38.ibid, 60, V to QV, 26.2.1858.
39.Martin, IV, 176, A to V, 17.2.1858.
40.Pakula, 106, QV to V, 6.6.1858.
41.Albert, 296, A to Princess Augusta, 9.3.1858.
42.Martin, IV, 242, A to Baron Stockmar, 5.6.1858.
43.Victoria, Dearest Child, 108, QV to V, 26.5.1858.
44.Corti, 47, V to F, 16.7.1858.
45.Martin, IV, 287.
46.Poschinger, 115.
47.Pakula, 119, V to PA, 6.11.1858.
48.Victoria, Dearest Child, 136, QV to V, 4.10.1858.
49.Pakula, 107, V to QV, 9.10.1858.
50.Victoria, Dearest Child, 137, V to QV, 9.10.1858.
51.Greville, II, 584, Baron Stockmar to Lord Clarendon, 12.12.1858.
52.Victoria, Dearest Child, QV to V, 15.6.1858.
Chapter Three
1.Bennett, 84.
2.Kohut, 32.
3.Sinclair, 45, Dr Clark to QV, 31.1.1859.
4.Pakula, 127, V to QV, 6.3.1859.
5.ibid, 127, V to QV, 11.12.1875.
6.Victoria, Letters . . . Empress Frederick 20, V to QV, 28.2.1859.
7.Victoria, Dearest Child, 190, V to QV, 30.4.1859.
8.Röhl, Young Wilhelm, V to F, 25.5.1859.
9.Corti 55, V to F, 26.5.1859.
10.Bennett, 92.
11.McClintock, 35, Elphinstone diary, 26.11.1859.
12.Victoria, Letters . . . Empress Frederick, 29, V to QV, 2.1.1861.
13.Corti, 65, A to Ernest Stockmar, 16.1.1861
14.ibid, 66, A to V, 17.1.1861.
15.Kollander, 15, A to F, 1.5.1861.
16.Victoria, Dearest Child, 357, 15.11.1861.
17.Röhl, Young Wilhelm, 61, V to F, 2.9.1861.
18.Victoria, Letters 1837–1861, III, 457, V to QV, 19.10.1861.
19.Wiegler, 203.
20.Röhl, Young Wilhelm, 101, 29/30/31.10, 10.11.1861.
21.Roberts, 125, A to V, probably 20.11.1861.
22.Victoria, Dearest Child, 375, V to QV, 16.12.1861.
23.Pakula, 160, QV to V, 15.1.1862.
24.Ponsonby, M., 242.
25.Paget, 64–5.
26.Bülow, I, 1897–1903, 529.
27.Corti, 82, V to F, 26.2.1862.
28.ibid, 85, V to F, 15.3.1862.
29.ibid, 86, F to V, 18.3.1862.
30.ibid, 89–90, F to V, 15.7.1862.
31.Empress Frederick: a Memoir, 156, Queen Augusta to F, u/d, probably August 1862.
32.Pakula, 168, V to F, 20.9.1862.
33.Kollander, 33, V to F, 20.9.1862.
34.Taylor, A.J.P., 51.
Chapter Four
1.Corti, 95, F’s diary, u/d.
2.Taylor, A.J.P., 56.
3.Lee, I, 147.
4.Kollander, 49–50.
5.ibid, 38, V to F, 1.6.1863.
6.Poschinger, 140.
7.ibid, 142.
8.Victoria, Letters . . . Empress Frederick, 41, V to QV, 8.6.1863.
9.ibid, 42, V to QV, 8.6.1863
10.The Times, 16.6.1863.
11.Sinclair, 81, QV to V, 13.6.1863.
12.Victoria, Letters . . . Empress Frederick, V to QV, 21.6.1863.
13.Victoria, Dearest Mama, 225, QV to V, 8.6.1863
14.Victoria, Letters . . . Empress Frederick, 46–7, F to Otto von Bismarck, 30.6.1863.
15.Victoria, Dearest Mama, 242–3, V to QV, 3.7.1863.
16.Kollander, 43, F to V, 3.9.1863.
17.Corti, 112, F to V, 3.9.1863.
18.Busch, III, 238.
19.Victoria, Dearest Mama, 243, V to QV, 3.7.1863.
20.Corti, 115.
21.ibid, 118.
22.Victoria, Letters 1862–1885, I, 117, QV to King Leopold, 19.11.1863.
23.Busch, II, 127.
24.Corti, 123, F diary, 9.2.1864.
25.Poschinger, 186, F to Max Duncker, u/d, c.22.2.1864.
