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Marie, Grand Duchess of Russia
Marie-Antoinette, Queen
Marie-Louise, Princess of Schleswig-Holstein
Marks, Henry Stacy
Marlborough, George Spencer-Churchill, Duke of
Marlborough House balls
‘Marlborough House Set’
Marochetti, Baron Carlo
Married Women’s Property Act (1870)
Martineau, Harriet
Mary, Princess Royal
Mary, Queen (‘May’) of Teck
Maud, Princess of Wales
Maurice of Battenberg, Prince (Maurice Mountbatten)
Menton, France (1872)
Micmac tribe
Miles, Frank
Millais, Effie (formerly Ruskin)
Millais, John Everett 1; Effie Deans; Ophelia
Mitchell & Kenyon
Monet, Claude
Montalba, Clara
Montalba, Henrietta
Montreal; statue of Victoria (Princess Louise); death of Henry Locock
Montreal Gazette
Mordaunt, Sir Charles
Mordaunt, Harriet, Lady
Moreton, Evelyn (later Viscountess Byng of Vimy)
Moreton, Janie
Moreton, Sir Richard
Moretta, Princess see Viktoria of Prussia, Princess
Morgan, W. A.
Morning Post
Morris, Jane (née Burden)
Morris, William 1
Morshead, Owen
Moscheles, Felix
Mountbatten (Battenberg), Lord Leopold
Mountbatten (Battenberg), Lord Louis
Mountbatten, Lady Louise
Mountbatten, Maurice see Battenberg, Prince Maurice of
Mountbatten family
Mrs Brown (film)
Müller, Max
‘Munshi, the’ see Karim, Abdul
Murray, John
Napoleon III, Emperor
National Archives, Kew
National Art Library, London
National Art Training School, London
National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis
National Fund
National Gallery, London
National Gallery of Canada
National Portrait Gallery, London
National Society for the Protection of Young Girls
National Trust
National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies
Natural History Museum, London
New English Art Club
New Hospital for Women, London
‘New Sculpture’ movement
New York Times
Newcastle Guardian
Nightingale, Florence
O’Connor, Arthur
O’Farrell, Henry James
Orr, F. Maclellan
Osborne Cottage, Isle of Wight
Osborne House, Isle of Wight; Swiss Cottage; Princess Louise’s studio; holidays; Hallé’s visit; Charles Locock’s visits; and Victoria’s lack of style; Louise’s visits; Duke of Argyll’s visit; Ponsonby’s funeral; Victoria’s death; given to the nation
Ottawa; Government House see Rideau Hall
Ottawa Citizen
Ottawa Free Press
Ottawa School of Art
Oudin, Eugène
Paderewski, Ignacy Jan
Paget, Walburga, Lady
Paine, Albert Bigelow: Mark Twain
Pall Mall Gazette
Paris; and Franco-Prussian War; artists; Ecole Normale de Musique
Patiala, Maharajah of
Patricia of Connaught (‘Patsy’), Princess
Paxton, Joseph
People’s Palace, London
Perugini, Carlo
Perugini, Kate (née Dickens) 1
Peyfer, Achille
Philip, Prince
Phillip, John
Phillips, Robert
Phoenix Park murders, Dublin (1882)
Pinkham, W. (glove-maker)
Pissarro, Camille
Pius IX, Pope
Poincaré, Raymond, President of France
Polynesian (steamer)
Ponsonby, Arthur: Henry Ponsonby
Ponsonby, Henry; impressed by Louise’s drawings; on Victoria’s dull dinner parties; on Louise’s personality; pleased at improvement in mother–daughter relations; on Louise before her marriage; on life at Inveraray Castle; on relations between Louise and Lorne; worries how Louise will fare in Canada; on her enlivening life at Aix; on quarrels between Louise and Beatrice; helps Louise and Lorne set up new home; illness; death and funeral
Ponsonby, Margaret (‘Maggie’)
Portsmouth Evening News
Pound, Ezra
Poynter, Sir Edward
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB)
Princess Louise (ship)
Princess Louise Hospital for Children, Kensington
prostitution
Punch magazine
Quebec
Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House
Queen Mary’s Hospital for the East End, London
Queensberry, John Douglas, 8th Marquess of
Ragged Schools
Railway Convalescent Homes
Rainey, Paul J.
