MS
recorded some formative educational experiences which came her way even before she went to school. Her parents used to have musical evenings, and at her first theatre visit (with an aunt) she saw the...
Family and Intimate relationships
Dorothy Brett
Sylvia, Lady Brooke, recalled her father as one to whom nobody who was not somebody meant a thing.
Brooke, Sylvia. Queen of the Head Hunters. William Morrow and Company, 1972.
13
A sample of Orchard Lea's illustrious visitors included Esher's great friendKaiser Wilhelm II
and a...
Family and Intimate relationships
Queen Victoria
QV
's eldest daughter, Princess Victoria of Prussia
, gave birth a year after her marriage to a son nicknamed Willie, who later became Kaiser Wilhelm II
.
Munich, Adrienne. Queen Victoria’s Secrets. Columbia University Press, 1996.
xvi
Textual Production
Amanda McKittrick Ros
AMKR
was vitriolic in her denunciations of critics—especially Barry Pain
, who had criticized her first novel and whom, as a consequence, she despised for a lifetime. She described critics as, among many other things,...
Timeline
28 November 1918: Wilhelm II of Germany, the Kaiser, who had...
National or international item
28 November 1918
Wilhelm II
of Germany, the Kaiser, who had fled to Holland, abdicated following the Berlin Revolution of 9 November 1918.
