visits England after World War I, 283–84
visits Fascist Italy, 315
Victorian morals, 66, 109, 111
Victoria’s granddaughters who became queens, 3–13
Anglophilia of, 227
anxiousness to revisit England, 283–84
common traits, 16
English breeding of, 280, 344
love of animals, 29
sense of duty of, 381–82
Vielle Fontaine, 376
Viktoria, Princess of Prussia (“Moretta”), 9, 20, 25
Villa Sparta, 363
Village Hygeia, 305
Villalobar, Marquis of, 127
Villavieja, Marques de, 167
Viroubova, Anna, 67, 121–22, 176, 185, 186, 201, 205–6, 221–22, 252, 258, 266, 267, 268
Vladimir, Grand Duke, 38, 51
Vopicka, Charles, 218
Waldemar, Prince of Prussia (“Waldie”), 11
Waldorf, Pauline, 109
Wales, George, Prince of. See George V, King of England Wales girls, 5, 8, 16, 23, 53, 58
Wallachia, 153, 156
Wanerkroze, Professor, 364
Wangenheim, Baron von, 158
Warsaw, 205
Washburn, Major Stanley, 326
Wilhelm I, Emperor of Germany, 4
married life of, 9
Wilhelm II, Emperor of Germany (“Willy”), 9, 10, 22, 28, 33, 52, 82, 117, 159, 170, 193, 199, 201, 210, 211, 213, 215, 247, 248, 311
accession of, 19–20
attempt to woo Russia, 42, 45–46
character of, 20
dethronement, 390n.
exile in Doom, 356
foreign policy, 79
imperious nature of, 25–27
ransacks his parents’ papers, 20, 96
threatening telegram to king of Greece, 201–2
threatens Romania, 213–14
view on Norwegian throne offer, 132
Wilson, Bill, 347
Wilson, Edith, 282–83, 284
Wilson, Woodrow, 281, 282–83
Windsor, House of, 266
Windsor Castle, 7, 11
Winter Palace, 97, 200
Witte, Sergei, 117–18
World War I, 199–22 5, 227–81, 390n.
alliances leading to mobilization and war, 199
Allies (Triple Entente), 201, 203, 204, 207, 209, 214, 240, 249, 268, 275, 299, 302, 315
as anti-German crusade, 239–40
Central Powers (Triple Alliance), 201, 203, 204, 216, 268, 274
neutral countries in, 200, 201, 227–28, 231, 234
outbreak of, 199–200
World War II, 370, 373, 384
Allies, 384
Axis, 384
X, Dr., 14–15
Xenia Alexandrovna, Grand Duchess, 44, 85, 93, 119, 368, 369–70
Yakimov, Analoy, 270
Yeltsin, Boris, 385
Young, Mrs. George, 141
Youssopov, Felix, assassination of Rasputin, 250–53
Youssopov, Marie, 253
Youssopov Palace, 250
Yurovsky, Jacob, 270–71
Zai’mis, Alexandros, 261
Zarzuela Palace, 380
Zedlitz-Trutzchler, Count Robert, 26
Zvegintsev, Alexander, 254
Zwiedineck, General, 346, 351, 360, 364
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