Chapter III: Book V: Double-Marriage Project, and What Element It Fell Into

1723-1726.

Chapter I. -- DOUBLE-MARRIAGE IS DECIDED ON. QUEEN SOPHIE DOROTHEE HAS TAKEN TIME BY THE FORELOCK. PRINCESS AMELIA COMES INTO THE WORLD. FRIEDRICH WILHELM'S TEN CHILDREN.

Chapter II. -- A KAISER HUNTING SHADOWS. IMPERIAL MAJESTY ON THE TREATY OF UTRECHT. IMPERIAL MAJESTY HAS GOT HAPPILY WEDDED. IMPERIAL MAJESTY AND THE TERMAGANT OF SPAIN. IMPERIAL MAJESTY'S PRAGMATIC SANCTION. THIRD SHADOW: IMPERIAL MAJESTY'S OSTEND COMPANY.

Chapter III. -- THE SEVEN CRISES OR EUROPEAN TRAVAIL-THROES. CONGRESS OF CAMBRAI. CONGRESS OF CAMBRAI GETS THE FLOOR PULLED FROM UNDER IT. FRANCE AND THE BRITANNIC MAJESTY TRIM THE SHIP AGAIN: HOW FRIEDRICH WILHELM CAME INTO IT. TREATY OF HANOVER, 1725. TRAVAIL-THROES OF NATURE FOR BABY CARLOS'S ITALIAN APANAGE; SEVEN IN NUMBER.

Chapter IV. -- DOUBLE-MARRIAGE TREATY CANNOT BE SIGNED.

Chapter V. -- CROWN-PRINCE GOES INTO THE POTSDAM GUARDS. OF THE POTSDAM GIANTS, AS A FACT. FRIEDRICH WILHELM'S RECRUITING DIFFICULTIES. QUEEN SOPHIE'S TROUBLES: GRUMKOW WITH THE OLD DESSAUER, AND GRUMKOW WITHOUT HIM.

Chapter VI. -- ORDNANCE-MASTER SECKENDORF CROSSES THE PALACE ESPLANADE.

Chapter VII. -- TOBACCO-PARLIAMENT. OF GUNDLING, AND THE LITERARY MEN IN TOBACCO-PARLIAMENT.

Chapter VIII. -- SECKENDORF'S RETORT TO HER MAJESTY.