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Welcome to Noble Blood, a production

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of I Heart Radio and Grimm and Mild

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from Aaron Minkie. Listener discretion

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is advised. In

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January of eighteen ninety one,

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a group of fifteen prominent

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nobles and Prussian court elites left

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for Lynn by sleigh ride for a weekend

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jaunt to Gruenwald castle in

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the woods to the west of the city. They

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were invited there by the Kaiser's sister,

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Princess Charlotte, and the idea

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was that they would all go and have an ice skating

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party before treating to the lodge

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for warm drinks and general

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merriment. The party

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was a triumph, and when the skating was

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over, the group congregated before

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the fireplace at Gruenwald. Red

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nosed and frost bitten. They

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removed their wet clothing and left

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them out to dry, and then

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the attendants of the skating party

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found that they could come up with a few

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fun ways of getting warm.

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The day after they all arrived back at

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their homes, every attendee

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of the skating trip to Gruenwald

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received a letter in the mail. It

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had no return address and no

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signature. The handwriting

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was strange. Someone writing

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in all block letters to disguise

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their script or to make it appear

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as though someone else was writing it. Each

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letter contained terrible

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accusations about the person's

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conduct that evening at Gruenwald, lurid

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sexual accusations,

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complete with detailed illustrations

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and pasted pornographic photographs.

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The letters contained specific

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details and nicknames that only

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inner members of the Kaiser circle could

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possibly know, and, to

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make matters worse, the accusations

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were all true. It

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had to have been someone who attended that

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scape party at Gruenwald, but

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nobody knew who the letters were

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from. So began

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a scandal that spanned four

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years, arrests

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but no finite answers. It's

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a scandal that proves that pettiness

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and anonymous gossip have been

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along far longer than tabloids

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and social media. The

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story, which came to be known as the Kudzay

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Affair after the man who was eventually

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arrested for the letters, is a

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real life version, albeit an x

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rated one of a Mrs Whistledown

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from Bridgton or the eponymous

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blog from gossip Girl. These

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letters are our one and only

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source into the lives of the

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Prussian elite, but

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the consequences leveled in

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the letters and around the letters

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themselves would eventually

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be deadly. I'm

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Danis Schwartz and this is Noble

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Blood. As

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with any mystery, the first step

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is to introduce the characters involved,

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or, depending on how you look at it, at

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the suspects. There were

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fifteen people, nine men and

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six women, who participated

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in by what most accounts referred

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to as an orgy in

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which multiple people were involved in

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a number of both hetero

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and homosexual entanglements. But

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we'll get to those details a little

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bit later. For now, let's just start

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with one of the evening's attendees, Duke

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Ernst Gunther of Schleswig Holstein.

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Duke Ernest Gunther had a bit of a reputation,

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to say the least. He was nicknamed

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the Ram for his sexual appetite

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like a ram in spring, and

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there's even a story about the Duke losing

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one of his elite military medals,

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the one that designated him as a Knight

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of the Black Eagle, in the

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bed of a Berlin prostitute,

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who, to her credit, took it to the

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police. Duke Ernst's

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sister, Augusta, was married

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to Kaiser Wilhelm the Second, which

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made him the Emperor's brother in law.

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Duke Ernst was married himself to a

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highly connected princess, but

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that didn't stop the Duke from his philandering

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ways. In fact, his high

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marriage and the even higher marriage of his

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sister made the Duke feel

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almost bulletproof. There

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seemed to be no act of misbehavior

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that his money and power couldn't

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get him out of. And a brief

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aside here for some noble blood

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family tree connectivity. Duke

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Ernst Gunther's wife, Princess Dorothea,

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was the daughter of Prince Philip of Saxe,

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Coburg and Gotha, who had been one

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of the close friends of the crown Prince

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Rudolph among the group who

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discovered his body at Marylan

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and Princess Dorothea was also the

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granddaughter of Leopold the second

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of Belgium, when we spoke about in

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connection with his bloody genocidal

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practices in the Congo. But

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back to the actual attendees of

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this notorious ice skating party,

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there were of course present the Count

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and Countess von Hohen. How the

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Count Friedrich von Hohen now

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was notorious for his same sex

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dalliances but if anything,

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his wife was even more notorious

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in Prussian society. The Countess,

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nicknamed Lutka, was taller

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than her husband by at least ahead.

