Excerpt from Memoirs of Frederica Sophia Wilhelmina, Vol. 1 of 2: Princess Royal of Prussia, Margravine of Baireuth, Sister of Frederick the Great Purpose of a more exemplary vindication. This rel enchanted princess was never fairly righted while she lived, and now that she has been dead above a hun dred years, there are still people to say that she never was enchanted but by her own wilfulness and jealousy and ambition; and that if she was cruelly used by oth ers, it was no more than a person of her disposition ought to have expected. She was the eldest daughter of a Northern king, and through all her childhood his pet and favorite. He was rich and powerful, but hf was coarse and mean in most things, and he had8 furious temper, which he used to vent upon his chil dren and subjects, kicking and caning them, and strik ing them with his fists, and bullying the queen, quite like a king in pantomime. He had two evil geniuss for his ministers, who set him against his own flesh awl blood, and made him break off the matches on which the queen had set her heart, between his children the princess and the crown-prince and the children of a neighboring king and this they did at the of the Emperor of the East, who kept them in his pa? The poor little enchanted princess had a governess who used to beat her and scratch her, and who kept her in such terror that she durst not tell of her cruelties. W as long as she remained a child, and till the affair f the double marriage came up, she had some comfofl of her life in her savage father's love. But when thin business began, her father's love was turned to half under the influence of his evil geniuses, and she sflf' fered every manner of insult and persecution from him and his ministers, and even from the servants of the palace. The queen was a vain and silly woman, who used to plot with her children to thwart the king; ml the princess lived in continual fear of both her parents. 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.