Every effort was made in the first edition to render this biography as complete as possible. I have now in the light of subsequent knowledge revised the text. I find little to add and little to take away. My additions are chiefly in matters of detail, and will be found in notes scattered throughout the volume. These notes for the most part either go to prove further the genuineness of the letters, or to quote fuller authorities for the text—to specify more clearly what is founded on first-hand historical evidence, and what is derived from less trustworthy sources. In this I should like to acknowledge the help I have derived from my critics, more especially from the writer of the review of my book in the _Edinburgh Review_,[3] and the essay by Dr. Robert Geerds, the eminent German critic and historian in the _Allgemeine Zeitung_.[4] ----- Footnote 3: _The Love of an Uncrowned Queen_, _Edinburgh Review_, January, 1901, No. 395, pp. 56-86. Footnote 4: “The Letters of the Duchess of Ahlden and Count Philip Christopher von Königsmarck,” by Dr. Robert Geerds (Supplement to the _Allgemeine Zeitung_, 1902, No. 77). ----- The writer in the _Edinburgh Review_, an expert who has himself examined the contested letters at Lund, and the admittedly genuine ones at Hanover, and compared them, says in contravention of a doubt cast on their genuineness:— “Allowing for the interval of time and for the difference of circumstances under which the [Princess’s] love-letters to Königsmarck and her formal letters to the Electress were respectively written, we have no hesitation in saying that it is impossible, after placing the handwritings side by side, to assert that there is no resemblance between them. We have also had an opportunity of comparing a photograph of Königsmarck’s abbreviated signature with photographs of genuine signatures of his preserved at Lund and at Hanover respectively, and no doubt whatever is left in our mind as to the genuineness of the (abbreviated) signature in the impugned correspondence.” And again:— “After much careful consideration we feel bound to express our belief that the probability of these letters having been written by Sophie Dorothea and Königsmarck is a very strong one indeed”.... Dr. Robert Geerds, who has examined and compared the letters at Lund with those at Berlin as well as Hanover, says:— “The writing of some of the Lund letters ... corresponds so noticeably with the Hanoverian writing that it is impossible to doubt they were written by Sophie Dorothea”. And again, after reference to my discoveries of the undesigned coincidences between incidents mentioned in the letters and in Colt’s despatches:— “No unprejudiced person can any longer doubt that in this correspondence, which has been called into question, we have the true and genuine love-letters of the unfortunate pair whose tragic fate has met with such universal sympathy”.[5] ----- Footnote 5: