My Own Story (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from My Own Story

I Have frequently been urged to make a public repudiation of the various inaccurate statements which, for nearly ten years, have been circulated regarding my life and actions.

Hitherto I have maintained silence, because I have disdained to reply to those who have maligned me. It has, however, been indicated to me that as my sons are now approaching an age when the mendacious assertions in question may be communicated to them, it is my duty, as their mother, to make public the actual reasons which led to my leaving Dresden, and to my ultimate banishment from Saxony.

That is my principal motive in publishing my own recital of the facts, and I am likewise desirous that future historians of the Houses of Saxony and Habsburg should not perpetuate errors through lack of contradiction on my part.

I also wish to give an unqualified denial to the prevalent assumption that I am the author of Confessions of a Princess.

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