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Queen Victoria--Twenty-Four Days That Changed Her Life

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by Lucy Worsley


  24. A nameless contributor to Fraser’s Magazine (1823), quoted in The Ramsgate Millennium Book, The Ramsgate Society (2000) p. 544

  25. Charles Busson, The Boot of Ramsgate, Buckingham (1985) p. 133

  26. Ibid., p. 66

  27. ‘Map of the Town and Royal Harbour of RAMSGATE From an actual Survey made in the Year 1849’, reproduced in The Ramsgate Millennium Book, The Ramsgate Society (2000) p. 8.1.5

  28. Anon., Isle of Thanet Illustrated Visitors’ Guide, n.p. (1887) p. 40

  29. RA QVJ/1832: 1 August

  30. Benson and Esher, eds. (1907, 1908 edition) vol. 1, p. 11

  31. Albert, ed., (1967) p. 40

  32. Christopher Thomas Richardson, Fragments of History pertaining to … Ramsgate, Ramsgate (1885, 1999 edition) p. 18

  33. RA VIC/ADDA/11/22, Baroness Lehzen to King Leopold (n.d.)

  34. RA QVJ/1835: 18 September

  35. Notebook belonging to Dr William Mason quoted in Gray (2017) p. 27

  36. Gower, ed. (1893) p. 169

  37. Maxwell, ed. (1904–5) vol. 2, p. 326; Private Life (1897; 1901 edition) p. 140

  38. Quoted in Woodham-Smith (1972) p. 92

  39. Gray (2017) p. 28

  40. RA VIC/ADDA/11/22, Baroness Lehzen to King Leopold (n.d.)

  41. Hunter, (1815) p. 2

  42. RA QVJ/1835: 4 October

  43. Benson and Esher, eds. (1907, 1908 edition) vol. 1, p. 72

  44. RA VIC/MAIN/Z/482/1, John Conroy to the Duchess of Kent (15 July 1837)

  45. RA VIC/ADDA/11/22, Baroness Lehzen to King Leopold (n.d.)

  46. RA QVJ/1835: 7 October

  47. R. A. L. Agnew, ‘Clark, Sir James, first baronet (1788–1870)’ in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004) (accessed 2 June 2017)

  48. A. A. Cormack, Two Royal Physicians, London (1965) p. 17

  49. RA VIC/ADDA/11/22, Baroness Lehzen to King Leopold (n.d.)

  50. Quoted in Hudson (1994) p. 106

  51. RA VIC/ADDA/11/22, Baroness Lehzen to King Leopold (n.d.)

  52. RA QVJ/1838: 26 February

  53. RA VIC/MAIN/Z/485/11 (15 November 1879)

  54. RA QVJ/1838: 26 February

  55. Quoted in Woodham-Smith (1972) p. 70

  56. RA VIC/MAIN/Y/65/37, Leopold to Victoria (12 March 1839)

  57. RA VIC/MAIN/4/16 (12 January 1830)

  58. RA VIC/ADDA/11/22, Baroness Lehzen to King Leopold (n.d.)

  59. Ibid.

  60. Kentish Gazette (14 October 1834) (14 November 1837), England, Wales & Scotland Census (1851)

  61. RA VIC/ADDA/11/22, Baroness Lehzen to King Leopold (n.d.)

  62. RA QVJ/1835: 31 October

  63. RA QVJ/1838: 17 October

  64. RA QVJ/1835: 31 October

  65. RA VIC/MAIN/Y/88/4 (3 November 1835)

  66. Walter Scott, The Bride of Lammermoor, London (1819; 1858 edition) p. 5

  67. Warner (1979) p. 68

  68. Balliol College Conroy Papers 11 [6F] Edward Conroy’s memorandum

  69. Quoted in Hudson (1994) p. 83

  70. RA VIC/ADDA/11/2 (1 May 1836)

  71. Royal College of Physicians, MS 4973, pp. 6, 12

  72. RA QVJ/1838: 17 October

  73. RA VIC/ADDA/12, part three (8–13 June 1837)

  74. Lady Elizabeth Grosvenor, quoted in Weintraub (1987) p. 69

  6. Albert: Kensington Palace, 18 May 1836

  1. RA QVJ/1836: 18 May

  2. Deirdre Murphy, “ ‘I like this poor palace”: Victoria’s Childhood’, in Fryman, ed., (forthcoming, 2019)

  3. Ibid.

  4. RA VIC/MAIN/Y/88/33 (14 March 1837)

  5. Sir John Conroy to Lord Durham (6 February 1836), quoted in Hudson (1994) p. 114

  6. TNA WORKS 19/16/1/655, ‘Kensington Palace Inventory’ (18 February 1862)

  7. RA VIC/MAIN/5/9/86, James Clark (29 January 1836)

  8. RA QVJ/1837: 24 May

  9. Quoted in Hudson (1994) p. 114

  10. Ibid., p. 114; Anon., ‘A Lady’, Anecdotes, Personal Traits, and Characteristic Sketches of Victoria, London (1840) p. 472

