Meanwhile let British children remember that their forefathers were loyal even to kings not of the best—"at least, as far as they were able"—and that we have in our time been blessed with the best Queen who ever lived. So, as the old song says: _Here's a health unto his Majesty! And he who will not drink his health, We wish him neither wit nor wealth, But only a rope to hang himself!_ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _CONTENTS_ PAGE _Napoleon_ 1 _His Majesty the King of Rome_ 28 _The Princess Jeanne_ 56 _Hacon the King_ 79 _Mi Reina! Mi Reina!_ 99 _Henriette the Siege Baby_ 129 _The Red Rose_ 157 _The White Rose_ 172 _Richard the Fearless_ 198 _Frederick and Wilhelmine_ 214 _Une Reine Malheureuse_ 249 _The 'Little Queen'_ 275 _Two Little Girls and their Mother_ 311 _The Troubles of the Princess Elizabeth_ 328 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS_ _COLOURED PLATES_ (_Engraved by Messrs. André & Sleigh, Ltd., Bushey_) _Camilla tells her Tale_ (_p._ 4.) _Frontispiece_ _The Oubliettes_ _to face p._ 58 _Inga trusts the Baby to Erlend_ " 80 _Marie Louise makes her Petition to the King_ " 104 _The Red Rose for Lancaster, the White Rose for York_ " 158 _'You are the first King who has entered Sanctuary'_ " 176 _William Longsword is proud of his Son Richard_ " 200 _Isabel 'in the dark evenings'_ " 276 _FULL-PAGE PLATES_