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by Christopher Hibbert


  24. RA Y54/8, 15 August 1840.

  25. Chariot, 190.

  26. Grey, Early Years, 319.

  27. Bolitho, Victoria, 74.

  28. Princess Lieven, Une vie d'ambassadrice au siecle dernier, 1903, 285, quoted in Chariot, 188.

  29. Fulford, Prince Consort, 276.

  30. Longford, Victoria, 145-6; Greville v, 49-50, 77-9, 124.

  31. Chariot, 224.

  32. RAQVJ, 28 February 1840.

  Chapter 17. ROBERT PEEL

  1. RA LP, 4 June 1840.

  2. RA LP, 15 June 1840.

  3. Longford, 'Queen Victoria's Doctors'.

  4. Hibbert, Wellington, 355.

  5. Bolitho, Prince Consort and His Brother, 21.

  6. Woodham-Smith, 216.

  7. Bolitho, Prince Consort and His Brother, 30.

  8. RA George Anson's Memorandum, 28 May 1840.

  9. Fulford, Beloved Mama, 172; Pakula, 27; Longford, Victoria, 153.

  10. Fulford, Beloved Mama, 172; Pakula, 28.

  11. RA Y90/11, 5 January 1841; Benson and Esher, i, 255.

  12. Grey, Early Years, 246; Chariot, 196-7.

  13. Bolitho, Prince Consort and His Brother, 34.

  14. Theodore Martin, ii, 297.

  15. Ibid., i, 113.

  16. RA Y54/3.

  17. Greville, iv, 413, 414.

  18. RAQVJ, 28 August 1841.

  19. Greville, iv, 409; Mitchell, 247.

  20. Greville, iv, 407-8.

  21. RA Y54/66-71.

  22. Woodham-Smith, 223.

  23. Greville, iv, 412-5.

  Chapter 18. THE PRINCE AND THE HOUSEHOLD

  1. RA Y54/100, 26 December 1841.

  2. Ames, 15-17.

  3. Watson, passim.

  4. Stockmar, ii, 118-26.

  5. Frederick Ponsonby, Recollections, 18.

  6. Tooley, 137-8.

  7. Records of the Lord Chamberlain's Department, quoted in Watson, 238.

  8. Ibid., 49.

  9. Jerrold, 185.

  10. Jerrold, 219; David Duff, Albert and Victoria, 214.

  11. Jerrold, 220.

  12. Tooley, 146.

  13. Watson, 234.

  14. G. T. Curtis, lames Buchanan, quoted in E. S. Turner, 326-7.

  15. Jerrold, 253.

  16. Ibid.

  17. Erskine (Stanley correspondence), 176.

  18. Greville, iv, 108.

  19. Kennedy, 131.

  20. Ibid., 32.

  21. G. O. Trevelyan, Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, 548-9.

  22. Edwin Hodder, ed., The Life and Work of the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, i, 236.

  23. Greville, iv, 383.

  24. Lytcelton, 389.

  25. Frederick Ponsonby, 50.

  26. Ibid., 51.

  27. Greville, iv, 383.

  28. Fulford, Dearest Child, 69. 29. RA Y203/78; RA Z491.

  30. RAQVJ, 3 August 1843.

  31. Fulford, Prince Consort, 242.

  32. Lyttelton, 307. 33. Ibid., 357.

  34. Ibid., 354.

  35. RA Z491.

  Chapter 19. ROYAL QUARRELS

  1. Gerald Wellington, Wellington and his Friends, 139-40.

  2. Ramsay, Rough Recollections, i, 66.

  3. Lady Burghclere, A Great Man's Friendship: Letters of the Duke of Wellington to Mary Marchioness of Salisbury, 197; Muriel Wellesley, Wellington in Civil Life, 306.

