France and England and Russia have between them most of the necessities of life, and this should tend to keep down the cost of those necessities. But I hope that a revival of trade will not mean a return to riotous living and deadening indulgence.
To all the Allies the war has brought individual unity within their own boundaries; there was danger of internal trouble in all three a year before the cloud burst. Undoubtedly the fears of civil war in Great Britain had some foundation; France was in a certain sense in a condition of unpreparedness; and Russia was on the edge of a revolution. In a day these questions were laid aside. To-day the French army is as one man; France has behaved with a splendour that cannot be over-extolled, and she will never lose that power of cohesion she gained through the opening stages of this conflict. Indeed, in all the countries of the Allies I fancy the old questions will never recur in the same degree.
On the whole, then, the outlook has its bright side. We are appalled at the loss of life, at the desolation of territory, at the complicated wastage of war. But the Allies will come out of it stronger in many ways, not only with recovered territory—France with her long-lost children returned, and Russia no doubt with her southern port (which means her emancipation)—but with ancient instincts of race reawakened and sharpened, with broader views, particularly on the part of France and Great Britain; for this war has killed the distance across the English Channel, and England, losing her insularity, will become more and more closely attached to her great Republican neighbour.
INDEX
[A], [B], [C], [D], [E], [F], [G], [H], [I], [K], [L], [M], [N], [O], [P], [Q], [R], [S], [T], [U], [V], [W], [Z]
Abdul Hamid, Sultan, [151], [152]
Absinthe, sale of, prohibited in France, [248]
Albert, King of the Belgians, [183]
Alcazar, the palace of the, [35]
description of, [36]
life at, [37] et seq.
Alcohol, the War and, [248]
Alexander II., Tsar, assassination of, [176]
Alexandra, Queen, [129], [131], [175], [194], [205], [209]
Alexis, Grand Duke, [172]
Alfonso XII., King, [2], [28]
a family reunion, [27]
a love match, [74]
a visit to the French hospital, [60]
and the Spanish aristocracy, [93]
at the Escurial, [27-28]
buried in the Escurial, [97]
death of, [96], [97]
grief at death of his wife, [90] et seq.
his activities, [93] et seq.
his children, [96]
his education, [46]
his popularity, [52]
his second marriage, [95]
ill-health of, [91]
marries Mercedes, daughter of the Duc de Montpensier, [80]
proclaimed King, [20], [48], [49], [58]
the Infanta and, [5], [7], [18], [19], [20], [21], [27], [34-5], [44-6], [64], [66], [68], [81], [89], [90] et seq.
Alfonso XIII., King, birth of, [96], [104]
Amadeo of Savoy, Prince, [49]
Amber, a Royal search for, [211]
America, a democratic crowd in, [235-6]
the author in, [222] et seq.
the Press of, [232], [235]
the railways in, [233]
Antoine of Orléans, Archduke, [68] et seq., [74], [99]
marries the Infanta Eulalia, [100]
separated from his wife, [238-239]
Aosta, the Dowager Duchess of, [218] et seq.
Aosta, the Duke and Duchess of, [217], [221]
Aranjuez, the palace of, [100]
Arbitration, democracy and, [247]
Argyll, Duchess of, [130]
Armada, dispatch of the, [28]
Atoche, the church of, [104]
Austria before the War, [181]
Belgians, Albert King of the, [183]
Belgium, King Leopold of, [183]
Berlin, Court life in, [134] et seq.
“Blood Royal,” prerogatives of, [3-4], [11], [31], [32] et seq., [62], [63], [84]
Boer War, the, [113], [136]
Bologna, [215]
Bonaparte, Princess Lætitia (See Aosta, Dowager Duchess)
“Bossism” in America and Spain, [55-6]
Bourbon, Princess Caroline of, [175]
British rule in India, the, [111]
Bulgaria, King Ferdinand of, [184-5]
Caciques in Spain, [56] et seq.
Calomarde, Señor, [50]
Campos, General Martinez, [48]
Canovas, Señor, [85]
Cara de Dios, la, [98]
Carlo, Don, and the Spanish succession, [49-51]
Caroline of Bourbon, Princess, [178]
Charles III., [43]
Charles IV., [224]
Chicago: the World’s Fair, [222]
Christian, King of Denmark, [205], [207]
Christiania, author at, [190] et seq.
Cleveland, President, [237]
Coburg, Duchess of, [130]
Connaught, Princess Margaret of, [204]
Princess Patricia of, [130]
the Duchess of, [130]
the Duke of, [129]
Constantinople, the Kaiser’s visit to, [151]
Court diplomats, [87-9]
life, anomalies of, [105] et seq.
life in England, [110-12], [129]
Cuba, [222], [225] et seq.
