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The Private Life of the Kaiser
FROM THE PAPERS AND DIARIES OF
THE BARONESS VON LARISCH-REDDERN
The Kulser and Knlaerln'a Late Major Domo, Chief of the Royal
Houaehold at Berlin and Potadam.
Boroneaa Ton Lartfirh-Rrddera I the TRIE name of the Berlin
Court Lady who save the atory of the Kalaer to Henry William
Fliher, triula, Counteaa Ton Fpplnshoven being a aom de ffuerre,
heretofore uaed to ahleld her.
Thompson Feature Service, 1919, Copyright
[t'ontlhuccl from Yesterday.]
Blackguarding of Mother Permitted
As mentioned in another place, the
German was permitted to designate
Frederick, William IV an ass,—not a
"confounded ass" or a "mousc-col-
Dred ass,j merely an ass, no more,
no less,—phut with respect to black
guarding: the dowager, there was no
limit whatever. She was a "trai
tress," of course, and "hands over
German state secrets to her mother
every morning for breakfast." "Alll
the English and American nevvsp.i- 1
pers that make fun of the Kaiser aro 1
in her T&V —certainly. "She trios j
to establish the London Sabbath in,
Berlin," i> "writes letters to Queen'
Louise Denmark" and "conspires'
with her brother." the Prince of ■
Wales.
Kalscirr Filthy in Money Matters j
And now let us get to (lie bottom |
of the enmity between mother and:
son and between mother-in-law and!
daughter-in-law.
Just ode month after the reign of |
ninety-nlpe days had begun, Km-j
press Frederick drove from Charlol-!
tenburg to the Berlin Schloss, having I
previously ordered Prince Bismarck j
to meet her. Then the Kaiserin In-j
formed the Chancellor that Frederick I
had decided not to leave her (in the!
event of- his death) to the tender I
tnercies of her son.
"Cherishing no Illusions with re
spect to William's sense of justice,!
or TO liip gentlemanly qualities," he
said, "the Emperor orders that sev- '
enty-five per cent, of my portion, as'
well as the dowries of my unmarried j
and all my daughters'
shares in our property, be paid by I
the Crown treasury now, while thi
rest is to be held at our disposal, to
be paid [bver the moment my hus
band diejjs, and before the new Em
peror assumes control of tho funds
and revenues."
Bismarck was dumbfounded.
'Here', are 1 lie Kaiser's orders,'
signed and countersigned and sealed.!
And." added the Empress, "His Ml-!
testy enjoins Your Grace and all thoj
persons taking official cognisance of j
tills act to ihe greatest secrecy. I
have your word. Prince?"
"You have, Your Majesty."
'if this arrangement William never|
heard a breath until the morning of!
lime 15i
Those who followed the events'
tuecedinjg Bismarck's dismissal will,
ioniem lifer that the Chancellor, bc-j
•ore submitting to tho Kaiser's re-!
■ iiiest foi' his resignation, went to.th.j'
Emnress Frederick to ask her inter- 1
• ession. At that momentous inter-1
■ icw he reminded Her Majesty of tiio!
-ervicc rendered her two years bn-i
ore. Bijl the Empress merely shook !
•or head: "it is that which stands'
. orover between me and my son." ;
Monevj, always, money! William j
lohenzqllern tried to convince thoj
. orld that he despised Americans "oc-!
mse of "their love for dollars"; ho!
< anldn't tolerate the English, bc
; iuse "they were a nation of!
, ui-kste.ip." yet lie fought with his!
•other over a few hundred thousand I
■ illars, not because she owed him '
uit amount, but because she won Id
U allmv liim to rob her and bis sis
rs of it.
And the same high-minded Wjl
im I lojpenzollern made a woman
'ountcss Eulenburg) pay for his
' ine and meat and furnish him a
lite of rooms. An uncrowned nior-
I vvlio does such things earns for
imsclf an epithet that this riews
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FRIDAY EVENING,"
wpaper would not print under any
circumstances whatsoever. AVhat
I about God's anointed?
Kaiserin Accused
J When hundreds of German pens
. I wore busy composing scurrilous
| notes, my mistress received several
! I missives that completely unnerved
j|hor, although their contents did not
| refer to escapades on the part of
! tho Emperor, but, on the other hand.
