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education in, 199 free unions in, 198 Queen Maud of, 190, 193 the King of, 180, 192, 193 Norway and Sweden, union of, repealed, 192, 200, 205 Olaf, Prince of Norway, 193, 196, 197 _Ordensfest_, the, 138, 139, 140 Orléans, Antoine d’, 68 _et seq._, 74, 99 Orleans family in France, 104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