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._