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She was also his senior by four

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years, and in addition to being taller

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than her husband, she was also sportier,

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better at riding horses, and

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better at finding male lovers. The

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Countess would count among her paramours

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the future Reich's Chancellor, Max von Baden

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and Herbert von Bis, a social secretary

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in the Foreign Ministry and

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one of the Countess's former lovers,

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was also in attendance at the skating

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party. Friedrich Carl von

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Hessen, whose affair with the Countess

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Hahn now ended when he married the

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Emperor's younger sister, Marguerite,

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which made Friedrich Carl von Hessen another

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of the Kaiser's brothers in law, but

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the opposite way, which there should be

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a different word for him being

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married to one of the Kaiser's sisters,

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and not because the Kaiser was married

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to one of his. All

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of this is to say it was an incredibly

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intimate, connected and

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intertwined group of nobles

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who were at Grunwald. But

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it wasn't just nobles at the party.

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There were also a handful of prominent

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court bureaucrats, including

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lebre von Kotze, the Chamberlain

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and Master of Ceremonies for the German

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Imperial Court. His name

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Quotz, has the unfortunate

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distinction of translating

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into the adjective form of

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the word puke in English,

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which means that, if you, like me,

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are unable to speak German and are

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forced to rely on Google Translate

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for a number of primary sources, you

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will find that his name liberal pon

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Kotze translates in English

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to write from vomit.

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In the years prior to the notorious

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get together at Gruenwald quotes

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his life was improving rapidly.

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He had married a woman from an old Brandenburg

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noble family, and he continued

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to excel in his position as Master

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of Ceremonies. He had the

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close personal confidence of the Kaiser,

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and even though he wasn't a born noble himself,

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he inadvertently found himself

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closer to the inner circle of the court

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than many men with more prominent

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births, including another

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of Chamberlain and Master of Ceremony

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who also was attending the party,

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a man named Carl von Schrader.

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Schrader, who had attended with his wife,

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wasn't alone in his jealousy of

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Kotze, but there was very little

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he could do other than wait and

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hope that eventually quotes

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might fall out of the Kaiser's favor.

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And then we round out our cast

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of characters with the party's

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host, Princess Charlotte of

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Prussia, the Kaiser's sister.

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By the end of the nineteenth century, you

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probably would have been right if you guessed out

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of thin air that any random European

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prince or princess chosen at random

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was a descendant of Queen Victoria.

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Princess Charlotte of Prussia was the

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oldest daughter of Queen Victoria's

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oldest daughter, known as Vicky.

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From the time of the Charlotte was born, she

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was a troublesome child, labeled

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over and over as difficult.

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She was underweight, with a troublesome

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digestion, and prone to screaming

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fits. Her mother, Vicki, wrote

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in her diary that Charlotte's quote

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little mind seems almost too

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active for her body. She is

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so nervous and sensitive and so

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quick. Her sleep is not so

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sound as it should be, and she is so

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very thin. Charlotte

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also frequently tantrummed and

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bit her fingers. A letter

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to Vicky from Queen Victoria

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read quote tell Charlotte,

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I was appalled to hear of her biting

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things. Grandmama does not like

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naughty little girls. Vicky

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did not go easy on her daughter.

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Being difficult is one of the cardinal

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sins of being a princess, and

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Charlotte suffered from another sin. She

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was plain. Her thinness

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was just one of a number of health is she she

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suffered from, including headaches

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and insomnia. Charlotte

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was a mediocre student, without the ability

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to focus on tasks for any extended

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period of time, and by the time

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she was a teenager, her mother just

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seemed to have had no idea

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of what to do with her. What

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was there to do with this moody, sullen

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daughter whose behavior would cycle

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wildly between depression and

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extraversion. It's

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not a new phenomenon a distant

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relationship between a teenage daughter and

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her mother, but it's not an

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easy one either, and the two simply

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didn't get along. When

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Charlotte socialized, she was flirtatious

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and a notorious gossip, causing

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trouble. Just to see what she could get

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away with her mother. Vickie

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wrote that Charlotte was quote a

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wheedling little kitten who

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can be so loving whenever she wants

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something. As soon

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as Charlee It turned sixteen, she

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became engaged to the air of the

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Duchy of sax Mine Engine. The

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quickness of the marriage reveals

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just how eager Charlotte was to get

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out of her family's shadow, to

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be independent and to play grown

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up, and most importantly,

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to escape the constant needling of

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her critical mother. In

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adulthood, her more salacious

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gossipy ways calmed down, but

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Charlotte was still a bon vivant, a drinker

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and heavy smoker who seemed to

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devote more attention to our parties

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than to her only daughter. She

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was the perfect person to host

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a simple winter weekend in the country

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that would inevitably lead

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to debauchery.

