Chapter I: Front Matter

Photograph by Henrie Manuel, Paris]

COURT LIFE
FROM WITHIN

BY

H. R. H.
THE INFANTA EULALIA
OF SPAIN

“The time has come,” the Walrus said,
“To talk of many things,
“Of shoes and ships and sealing-wax,
“Of cabbages and kings.”

ILLUSTRATED

NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
1915

COPYRIGHT, 1913, 1914
BY THE BUTTERICK PUBLISHING CO.

COPYRIGHT, 1914
BY THE CENTURY CO.

COPYRIGHT, 1915
BY DODD, MEAD & COMPANY

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I THE SEEDS OF REVOLT 1

II IRKSOME DUTIES OF A PRINCESS 22

III PULLING THE STRINGS OF SOVEREIGNTY 43

IV LOVE AND ENNUI 63

V MY MARRIAGE--IN MOURNING 85

VI ENGLAND AND THE ENGLISH 106

VII THE KAISER AND HIS COURT 134

VIII THE TSAR AND HIS PEOPLE 157

IX THE REGAL POSE 181

X THE SCANDINAVIAN DEMOCRACIES 190

XI THE COURTS OF ITALY 213

XII ADVENTURES IN AMERICA 222

XIII AFTER THE WAR 242

ILLUSTRATIONS

H. R. H. The Infanta Eulalia of Spain _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

The King’s Study in Escurial 26

Gardens of the Alcazar, Seville 38

Royal Palace, Madrid 50

The Infanta Eulalia 72

Alfonso XIII of Spain 96

Dowager Queen Alexandra of England, Queen Maud of Norway and Prince Olaf, Crown Prince of Norway 108

King George V, the Late King Edward VII and the Prince of Wales 120

Infanta Eulalia on Horseback 138

German Emperor in Austrian Uniform 148

Nicholas II and the Heir of Russia 164

King Albert of Belgium 186

King Haakon of Norway 198

Infanta Eulalia at Window of Her Apartments 218