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QUEEN VICTORIA A Personal History

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by Christopher Hibbert

38. Lady Augusta Stanley Letters, 146.

  39. Ibid., 206.

  40. RA Y206, Clark Diary, 5 February 1856.

  41. RAQVJ, 29 April 1857.

  42. Quoted in St Aubyn, Queen Victoria, 419.

  43. CH, 234, 20 October 1873.

  44. Pope-Hennessy, 218.

  45. Henry Ponsonby, 119.

  46. Fulford, Dearest Mama, 176, 177, 186.

  47. Ibid., 144.

  48. CH, 246, 25 July 1877.

  49. RAQVJ, 23 July 1885.

  50. Quoted in Weintraub, 475.

  51. Quoted in Longford, Victoria, 518.

  Chapter 54. THE GRANDCHILDREN

  1. Mallet, 57, 100.

  2. Bell, 90.

  3. Mallet, 96.

  4. Battiscombe, 122-3.

  5. Windsor, A King's Story, 10.

  6. Wheeler-Bennett, 19.

  7. St Aubyn, 579.

  8. Olsen, 359.

  9. CH, 280; St Aubyn, 478.

  10. Marie Louise, 19.

  11. Private Life, 85-6.

  12. Queen Victoria at Windsor and Balmoral; Letters from her Grand-daughter, James Pope-Hennessy, London, 1959, passim.

  Chapter 55. WOULD-BE ASSASSINS

  1. RAQVJ, 2 March 1882.

  2. Ibid; CH, 272.

  3. RA Prince Albert's Memorandum; RAQVJ, 2 March 1882.

  4. RA Prince Albert's Memorandum.

  5. Chariot, 221-3; Woodham-Smith, 212-3.

  6. Forster, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 109.

  7. Baroness Bunsen, ed. Memoirs of Baron Bunsen, ii, 16, quoted in Longford, Victoria, 170.

  8. CH, 69-70; Chariot, 222; Longford, Victoria, 169-70.

  9. Benson and Esher, Letters, ii, 220.

  10. Quoted in St Aubyn, Queen Victoria, 164.

  11. RAQVJ, 2 September 1850.

  12. Woodham-Smith, 310; Longford, Victoria, 193; St Aubyn, Queen Victoria, 164.

  13. RAQVJ, 14 October 1867.

  14. Ibid., 23 November 1867.

  15. RAQVJ, 29 February 1872; Buckle, Letters, ii, iii, 198.

  16. RAQVJ, 29 February 1872; CH, 227.

  17. Longford, Victoria, 390.

  18. Fulford, Beloved Mama, 116.

  Chapter 56. HOLIDAYS ABROAD

  1. Lytton, 75; Duff, Victoria Travels, passim.

  2. Grey Papers, Durham, 5 February 1863, quoted in Arengo-Jones, 17-18.

  3. Grey Papers, Durham, 29 August 1865, quoted in Arengo-Jones, 20.

  4. Grey Papers, Durham, 28 August 1865, quoted in Arengo-Jones, 19.

  5. RAQVJ, 4 August 1867.

  6. RA Add. A25/204, 27-28 August 1867.

  7. RAQVJ, 22 June 1868.

  8. Quoted in Arengo-Jones, 48.

  9. Ibid., 42.

  10. RAQVJ, 5 August 1868.

  11. Derby Papers, Liverpool, Diary 6 August 1868, quoted in Arengo-Jones, 54.

  12. Ibid., 2 July 1868, quoted in Arengo-Jones, 44, 66.

  13. Fulford, Dearest Mama, 35; Hough, Advice to a Grand-daughter, 35; Arengo-Jones, passim.

  14. Arthur Ponsonby, 284.

  15. RA Add. A 36/28 quoted in Arengo-Jones, 74.

  16. Longford, Victoria, 459-60.

  17. RA Add. A/36/28, quoted in Arengo-Jones, 74.

  18. Arthur Ponsonby, 285-6.

  19. Harold Nicolson, Diaries and Letters, entry for 2 February 1942.

  20. Ramm, 65-7, 100.

  21. Paget, Embassies of Other Days, 204.

  22. Fulford, Beloved Mama, 56.

  23. Arthur Ponsonby, 285.

  24. Mallet, 41-54.

  25. RAQVJ, 13 April 1898.

  26. RAQVJ, 27 April 1899.

  27. RAQVJ, 5 November 1847.

  28. Buckle, Letters, 2nd series, iii, 162.

  29. St Aubyn, Royal George, 45.

  30. Frederick Ponsonby, Recollections, 63.

  31. Quoted in St Aubyn, Queen Victoria, 556.

  32. Bolitho, Victoria, 356.

  Chapter 57. DEATH OF BROWN

  1. Reid, 51-2.

  2. Ibid., 52.

  3. Ibid., 54.

  4. Zeepvat, 177.

  5. Hough, Advice to a Grand-daughter, 146; Fulford, Beloved Mama, 135-7; CH, 280-81; Hough, 45-6; Longford, Victoria, 452-3; St Aubyn, Queen Victoria, 420-24; Weintraub, 340-41; The Court Historian, vol. iii, 2 July 1998, 65.

