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Prefatory Note
vii

ignorant of the aforesaid facts, which, I think, merit to be related, inasmuch as they form a missing link in the description of the life of that great and powerful ruler, for whom, since I saw her, I always have had the greatest admiration.

"Kiel: February 1912."