40.Longford, Darling Loosy, 264, V to Duchess of Argyll, 18.3.1901.
41.Empress Frederick: a Memoir, 370.
42.Epton, 225.
43.Van der Kiste, Crowns in a Changing World, 7, W to E, 24.7.1901.
44.Teignmouth-Shore, 307.
45.Poschinger, 450–51.
46.Balfour, 62–3.
47.Brook-Shepherd, 255, E to Marquis de Soveral, c.1905.
48.Leslie, 337.
49.Barkeley, 309, quoting Bamberger, Bismarcks grosses Spiel (1932).
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