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Contents

BOOK V. — DOUBLE-MARRIAGE PROJECT, AND WHAT ELEMENT IT FELL INTO. — 1723-1726.

Chapter I. — DOUBLE-MARRIAGE IS DECIDED ON.
QUEEN SOPHIE DOROTHEE HAS TAKEN TIME BY THE FORELOCK.
PRINCESS AMELIA COMES INTO THE WORLD.
FRIEDRICH WILHELM'S TEN CHILDREN.

Chapter II. — A KAISER HUNTING SHADOWS.
IMPERIAL MAJESTY ON THE TREATY OF UTRECHT.
IMPERIAL MAJESTY HAS GOT HAPPILY WEDDED.
IMPERIAL MAJESTY AND THE TERMAGANT OF SPAIN.
IMPERIAL MAJESTY'S PRAGMATIC SANCTION.
THIRD SHADOW: IMPERIAL MAJESTY'S OSTEND COMPANY.

Chapter III. — THE SEVEN CRISES OR EUROPEAN TRAVAIL-THROES.
CONGRESS OF CAMBRAI.
CONGRESS OF CAMBRAI GETS THE FLOOR PULLED FROM UNDER IT.
FRANCE AND THE BRITANNIC MAJESTY TRIM THE SHIP AGAIN: HOW FRIEDRICH WILHELM CAME INTO IT. TREATY OF HANOVER, 1725.
TRAVAIL-THROES OF NATURE FOR BABY CARLOS'S ITALIAN APANAGE; SEVEN IN NUMBER.

Chapter IV. — DOUBLE-MARRIAGE TREATY CANNOT BE SIGNED.

Chapter V. — CROWN-PRINCE GOES INTO THE POTSDAM GUARDS.
OF THE POTSDAM GIANTS, AS A FACT.
FRIEDRICH WILHELM'S RECRUITING DIFFICULTIES.
QUEEN SOPHIE'S TROUBLES: GRUMKOW WITH THE OLD DESSAUER, AND GRUMKOW WITHOUT HIM.

Chapter VI. — ORDNANCE-MASTER SECKENDORF CROSSES THE PALACE ESPLANADE.

Chapter VII. — TOBACCO-PARLIAMENT.
OF GUNDLING, AND THE LITERARY MEN IN TOBACCO-PARLIAMENT.

Chapter VIII. — SECKENDORF'S RETORT TO HER MAJESTY.









BOOK V. — DOUBLE-MARRIAGE PROJECT, AND WHAT ELEMENT IT FELL INTO. — 1723-1726.





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