The coaches will leave at dawn, the quiet, under the Franconian town of Amorbach; located in front of you on the 28th. In March 1819 a journey from the Biedermeier German province in the centre of a worldwide Empire. For the only passenger in the first car it must be an ordeal. In the unsprung vehicle over roads that deserve that name hardly, to the distant channel coast. Marie Louise Victoria, generally Victoire called, is in the eighth month of her pregnancy and has been waiting for with the adventurous journey is almost a little too long. The 32-Year-old is Leiningen, the widowed Princess to. In second marriage she married in the previous year, Edward, the Duke of Kent, – the former military sits on the box of the Carriage; once again, it is gorge, the money for a coachman is saved.

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