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53 Roberts, p. 389.
54 Ibid., p. 392.
55 Ibid., p. 393.
56 Journal, 20 June 1886.
22 ‘YOU ENGLISH’
1 Papers of the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield, Ponsonby to Salisbury, 21 January 1887.
2 Roberts, p. 462.
3 Buckle, Third Series, Vol. I, p. 277.
4 Roberts, p. 462.
5 Buckle, Third Series, Vol. I, p. 308.
6 Longford, p. 504.
7 Roberts, p. 430.
8 Alexander and Anand, p. 257.
9 Quoted Christy Campbell, The Maharajah’s Box, p. 41.
10 Alexander and Anand, p. 211.
11 Campbell, p. 128.
12 Ibid., p. 60.
13 Buckle, Third Series, Vol. I, p. 322.
14 Pakula, p. 444.
15 Ibid.
16 Pakula, p. 445.
17 Coburger Hausarchiv, Nr. 1293 (translation).
18 Journal, 21 June 1887.
19 Journal, 23 June 1887.
20 Reid, p. 261.
21 Pakula, p. 448.
22 Sharbani Basu, Victoria and Abdul: The True Story of the Queen’s Closest Confidant, p. 78 and passim.
23 J. W. Mackail, The Life of William Morris, p. 201.
24 Ibid., p. 203.
25 Papers of the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield, 25 February 1888.
26 Beloved and Darling Child, p. 76.
27 Bodleian Library MS Dep. D.837, Robert Collier, 2nd Baron Monkswell, Royal Anecdotes.
28 Buckle, Third Series, Vol. I, p. 489.
29 Ibid.
30 Ibid.
31 Mallet Papers, Balliol College, Oxford.
32 Basu, p. 84.
33 Ibid., p. 81.
34 Papers of the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield, 25 February 1888.
35 Ibid., 1 March 1888.
36 Roberts, p. 507.
37 Quoted Basu, p. 90.
38 Ibid., p. 91.
39 Papers of the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield, 18 April 1889.
40 Ibid., 24 April 1889.
41 Ibid., 28 May 1889.
42 RA/Z/43/31, Crown Princess of Prussia to Queen Victoria, 30 October 1888, quoted Pakula, p. 509.
43 Reid, p. 263–4.
44 Roberts, p. 540.
45 E. F. Benson, The Kaiser and English Relations, p. 79.
46 Papers of the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield, 31 December 1888.
47 Ibid., 1 March 1889.
48 Buckle, Third Series, Vol. I, p. 507.
49 BL Gladstone Papers, 4 July 1860.
50 Basu, p. 96.
23 ‘HER EXCELLENT YOUNG MUNSHI’
1 Benson Papers, Lambeth Palace, Vol. 72.
2 Benson, Edward White Benson, Vol. II, p. 776.
3 Papers of the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield, 25 December 1891.
4 Princess Marie Louise, My Memories of Six Reigns, p. 19.
5 Sir Frederick Ponsonby, Recollections of Three Reigns, p. 15.
6 Journal, 31 March 1891.
7 Basu, p. 102.
8 Ibid., p. 104, quoting RA/VIC/ADDU/32, 17 May 1890.
9 Ibid., quoting IOR MSS/Eur/D558/1 Telegram No. 28, Queen Victoria to Lansdowne, Windsor, 11 July 1890.
10 Papers of the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield, 21 May 1890.
11 Pope-Hennessy, p. 193.
12 Ibid.
13 Roberts, p. 549.
14 Papers of the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield, Queen Victoria to Princess Alexandra, copy of letter, 30 August 1890.