26.Corti, 121, QV to V, 3.2.1864
27.Lee, I, 250, E to Mrs Bruce, 17.2.1864.
28.The Times, 6.5.1864.
29.Victoria, Letters . . . Empress Frederick, 53–4, V to QV, 13.4.1864.
30.Corti, 133, V to QV, 5.5.1864.
31.Pakula, 214, V to F, 31.3.1864.
32.Lee, I, 256, E to Lord Spencer, 7.11.1864.
33.Rodd, 63.
34.Taylor, L, 509.
35.Poschinger 201–2, 209, Gustav zu Putlitz to his wife 26/27.6, 7.7.1864.
36.Empress Frederick: a Memoir, 200.
37.Pakula, 221, V to QV, 1.8.1865.
38.Battiscombe, 76.
39.Longford, 350.
40.Corti, 144.
Chapter Five
1.Royal Archives, RA Z/18/32, V to QV, 9.3.1866.
2.Victoria, Your Dear Letter, 61, V to QV, 16.3.1866.
3.Poschinger, 240, F to EDC, 26.3.1866.
4.Victoria, Letters 1862–1885, I, 311, QV to F, 28.3.1866.
5.Victoria, Letters . . . Empress Frederick, 61, V to QV, 26.6.1866.
6.Kollander, 100, F diary, u/d.
7.ibid, 79.
8.Pakula, 239, V to QV, 23.7.1866.
9.Frederick III, Diaries, 48, 3.7.1866.
10.Poschinger, 279.
11.Taylor, L., 171
12.Pakula, 245, V to QV, 3.11.1866.
13.Corti, 158, F to V, 13.11.1866.
14.Victoria, Your Dear Letter, 127, V to QV, 2.4.1867.
15.ibid, 129, V to QV, 20.4.1867.
16.Corti, 161 V to QV, 17.8.1867.
17.Röhl, Young Wilhelm, 97, V to F, 4.7.1868.
18.Poschinger, 309.
19.Röhl, Purple Secret, 123, V to F, 27/29.4.1868.
20.Royal Archives, RA Z/18/76, V to QV, 10.8.1866.
21.Reid, 261; Stevenson, 166.
22.Frederick III, Diaries, 195, 18.7.1870.
23.Victoria, Letters . . . Empress Frederick, 80, V to QV, 25.7.1870.
24.Corti, 171, V to QV, 1.8.70.
25.Victoria, Letters . . . Empress Frederick, 80, V to QV, 25.7.1870.
26.Poschinger, 321.
27.Pakula, 277, V to QV, 6.9.1870.
28.ibid, 277, QV to V, 26.8.1870.
29.ibid, 278, V to QV, 6.9.1870.
30.Victoria, Letters . . . Empress Frederick, 94, V to QV, 17.9.1870.
31.Lee, I, 304–5.
32.Friedrich III, War diary, 202–3, 28.11.1870.
33.ibid, 203, 28.11.1870.
34.ibid, 168, 24.10.1870.
35.ibid, 241, 31.12.1870.
36.ibid, 267, 17.1.1871.
37.Pakula, 287, F to V, 28.7.1872.
38.Röhl, Young Wilhelm, 174, V to F, 27.1.1871.
39.Friedrich III, War diary, 328–9, 7.3.1871.
40.Victoria, Your Dear Letter, 322, Lord Granville to QV, 2.3.1871.
41.Kollander, 99, V to F, 6.1.1871.
Chapter Six
1.Sinclair, 165, V to QV, 9.9.1871.
2.Pakula, 297, QV to V, 10.4.1872.
3.Röhl, Young Wilhelm, V to F, 8.11.1872.
4.Victoria, Darling Child, 157, V to QV, 15.10.1874.
5.Poschinger, 362.
6.Victoria, Darling Child, 248, V to QV, 14.4.1877.
7.Poschinger, 363.
8.Royal Archives RA Z/28/8, V to QV, 10.2.1874.
9.Radziwill, 127.
10.Ponsonby, A., 251, QV to Sir Henry Ponsonby, 18.11.1874.
11.Hough, 56, QV to Princess Victoria of Hesse, 21.9.1883.
12.Kohut, 43.
13.Victoria of Prussia, Memoirs, 4.
14.Bigelow, 46.
15.Victoria, Letters . . . Empress Frederick, 123, QV to V 11.2.1871.
16.ibid, 138, V to QV, 5.6.1875.
17.Poschinger, 375–6, F to Prince Carol of Roumania, Oct. 1875.
