Free Imperial Requiem: Four Royal Women and the Fall of the Age of Empires by Justin C. Vovk

in “Empress Auguste Victoria and the Fall of the German Monarchy” in The American Historical Review (October 1952), Andreas Dorpalen, vol. 58, no. 1, p. 22.
    2. Ibid .
    3. Radziwill, Royal Marriage Market , p. 32.
    4. German Crown Prince, Memoirs , p. 5.
    5. Fontenoy, Secret Memoirs , vol. 1, p. 191.
    6. Shaw, Royal Babylon (Kobo desktop version), chap. 5, para 47.
    7. Zedlitz-Trützschler, Twelve Years , p. 67.
    8. Erickson, Alexandra , p. 245.
    9. Times , March 11, 1916.
    10. Woodward, Queen Mary , p. 175.
    11. Edmund Walsh, The Fall of the Russian Empire (Boston: Little, Brown, 1928), p. 117.
    12. King, Last Empress , p. 245.
    13. Kokovstov, Out of My Past , p. 296.
    14. Queen Alexandra to King George V, undated, GV/PRIV/AA35/6, King George V Papers, the Royal Archives, quoted in George, Nicholas and Wilhelm , Carter, p. 391.
    15. Times , October 13, 1914.
    16. Clark, Kaiser Wilhelm II , (Kobo desktop version), chap. 1, para. 41. In his book, Clark specifically used these examples in his analysis of Emperor Wilhelm II. While Clark uses them in a specific context, they are apt in a broader sense. Like Wilhelm, there was very much a sociocultural pattern in the way Alexandra and many other royals have been evaluated.
    17. Wilson and King, Resurrection of the Romanovs , p. 47.
    18. Gelardi, From Splendor to Revolution , p. 293.
    19. Grand Duke Alexander, Once a Grand Duke , p. 271.
    20. Gelardi, Born to Rule , p. 239.
    21. Ibid., pp. 241–242.
    22. Ibid., p. 244.
    23. Gelardi, From Splendor to Revolution , p. 296.
    24. Hugo Mager, Elizabeth, Grand Duchess of Russia (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1998), pp. 302–303.
    25. Felix Yusupov, Lost Splendour (London: Cape, 1953), p. 157.
    26. Gelardi, From Splendor to Revolution , p. 310.
    27. Grand Duchess Marie, Education of a Princess , pp. 248–249. This was not the same Marie Pavlovna (“Miechen”) who was Nicholas II’s aunt and a princess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. This grand duchess was one of the tsar’s cousins.
    28. Gelardi, Born to Rule , p. 250.
    29. Shaw, Royal Babylon (Kobo desktop version), chap. 5, para 141.
    30. Gelardi, From Splendor to Revolution , pp. 313–314.
    31. Grand Duchess Marie, Education of a Princess , p. 250.
    32. Gleb Botkin, The Real Romanovs (New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1931), pp. 127–128.
    33. Gelardi, From Splendor to Revolution , p. 315.
    34. Ibid., p. 317.
    35. Princess Paley, Memories of Russia, 1916–1919 (London: Herbert Jenkins, 1924), p. 38.
    36. Grand Duke Alexander, Once a Grand Duke , p. 275.
    37. Gilliard, Thirteen Years at the Russian Court, p. 183.
    38. Carter, George, Nicholas and Wilhelm , p. 395.
    39. Massie, Nicholas and Alexandra , pp. 402–403.
     
     
    17: “May God Bless Your Majesty”
    1. Robin Okey, The Habsburg Monarchy 1765–1918: From Enlightenment to Eclipse (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002), p. 381.
    2. Bogle, A Heart for Europe , p. 73.
    3. Ibid., p. 60.
    4. Ibid., p. 63.
    5. Leslie Carroll, Notorious Royal Marriages: A Juicy Journey Through Nine Centuries of Dynasty, Destiny, and Desire (London: Penguin Books, 2010), p. 370.
    6. Brook-Shepherd, The Last Empress , p. 41.
    7. Beech and McIntosh, Empress Zita of Austria, p. 41.
    8. The Kingdom of Slavonia was a province of the Habsburg monarchy and, later, the Austrian Empire. Its borders were spread across parts of northern Croatia and Serbia. Slavonia should not be confused with the modern day nation of Slovenia.
    9. Harding, Imperial Twilight , p. 64.
    10. Viktoria Luise, The Kaiser’s Daughter , pp. 89–90.
    11. Gordon Brook-Shepherd, Uncrowned Emperor: The Life and Times of Otto von Habsburg (London: Hambledon & London, 2003), p. 27.
    12. Taylor, Fall of the Dynasties , p. 353.
    13. Times , November 23, 1916.
    14. Ibid.
    15. New York Times , November 24, 1916.
    16. Thomas, “Empress Zita,” The Catholic Counter-Reformation , p. 2–3.
    17. Maureen Healy, Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire: Total War and Everyday Life in World War I