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Title: Their majesties as I knew them; personal reminiscences of the kings and queens of Europe
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Paoli, Xavier, 1835- Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander, 1865-1921
Subjects: Europe -- Kings and rulers
Publisher: New York, Sturgis (and) Walton
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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theDutch protocol) Elizabeth van Ittersum and AnnaJuckema van Burmania Rengers; a reader: MissKreusler; five waiting-women; and five footmen.Compared w4th the tiny courts that usually accom-panied other sovereigns when travelling, this madea somewhat imposing display! Nevertheless andnotwithstanding the fact that this sixteen-year-oldQueen appeared to me decked with the glory of afairy princess, I am bound to admit that the royalcircle presented none of the venerable austerityand superannuated grace so quaintly conjured upin Perraults Tales. The Jonkheers ^ were notold lords equipped with shirt frills and snuff-boxes;Mesdemoiselles les baronnes were not severeduennas encased in stiff silk gowns: the court wasyoung and gay, with that serene and healthy gaietywhich characterises the Dutch temperament. Why was it going to Aix? The choice of thisstay puzzled me. Aix-les-Bains is hardly ever 1 Jonkheer is a Dutch hereditary title of nobility, ranking belowthat of baron.—Translators Note.
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QUEEN WILHELMINA QUEEN WILHELMINA 233 visited in November. The principal hotels areclosed, for, in that mountainous region, winter setsin with full severity immediately after the end ofautumn. I put the question to General Du Monceau, whoexplained to me that the doctors had recommendedQueen Wilhelmina to take a three-weeks cure ofpure, keen air; and that was why they had selectedAix, or rather the Corbieres, a spot situated at2,000 feet above Aix, on the slope of the GrandRevard. It goes without saying that there was no hotelthere; and the only villa in the neighbourhood hadto be hired for the Queens use. This was a largewooden chalet, standing at the skirt of a pine-forest, close to the hamlet. The wintry windwhistled under the doors and howled down thechimneys; there was no central heating-apparatusand huge fires were lit in every room. From thewindows of this rustic dwelhng, the eye took inthe amphitheatre of the mountains of Savoy andtheir deep and beautiful valleys; and, above th

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