How Princesses Are Trained For Their Position, in Lady's Realm magazine, year 1909
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.a0004087284&view=1up&seq=330
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Turning to Russia, we find there an Empress who, herself the daughter of an English Princess, was educated almost entirely in Germany, the curriculum imparted being perhaps the best of the joint countries. Her mother, the Princess Alice, had a very natural leaning to English methods, but the little Court at Darmstadt was essentially German — its formula rigid in the extreme. The young Tsaritsa emerged from the ordeal brilliantly clever and accomplished, very serious minded, and eminently fitted indeed for the singularly exalted position which she was called upon to fill directly after her marriage. She is the Empress of a hundred millions, but lives modestly amongst the splendours of a Court of almost barbaric splendour. ...
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