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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...lived the former foster-mother of the Empress, and before Duke Friedrich and his family left for Primkenau she had a dream, which she related to her nursling, and which caused great amusement. She had dreamed that she saw the Princess Auguste Victoria Empress of Germany. When the marriage of the Prince and Princess took place, this old lady was invited to the wedding festivities at Berlin, and was received with a most hearty welcome by the Crown Prince and Princess, who named her the Prophetess. It was only a few months after the visit of Prince Wilhelm to Primkenau that Duke Friedrich of Schleswig-Holstein succumbed quite suddenly to a stroke at Wiesbaden, on January 14th, 1880. It was a great comfort later to the Princess Auguste Victoria to hear that her father, before his death, had given his cordial consent to her engagement with Prince Wilhelm of Prussia. Their private betrothal took place at Gotha, where the widowed Duchess was staying with her uncle, the late Duke Ernst of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, who had always been a kind friend to them. The public betrothal was celebrated on June 2nd, 1880, at the Castle of Babelsberg, near Potsdam, with the greatest magnificence. The Emperor Wilhelm I. was greatly pleased with his grandson's choice; even Prince Bismarck, who, at the time, was in bad health, made a point of being present, though it was his rule to shun most Court festivities. The modest and charming appearance of the young Princess won all hearts, and her first appearance at the Court of Berlin was a true presage of the life that was to be hers in the future. The marriage was a little delayed on account of the mourning for the Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, but not quite a year after the betrothal the Prince and Princess were married at Berlin, on Februar...

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