  4. Jagow, 72; Pakula, 29.

  5. Fulford, Dearest Child, 78.

  6. RAQVJ, 2 December 1841.

  7. Quoted in Woodham-Smith, 226.

  8. RAQVJ, 2 December 1841.

  9. RA Add. U2/2, 16 January 1842.

  10. Ibid.

  11. RA Add. U2/4, 18 January 1842.

  12. Ibid.

  13. RA Add. U2/5, 19 January 1842.

  14. Quoted in Woodham-Smith, 231.

  15. RA Add. U2/7, 19 January 1842.

  16. RA M12/1; RA Y54/100; RA M12/16, 17; RA M12/23.

  17. Lyttelton, 319-22; Pakula, 34-6.

  18. Pakula, 39.

  19. Quoted in Woodham-Smith, 232.

  20. RAQVJ, 24 September 1842.

  21. Quoted in St Aubyn, Queen Victoria, 173.

  Chapter 20. OSBORNE

  1. RAQVJ, 1 October 1842.

  2. Fulford, Dearest Child, 111-2.

  3. Pakula, 41; Fulford, Prince Consort, 95.

  4. Lyttelton, 338-9.

  5. RA Y91/38, 6 February 1844.

  6. Theodore Martin, i, 202.

  7. Ibid., i, 208.

  8. RAQVJ, 4 February 1844.

  9. Fulford, Dearest Child, 140-41, 213, 215, 271.

  10. RA Add. 40, 439; Woodham-Smith, 269-71.

  11. Musgrave, 243.

  12. RAQVJ, 8 February 1845.

  13. RAQVJ, 19 October 1843.

  14. RA 91/35, 16 January 1844.

  15. RA Vic Y 92/16; Benson and Esher, ii, 35.

  16. Theodore Martin, i, 322-3.

  17. York and Stoney, 26.

  18. Greville, v, 229.

  19. RA Vic Y 92/16; Theodore Martin, i, 248.

  20. Benson and Esher, ii, 36.

  21. RAQVJ, 30 July 1847.

  22. BM Add. 40, 440, 22 June 1845, quoted in Woodham-Smith, 275.

  23. RAQVJ, 22 March 1845.

  24. York and Stoney, 29-32; Mark Girouard, The Victorian Country House, 1971, 13.

  25. Lyttelton, 364-5; York and Stoney, 39.

  26. Ibid.

  27. RAQVJ, 18 July 1854; York and Stoney, 132.

  28. RAQVJ, 6 July 1849.

  Chapter 21. TRAVELLING

  1. RAQVJ, 2 September 1843.

  2. Ibid.

  3. Surtees, 95-8.

  4. RAQVJ, 3-5 September 1843.

  5. Theodore Martin, i, 181.

  6. Jean Duhamel, Louis-Philippe et la Premiere Entente Cordiale, quoted in Woodham-Smith, 243.

  7. Surtees, 109.

  8. Ibid., 115.

  9. E. C. Gaskell, Life of Charlotte Bronte, 1857, ii, 240.

  10. Surtees, 110.

  11. Monkswell, 33; quoted in St Aubyn, Queen Victoria, 335.

  12. Gerald Wellington, Wellington and His Friends, 185.

  13. Ibid., 197-8.

  14. RAQVJ, 21 January 1845.

  15. Ibid.

  16. Hatfield House Papers, 8 October 1849, quoted in Hibbert, Wellington, 374.

  17. Gerald Wellington, Wellington and His Friends, 198.

  18. Greville, v, 146-8.

  19. RAQVJ, 1 December 1843.

  20. Greville, v, 148. 21. RAQVJ, 12 December 1843.

  22. Greville, v, 198.

  23. Ibid., iv, 192.

  24. Ibid., v, 229-30.

  25. RAQVJ, 20 August 1845.

  26. Surtees, 163.

  27. Greville, v, 229-30.

  Chapter 22. BALMORAL

  1. Quoted in St Aubyn, Queen Victoria, 191.

  2. Jagow, 81.

  3. Surtees, 115.

  4. Benson and Esher, ii, 24.

  5. RA Y206; Longford, Victoria, 212-6.

  6. Greville, vi, 185-7.

  7. Lyttelton, 393.

  8. Quoted in St Aubyn, Queen Victoria, 201.

  9. Fulford, Dearest Child, 139-40.

  10. Victoria, Leaves, passim; Kerr, passim.

  11. Quoted in Longford, Victoria, 237.

