10th December 1936

10th December 1936

Leutstetten to 27 Queen Square, Bath

Dear Madeleine!

Many thanks for your letter, it gave me great pleasure. I would have written to you sooner only always when I said I will write, one of the others said she has just written to you and told all that we did. I hope your concert was a success. You must have been very excited. I know very well the Polonaise by Chopin, because I once had to dance it in Vienna with a lot of other girls in a charity representation in the opera. We all had beautiful rococo dresses and the teacher of the ballet of the opera taught us how to dance it. It was very amusing, thus we saw the opera stage and all that. It was a success.

I am sending the photo I took of you and Mary in Middelkerke. I hope Mary is well again. You are always writing of your friend Susanne. Would you send us once a photo of her, that we know how see looks. I have also a friend of whom I am always talking, she is called Gita and is Hungarian, she is just as old as I am but small and fair and very lively and amusing. Now she is engaged to be married to a very nice boy.

We are doing a lot of work for Christmas now. I have painted on porcelain different things. Now we are sewing and doing fine needlework. Sometimes we have visits here. Every Sunday a cousin of ours is coming with her niece, that poor child must go to school in Munich and is unhappy in town. As on Sundays she comes out to play and run. We are going about twice a week to the theatre, today we went to see Konigskinder by Humperdink. I hope it will be nice. My brother is still in Hungary and will come back for Xmas. I am longing to see him. We are always having news on the radio of your King. I find that as a King one may not do such things, he should give up the thought of marriage with such a woman, it is his duty as King, he is old enough to understand it. I am curious to how it will all end. Now what about you, have you thought of becoming a Catholic? Have you asked for religion lessons? I would be very glad to hear you did. But if you don’t want me to mingle in these, your private things excuse me and tell me in your next letter. My love to your family.

Yours affectionately

Deidi