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QUEEN VICTORIA A Personal History

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by Christopher Hibbert


  14. RA Z, 11/18, 6 April 1861.

  15. Fulford, Dearest Child, 342.

  16. Corti, 68, Magnus, King Edward VII, 46; Pakula, 143-5.

  17. RA Add. MSS. A3/69.

  18. RAQVJ, 30 September 1861.

  19. Corti, 72.

  20. Quoted in Hibbert, Edward VII, 45.

  21. Magnus, King Edward VII, 50.

  22. RA Z141/94.

  23. RA Z141/95.

  24. Corti, 72.

  Chapter 36. DEATH OF THE PRINCE

  1. Fulford, Dearest Child, 369-70, 27 November 1861.

  2. RA Z140/62 undated.

  3. RAQVJ, 3 December 1861.

  4. Palmerston Papers, quoted in Woodham-Smith, 424.

  5. RAQVJ, 6 December 1861.

  6. Ibid., 7 December 1861.

  7. Ibid., 8 December 1861.

  8. Palmerston Papers, quoted in Woodham-Smith, 426-7.

  9. RA Z142, 11 December 1861; Longford, Victoria, 298.

  10. RAQVJ, 11 December 1861.

  11. RA Add. U55, 19 December 1861.

  12. Ibid.

  13. RA Z142, 14 December 1861.

  14. Ibid.

  15. Letters of Lady Augusta Stanley, 291.

  16. RA Z142, 14 December 1861.

  17. McClintock, 46-7.

  Chapter 37. THE GRIEVING WIDOW

  1. RA Add. U 303/17, 16 January 1862.

  2. RA Add. U 302/21, 11 March 1862.

  3. Mallet, 4, 32.

  4. Watson, 156.

  5. Quoted in Weintraub, Victoria, 309.

  6. Private Life, 66.

  7. Quoted in Longford, Victoria, 308.

  8. Letters to the Duchess of Manchester, quoted in Weintraub, Victoria, 316.

  9. Gardiner, 108; Letters to the Duchess of Manchester, quoted in Weintraub, 314.

  10. Frogmore House and the Royal Mausoleum, 40-42.

  11. Palmerston Papers, 15 December 1861, quoted in Woodham-Smith, 430.

  12. Letters to the Duchess of Manchester, 183.

  13. Quoted in Longford, Victoria, 307.

  14. Letters to the Duchess of Manchester, 186, 14 March 1862.

  15. Pakula, 159.

  16. Ibid., 160.

  17. Corti, i, 82.

  18. Fulford, Dearest Mama, 18 December 1862, 24.

  19. Quoted in St Aubyn, Queen Victoria, 331.

  20. Ibid., 332.

  21. Quoted in Weintraub, Victoria, 334. 22. Letters to the Duchess of Manchester, 12 March 1862, 191.

  23. Hughenden Papers, quoted in Longford, Victoria, 313.

  24. Quoted in Weintraub, Victoria, 334.

  Chapter 38. SEANCES AND SERVICES

  1. Fulford, Dearest Child, 7 October 1861, 356.

  2. Princess Marie Louise, 57.

  3. RA GV AA20/64, quoted in Wheeler-Bennett, 7.

  4. Wheeler-Bennett, 8.

  5. Martin, ii, 339-40.

  6. Hough, Advice to a Grand-daughter, 76.

  7. Lytton, 114.

  8. Fulford, Your Dear Letter, 141.

  9. Dorothy Thompson, 47, 124.

  10. Portland, Men, Women and Things, 1937, 125.

  11. RA Z264/2, 19 October 1873.

  12. Leaves from the Journal, 29 October 1854.

  13. Ibid., 14 October 1855.

  Chapter 39. PRINCESS ALEXANDRA

  1. RA Vic Add. MSS. A 22/71, quoted in Longford, Victoria, 308.

  2. RA Vic Add. MSS. U 16.

  3. CH, 161, 15 January 1862.

  4. Corti, 81, 27 December 1861.

  5. Quoted in Hibbert, Edward VII, 50.

  6. Fulford, Dearest Mama, 105-6.

  7. Letters to the Duchess of Manchester, 183.

  8. Quoted in Longford, Victoria, 315.

  9. RAQVJ, 18 September 1862.

