by Flora Fraser
‘near me’. Ibid
‘lady’. RA VIC/PP 1/80/3, Captain Thomas Garth to George, 25 November 1862
Georgiana back. Wardroper, Wicked Ernest, 130–45
‘flower-garden’. RA VIC/LB 1/30, Victoria to Sophia, 3 August 1829
‘much’. RA VIC/LB 1/36, Victoria to Sophia, 1829
boil. RA VIC/LB 1/39, Victoria to Sophia, 6 September 1829
‘time to me’. RA VIC/Z 480/157, Victoria to Sophia, 4 November 1829
‘purpose’. RA VIC/Z 480/156, Sophia to Victoria, 5 October 1829
death. Parissien, George IV, 7
‘King’. The Times, 16 July 1830
CHAPTER 18: ELIZABETH – THE LARGESSE OF A LANDGRAVINE
‘heart’. RA GEO/Add 11/346, Elizabeth to Sir William Knighton, 23 August 1829
‘produce’. Stuart, Daughters, 193
‘anyone’. RA GEO/Add 11/349a, Elizabeth to GIV, 25 April 1830
‘for me’. RA GEO/Add 11/351, Elizabeth to Sir William Knighton, 1 June 1830
‘death’. Yorke, Princess Elizabeth, 130–1
‘society’. Ibid
‘to me’. Ibid
‘fixed’. Ibid
‘possible’. RA GEO/Add 39/575, Lord Munster to Mary, 24 November 1832, draft
‘in it’. Jennings, Croker Papers, 2, 113
‘horror …’. RA GEO/Add 11/333, Elizabeth to GIV, 22 December 1821
‘peu à peu’. Yorke, Princess Elizabeth, 190
‘perfect’. Trollope, Frances Trollope, 191–2
‘time’. Yorke, Princess Elizabeth, 162
‘kind’. Ibid
‘house …’. Ibid, 151
‘assist’. Ibid, 155
‘advice’. RA VIC/Add A 8/503a, Mary to Gussy, 1833
‘expected’. Yorke, Princess Elizabeth, 179
‘improper’, ‘cows’. Ibid, 178
‘parties’. Ibid, 195
‘usual’. RA GEO/Add 15/8081, RichardJelf to Thomas Hughes, 10 October 1832
‘himself.’ Yorke, Princess Elizabeth, 196–7
‘carriages’. RA VIC/Z 480/159, Sophia to Victoria, 14 January 1832
‘eye’. RA GEO/Add 13/75, Sophia to Adolphus, 27 January 1832
‘worst’. Ibid
‘drawback’. RA VIC/Z 480/164, Sophia to Victoria, 12 September 1832
‘swimming’. RA VIC/LB 4/1, Victoria to Sophia, 1833
‘always’. RA VIC/LB 3/36, Victoria to Sophia, 1833
‘curly’. RA VIC/LB 4/10, Victoria to Sophia, 1833
‘washerwoman’. Yorke, Princess Elizabeth, 192, n1
‘of her’. RA GEO/Add 21/196, Elizabeth to Edward Harding, 15 June 1833
‘well’, ‘Box’. Yorke, Princess Elizabeth, 228–9
‘killed’. Ibid, 255–6
‘Buckinghamshire’. RA GEO/Add 21/15/17, Augusta to Ernest, 14 October 1834
‘head’. Jennings, Croker Papers, 2, 250
‘love them’. RA VIC/QVJ, 2 December 1834
‘lived’. RA GEO/Add 23/38, Elizabeth to Louise, Lady Currey, 13 December 1834
‘than him’. RA VIC/QVJ, 4 May 1857
‘in him’. RA GEO/Add 23/35, Elizabeth to Louise, Lady Currey, 2 December 1834
‘above’. RA VIC/Z 480/174, Sophia to Victoria, 25 December 1834
‘cap’. RA VIC/QVJ, 1 February 1835
‘strength’. RA VIC/Z 480/176, Sophia to Victoria, 26 August [1835]
‘down hill’. Yorke, Princess Elizabeth, 273
‘order’. RA GEO/Add 21/8/118, Augusta to Frances Garth, [1825]
‘arm’. RA GEO/Add 21/15/16, Augusta to Ernest, 2 October 1833
‘Sir J.C. RA VIC/QVJ, 15 March 1838
‘anyone’. RA VIC/QVJ, 21 January 1839
‘stuff. Hudson, Royal Conflict, 83
‘ear’. RA VIC/QVJ, 26 February 1836
‘of all’. RA VIC/LB 32/15, Victoria to Sophia, 6 November 1836
