At the start of the last century finished, there was one queen whose reign was unlikely to be rivalled. In a sense it was, by the king-emperor Franz Joseph, who had followed her after eleven years and survived her by fifteen; a period best forgotten by those of that class to have seen it. And perhaps in this as well, the ruminations as well as the glories of the monarchy being at their very best in this new golden age of a sun already bent on setting. Why?
Elizabeth never served as Empress, missing out of that chance by mere years of her father's placable health, which would eventually collapse and ensure her a reign longer than her namesake - or even
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