18.Wilhelm II, My Early Life, 5.
19.Röhl, Young Wilhelm, 267, V to W, 16.7.1878.
20.Longford, 386.
21.Radziwill, 144.
22.Victoria, Darling Child, 215, V to QV, 20.6.1876.
23.Napier Letters, 16/85, V to LN, 30.12.1876.
24.Lee, I, 432.
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br /> 25.Pakula, 351, V to QV, 4.6.1878.
26.McClintock, 192.
27.The Times, 16.8.1878.
28.Radziwill, 150.
29.ibid, 153.
30.Corti, 207.
31.Radziwill, 96–7.
32.Röhl, Young Wilhelm, 388, W to George II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, 30.3.1879.
33.Napier Letters, 16/93, V to LN, 14.4.1879.
34.Poschinger, 417.
35.Kollander, 121, F to V, 27.5.1879.
36.Röhl, Young Wilhelm, 552, F to V, 5.12.1879.
37.Empress Frederick: a Memoir, 279.
38.Röhl, Young Wilhelm, 370, V to F, 18.9.1879.
39.Victoria, Beloved Mama, 53, V to QV, 11.9.1879.
40.Röhl, Young Wilhelm, 375, V to F, 12.9.1879.
41.ibid, 376, 6/7.11.1879.
42.Victoria, Beloved Mama, 79, V to QV, 24.5.1880.
43.Cecil, 45, V to Countess Dönhoff, 24.12.1880.
Chapter Seven
1.Sinclair, 184, V to QV, 13.2.1880.
2.Victoria, Letters . . . Empress Frederick, 179, V to QV, 26.3.1880.
3.Victoria, Beloved Mama, 96, V to QV, 28.8.1881.
4.Victoria, Letters . . . Empress Frederick, 183, V to QV, 27.2.1881.
5.Sinclair, 186, V to QV, 28.3.1881.
6.Victoria, Beloved Mama, 115, V to QV, 18.1.1882.
7.ibid, 131, QV to V, 3.1.1883.
8.Victoria, Letters . . .Empress Frederick, 195, V to Lady Ponsonby, 17.10.1884.
9.Röhl, Young Wilhelm, 383, Princess Charlotte to Hermann Hohenlohe-Langenburg, 15.3.1882.
10.Corti, 219–20, F to V, 12.11.1883;Röhl, Young Wilhelm, 393, F to V, 12.11.1883.
11.Röhl, Young Wilhelm, 393, V to F, 14.11.1883.
12.Friedrich III, Diaries, 283, 25.11.1883.
13.ibid, 305, 30.11.1883.
14.ibid, 323, 4.12.1883.
15.Hollyday, 133.
16.Kollander, 139–40, Heinrich Geffcken to Baron Roggenbach, 23.3.1883.
17.Corti, 226, QV to V, 10.1.1885.
18.Epton, 166.
19.Röhl, Young Wilhelm, 524–5, V to F, 25.8.1883.
20.ibid, 525, V to F, 23.9.1885.
21.ibid, 540, Herbert von Bismarck to Otto von Bismarck, 23.9.1886.
22.Corti, 219, F to V, 26.8.1883.
23.Hough, 52, QV to Princess Victoria of Hesse, 30.8.1883.
24.Victoria of Prussia, Memoirs, 67.
25.Röhl, Young Wilhelm, 523, Princess Charlotte to V, 9.1.1885.
26.Corti, 231, V to F, 3.9.1886.
27.Napier Letters, 16/95, V to LN, 26.12.1886.
28.Cecil, 72, V to Countess Dönhoff, 21.10.1885.
29.Rich & Fisher, II, 113, 14.4.1884.
30.Kollander, 148, V to F, 7.11.1884.
31.Rich & Fisher, II, 195, 6.5.1885.
32.ibid, 99, 9.3.1884.
33.ibid, 47, 6.1.1884.
34.ibid, 155, 6.6.1884.
35.Röhl, Young Wilhelm, 565, Waldersee diary, 9.4.1886.
36.Radziwill, 178.
37.Bennett, 228.
38.Kollander, 151–2, V to Friedberg, 1.7.1885.
39.Busch, II, 215–6.
40.Röhl, Young Wilhelm, 550, F to V, 6.5.1886.
41.Ludwig, 21.
42.Salisbury Papers, Box F14, V to QV, 11.10.1886.
43.Röhl, Young Wilhelm, 625, F to V 14.11.1886.
44.Salisbury Papers, Box F14, F to QV, 22.1.1887.
