believe she wishes herself, she had never been a queen.

{daughter of Louis XVI = the dauphine, Marie Therese Charlotte,
Duchesse d'Angouleme, mentioned above; Amelie = Marie Amelie
(1782-1866), daughter of King Ferdinand IV of Naples, sister of King
Francis I of The Two Sicilies--reluctantly became queen in France
when her husband the Duke of Orleans seized the throne from Charles
X on July 31, 1830, and was proclaimed King Louis Philippe of the
French}

All our family did not aspire as high as royalty. Some looked forward to
the glories of a banker's daughter's trousseau,--we all understood that
our PRICE would be too high for any of the old nobility,--while some
even fancied that the happiness of traveling in company was reserved
for us before we should be called regularly to enter on the duties of life.
As we were so closely connected, and on the whole were affectionate
as became brothers and sisters, it was the common wish that we might
not be separated, but go together into the same wardrobe, let it be
foreign or domestic, that of prince or plebeian. There were a few among
us who spoke of the Duchesse de Berri as our future mistress; but the
notion prevailed that we should so soon pass into the hands of a femme
de chambre, as to render the selection little desirable. In the end we
wisely and philosophically determined to await the result with patience,
well knowing that we were altogether in the hands of caprice and
fashion.

{Duchesse de Berri = Marie Caroline (1798-1870), wife of Charles
Ferdinand of Artois, Duke of Berry, second son of King Charles X;
femme de chambre = lady's maid}