‘Clarence’. Hesse-Homburg Papers, Christian Jacobi to Frau Jacobi, 29 June 1836
‘fog’. Ibid
‘deeds’. Yorke, Princess Elizabeth, 278
‘spirits’. RA VIC/LB 29/8, Victoria to Sophia, 1 September 1836
‘well’. RA GEO/Add 21/15/17, Augusta to Ernest, 3 February 1835
‘delirious’. RA VIC/QVJ, 10 January 1837
‘amusingly’. RA VIC/QVJ, 24 April 1837
‘country’. RA VIC/Z 480/191, Sophia to Queen Victoria, 26 June 1837
‘others’. RA VIC/Z 480/198, Sophia to Queen Victoria, 16 August [1837]
‘spoilt with’. Yorke, Princess Elizabeth, 321
‘manner’. RA GEO/Add 21/15/22, Augusta to Ernest, 26 June 1837
‘Ministers’. RA GEO/Add 23/54, Mary to Louise, Lady Currey, July 1837
evening. RA VIC/QVJ, 24 September 1837
‘acquaintance’. RA VIC/Y 19/95, Mary to Queen Louise, 5 January 1838
‘high-shouldered’. RA VIC/QVJ, 6 November 1837
‘of us’. RA VIC/Y 19/95, Mary to Queen Louise, 5 January 1838
‘funny.’ RA VIC/QVJ, 19 January 1838
‘away’. RA VIC/QVJ, 27 November 1837
‘situation’. RA VIC/Y 19/90, Mary to Queen Louise, 3 July 1837
‘for her’. RA GEO/Add 21/88/181, Augusta to Sir William Fremande, 22 December 1837
‘robes’. RA VIC/QVJ, 12 February 1838
‘disheartened’. Ibid
‘with me …’. RA GEO/Add 21/15/27, Mary to Ernest, 30 August [1838]
‘country’. RA VIC/C 58/7 and 7a, Augusta to Sir Benjamin Stephenson, 27 April 1838, 7 July 1838
dinner. RA VIC/QVJ, 2 May 1838
‘at last’. RA VIC/QVJ, 5 July 1838
‘windows out’. RA VIC/QVJ, 13 July 1838
‘civility’. RA VIC/QVJ, 14 July 1838
‘way’, ‘friends’. RA GEO/Add 21/15/27, Mary to Ernest, 13 and 24 July [1838]
‘pied-à-terre’. Stuart, Daughters, 195
‘ladies’. Yorke, Princess Elizabeth, 323
‘natives’, ‘contretemps’. Ibid, 330
‘Gothick screens’. Stuart, Daughters, 197
‘well … with her’. Ibid, 196
‘does’. Yorke, Princess Elizabeth, 328
‘moi’. Ibid, 332
‘waters’. Ibid, 336
‘over’. Ibid, 353
‘concerns’. RA GEO/Add 15/454, Elizabeth to Augusta Hicks, 15 December 1838
‘amusements’. RA VIC/Add W 5/13, Elizabeth to Sir Samuel Higgins, 15 June 1839
‘wild’. Ibid
‘Louis’. Ibid
‘about’. RA VIC/Z 480/74, Elizabeth to Queen Victoria, 26 June 1839
‘useless’. Stuart, Daughters, 199
‘suffering’. RA VIC/QVJ, 15 January 1840
‘shawls’. RA GEO/Add 11/352, Elizabeth’s will, 12 February 1830
‘either’. RA GEO/Add 21/15/31, Mary to Ernest, 3 March 1840
CHAPTER 19: AUGUSTA – A PRINCESS FOR ALL SEASONS
‘affected’. RA VIC/QVJ, 15 January 1840
‘curtsy’. Stuart, Daughters, 199
‘life’. Ibid
‘do so’. RA VIC/QVJ, 15 January 1840
‘married’. RA VIC/Y 19/96, Mary to Queen Louise, 17 September 1839
‘friend’. RA GEO/Add 21/15/24, Augusta to Ernest, 21 February 1839
‘Queens’. RA VIC/Y 19/96, Mary to Queen Louise, 17 September 1839
‘thing’. Strachey and Fulford, Greville Diary, 2, 115
liberty. Longford, Victoria RI, 134
‘difficulty …’. RA VIC/LB 101/1, Queen Victoria to Mary, 2 February 1840
‘ago’. RA VIC/A 31/750, Ernest to Sir Frederick Watson, 20 February 1840
‘Brighton’, ‘write’. RA VIC/QVJ, 27 April 1840
‘imagination’. Ibid
‘family’. RA VIC/Z 480/51, Augusta to Queen Victoria, [1840]