Ramsay, Alexander
Rasputin, Grigori
Recreative Evening Schools Association
Red Cross, British
Reid, Sir James
Reynolds’s Weekly Newspaper
Ribsden Hall, Surrey
Richmond, Sir William Blake 1
Ricks, Martha Ann
Rideau Hall (Government House), Ottawa
Ridley, Jane: Bertie: A Life of Edward VII
Ritchie, Anny Thackeray
Roberts, Fanny
Roberts, Field Marshal Frederick
Robertson (valet)
Rosneath, Argyll and Bute; The Ferry Inn
Rosneath Castle, Argyll and Bute
Ross, Robert (‘Robbie’)
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel 1
Rossetti, William Michael
Rothschild, Alice de
Roxburghe, Duchess of
Royal Academy; exhibits (Boehm) (Mary Thornycroft) (Princess Louise); presidents
Royal Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool
Royal Albert Hall, London
Royal Archives see Windsor Castle
Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts
Royal Collection
Royal Drawing School, London
Royal Drawing Society
Royal Female School of Art, London
Royal Free Hospital, London
Royal Horticultural Society
Royal Irish Industries Association
Royal Northern Hospital, London
Royal Society of Canada
Royal Society of Canada for the Encouragement of Science and Literature
Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours
Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria
Rushton, Dr Alan R.: Royal Maladies
Ruskin, John; The Stones of Venice; court case with Whistler
Russell, William Howard
Rutland, Violet Manners (née Lindsay), Duchess of
St Albans, Sybil Beauclerk (née Grey), Duchess of
St Albans, William Beauclerk, 10th Duke of
St Pancras Station, London
St Thomas’s Hospital, London
Sandringham House, Norfolk
Sardinian, SS
Sargent, John Singer
Sarmatian, SS
Sass, Henry: academy
Sassoon, Siegfried
Saunders, J. T. see Lansdown, George A.
Savoy Hotel, London
Savoy Theatre, London
Schleswig-Holstein, Christian August II, Duke of
School of Art Needlework, London
Science Museum, London
Scott, Sir George Gilbert
Scott, Sir Walter: The Heart of Midlothian
Scottish Home Industries Association
Seacole, Mary
Sevenoaks, K
ent: St Nicholas Church
Severn, Arthur
Severn, Joan
Shackleton, Sir Ernest
Shackleton, Frank
Shah of Persia: 1873 visit to England
Shaw, Richard Norman
Shoumatoff, Alex
Siddal, Lizzie 1
Sidmouth: Fortfield Hotel
Sieveking, Dr Edward
Simpson, Ernest
Simpson, Wallis
Singapore: Sir Stamford Raffles (Woolner)
Sisley, Alfred
‘Skittles’ see Walters, Catherine
Smith, Timothy D’Arch
Smyth, Ethel
Snow, Sir John
Society of Apothecaries
Society for Home Education
Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Dental Aid Fund
Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Family Association
Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Hut for Rest and Refreshment, King’s Cross Station
Solomon, Simeon: Love in Autumn
Somerset, Lord Arthur
Souls, the
South London Hospital for Women
Spartali-Stillman, Marie
Spectator, The
Spielmann, Marlon Harry
Spy, David Buchanan
Stamp, Robert: Royal Rebels
Stanley, Dean Arthur
Stanley, Lady Augusta (née Bruce); Letters… (ed. Dean of Windsor and H. Bolitho)
Star, The
Stephens, Frederic George
Stevenson, Robert Louis 1; The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Stirling, Lady
Stirling, Walter George; dismissal; letters from Prince Leopold; emigrates to Canada
Stirling Castle
Stocker, Mark: Royalist and Realist
Stoker, Bram
Stoker, Florence (née Balcombe)
Stone, Marcus
Stopford, Horatia
Strain, Dr William
Stratford, Dr Mavis
Stratford Music Festival
Strutt, Arthur
Sudbury, Suffolk: memorial to Gainsborough
Sullivan, Arthur 1; ‘Dominion Hymn’ (Lorne); Ivanhoe; death; see also Gilbert and Sullivan