15 Kronberg Archives, 19 November 1892, quoted Pope-Hennessy, p. 199.
16 Papers of the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield, 18 April 1891.
17 Jane Ridley, p. 286.
18 Ibid., p. 286–7.
19 Ibid., p. 289.
20 Quoted Sushila Anand, Daisy, The Life and Loves of the Countess of Warwick, p. 43.
21 Papers of the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield, 22 December 1891.
22 Ibid., 27 December 1891.
23 Ibid.
24 Pope-Hennessy, p. 32.
25 Kenneth Rose, The Later Cecils, p. 52.
26 Pope-Hennessy, p. 36.
27 Ibid., p. 60.
28 Ibid., p. 103.
29 Ibid., p. 185.
30 Ibid., p. 208.
31 Lambeth Palace, Davidson’s diary, New Year 1888.
32 Pope-Hennessy, p. 224.
33 Ibid., p. 226.
34 Jane Ridley, p. 296 quoting RA VIC/Z475/198, draft telegram, 18 January 1892.
35 Ibid., p. 296.
36 Papers of the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield, 11 August 1885.
37 R. F. Foster, Modern Ireland, 1600–1972, p. 424.
38 Roberts, p. 580.
39 Ibid., p. 578.
40 Beloved and Darling Child, p. 142.
41 Benson Papers, Lambeth Palace.
42 Jane Ridley, p. 305.
43 Benson Papers, Lambeth Palace, programme of the wedding.
44 Benson, Edward White Benson, Vol. II, p. 531.
24 ‘WHAT A FUNNY LITTLE WOMAN’
1 The Times, 15 August 1892.
2 Arthur Ponsonby, pp. 216–7.
3 The cow’s head is preserved in the Glynne Arms, Hawarden.
4 Quoted H. C. G. Matthew, Gladstone 1875–1898, p. 331.
5 Morley, Vol. III, p. 373.
6 Buckle, Third Series, Vol. II, p. 187.
7 Lambeth Palace, Davidson Papers, 11 December 1892.
8 4 September 1892, quoted Longford, p. 520.
9 Leo McKinstry, Rosebery: Statesman in Turmoil, p. 270.
10 Lambeth Palace, Davidson Papers, 10 December 1892.
11 McKinstry, p. 241.
12 Ibid., p. 265.
13 Matthew, p. 351.
14 Morley, Vol. III, p. 369.
15 Journal, 3 March 1894.
16 Jackson, 4 March 1894, p. 222.
17 Morley, Vol. III, p. 410.
18 Beloved and Darling Child, pp. 214–5.
19 Matthew, p. 385.
20 Ibid., p. 358.
21 Mallet Papers, Balliol College, Oxford, June 1896.
22 Buckle, Third Series, Vol. II, p 373 where Rosebery writes ‘Lord Rosebery . . . thought it his duty to inform Your Majesty through Sir Henry Ponsonby of some at least of the objections he sees to his attempting the task of reconstituting the Government’ etc etc.
23 Jackson, p. 219.
24 ‘By far the most popular politician in the country’ – McKinstry, p. 267.
25 Hansard, Third Series, Vol. CCCLVIII, p. 275.
26 Jackson, p. 235.
27 Roberts, p. 580.
28 Beloved and Darling Child, p. 178.
29 Mallet Papers, Balliol College, Oxford, 8 November 1895.
30 Buckle, Third Series, Vol. II, p. 381.
31 Ibid., p. 404.
32 Ibid., p. 430.
33 Ibid., p. 431.
34 Quoted McKinstry, p. 372.
35 Buckle, Third Series, Vol. II, p. 504.
36 Dictionary of National Biography, 1941–50, p. 19.
37 Buckle, Third Series, Vol. II, p. 393.
38 Journal, 20 April 1894.
39 Duff, Hessian Tapestry, p. 236.
40 Seton-Watson, pp. 461–3.
41 BL Waterpark Papers, 10 June 1884.
42 Dictionary of National Biography, 1922–1930 p. 696.
43 McKinstry, p. 360.
44 Jackson, p. 238.
45 McKinstry, p. 364.
46 Ibid., pp. 364–5.
47 Journal, 20 October 1894.
48 Hansard, Third Series, Vol. CCCLXI, p. 85.
49 Roberts, p. 604.
50 Basu, p. 156.
51 Quoted Kuhn, p. 237.
52 RA/VIC/ADDU/32, 27 April 1895, quoted Basu, p. 169.
53 Kuhn, p. 237.
54 Mallet Papers, Balliol College, Oxford, 21 November 1895.
25 DIAMOND JUBILEE
1 Lawrence James, The Rise and Fall of the British Empire, p. 259.
2 Quoted Ensor, p. 232.
3 1922, see Ensor, ibid.
4 Bodleian Library, MS Dep. D. 837, Robert Collier, 2nd Baron Monkswell, Royal Anecdotes.
5 Buckle, Third Series, Vol. III, p. 19.
6 Frederick Ponsonby, Recollections, p. 42.
7 Beatrice Webb, The Diary of Beatrice Webb, Vol. II, 5 January 1886, p. 88.
8 Mallet Papers, Balliol College, Oxford, 6 November 1896.
9 Duff, Hessian Tapestry, p. 246.
10 Frederick Ponsonby, Recollections, p. 12.
11 Ibid., p. 23.
12 Ibid., p. 51.
13 T. Herbert Warren, Christian Victor, The Story of a Young Soldier, p. 142.
14 Warren, p. 220.
15 Duff, Hessian Tapestry, p. 390.
16 Journal, 18 November 1895.
17 Buckle, Third Series, Vol. III, p. 25.
18 Reid Papers, 19 November 1885. ‘After dinner had talk in my rooms with Bishop of Winchester who had been sent for by the Queen and Pss Beatrice to speak to Bigge about his relations with Pss Louise and had done so’. Bigge, as Lord Stamfordham, was the much-trusted private secretary to Kings Edward VII and George V.
