10 Longford, p. 465
11 Roberts, Salisbury, p. 190
12 Victoria, Letters 1862–1885, vol. II, p. 369, QVJ 14.1.1875
13 Roberts, Salisbury, p. 376
14 Tingsten, Victoria, p. 146
15 Roberts, Salisbury, p. 377
16 NA, Granville Papers, Sir Henry Ponsonby to Granville, 16.2.1886
17 Victoria, Letters 1886–1901, vol. II, p. 143, QVJ 8.6.1886
18 Longford, p. 491
19 Morley, Life, vol. II, pp. 347–8
20 Victoria, Letters 1886–1901, vol. I, p. 169, QV to Gladstone, 31.7.1886
21 Kennedy, Salisbury, p. 181
22 Tingsten, Victoria, p. 131
23 Roberts, Salisbury, p. 539
24 Victoria, Letters 1886–1901, vol. I, p. 617, QV to Salisbury, 27.6.1890
25 The Times, 31.8.1887
26 Magnus, Gladstone, p. 397, QV to Henry Ponsonby, 4.6.1892
27 Victoria, Letters 1886–1901, vol. II, p. 132, QV to Henry Ponsonby, 23.7.1892
28 James, Rosebery, p. 192
29 Magnus, Gladstone, p. 398
30 Gladstone, Diaries, vol. XIII, p. 390, 28.2.1890
31 Victoria, Letters 1886–1901, vol. II, pp. 372–3, QV to Gladstone, 3.3.1894
32 Magnus, Gladstone, p. 427
33 Crewe, Lord Rosebery, vol. I, p. 240
34 James, Rosebery, p. 254
35 Ibid., p. 234
36 Victoria, Letters 1886–1901, vol. II, p. 369, QV to Rosebery, 2.3.1894
37 Ibid., vol. II, p. 376, QVJ 5.3.1894
38 Crewe, Lord Rosebery, p. 443, QV to Rosebery, 4.3.1894
39 Ibid., p. 445
40 The Times, 19.3.1894
41 James, Rosebery, p. 339
42 Victoria, Letters 1886–1901, vol. II, p. 399, Rosebery to QV, 14.5.1894
43 Ibid., vol. II, pp. 403–4, 8.6.1894; Crewe, 457, QV to Rosebery
44 The Times, 28.10.1894
45 James, Rosebery, p. 361
46 Crewe, Lord Rosebery, vol. II, p. 451, QV to Rosebery, March 1894
47 Askwith, Lord James, p. 250
48 Crewe, Lord Rosebery, p. 464
49 Victoria, Beloved and Darling Child, p. 180, QV to V, 1.7.1895
50 James, Rosebery, p. 384
51 Roberts, Salisbury, p. 793
52 Boyd Carpenter, Some Pages, p. 236
53 Ibid., p. 235
54 Magnus, Gladstone, p. 432
55 Victoria, Letters 1886–1901, vol. III, p. 246, QVJ 19.5.1898
56 Magnus, Gladstone, p. 438, QV to Mrs Gladstone, 28.5.1898
57 Victoria, Beloved and Darling Child, p. 215, QV to V, 31.5.1898
58 Steele, Lord Salisbury, pp. 354–5, Akers-Douglas to Balfour, 19.10.1900
59 Mullen and Munson, Victoria, p. 144
60 The Times, 26.1.01
61 Ibid., 31.1.01
Chapter Seven (pp. 115–26)
1 Lamont-Brown, John Brown, p. 37
2 Aberdeen Herald & Weekly Free Press, 31.3.1883; Cullen, p. 43
3 Cullen, Empress Brown, p. 50
4 QVJ 3.2.1865
5 Longford, p. 325
6 Ibid., p. 326, QV to V, 5.4.1865
7 Victoria, Letters 1862–1885, vol. I, p. 255, QV to KL, 24.11.1865
8 Lamont-Brown, Royal Poxes, p. 176
9 A morganatic marriage is one between two persons of unequal rank, generally a sovereign or senior member of a royal or imperial house and a commoner, in which any children born would have no claim on the higher-ranking parent’s titles, rights or property.
