🔓 Critique de DE LA TYRANNIE À LA LIBERTÉ : MÉMOIRES DE MA VIE par la comtesse Viktoria-Luise de Solms-Baruth

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En 2016, Eurohistory a publié son 23e livre : De la tyrannie à la liberté – Mémoires de ma vie de la comtesse Viktoria-Luise de Solms-Baruth, ancienne princesse Friedrich Josias de Saxe-Cobourg et Gotha (Mme Richard CB Whitten).

Comtesse Viktoria-Luise zu Solms-Baruth.

De la liberté à la tyrannie – Mémoires de ma vie rassemble les souvenirs de la comtesse Viktoria-Luise de Solms-Baruth, première épouse du prince Friedrich Josias, fils cadet et héritier du duc Carl Eduard de Saxe-Cobourg et Gotha. Elle fut très probablement la première femme allemande de lignée royale à épouser un officier américain, le capitaine Richard « Dick » Whitten, qu’elle rencontra au début de l’année 1947. Leur histoire d’amour sembla être un tourbillon et en novembre, le couple unifia ses destinées et s’installa dans un mariage de longue durée. Viktoria-Luise était une femme extraordinaire. 

L'acte de mariage du capitaine Richard Whitten et de la comtesse Viktoria-Luise de Solms-Baruth.

Viktoria-Luise arrive aux États-Unis en 1948.

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Viktoria-Luise de Solms-Baruth (1921-2003) a mené l’une des vies les plus extraordinaires qu’on puisse imaginer.

Née dans une famille noble allemande extrêmement bien connectée, sa marraine et homonyme était la grand-tante maternelle de Viktoria-Luise, Auguste Viktoria de Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, dernière impératrice allemande et première épouse de Guillaume II. Viktoria-Luise a grandi dans une Allemagne sous le choc de la défaite de la Première Guerre mondiale et a grandi pendant les jours sombres du Troisième Reich. Sa famille était fermement opposée au régime nazi et son père (et d'autres membres de la famille) a finalement été emprisonné en raison de son opposition aux politiques horribles d'Adolf Hitler.

On the cusp of her 21st birthday, Viktoria-Luise wed her first cousin (their mothers were sisters) Prince Friedrich Josias of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. This union was of short duration due to the total incompatibility of their characters, but before divorcing the couple did have one child, Andreas, who his mother referred to as “my little prince.” Today Prince Andreas is the Head of the Ducal House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Now in his golden years, the Prince recently released his own compilation of memoirs (I did it my way). From what this reviewer has read and heard, Andreas seems to be much loved by the people of Coburg, the town of his ancestors which he has called home since he returned to Germany in the 1960s.

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Not long after the defeat of the Axis Powers, a charming American army officer named Richard Whitten entered the scene. He and Viktoria-Luise fell in love and eventually married. This marriage brought much happiness and much change into Viktoria-Luise’s life. After living for a few years in Europe, the couple and their small children (Andreas and the couple’s young daughter, Victoria) moved to America.

The last chapters of this collection of reminiscences unfold as Viktoria-Luise (at times, quite hilariously) tells the reader of her adaption to life as a “normal” housewife in the United States. In addition to the different culture, she was faced with so many new responsibilities and situations, but she certainly learned how to “fit in” with the way of life in this country—all the while remaining conscious of her heritage and retaining close ties to all of her numerous royal and noble relatives in Europe. The book comes to a close in the 1950s; perhaps the author intended to share more, but simply ran out of earthly time.

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If I recall correctly, these memoirs were written when Viktoria-Luise was an elderly lady living in Louisiana. Her personality jumps off the pages as when one reads her book. She is candid, funny (her sense of humor and self-deprecation made me burst into laughter several times), honest and “sharp as a tack.” It is almost as though you are sitting with her in her living room listening to her speak.

From Tyranny to Freedom—Memoirs of My Life is truly a top favorite on my shelf.

Read it and you will not fail to be charmed by this amazing woman.

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