  10. CH, 162, 24 January 1862.

  11. Quoted in Battiscombe, 36.

  12. Ibid., 40-42.

  13. CH, 172, 7 March 1863.

  14. Ibid., 9 March 1863.

  15. RAQVJ, 24 February, 9 March, 10 March, 1863.

  16. Quoted in Hibbert, Edward VII, 62.

  17. Battiscombe, 50; Longford, Victoria, 316; Magnus, Edward VII, 67-8; Monypenny and Buckle, ii, 119-21.

  18. RAQVJ, 28 February 1863.

  19. Ibid., 10 March 1863.

  20. Quoted in Weintraub, Victoria, 320-21.

  21. Quoted in Hibbert, Edward VII, 76.

  22. Ibid.

  23. Weintraub, Victoria, 327.

  Chapter 40. THE RECLUSE

  1. Munby, 90.

  2. Grey Papers, Durham, 25 January 1863, quoted in Arengo-Jones, 16-17.

  3. Ibid., 4 September 1863, 8, 26 May 1868, 32.

  4. Arthur Ponsonby, 73-4.

  5. Ponsonby Letters, quoted in Longford, Victoria RI, 386.

  6. Ibid., 387.

  7. Munby, 249.

  8. Grey Papers, 17 December 1863, quoted in Arengo-Jones, 21.

  9. Ibid., 4 September 1866, 22.

  10. Ibid., 22 May 1868, 31

  11. Disraeli, MSS, Bodleian, BXIX/A752, 22 May 1868, quoted in Arengo-Jones, 32.

  12. Letters, 2nd series, i, 218-19, 15 June 1864.

  13. CH, 186-7, 8 December 1864; 192-3, 22 January 1866.

  14. Quoted in Weintraub, 333.

  15. Quoted in Longford, Victoria RI, 348.

  16. CH, 192, 22 January 1866.

  17. Munby, 218.

  18. RAQVJ, 6 February 1866; Letters, 2nd series, i, 296.

  19. Quoted in St Aubyn, Queen Victoria, 371.

  20. CH, 197, 5 February 1867.

  Chapter 41. DISRAELI

  1. CH, 179, 12 November 1863.

  2. Frederick Ponsonby, 58.

  3. CH, 191, 25 October 1865.

  4. Monypenny and Buckle, iv, 394; Blake, 431.

  5. Blake, 487.

  6. Ibid., 490.

  7. CH, 90, 1 April 1852; Blake, 490-91.

  8. Letters, 2nd series, i, 505, 26 February 1868; Blake, 491.

  9. Monypenny and Buckle, vi, 453.

  10. Sir H. Maxwell, Life and Letters of... Fourth Earl of Clarendon, ii, 346.

  11. Blake, 491.

  12. Quoted in Gardiner, 120.

  13. Blake, 493. 14. Monypenny and Buckle, v, 339.

  15. Quoted in St Aubyn, Queen Victoria, 383.

  16. Quoted in Weintraub, 448.

  Chapter 42. JOHN BROWN

  1. Munby, 239.

  2. Arthur Ponsonby, 127-9.

  3. Bell, ii, 31.

  4. Quoted in Longford, Victoria, 327.

  5. Vincent, 47-8.

  6. CH, 150, 21 October 1861.

  7. McClintock, 33.

  8. Quoted in Weintraub, 399.

  9. CH, 188, 5 April 1865.

  10. Ibid., 187, 24 February 1865.

  11. RA Vic Add. MSS, A22/112, 26 December 1866.

  12. Quoted in Longford, Victoria, 459.

  13. Arthur Ponsonby, 126-7.

  14. Quoted in Rose, Kings, Queens and Courtiers, 87.

  15. Arthur Ponsonby, 127.

  16. Ibid., 126.

  17. Ibid.

  18. Ribblesdale, 126.

  19. Arthur Ponsonby, 124-6.

  20. Ibid., 122

  21. Ibid., 128.

  22. Quoted in St Aubyn, Queen Victoria, 353

  23. RA C3/57-8.

  24. McClintock, 182.

  25. Leaves from the Journal, note to entry for 16 September 1850.

  26. Elizabeth Longford, Introduction to Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, Folio Society, 1973, 19.

  27. Baillie and Bolitho, Letters of Lady Augusta Stanley, 72.

  28. CH, 192, 23 December 1865.

  29. Magnus, Edward VII, 178.

  Chapter 43. 'THE ROYALTY QUESTION'

