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To complete his new uniform, there was yet another medal to ornament it, and this one Goering had long yearned for. Count Galeazzo Ciano had come from Rome especially to drape it around his ample neck. It was the gold and bejeweled Collar of the Annunziata, and Goering, who had wept a couple of years earlier when Ribbentrop received it and he had been passed over, now had tears of joy in his eyes.

If the first meeting in the firelight of Rockelstadt Castle early in 1921 had cast a spell on them, this second encounter did nothing to break it. Carin von Kantzow was never one to disobey the dictates of her heart, and not the type to have a clandestine affair. It is typical of her romantic nature that she was quickly comparing herself and Goering with the stricken lovers of her favourite opera Tristan and Isolde.

If the first meeting in the firelight of Rockelstadt Castle had cast a spell on them, this second encounter certainly did nothing to break it. Carin von Kantzow was never one to disobey the dictates of her heart, and not the type to have a clandestine affair. It is typical of her romantic nature that she was quickly comparing herself and Goering with the stricken lovers of her favourite opera Tristan und Isolde.