45.Victoria, Beloved and Darling Child, 44, QV to V, 11.2.1887.
46.Victoria, Letters . . . Empress Frederick, 209, V to QV, 7.2.1887.
47.ibid, 210–1, V to QV, 17.3.1887.
48.Radziwill, 180.
Chapter Eight
1.Victoria, Letters . . .Empress Frederick, 266, V to Lady Ponsonby, 8.12.1887.
2.ibid, 226, V to QV, 17.5.1887.
3.Pakula, 442, V to QV, 22.4.1887.
4.Röhl, Young Wilhelm, 651, V to QV, 3.6.1887.
5.Corti, 242, QV to V, 20.5.1887.
6.Stevenson, 282.
7.Mackenzie, 27.
8.Corti, 243, Bismarck to Sir Edward Malet, 24.5.1887.
9.Röhl, Young Wilhelm, 679, memorandum by Eulenburg, 8/9.6.1887.
10.Victoria, Letters . . . Empress Frederick, 237, V to QV, 2.6.1887.
11.ibid, 239, V to QV, 3.6.1887.
12.Napier Letters, 16/97, Seckendorff to LN, 27.6.1887.
13.Marie, I, 36–38.
14.Corti, 246, F to QV, 25.8.1887.
15.Victoria, Letters 1886–1901, I, 350, QV journal, 7.9.1887.
16.Victoria, Letters . . . Empress Frederick, 242, V to QV, 30.8.1887.
17.Röhl, Young Wilhelm, 666.
18.Radziwill, 189.
19.Mackenzie, 63.
20.Victoria, Letters . . . Empress Frederick, 260, V to QV, 18.11.1887.
21.ibid, 260–1, V to QV, 18.11.1887.
22.Mackenzie, 63.
23.Ludwig, 46.
24.Barkeley, 213, quoting Balhausen, Bismarck Erinnerungen (1921).
25.Röhl, Young Wilhelm, 702, Herbert Bismarck to Count Rantzau, 11.11.1887.
26.Balfour, 111.
27.Victoria, Letters . . . Empress Frederick, 256–7, V to QV, 15.11.1887.
28.Ponsonby, F., 114–5.
29.Stevenson, 166–7.
30.Cecil, 94.
31.Röhl, Young Wilhelm, 703–5.
32.ibid, 741, Roggenbach to Stosch, 8.1.1888.
33.Ponsonby, M., 261, 265, Lady Ponsonby to Sir Henry Ponsonby, 3.12.1887.
34.Rich & Fisher, III, 231, Radolinski to Holstein, 23.11.1887.
35.Röhl, Young Wilhelm, 700–1, F to QV, 29.12.1887.
36.Corti, 257, F to Hinzpeter, 4.12.1887.
37.Röhl, Young Wilhelm, 700, F to W, 29.12.1887.
38.ibid, 701.
39.ibid, 777, Prince Henry to W, 2.2.1888.
40.ibid, 779, Prince Henry to W, 9.2.1888.
41.Corti, 262, Mackenzie to Reid, 16.2.1888.
42.Victoria, Letters . . . Empress Frederick, 277, V to QV, 20.2.1888.
43.ibid, 277, V to QV, 26.2.1888.
44.Röhl, Young Wilhelm, 785, F to W, 2.3.1888.
45.Victoria, Letters . . . Empress Frederick, 279, V to QV, 6.3.88.
46.Holstein Papers, III, 265, Radolinski to Holstein, 28.2.1888.
47.Ponsonby, M., 268, V to Lady Ponsonby, 7.3.1888.
Chapter Nine
1.Stevenson, 110.
2.Victoria, Letters 1886–1901, I, 390, F to QV, 9.3.1888.
3.Ludwig, 47.
4.Röhl, Young Wilhelm, 788–9, Waldersee diary, 11.3.1888.
5.Victoria, Letters . . . Empress Frederick, 287, V to QV, 9.3.1888.
6.Rodd, 194.
7.Wiegler, 447.
8.Röhl, Young Wilhelm, 817–8, Waldersee diary, 2.3.1888.
9.Victoria, Letters . . . Empress Frederick, 293, V to QV, 16.3.1888.
10.Napier Letters, 16/99, V to LN, 31.3.1888.
11.Mackenzie, 173–4.
12.Napier Letters, 16/98, Count Seckendorff to LN, 22.3.1888.
13.Corti, 270.
14.Rich & Fisher, II, 377, 15.5.1888.
15.Ludwig, 50.