  1. Dilke Papers, quoted in Jenkins, Sir Charles Dilke, 145.

  2. Hibbert, Edward VII, 108.

  3. Arthur Ponsonby, 70.

  4. Ibid., 211.

  5. Reid, 162.

  6. Arthur Ponsonby, 74.

  7. CH, 1
93, 22 January 1866.

  8. Arthur Ponsonby, 72.

  9. Magnus, Gladstone, 212.

  10. Quoted in Thompson, 204.

  11. Ibid., 206.

  12. Quoted in St Aubyn, Queen Victoria, 344.

  13. CH, 315n.

  14. Quoted in Longford, Victoria, 374.

  Chapter 44. 'THE PRINCELY PAUPER'

  1. RAQVJ, 29 March 1871.

  2. RA Add. A1/16.

  3. Quoted in St Aubyn, Queen Victoria, 342.

  4. RAQVJ, 18 October 1871; CH, 226.

  5. Letters, 2nd series, ii, 157, 160-61; RAQVJ, 18 September 1871.

  6. The Times, quoted in Bolitho, Victoria, 241.

  Chapter 45. TYPHOID FEVER

  1. RAQVJ, 7 July 1867.

  2. Macclesfield Papers, quoted in Battiscombe, 114-18.

  3. Brett, i, 300.

  4. Macclesfield Papers, quoted in Battiscombe, 116.

  5. RA. Add A30/366, 10 January 1872.

  6. RAQVJ, 29 November-31 December 1871; CH, 213-5, 29 November 1871-23 December 1871.

  7. Arthur Ponsonby, 99-100; St Aubyn, Royal George, 162-3.

  8. Arthur Ponsonby, 98.

  9. RAQVJ, 14 December 1871.

  10. CH, 215, 14 February 1872.

  11. RAQVJ, 27 February 1872; Brett, i, 119-20; Longford, Victoria, 390; Jenkins, Gladstone, 348.

  12. CH, 216; RAQVJ, 27 February 1872.

  13. Longford, Victoria, 391.

  14. Letters, 2nd series, 445-6.

  15. Benson, Victoria, 232.

  16. Quoted in Weintraub, 354.

  17. Watson, 218.

  18. Watson, 221-3; Rose, 52-3; Augustus Hare, In My Solitary Life, new edition, London, 1973, 229.

  19. Hare, 52.

  20. Arthur Ponsonby, Sidelights, 122, 128; Benson, Victoria, 226; Bolitho, Victoria, 245; Watson, 223; Letters, 2nd series, ii, 258-61.

  Chapter 46. MAIDS-OF-HONOUR

  1. Fulford, Victoria, 134.

  2. Bell, 77.

  3. Mallet, 4.

  4. Reid, 176.

  5. Ibid., 182-3.

  6. 27 August 1899, quoted in Longford, Victoria, 572.