Spanish corruption in, [229-30]
Democracy and arbitration, [247]
and monarchy, [244]
education and, [180]
in Denmark, [205], [208]
in England, [123], [132]
in Norway, [190] et seq.
in Russia, [160]
Denmark, democracy in, [205], [208]
the King of, [205], [207]
Disarmament, the question of, [246], [248-9]
Dmitri, Grand Duke, [175]
Echegaray, José de, [73]
Edinburgh, the Duchess of (now Duchess of Coburg), [131]
Education and democracy, [180]
Edward VII., King, [112]
and the entente cordinale, [127]
and the Kaiser, [114], [134], [137], [138]
entertains the Author, [129]
his American and Jewish friends, [132]
his punctuality, [129]
Elizabeth, Grand Duchess, [174]
England and Germany, industrial and commercial rivalry between, [114]
and Socialism, [253]
and the English, [106] et seq.
author’s visits to, [108]
and the question of disarmament, [248]
changing customs in, [120]
country life in, [116] et seq.
democracy in, [123], [132]
her international affairs, [127]
love of extravagance in, [115-16], [132], [247]
strikes and internal disorders in, [113], [248]
taxing the wealthy in, [251]
the aristocracy of, [110], [115], [132]
the charm of home and country, [117]
the landlord system in, [122]
the veneration of Royalty in, [131]
English, author’s views of the, [114]
Court, the, a canon of Court etiquette, [131]
character of the, [114], [125]
diplomats, [89]
Royal Family, the, [111]
the, their superiority in diplomacy, [126]
Entente cordiale, the, [127]
Escurial, palace of the, [26] et seq.
Alfonso XII. buried in, [97]
arrival of Royal Family at, [28]
interment of Queen Mercedes in, [90]
Royal tombs in, [28]
Eulalia, the Infanta, a guest at Sandringham, [129]
a separation from her husband, [238-9]
Alfonso XII. and, [7], [18], [21], [27], [35], [44-5], [64], [66], [68], [74], [81], [90] et seq.
and Court etiquette, [31-2]
and democracy, [179], [244]
and Izzet Pasha, [151]
and Edward VII., [128] et seq.
Eulalia and the death of Alfonso XII., [96] et seq.
and the English Royal circle, [130] et seq.
and the language of eyes, [65]
asserts herself, [8], [26], [30], [40]
at Rome, [182]
at the convent of the Sacré Cœur, [9] et seq., [108]
at the Norwegian Court, [193] et seq.
at the Ordensfest in Berlin, [138], [139], [140]
at the palace of the Alcazar, [36] et seq.
at Richmond, [119-120]
death of her mother, [239]
her engagement, [69], [74], [99]
her father, [17], [189]
her First Communion, [14]
her growing desire for solitude, [238]
her irksome duties as a Princess, [22] et seq., [142] et seq.
her love of books, [46] et seq.
her “mortal sin” and confession thereof, [70]
her mother, [2], [4], [14], [18], [19], [24], [25], [26], [27], [30], [31], [35], [38], [45], [75]
her sisters, [5], [6], [9], [10], [14], [15], [25], [40], [41], [44], [52], [60], [61], [68], [81]
her sons, ix, [189], [238]
in America, [232] et seq.
in Russia, [160] et seq.
marriage of, [100]
Prince Napoleon a playmate of, [4]
the Kaiser and, [134] et seq., [140-41]
the King of Spain and, [240]
visits Queen Victoria at Windsor, [108-9]
“Face of God, the,” [98]
Ferdinand, King of Bulgaria, [183-4]
Ferdinand VII. of Spain, [15], [50]
Ferrari, Philippo, [215]
France and the Great War, [242-3]
and the question of disarmament, [248]
country life in, [119]
Louis Philippe, King of, [72]
Royalty in, [107]
Francisco, Infante, father of Infanta Eulalia, [17], [189]
Frederick, Empress, [130]
Frederick the Great, the library of, [153]
French, the, diplomacy of, [127]
Galliera, the Duke of, [213], [215]
Genoa, the Duke and Duchess of, [217], [219]
George V., King, the simplicity of his life, [132]
George, Mr. Lloyd, [253]
German Emperor, the (see William II.)
Royal Family, the, [136]
Germany and the Great War, [246], [255]
growth of Socialism in, [137]
her greed for power and wealth, [251]
industrial and commercial rivalry with England, [114]
military party in, [155], [242]
Great Britain and the Great War, [243]
Great War, the, [115], [125], [132], [133], [179], [184]
author’s reflections on, [242]
good results of, [252] et seq.
the Allies’ individual unity, [255]
Tsar Nicholas II. and, [176]
Gustav, King of Sweden, [204]
Haakon, King of Norway, [180], [192], [193] et seq.