16.Wilhelm II, My Early Life, 291–2.
17.Corti, 271–2, F to W, 3.4.1888.
18.Corti, Alexander von Battenberg, 267.
19.Corti, 271, QV to V, 21.3.1888.
20.Ludwig, 49.
21.Rich, I, 141.
22.Victoria of Prussia, Memoirs, 74.
23.Eyck E., 302–3.
24.Mackenzie, 148–9.
25.Ponsonby, A., 293–4.
26.Corti, Alexander von Battenberg, 278.
27.Victoria, Letters . . . Empress Frederick, 302, Edward Malet to Sir Henry Ponsonby, 24.4.1888.
28.Victoria, Letters 1886–1901, I, 404–5, QV journal, 23.4.1888.
29.Victoria, Further Letters, 268.
30.Victoria, Beloved and Darling Child, 71–2, QV to V, 21.5.1888.
31.Nichols, 252–3.
32.Corti, 29
0.
33.ibid, 293.
34.Wilhelm II, My Early Life, 290.
35.Poschinger, 450–3.
36.Rich & Fisher, II, 374, 13.5.1888.
37.Röhl, Young Wilhelm, 817, Waldersee diary, 9.6.1888.
38.Nowak, 21–23.
39.Victoria, Letters . . . Empress Frederick, 299, Colonel Swaine to E, 13.4.1888.
40.Barkeley, 249–50.
41.Victoria, Letters . . . Empress Frederick, 310–1, V to QV, 18/19.5.1888.
42.Ludwig, 50.
43.Corti, 279.
44.ibid, 296.
45.ibid, 279.
46.Victoria, Letters . . . Empress Frederick, 315, V to QV, 13.6.1888.
47.Corti, 297–8.
48.Victoria, Letters 1886–1901, I, 416, QV journal, 14.6.1888.
49.The Times, 16.6.1888.
50.Haweis, 175; Corti, 302.
51.Victoria, Letters . . . Empress Frederick, 315–6, V to QV, 15.6.1888.
Chapter Ten
1.Corti, 304, diary 15.6.1888.
2.Reid, 101.
3.Röhl, Young Wilhelm, 821, Waldersee diary, 16.6.1888.
4.Napier Letters, 16/100, V to LN, 11.8.1888.
5.Royal Archives, VIC/Z 43/7, V to QV, 24.9.1888.
6.Royal Archives, VIC/Z 43/11, V to QV, 29.9.1888.
7.Sinclair, 225, V to QV, 18.10.1888.
8.Pakula, 512, Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse to V, 13.10.1888.
9.Victoria, Letters 1886–1901,I, 443, QV to Lord Salisbury, 24.10.1888.
10.ibid, I, 441, QV to Lord Salisbury, 15.10.1888.
11.Napier Letters, 16/102, V to LN, 9.2.1889.
12.Ernle, 160.
13.Victoria, Letters . . . Empress Frederick, 316, V to QV, 15.6.1888.
14.ibid, 399, V to QV, 11.1.1890.
15.Victoria, Beloved and Darling Child, 107, V to QV, 10.3.1890.
16.Victoria, Empress Frederick . . . Sophie, 81, V to S, Feb/Mar 1891.
17.ibid, 137, V to S, 27.1.1893.
18.ibid, 168, V to S, Apr 1894.
19.ibid, 174, V to S, u/d.
20.Empress Frederick: a Memoir, 353.
21.Buchanan, 19.
22.Empress Frederick: a Memoir, 353.
23.Buchanan, 19.
24.Pakula, 563, V to QV, 12.4.1896.
25.Röhl, Kaiser and his Court, 23.
26.Corti, 343, V to Frau Stockmar, 10.5.1892.
27.Bülow, I, 1897–1903, 76.
28.Victoria, Beloved and Darling Child, 181–2, V to QV, 16.10.1895.
29.Ponsonby, F., 21.
30.Ponsonby, M., 321, Lady Ponsonby to Arthur Ponsonby, 12.2.1893.
31.Ponsonby, F., 51–2.
32.Recollections of Three Kaisers, 130–31.
33.Bunsen, 214.
34.Victoria, Empress Frederick . . . Sophie, 253, V to S, 23.6.1897.
35.Mallet, 156, 18.3.1899.
36.Victoria, Empress Frederick . . . Sophie, 336, 339, V to S, u/d.
37.Pakula, 592, W to E, 9.2.1901.
38.Reid, 196.
39.Victoria, Empress Frederick . . . Sophie, V to S, 345, u/d.
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