Sophia, Archduchess, mother of Francis Joseph, 22, 29; her letter to Metternich on his resignation, 44; her concern in securing the throne for her son on his uncle’s abdication, 22, 47, 48; the names of murdered Hungarians shouted at her in the streets, 59; her strange declaration during her confinement with Francis Joseph, 64; arranges for her son’s marriage, 71-73; her disappointment, 76; her jealousy of the Empress, 86; she is charged with throwing a mistress at the head of her son, and a lover to the Empress, 89; had the care of Archduchess Gisela when a child, 101; objects to the Empress’s training of the Crown Prince, 116; sides with Maximilian over the _pacte de famile_, 168, 169; her warning to Maximilian, 177 Starnberg, Lake of, 162, 190 Starztay, Countess, 261, 269 Steed, H. W., _The Habsburg Monarchy_, v. Stéphanie, Princess of Belgium, wife of the Crown Prince Rudolf, 196-200, 203, 208-210; her marriage to Count Lonyay, 293-297 Stockau, Count George, 201, 214, 215 Stübel, Fräulein Milly, 107, 240-243, 247, 253 Taaffe, Count von, 43 Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, _The Lord of Burleigh_, 88 Thurn and Taxis, Prince of, 75 Princess of, _see_ Helen, Princess of Bavaria Tichborne, Sir Roger, 257 _Times, The_, confirms the reports of Austrian cruelty in Hungary, 55; prints Rothschild’s letter on the Haynau affair at Barclay’s, 61; and rebukes the draymen, 62 Tisza, M., 230 Toselli, Signor, 27, 232, 239, 241, 315, 331, 336-340 Trani, Ludwig Count de, 162, 192 Trani, Matilda, Countess de, 108, 162 Trentino, The, 150, 151, 344 Trieste, 101, 116, 180, 236, 255 Triple Alliance, The, 149-151, 155, 156 Turkey, Sultan of, 57 Turr, General, 150 Tyrol, 51 United States, President of, _see_ Johnson, Andrew Valérie, Archduchess, daughter of Francis Joseph, 101, 102, 107 Valois, Charles de, 20 Valparaiso, 253, 255 Vaughan, Baroness, 196 Venetia, 125, 130, 133, 134, 151, 165 Venice, 127, 146, 165 Ventnor, 119 Vetsera, Baroness, 201-203, 211, 229 Vetsera, Ferenz, 220 Vetsera, Laszlo, 220 Vetsera, Louis, 220