Havana, author visits, [224]
convicts as servants in, [227]
the author’s curious predicament in, [228]
Houlgate, an adventure at, [7]
Humbert, King of Italy, [216], [217]
India, British rule in, [111]
Infection, immunity of Spanish to, 84 (cf. Viaticum)
Isabel the Infanta, [44], [53], [95], [151]
marriage of, [69]
Isabelle II. (mother of the Infanta Eulalia), [2], [4], [14], [17], [19], [24], [25], [26], [27], [29], [31], [35], [38], [42], [45], [239]
an anecdote of, [102]
attempted assassination of, [46]
dethronement of, [49]
intrigues against marriage of Alfonso XII., [42], [71]
returns to Spain, [20], [22]
succeeds to the throne, [50]
Isle of Wight, [130], [162], [174]
Italian Court, the, and the Vatican, a quarrel between, [95]
Italy before and after the unification, [216]
dialect in, [219]
King Humbert of, [216], [217]
King Victor Emmanuel of, [49], [182]
miniature Courts in, [218]
Queen Margherita of, [216], [217]
the Courts of, [213] et seq.
Izzet Pasha, [151]
Kaiser, the, and his Court, [134] et seq. (see also William II., Emperor)
La Granja, the summer palace of, [86]
Las Palmas, the author at, [224]
Leopold, King of Belgium, [183]
London, the author in, [109]
Louis XVI. and the Court of Versailles, [144]
Louis Philippe, King, [72], [184]
Louise, Princess (see Argyll, Duchess of)
Luisa Carlota, the Infanta, [50]
marriage of, [69]
Madrid, a popular feast in, [98]
an audience—and a kitten, [60-1]
an embarrassing street decoration, [43]
the Royal palace of, [43]
Margaret, Princess of Connaught, [204]
Margherita, Queen of Italy, [216]
Maria Cristina (wife of Alfonso XII.), [95], [118], [151]
Maria Cristina, Queen (wife of Ferdinand VII.), [15], [51]
character of, [17]
romantic marriage of, [16]
Maria Padilla, the bath of, [38]
Maria Pavlovna, Grand Duchess, [175]
Marie, Empress, [175], [206], [209]
Mary, Queen of England, [120]
her simple life, [132]
Maud, Queen of Norway, [180], [190], [193] et seq.
Mercedes, Queen, [80]
death of, [90]
Mohammedanism, Spain and, [57]
Montagnini, Monsignor, [221]
Montpensier, the Duc de, [71], [214]
a unique marriage, [75]
and his orange crop, [93]
and Isabella II., [71]
and Queen Victoria, [109]
appearance of, [77]
death of, [238]
head of the Orleans party, [72-3]
his religious ideas, [76]
marriage of, [72]
Monza, the Castle of, [216]
Moors, the, [57]
Morro Castle, [224]
Napoleon III. and Isabella II., [4]
Netherlands, the, war in, [28]
Nicholas II., Tsar, and his people, [157] et seq.
as host, [169]
courage of, [158], [176], [245]
happy married life of, [166-167]
his autocratic power, [164]
his children, [166]
his great tenderness, [177]
his love of simplicity, [168], [176]
his personality, [158]
his strenuous days, [170]
Normandy, the Spanish Court removes to, [5]
Norway, democracy in, [180], [190]
education in, [199]
free unions in, [198]
Queen Maud of, [190], [193]
the King of, [180], [192], [193]
Norway and Sweden, union of, repealed, [192], [200], [205]
Olaf, Prince of Norway, [193], [196], [197]
Ordensfest, the, [138], [139], [140]
Orléans, Antoine d’, [68] et seq., [74], [99]
Orleans family in France, [104]
party, the, [73]
the House of, [183], [184]
Oscar, King of Sweden, [204-5]
Palais de Castile, the Infanta’s life in, [4] et seq.
