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BOOK V. ? DOUBLE-MARRIAGE PROJECT, AND WHAT ELEMENT IT FELL INTO. ? 1723-1726.
Chapter I. ? DOUBLE-MARRIAGE IS DECIDED ON. QUEEN SOPHIE DOROTHEE HAS TAKEN TIME BY THE FORELOCK. PRINCESS AMELIA COMES INTO THE WORLD. FRIEDRICH WILHELM'S TEN CHILDREN. Chapter II. ? A KAISER HUNTING SHADOWS. IMPERIAL MAJESTY ON THE TREATY OF UTRECHT. IMPERIAL MAJESTY HAS GOT HAPPILY WEDDED. IMPERIAL MAJESTY AND THE TERMAGANT OF SPAIN. IMPERIAL MAJESTY'S PRAGMATIC SANCTION. THIRD SHADOW: IMPERIAL MAJESTY'S OSTEND COMPANY. Chapter III. ? THE SEVEN CRISES OR EUROPEAN TRAVAIL-THROES. CONGRESS OF CAMBRAI. CONGRESS OF CAMBRAI GETS THE FLOOR PULLED FROM UNDER IT. FRANCE AND THE BRITANNIC MAJESTY TRIM THE SHIP AGAIN: HOW FRIEDRICH WILHELM CAME INTO IT. TREATY OF HANOVER, 1725. TRAVAIL-THROES OF NATURE FOR BABY CARLOS'S ITALIAN APANAGE; SEVEN IN NUMBER. Chapter IV. ? DOUBLE-MARRIAGE TREATY CANNOT BE SIGNED. Chapter V. ? CROWN-PRINCE GOES INTO THE POTSDAM GUARDS. OF THE POTSDAM GIANTS, AS A FACT. FRIEDRICH WILHELM'S RECRUITING DIFFICULTIES. QUEEN SOPHIE'S TROUBLES: GRUMKOW WITH THE OLD DESSAUER, AND GRUMKOW WITHOUT HIM. Chapter VI. ? ORDNANCE-MASTER SECKENDORF CROSSES THE PALACE ESPLANADE. Chapter VII. ? TOBACCO-PARLIAMENT. OF GUNDLING, AND THE LITERARY MEN IN TOBACCO-PARLIAMENT. Chapter VIII. ? SECKENDORF'S RETORT TO HER MAJESTY. |