tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190794791790101691.post8053398823937079523..comments2023-07-08T20:30:18.584+01:00Comments on Grand Duchess Elizabeth And Other Stories: Tragic Heroes...Christinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00714569232976515363noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190794791790101691.post-87882661074240773372010-04-18T22:17:28.954+01:002010-04-18T22:17:28.954+01:00...and I agree. I don't believe in 'accide......and I agree. I don't believe in 'accidents'!Christinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00714569232976515363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190794791790101691.post-14498033508832863782010-04-18T20:36:22.887+01:002010-04-18T20:36:22.887+01:00Yes, they say there's no such thing as an acci...Yes, they say there's no such thing as an accident!Heart of the Woodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11228338686534366041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190794791790101691.post-9337031677249822662010-04-17T13:19:19.930+01:002010-04-17T13:19:19.930+01:00Oh yes, I agree he had his reasons to be angry and...Oh yes, I agree he had his reasons to be angry and, as you so perfectly wrote, the anger was really at himself and his 'dogged sense of duty' but he projected it onto the world. Comparing him, for example, with the Russian Grand Dukes who were stripped of their land ad forced into exile for marrying for love, he came out of it rather well - kept his titles, his commissions, and remained heir...and married the woman he loved.<br />Interesting though that he didn't want that responsibility and 'got out of it' before it happened...albeit in extreme circumstances!Christinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00714569232976515363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190794791790101691.post-31791819783128288002010-04-17T08:22:15.939+01:002010-04-17T08:22:15.939+01:00One can imagine his reasons for being angry. Catap...One can imagine his reasons for being angry. Catapulted into public life from comfortable obscurity by the suicide of Rudolph and the abdication of his father. Marrying for love and scorned by the snobbish court of Vienna. Surely only a dogged sense of duty kept him from walking away from it all! So he was a victim of his sense of duty, and angry with the world which robbed him of his private joys.Heart of the Woodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11228338686534366041noreply@blogger.com