Now Lola’s house in Barerstrasse 7 was ready. I wonder if it is still there? It was quite a little palace.

Lola was a big spender and she went way up over the budget. She was driving Heideck  crazy. She sent him all bills that she could not afford.

The house was the first in Munich  to have plate glass widows with movable iron shutters.

It had a fountain in the garden. There was a marble mantelpiece. The house was all very fine. Specially adorned rooms.  A crystal staircase. A saloon. Ladies room, dining room, yellow room, green room, a very fine piano. The bedroom on the upper floor was very elegant. King Ludwig loaned her books from the library and an Etruscan Vase from the Royal collection. Every thing was like a dream.

The king took ill. He had rashes all over his face. The queen would not visit him. She was repulsed by his disease.

Lola would however visit him and she came though a private stairway in the palace to his sickroom. They would spend time together and read a lot together.

Now Nussabammer is not on the scene. He had hurt him self in a riding accident.  

When the king is feeling better he visits Lola a lot. They spend a lot of time together and she is more popular now.  

The king does not know about Lola’s origin. He still thinks she is Spanish. An English paper had published an article about Lola where her true story is told. The king reads papers form other countries of course and  Lola refuses all this. With a permission from the king she is writing articles about her self and sending to papers.

She writes to an English paper saying that  she was born in Seville in 1823, that her father was a Spanish officer, that her mother was born at the Havannah and married for the second time an Irish gentleman. She says that her name is Maira Delores Porris Montez and that she has never changed her name.

Lola knows that the king must not know her true origin.

Lola was invited to Nürnberg. She went by train and the cities officials were hoping that the king would built a direct line between them and Würsburg. She then went on to Bamsberg . It was a long journey by train and she did not get a good welcome there. It was the hissing, the manure and all that. She went elsewhere by coach and when the king learned about this he was furious.

Lola blamed the welcoming on the Jesuits. I don’t know if I have told you but Lola was sure that the Jesuits were against her and making her life difficult.

A young man by the name of Elias Preissner called Fritz by his friends was one of Lola’s admires. He was a  student at the university. He belonged to a fraternity called the Palatia. He was seen through the tall windows of Lola’s house and it had consequences for him and his companions who were with them.

They were accused of  dishonouring the fraternity.

They then formed their own fraternity the Allemannia. They would be  guards of honour for  Lola’s Montez and she would be their patronage.

This is the origin of this fraternity and I see them as Lola’s court.