I do not go to mass. The day after tomorrow is Easter. At three o'clock ==at the procession of the Shroud==.
To mass. Julie has taken communion; in her best dress she is not at all plain.
I wake at quarter to twelve. Towards two o'clock I have lunch with everyone. By three o'clock I am ready — (Archduke dress, Watteau hat, yellow...
Ah, my beautiful dream!
I must now record that I have beaten Georges.
After Laussel, I go to Nina's, where Maman has taken refuge for the past two days. Her adorable brother would kill her at home. I am sure that if...
I do not know whether I mentioned that the unpleasantness with Collignon and her departure were caused by Grand-papa. The great imbecile had taken a...
Yesterday with Marie and Olga we told fortunes; I opened the book for ==Blackprince== and read: *he marries.*
Some Spanish women come with their wares. I buy a black mantilla, which I go perfectly mad over — and through it, over the Spanish language and over...
I want to learn Spanish, the balcony, the mantilla, and a serenade.
I no longer remember on what occasion, but Maman and my aunt began saying unkind things about the English.
Why am I certain of being a queen one day? I say so aloud and we laugh about it.
I go to lunch at Nina's with the others, but the ==*botvinia*== (even writing the word dirties my pen) and the onions and such horrors make me desert.
I speak so much of being a queen that people are beginning to call me one.
At dinner I was organising my court. Yourkoff — chamberlain, because he brought me strawberries and fresh cucumbers.
I walk with Sabatini (Archduke dress, Watteau hat, *good*). Truly I am in love with myself.
I go on having superb dreams. Yesterday it was giants: Mme Prodgers on horseback and Mme Vigier on a donkey, both five times life-size. Then Gioia,...
At eight o'clock I am already out with Sabatini (short unbleached linen dress, unbleached stockings, golden shoes — the whole thing smart and...
At dinner we have all the Sapogenikoffs. I love having them but it makes me go to bed late, as in the evening everyone stays in the garden, laughing...
I am quite overcome, it is so hot.
I was at the concert with Collignon and Olga; Marie and Nina had stayed behind at our house, having arrived in petticoats and white chemises. So — I...
I have written to Paul and to Sacha, so that they may make clear to my father that I am going to Russia — not to stay with him.
Maman, my aunt, and Nina go to Monaco — and we go to the château!
Our gesture — the Masonic gesture by which we recognise one another — it is, it is, let me see how to explain it...