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Index
Aberdeen, Lord 12, 98–99, 105–106, 117, 145, 156–157, 159–160, 163–164
Act of Settlement 42
Affie see Alfred
Afghanistan 99–100, 226, 234, 242
Albert, Prince 10–15, 33–34, 45–46, 53, 70–77, 81–84, 87–90, 94–97, 103, 115–116, 122–132, 134–138, 141, 145–146, 150–152, 156–160, 166, 176–186, 192, 208, 214, 216–217, 293–294, 296–297
Albert Edward see Bertie
Alexander, Prince of Orange 33
Alexander, Prince of Wurtemburg 32
Alexandra, later Tsarina 128, 281–282
Alexandra, Princess (Bertie’s wife) 178, 185, 241
Alfred (Affie) 77, 80, 83, 125, 127–128, 130–132, 191, 215, 288–289
Alice 77, 80–83, 125, 127–129, 131–132, 177–178, 193, 225, 233, 281, 288
Arabi, Colonel 242–244
army reform 164, 168, 173, 206–209, 274
Arnstein, Walter 9
Arthur 77, 125, 128, 130–132, 135, 138, 243–244, 274, 277
assassination attempts 9, 93, 149, 204–205
Augustus, Duke of Sussex 18
Augustus, Prince 32–33
Austria 13, 59, 97, 112–117, 154, 159, 171–172, 186–187, 193–194, 220, 224, 277
Austro-Prussian war 192–195
Bagehot, Walter 42, 298–299, 301, 304, 306
Balmoral 97, 128, 134–135, 137, 180–182, 194, 203–204, 210, 241, 248, 258–259, 297
Bank Charter Act 90
Bashi Bazouks 221–222
Basu, Shrabani 9
Beatrice 10, 13, 75, 77, 80–81, 122, 126, 128, 132, 138, 168, 177, 231, 283
bedchamber crisis 54–55, 61, 72, 88, 302
Belgium 24, 34, 45, 57–58, 97, 137, 194
Bertie 2, 10, 77, 81, 83–84, 124–125, 127, 132, 135, 178–180, 185, 189–190, 205, 231–232, 235–236, 241, 250, 266, 269, 277, 297, 300
Bill of Rights 42
Bismarck 186, 194, 212–214
Bolitho, Hector 97
Bosnia– Herzegovina 221, 224
Bradlaugh, Charles 77, 234, 300
Brown, David 35
Brown, John 14, 135, 181–183, 205, 258–259, 293
Bulgaria 221–222, 224, 276, 294
Cambridge, Duke of 48, 208–209, 274, 277
Canada 57, 60, 98, 305
Cardwell 208–209
Catholic, Roman 4, 50, 64, 94–96, 148–149, 198–199, 207, 218–219, 278
Chadwick, Edwin 91
charities 30, 102, 131, 146, 296, 307
Charles, Barrie 9
Charles, Prince of Leiningen 19, 21, 115–116
Charlotte, Princess 18–20, 78, 97
Chartism 13, 50, 87, 91–92, 96, 104, 206
Chimney Sweeps Act 50
China 60–61, 142, 193
Christian, Prince of Schleswig-Holstein 189–190
Commons, House of 4, 43–44, 54, 94, 151, 158, 167, 171, 195–196, 198–199, 208, 210, 226, 234–236, 248, 250, 266–269, 271–272, 302–303
Conroy, John 11, 24–26, 29–30, 35, 45, 49, 52
Conservatives 4–5, 42, 51–55, 61, 72, 87–88, 90, 96, 99, 101–102, 145, 156, 184, 188, 194–197, 210, 215, 217, 230, 235–237, 242, 248–249, 252–253, 260, 267–268, 270, 272–275, 302–303
constitution, British 4, 7–9, 15–16, 35, 42–43, 47, 55–56, 73, 105, 117–118, 129, 152, 155, 159, 184–186, 188–189, 193–194, 202, 208–209, 211, 215, 219–220, 223, 230–231, 236–237, 239–240, 250–253, 257, 260–261, 266, 268, 270–273, 279, 298–299, 301–302, 304–305
Coronation 40–42, 74, 82, 306
Corn Laws 5, 87, 96
Crimea 9, 14, 149, 157–168, 171, 173, 209, 222, 297
Curzon, George 282
Custody of Infants 50
Denmark 178, 184–189, 255–256, 276, 281, 294, 304
Derby, Lord 12, 145, 156, 164, 171, 184, 195–197, 210, 223–224
Diamond Jubilee 16, 276–279, 301
Dilke, Charles 204, 233, 251, 300, 302
Disraeli, Benjamin 10, 14–15, 64, 156, 184, 195–199, 202–203, 211, 215–226, 232–223, 242, 246, 249, 297, 304
Don Pacifico 150–151
East India Company 57, 99–100, 170
Ecclesiastical Titles Act 148
Education Act 1870 206