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After the orgy at Grunwald,

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the letters started to arrive. The

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letters were sent to everyone, addressing

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everyone who had attended at the party

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in the cruelest and most pornographic

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terms. Allied von Schrader,

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the wife of one of the masters of ceremony.

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They said that she enjoyed lesbian affairs

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and Prince Albert von Humpt He

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was a sodomite. Even Prussian

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nobles who hadn't attended the gathering

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started to get mentioned in the letters. Prince

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Alexander of Prussia seventy

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four years old was accused

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of quote the most disgraceful

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practices which are said to be the

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result of a weak and perverted

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mind. The letters included

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detailed drawings of genitalia

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and pornographic photos,

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which were pasted over with pictures

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of nobles heads on the bodies

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of the actors. Princess

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Charlotte was accused of numerous

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indiscretions, but by far

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the letters harshest target was

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the Countess Lute and how

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The descriptors of her were owen

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right nasty, the stuff of schoolyard

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taunts. Everyone got the

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letters, but for her they seemed

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personal. The letters

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said that the Countess how and now

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quote feels a tickle that cannot

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be controlled when it is a matter of

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stealing a young wife's newlywed

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husband, and that she was quote

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known citywide for the fact

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that she throws herself on the neck

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of every prince and lifts

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up her skirt without being asked.

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These letters continued tormenting

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and taunting the elites of Prussian society

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for four years.

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Over four hundred anonymous letters

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were written, and they probably would have

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continued as a bafflement, a peculiarity,

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and embarrassment had they not eventually

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invoked the Emperor. The

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letters never mentioned the Kaiser explicitly,

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but they began to dance around him as a

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figure obliquely, with certain

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letters writing that he was tempted

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by the Countess Vonhaven, how and

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that the count had forced his wife to

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act coldly towards the Emperor as

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to not encourage his affections.

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The Emperor could not believe how

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presumptuous the Count would have been to tell

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his wife to act differently towards him.

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At a military review, he transferred

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the Count to hanover all

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but exiling him and the coquettish

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countess from court. At

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this point, the Emperor decided that

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these letters had gone on long

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enough. It was an embarrassing

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scandal that he wanted to keep under wraps,

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but more than that, he wanted it to end.

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Investigators were posted all

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over Berlin, monitoring post

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boxes and waiting to see who

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would be depositing tell tale

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letters and then

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in June,

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the police made a shocking arrest

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the Emperor's own personal chamberlain,

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the Master of Ceremonies, Liebritt

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von Kotze. Sure

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he had been on the receiving end of some

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of the letters, but so had every

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single suspect. Baron

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Schrader, the rival chamberlain, was

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the one who assisted authorities with

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the evidence against Kotze. This

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was the smoking gun. At a fashionable

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club where officers suspected

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that the anonymous letters were being written,

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they found that the pattern on the ink

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bladder was similar to the traces

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on the ink bladder in Kotze's Master

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of Ceremonies office. It

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was flimsy evidence, but

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it was evidence. Kotze

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had traveled to Berlin on Saturday

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morning from his home in Schreitzbershaw

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in order to be at the ceremony for the

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laying of the corner stone at a new

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cathedral at Lustgarten the next

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day, but could say never made

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it to the ceremony. As soon

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as he arrived in Berlin, he was taken

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into custody.

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It was also sudden and so secret

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that even the prison officials didn't know

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they would be hosting such an exalted

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guest until a royal carriage

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arrived at the prison door of linden

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Strauss. The New York

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Times wrote at the time, even

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if the government were inclined to let

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the scandal drop, the time for

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such action is passed. The

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documents produced by the witnesses

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so far contain a great mass

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of disgusting and libeliss letters,

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which certainly suggests the insanity

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of the writer. Coultzy must

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be tried and must be acquitted as

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mentally unsound or innocent of

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the charges, or he must be

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punished as the foulest of

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slanderers. The

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arrest sent shock waves throughout

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Prussian court and the world.

