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Indictment (London: George Newnes, n.d.), p. 9.
    57. Diary entry of May 6, 1881, in Gone Astray , Wilhelm II, p. 94.
    58. Nine months after the wedding, Frederick Ferdinand succeeded his father and became the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg. He inherited the title Duke of Schleswig-Holstein in 1931 when the Augustenburg line became extinct.
    59. Gelardi, In Triumph’s Wake , p. 300.
    60. Dennison, The Last Princess , p. 160.
    61. Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary , pp. 52–53.
    62. Sarah Bradford, King George VI (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989), p. 20.
    63. The calculation is based upon http://www.measuringworth.com/calculators/exchange/result_exchange.php (viewed on April 14, 2011).
    64. Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary , p. 97.
    65. Letter of Mary Adelaide, Duchess of Teck, June 6, 1883, in Her Royal Highness Princess Mary Adelaide , Cook, p. 125.
    66. Woodward, Queen Mary , p. 74.
    67. Duff, Queen Mary , p. 47.
    68. Ibid., pp. 47–49.
    69. Woodward, Queen Mary , p. 76.
    70. Gelardi, Born to Rule , p. 17.
    71. Packard, Victoria’s Daughters , p. 224.
    72. Queen Victoria to Princess Victoria of Battenberg, June 27, 1884, in Advice to a Grand-daughter , Hough, p. 67.
    73. Hibbert, Queen Victoria , p. 409.
    74. Gelardi, From Splendor to Revolution , p. 107.
    75. Kurth, Tsar , p. 28.
    76. Tor Bomman-Larsen, Kongstanken: Haakon & Maud—I (Oslo: J. W. Cappelen, 2002), p. 119.
    77. Clay, King, Kaiser, Tsar , p. 102.
     
    3: Ninety-Nine Days
    1. Duff, Queen Mary , p. 52.
    2. Diary entry of Princess May of Teck, May 25, 1885, in ibid., p. 58.
    3. Cook, Her Royal Highness Princess Mary Adelaide , vol. 2, p. 165.
    4. Hibbert, Queen Victoria , p. 428.
    5. Ibid.
    6. Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary , p. 151.
    7. Princess May of Teck to Emily Alcock, July 25, 1887, in ibid.
    8. E. J. Feuchtwanger, Albert and Victoria: The Rise and Fall of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (London: Hambledon Continuum, 2006), p. 202.
    9. Hibbert, Queen Victoria , p. 430.
    10. Ibid.
    11. Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, Memoirs of the Crown Prince of Germany (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1922), p. 34.
    12. Hibbert, Queen Victoria , p. 430.
    13. Cook, Her Royal Highness Princess Mary Adelaide , vol. 2, p. 177.
    14. Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary , p. 190.
    15. Mary Adelaide, Duchess of Teck, to the Marchioness of Salisbury, April 18, 1889, in Her Royal Highness , Cook, p. 189.
    16. Hibbert, Queen Victoria , p. 543.
    17. Gelardi, In Triumph’s Wake , p. 332.
    18. Carter, George, Nicholas and Wilhelm , p. 130.
    19. Ibid., p. 21.
    20. Tyler-Whittle, The Last Kaiser , p. 76.
    21. Ibid., p. 78.
    22. Bennett, Vicky , p. 215.
    23. Röhl, Young Wilhelm , p. 362.
    24. Pakula, An Uncommon Woman , p. 536.
    25. Röhl, Young Wilhelm , p. 315.
    26. Crown Princess Victoria of Germany to Queen Victoria, May 25, 1886, in Letters of Empress Frederick , Ponsonby, p. 231.
    27. Eppinghoven, Private Lives , vol. 2, p. 311.
    28. Catherine Radziwill, The Royal Marriage Market of Europe (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1915), p. 32.
    29. Hervier, The Two Williams , p. 112.
    30. Christopher Clark, Kaiser Wilhelm II: A Life in Power (London: Penguin Books, 2009), p. 31.
    31. Diary entry of March 9, 1888, in Gone Astray , Wilhelm II, pp. 146–147.
    32. Empress Victoria of Germany to Queen Victoria, March 9, 1888, in Letters of Empress Frederick , Ponsonby, p. 287.
    33. Charles Lowe, The German Emperor William II (London: Bliss, Sands, & Foster, 1895), p. 59.
    34. Ibid., p. 60.
    35. Gelardi, In Triumph’s Wake , p. 310.
    36. Empress Victoria of Germany to Queen Victoria, March 16, 1888, in George, Nicholas and Wilhelm , Carter, p. 75.
    37. Hibbert, Queen Victoria , p. 436.
    38. Diary entry of Queen Victoria, April 26, 1888, in ibid., p. 437.
    39. Ibid.
    40. Gelardi, In Triumph’s Wake , p. 315.
    41. Ibid., p. 316.
    42. Queen Victoria to Princess Victoria of Battenberg, July 4, 1888, in Advice to a Grand-daughter , Hough, p. 95.
    43. Clark, Kaiser Wilhelm II (Kobo desktop version),