Edward, Duke of Kent 18–19, 21, 60
Egypt 58–59, 219, 234, 242–245
Ellenborough, Lord 99–100, 188, 302
Empress of India 15, 220, 304–305
Ernest, Duke of Cumberland 18, 31, 70, 97
Ernest, Prince of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha 33, 115
factories 2–3, 51, 64, 90, 146–147, 207, 218, 241, 275, 307
Fassiotto, Michael 7
Feodora, Princess 19, 21
Ferdinand, Prince 32–33
Feuchtwanger, Edgar 10
France 13, 44, 57, 59–60, 97–98, 106–112, 114, 128–129, 136–137, 147, 151, 155, 158, 161, 166, 170–172, 186, 211–214, 219, 224, 243, 259, 270, 280, 294, 300, 302
Franco-Prussian war 211–212
Frederick (Fritz), Prince of Prussia, 13, 136–137, 186, 211–212, 232
George, Duke of Cambridge 209, 274
George III 3, 18, 20, 31, 97, 180, 294
George IV 4, 18–20, 24, 41, 46, 74, 89, 183, 203
Germany 12–13, 19, 58, 76, 97, 106, 115–116, 136–137, 162, 177, 184, 186–188, 193–194, 212–214, 220, 225, 285, 294
Gladstone, William 14–16, 157, 195, 199, 202–211, 213–215, 217–222, 225–226, 230–231, 233–254, 260, 265–270, 284, 297, 300–301, 302–303
Gordon, General 245–248, 269, 283
Goschen, George 251
Greece 98, 151, 255, 278, 280–281, 294
Great Exhibition 145–146
Greville, Lord 10, 47, 49, 55
Grey, Lord 153, 203, 209
Grisi, Giulia 23, 67
habeas corpus 103, 239
haemophilia 122, 126–127, 231
Hardie, Frank 8, 184
Hastings, Lady Flora 10, 30, 52, 61, 72
Haynau, General 153–154
Helena (Lenchen) 77, 125, 132, 189–191, 289
Henry (Liko), Prince of Battenburg 231, 283
Hibbert, Christopher 7
Hough, Richard 9
Hungary 13, 97, 112, 116–118
India 6, 9, 15, 57, 99–101, 149, 168–170, 217, 219–220, 224, 226, 243, 256–260, 266, 282, 304–305
Ireland 15–16, 94–97,
101–104, 111, 198–199, 206, 209–211, 230, 237–240, 249, 251–254, 260, 266–267, 269, 278–279
Italy 13, 71, 112–113, 137, 171–172, 224, 259, 269, 280
jingoism 219
Karim, Abdul 10, 258–259, 282
Kean, Charles 66, 133
Kensington Palace 1, 19, 31, 34, 39, 45
Kensington system 25–26
Kent, Duchess of 1, 11, 19–22, 24–27, 30–36, 39, 45, 47–49, 52, 68, 70, 76, 141, 176–178
Khartoum 246–247
Kitchener, Lord 283–286, 288
Kossuth, Lajos 116, 154–155
Kruger, Paul 284–285
Kuhn, William 298
Labouchere, Henry 254, 266
Landseer, Edwin Henry 64, 67–68
Lehzen, Baroness 23, 26, 29–30, 35, 45, 47, 52, 75–76, 84
Leopold, Prince (uncle) 19, 21, 24, 31, 33–35, 45–47, 57–59, 70–72, 97, 109, 111, 164, 191
Leopold (son) 77, 80–81, 122, 126–128, 183, 231–232, 288
Liberals 4–5, 16, 47, 49–50, 53–56, 65, 72, 87, 90, 99, 101–102, 105, 115, 118, 145, 153–154, 156, 184, 195–197, 204, 209–210, 215, 217, 220, 225–226, 230–232, 235–238, 242, 246, 248–253, 260, 267, 269–273, 275, 300, 302–303
Light Brigade 162–163
London Protocol 1852 186
Longford, Elizabeth 7
Lords, House of 4, 16, 55, 69, 94, 101, 151, 188, 196, 210, 220, 235–237, 239, 249, 267–275, 306
Louis, Prince of Hesse 177, 231, 233
Louis Philippe 13, 97–98, 109–110, 155, 170, 214, 303
Louise 77, 125, 127, 204, 294
Mafeking 286–288
Married Women’s Property Act 234
Marriage Act 50
Matrimonial Causes Act 147
Melbourne, Lord 12, 39–44, 46–55, 57, 65, 69–72, 84, 87–89, 101, 184, 216–217, 249, 294
Mendelssohn 133
mines, coal 2, 90
Munich, Adrienne 8
Munshi see Karim
Murphy, Paul Thomas 9
Napoleon III, Louis 109, 155, 170, 212–214, 303
Nightingale, Florence 162, 165, 297
O’Connell, Daniel 94
Opium wars 60–61
Orsini, Felice 170–171
