaves from a Journal of a Life in the Highlands,” p. 156 et seq.
[106] For an account of this visit see “More Leaves from a Journal,” p. 164 et seq.
[107] The Queen’s half-sister, Feodore, Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, who died on the 23d of September, 1872, at Baden-Baden.
[108] Daughter of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Subsequently she did marry the Grand Duke Vladamir of Russia, as she was allowed not to change her religion. This was the first time such a thing was permitted in Russia.