  6. Arthur Ponsonby, 146-7; RA Vic. Add. MSS. A12/903, A12/904.

  7. Reid, 58-9; Bell, 207-8.

  8. RA Z266/13, 2 January 1884.

  9. Quoted in St Aubyn, Royal George, 265. 10. Magnus, King Edward VII, 178.

  Chapter 58. THE MUNSHI

  1. RAQVJ, 23 June 1887.

  2. Reid, 128-9.

  3. Arthur Ponsonby, 131.

  4. Quoted in Anand, 18.

  5. Warner, 198-9.

  6. Anand, 21.

  7. Ibid, 22.

  8. Arthur Ponsonby, 131.

  9. CH, Queen to Henry Ponsonby, 12 September 1887.

  10. Salisbury Papers, quoted in Longford, Victoria, 540.

  11. Quoted in E. F. Benson, Victoria, 345.

  12. India Office Records, MSS, Eur. F84/ 126A, quoted in Longford, Victoria, 538.

  13. Arthur Ponsonby, 131-2; Anand, 50; CH, 328.

  14. Frederick Ponsonby, Recollections, 13-15.

  15. Ramm, 176.

  16. Reid, 139.

  17. India Office Records Eur. F84/126B, quoted in Anand, 54.

  18. Fulford, Dearest Mama, 56.

  19. Quoted in Anand, 92.

  20. RA U/104/20, quoted in Anand, 96.

  21. Frederick Ponsonby, Recollections, 15.

  22. Reid, 154.

  Chapter 59. DIAMOND JUBILEE

  1. RAQVJ, 23 September 1896.

  2. CH, 333, 22 March 1896.

  3. Quoted in St Aubyn, Queen Victoria, 575.

  4. Ibid., 576.

  5. Maylunas and Mironenko, A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra, 78, 204.

  6. Reid, 124.

  7. Lytton, 127. 8. Reid, 125.

  9. RAQVJ, 23 September 1896.

  10. Ibid., 20, 21, 22 June 1897.

  11. Monkswell, 202.

  12. Quoted in St Aubyn, Queen Victoria, 547.

  13. Frederick Ponsonby, 75-6.

  14. Cecil, Life of Marquis of Salisbury, iii, 191.

  15. Brett, 1, 214.

  Chapter 60. LIFE AT COURT

  1. Frederick Ponsonby, 11-25.

  2. Ibid, 36-8.

  3. Ibid.

  4. Quoted in Weintraub, 602.

  5. Henry Ponsonby, 119.

  6. Reid, 158-9.

  7. Mallet, xiii.

  Chapter 61. DINNER PARTIES

  1. Lytton, 22.

  2. Ribblesdale, 118.

  3. Private Life, 228-9.

  4. Ibid., 139-40.

  5. Aga Khan, 46-7.

  6. Private Life, 140-42.

  7. Ribblesdale, 119-20.

  8. Mallet, 34.

  9. Ibid., 37.

  10. Aga Khan, 47.

  11. Mallet, passim.

  12. Reid, 177.

  13. Musgrave, 213.

  14. Reid, 116.

  15. Private Life, 88-9.

  16. Arthur Ponsonby, 82-3.

  17. CH, 324, 18 March 1893.

  18. RAQVJ, 24 May 1899.

  19. Ibid., 26 November 1891.

  20. Pope-Hennessy, 217.

  21. RAQVJ, 9 September 1872.

  22. Ibid., 11 October 1890.

  23. Henry Ponsonby, 393.

  24. Ponsonby Letters, quoted in Longford, Victoria, 420.

  25. Mallet, 148.

  26. Brett, i, 692.

  27. Ibid., i, 672.

  28. Frederick Ponsonby, 25.

  29. Lytton, 22.

  Chapter 62. BOOKS

  1. Frederick Ponsonby, 51-2.

  2. Holland, 183.

  3. CH, 22, 36, 39-40, 116, 188, 265.

  4. Mallet, 94-5.

  5. Fulford, Dearest Mama, 177.

  6. Ibid., 142, 173.

  7. D.N.B. ent
ry by Elizabeth Lee.

  8. Mallet, 97, 142, 158, 173.

  Chapter 63. BOOKMEN

  1. CH, 218.

  2. Ibid., 163, 218.

  3. Richard Ellman, Oscar Wilde, 1987, 172.

  4. Edgar Johnson, Dickens, 1953, i, 292-4.

  5. Ibid., i, 624, 646, 733-5, 872-4, 1,000; ii, 1, 146-7; Peter Ackroyd, Dickens, 1,066.

  Chapter 64. FAILING HEALTH

  1. Quoted in Pope-Hennessy, 225.

  2. St Aubyn, Royal George, 299.

  3. Ibid., 208.

  4. Pope-Hennessy, 198.

  5. Mallet, 211, 212, 213.

  6. Reid, 195, 196-8.

  7. Ibid., 197-8.

  8. Monkswell, 68-9.

  9. Mallet, 197.

  10. Ibid., 207.

  11. CH, 347-8; RAQVJ, 17 September 1900, 1 January 1901.

  12. Ramm, 258.

  Chapter 65. DEATH

  1. Reid, 201.

  2. Bell, 353-4.

  3. Reid, 209-12; Longford, Victoria, 559-62; St Aubyn, Queen Victoria, 593-7; Weintraub, 629-36.

  4. Reid, 213.

  Chapter 66. FUNERAL AND BURIAL

  1. Reid, 119.

  2. Mallet, 50.

  3. Ibid., 52, 123. 4. Reid, 60-61.

  5. Ibid.

  6. RAQVJ, 6 March 1873.

  7. Lytton, 203.

  8. Monkswell, 80-81.

  9. Dalton Papers, J. C. Dalton's Reminiscences, quoted in J. G. Fergusson, Hounds are Home, 162.

  10. Frederick Ponsonby, 89.

  11. Ibid., 91; Olivia Bland, The Royal Way of Death, 203.

  12. Brett, i, 282.

  13. Bell, 357.

  14. Brett, i, 282.

  15. Leon Edel, The Life of Henry James, 1972, iii, 425-7.

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