  7. Reid, 188.

  8. Ibid., 186.

  9. Mallet, 44-5.

  10. Guedalla, i, 227-9.

  11. Martin, Victoria, 70.

  12. Fulford, Victoria, 132.

  13. Longford, Victoria, 567.

  Chapter 47. SECRETARIES AND MINISTERS

  1. Viscount Mersey, A Picture of Life, 1872-1940, 1941, 359.

  2. Frederick Ponsonby, 16-17.

  3. Arthur Ponsonby, 87.

  4. Baron von Eckardstein, Ten Years at the Court of St James's, 1921, 43.

  5. Ibid., 44.

  6. Fulford, Victoria, 78.

  7. Arthur Ponsonby, passim.

  8. Quoted in Weintraub, 570.

  9. Henry Ponsonby, 57-8. 10. Ibid., 60.

  11. Reid, 44.

  12. John Wilson, C.B. A Life of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, 132-3.

  13. Ibid., 133-5.

  14. Quoted in Reid, 33.

  Chapter 48. REGINA ET IMPERATRIX

  1. Arthur Ponsonby, 244, 245.

  2. Rhodes James, 64.

  3. Ponsonby Letters, 27 January 1873 quoted in Longford, Victoria, 404.

  4. Blake, 562-3.

  5. Monypenny and Buckle, v, 827; Blake, 582-7.

  6. Letters, 2nd series, ii, 28 September 1876.

  7. Blake, 607.

  8. Quoted in Longford, Victoria, 410, 19 June 1877.

  9. Fulford, Dearest Mama, 28.

  10. Quoted in Longford, Victoria, 411.

  11. Ibid., 412.

  12. Hibbert, Disraeli and His World, 106.

  13. Blake, 613.

  14. Ibid., 646.

  15. Monypenny and Buckle, 632.

  16. Quoted in Longford, Victoria, 415.

  17. Blake, 649; Monypenny & Buckle, vi, 332; Longford, Victoria, 414.

  18. Letters, 2nd series, iii, 37-8, 28 July 1879.

  19. Ibid., 3rd series, i, 615, 12 June 1890.

  20. Ibid., 2nd series, iii, 646, 17 May 1885.

  Chapter 49. 'THE HALF-MAD FIREBRAND'

  1. Fulford, Dearest Mama, 78.

  2. Arthur Ponsonby, 184.

  3. Monypenny and Buckle, vi, 538-9; Jenkins, Gladstone, 438-9; Longford, Victoria, 434; Morley, ii, 234-6; Fulford, Dearest Mama, 75; Henry Ponsonby, 187-9.

  4. Letters, 2nd series, iii, 143, 20 September 1880; Blake, 716; Monypenny and Buckle, vi, 527.

  5. Quoted in St Aubyn, Queen Victoria, 445.

  6. Letters, 2nd series, iii, 181.

  7. Blake, 747.

  8. Ibid., 748.

  9. Ibid., 750.

  10. Longford, Victoria, 463.

  11. Quoted in Weintraub, 458.

  12. CH, 284, 9 February 1884.

  13. CH, 289, 5 February 1885.

  14. Quoted in St Aubyn, Queen Victoria, 456.

  15. Ibid., 455.

  16. Letters, 2nd series, iii, 594-5, 24 January 1885; St Aubyn, Royal George, 222-3.

  17. Letters, 2nd series, iii, 619, 28 May 1885.

  18. Letters, 2nd series, iii, 662, 11 June, 1885.

  19. CH, 292-3.

  20. Lady Geraldine Somerset, quoted in St Aubyn, Royal George, 228.

  21. Arthur Ponsonby, 206.

  22. Letters, 3rd series, i, 34, l February 1836.

  23. Ramm, 28.

  24. Letters, 3rd series, i, 119-24.

  25. Viscount Milner, My Picture Gallery 1886-1901, quoted by Kenneth Rose in The Later Cecils, 13.

  26. Quoted in Longford, Victoria, 492.

  27. Ibid., 518.

  28. Letters, 3rd series, ii, 145; CH, 323, 15 August 1892.

  29. Brett, i, 161.

  30. Letters, 3rd series, ii, 119 et seq.

  31. Jenkins, Gladstone, 589.

  32. Quoted in Longford, Victoria, 531.

  33. Quoted in St Aubyn, Royal George, 301.

  34. CH, 326-7, 28 February and 3 March 1894; Jenkins, Gladstone, 616-8.

  35. Letters, 3rd series, ii, 370-71; RAQVJ, 3 May 1894.

  36. Letters, 3rd series, ii, 404, 8 June 1894; St Aubyn, Queen Victoria, 515-18; Rhodes James, 336, 353; CH, 378, 11 March 1894.