  11. Thomas Sully, Journal (22 March 1838), transcribed in Kay Staniland files, Museum of London (consulted August 2017)

  12. Edward Boykin, ed., Victoria, Albert and Mrs Stevenson, New York, NY (1957) p. 57

  13. Gray (2017) p. 40

  14. Sully (22 March 1838)

  15. Boykin, ed. (1957) p. 104

  16. Ibid; Maxwell, ed. (1904–5) vol. 2, p. 326

  17. E.E.P. Tisdall, Queen Victoria’s Private Life, 1837–1901, London (1961) p. 15

  18. Henry Reeve, ed., The Greville Memoirs, London (1896 edition) vol. 4, p. 81

  19. Boykin, ed. (1957), p. 57

  20. Benson and Esher, eds. (1907, 1908 edition) vol. 2, p. 49

  21. Staniland (1997) p. 92

  22. Scott (1819; 1858 edition) p. 368

  23. RA QVJ/1836: 1 November

  24. Benson and Esher, eds. (1907, 1908 edition) vol. 1, pp. 48–9

  25. Charles Grey, The Early Years of the His Royal Highness the Prince Consort, London and New York, NY (1867) p. 90

  26. Doris Almon Ponsonby, The Lost Duchess: The Story of the Prince Consort’s Mother, (London, 1958) p. 151

  27. Arthur Gould Lee, ed., The Empress Frederick Writes to Sophie, Her Daughter, London (1955) pp. 199–200

  28. Klaus Weschenfelder, ‘Prince Albert: Early Encounters with Art and Collecting’, Essays from Study Day Held at the National Gallery, 2010, London (2012) pp. 12, 7

  29. Benson and Esher, eds. (1907, 1908 edition) vol. 1, p. 49

  30. Quoted in Theodore Martin, The Life of His Royal Highness the Prince Consort 1819–1861, London (1875; 1879 edition) vol. 1, p. 2