  12. Rhodes James, Rosebery, 66.

  13. Lytton, 37.

  14. Princess Alice, 77.

  15. Private Life, 117.

  16. Rhodes James, 67.

  17. Blake, 493.

  18. Henry Ponsonby, 116.

  Chapter 23. THE PRINCE OF WALES

  1. Lyttelton, quoted in Hibbert, Edward VII, 5.

  2. Ibid., 329; RA M13/46, 67, 68, 19-25 August, 29 September 1843.

  3. RA 37/7, 10 December 1843; Longford, Victoria, 171-2.

  4. RA M13/87, 18 August 1847.

  5. Mitchell, 214.

  6. RA M12/44.

  7. RA M12/46.

  8. Gibbs Papers,
quoted in Magnus, King Edward VII, 7-8.

  9. Lyttelton, 338.

  10. George Combe's Reports, National Library of Scotland, MSS. 7437.

  11. Magnus, King Edward VII, 6.

  12. Surtees, 124.

  13. Gibbs's Diary, quoted in Magnus, King Edward VII, 9.

  14. Lincolnshire Papers, Bodleian MSS., quoted in Hibbert, Edward VII, 16.

  15. Quoted in Hibbert, Edward VII, 16.

  16. Ibid., 17.

  17. York and Stoney, 108-10; Stoney and Weltzien, 33-4.

  18. RA Add. A/25/168, 19 March 1866; Zeepvat, 45.

  Chapter 24. PALMERSTON

  1. Greville, iv, 207-8.

  2. RAQVJ, 15 April 1845.

  3. RAQVJ, 30 January 1845.

  4. Quoted in Longford, Victoria, 181.

  5. RAQVJ, 24 January 1846.

  6. Mitchell, 249.

  7. RAQVJ, 1 October 1842.

  8. Quoted in Bolitho, Albert the Good, 234.

  9. Quoted in Chariot, 262.

  10. Benson and Esher, ii, 64.

  11. Jasper Ridley, 275-6.

  12. Jasper Ridley, Brian Connell, Bourne, passim.

  Chapter 25. CHARTISTS

  1. R. G. Gamage, The History of the Chartist Movement (1894), quoted in Best, 187.

  2. Quoted in St Aubyn, Queen Victoria, 226.

  3. CH 283, 30 October 1883.

  4. Quoted in Longford, Victoria, 197-8.

  5. Hibbert, Wellington, 380.

  6. Benson and Esher, ii, 166-7, 4 April 1848.

  7. Greville, vi, 51-2.

  8. Theodore Martin, ii, 106.

  9. Quoted in St Aubyn, Queen Victoria, 224-5.

  Chapter 26. 'PAM IS OUT'

  1. Quoted in St Aubyn, Queen Victoria, 217.

  2. RAQVJ, 2 November 1848.

  3. RAQVJ, 22 January 1849.

  4. RAQVJ, 16 May 1850.

  5. Ashley, 211-27; Jasper Ridley, 386-7.

  6. RA C9/46, 12 August 1850.

  7. Theodore Martin, ii, 307.

  8. Chariot, 322.

  9. RA A79/58, 8 October 1850. 10. Spencer Walpole, ii, 133. 11. Benson and Esher, ii, 392-400; Jasper Ridley, 396-7.

  12. Theodore Martin, ii, 412.

  13. Jasper Ridley, 398-400.

  14. Greville, vi, 315-16.

  15. RAQVJ, 20 December 1851.

  Chapter 27. THE GREAT EXHIBITION

  1. Benson and Esher, ii, 317-8.

  2. Quoted in St Aubyn, Queen Victoria, 227.

  3. The Times, 22 June 1851.

  4. Hansard, vol. 112, 903, quoted in Woodham-Smith, 309.

  5. Jagow, 176-7.

  6. Quoted in St Aubyn, Queen Victoria, 230.

  7. Wellington Papers, Hartley Institute, 2 April 1851, quoted in Hibbert, Wellington, 383.

  8. Hansard, vol. 112, 905, quoted in Woodham-Smith, 309.

  9. RAQVJ, 18 February 1851.

  10. RAQVJ, 1 May 1851.

  11. Ibid.

  12. Asa Briggs, Iron Bridge to Crystal Palace, 172.

  13. RAQVJ, 1 May 1851.

  14. Theodore Martin, ii, 383.

  Chapter 28. 'SCENES'

