MARIA SOPHIA
Queen of Naples

Life Stories for Young People

QUEEN MARIA SOPHIA
OF NAPLES
A FORGOTTEN HEROINE

Translated from the German of
Carl Küchler

BY
GEORGE P. UPTON
Author of “Musical Memories,” “Standard Operas,” etc.
Translator of “Memories,” “Immensee,” etc.

WITH FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS

CHICAGO
A. C. McCLURG & CO.
1910

Copyright
A. C. McClurg & Co.
1910
Published September 24, 1910

THE · PLIMPTON · PRESS
[W·D·O]
NORWOOD·MASS·U·S·A

Translator’s Preface

The story of the exiled Queen of Naples, MariaSophia, as the title-page of this little volumesets forth, is the story of a “forgottenheroine.” In many respects it recalls the story ofher sister, Elizabeth of Hungary, though her fatewas not so tragic. She was saved from the furyof the assassin; but she revealed many of hersister’s attributes—the same courage, the samebeauty, the same gayety of disposition, clouded inmuch the same manner, the same love of nature andof animals, the same love of the people, the samedomestic misfortunes. Her comparatively brief sovereigntyincluded a thrilling period of the strugglefor Italian unity. Her marriage was a brilliant one,her honeymoon most strange, and her after life mostlonely. She was a strong woman united to a weakman, not of her choice and not honored by her love.She had many faults, but of her heroism the siege ofGaeta will always bear witness. The other figuresin the story, the fascinating Lola Montez, CountCavour, the great statesman, King Victor Emanuel,King “Bomba,” and the red-shirted Garibaldi, addto its picturesqueness, and the manners and customsof the court of Bavaria as well as the sketches ofthe Wittelsbachs are not without historic interest.

G. P. U.

Chicago, July, 1910.

Contents

Chapter Page

I The House of Wittelsbach 11

II Life at Munich and Possenhofen 17

III Political Disturbances in Bavaria 24

IV The Wittelsbach Sisters 31

V The Neapolitan Royal Family 37

VI

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