REMINISCENCES OF ROYALTY

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 31, 5 August 1933, Page 17

REMINISCENCES OF ROYALTY

"Through Four Revolutions" is the title of a book of the reniiuisconees of H.E.H. Princess Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria, Infanta of Spain. They are set forth from her diaries and correspondence by her son, H.E.H. Prince Adalbert of Bavaria, and are edited with'a preface and notes by Major Desmond Chapman-Huston. The volume is published by John Murray. The Infanta Paz, second daughter of Queen Isabel II of Spain, sister of Alfonso XII, aunt of Alfonso XIII, wife of General H.E.H. Prince Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria, related -to the Imperial and Eoyal Families of Austria, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Bulgaria, Belgium,: Portugal, and Eng"-' land, is obviously in a unique position to tell from the inside an inimitable story. Since the tragic death of her •elder sister, tlio Infanta Isabel, in April, 1931, there can bo few people left who have personal recollections of the Spanish revolution of 1868 which drove hor mother from her throno to exile, and the Frencli Revolution of 1870 which brought a similar fate to Napoleon 111 and the Empress Eugenic, close friend of Isabel 11. AVith.those early, vivid memories the Infanta Paz contrasts her experiences of the, German revolution of 1918 and the Spanish revolution of 1931..,. Of the. crowded years between, the personages who made history, Franz Josef and Elizabeth of Austria, Ludwig II tho poetic King of Bavaria, the Prince Imperial, Albort.and Elizabeth of Belgium, Ferdinand of Bulgaria, Don Carlos the Pretender;': of scores of others —soldiers, politicians, writers, artists, musicians, simple Spanish and Bavarians peasants; of travel, of all life's ups and downs, the Infanta has had a rich experience.