title: Imperial Requiem: Four Royal Women and the Fall of the Age of Empires
author:  Justin C. Vovk 
description: Justin C. Vovk is the author of In Destiny's Hands: Five Tragic Rulers, Children of Maria Theresa. He is an independent journalist and historian who resides in Hamilton, Ontario.
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  # Janice Meredith
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Paul Leicester Ford
  
  
  This page copyright © 2002 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  To George W. Vanderbilt
  
  
  
  
  
  VOLUME I.
  
  
    
  I. A HEROINE OF MANY POSSIBILITIES
  
  
    
  II. THE PRINCE FROM OVER THE SEAS
  
  
    
  III. MISS MEREDITH DISCOVERS A VILLAIN
  
  
    
  IV. AN APPLE OF DISCORD
  
  
    
  V. THE VALUE OF HAIR
  
  
    
  VI. MEN ARE DECEIVERS EVER
  
  
    
  VII. SPIDER AND FLY
  
  
    
  VIII. SEVERAL BURNING QUESTIONS
  
  
    
  IX. PARADISE AND ELSEWHERE
  
  
    
  X. A COLONIAL CHRISTMAS
  
  
    
  XI. "'T IS AN ILL WIND THAT BLOWS NOBODY GOOD"
  
  
    
  XII. A BABE IN THE WOOD
  
  
    
  XIII. THE WORLD IN MINIATURE
  
  
    
  XIV. A QUESTION CONCERNING THALIA
  
  
    
  XV. QUESTIONS OF DELICACY
  
  
    
  XVI. A VARIETY OF CONTRACTS
  
  
    
  XVII. IN THE NAME OF LIBERTY
  
  
    
  XVIII. FIGUREHEADS AND LEADERS
  
  
    
  XIX. SPIES AND COUNTER-SPIES
  
  
    
  XX. THE LOGIC OF HONOURED PARENTS AND DUTIFUL
  
  
  CHILDREN
  
  
    
  XXI. A SUDDEN SCARCITY OF BEAUX
  
  
    
  XXII. THE OLIVE BRANCH
  
  
    
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