Chapter Two“It is lovely! It is exactly what a Royal Palace should be!” Tilda cried when they arrived at the Linderhof.
She found herself saying it again and again as they went round the fantastic Palace that King Ludwig had built in the green Graswang valley,
“The place owes its name to an ancient lime tree,” the King’s aide-de-camp explained. “Originally on this site there was only a little hunting-box.”
“Now it is fantastic!” Tilda exclaimed.
“It has only been finished this year,” the aide-de-camp went on. “His majesty, inspired by the French buildings of Versailles and the Trianon was determined to create something unique, a jewel amongst the mountains!”
“I have heard,” Professor Schiller interposed, “that His Majesty in a letter to Baron von Leonrod said,
‘It is essential to cre