Sunlight Clinic, London
Surprise (royal yacht)
Sussex, Dowager Duchess of
Sutherland, Helen
Swinburne, Algernon Charles
Sydney Morning Herald
Tate, Henry
Tenedos, HMS
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord; ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’
Tennyson, Audrey, Lady
Tennyson, Hallam, 2nd Lord
Territorial Army
Terry, Ellen; portrait
Thackeray, Amy
Thackeray, William Makepeace
Thames Embankment, London
Theed, William
Thom, Wilfred
Thomson, William, Archbishop of York
Thornton, Sir Edward
Thornton, Lady
Thornycroft, Alyce
Thornycroft, Mary (née Francis)
Thornycroft, Theresa (later Sassoon)
Thornycroft, Thomas; statue of Prince Albert
Thornycroft, William Hamo
Thurston, Mary Ann
Times, The; Lorne’s obituary
Titanic disaster
Tite Street, Chelsea
Tobacco Trade Journal
Toronto Globe
Trimingham, Andrew
Trimingham, James Harvey
Trimingham, Louise
Tucker, Amy
Twain, Mark
Umberto I, of Italy
Vanbrugh, Sir John
Vancouver History Society
Vicars, Sir Arthur
Vickers, Hugo
‘Vicky’ see Victoria, Princess Royal
Victor Emmanuel III, of Italy
Victoria, Princess (Princess Louis of Battenberg)
Victoria, Princess of Hesse
Victoria, Princess of Wales
Victoria, Princess Royal (‘Vicky’): birth; and her mother; and her siblings; intelligence as a child; love of Osborne House, and Balmoral; engagement and wedding; Wilhelm’s birth; homesick and missing siblings; and Albert’s death; successfully match-makes for Helena; wants Louise to marry a Prussian; supports women’s emancipation; and Franco-Prussian War; opposed to Louise’s marriage; on her childlessness; and Lorne; and death of son; holidays with Louise; disapproves of Liko as Beatrice’s husband; at golden jubilee celebrations; in Venice with Louise; in England; and death of husband; and Wilhelm’s unpleasantness; visits Leighton; illness and death
Victoria, Queen: childhood; journals; accession; and Louise’s birth; treatment of her children, see specific child; dislike of smoking; survives assassination attempts; love of Osborne House; and Albert; as art collector; at Great Exhibition; and Crimean War; love of Balmoral; invites Florence Nightingale; and her mother’s death (1861); and Albert’s death; and Princess Alice’s wedding; approves of Bertie’s engagement; meets Alexandra; and the wedding; travels abroad; and ‘Prince Eddy’s’ birth; and Walter Stirling; furious at naming of Bertie’s daughter; and Sir Charles Locock; on an idyllic Swiss holiday; and John Brown; and the public; publishes Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands (1868); and Disraeli; against rights of women; and Louise’s engagement; and Franco-Prussian War; and Louise’s wedding; worried about Alice and Louise meeting; offended by Lorne; seriously ill; and Bertie’s illness; offends the Argylls; her lack of artistic style; approves of Gower; ‘no married daughter is of any use’; and homosexuality; won over by Alfred’s wife; jealous of closeness of Louise and Leopold; becomes Empress of India; rumoured to have had a rift with Louise; names Boehm Sculptor in Ordinary; in mourning for Disraeli; admires Leopold’s baby daughter; hurts knee; and John Brown’s death; and Louise’s desire for a separation; and Beatrice’s marriage; at Aix-les-Bains; has portrait painted by Bell-Smith; celebrates golden jubilee; at Biarritz; and Kaiser Wilhelm; and Boehm’s death; at Grasse; refuses to accept Effie Millais; health problems; failing eyesight; holidays abroad; mellows in older age; and Bigge/Liko scandal; at Liko’s funeral; scandalised by Louise’s familiarity with Rosneath locals; reigns longer than any other English sovereign; diamond jubilee; her 80th birthday; contributes paintings to art exhibitions; serious health problems; death and funeral; art collection; busts and statues, Boehm, Gilbert, Princess Louise, Mackennal
