The chequered career of the Infanta from her earliest childhood--a career almost without precedent in the annals of Royal houses--has given her the wide purviews, the all-embracing, generous sympathy with human joys, woes and strivings, which can be the attributes only of one who, by nature broad-minded, has had the opportunity and the discernment to form her own opinions on the great problems of life. The Royal infant, hurried from a country in revolution; the little Paris schoolgirl in the care of the nuns of the Convent of the Sacred Heart; the young princess receiving her rightful homage at her brother’s Court; her visit to the United States, with all that it taught her; the failure of her married life; her unassuming later years in France, and her frequent visits to her English friends--all these varied experiences contributed to the making of a character some interesting details of which were given by a Paris correspondent to the _Daily Telegraph_ on the occasion of the King of Spain’s sensational action regarding “The Thread of Life.” He wrote as follows:-- “The Infanta Eulalia, of whom I have often heard a good deal through the Cuban and Spanish colonies here, is herself one of the most remarkable examples of the simple life. And many unjust and untrue things have been said of her on that very account. The princess, on the contrary, while being most simple and unaffected in her ways, is a generous, highly intellectual and resolute personality. She read to me the chapter on the cultivation of the will and one’s own personal individuality, and interrupted to tell me: “‘I shall conquer. I believe that the most necessary thing in life is to have a personal, properly developed will of one’s own. I have always been resolute myself. I have all my life done my own will when I thought it was proper. I reflected well beforehand, and then no one could stop me; and I always conquered, and I shall conquer again.’ “This last was said with a certain amount of defiance. ‘Anyway,’ she said, ‘I am quite prepared for anything they may now do. I know that there has always been an antipathy between me and the Court life. I hate Court life, anyway, because it is so absurd in many of its stiff formalities. It puts a barrier between you and persons of the intellectual world.