his majesty

• “On such an occasion the emperor, the empress and the royal guests having taken up their places on the dais, under the baldaquin, and immediately in front of the throne, the less exalted guests ranging themselves to the right and left of the great white hall, according to rank and precedence, the court marshal receives orders from his majesty for the dance to begin.”

  The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe

• “At the end of a fortnight, therefore, the military governor of Berlin, old Field Marshal Count Pape, declared to his majesty that he would do well to immediately set Baron Kotze at liberty, since there was no adequate ground for keeping him under arrest.”

  The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe

• “On being taken to task by his mother as to what he meant by this, he informed her that the box was destined to hold the first tooth, which he was about to lose, and which his father, the emperor, was to pull for him with a string that very afternoon, at the conclusion of a “Kronrath,” or council of the crown, at which his majesty was to preside.”

  The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe

• “M. de Cury, who delivered me the message, added that he thought a pension was intended, and that his majesty wished to announce it to me himself.”

  The Confessions of J J Rousseau

• “The Comte de Tressan, by order of the prince, wrote to M. d'Alembert, as well as to myself, to inform me that it was the intention of his majesty to have Palissot expelled his academy.”

  The Confessions of J J Rousseau

• “It is related of him at the Court of Berlin that when on one occasion he inquired of his brother, Prince Henry, if he could suggest to him anything new wherewith to startle both his own subjects and the world in general, the sailor prince, with a merry laugh, proposed that his majesty should remain perfectly quiet, without saying or doing anything, for an entire week!”

  The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe

• “It was a visit from his excellency the Baron de Roenne, ambassador of his majesty the King of Prussia to the United States.”

  The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe

• “The third of these cronies of the kaiser, to whom his subjects take objection on the ground that they are in the habit of using the favor shown to them by his majesty to further their own interests, and to injure those who, for one reason or another, have incurred their animosity, is Count Philip Eulenburg, who has been again and again referred to in the Berlin newspapers as “the Troubadour.””

  The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe

• “As foreseen by Empress Frederick, with Prince Bismarck once in retirement and disgrace, and the emperor disposed to reverse the entire Bismarckian policy, it commenced to dawn upon his majesty that among other errors into which he had been led by his ex-chancellor was his own harshness and unfriendliness towards his mother.”

  The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe

• “At the same time he also wrote to Don Pedro Mascaregnas, that Xavier and Rodriguez were wholly at the king's command; and that they should always remain in Portugal, in case his majesty desired it.”

  The Works of John Dryden

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