Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 edition. Excerpt: ...von Voss's brother, at the wish of the Queen Elizabeth Christina, sent his daughter to Court. That which had happened in 1745 repeated itself in 1783; the Prince of Prussia fell in love with the Queen's lady-in-waiting. Fraulein von Voss, who deserves pity both for her unhappy fate and for her errors, had attracted the Prince's notice and admiration on her first appearance at Court, and for nearly three years he pursued her with his attentions. In 1786 Count Mirabeau, at that time French envoy at Berlin, writes in his well-known history of the Prussian Court: 'The King persists still in the same respectful attachment to Friiulein von Voss. She withstands him steadily, but he daily gives her new proofs of his devotion, and distintinguishes her by the greatest attentions.' In other respects the young lady-in-waiting was in no favour with the French memoir writer, as she disliked anything French, preferred to speak German or English, and avoided as much as possible the universally-spoken French of the day. He consequently brought against her the accusation of Anglomania, which was perfectly unjustified. Her contemporaries depict her as a beauty in the style of Titian, of slender but rounded shape, beautiful form and delicate features, dazzlingly fair, but entirely without colour, her marble paleness relieved by rich reddish yellow hair. At Court she was nicknamed Ceres on account of this luxuriant golden hair, adorned by which she is depicted in the pictures which still remain of her, and which all represent her in the first bloom of that youth which she was fated not to survive. It is only in detached and scattered notices in her diaries that Prau von Yoss at first remarks upon the attachment of the Prince of Prussia to her niece Julie, ..
