THE KING OF BAVARIA.
A MELANCHOLY REIGN.
Berlin, April 27.
King Otto of Bavaria attains his 63rd birthday to-morrow, while the twenty-fifth anniversary of his accession to the Throne falls in June. There is no change in the unhappy Monarch’s mental condition, and physically he is as robust as ever. Cut off from the outside world in his lonely castle of Furstenried, he is visited at stated intervals by the Court doctors, who make a report to the Regent and the Government. No other visitor, or even a relative, ever enters the King’s presence, as any communication from outside rouses him to frenzy, and his own mother was compelled to refrain from seeing him.
Now his Majesty sits for hours at a time with his eyes fixed on the floor, and very seldom uttering a word. On one rare occasion he displayed some intelligence, and appeared to be searching for something. On the keeper inquiring what it was, he replied, slowly and impressively, “I am looking for the past.” He then relapsed into his customary gloomy silence, from which nothing arouses him.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 147, 7 June 1911, Page 11
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