  31. Quoted in Martin (1875; 1879 edition) vol. 1 pp. 2–3

  32. RA QVJ/1836: 18 May

  33. Grey (1867) p. 90

  34. RA QVJ/1836: 23 May

  35. RA QVJ/1836: 24 May

  36. Percy Andreae, trans., Memoirs of Ernest II, London (1880) vol. 1 p. 69

  37. Müller, ed. (1873) vol. 2, p. 7

  38. RA VIC/MAIN/Y/34/51 (16 April 1836)

  39. RA QVJ/1836: 10 June

  40. RA VIC/MAIN/M/4/55, Palmerston to Conroy (13 May 1836)

  41. RA VIC/MAIN/M/4/57, Albert’s notes on a memorandum of Charles of Leiningen

  42. RA QVJ/1836: 10 June

  43. RA VIC/MAIN/M/4/57

  44. RA VIC/MAIN/M/4/57, memorandum of Charles of Leiningen, translated in Woodham-Smith (1972) p. 116

  45. Quoted in Woodham-Smith (1972) p. 122

  46. Benson and Esher, eds. (1907 1908 edition) vol. 1, p. 49

  47. RA VIC/MAIN/QVLB/24 January 1838

  7. Accession: Kensington Palace, 20 June 1837

  1. Lorne (1901) p. 61

  2. Private Life (1897; 1901 edition) p. 153

  3. RA VIC/MAIN/Z/294, fo. 3r

  4. RA QVJ/1836: 13 January

  5. RA QVJ/1837: 24 May

  6. Lord Palmerston (26 May 1837), quoted in Christopher Hibbert, Victoria, London (2000; 2001 edition) p. 50.

  7. W. F. Monypenny and G. E. Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, London (1910) vol. 1, p. 370

  8. Quoted in Ziegler (1971) p. 289; Clifford Brewer, The Death of Kings, London (2005 edition) pp. 238–9

  9. RA ADDA/11/12 (8–13 June 1837), translated in Woodham-Smith (1972) p. 136

  10. Benson and Esher, eds. (1907, 1908 edition) vol. 1, p. 72

  11. RA VIC/ADDA/15 (16 June 1837)

  12. RA VIC/MAIN/M/4/57, memorandum of Charles of Leiningen, translated in Woodham-Smith (1972) p. 137

  13. Quoted in Hudson (1994) p. 130

  14. TNA PRO 30/29/423, Palmerston to Granville (26 May 1837)

  15. RA VIC/MAIN/M/7/67, memorandum of Charles of Leiningen, translated in Hudson (1994) p. 121

  16. Benson and Esher, eds. (1907, 1908 edition) vol. 1, p. 70

  17. RA QVJ/1837: 19 May

  18. RA VIC/MAIN/Z/294, fo. 3v

  19. Ibid, f
o. 3r–v

  20. Woodham-Smith (1972) p. 138

  21. RA VIC/MAIN/Z/294, fo. 3v

  22. Tooley (1897) pp. 70–2. The evidence given by Dean Stanley records that the duchess advised that her daughter must go in alone, rather than, as some historians have said, Victoria ordering her mother to remain behind

  23. Anon., The Annual Register and Chronicle for the Year 1837, London (1838) p. 61

  24. Tooley (1897) pp. 70–2

  25. Peter Quennell, ed., The Private Letters of Princess Lieven, London (1937) p. 200

  26. Tooley (1897) p. 72

  27. Thomas Dixon, Weeping Britannia, Oxford (2015) pp. 177–9

  28. Theodore Martin, Queen Victoria as I Knew Her, London (1901) p. 65

  29. RA VIC/MAIN/QVLB/19 June 1837

  30. Anon., The Annual Register and Chronicle for the Year 1837, London (1838) p. 65

  31. Benson and Esher, eds. (1911 edition) vol. 1, p. 72

  32. RA VIC/MAIN/QVLB/20 June 1837

  33. Sir John Clark, Sir James Clark’s son, made this claim; Elizabeth Longford, ‘Queen Victoria’s Doctors’, in Martin Gilbert, ed., A Century of Conflict, 1850–1950, London (1966) p. 84

  34. Philip Ziegler, Melbourne, London (1976) p. 123

  35. RA QVJ/1838: 30 December

  36. RA QVJ/1837: 20 May

  37. Anon., The Annual Register and Chronicle for the Year 1837, London (1838) p. 63

  38. Reeve, ed. (1899 edition) vol. 3, p. 415

  39. Quoted in Bartley (2016) p. 42

  40. Tooley (1897) pp. 70–2

  41. De-la-Noy (1990) p. 101

  42. Barratt (2000) p. 45, quoted in Gray (2017) p. 279

  43. Eyewitness Barrett Lennard, quoted in Ernest Law, Kensington Palace, London (1899) p. 37; Allan Cunningham, The Life of Sir David Wilkie, London (1843) p. 229

