A Woman s Name Of The Kopp Chronicles - 1314 Words

Chapter One February 23, 1843, 10 years before the events of An Immigrant American, Volume 1 of the Kopp Chronicles. Suddenly, the door of the carriage flung open, as it pulled up to the doors of the Mannheim Palace on an early and cold February morning in 1843. â€Å"Karolina, I am so glad you are here!† A young woman with brown disheveled hair said frantically as she burst into tears. â€Å"I thought you would never get here. I don’t know what to do with my hair, and my mother needs help with the wedding, and they will be here any moment! Please hurry and come with me!† She sobbed and ran toward the doors of the palace. Karolina Sorg, a pretty seventeen-year-old girl, and her mother Theresia surprised at the sudden stop of the carriage and the loud outburst quickly recovered. They stepped out of the carriage and followed her, breaking with all proper decorum as they entered the palace. The woman’s name was Princess Marie Amelie Elisabeth Karoline of Baden and that evening she was marrying the Marquess of Hamilton, son of the Duke of Hamilton. The previous day, her mother had sent an urgent message to Theresia to come to the palace and help with last minute wedding preparations. She also suggested Theresia bring her daughter with her to help the princess. Karolina and Theresia traveled overnight by carriage and by train all the way to Mannheim from the small village of Sulz, in the Grand Duchy of Baden, a distance of over 160 kilometers. When they arrived early in the morning at the