The Fall of Prince Florestan of Monaco

· 1911

I am Prince Florestan of Wurtemberg, born in 1850, and consequently now of the mature age of twenty-four. I might call myself “FLORESTAN II.” but I think it better taste for a dethroned prince, especially when he happens to be a republican, to resume the name that is in reality his own. Although the events which I am about to relate occurred this winter, so little is known in England of the affairs of the Ex-principality of Monaco, now forming the French commune of that name, that I feel that the details of my story, indeed all but the bare facts on which it is grounded, will be news to English readers. The English Post Office believes that Monaco forms part of Italy, and the general electi…

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