In 1907 she took a fall on the staircase, she was never mentally the same again and forever the large doors of her marble palace were closed. Her sharpness faded and her brain deteriorated, her doctors ordered her not to entertain anymore. Servants would see her wandering through her large palace greeting guests that weren't really there and hosting dinners and parties that didn't exist. The large staff of 26 people that ran her palace was cut to a skeleton crew of 6 which consisted of The cook, the butler who had been with her since 1876, the housekeeper and three maids. Also attending to her was her doctor and three nurses. Finally she died in 1908.
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