Victoria and Albert (royal yacht)
Victoria and Albert (yacht)
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Victoria Docks Settlement
Victoria Hospital for Children, Chelsea
Victoria Melita, Princess
Viktoria of Prussia, Princess
Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD)
Wake, Jehanne: Princess Louise
Waldemar of Prussia, Prince
Wallace Collection, London
Walters, Catherine (‘Skittles’)
Ward, Herbert
Warr, Charles L.; The Glimmering Landscape
War Relief Art movement
Watts, George Frederic
Waubuno, Chief
Weir Hospital, Balham, London
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of; statue (Boehm)
Western Daily Press
Western Morning News
Westminster, Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of
Wheelerbread, Mr and Mrs
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill; friendship with Louise 1; Peacock Room; Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket; court case with Ruskin
White, Arnold
White House, Tite Street (Godwin)
White Lodge, Richmond Park
Whitstable Times
Wilde, Constance (née Lloyd)
Wilde, Oscar; The Portrait of Dorian Gray; A Woman of No Importance
Wilhelm I, Kaiser
Wilhelm II, Kaiser: birth; cheats at croquet; unpleasant; feels rejected; at Victoria’s deathbed; scandalised by Lorne’s book
; hatred of England; and Louise; hostility towards Edward VII; at his funeral; despised by English relations; memoirs
William III and Mary
William IV
Williams, Mrs Lowlsey
Willis, General
Wilson, Sir Arthur
Windsor Castle; darkroom; Albert’s death; Edward VII’s wedding; Louise’s wedding; Christmases; Victoria’s 80th; changes under Edward VII; estate buildings; Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House; Louise’s funeral; Royal Archives
Winterhalter, Franz Xaver
Wolseley, General Garnet
Wolseley, Lady
Wolverhampton: statue of Prince Albert (Thornycroft)
Women’s Emigration society
Women’s Farm and Garden Association
Women’s Land Army
women’s suffrage; see also Butler, Josephine
Women’s Trade Union League
Wood, Frederick
Woolner, Thomas
Wordsworth, William: letter to Coleridge
World, The
World War, First
Wyndham, Madeleine (née Campbell)
Wyndham, Percy
YMCA
Young Men’s Friendly Society
YWCA hostel, Bristol
About the Author
LUCINDA HAWKSLEY is a writer and lecturer on art history and nineteenth-century history. She has written biographies of the pre-Raphaelite muse Lizzie Siddal, Charles Dickens, and Katey, one of Dickens’ children. She is the great, great, great granddaughter of Charles and Catherine Dickens and is a patron of the Charles Dickens Museum in London.
Visit her Web site at www.lucindahawksley.com, or sign up for email updates here.
Also by Lucinda Hawksley
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Charles Dickens’ Favourite Daughter: The Life, Loves and Art of Katey Dickens Perugini
Lizzie Siddal: The Tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite Supermodel
50 British Artists You Should Know
Charles Dickens
March, Women, March: Voices of the Women’s Movement from the First Feminist to Votes for Women
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: How it all began
Prologue: A celebrity comes to Liverpool
1. Born in the year of revolution
2. A royal education
3. In the shadow of her siblings
4. An Annus Horribilis
5. The first sculpture
6. What really happened with Walter Stirling?