There was a series in Royaylty magazine (3-part) a year or so ago that caught my interest. I had never heard of her before but, yes, juicy stuff! I had to go out and get her autobiography after that. She apparently felt stifled by the stiff court and ran off with her children's tutor in 1903. There were rumors that her youngest daughter, Princess Anna Monica, was her lover's rather than her husband's since she was born after Louise left. I think she (Louise) resided in a sanatorium while pregnant and immediately after. Eventually she gave up this child, who went to live in Dresden with her father and siblings, and basically her other children, seeing them only infrequently. She and the lover eventually broke up and, after the King divorced her, she married a composer or violinist named Enrico Toselli. She died in poverty in Brussells in 1947 and the King had abdicated in 1918 and died in 1932. It was quite the scandal and I have a series of postcards which detail how she abandoned the children and of her with her lover--really shocking for the times that it was so commented on publicly rather than hidden away. There were 3 sons (2 born the same year!) and 3 daughters. Her eldest son George is interesting to me as he renounced his rights in 1923 and became a Jesuit priest and was perhaps murdered by the Nazis as he was an outspoken opponent (as were many of the Catholic royal houses it seems--Saxony, Wurttemberg, Bavaria). Another son married Sophie of Luxemburg (one of the 6 lovely daughters there) and 2 of the daughters married Hohenzollern brothers (not descended from the Kaiser--different branch). Anna Monica married Archduke Josef Franz of Austria.
