Grandmama of Europe: The Crowned Descendants of Queen Victoria

by Theo Aronson

Chapter Twenty-three

  Alexandra ('You have fought . . .') Alexandra, Letters of the Tsaritsa to the Tsar. Rasputin ('I need neither . . .') Paleologue, An Ambassador's Memoirs. Alexandra ('Be the master . . . etc') Letters. Marie ('Their hatred . . .') Life. Tsarevich in tears ('What is wrong . . .') Massie, Nicholas and Alexandra. Alicky's Englishness ('The Empress was very . . .') Buxhoeveden, Life and Tragedy. Marie ('very dangerous . . .') Life. Alexandra ('God have mercy . . .') Letters. Gilliard ('No one . . .') Thirteen Years. Alexandra ('You Russian ladies . . .') and news on abdication, Dehn, The Real Tsaritsa. George V ('Events of last week . . .') Nicolson, King George. Ambassador in Paris ('I do not think . . .') Massie, Nicholas and Alexandra. Alexandra ('I don't understand . . .') Kerensky, Memoirs. Soldier to Alexandra ('Did you know . . .') Buxhoevenden, Life and Tragedy. Nicholas to Kerensky ('I have no fear . . .') Bulygin, The Murder of the Romanovs. Marie of Romania, Life.

  Chapter Twenty-four

  Russian Minister ('The Greeks') and Constantine ('It is out of the question . . .') Gould-Lee, Helen. Christopher, Memoirs. Constantine's proclamation, Gould-Lee, Helen. Constantine's departure, Christopher, Memoirs. All quotations from Marie of Romania, Life.

  Chapter Twenty-five

  Sophie's telephone call, Christopher, Memoirs. Sophie on homecoming ('The level-headed . . .') Gould-Lee, The Royal House of Greece. Marie ('I have had many difficult . . .') Life. Marie to Ministers ('Gentlemen . . .') Daggett, Marie. Marie ('She is sweet . . .') Elsberry, Marie of Romania. Helen ('Had I listened . . .') Gould-Lee, Helen. Mrs Martineau ('Could this be . . .') Roumania and her Rulers. Constantine ('They have arranged it . . .') Gould-Lee, Helen.

  Chapter Twenty-six

  Unless otherwise indicated, all quotations are from Daggett, Marie of Roumania. Rosita Forbes ('Hollywoodesque') These Men I Knew. Marie's heir, Martineau, Roumania. Forbes ('The very spirit . . .') These Men. Mrs Martineau, Roumania. Visitor ('Why do you all . . .') Forbes, These Men. Count de St Aulaire, Martineau, Roumania. Marie's politics ('a positive genius . . .' etc) Martineau, Roumania. Marie's daughter, I Live Again. Marie on Mignon ('smiling, passive . . .') Life. Mignon's driving, Peter II, A King's Heritage.

  Chapter Twenty-seven

  Ena ('He tires . . .') Sencourt, Uncertain Crown. Grand Duchess Marie, A Princess in Exile. Duff-Gordon, Discretions and Indiscretions. Elinor Glyn on Ena and Alfonso, Letters from Spain. Eulalia on Ena and Marie, Courts and Countries after the War. Ena ('I long for the day . . .') E. Graham, The Life Story of King Alfonso XIII. Eulalia on Ena's Englishness, Courts and Countries. Alfonso ('Spain is great . . .') Sencourt, Uncertain Crown. Ibanez, Alfonso XIII Unmasked.

  Chapter Twenty-eight

  Unless otherwise indicated, all quotations are from Fjellman, Louise Mountbatten, Queen of Sweden. Prince Louis ('There is only one . . .') Kerr, Prince Louis of Battenberg. Swedish court ('uniform and bearskins . . .') Ponsonby, Recollections.

  Chapter Twenty-nine

  Marie ('George should never . . .' and 'my daughter and he . . .') Forbes, These Men. Communiqué, Gould-Lee, Helen. Marie in America, Packard, Queen Marie's Visit. Marie ('There are those . . .') Cornhill. Ileana on Ferdinand, I Live Again. Forbes, These Men. Michael ('How can Papa . . .') Bocca, The Uneasy Heads. Marie ('I have had such . . .') Forbes, These Men. Helen ('Suffering . . .') Gould-Lee, Helen. Eulalia on Sophie, Courts and Countries. Sophie and Ferdinand, Christopher, Memoirs. Alexandra, Queen Alexandra, For a King's Love. Sophie ('If we had to . . .') Gould-Lee, Helen. Funeral, Christopher, Memoirs.

  Chapter Thirty

  Ena ('And who . . .') Grand Duchess Marie, Princess in Exile. Alfonso, Thauraud, Rendez-vous Espagnols. Ena's last court, Pilar of Bavaria, Don Alfonso XIII. Ena ('I thought . . .') Sencourt, Uncertain Crown.

  Chapter Thirty-one

  Rebecca West, Black Lamb, Grey Falcon. Raditch ('What is more . . .') S. Graham, Alexander of Jugoslavia. Alexander ('The Queen . . .') S. Graham, Alexander. Mignon ('I really don't . . .' and 'I shall never be . . .') Forbes, These Men. Alexander ('You are happy . . .') S. Graham, Alexander. Alexander ('It's enough . . .') Peter II, Heritage. West, Black Lamb. Visits of Rosita Forbes. These Men. Mignon ('The monastery . . .') S. Graham, Alexander. Yugoslav Ambassador ('They have killed . . .') Peter and King's death, and Alexander ('What I require . . .') Peter II, Heritage.

  Chapter Thirty-two

  Unless otherwise indicated, all quotations are from Fjellman, Louise Mountbatten, Queen of Sweden. Eulalia, Courts and Countries. Wedding ('that indescribable . . .') Margaret Lane in the Daily Mail.

  Chapter Thirty-three

  Marie ('a hardhearted . . .' and 'If the instinct . . .') Elsberry, Marie. Marie ('I know nothing . . .') Nichols, No Place like Home. Marie and Beverley Nichols, No Place. Marie and fur cape, Marie's heart ('to bring their sorrows . . .' and 'Poor Doctor . . .'and 'There it stood . . .') Ileana, I Live Again. Marie's death ('a light . . .') Buchanan, Relations. Marie ('an outstanding figure . . .') Nichols, No Place. Grand Duke ('A star danced . . .') Buchanan, Relations. Receptionist ('Where was it . . .') Michael, Haakon. Maud ('I am so glad . . .' and 'far less pretentious . . .') Eulalia, Courts and Countries. Prime Minister ('warm and generous . . .') Michael, Haakon. Contemporary ('she indulged . . .') London Times. Mignon's conversation, Alexandra, For a King's Love. Peter ('What will happen . . .') Peter II, Heritage. Aspasia ('My dear Sandra . . .') Alexandra, For a King's Love. Peter on Marie, Heritage. Alexandra ('Accusations . . .') and Peter ('We're getting out . . .') and jewellery, Alexandra, For a King's Love. Mignon ('It has meant . . .') Graphic.

  Chapter Thirty-four

  Tourist ('I'm a storekeeper . . .') Graphic. Ingrid ('Good heavens . . .') Bocca, Uneasy Heads. Ingrid ('You just can't . . .' and 'Mother can charm . . .') Dwinger, Portrait of the Queen of Denmark. Frederick ('I have never . . .') Dwinger, Portrait of the King of Denmark. All quotations on Louise from Fjellman, Louise Mountbatten.

  Epilogue

  Eulalia, Courts and Countries. 'The crown has no meaning . . .', Cunliffe-Owen, Elisabeth, Queen of the Belgians.

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