* Extracts from the driver’s statement appear in Holler, Ihr Kampf, pp. 259, 263, 265. Holler devotes twenty-four pages to the escape; Louise describes it in fourteen. Holler’s pages include a discussion of the legal issues arising from the flight, as well as quotations from reports of the episode in German, Austrian and French newspapers.

† Of the journey through Belgium, Louise writes (Autour, p. 261): ‘At long last I saw my country again but alas I did not dare to get out. The king was working hand-in-glove with Prince Philipp. I could not even sit near the window and had difficulty in controlling my trembling hands. How ironic was the standard question directed at me by the customs officials who boarded the train: “Have you anything to declare?”…Did I not! If only my declaration could have reached as far as Laeken and resounded through the king’s residence there!’

The Lord Marshal’s demand that the princess be returned forthwith to Austria is quoted in Holler, Ihr Kampf, p. 276.