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It was written about not only in the New

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York Times, but newspapers

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across Europe. Coats his

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wife desperately tried to intercede

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on her husband's behalf by appealing

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unsuccessfully directly to the

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Kaiser. Coatsy's friends

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argued that he didn't have the drawing skills

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that would have been necessary to produce

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the fairly impressive pornographic

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doodles on the letters. Some

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of Coatsi's friends said that maybe he was

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insane. Coats himself

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maintained that he was innocent. The

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New York Times covered the scandal at

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every step. In one article,

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under the headline all Germany

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is talking of it, the Times

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wrote, quote many think that

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Kotze is merely a crank. They

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based their judgment of him on the

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fact that a few of his ancestors

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have gone crazy and that he often

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behaved eccentrically in his younger

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days.

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But fairly quickly after Coates's

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arrest, most people came to the

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realization that he wasn't the anonymous

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writer. One cabinet member

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visited him in prison and said speaking

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with Coatzi made him more doubtful

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than ever of Kotz's guilt. The

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ink water evidence was thin at

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best, and most of the letters

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didn't even look like they could have come from

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Kotz's hand. In prison,

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Kotze was hosted in the best rooms

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of linden Strauss, and the general

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who had arrested him had special

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orders for high quality meals

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to be delivered specially to him

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daily. And then came

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the ultimate evidence of Kotz's innocence.

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While he was in prison, the letters

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continued. The New York

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Times wrote, since his arrest,

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several foul missives have been

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delivered to the Emperor's circle. They

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charged wives with unfaithfulness

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and husbands with deb auchery.

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As a quick aside, the letters being

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explicit and well just gossipy

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mean that most historians and no newspapers

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at the time actually published their contents.

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The letters are mostly just described

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in euphemistic terms. The

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first and only source that

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I could find that was brave enough to actually

19:22

share some of the dirty details was

19:25

a German book written only by

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Wolfgang Whipperman, which, if you care

19:30

to read, was at least for me,

19:33

a fun adventure in pornographic

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auto translate. The

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case against Cosa was collapsing.

19:41

A handwriting expert was brought in,

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who determined that Coacha was not

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in fact the author, and that the letters

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may even have been written by a woman. By

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now, word of the scandal was

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occupying every single club

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and living room. On

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April tenth, The

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New York Times reported that the Emperor

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confirmed the exoneration of Kotze

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after he was acquitted by court martial,

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but the real guilty party still wasn't

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found, and KOTZEI it was

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furious at those who had destroyed

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his reputation with their slander.

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For Kotze the scandal was

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not over. As

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soon as he was free, Kotze challenged

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the hof Marshal von Reichtak to

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a duel at dawn near the

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Hallandsea train station. The

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terms of the duel had each man shoot

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as many times as necessary.

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It took eight gunshots, but eventually

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von Reichschach hit Kotze

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with a bullet in the thigh.

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Emperor Wilhelm the second sent an

20:52

ornate Easter egg to Kotza's sick bed

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while he recovered. For him,

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that was the end of this, but it wasn't

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the end for pa On

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the advice of his lawyer, Coates, A sued

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Baron Schrader for libel for

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what he believed was the fabrication

21:08

of evidence that led to his arrest. But

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the case was dismissed from court, and

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coat Say demanded satisfaction,

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even though he had already been shot in

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the thigh. Coutes demanded

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another duel, this

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time with Baron Schrader. They

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would stand ten paces apart and

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keep shooting approaching the other until

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one of them was disabled. On

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Good Friday, Kotze, who had already

21:36

been found innocent of the letter writing scandal,

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shot Trader in the abdomen

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and killed him.

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Only months released from his first

21:46

imprisonment, Cotes was sentenced

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to another two years in prison for the

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death of Baron Schrader. The

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German government passed a harsh law against

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dueling, but three months later the

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Emperor pardoned le Brick phone coach.