  44. Anon., The Annual Register and Chronicle for the Year 1837, London (1838) p. 63

  45. Quoted in John Plunkett, Queen Victoria, First Media Monarch, Oxford (2003) p. 89

  46. Deirdre Murphy, “ ‘I like this poor palace”: Victoria’s childhood’, in Fryman, ed., (forthcoming, 2019)

  47. Reeve, ed. (1899 edition) vol. 3, p. 415

  48. Marshall (1887) p. 301

  49. Reeve, ed. (1899 edition) vol. 3, p. 415

  50. Quoted in Woodham-Smith (1972) p. 140

  51. Anon., The Annual Register and Chronicle for the Year 1837, London (1838) p. 63

  52. Law, (1899) p. 37

  53. Vernon Bogdanor, Gresham College History Lecture (20 September 2016)

  54. RA VIC/MAIN/4/28 (23 April 1831)

  55. Cunningham, (1843) p. 229

  56. The Bishop of London, quoted in Lorne (1901) p. 67

  57. RA VIC/MAIN/M/7/68, memorandum of Baron Stockmar (1847); RA MP/116/89, memorandum of Sir John Conroy

  58. RA VIC/MAIN/M/7/68, memorandum of Baron Stockmar (1847)

  59. RA VIC/ADDA/11/4 Stockmar to Leopold (3 April 1837), translated in Woodham-Smith (1972) p. 131

  60. RA QVJ/1837: 20 May

  61. RA VIC/MAIN/Z/294, fo. 3r

  62. RA VIC/MAIN/Z/294, fo. 3v

  63. RA QVJ/1839: 8 January

  64. Quoted in Vallone (2001) p. 199

  65. RA QVJ/1837: 20 May

  66. Adrienne Munich, Queen Victoria’s Secrets, New York, NY (1996) p. 16

  67. Reeve, ed. (1896 edition) vol. 4, pp. 16–17

  8. Coronation: Buckingham Palace, 28 June 1838

  1. RA QVJ/1838: 28 June

  2. Lady Wilhelmina Stanhope, quoted in Lorne (1901) p. 82

  3. Staniland (1997) p. 114

  4. Private Life (1897; 1901 edition) p. 62

  5. Plunkett (2003) pp. 18–19

  6. Caledonian Mercury (1 July 1837) p. 5, quoted in Bartley (2016) p. 39

  7. Benson and Esher, eds. (1907, 1908 edition) vol. 1, p. 86

  8. Ibid., p. 106

  9. Ibid., p. 115

  10. Anon., The Annual Register For the Year 1838, London (1838) p. 135

  11. Charlot (1991) p. 115

  12. Weintraub (1987) pp. 112, 650

  13. Reeve, ed. (1896 edition) vol. 4, p. 113; Plunkett (2003) p. 23

  14. Anon., The Annual Register For the Year 1838, London (1838) p. 96

  15. Harriot Georgiana Mundy, ed., The Journal of Mary Frampton, London (1885) p. 404

  16. Ibid., pp. 404–5

  17. Anon., The Annual Register For the Year 1838, London (1838) pp. 96–7

  18. RA QVJ/1838: 28 June

  19. Roy Strong, Coronation, London (2005) p. 406

  20. Mundy, ed., (1885) p. 406

  21. Ibid., pp. 407–8

  22. Anon., The Annual Register For the Year 1838, London (1838) p. 97

  23. Felix Mendelssohn, quoted in Charlotte M. Yonge, The Victorian Half Century, London (1887) p. 9

  24. RA QVJ/1838: 28 June

  25. Yonge (1887) p. 9

  26. Ibid.

  27. Lord Beaconsfield’s letters, published in New Outlook, New York, NY (1886) vol. 33, p. 24; Rix (2013)

  28. TNA LC 2/67, pp. 23–4

  29. Lady Wilhelmina Stanhope, quoted in Lorne (1901) p. 82

  30. RA QVJ/1838: 28 June

  31. Grace Greenwood, Queen Victoria, Her Girlhood and Womanhood, London (1883) p. 117

  32. Ralph Disraeli, ed., Lord Beaconsfield’s Correspondence with His Sister, London (1886 edition) p. 109

  33. RA QVJ/1838: 28 June

  34. Lady Wilhelmina Stanhope, quoted in Lorne (1901) p. 82

  35. RA QVJ/1838: 28 June

  36. Quoted in Yonge (1887) pp. 10–11

  37. C. R. Leslie, Autobiographical Recollections, London (1860) vol. 2, p. 239

  38. Quoted in Yonge (1887) pp. 10–11

  39. Warner (1979) p. 84

  40. Quoted in Yonge (1887) pp. 10–11

  41. RA QVJ/1838: 28 June

  42. Benjamin Robert Haydon, The Diary of Benjamin Robert Haydon, Cambridge, MA (1960) p. 350

  43. Strong (2005) p. 381

  44. Kilby, ed. (2012) p. 35

  45. TNA LC 2/67, p. 66

  46. Reeve, ed., (1896 edition) vol. 4, pp. 111–12

  47. Lady Wilhelmina Stanhope, quoted in Lorne (1901) pp. 83–4

  48. TNA LC 2/68 (22 June 1838)

  49. RA QVJ/1838: 28

  50. Mundy, ed., (1885) p. 408

  51. Ibid.

  52. Harriet Martineau, Autobiography, Boston, MA (1877) p. 422

  53. RA QVJ/1838: 28 June

  54. TNA LC 2/68 ‘Coronation of Her Most Sacred Majesty’

  55. Newspaper account, quoted by Kathryn Rix, blog post, ‘MPs and Queen Victoria’s Coronation’ victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2013/06/28

