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Royal Highness
I
THE CONSTRICTION
Artillery salvos were fired when the various new-fangled means of
communication in the capital spread the news that the Grand Duchess
Dorothea had given birth to a prince for the second time at Grimmburg.
Seventy-two rounds resounded through the town and surrounding country,
fired by the military in the walls of the "Citadel." Directly afterwards
the fire brigade also, not to be outdone, fired with the town
salute-guns; but in their firing there were long pauses between each
round, which caused much merriment among the populace.
The Grimmburg looked down from the top of a woody hill on the
picturesque little town of the same name, which mirrored its grey
sloping roofs in the river which flowed past it. It could be reached
from the capital in half an hour by a local railway which paid no
dividends. There the castle stood, the proud creation of the Margrave
Klaus Grimmbart, the founder of the reigning house in the dim mists of
history, since then several times rejuvenated and repaired, fitted with
the comforts of the changing times, always kept in a habitable state and
held in peculiar honour as the ancestral seat of the ruling house, the
cradle of the dynasty. For it was a rule and tradition of the house that
all direct descendants of the Margrave, every child of the reigning
couple, must be born there.
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