Belgrade the White City of Death Being the History of King Alexander And of Qu
Belgrade the White City of Death Being the History of King Alexander And of Qu
Flora Hayter Ames
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" There was much excuse for the King, who saw everywhere around him the Oriental ideas of mar- riage there was much excuse. He had married a girl of sixteen a girl dazzled, perhaps, with the thought of a throne, who did not realise that her motto ought to be, " Union is strength. " The greatest passions are common to all, and the scenes in the Palace could not be concealed from a world which fastened on the ugly cancer of a King's immorality. The papers teemed with insulting comments ; the disa...ffected represented the Queen as a martyr ; and Russia looked and laughed when a Minister's wife had fascinated the susceptible heart of the King. At all costs his polygamous desires should be made the weapon for his own destruction. The savage elements in his blood urged him on till his passions THE HEAD THAT WEARS A CROWN 63 became ungovernable. But though marked by the fierce love of power and reckless ambition, he still possessed his earlier characteristics of valour and devotion. Milan is described by Emile De Laveleye, who knew him in Paris, as " a superb cavalier, very tall and strong.
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