! were inventions so stupid as to bo
almost pitiable. I dare hint at only
''one of the lot,—a photograph rep
| resenting a female with Her Ma
'ijcsty's face and features, and at her
'side Court-cliaplain Stocckcr in his
I I well-known clerical bib.
J This reflection upon her Platonic
| j friendship for the bigoted and am
bitious parson threw my poor mis
, tress into a fever from which she rc- j
I covered only after a week or teal
| days. At the same time, the Kaiser,
j his adjutants, his friends, thc.a/ts-!
j tocracy, the conservatives, and a'-j
jmost the entire press engaged in
j "rotten-egging" Stocckcr, and Au
guste Victoria, who ought to have!
! stood by him, kept siient.
J Some time after the receipt of the,
jStoocker picture the Emperor was I
j absent. Princess Louise (sister of
I lllC Kaiserin) drove up while my
mistress was having lier hair dress
ed
'Princess Frederick Leopold?" re
| pealed tho Empress, when I made
| the announcement.
| "So "the Kammcrdicncr report",
I Your Majesty."
I "Something must have happened
at Glienecke! Quick, Countess, go
usk my sister's pardon, and beg her
'to come in here," and, turning to her
| women, Her Majesty added; "You
may retire for the present."
Common, Everyday Family Jars
I Tile Kaiser and Frederick LcopolJ
j hud not been on good terms for somo
time, and the royal sisters, who, of
j course, take sides with their lius
i bands, had seen each other at stated
| occasions only during the past year,
i Tins explains my mistress' surmisal
j that something was amiss.
Princess Louise was never hand
some. but she looked a fright that j
j morning. Her eyes were red and
! her faee was blotched. "You must
i send everybody from the room and
|antechamber before I begin to speak
| to Her Majesty," she said.
The subject of conversation bo
; tween the sisters was an anonymous
j note.
• "If you want to know why Fred
rick Leopold calls you o woman of
! ihe second class, consult your mirror
( when you go 1o lied to-night and
i compare your reflection with —"
"The letter went on to tell what
, might happen" if 'Loloki' learned of
■the relations between his mistress
■ and His Royal Highness," and it was
j this semi-threat that brought Prin
I cess Louise to Auguste's feet. She
j asked her sister nothing more nor
less than to ransack His Majesty's
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mailbag for a fac-slmile of the tell
tale letter (there were always dupli
cates, you know). This my mistress
refused to do. . *
"I cannot believe in the rcporto)
Intimacy between Willie and Coun
tess Frits," she said, "and will under
take nothing to either set right or
deny the scandalous surmisal."
When the Kaiser returned nest
day, it became evident at onco that
he had a brand new gricvanc-.
against "."rtilord of Cliicnecko." tvho>r.
he held bp to ridicule more than
over, and tho ultimate result of it
•ill was Frederick Leopolds appoint
ment to tho position of Brigadier of
Infantry. The son cf the famot-s
Red I'rinee reduced to the foot,
when lie h: d conlldcntly expected
*.• t btalrs a command in inc. cavalry.
It was the uitkindesf ul of i !
That the Kaiser tol'd us ladies of
his household what wo should wear
was tyrannical, but not wholly un
reasonable. seeing that ho imagined
he owned us body and soul, hut
other women, even relatives of His
Majesty, would not take kindly to
his expensive suggestions. Seldom
did a hall or state occasion pass
that there was not a gap in til
line of our royal dames; now tin
Hereditary Princess of Hohonzolleru
sent "her regrets," again Princess
Aribert went to bed twenty-four
hours previous to a costume
at Court.
Kven the Hereditary Grand
Duchess of Baden declined time and
again to help ruin her husband by
reckless extravagance of toilets, such
as the Kaiser demanded his guests
to engage in.
As n mntter of fact. William's
passion for having everything liis
own way was entirely incompatible
with reason. There was no art out
side of the narrow circle approved
by him. no stage and no state craft,
unless conducted on rules laid down
by him to actors, to parliamentar
ians, to diplomats. His soldiers,
his children, the women of his
household and of society, Ms ofll
cials and men friends, all must bo
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dressed, or must masquerade, ac
cording to his varying moods.
Strange to say, he succeeded in
dazzling a lot of people; ■others
looked upon him as a mad mam an
being in his power, danced ; its )u
whistled lest they lose their head,
official or social. But such of Wil
liam's relatives, who coufld help
themselves, gradually faded away
from Berlin. They went to live in
other German towns or in the coun
try. It saved them pots of money
for clothes and entertainment and
a good many brow beatings besides.