  1. Benson and Esher, i, 480.

  2. RA Z140/9-18.

  3. RAQVJ, 31 December 1855.

  4. RA Y206, Sir James Clark's Diary, 5, 15 February 1856.

  Chapter 29. CRIMEAN WAR

  1. RA Z171/13, 12 February 1845.

  2. RAQVJ, 3 May 1855.

  3. RAQVJ, 20, 22 February 1855.

  4. RAQVJ, 18 April 1855.

  5. RAQVJ, 22 November 1854.

  6. Bolitho, Further Letters, 51.

  7. Ibid.

  8. RAQVJ, 8 December 1854.

  9. Theodore Martin, iii, 503.

  10. Panmure Papers, quoted in Hibbert, Destruction of Lord Raglan, 299.

  11. Ibid., 300.

  12. David, 326.

  13. Raglan Private Papers D (1) 225, quoted in Hibbert, Destruction of Lord Raglan, 270.

  14. RA G21/65/166.

  15. Panmure Papers, 13 February 1855, quoted in Hibbert, op.cit. 256.

  16. Ibid., 16 February 1855, quoted in Hibbert, op.cit., 256.

  17. Ibid., 24 June 1855, quoted in Hibbert, op.cit., 256.

  18. Quoted in Longford, Victoria, 241.

  19. Hansard, 3rd series, 156.

  20. Ibid.

  21. Magnus, Gladstone, 119.

  22. Weibe, vi, 405.

  23. Pemberton, 30.

  24. RAQVJ, 21 August 1856.

  25. Jasper Ridley, 519-20; St Aubyn, Queen Victoria, 297.

  Chapter 30. NAPOLEON III

  1. RA J76/84, Prince Albert's memorandum, 12 September 1854.

  2. RA Add. A19/37, 6 January 1853.

  3. RA Add. A19/44, 20 January 1853.

  4. RAQVJ, 16 April 1855.

  5. Quoted in St Aubyn, Queen Victoria, 299.

  6. Quoted in Aronson, Heart of a Queen, 102.

  7. Greville, vii, 154.

  8. Pakula, 59.

  9. RA 76/92, 1 September 1855.

  10. RA Z63, quoted in Woodham-Smith, 358.

  11. Longford, Victoria, 251.

  12. RAQVJ, 19 April 1855.

  13. RAQVJ, 76/92, 1 September 1855.

  14. RAQVJ, 18 August 1855.

  15. Benson and Esher, iii, 135-6.

  16. St Aubyn, Queen Victoria, 302.

  17. Stoney and Weltzien, 17; Pakula, 57; Munich, 67; Weintraub, Victoria, 250-51.

  18. CH, 133; Benson and Esher, iii, 136-8; Martin, iii, 321-38; RAQVJ, 18 August 1855; RAJ 76/92, 1 September 1855.

  19. RAQVJ, 24 August 1855.

  20. Greville, vii, 157.

  21. Hibbert, Edward VII, 18.

  22. Ibid. 23. Greville, vii, 158.

  24. Aronson, Heart of a Queen, 108.

  25. Pakula, 58.

  Chapter 31. THE PRINCESS ROYAL

  1. RA Add. A7/9; CH, 98, 29 September 1855.

  2. Pakula, 65-6.

  3. RAQVJ, 28 September 1855.

  4. The Times, 3 October 1855; Chariot, 378-9; Pakula, 58.

  5. Punch, September 1855 quoted in Chariot, 378.

  6. RA Add. A7/9;CH, 98.

  7. Ibid.

  8. St Aubyn, Queen Victoria, 270.

  9. Leaves From the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, 10 September 1855.

  10. Quoted in St Aubyn, Queen Victoria, 303.

  11. RAQVJ, 15 January 1858; Kurtz, 105-6.

  12. Malmesbury, i, 392-3.

  13. Edmond Fitzmaurice, Life of Lord Granville, i, 288.

  14. Jasper Ridley, 482.

  15. RAQVJ, 25 January-2 February 1858.

  16. Ibid.

  17. RAQVJ, 25 January-2 February 1858.

  18. Quoted in St Aubyn, Queen Victoria, 270.

  19. Pakula, 78.

  20. Chariot, 385.

  21. Fulford, Dearest Child, 31-2, 5 February 1858.

  22. Theodore Martin, iv, 169.

  23. Fulford, Dearest Child, 45,15 February 1858.

