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INDEX
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Abbotsford, Queen visits, 295–6
Abdul Aziz, Sultan, 377
Abdul Hamid II, Sultan, 378
Aberdeen, Lord, 127, 141–2, 154, 168, 213–14, 223, 382
and Crimean War, 177, 180–1, 185, 193–4, 203
Acland, Henry, 242
Act of Settlement, 15, 92
Act of Union, 452–3
Ada of Hohenlohe, Princess, 174
Adalbert, Prince, 92
Adeane, Marie, 470–1, 490
Adelaide, Queen, 24, 30, 54, 56–7, 66, 69, 74, 216
Adelaide (Australia), 56
Aeschylus, 232
Afghanistan, 186, 320, 332, 394–5, 415, 417, 447–8
British withdrawal from, 400–1, 440
and Rafiuddin Ahmed’s spying, 524
and Russian incursions into India, 211, 447
Agra, 462, 464, 466, 474, 485, 487, 524, 546
Ahmed, Rafiuddin, 524, 546–7
Aix-les-Bains, 447
Albani (singer), 454, 552
Albany, Duke of, see Leopold, Prince
Albany, Charles Edward, Duke of, 567, 572–3
Albert Edward (‘Bertie’), Prince of Wales, see Edward VII, King
Albert, Prince
his achievements, 216–19, 261–2
antipathy to Palmerston, 127–8, 130, 162, 165, 179, 193–5, 288
and the army, 186, 194–5, 217–18, 314–15
his birth, 33, 37
and Crimean War, 185–7, 217
cultural tour of Italy, 115–16
his death, 253–6
distaste for Paris, 201
and Duchess of Kent’s death, 246–7
his effigy, 572
first visits Britain, 67–8
and foreign policy, 148, 206–6
and Great Exhibition, 155–8
illnesses, 228–9, 236, 247–51
images of, 99–101, 131
instinct for politics, 63
and Italian nationalism, 241–2
loneliness in Britain, 104
his marriage, 85, 96–7, 101–3
moral strictness, 175, 350
and music and singing, 218, 244–5, 275, 464
named as Prince Consort, 217
naturalization as British, 102–3
patronage of the arts, 115–18
his political influence, 104–6, 108, 126–8, 173, 218–19
Prince Albert/Stockmar vision for Germany, 147–8, 206–7, 241–2, 266–7, 272–3, 301
and Prince of Wales’s education, 225–6
and Princess Victoria’s marriage, 202, 206–7, 209–10, 216
prudishness, 230
quarrels with Queen, 107–8, 110, 199–200, 209–10, 232–3
and Queen’s funeral, 555
and royal finances, 102, 341
seen as ‘above politics’, 223
shows signs of ageing, 214
and Trent affair, 252
unpopularity, 216–17
veneration of science, 142, 219
and written English, 208
Albert Memorial, 261–2
Alberta accident, 375
‘Albertopolis’, 162–3, 167
Alexander I, Emperor of Russia, 37
Alexander II, Emperor of Russia, 205–6, 221, 358, 378
assassination of, 399–401
Alexander III, Emperor of Russia, 358, 449, 517–18
Alexander of Hesse by Rhine, Prince, 390, 439
Alexander of Hesse-Darmstadt (‘Sandro’), Prince, 382–5, 390, 429, 440
and Bulgarian crisis, 449–50
Alexander of the Netherlands, Prince, 67
Alexander of Würrtemberg, Prince, 179, 495
Alexandra (‘Alix’) of Denmark, Princess, 8, 275, 277, 282, 346, 550
her marriage, 274–5
and Prince Alfred’s marriage, 358–9
and Prince Eddy’s marriage, 489–90
and Prince of Wales’s illness, 347–51
Alexandra Feodorovna (‘Alicky’), Empress of Russia, 270, 388, 390, 489, 550
coronation and autocracy, 541–3
her marriage, 517–18
visit to Balmoral, 541–2
Alexandria, bom
bardment of, 441
Alexei, Tsarevich, 390
Alfred (‘Affie’), Prince (Duke of Edinburgh)
and assault on Queen, 152–3
his birth, 106
childhood, 132, 134, 209
his daughter, 502
his death, 567
and Eastern Question, 376–8, 382–4
his marriage, 207, 358–60
naval career, 217, 226, 228, 358, 431, 516
offered throne of Greece, 273
quarrels with John Brown, 358
and Queen’s burial, 555
shot in Sydney, 309
his silver wedding, 562
and smoking, 277
takes Saxe-Coburg-Gotha title, 516
and women, 272, 358
Alfred of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (‘Young Affie’), Prince, 562, 567
Ali, Hourmet, and theft of brooch, 479–80
Alice, Princess (Duchess of Hesse-Darmstadt)
and assault on Queen, 152–3
her birth, 106, 111, 120
childhood, 132, 134
and diphtheria outbreak, 388–9
and her father’s death, 254–5, 270
her funeral and tomb, 389–90, 396
and John Brown’s coming to England, 286, 298
her marriage, 237, 244, 264, 269–71
philanthropic activities, 270, 304
political allegiances, 277, 359, 378, 383
and Prince of Wales’s illness, 347–9, 388
her sons, 357, 516
Alsace and Lorraine, 470
American Civil War, 242, 248, 251–2, 254, 265, 283, 290, 306
Amorbach, 28–30, 33, 45
anaesthetics, 172
Angeli, Heinrich von, 487
Anglesey, Marquess of, 55–6, 58, 73
‘Anglo-Catholic martyrs’, 366
Anne, Queen, 86
Anson, Sir George, 104, 106–7, 249
Antrim, Countess of, 287
Aosta, Duke of, 571
Arabi Pasha, Colonel, 441
Argyll, Duchess of, see Louise, Princess
Argyll, Duke of, 204, 302, 358, 373, 453
army
Cardwell reforms, 312–15, 319, 327, 338–9, 343, 354
flogging, 25, 313–14, 514
inadequacy of, 166, 169, 185–6, 193, 337, 368
linked battalions, 312–13
reforms under Rosebery, 514–15
and royal command, 217–18, 312, 337–8, 514–15