In the end only oncy Prussian
Princess remained at court, the wid
ow of Prince Frederick C/harles, who
conquered Metz by buying up Bv
zaine.
Princess Marie," born, Princess of
Anhait was a grando (dame of the
old school, who, despito poverty,
drove the tallest horsey, and employ
ed the loveliest maidsi of honor and
the best looking foq/tmcn.
A Miniature ,'Kaiser
Tlioso inclined to think that Wil
liam was sufficient of evil in one and
the same family, reckon with
the trait of imitataveness rampant
among princes. German kings and
Kinglets loatli the Hohonzollerns,
it is true, but, to a man, try to out-
Prussianize them, i
When Berlin Court gossip whis
pered that William got tipsy, the
King of Bavaria rwent to bed with
his boots on. ."/
When the Hohensollern was said
to have snubbed his wife, the King
of Saxony beat his (and got well
cuffed in return by the Royal
Louise").
When William condescended to
pay the Berlin dog tax (without pre
judice, mind you), the mighty Po
tentate of Reuss-Greitz-Schleitz-
Kranichfeld and Eberswalrie decided
to tax himself for the order of the
Green Ass, which he had bestowed
upon himself.
Princess Frederick Charles, like
the Empress Frederick, was cursed
with a son who was a complete
egoist. Her late husband, the brutal
and churlish Frederick Charles who
never relaxed the grasp of his rid
| ing-wltlp nt home, had no sooner
closed his drunken eyes, than his
heir, Frederick Leopold, the Kaiser's
cousin, kicked his mother out of licr
castles; the palace on Wilheliq's
Platz and the country-seats of Glien
ccke, Dreilinden, etc. This boy,
scarcely of age, had no room for
his mother. Every roof and every
foot of his immeiree landed posses
sions he needed for his overgrown
self.
There were family meetings and
notes of protest from all royal rela
tives of Europe; Frederick Leopold
rould neither be bullied nor wheed
led. He stood on his rights. Tha
Kaiser llnally patched up the ugly
Albrecht Palace, on Leipziger Platz.
for her, where Princess Marie lived,
attended bv Countess Puoklcr and
Baron von Wgngenhoipi, who has
been her gentleman of the bed
chamber for many years,
llighness's relations to the Baron
were legalized by a marriage enact
ed before the" Minister of the Royal
House, but I have never been able
to verify this statement, which is
guarded like a state secret. The
fact that the Emperor's and Em
press's invitations to the Princess
of late included Wangenheini seemed
to indicate that the couple was at
last united.
When summer came, poor Princ
ess Marie had to move with her
little Court to Castle Bruhl, a tum
ble-down palace between Bonn and
Cologne, though dozens of well
kept imperial castles stood empty
in the neighborhood of the capital.
Princess Tells About Son
One afternoon, when the Princers
entertained at Bruhl, Madame Sur
mond naively asked: "But Your
Royal Highness, why did you come
down to this lonely chateau? It
must bo very annoying' to a lady
who has lived in the great world
all her life to put up with such
poor company as we are, and witli
such comforts, or rather discom
forts, as this castle offers."
"My dear woman," answered
Princess Marie, raising herself
proudly, "I am penniless and home
less, trulhs you may be unable, or
perhaps unwilling, to believe. But
that makes them none the less on
erous, I assuro you: 'You have a son,
the richest prince In the empire, you
say. Yes, but my la-oiwld is not an
agreeable man. He is liard-hcartcd,
and lie wishes me dead every day in
tlic year."
Still worse was the Kaiser's and
Kaiserin's treatment of this royal
lady dilt-lng th'e severe illness of
Hie Hereditary Grand Duchess of |
Oldenburg, Princess Frederick'
Cffttrlcs's second daughter, who fell
dangerously ill while attending our
Court in Potsdam, making an in
definite slay imperative,
Princess Frederick Charles came
day after day from Berlin to nurse,
her daughter, and repeatedly com
plained to the Empress that this
journeying to and fro in the heat'
[ of the summer was killing her, an
old woman.
As the summer wore on, Princess
Frederick Charles got in a state ap
proaching nervous prostration, and
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third time Her Majesty expressed
merely vague regrets.
[To Be Continued To-morrow.]
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