10 Cullen, Empress Brown, p. 95
11 Punch, 7.7.1866
12 Thompson, Queen Victoria, p. 62
13 QVJ 24.5.1870
14 Tingsten, Victoria, p. 112
15 Gibb, ‘Victoria and John Brown’
16 Royalty Digest, January 2005
17 Lamont-Brown, ‘Queen Victoria’s “secret marriage”’
18 Ponsonby F., Recollections, p. 95
19 Cullen, Empress Brown, pp. 102–3
20 Saturday Review, April 1867
21 Longford, p. 329
22 Ibid., p. 331
23 Ponsonby A., Henry Ponsonby, p. 128
24 Wilson, V ictorians, p. 504
25 Victoria, Leaves 1848–1861, p. 128, footnote to entry of 16.9.1850
26 Ibid., pp. viii–ix
27 Stanley, Later Letters, p. 73, 26.1.1868
28 Tisdall, John Brown, pp. 141–2
Chapter Eight (pp. 127–47)
1 Victoria, Letters 1837–1861, vol. III, p. 476, QV to KL, 24.12.1861
2 Hibbert, Queen Victoria, p. 307, QV to Grey, 25.1.1863
3 Ponsonby A., Henry Ponsonby, p. 36
4 Jenkins, Gladstone, p. 344
5 Longford, pp. 379–80
6 Ponsonby A., Henry Ponsonby, p. 35
7 Victoria, Your Dear Letter, p. 273, QV to V, 2.4.1870
8 Cullen, Empress Brown, p. 131
9 Kuhn, Henry and Mary Ponsonby, p. 92
10 Lamont-Brown, ‘Queen Victoria’s “secret marriage”’
11 Magnus, Gladstone, p. 217
12 Ponsonby A., Henry Ponsonby, pp. 253–4, Henry Ponsonby to Gladstone, 13.7.1875
13 Ibid., p. 244, Henry Ponsonby to Mary Ponsonby, October 1873
14 RA Add. A/36, Henry Ponsonby to Mary Ponsonby, 26.4.1884
15 Ponsonby A., Henry Ponsonby, p. 134
16 Ibid., pp. 134–5
17 Mullen and Munson, Victoria, p. 110
18 Aronson, Heart of a Queen, p. 162
19 Longford, p. 386, Ponsonby Letters, 13.9.1871
20 Cullen, Empress Brown, pp. 170–1
21 Ibid., p. 179
22 Lamont-Brown, John Brown, p. 62
23 Burrell, A Royal Duty, p. 43
24 Kuhn, Henry and Mary Ponsonby, p. 167
25 Ibid., p. 171
26 Reid, Ask Sir James, p. 41
27 Cullen, Empress Brown, p. 192
28 Reid, Ask Sir James, p. 46, QV to Reid, probably August 1881
29 Ibid., p. 33
30 Cullen, Empress Brown, p. 199
31 Lamont-Brown, John Brown, p. 139, Leopold to Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, 28.3.1883
32 Reid, Ask Sir James, p. 53, QV to Reid, probably 28.3.1883
33 Ponsonby A., Henry Ponsonby, p. 129
34 QVJ 28.3.1883, Cullen, Empress Brown, p. 211, Lamont-Brown, John Brown, p. 139
35 Court Circular, 28.3.1884
36 Tisdall, John Brown, pp. 223–4, Gladstone to QV, 28.3.1884
37 Cullen, Empress Brown, p. 225
38 Fenton, ‘Twice bereaved’
39 The Times, 29.3.1883
40 Victoria, More Leaves 1862–1882, pp. v–vi
41 Ibid., p. 406
42 RA Add A/36, Henry Ponsonby to Mary Ponsonby, 22.7.1884
Chapter Nine (pp. 148–68)
