Germany -- Court and courtiers; William II, German Emperor, 1859-1941
Trafalgar, 209
“Treasure Island,” 27
Tree, Beerbohm, 65
Tree, Viola, 65
Trippers, fifty thousand, 85
_Truchsess_, 152
Turkey, Sultan of, 157
_Turn Saal_, 61
Tutors, 119
Twins, 14
Unken, 177
Unter den Linden, 87
Victoria Louise, Princess, of Prussia, 1;
art and Herr von László, 211;
birthday party, 120;
confirmation, 230, 232;
cookery, 129;
dancing-mistress, 97;
donkeys, 58;
letters to her father, 62;
piano-playing, 63;
pig, 52;
ponies given by the Sultan, 14;
riding, 47;
toast for “Papa,” 197;
sack races, 120
Victoria Memorial, Queen, 234
Vistula, 175
Waiting-maids, patriotic, 235
Weddings, royal, 144
_Weisser-Saal_, 93, 97, 152
Werder, 99
Whitsuntide at the Prussian Court, 135
Wildpark, 47
William I., German Emperor, 168, 170
William II., German Emperor: afternoon siesta, 217;
_al fresco_ meals, 170, 171;
anecdotal moods, 84, 225;
anniversary of accession, 92;
birthday, 93;
Cadinen, 174;
carol-singing, 80;
censorship of architectural plans, 211;
chicken-pox, 222;
children’s guard of honour, 214;
conducting the band, 62;
dancing at court, 97;
diamond cigarette-case, 168;
duties of women, views on, 230;
evenings at home, 218;
excursions on river-steamer at Potsdam, 169;
family life, 13;
fancy-dress ball at Kiel, 160;
farming operations, 52;
hiding Easter eggs, 100;
horror of alcohol, 25;
hunt dinner, 172;
hunt uniform, 192;
hymn-singing, 161;
inspection of troops for South-West Africa, 48;
interest in aviation, 139, 141;
in human nature, 104, 135;
László, 211;
musical tastes, 63;
moose hunt, 199;
New Year cards, 86;
Norwegian hunting-lodge, 193;
picnics, 21, 166;
_Punch_, 218;
rebuilding the Saalburg, 23;
review at Metz, 114;
on Bornstedter Feld, 48;
rides in Wilhelmshöhe, 165;
safety-staircases for opera-house, 66;
silver wedding, 155, 213;
suffragettes, 229;
talk with soldiers, 135;
tea and Zwieback, 21;
tennis, 166;
tile-factory, 185;
umbrella of the admiral, 225;
visit to Highcliffe, 83, 207;
visit to Königsberg, 201;
_Waidmann’s Heil_, 198, 211;
Windsor, 161, 234;
women and votes, 229;
women-colonels, 230, 233
Witte, Count, 196
Woolwich Common, 85
Wright, Orville, 138
Zeppelin, Count, 141, 235
_Zigelei_, 185
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