"The powers must recognize that this is a question of vital interest not only for all sovereigns, but for all orders, states, and classes of citizens in all countries and in republics as well as monarc…"

"I am calm, as one is when one has nothing to reproach oneself with."

"The King has done everything to avoid civil war, and he is still very much convinced that civil war cannot correct anything, and that it shall, in the end, destroy everything."

"I was a queen, and I had a king, and I had a court, and I had a husband. I was a wife, and I was a mother. I was a friend, and I was a sister. I was a daughter, and I was a granddaughter. I was a niec…"

"I know I have been a bad queen, but I have tried to be a good mother."