title: Dearest Vicky, Darling Fritz: The Tragic Love Story of Queen Victoria's Eldest Daughter and the German Emperor
author:  John Van der Kiste 
description: John Van der Kiste, who lives in South Devon, has made a particular study of British and European royalty, and also writes on and reviews music. He has written many books, his most recent being Kaiser Wilhelm: Germany's Last Emperor and Georgian Princesses.
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  _The Imperial Family. In the cradle, Marie-Antoinette_
  
  
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  ## _The childhood of a Princess_
  
  
  
  
  
  Many, many years ago – over two hundred and fifty years – in the Hofburg
  Palace in Vienna, there lived an Empress and an Emperor, Maria-Theresa and
  Francis I of Austria. They loved each other very much, and they had fourteen
  children together already. One night, as dusk fell over the Imperial city,
  bells started ringing from every church tower, announcing the good news: “A
  little princess has been born! Light as a feat