Born to Rule: Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters of Queen Victoria

by Julia P. Gelardi

  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