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My Own Affairs is an autobiography by Louise, Princess of Belgium. Princess Louise was the eldest child of King Leopold II and Queen Marie Henriette of Belgium. Somewhat known as a renegade, she describes her personal life as one where happiness had to be sacrificed for the sake of royal tradition.
While we were still in Paris, I felt, and have felt increasingly ever since, that you accepted my guidance and direction on questions with regard to which I had to instruct you only with increasing reluctance.... "... I must say that it would relieve me of embarrassment, Mr. Secretary, the embarrassment of feeling your reluctance and divergence of judgment, if you would give your present office up and afford me an opportunity to select some one whose mind would more willingly go along with mine." These words are taken from the letter which President Wilson wrote to me on February 11, 1920. On the following day I tendered my resignation as Secretary of State by a letter, in which I said: