Excerpt from Royal Romances of to-DayIn the year 1907, the Woman's Home Compau ion commissioned me to go to Russia to write the story of the early days, courtship and marriage of her whom the world knows to-day as the Tsar itsa. The following year, the same periodical sent me to Italy to write a Similar account of the life of Queen Elena, and in 1910 I was once more sent abroad, this time to Spain, to learn all about Queen Victoria Eugenie.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.