Paris, flight from: the Infanta’s recollections of, [5]
the author in, [107]
Paris, Comte de, exiled from France, [105]
the Comte and Comtesse de, at Tunbridge Wells, [105], [116]
Patricia of Connaught, Princess, [130]
Paul, Grand Duke, [175]
Paz, the Infanta, [44], [53]
Pedro the Cruel, [39]
Peter the Great, [175]
Petersburg. (See Petrograd)
Petrograd, [160], [166]
the Twelfth Day ceremony at, [161], [163-4]
Philip II. and the Escurial, [28]
Pilar, the Infanta, [44], [53]
death of, [91]
Poland, the tragedy of, [179]
Polish question, the, [178]
Quirinal, the, [216]
Recruiting in England and Germany, [136]
Richmond, author’s visit to, [119]
Romanoff, the House of, and democracy, [171]
Rome, the Infanta Eulalia at, [14], [182]
the Pope of, [182]
Russia and the Great War, [243]
and the Orthodox Church, [164]
creation of the Imperial Duma, [160], [165]
Empress of, her beauty, [162]
her devotion to her children, [167]
her natural timidity, [246]
her religious instincts, [164]
the Blessing of the Waters in, [161], [164-5]
the Grand Dukes and Grand Duchesses of, [171] et seq.
the peasantry of, [178]
Tsar Nicholas II., [157]
Russian Court, the, a charming custom at, [169]
the mazurka a favourite dance at the, [168]
Sacre Cœur, convent of, [9], [108]
Sagasta, Premier, [85]
St. Lorenzo martyrdom, of, [28]
Salic law in Spain, the, [50]
San Jean de Luz, [22]
Sandringham, a curious practice at, [129]
Sans-Souci, the palace of, [153]
Santander, [86]
the Cathedral of, [25], [223]
Savoy, Prince Amadeo of, [49]
Scandinavia, Socialism in, [251]
the simple life of, [252]
Scandinavian democracies, the, [190] et seq.
diplomats, [89]
Serge, Grand Duke, assassination of, [174]
Seville, [36] et seq.
Shakespeare, the Infanta Eulalia and, [47]
Social reform versus Socialism, [253]
Socialism in Belgium, [183]
in England, [253]
in Germany, [136]
in Italy, [182]
in Sweden, [202]
the ethics of, [250] et seq.
Spain, “anti-clerical” revolts in, [57], [58]
becomes a republic, [1]
caciques in, [56] et seq.
corruption in, [55], [94]
influence of the Duc de Montpensier in, [72]
intricacies of Government in, [55] et seq.
king-making in, [48] et seq.
medical science in, [90-92]
priests and their rule, [56]
religion and politics in, [57]
Republicanism in, [58]
taxation in, [56]
the aristocracy of, [93]
the Catholicism of, [98]
the church and courtship, [66-7]
the claque in, [52-3]
the Clerical party in, [73]
the question of succession, [42]
the Salic law in, [50]
the Viaticum in, [81] et seq.
tricks of deception in, [54]
Spanish Court, the, life at, [85]
the diplomats, [87] et seq.
Strikes and Socialism, [113], [249]
Sweden, King Gustav of, [204]
King Oscar of, [204-5]
Socialism in, [203]
the aristocracy of, [201]
the Court of, [204]
the Crown Prince of, [203]
the Crown Princess of, [130], [204]
the Parliament of, [202]
the Queen of, [204]
Sweden and Norway, union of, repealed, [192], [200], [205]
Switzerland, true Socialism in, [251]
Teck, the Duchess of, [120]
Tunbridge Wells, the Comte and Comtesse de Paris at, [105], [116]
Turin, the Courts of, [217]
United States, “bossism” in the, [55], [56]
Universal peace, the ideal way of obtaining, [251]
Vatican, the, and the Infanta Eulalia, [182]
and the Italian Court: a quarrel, [95]
Venice, [220] et seq.
Versailles, [32]
of Spain, the. (See La Granja)
Viaticum, the author’s experiences of, [81] et seq.
Victor Emmanuel, King, [49]
Victoria, Queen, and a problem of Court etiquette, [131]
description of, [109]
jubilee of, [112], [174]
Vienna, the Court of, [95]
Vodka, prohibition of, in Russia, [248]
Voltaire, [153]
Wales, Albert Edward, Prince of, at the wedding of Alfonso XII., [129]
Prince (Edward) of, his birth, [120]
Princess of (now Queen Mary), birth of her first son, [120]
Whisky, the evil of England, [248]
Wight, Isle of, [130], [162], [174]
William II., German Emperor and Edward VII., [114], [134], [137], [138]
and the divinity of kingship, [135-6], [140], [154], [165], [243]
and the Great War, [242-3]
as host, [146-7]
at the Ordensfest, [138-140]
his children, [145]
his flattery of the author, [141]
his literary tastes, [153]
his love of Berlin, [147-8]
his personality, [134], [137]
his punctuality, [144]
his religious instincts, [135-6], [242]
the household of, [134-5]
the Infanta Eulalia’s visit to, [134]
Windsor Castle, the author at, [109]
Woman, the equality of, in Norway, [197] et seq.
World’s Fair, the, [222]
Zamoyski family, the, [178]