19 Princess Marie Louise, p. 145.
20 Morning Post, 19 June 1896.
21 Buckle, Third Series, Vol. III, p. 55.
22 Frederick Ponsonby, Recollections, p. 45.
23 Described in Chapter 23.
24 Buckle, Third Series, Vol. III, p. 95.
25 Ibid.
26 Ibid., p. 99.
27 Buckle, Third Series, Vol. III, p. 24.
28 In Cap and Bells (London, New, York, J. Lane, 1900).
29 Buckle, Third Series, Vol. III, p. 79.
30 Quoted Duff, Hessian Tapestry, p. 249.
31 Buckle, Third Series, Vol. III, p. 77.
32 Colin Stephenson, Merrily on High (London, Darton, Longman and Todd, 1972), p. 27.
33 François Mauriac, De Gaulle (Paris, Grasset, 1964), p. 11.
34 He made many a sly reference to Bertie, as when the Duchesse de Guermantes says, ‘I find King Edward charming, so simple and much cleverer than people think. And the Queen is, even now, the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen in the world.’ ‘But, Madame la Duchesse,’ said the prince, who was losing his temper and did not see that he was giving offence, ‘you must admit that if the Prince of Wales had been an ordinary person, there isn’t a club that wouldn’t have blackballed him, and nobody would have been willing to shake hands with him . . . ’ etc.
35 Papers of the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield, 12 March 1887.
36 Jane Ridley, p. 368.
37 Buckle, Third Series, Vol. III, p. 152.
38 Papers of the 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Hatfield, February 1897.
39 Ibid.
40 Reid Papers, quoted Basu, p. 189.
41 Basu, p. 218.
42 Rudyard Kipling’s Verse (London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1940), p. 326.
43 Beloved and Darling Child, p. 202.
44 Beloved and Darling Child, p. 74.
45 Ibid., p. 91, St Aubyn, Queen Victoria, p. 559.
46 Buckle, Third Series, Vol. III, p. 151.
47 Longford, p. 20.
48 E. C. F. Collier (ed.), A Victorian Diarist: Later Extracts from the Journals of Mary, Lady Monkswell, p. 30.
49 Buckle, Third Series, Vol. III, p. 175.
50 Ibid., p. 175.
51 Ibid., p. 186.
52 Ibid., p. 187.
53 Ibid., p. 191.
54 St Aubyn, Queen Victoria, p. 548.
55 Pope-Hennessy, p. 338.
56 All references to the burial instructions are from Reid Papers.
26 ‘THIS ENGLAND’
1 Mallet Papers, Balliol College, Oxford, 17 November 1896.
2 Lawrence James, p. 283.
3 Frederick Ponsonby, Recollections, p. 43.
4 Ibid., p. 44.
5 Roberts, p. 716.
6 Byron Farwell, The Great Boer War, p. 32.
7 HRH Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, For My Grandchildren, p. 100.
8 Farwell, The Great Boer War, p. 31.
9 Ibid., p. 32.
10 Beloved and Darling Child, p. 225.
11 Roberts, p. 722.
12 Ibid., p. 730.
13 Warren, p. 274.
14 Ibid., p. 299.
15 HRH Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, p. 114.
16 Farwell, The Great Boer War, p. 142.
17 Ibid., p. 141.
18 Ibid., p. 143.
19 Roberts, p. 750.
27 ‘VALE DESIDERATISSIME!’
1 Beloved and Darling Child, p. 251.
2 Pakula, p. 587.
3 Ibid., p. 588.
4 Weintraub, Victoria, p. 630.
5 Ibid.
6 Quoted Reid, p. 199.
7 Daughter of Lenchen, named Helena Victoria but always known as Thora. She never married and gave herself up to good works, such as the YWCA. One of her last public appearances was at the wedding of Princess Elizabeth to Prince Philip of Greece in 1947.
8 This and subsequent quotations from Victoria’s deathbed, Reid, p. 210–11.
9 Ibid., p. 212.
10 St Aubyn, Queen Victoria, p. 598.
11 Ibid. I find this rather puzzling, since the train from Portsmouth normally comes in to Waterloo!
12 St Aubyn, Queen Victoria, p. 599.
13 Vale desideratissime! Hic demum Conquiescam tecum, tecum in Christo consurgeam.
14 Harald Sandner, Hitlers Herzog: Carl Eduard von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha – die Biographie (Aachen, Shaker Media, c. 2010).
15 John Röhl and Sheila de Bellaigue, Wilhelm II, The Kaiser’s Personal Monarchy, p. 193.
16 Jane Ridley, p. 351.
17 Ibid.
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