Excerpt from The Life and Times of Queen Adelaide This book, like all other undertakings, has suffered from the Great Upset, as it has been called, of the War. By the kind permission of the authorities of saxe-meiningen, photographs of portraits of Queen Adelaide's parents, and of herself as child, young lady, and bride, were to have graced these pages. However, the war broke out just as, preliminaries having been arranged, the Court photographer was about to execute his task in the Castle of saxe-meiningen, and very naturally I have never received the photo graphs. 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.