Excerpt from The Mother of an Emperor: Reprints From Pen and Brush On a windy March morning considerably over a century ago in the old city of Hanover (germany), a beautiful princess was born. She had large blue eyes and golden hair. The cradle in which they rocked her, when she was large enough to be taken from her mother's arms, was a curiously-designed little affair of dark, rich wood, lined with green silk. The sky-blue, the baby color of the present age, seems not to have been sought for among her belongings. Her home is in a dark, narrow street, busy with the traffic of an old German city. Her father is not made governor general of the city until after her birth. To be sure, her aunt is the wife of George III of England, and both she and the king are very partial to the father of our young princess. When only six years old, and the golden hair was beginning to turn a trifle brown, she and her sisters were taken out of the house very suddenly one day, and when they returned from their walk, they were told that their aunt, the Princess Charlotte, would remain with them for the present; that their mother had been called away. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.