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We still don't know who wrote the anonymous

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letters. It's possible that if they

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were given a more comprehensive examination

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today, a scientific analysis

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could give us the answer. But the

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Kaiser and his family had tried for decades

22:19

to keep the scandal as secret

22:21

as possible. Alleging

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debaucheries was one thing, it was

22:26

a far worse thing if common people

22:28

realized that nobles were actually

22:30

committing them. Kotsai

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challenging his accusers to duels was

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tragic, but maybe for the Kaiser

22:38

secretly a blessing. High

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society became so absorbed

22:43

in the scandal of the duels that

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they forgot the scandal that preceded

22:48

it. The problem with

22:50

a kingdom trying to maintain nobility

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emerges when it becomes apparent that

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those people who were born into privilege

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are no fundamentally better than the

23:00

rest of us. Why do some people

23:02

get to be dukes and duchesses, princes

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and kaisers, and how do they

23:07

get to hold onto that power after

23:09

the people below them find out that the

23:11

nobles are just spending their time indulging

23:14

in their basest human impulses. The

23:17

power of a monarchy exists

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only as long as people buy into

23:21

the belief that either the king and his family

23:23

were chosen by God, or,

23:25

if it's not that overt that they

23:27

embody certain noble ideals

23:30

that make them worthy of leadership, that

23:33

may be because they have access to education

23:35

and money and pedigree. They're somehow

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finer than the rest of us in ways that

23:40

are maybe even too subtle to articulate.

23:43

But then fifteen of them get drunk

23:46

and get naked, and then one

23:48

of them spend the next four years taunting

23:50

all of them with petty adolescent gossip,

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and one realizes that maybe

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the wealthy and elite are just board

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common people, trapped in a gilded cage

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with their own making, Devoid of

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purpose and devoid of the satisfaction

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that can only be gleaned from a hard day's

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work. The nobles are forced

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to invent these petty rivalries to

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fight duels in order to convince

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themselves that their lives serve the

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purpose of honor and well

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dignity. That's

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the story of the Codes affair. But keep

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listening after a brief sponsor break to

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hear a bit about the modern theories

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about who was behind the anonymous

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letters. So

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who wasn't Who was the one who wrote

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those scandalous letters to the depressional

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elite accusing them of all sorts

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of terrible things. The

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most prominent theory is that it was Duke

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Ernst Gunther, the scandalous brother

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in law of Wilhelm the Second. He

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was the type of person who was almost entirely

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capable of stirring up trouble, and

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he and the Kaiser did have a falling out

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that eventually led him to being banned

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from the palaces in Berlin and Potsdam.

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The ostensible reason was losing

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that black eagle metal in the bed of

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a prostitute, But who knows.

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He could have been guilty of, or

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at least suspected of other crimes.

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There's another dark horse theory about

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the anonymous letter writer, but it

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seems very unlikely. It

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is I will say so fundamentally

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appealing that I'm inclined to believe

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it, even without actual evidence.

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It's that the man behind these letters

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wasn't a man at all, but the Kaiser's

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sister, Princess Charlotte.

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Some even suggest that she only

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invited the fifteen nobles to

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the ice skating party come orgy as

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a trap. She was famously

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prickly, a lifelong chain smoker

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and lover of scandal. The

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personality seems to fit, but

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there is also some evidence to the contrary.

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Charlotte was a dear friend of Coats's wife,

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Elizabeth, and after Coats it was wounded

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in his first duel, Charlotte

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wrote in a letter, Coats at last

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pronounced free, but since yesterday

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badly wounded, his wife is

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so courageous and behaves admirably.

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The long ten months train must

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soon tell on her nerves, dear

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thing, how I longed to help and comfort her.

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Now. It's not a letter

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that Charlotte would have ever imagined would

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go on to the public record, so it

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doesn't read like she's trying to throw us off

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the scent. But who knows. Maybe

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it was guilt speaking, or

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maybe the letters were written in fits

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of mania, and when she calmed

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down, she was filled with contrition

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for the man who stepped in to take

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all of the literal and

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metaphorical fire. Princess

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Charlotte spent the twilight years of her

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life in treatment for psychosis in

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the spot town of baden Baden. Though

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as you know, I am remissed to diagnose

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anyone with anything posthumously, historians

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do believe that her symptoms resembled

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porphyria, the same

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disorder suffered by her great

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great grandfather, the Mad

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King George the Third. Noble

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