If she likes, let her kick up a row,
My subjects are kind unto me,
They don’t mind my being an ass;
Nor yet that I hold on my knee,
At this moment, the prettiest lass,
For I am the Frisky King, ha! ha!
For I am the Frisky King.
The Man in the Moon, Vol. I.
Charles Louis, King of Bavaria, caused great dissatisfaction in his dominions by his reckless extravagance, and his utter incapacity to fulfil the duties of his position. He formed a disgraceful liaison with a scheming adventuress generally known under the assumed name of Lola Montes, but whom he created Countess Von Landfeldt. At length the interference of Lola Montes in state affairs became too notorious, and she was banished the Kingdom. She afterwards led a wandering life, delivered some lectures in London in 1859, thence proceeding to the United States. She died in New York, January 17, 1861. Charles Louis was compelled to abdicate in March, 1848, but survived his fall for twenty years, living to see the throne occupied by his grandson, Louis II., the Mad King and patron of Wagner, who recently committed suicide.