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(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), p. 296.
    18. Thomas, “Empress Zita,” The Catholic Counter-Reformation , pp. 2–3.
    19. Taylor, Fall of the Dynasties , p. 355.
    20. Okey, The Habsburg Monarchy , p. 384.
    21. Brook-Shepherd, The Last Habsburg , pp. 51–52.
    22. Catherine Karolyi, A Life Together (London: Allen & Unwin, 1966), pp. 168–169.
    23. Brook-Shepherd, Uncrowned Emperor , pp. 28–29.
    24. Brook-Shepherd, The Last Empress , p. 56.
    25. Brook-Shepherd, The Last Habsburg , p. 55.
    26. Brook-Shepherd, Uncrowned Emperor , p. 32.
    27. Queen Mary to Lady Charlotte Mount Stephen, November 10, 1916, in Queen Mary , Pope-Hennessy, p. 504.
    28. John Fraser, The Secret of the Crown: Canada’s Affair with Royalty (Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 2012), p. 48.
    29. Wakeford, Three Consort Queens , p. 178.
    30. Ibid.
    31. Gelardi, Born to Rule , p. 132.
    32. King George V to Tsar Nicholas II, January 7, 1916, in George, Nicholas and Wilhelm , Carter, p. 393.
    33. Wakeford, Three Consort Queens , p. 151.
    34. Diary entry of Queen Mary, December 6, 1916, in Queen Mary , Pope-Hennessy, p. 503.
    35. Wakeford, Three Consort Queens , p. 151.
     
     
     
    18: Imperial Endgame
    1. Hall, Little Mother of Russia , p. 279.
    2. Grand Duke Alexander, Once a Grand Duke , pp. 283–284.
    3. Pares, My Russian Memoirs , p. 361.
    4. Carter, George, Nicholas and Wilhelm , p. 397.
    5. Diary entry of January 17/30, 1917, in The Story of My Life , Queen Marie, vol. 3, p. 129.
    6. Rappaport, Last Days of the Romanovs , p. 67.
    7. Tsarina Alexandra to Tsar Nicholas II, March 2, 1917, in The Fall of the Romanovs: Political Dreams and Personal Struggles in a Time of Revolution (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995), eds. Mark D. Steinberg and Vladimir M. Khrustalëv, pp. 93–95.
    8. Abdication of Tsar Nicholas II, March 3, 1917, in From Splendor to Revolution , Gelardi, p. 322.
    9. Gelardi, Born to Rule , p. 257.
    10. Bogle, A Heart for Europe , p. 95.
    11. Diary entry of King George V, March 13, 1917, GV/PRIV/GVD, King George V Papers, the Royal Archives, quoted in George, Nicholas and Wilhelm , Carter, p. 399.
    12. Kurth, Tsar , p. 8.
    13. Carter, George, Nicholas and Wilhelm , p. 385.
    14. Brook-Shepherd, The Last Habsburg , p. 77.
    15. Snyder, The Red Prince , p. 87.
    16. Brook-Shepherd, The Last Empress , p. 66.
    17. Memorandum of W. Gugoy, June 3, 1917, FO 371-3134, London Public Records Office.
    18. Memorandum of Philippe Pétain to Paul Painlevé, August 4, 1917, in “Empress Zita,” The Catholic Counter-Reformation , Thomas, p. 3.
    19. Bogle, A Heart for Europe , p. 80.
    20. Brook-Shepherd, The Last Habsburg , pp. 67–68. The Habsburgs’ ties to Lorraine stretched back two hundred years to when Maria Theresa, the heiress to the Austrian throne, married Francis Stephen, Duke of Lorraine. The title had been passed down to Austrian emperors ever since. Since that time, the official name of the Austrian imperial family has been Habsburg-Lorraine.
    21. Emperor Charles I to Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma, March 24, 1917, in The Fall of Eagles (New York: Crown Publishers, 1977), C. L. Sulzberger, pp. 337–341.
    22. Brook-Shepherd, The Last Habsburg , p. 74.
    23. Bogle, A Heart for Europe , p. 82.
    24. Brook-Shepherd, The Last Habsburg , pp. 74–75.
    25. Ibid., pp. 85–86.
    26. Bogle, A Heart for Europe , pp. 89–90.
    27. Ibid, p. iii.
     
    19: Hated, Humbled, Rejected
    1. Tsar Nicholas II, March 3, 1917, State Archive of the Russian Federation 601/2100, in Michael and Natasha: The Life and Love of the Last Tsar of Russia (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997), Donald and Rosemary Crawford, p. 288.
    2. Gelardi, From Splendor to Revolution , p. 325. The original quote, translated by the author, was written in French: “ le pauvre … tout seul là bas … oh, mon Dieu, par quoi il passé! Et je ne puis pas être près de lui pour consoler .”
    3. Buxhoeveden, Alexandra Feodorovna , p. 262.
    4. Gelardi, Born to Rule , pp.