‘en passant’. RA VIC/Z 480/56, Augusta to Queen Victoria, 22 May 1839
‘ought to be’. RA VIC/Add C 12/17, Augus
ta to Sir Henry Whately, 15 July 1839
‘think’. RA GEO/Add 21/15/23, Augusta to Ernest, 3 October 1838
‘book’. RA VIC/Add A 8/2B, Augusta to Mary Adelaide, 17 November 1838
‘Augusta’. RA VIC/Z 480/66, Augusta to Queen Victoria, 22 May 1840
‘bed’. RA VIC/Z 480/53, Augusta to Queen Victoria, 3 February 1839
‘worst’. RA GEO/Add 10/120, Morning Herald, 2 July 1840
‘look at’. RA GEO/Add 21/8/112, Augusta to Frances Garth, 4 October 1823
‘walk’. Ibid
‘yew’. Piickler-Muskau, Tour, 4, 153
‘variety’. Gardener’s Magazine, 4 (1828), 176–7
better. RA GEO/Add 21/8/118, Augusta to Frances Garth, [autumn 1825]
‘feelings sadly’. RA GEO/Add 10/111, Augusta to Lord and Lady Arran, 11 November 1829
‘verdure’. RA GEO/Add 10/110, Augusta to Lord and Lady Arran, 1 October 1829
‘turf’. Gardener’s Magazine, 4 (1828), 433–7
‘admirably’. Ibid, 5 (1829), 570–1
‘night’. RA GEO/Add 10/98, Augusta to Lord and Lady Arran, 9 September 1826
‘sanctum’. Ibid
‘for me’. RA GEO/Add 21/8/112, Augusta to Frances Garth, 4 October 1823
‘head?’. RA GEO/Add 21/8/114, Augusta to Frances Garth, 4 December 1823
‘constitution’. RA VIC/MP, 122/95, Sir Henry Halford to Lord Melbourne, 27 August 1840
information. RA VIC/C 3/60, Queen Victoria to Lord Melbourne, 27 August 1840
Windsor. Strachey and Fulford, Greville Memoirs, 4, 289
‘awake’. RA VIC/MP 122/99, Sir Henry Halford to Lord Melbourne, September 1840
‘nourishment’. RA VIC/MP 122/104, Sir Henry Halford to Lord Melbourne, 16 September 1840
‘afternoon’. RA VIC/C 3/61, Queen Victoria to Lord Melbourne, ?30 August 1840
‘direcdy’. RA VIC/C 3/64, Queen Victoria to Lord Melbourne, 21 September 1840
‘touching’. RA VIC/Y 90/2, Queen Victoria to Leopold, 26 September 1840
‘so long’. RA VIC/C 3/65, Queen Victoria to Lord Melbourne, 22 September 1840
‘everything’. RA VIC/QVJ, 22 September 1840
‘family’. RA VIC/Y 67/8, Leopold to Queen Victoria, 1 October 1840
CHAPTER 20: SOPHIA – THE LITTLE GYPSY
‘couch-pillows’. Stuart, Daughters, 314
‘wearied’. Murray, Recollections, 70
‘as ever’. Ibid, 71
‘gypsy’. Esher, Girlhood of Queen Victoria, 1, 309
‘pretty’. RA VIC/LB 125/10, Queen Victoria to Leopold, 22 December 1840
‘old lady’. RA PP/VIC/1/80/28, Sir Arthur Bigge’s Memorandum, 1 November 1896
Malta. Beinecke Library, Osborn Col, Osborn Files, Folder 81, Queen Adelaide to Charles Blomfield, 22 November 1824
‘look’. Wyndham, Lady Lyttelton, 279
‘thin’. Hibbert, Queen Victoria Letters, 95
‘happening’. Longford, Victoria RI, 171
‘trades people’. RA VIC/Add A 8/324, Mary to Gussy, 11 February [1844]
‘thunderbolt’. RA VIC/Y 19/94, Mary to Queen Louise, 8 December 1844
luncheon. RA VIC/QVJ, 5 November 1843
‘seaside’. RA VIC/T 1/9, Mary to Bertie, 10 May [1846]
‘good’. RA VIC/QVJ, 29 January 1846
‘complaining’. RA VIC/QVJ, 24 July 1846
‘live on’. RA VIC/QVJ, 7 January 1848
‘feeble’. RA VIC/QVJ, 14 February 1848
‘horror’. RA VIC/Y 93/32, Queen Victoria to Leopold, 16 May 1848
