How did VM behave at Elisabeth's funeral?
I meant to drop 2 sentences about this but now I see it's better to post the letters of GD Sergei to Nicholas II and Elizaveta Fedorovna to GDss Xenia A.
I'll translate and post them.
Here are my translations of the letters (extracts)- about VM at the funeral.
Letter of GD Sergei to Emperor Nicholas - November 6th,Darmstadt
Dear Nicky
I’d like to write quick words about everything what was going on here. At the station in Frankfurt I came along with Ducky – she was together with Marie, Missy and baby Bee; when I was taking her to her carriage she asked if Ernie wished to see her or it would be displeasing too much for him. Her mood was very touching , their meeting was simple and natural. Ducky wished to see her daughter, and the coffin was uncovered. She was left alone with Ernie and asked him in detail about the illness and last minutes of the daughter…It was so very touching when after the end of the service – Ducky kneeled and put her head on the daughter’s coffin, and when she rose we saw that she had taken off her Hessian order and set it on the coffin: a sign that her connection with the country is cut off! She did that simply and naturally…Letter of GDss Elizaveta F. to GDss Xenia Alexandrovna, November 9th,Darmstadt
Dear Xenia
…All this is so sad, so sad – I have no words…The meeting with Ducky was going on well. She looked like a shadow – poor, unhappy woman. Everything might be awful for her , and her recollections about her daughter are related with such remorse. The child would have been with her now but for her affair with Kyrill. Will he marry her?...He discredited her entirely in everyone’s eyes, she is torn between and, alas! – they may thank themselves that they live now in a such situation. And all this drama has a basis – alas! – it’s a selfishness…
We all felt so sorry for her, we did everything to soothe a pain at the meeting. She was due to follow the coffin with her mother and sisters - ‘No,I want to go with someone of you’ - she followed with Victoria in the 1st carriage – Victoria was very oppressed with her grief…Ernie was as kind as an angel – he gave her a hand when she was getting out of a carriage and he was keeping her close by during all the service and funeral . He wanted that everyone saw in them a poor mother and father , not a divorced couple. Ony fancy what is that for him, but God helped him.The source of letters is
"Grand Duchess Elizaveta Feodorovna and Emperor Nicholas II. 1884-1909".
