Imperial Requiem: Four Royal Women and the Fall of the Age of Empires

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    58. Queen Mary to Augusta, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, December 2, 1910, in ibid .
     
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    1. Timothy Snyder, The Red Prince: Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke (London: Bodley Head, 2008), p. 73.
    2. Carter, George, Nicholas and Wilhelm , p. 82.
    3. Thomas, “Empress Zita,” The Catholic Counter-Reformation , p. 2.
    4. The term Austria-Hungary was an unofficial one. Following the formation of the dual monarchy in 1867, the formal name of the empire became the Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council and the Lands of the Holy Hungarian Crown of Saint Stephen. Like the empire itself, the name was oversized, vague, and verbose.
    5. Thomas, “Empress Zita,” The Catholic Counter-Reformation , p. 2.
    6. Snyder, The Red Prince , p. 230.
    7. John Gunther, “Habsburgs Again?” Foreign Affairs (July, 1934), vol. 12, no. 4, p. 579.
    8. Maria Theresa was Zita’s maternal aunt, the sister of her mother, Maria Antonia. She was also Charles’s step-grandmother, having married his grandfather Archduke Charles Louis in 1873.
    9. Albert von Margutti, The Emperor Francis Joseph and His Times (New York: George H. Doran, 1921), p. 153.
    10. Thomas, “Empress Zita,” The Catholic Counter-Reformation , p. 1.
    11. Brook-Shepherd, The Last Habsburg , p. 15.
    12. Bogle, A Heart for Europe , p. 29.
    13. Beech and McIntosh, Empress Zita of Austria , p. 8.
    14. Margutti, Emperor Francis Joseph , p. 153.
    15. Radziwill, Royal Marriage Market , p. 17.
    16. New York Times , January 28, 1903.
    17. Bogle, A Heart for Europe , p. 32.
    18. Duff, Queen Mary , p. 144.
    19. Bogle, A Heart for Europe , p. 33.
    20. Edwards, Matriarch , p. 213.
    21. Duff, Queen Mary , p. 145.
    22. Queen Mary to Augusta, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, June 25, 1911, in Queen Mary , Pope-Hennessy, pp. 438–439.
    23. Brook-Shepherd, The Last Habsburg , p. 21.
    24. Duff, Queen Mary , p. 146.
    25. Bogle, A Heart for Europe , p. 34.
    26. Duff, Queen Mary , p. 145.
    27. Bogle, A Heart for Europe , p. 35.
    28. Ibid., p. 36.
    29. Brook-Shepherd, The Last Empress , p. 19.
    30. New York Times , December 18, 1910.
    31. Carter, George, Nicholas and Wilhelm , p. 28.
    32. Letter of Sir Henry Ponsonby, January 27, 1873, in Queen Victoria , Hibbert, p. 407.
    33. Carter, George, Nicholas and Wilhelm , p. 43.
    34. Shawcross, Queen Elizabeth , p. 106.
    35. Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary , p. 428.
    36. Cook, Prince Eddy (Kobo desktop version), ch. 12, para. 7.
    37. Wakeford, Three Consort Queens , p. 172–173.
    38. Woodward, Queen Mary , p. 125.
    39. Edwards, Matriarch , p. 69.
    40. Anthony J. Camp, Royal Mistresses and Bastards: Fact and Fiction, 1714–1936 (Marlborough, Wiltshire: Heraldry Today, 2007), p. 9; Gelardi, Born to Rule , p. 110.
    41. Kenneth Rose, George V (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000), p. 96.
    42. John Fortescue, Narrative of the Visit to India of Their Majesties King George V. and Queen Mary and of the Coronation Durbar Held at Delhi 12th December 1911 (London: Macmillan, 1912), p. 79.
    43. Tsar Nicholas II to King George V, January 15/26, 1911, GV/PRIV/AA/43/151, the Royal Archives, quoted in George, Nicholas and Wilhelm , Carter, p. 329.
    44. Duff, Queen Mary , p. 150.
    45. Queen Mary to Augusta, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, December 6, 1911, in Matriarch , Edwards, pp. 222–223.
    46. Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary , p. 454.
    47. The calculation is based on http://www.measuringworth.com/calculators/exchange/result_exchange.php (viewed on April 14, 2011).
    48. Diary entry of King George V, December 12, 1911, in Queen Mary , Pope-Hennessy, p. 447.
    49. Times , December 13, 1911.
    50. Queen Mary to Augusta, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, December 13, 1911, in Queen Mary , Pope-Hennessy, p. 445.
    51. Diary entry of King George V, December 14, 1911, GV/PRIV/GVD/AA 37/36, King George V Papers, the Royal Archives, quoted in ibid., p. 457.
    52. Clay, King, Kaiser, Tsar , p.

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