1 Mallet, Life with Queen Victoria, pp. 95–6, 5.11.1896
2 Ponsonby A., Henry Ponsonby, p. 131, Henry Ponsonby to Mary Ponsonby, nd
3 Anand, Indian Sahib, p. 54, Frederick Ponsonby to Lord Elgin, 16.1.1895
4 Reid, Ask Sir James, p. 132
5 Aronson, Heart of a Queen, p. 237
6 Ibid.
7 Reid, Ask Sir James, p. 162
8 Ponsonby A., Henry Ponsonby, p. 135, Henry Ponsonby to Mary Ponsonby (?), c. 1893
9 Kuhn, Henry and Mary Ponsonby, p. 237
10 Reid, Ask Sir James, p. 164
11 Ibid., p. 142
12 Ibid., p. 163
13 Ibid., p. 114
14 Ibid., p. 142
15 Wilson, Victorians, p. 507
16 Reid, Ask Sir James, p. 144
17 Ibid.
18 Reid, Ask Sir James, p. 151
19 Ibid., p. 154
20 Ibid., p. 181
21 Ibid., p. 184
22 Ibid., p. 190
23 Boyd Carpenter, Some Pages, p. 295
24 Reid, Ask Sir James, p. 200
25 Packard, Farewell in Sple
ndour, p. 30
26 Reid, Ask Sir James, p. 205
27 Lamont-Brown, John Brown, p. 162
28 Anand, Indian Sahib, p. 102, Lady Curzon to Lord Curzon, 9.8.1901
29 The Times, 24.4.1909
30 Reid, Ask Sir James, p. 255
Chapter Ten (pp. 171–87)
1 Victoria, Dearest Child, p. 167, QV to V, 16.3.1859
2 Ibid., pp. 77–8, QV to V, 24.3.1858
3 James, Albert, p. 244, A to QV, 1.10.1856
4 Magnus, King Edward, p. 5
5 Victoria, Letters 1837–1861, vol. I, p. 458, Melbourne to QV, 13.2.1843
6 Lyttelton, Correspondence, p. 340
7 QVJ 9.11.1850
8 Victoria, Dearest Child, pp. 173–4, QV to V, 9.4.1859
9 McClintock, The Queen, pp. 25–6, QV to A, 7.10.1858
10 Ibid., p. 43, Elphinstone diary 19.1.1860
11 Victoria, Dearest Child, p. 164, QV to V, 2.3.1859
12 RA Y104/26; QV to KL, 26.8.1859
13 Victoria, Dearest Child, p. 208, QV to V, 2.9.1859
14 Corti, The English Empress, p. 63, QV to V, 31.10.1860
15 Victoria, Letters 1837–1861, vol. III, p. 413, QV to KL, 13.11.1860
16 Victoria, Your Dear Letter, p. 200, QV to V, 8.7.1868
17 Ibid., p. 158, QV to V, 9.11.1867
18 Magnus, King Edward, p. 88, QV to V, 3.7.1869
19 RA Add. MSS A.3/121, QV to Prince of Wales, 18.1.1869
20 RA Add. MSS A.3/1108, Prince of Wales to QV 1.3.1868
21 RA Add. MSS A.3/128, Prince of Wales to QV, 26.2.1869
22 RA Add. MSS A.3/131, Prince of Wales to QV, 28.2.1869
23 Victoria, Your Dear Letter, pp. 200–1, QV to V, 10.7.1868
24 McClintock, The Queen, p. 143, QV to Howard Elphinstone, c. 1872
25 Aston, Duke of Connaught, p. 115
26 McClintock, The Queen, p. 142, QV to Howard Elphinstone, 4.1.1872
27 Ibid., p. 144, QV to Howard Elphinstone, nd
28 Victoria, Dearest Mama, pp. 234–5, QV to V, 24.6.1863
29 Diamond, Victorian Sensation, p. 23
30 Duff, Hessian Tapestry, p. 117
31 Epton, Victoria and Her Daughters, p. 151
32 Marie Louise, Six Reigns, p. 19
Chapter Eleven (pp. 188–205)
1 Ponsonby A., Henry Ponsonby, p. 98, Henry Ponsonby to Mary Ponsonby, nd
2 Manchester Guardian, 28.2.1872
3 RA Add. MSS U/32, QV to V, 14.2.1872
4 Ponsonby A., Henry Ponsonby, pp. 100–1, Henry Ponsonby to Mary Ponsonby, nd
5 Victoria, Darling Child, p. 105, QV to V, 2.8.1873
6 Longford, Darling Loosy, p. 194, QV to Louise, 11.6.1875
7 Zeepvat, Prince Leopold, p. 129, QV to Leopold, nd, c. May 1877
8 Aston, Duke of Connaught, p. 98
9 Alice, For My Grandchildren, p. 21
10 Victoria, Beloved Mama, p. 117, QV to V, 11.4.1882
11 Zeepvat, Prince Leopold, p. 186, Leopold to Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, 15.3.1884
12 Victoria, Beloved Mama, p. 162, QV to V, 29.3.1884
13 Boyd Carpenter, Some Pages, p. 281
14 Ponsonby A., Henry Ponsonby, p. 301, Henry Ponsonby to Gladstone, nd
15 Epton, Victoria and Her Daughters, p. 170
16 Hough, Louis and Victoria, p. 121
17 Longford, Victoria RI, p. 477
18 Ibid.
19 Victoria, Advice to a Grand-daughter, p. 66, QV to Victoria of Hesse, 20.5.1884
Chapter Twelve (pp. 206–24)
1 Corti, The English Empress, p. 225, QV to V, 7.1.1885
2 Victoria, Letters 1886–1901, vol. I, p. 320, QVJ 20.6.1887
3 Victoria, Beloved and Darling Child, p. 64, QV to V, 10.3.1888
4 Victoria, Letters 1886–1901, vol. I, p. 417, QVJ 15.6.1888
5 Victoria, Advice to a Grand-daughter, p. 56, QV to Victoria of Hesse, 21.9.83
6 Victoria, Letters 1886–1901, vol. I, p. 417, QV to William II, 15.6.1888
7 Magnus, King Edward, p. 228, QV to V, 12.6.1891
8 Ibid., p. 228
9 Ibid., p. 236, Knollys to Henry Ponsonby, 15.8.1892
10 Victoria, Advice to a Grand-daughter, p. 56, QV to Victoria of Hesse, 21.9.1883
11 Weintraub, Importance of Being Edward, p. 348
12 Victoria, Letters, 1886–1901, vol. III, p. 174, QVJ 22.6.1897
13 The Times, 7.2.1899
14 Victoria, Letters 1886–1901, vol. III, pp. 579–80, QVJ 31.7.1900
15 Ibid., vol. III, p. 580, QVJ 31.7.1900
16 Mallet, Life with Queen Victoria, p. 201, 31.7.1900
17 The Times, 1.8.1900
18 Mallet, Life with Queen Victoria, p. 213, 2.11.1900
19 Victoria, Letters 1886–1901, vol. III, p. 637, QVJ 1.1.1901
20 Rennell, Last Days of Glory, pp. 137–8
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