‘case’. RA VIC/Y 74/54, Leopold to Queen Victoria, 19 May 1848
‘expired’. RA VIC/QVJ, 27 May 1848
‘placid’. Ibid
‘world’. Strachey and Fulford, Greville Memoirs, 6, 69
‘amiable’, ‘done’. RA VIC/QVJ, 27 May 1848
‘right’. RA VIC/QVJ, 29 May 1848
‘Green’, ‘possible’. Ibid
‘ones’. RA VIC/QVJ, 6 June 1848
‘number 8028’. Curl, Kensal Green, 122–3
‘me there’. RA VIC/QVJ, 4 May 1857
live with him. Wardroper, Wicked Ernest, 241–2
attempts. RA PP/VIC/1/80/20-9, Miss Georgiana Garth’s Claims, 1875
CHAPTER 21: MARY – LAST OF THE LINE
‘sea’. RA VIC/QVJ, 27 July 1848
‘sensible’. RA VIC/QVJ, 29 July 1848
‘distressed her’. RA VIC/QVJ, 15 July 1849
‘gasp’. RA VIC/QVJ, 8 July 1850
‘deeds’. RA VIC/Add A 8/927, Mary to Duchess of Cambridge, 9 July 1850
well liked. RA VIC/QVJ, 8 July 1850
‘see her’. Ibid, 9 July 1850
‘bequeath’. RA VIC/QVJ, 16 July 1850
‘insulted’. RA VIC/QVJ, 12 November 1850
‘manners’. RA VIC/QVJ, 13 November 1850
‘drawing room’. RA VIC/Add A 8/330, Mary to Mary Adelaide, 6 August [1850]
‘nonsense’. RA VIC/Add A 8/331, Mary to Mary Adelaide, 14 September [1850]
‘over’. RA VIC/Add A 8/330, Mary to Mary Adelaide, 6 August [1850]
‘come’. RA GEO/Add 12/407, Mary to Duchess of Cambridge, 26 April 1851
‘year’. RA VIC/Add A 8/329, Mary to Duchess of Cambridge, 3 July [1850]
‘comfortably’. RA VIC/Z 480/116, Mary to Queen Victoria, 11 May 1851
‘bed’. RA VIC/Add A 8/332, Mary to Mary Adelaide, 23 May [1851]
‘everybody’. RA VIC/Add A 7/208, Mary to Duchess of Cambridge, 22 August [?1854]
‘as the Exhibition’. RA VIC/Add A 8/340, Mary to Mary Adelaide, 10 September [1851]
‘in the Exhibition’. RA VIC/Add A 8/338, Mary to Gussy, ?15 June 1851
‘have!’. Burghclere, Great Man’s Friendship, 143
‘family’. RA VIC/QVJ, 12 November 1851
‘shudder’. RA VIC/QVJ, 20 November 1851
‘kept up’. RA VIC/Z 480/117, Mary to Queen Victoria, 21 November 1851
‘princes’. RA VIC/Z 480/119, Queen Victoria to Mary, 29 November 1851
‘days’. RA VIC/Add A 8/349, Mary to Duchess of Cambridge, 11 January [1852]
‘general’. RA VIC/Add A 8/353, Mary to Duchess of Cambridge, 8 May 1852
‘Cheveley’. RA VIC/Add A 8/335, Mary to Mary Adelaide, 5 June 1851
‘old lady’. RA VIC/Add C 2/1, Mary to Sarah, Lady Abinger, 4 May [1850s]
‘wonders’. Argyll, Passages from the Past, 1, 200
‘us all’. Ibid
‘chloroform’. Longford, Victoria RI, 234
‘child’. St Aubyn, Royal George, 91
troops. RA VIC/Add A 8/199-200, George to Mary and to Duchess of Cambridge, 3 October 1854
‘moment’. RA VIC/Add A 8/357, Mary to Duchess of Cambridge, 3 November [1854]
out to him. RA VIC/Add A 8/358, Mary to Duchess of Cambridge, 11 December 1854
‘shaken’. RA VIC/Z 480/133, Mary to Queen Victoria, 1 January 1855
‘there’. RA VIC/Add A 8/365, Mary to Duchess of Cambridge, 23 March 1855
victims. Roberts, Royal Artists, 71
dress. RPC, RCIN 54306, Queen Victoria, with Edward, Prince of Wales, Princess Alice and Mary, Duchess of Gloucester, by Antoine Claudet
shawl. RPC, RPC.01/0170/18b, Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester, by Augustus Liddell
