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Queen Victoria to Princess Victoria of Hesse (London: Heinemann, 1975), ed. Richard Hough, p. 9.
    15. Gelardi, Born to Rule, p. 8.
    16. Mary Adelaide, Duchess of Teck, to the Dowager Countess of Aylesford, January 17, 1879, in Her Royal Highness , Cook, vol. 2, p. 105.
    17. Princess Beatrice to Mary Adelaide, Duchess of Teck, January 22, 1879, in The Last Princess , Dennison, p. 120.
    18. Mary Adelaide, Duchess of Teck, to Lady Elizabeth Biddulph, February 25, 1879, in ibid., p. 107.
    19. Buxhoeveden, Alexandra Feodorovna , pp. 8, 12.
    20. Carolly Erickson, Alexandra: The Last Tsarina (New York: Saint Martin’s Press, 2001), p. 18.
    21. Buxhoeveden, Alexander Feodorovna , p. 111.
    22. Packard, Victoria’s Daughters , p. 286.
    23. Peter Kurth, Tsar: The Lost World of Nicholas and Alexandra (Toronto: Madison Press Books, 1998), p. 28.
    24. Buxhoeveden, Alexandra Feodorovna , p. 110.
    25. Gelardi, Born to Rule , p. 13.
    26. Marie Bothmer, Sovereign Ladies of Europe (London: Kessinger, 2005), p. 198
    27. Marguerite Cunliffe-Owen, Imperator et Rex: William II. of Germany (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1904), p. 52.
    28. Axel von Schwering, The Berlin Court Under William II (London: Cassell, 1915), p. 57.
    29. Bothmer, Sovereign Ladies , p. 199.
    30. Ibid.
    31. Hibbert, Queen Victoria , p. 443.
    32. Urusula von Eppinghoven, Private Lives of the Kaiser and Kaiserin of Germany: Secret History of the Court of Berlin (New York: Henry W. Fischer, 1909) , vol. 1, pp. 180–181.
    33. Crown Princess Victoria of Germany to Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, May 7, 1878, in Young Wilhelm: The Kaiser’s Early Life, 1859–1888 , trans. Jeremy Gaines & Rebecca Wallach (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998), John C. G. Röhl, p. 330.
    34. Cunliffe-Owen, Imperator et Rex , pp. 53–54.
    35. Prince Wilhelm of Prussia to Frederick VIII, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, undated, 1879, in Young Wilhelm , Röhl, p. 337.
    36. Röhl, Young Wilhelm , p. 349.
    37. Karl Shaw, Royal Babylon: The Alarming History of European Royalty (Kobo desktop version, 2011: retrieved from http://www.kobobooks.com ), chap. 5, para 42.
    38. Diary entry of June 1, 1880, in Gone Astray: Some Leaves From An Emperor’s Diary (New York: John Lane, 1918), Wilhelm II, German Emperor and King of Prussia, pp. 92–93.
    39. Empress Augusta of Germany to Princess Augusta Victoria, February 20, 1880, Parcel No. 14, Hohenlohe Letters, Langenburg Hausarchiv.
    40. Lance Salway, Queen Victoria’s Grandchildren (London: Collins & Brown, 1991), p. 13.
    41. Georg Hinzpeter to Princess Augusta Victoria, February 7, 1882, Rep. 53A, Brandenburg-Preussischen Hausarchiv, Berliner Hauptarchiv.
    42. Princess Augusta Victoria to Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, September 23, 1880, in Young Wilhelm , Röhl, pp. 360–361.
    43. Princess Augusta Victoria to Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, undated, 1880, in ibid., p. 361.
    44. Princess Augusta Victoria to Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, undated, January 1881, in ibid.
    45. Thomas August Kohut, Wilhelm II and the Germans: A Study in Leadership (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), p. 63.
    46. New York Times , February 26, 1881.
    47. Bothmer, Sovereign Ladies , p. 204.
    48. Crown Princess Victoria of Germany to Queen Victoria, February 27, 1881, in The Letters of Empress Frederick (London: Macmillan, 1928), ed. Sir Frederick Ponsonby, p. 214.
    49. Diary entry of February 27, 1881, in Gone Astray , Wilhelm II, p. 94.
    50. Crown Princess Victoria of Germany to Queen Victoria, March 21, 1880, in The Letters of Empress Frederick, Ponsonby, p. 210.
    51. Gelardi, In Triumph’s Wake , p. 295.
    52. Carter, George, Nicholas and Wilhelm , p. 9n.
    53. Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen to Dr. Ernst Schweninger, undated, 1903, in Young Wilhelm , Röhl, p. 109.
    54. Röhl, Young Wilhelm , p. 354.
    55. Paul-Louis Hervier, The Two Williams: Studies of the Kaiser and the Crown Prince (London: Eveleigh Nash, 1916), p. 111.
    56. Anonymous, The Real Crown Prince: A Record and An