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Excerpt from The Chiemsee and the Royal Castle of Herren-Chiemsee To none of its princes has the Bavarian nation ever looked forward with more confidence than to this young king, whose manly beauty captivated every heart from the very first. In political matters he followed at first the inclinations of his father; he sided with Austria and won the confidence of everyone by his warm-hearted intervention for Schleswig Holstein; with a heavy'heart he entered upon the unhappy Civil War of 1866, and when, after it was over, the king passed through the Frankish provinces which had suffered the most under the scourge of war, great was the reception accorded to their young king by the inhabitants. Ever memorable will be his fidelity as an ally towards the pan-german States. And when, after the great war of a plan was set on foot to give the imperial Crown to the old King William, it was Louis II who first suggested the idea. He was received in Munich on the 16th of July 1871 at the head of the Bavarian troops, side by side with their victorious leader, the Crown Prince Frederic William of Prussia (the future Emperor Frederic) amid a scene of the greatest enthusiasm. To the king, meanwhile, bitter deceptions were not spared. His sensitive nature suffered much from the unhappy result of a love romance, and as jealousy and intrigues conduced to hinder his dearest project to prepare a worthy home in the Capital for the great composer Richard Wagner, his well-justified exasperation made him retire more and more into the beloved solitude of the mountains and forests; and the world of romance round Hohenschwangau took daily a firmer hold upon him. There it was that his tragic destiny was gradually evolved. 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.