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Updated: September 11, 2025
"If, for instance, I came to you to-day and said I wanted to marry one of my own nation say even a commoner in preference to the daughter of some foreign princeling, let me do it! It breaks with a foolish tradition largely our own importation when, as foreigners, we were seeking to keep up our prestige it may annoy or even embarrass the Government. Well! have they not annoyed and embarrassed you?"
Just as every little princeling of those days in Germany took Louis XIV for his model, so every literary fledgling looked upon Voltaire as a god, and modelled his style upon the stiff and pompous verses of the French literary men of that time. Not even to-day has Germany escaped from this bondage.
Beaufort went on serenely "there had been many a princeling." Madame contemplated the rosy horn on the tips of her fingers. "Monsieur le Comte was rich." "Admitted." "His title was old." "Again admitted. And all very well had he been only half as old as his title, this son-in-law of yours. Your son-in-law! It reads like one of Marguerite's tender tales.
"I do not know," replied Martial; "but she does not cry because she is left there without a partner; her grief is not of to-day. It is evident that she has beautified herself for this evening with intention. I would wager that she is in love already." "Bah! She is perhaps the daughter of some German princeling; no one talks to her," said Montcornet. "Dear! how unhappy a poor child may be!"
The Government allowed medals to be struck in honour of each little general who conquered a town "von Emmich, conqueror of Liege," etc., a pernicious practice as each general and princeling wanted to continue the war until he could get his face on a medal even if no one bought it. But the climax was reached when medals celebrating the sinking of the Lusitania were sold throughout Germany.
"Then as I live," answered Ithobal with fury, "I will take her from the hands of the gods and anoint her my dancing-woman. Do you think to make a mock of me, you people of Zimboe, whom I have honoured by desiring one of your daughters in marriage? You seek to trick me with your priests' juggling that you may keep her to be the toy of yonder princeling?
Inflated with Spanish vanity from the cradle, taught to regard his subjects as dependents on a despot's will, abandoned to the caprices of his own ungovernable temper, without substantial aid from the paternal piety or stoicism, he rapidly became a most intolerable princeling. His father married him, while yet a boy, to Claudia de' Medici, and virtually abdicated in his favour.
Ditte went awalking, so soft and round and red, Spin, spin away, Oh, and spin, spin away, Met a little princeling who doff'd his cap and said, Fal-de-ray, fal-de-ray, de-ray, ray, ray! Oh, come with me, fair maiden, to father's castle fine, Spin, spin away, Oh, and spin, spin away! We'll play the livelong day and have a lovely time, Fal-de-ray, fal-de-ray, de-ray, ray, ray!
Her poets and philosophers might sing of liberty and dream Utopian dreams, and here and there an experiment in popular government might be tried by some princeling who had caught the liberal fashion; but her political fabric, together with the rivalry between Prussia and Austria, kept her disunited and strangled all real hopes of reform.
Yet there is an element of romance, the romance of business, the interest which attaches to the rise of a family from the humble obscurity of a petty princeling to the power and prestige of world rulers, the same kind of interest which belongs to the life-story of Mr. Vanderbilt or Mr. Carnegie.
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