Identifier: memoriesofkaiser00toph (find matches)
Title: Memories of the Kaiser's court
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Topham, Anne, 1864-1927
Subjects: William II, German Emperor, 1859-1941 Germany -- Court and courtiers
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead and Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ly possible answer I couldfind. Oh yes! You will receive her with openarms, no doubt, he laughed, but looked as thoughhe were not quite sure of the matter. But when his daughter the following yearaccompanied her parents to England for the un-veiling of the Queen Victoria Memorial, althoughshe did not arrive at the head of her regiment, shenevertheless managed to subjugate and be sub-jugated by that portion of England which camewithin her sphere of influence. Her impressions of her week in London, a cityshe had expected to find wrapt in impenetrablefog, but which remained, with the exception of afew showers, bathed in sunshine all the time ofher visit, were joyous in the extreme. The soldiers, especially the Highlanders walkingwith that peculiarly characteristic, proud, delightfulswagger, the rhythmic swing of their kilts, theskirl of their bagpipes, thrilled her with delight. Your soldiers are wonderful, she said; Inever thought they were like that. Every privatewalks like an officer.
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THE EMTERORS DAUGHTER, TAKEN ON THE DAY WHEN SHE WASMADE COLONEL OF THE DEATHS HEAD HUSSARS CONCLUSION 299 She thought the Military Tournament themost delightful entertainment she had ever seen,and was intensely amused at Arthurs Arabs,the soldiers of the regiment of Prince Arthur ofConnaught, who, disguised in burnous and appro-priate head-gear and jabbering a jargon of theirown invention, interspersed with weird shrieksand gestures, imposed themselves on a portionof the unsuspecting British public as the realarticle from somewhere in the neighbourhoodof Algiers, and accomplished their tent-peggingto the accompaniment of blood-curdling and ear-piercing yells. When the Emperor and Empress went withthe King and Queen to spend the afternoon atWindsor Castle, King George sent all the Germanservants and footmen, under the guidance of someof his own English servants, to see this sameMilitary Tournament, at which they were muchdelighted—for, as a rule, it is very difficult forpeople in at

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