  24. Pakula, 69-70.

  25. RAQVJ, 7 January 1856; Pakula, 71.

  26. Fulford, Dearest Child, 1-5; Thompson, 146.

  27. Fulford, Dearest Child, 89.

  28. Ibid., 56.

  29. Ibid., 213.

  30. Ibid., 195-6 and passim.

  Chapter 32. INDIAN MUTINY

  1. Hibbert, Great Mutiny, 59-90.

  2. Quoted in St Aubyn, Queen Victoria, 306.

  3. Quoted in Longford, Victoria, 280.

  4. Hibbert, op. cit. 166.

  5. Ibid., 165.

  6. Ibid., 167.

  7. Surtees, 232.

  8. Theodore Martin, iv, 284.

  9. Quoted in Woodham-Smith, 386.

  10. Greville, vii, 175.

  11. RAQVJ, 4 December 1855.

  12. Greville, vii, 175.

  13. Steuart Erskine, 303.

  14. Theodore Martin, iv, 275.

  15. St Aubyn, Queen Victoria, 304; Longford, Victoria, 279.

  16. St Aubyn, Queen Victoria, 3
05.

  Chapter 33. THE GERMAN GRANDSON

  1. Bolitho, Prince Consort and His Brother, 177; Woodham-Smith, 375-7.

  2. RA Z140, 1 October 1856.

  3. Fulford, Dearest Child, 109, 29 May 1858.

  4. Ibid., 115, 15 June 1858.

  5. Ibid., 123, 21 July 1858.

  6. Ibid., 24 July 1858.

  7. Ibid., 131, 135, 21 September 1858, 5 October, 1858.

  8. Ibid., 134, 27 September 1858; 139, 18 October 1858.

  9. Quoted in Hough, Advice to a Grand-daughter, 126.

  10. Pakula, 113-14.

  11. Ibid., 114.

  12. Ibid., 117.

  13. Ibid., 124-6.

  14. Fulford, Dearest Child, 159, 29 January 1859.

  15. RA Z7/87, 28 February 1859; RA Z7/96, 12 March 1859.

  16. Fulford, Dearest Child, 159.

  17. Quoted in Woodham-Smith, 398.

  18. Fulford, Dearest Child.

  19. Quoted in Woodham-Smith.

  20. RAQVJ, 25-7 September 1860.

  21. Ibid., 1 October i860.

  22. Memoirs of Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, quoted in Woodham-Smith, 402; Weintraub, Albert, 393.

  23. Ibid., Weintraub, Albert, 394.

  24. Theodore Martin, iv, 225.

  25. Ibid., iv, 259.

  26. Ibid., iv, 274.

  27. Fulford, Dearest Child, 310, 14 February 1861. 28. Theodore Martin, v, 274-5.

  29. Fulford, Dearest Child, 308, 16 February 1861.

  30. Ibid., 354, 1 October 1861.

  Chapter 34. DEATH OF THE DUCHESS

  1. Chariot, 87-92.

  2. RA Z484/41, 2 March 1854.

  3. RA Z484/32, 3 March 1854.

  4. RAQVJ, 13 October 1850.

  5. RAQVJ, 8 October 1849.

  6. RA 95/20, 9 July 1850.

  7. CH 90, 17 September 1852; Benson and Esher, ii, 394, 402; Chariot, 342.

  8. RAQVJ, 15 March 1861.

  9. Theodore Martin, v, 315.

  10. RAQVJ, 9 April 1861.

  11. Fulford, Dearest Child, 319, 300.

  12. Kennedy, My Dear Duchess, 141.

  13. RAQVJ, 24 March 1861; Benson and Esher, iii, 435-9.

  14. Magnus, King Edward VII, 44.

  Chapter 35. THE DISAPPOINTING HEIR

  1. Fulford, Dearest Child, 174.

  2. Ibid., 73.

  3. Ibid., 147, 245; Hibbert, Edward VII, 25.

  4. Fulford, Dearest Child, 109.

  5. Corti, 54.

  6. Ibid., 50.

  7. Ibid., 51.

  8. RA Add. U/32.

  9. Corti, 59.

  10. Theodore Martin, v, 87.

  11. Corti, 63; Magnus, King Edward VII, 41.

  12. Fulford, Dearest Child, 279.

  13. RA Y107/12, 26 August 1861.

 

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