Ottoman Empire 14–15, 58–59, 157–159, 172, 220–222, 224, 279–281
Palmerston, Lord 9–10, 13–14, 48, 56–61, 98, 105–109, 111–115, 117–118, 145–147, 150–164, 167–173, 184–188, 190–191, 202, 303
Parnell, Charles 238–240, 249, 252, 255
Peel, Robert 12, 54–55, 84, 87–91, 96, 98–102, 196, 297, 302
Peterloo 5, 91
Phoenix Park murders 240
Plunkett, John 8
Ponsonby, Henry 10, 204, 214, 245, 247, 265
Prussia 13, 57, 59, 97, 115–116, 136, 157, 185–189, 192–194, 211–213, 304
Public Health Acts 148, 218
Public Worship Regulation Act 219, 304
railways 64, 90–91, 295
Rappaport, Helen 9, 194
Rebecca riots 93
Redistribution Bill 236–237
Reform Acts 43, 195, 230, 235–237, 304
Rennel, Tony 9
Republicanism 15–16, 56, 116, 195, 203–205, 234, 278, 300–301
Rhodes James, Robert 10, 268, 274
Rosebery, Lord 16, 216, 251, 266–267, 269–275
Rothschild, Lionel 206, 219
Royal Titles Bill 220
Russia 14, 20, 44, 58–59, 97, 128, 136, 157–161, 164–165, 172, 186, 215, 220–224, 276, 280–282, 294
Russell, Lord 12, 14, 29, 87, 96, 102, 104, 106, 108, 115, 145–146, 151–152, 154–157, 164, 172, 184, 191–194, 304
Salisbury, Lord 16, 195, 230, 235, 237, 248–253, 255, 257, 260, 265, 267, 273, 275, 279–280, 282–283, 286, 302
Schleswig-Holstein 184–187, 189, 213, 288, 304
Scotland 66, 91, 97, 102, 124, 135, 182, 248, 271, 278, 305
Scott, Sir Walter 6, 66
Sebastopol 164
secret ballot 50, 225
Shelley, Percy Bysse 5–6
slavery 3, 50–51, 98, 134
Spain 97–98, 106, 111, 294
Spanish marriages 106–107
Stockmar, Baron 35, 45–46, 71, 128, 160
Stowe, Harriet Beecher 134
Strachey, Lytton 7, 36, 52
Sudan 234, 245–248, 283, 305
Suez Canal 206, 219, 243
taxes 21, 89, 93, 137, 198, 207, 243, 271, 279, 284–285, 296–297
Tel-el-Kabir 243
Tennyson, Lord 64, 163, 231, 278
Thompson, Dorothy 8, 183, 198
Tory see Conservatives
Transvaal 269, 284
Treaty of Berlin 224
Treaty of London 58–59
Treaty of Paris 165
Treaty of San Stefano 224
Treaty of Villafranca 172
Tsars 20, 58, 128, 142, 220, 223, 241, 281–282, 294
Turkey see Ottoman Empire
Turner, J. M. W. 6, 64
United States of America 4, 6, 60, 98, 102, 190, 241, 295
Van der Kiste, John 9
Victoire, Princess see Duchess of Kent
Victoria, Queen: birth of 9; childbirth 78–81; children see Victoria, Bertie, Alice, Alfred, Helena, Louise, Arthur, Leopold, Beatrice; christening 19–20; coronation 40–42; Diamond Jubilee 276–279; foreign affairs 56–61, 97–102, 105–118, 149–173, 184–190, 192–195, 211–215, 219–226, 241–248, 279–288; Golden Jubilee 15, 255–256; historiography 6–10; Ireland 94–97, 102–104, 209–211, 237–241, 252–255, 267–269; leisure 65–69; marrying Albert 31–34, 70–74; marriages of children 133, 136–138, 177–178, 189–190, 204–205, 231; married life 74–77; motherhood 12–13, 77–84, 122–136; mourning 176–181; Royal Prerogative 42–44; succession 18–21; wedding to Albert 73–74
Victoria (Vicky) 13, 77–79, 83, 122–124, 127, 130–132, 136–138, 177–178, 193, 232, 269, 277, 280, 293
Webster-Ashburton Treaty 98
Weintraub, Stanley 7
Wellington, Duke of 54, 217
Whigs see Conservatives
Wilhelm II 142, 280, 285, 294
William IV 18–19, 24–25, 29, 31–36, 183, 232
Wilson, A. N. 7–8
Wolseley, General 243, 246
women 3, 5–6, 40, 48, 50, 65–66, 73–75, 77–79, 81–82, 90, 100, 103, 107, 134, 147, 165, 168–169, 183, 198, 207–208, 213–214, 221, 234–235, 254, 260, 280, 288, 294, 297–298
Zulu wars 224–225
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