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257–258.
    5. Queen Marie, The Story of My Life , vol. 3, pp. 151–152.
    6. Dehn, The Real Tsaritsa , pp. 190–191.
    7. Paley, Memories of Russia , p. 87.
    8. Erickson, Alexandra , p. 306.
    9. Ibid., p. 310.
    10. Buxhoeveden, Alexandra Feodorovna , p. 282.
    11. Gelardi, From Splendor to Revolution , p. 327.
    12. Carter, George, Nicholas and Wilhelm , p. 410.
    13. Gilliard, Thirteen Years , p. 257.
    14. Carter, George, Nicholas and Wilhelm , p. 410.
    15. Massie, Nicholas and Alexandra , p. 495.
    16. Arthur Bigge, Baron Stamfordham, to Arthur Balfour, April 6, 1917, LG/F/3/2/19, Parliamentary Archives.
    17. Rappaport, Last Days of the Romanovs , p. 151.
    18. Edwards, Matriarch , p. 264.
    19. Massie, Nicholas and Alexandra , p. 496.
    20. Alexandra Feodorovna Romanova to Alexander Syroboiarsky, May 29, 1917, in Fall of the Romanovs , Steinberg and Khrustalëv, pp. 150–152.
    21. Tyler-Whittle, The Last Kaiser , p. 285.
    22. Carter, George, Nicholas and Wilhelm , p. 403.
    23. Edwards, Matriarch , p. 266.
    24. Hibbert, Queen Victoria , p. 382.
    25. Nicolson, King George V , p. 308.
    26. Edwards, Matriarch , p. 270.
    27. Dennison, The Last Princess , p. 277.
    28. Legge, King George and the Royal Family , vol. 1, p. 287.
    29. Prince Louis of Battenberg to Princess Louise of Battenberg, June 6, 1917, in The Last Princess , Dennison, p. 277.
    30. Royal Proclamation of King George V, July 17, 1917, in King George and the Royal Family , Legge, vol. 1, pp. 294–295.
    31. Dennison, The Last Princess , p. 277.
    32. Legge, King George and the Royal Family , vol. 1, p. 297.
    33. Duff, Queen Mary , p. 134.
    34. Queen Mary to King George V, March 27, 1918, in Matriarch , Edwards, p. 271.
     
    20: Into the Abyss
    1. Report from the Associated Press, May 25, 1917 (published June 30, 1917).
    2. Kurth, Tsar , p. 164.
    3. Ibid., p. 166.
    4. Gelardi, From Splendor to Revolution , p. 338.
    5. Coryne Hall and John Van der Kiste, Once a Grand Duchess: Xenia, Sister of Nicholas II (Phoenix Mill: Sutton Publishing, 2002), p. 121.
    6. Empress Marie Feodorovna to Nicholas Romanov, December 21, 1917, in From Splendor to Revolution , Gelardi, p. 340.
    7. Erickson, Alexandra , p. 319.
    8. Viroubova, Memories , p. 298.
    9. Erickson, Alexandra , p. 324.
    10. Botkin, Real Romanovs , p. 165.
    11. Rappaport, Last Days of the Romanovs , p. 83.
    12. Gelardi, Born to Rule , p. 268.
    13. Ibid.
    14. Brook-Shepherd, The Last Habsburg , p. 121.
    15. Ibid., p. 125.
    16. Snyder, The Red Prince , p. 99.
    17. Beech and McIntosh, Empress Zita , p. 36.
    18. Thomas, “Empress Zita,” The Catholic Counter-Reformation , p. 3.
    19. New York Times , January 15, 1918.
    20. Ashburton Guardian , July 11, 1918.
    21. Healy, Fall of the Habsburg Empire , p. 296.
    22. Diary entry of Empress Zita, April 2, 1918, Habsburg Family Archives, Cassette No. 22, File 128, in The Last Empress , Brook-Shepherd, p. 93.
    23. Bogle, A Heart for Europe , p. 91.
    24. Diary entry of Empress Zita, April 2, 1918, Habsburg Family Archives, Cassette No. 22, File 128, in The Last Empress , Brook-Shepherd, p. 93.
    25. Brook-Shepherd, The Last Habsburg , p. 144.
    26. John Toland, No Man’s Land: 1918, The Last Year of the Great War (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1980), p. 167.
    27. Brook-Shepherd, The Last Empress , p. 96.
    28. Sir Horace Rumbold to Arthur Balfour, May 9, 1918, in A Heart for Europe , Bogle, pp. 97–98.
    29. Brook-Shepherd, The Last Habsburg , p. 147.
    30. Taylor, Fall of the Dynasties , p. 358.
    31. Bogle, A Heart for Europe , p. 95.
    32. Cecil, Wilhelm II , p. 275.
    33. Diary entry of Empress Zita, April 13, 1918, Habsburg Family Archives, Cassette No. 22, File 128, in The Last Empress , Brook-Shepherd, p. 101.
    34. Ibid.
    35. Thomas, “Empress Zita,” The Catholic Counter-Reformation , p. 4.
    36. Diary entry of Empress Zita, April 14, 1918, in The Last Empress , Brook-Shepherd, pp. 102–103.
     
    21: The House of Special Purpose
    1. Snyder, The Red Prince , p. 102.
    2. Cecil, Wilhelm