In short, it was the first time that the Duchess of Hohenberg had been treated as enjoying equal privileges with her husband.

During his short stay in Roumania the Archduke had the pleasure of seeing his wife treated as his equal and not as a person of slight importance, always relegated to the background.

At the court balls in Vienna the duchess was always obliged to walk behind all the archduchesses, and never had any gentleman allotted to her whose arm she could take.

In Roumania she was _his wife_, and etiquette was not concerned with her birth.

The Archduke valued this proof of friendly tactfulness on the part of the King very highly, and always afterwards Roumania, in his eyes, was endowed with a special charm.