  56. Rix (2013)

  57. Quoted in Yonge (1887) pp. 10–11

  58. RA QVJ/1838: 28 June

  59. Balliol College Conroy Papers 14.B.A.(a).10, Basil Hall to Sir John Conroy (29 June 1838)

  60. Lady Wilhelmina Stanhope, quoted in Lorne (1901) pp. 83–4

  61. Lord Beaconsfield’s letters, published in New Outlook, New York, NY (1886) vol. 33, p. 24

  62. RA QVJ/1838: 28 June

  63. Anabel Loyd, Picnic Crumbs, Clifton-upon-Teme (2012)

  64. Martineau (1877) pp. 421–3

  65. RA QVJ/1838: 28 June

  66. Leslie, (1860) vol. 2, p. 239

  67. Reeve, ed. (1896 edition) vol. 4, p. 22

  68. RA QVJ/1838: 28 June

  69. Quoted in Strong (2005) p. 417

  70. Martineau (1877) pp. 421, 424

  71. F. M. Mallalieu, ‘The Coronation’, The Times (28 June 1838)

  72. Anon., The Annual Register For the Year 1838, London (1838) p. 107

  73. Plunkett (2003) p. 68

  74. Ibid., p. 70

  9. In Lady Flora’s Bedchamber: Buckingham Palace, 27 June 1839

  1. Sully (22 March 1838)

  2. Benita Stoney and Heinrich Weltzien, eds., My Mistress the Queen: The Letters of Frieda Arnold, Dresser to Queen Victoria, 1854–9, Lond
on (1994) p. 52

  3. Ibid., p. 51

  4. Jasper Tomsett Judge, Sketches of Her Majesty’s Household, London (1848) p. 97

  5. Sully (22 March 1838)

  6. Stoney and Weltzien, eds. (1994) p. 52

  7. J. Mordaunt Crook and M. H. Port, The History of the King’s Works, vol. 6, London (1973) p. 274

  8. Ibid., p. 287

  9. Ibid., p. 290

  10. Judge (1848) p. 62

  11. Crook and Port (1973) vol. 6, p. 376

  12. Boykin, ed. (1957) p. 83

  13. RA QVJ/1839: 25–27 June

  14. Crook and Port (1973) vol. 6, p. 287

  15. Martin (1962) p. 67

  16. RA QVJ/1839: 25–27 June

  17. RA MRH/MRHF/MENUS/MAIN/BP/1839 (28 June 1839)

  18. RA QVJ/1839: 25–27 June

  19. Martin (1962) p. 67

  20. The Age (7 July 1839), quoted in Martin (1962) p. 67

  21. RA QVJ/1839: 18 March

  22. The Chronicle, quoted in Martin (1962) p. 70

  23. Morning Post (4 July 1839), quoted in Lacy Fidler, ‘Newspaper Representations of Queen Victoria’s Agency During the Hastings Scandal and Bedchamber Crisis of 1839’, MA thesis, University of Alberta (2009) p. 90

  24. RA QVJ/1839: 16 May

  25. Reeve, ed. (1896 edition) vol. 4, p. 23

  26. Ziegler (1976) p. 106

  27. Reeve, ed. (1896 edition) vol. 4, p. 136

  28. RA QVJ/1837: 3 October

  29. RA QVJ/1838: 4 September

  30. Roger Fulford, ed., The Greville Memoirs, London (1963 edition) p. 156

  31. RA VIC/MAIN/M/7/65, Duchess of Kent to Victoria (n.d., June 1837)

  32. RA QVJ/1838: 20 February

  33. RA VIC/ADDV/2, translation of VIC/ADDA/14/66 (6 March 1838)

  34. Woodham-Smith (1972) p. 161

  35. RA QVJ/1839: 25–27 June

  36. Quoted in Robert Bernard Martin, Enter Rumour, London (1962) p. 49

  37. RA QVJ/1839: 25–27 June

  38. Quoted in Woodham-Smith (1972) p. 162

  39. Wyndham, ed. (1912) p. 285

  40. RA QVJ/1838: 14 October

  41. RA QVJ/1838: 4 August

  42. Beatrice Erskine, ed., Twenty Years at Court: From the Correspondence of the Hon. Eleanor Stanley, 1842–1862, London (1916) p. 57

  43. RA MRH/MRHF/GOODSREC/SPICE/WC, fo. 13 (21–30 June 1837)

  44. Maxwell, ed. (1904) vol. 2, p. 325

  45. For example, RA MRH/MRHF/MENUS/MAIN/MIXED/24, fo. 191r (29 September 1837)

  46. RA QVJ/1838: 30 December

  47. RA QVJ/1838: 17 December

  48. Sully (24 February 1838)

  49. Brewer (2005 edition) p. 244

  50. Quoted in Hibbert (2000; 2001 edition) p. 61

 

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