‘place’. RA VIC/Z 61/19, Mary to Queen Victoria, 3 October [1855]
‘yesterday’. Ibid
‘disagreeable’. RA VIC/Add U 142/26, Mary to Frances Paget, 23 February [no year]
‘one’. RA VIC/Z 480/137, Mary to Queen Victoria, 30 March 1856
‘skin’. RA VIC/QVJ, 4 May 1857
‘arranged’. RA VIC/QVJ, 27 August 1856
‘steadily’. RA VIC/Z 480/144, Mary to Queen Victoria, 7 September 1856
‘by and by’. RA VIC/T 1/10, Mary to Bertie, 11 November [?1850]
‘stairs’. RA VIC/Z 480/144, Mary to Queen Victoria, 7 September 1856
‘bed’. Ibid
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‘for her’. RA VIC/Z 480/148, Mary to Queen Victoria, 18 March 1857, marked by latter ‘the last letter to me. She was taken ill on the night after 15 April and died April 30, 1857’
‘smart’. RA VIC/Add U 142/28, Mary to Frances Paget, nd
‘convenience’. RA PP/VIC/Add 751, Augustus Liddell to Sir Thomas Biddulph, 15 April 1857
‘April the 15th, GH’ RA VIC/M 54/22, Mary to Prince Albert, 15 April 1857
‘night’. RA VIC/Add A 8/3441/222, Mary Adelaide’s Diary, 16 April 1857
‘work’. RA VIC/Add A 8/3441/222-3, Mary Adelaide’s Diary, 16 April 1857
‘brain’. RA VIC/Add A 8/3441/224, Mary Adelaide’s Diary, 18 April 1857
‘come’. RA VIC/Add A 8/3441/233, Mary Adelaide’s Diary, 27 April 1857
‘face’, ‘sadly’. RA VIC/Add A 8/3441/237-8, Mary Adelaide’s Diary, 28-30 April 1857
‘family’. RA VIC/QVJ, 30 April 1857
Footnotes
1 The Queen’s House is today part of Buckingham Palace, as the royal residence was rechristened when enlarged in the 1820s.
2 The King’s agonizing abdominal pain and his mania were almost certainly both symptoms of an acute attack of porphyria, a hereditary metabolic disorder which was then unknown to medical science.
3 On New Year’s Day 1806 the Elector of Württemberg was proclaimed King, and later that year the Holy Roman Empire was abolished, being replaced by Napoleon’s Confederation of the Rhine. The Holy Roman Emperor renounced his ancient title and became known as emperor of Austria.
4 The precarious peace established between Britain and France by the treaties of Lunéville and Amiens in 1801-2 soon broke down, and Napoleon – after failing to invade Britain – tried to wage economic war by means of his Continental System, which was designed to squeeze British trade. France’s attempt to enforce that policy in the Baltic led to British military activity in Denmark.
5 France’s declaration of war on Portugal in 1807 in support of her Continental System and her invasion of Spain the following year started the Peninsular War, with the British backing nationalist risings against the French invaders, who were in turn backed by Russia.
6 This was Mr Caesar Henry Hawkins, grandson of Sir Caesar and one of Queen Victoria’s surgeons. He was a great-nephew of Mr Pennell Hawkins, who inoculated Princess Mary against smallpox in 1779 and a nephew of Mr Charles Hawkins, who treated her arm in 1788.
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