Emperor Frederick's Diary.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 218, 15 September 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

Emperor Frederick's Diary.

Thekb has been a great deal of gossip of wildest arid itnost scandalous/kind about Prussian State papers which are alleged to have .beeb fburid riiiSsing at Potsdalri aftbr the' death bf the Emperor Frederick, arid,it i^ stated, that they were handed by the Eriipr^sd Vibtbria1 to tbb Queen when her Majesty was .^aij Charlottenburg, and that they are now in Erigland. These stories culminated in thfi ndafevblent inventions of an-, evening paper ibdut the 'virtual imprisonment' of the Enipreas;, Victoria, whichVhbwevbr, Were such palpable fictions that they excited no attention whatever, at'homei.or abrbad. The real truth; however, recurved fr6rii a trustworthy correspondent in Germany, ia that tho diary, of the Eirijierbr Frederick cftnriot be fbUrid.' . The Emperbr had kept a, journal during more than thirty years (ever since" his iri^rriage),; which Was not a riiorb record df his movements arid occupations, but ari^ elaborate riibhirig cbriimeritary upon piblic affairs— I both political and social^—very niuch in the : Style of Mr Grevjlle's- Membirk This ! diary was bbritiriued in thiirty iriiriierise •foluiries, each being secured by a lock, arid directly after the Eiiapefbr's " death his; successor^ at the request bf! Pfiri.ce Bismarck, demanded that the whole ,c|f them ihouid atbricla begiyeriujii iri bi-der that his Majesty's fetriihiscerides might be placed aiiiong the Prussian State archives at .Berlini The • Etiipi*ei§s iref jised to ,sur-; reridfer the yoluiribs, apd when a sebbrid arid a mbfe peremptory application was made itfter' tHe Empetfbr's funeral, h^r Majesty iirihounced that the diary had been taken to England by the Queen, and that- Bhe Would probably publish it, as^ithad bfeen her husband's particular wish that it should pc published after a suitable revision, and that he had reqiiested/ heif to act &B his i literary executrix; " ■ •