  37. Hibbert, Edward VII, 148.

  38. Ramm, 215.

  39. Ibid., 550.

  40. CH, 337, 28 May 1898; Brett, i, 217.

  41. Ponsonby Letters, 19 April 1875 quoted in Longford, Victoria.

  42. Morley, ii, 764.

  43. Magnus, Gladstone, 425.

  Chapter 50. GOLDEN JUBILEE

  1. CH, 309, 31 December 1887.

  2. Salisbury Papers, quoted in Longford, Victoria, 499.

  3. RAQVJ, 21, 22, 29 June 1887; CH, 305-7.

  4. Lady Geraldine Somerset, quoted in St Aubyn, Royal George, 232.

  5. Battiscombe, 174.

  6. Quoted in St Aubyn, Queen Victoria, 489.

  7. Longford, Victoria, 501.

  8. St Aubyn, Royal George, 234.

  9. Rohl, 676.

  10. RA Z66/69 2 June 1887.

  11. Rohl, 678.

  12. Ibid., 679.

  13. Ibid., 680.

  14. Ibid., 681.

  Chapter 51. DIE ENGLANDERIN

  1. Pakula, 445; St Aubyn, Queen Victoria, 490.

  2. Pakula, 436.

  3. RA Z66/75.

  4. RA Z66/76; Rohl, 659.

  5. Rohl, 664.

  6. Ibid.

  7. Rohl, 690.

  8. RA Z38/87, 15 November 1887; Rohl, 692-3.

  9. Pakula, 458.

  10. Ibid., 462; St Aubyn, Queen Victoria, 528.

  11. Fulford, Dearest Mama, 60.

  12. Quoted in Longford, Victoria, 505; Pakula, 463.

  13. Ramm, 64.

  14. Reid, 99.

  15. Pakula, 482.

  16. Ibid.

  17. Fulford, Dearest Mama, 41.

  18. Pakula, 483.

  19. RAQVJ, 26 April 1888.

  20. Corti, i, 302.r />
  21. Quoted in St Aubyn, Queen Victoria, 533.

  22. Ibid.

  23. CH, 312.

  24. Buckle, iii, 168-9.

  25. RA Z41/49, 19 May 1888.

  26. Pakula, 490.

  27. Rohl, 679.

  28. Ibid., 824.

  29. RA Z44/33.

  30. Quoted in Weintraub, 505.

  Chapter 52. THE DAUGHTERS

  1. Quoted in St Aubyn, Queen Victoria, 281.

  2. RA Y104/13, 19 April 1859.

  3. Fulford, Dearest Child, 287-8.

  4. Hough, Advice to a Grand-daughter, 29.

  5. RAQVJ, 1 July 1862; CH, 166, 2 July 1862.

  6. Quoted in Rose, 147.

  7. John van der Kiste, Queen Victoria's Children.

  8. Quoted in St Aubyn, Queen Victoria, 412-13.

  9. Ibid., 413.

  10. Letters, 2nd series, i, 633, 29 November 1869.

  11. Ponsonby Letters, 8 October 1870, quoted in Longford, Victoria, 368.

  12. Ibid., 382.

  13. Mallet, 40, 50, 216.

  14. Reid, 102.

  Chapter 53. THE SONS

  1. Fulford, Dearest Child, 131, 236, 243.

  2. RA C64/77. August 1874; RA Add. A 3/101, 22 November 1867.

  3. RA Add. A 25/388, 22 November 1873; Stoney and Weltzien, 44.

  4. CH, 205, 8 July, 5 August 1868.

  5. RA 527/129-30.

  6. McClintock, 25-6.

  7. Fulford, Dearest Child, 146.

  8. McClintock, 15, 25, 41, 52, 113, 220-21, passim.

  9. RAQVJ, 3 February 1878.

  10. Augusta Stanley Letters, 84-5.

  11. Ponsonby Letters, quoted in Longford, Victoria, 569.

  12. RA Y101/35, 26 August 1856.

  13. Fulford, Dearest Child, 164, 2 March 1859.

  14. Ibid., 208, 2 September 1859.

  15. Quoted in Zeepvat, 8.

  16. RA Y104/26, 26 August 1856.

  17. RA Y199/334, 3 January 1860.

  18. McClintock, 48.

  19. RAQVJ, 15 April 1866.

  20. RA Add. A/25/179, 8 July 1866.

  21. Zeepvat, 51.

  22. Ibid.

  23. Fulford, Your Dear Letter, 184.

  24. RA Add. A/30/336, 3 September 1868.

  25. RA Add. A 30/15, 4 July 1870.

  26. Zeepvat, 72.

  27. Ibid., 81.

  28. RA Z264/43, 4 June 1875.

  29. Zeepvat, 114.

  30. Ibid., 122.

  31. Ibid, 150.

  32. Ibid, 156-7.

  33. CH 271, 18 November 1881; CH 273, 27 April 1882.

  34. RAQVJ, 21 February 1882.

  35. Fulford, Beloved Mama, 17.

  36. CH, 285.

  37. Zeepvat, 189.

 

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