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sale of commissions, 46, 313–14, 514
Army Staff College, Camberley, 314
Arnaud, Marshal, 186
Arnold, Matthew, 537
Arnold, Dr Thomas, 150, 226, 250
Arthur, Prince (Duke of Connaught)
army career, 431, 516
and army command, 515
and attempt on Queen’s life, 352–3
his birth, 106, 147, 152, 172
childhood, 198, 209, 226, 271
and Disraeli’s funeral, 403
meets Alexander Graham Bell, 385
presides over banquet, 455
and Princess Beatrice’s bereavement, 536
and Queen’s death, 568
and Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, 550
and royal finances, 344
shooting of Prince Christian, 494
and Tranby Croft scandal, 492
Ashburton, Lord and Lady, 419
Asquith, H. H., 506, 513, 515, 522, 537
Asquith, Margot, 10–11, 513
Athenæum, 133
Athenæum Club, 139
Athlone, Alexander Cambridge (‘Alge’), Earl of, 564
Atholl, Duchess of, 255, 317, 554
Augusta, Princess, 37, 40
Augusta, Queen of Prussia, 202
Augusta of Hesse-Cassel, Princess, 24, 29
Augusta of Prussia, Princess, 215
Augustenburg, Duke of, 276–7, 283, 303
Augustus of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Prince, 135–6
Austen, Jane, 63–4
Austin, Alfred, 540
Australia, 431, 451, 547
Austria-Hungary
and Crimean War, 197, 205
loss of influence in Italy, 241–2
revolution in, 164
rivalry with Prussia, 266, 277–8, 300–4
secret treaty with Germany, 468
see also Triple Alliance
Austro-Prussian War, 302–3
automobiles, coming of, 537
Aylesford, ‘Sporting’ Joe, 369
Baden-Powell, Major R. S. S., 535
balaclavas, 203
Balaklava, Battle of, 187–8, 197
Balfour, Arthur, 489, 513, 538, 558–9, 564
Balliol College, Oxford, 34–5, 560
Balmoral
and the cold, 284–5
Disraeli’s visits, 364
dullness of daily routine, 532–3
Gladstone’s visits, 343, 518
John Brown and, 297–8
Kitchener’s visits, 557–8
memorial to Prince Albert, 262
Nicholas and Alexandra’s visit, 541–2
and outbreak of Crimean War, 179–80
purchase of, 141–2
Queen Elizabeth II’s private sitting room, 99
Queen’s pleasure in, 297–8
Rosebery’s visits, 518
and royal finances, 340, 418
Baly, Dr William, 249
Barclay & Perkins Brewery, 164
Barez, Henry, 50
Baring, Sir Evelyn, 441–5
Baring, Mary, 419
Barlow, Dr, 568
Barrackpore, unrest in, 212
Barry, Sir Charles, 115–16, 156
Bashi-Bazouks, 379
baths, Melbourne’s aversion to, 84
Battenberg, Alexander, 532
Battenberg, Leopold, 439
Battenberg, Maurice, 439
Battersea, Lady, her memoirs, 10–12
Beach, Hicks, 522
Beaconsfield, Lord, see Disraeli, Benjamin
Bean (would-be assassin), 110
Beatrice, Princess (‘Baby’)
and attempt on Queen’s life, 412
her birth, 106, 209
childhood, 357, 361
companion to the Queen, 417, 425, 436, 438–40, 471, 490, 509
and dullness of royal routine, 532–3
and husband’s death, 534–6
her marriage, 438–9
meets Countess of Paris, 544
and Prince Eddy’s funeral, 499
and Queen’s death, 568
and Queen’s burial, 555
and Queen’s journals, 8–9, 12–13, 521, 226, 574
and royal finances, 417
Bechuanaland, occupation of, 528–9
Bedchamber Crisis, 94–5, 109–10
Bedford, Duchess of, 454
Bedford, Duke, 342
beer and spirit duties, increase in, 448
Begas, Reinhold, 477
Belfast, royal visit, 145
Bell, Alexander Graham, 385
Bellini, Vincenzo, 141
Belloc, Hilaire, 558
Benson, Arthur C., 11, 408
Benson, E. F., 408
Benson, Edward White, Archbishop of Canterbury, 408–9, 425, 483–5, 502–3, 538
Benson, Hugh, 408
Benson, Martin, 409
Bentinck, Lord George, 108, 121–2, 142
Bentinck, Lord William, 190
Bentley’s Quarterly Review, 434
Benz, Karl, 537
Beresford, Lady Mina, 493–4
Beresford, Lord Charles, 369, 492–3
Beresford, Lord Marcus, 492
Berlin Memorandum, 377–8
Berlin–Baghdad railway, 211
Bernhardt, Sarah, 517, 544–5
Besika Bay, 378
Bessarabia, 383
Bethlehem, Church of the Nativity, 176–8, 196
Bhai Ram Singh, 485
Bharatpore, Maharajah of, 462
Biberstein, Marschall von, 530
Biddulph, General Sir Michael, 532
Biddulph, Sir Thomas, 349, 353, 385
Bigge, Sir Arthur, 490, 525, 536, 538, 545, 549, 572
Birch, Mr (tutor), 225
Birmingham, 291, 342, 434, 458
disturbances in, 88–9
royal visits, 64, 113
Birmingham Oratory, 230
birth rate, rising, 172
bishops, Queen’s dislike of, 409
Bismarck, Count Herbert, 468–9
Bismarck, Count Otto von, 19, 202, 216, 220, 241, 263, 265, 272–3, 279, 331–2
and Austro-Prussian War, 301–3
‘blood and iron’ speech, 273
and Danish–German War, 283–4
and Eastern Question, 378, 382
and Emperor Friedrich, 266, 272, 466
and ‘mistakes on the part of Great Powers’, 378, 385
Blachford, Lady Isabella, 111
Blackfriars Bridge, opening of, 317
Blackpool Promenade, 342
Blair Atholl, 120
Blake, Robert, 374
Blandford, Lord, 492
Bloemfontein Conference, 563
Blondin, 242
Bloomfield, Lord, 281
Blore, Edward, 111, 114
Blücher, Countess, 230
Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen, 323, 325
Boer War, 561–6, 573
Bogdan (horse), 516
Bombay, 190, 369–70
Boniface VIII, Pope, 366
Bonn University, 115
Bonnie Prince Charlie, 48, 197
Book of Common Prayer, 269, 572
Book of Proverbs, 403
Book of Wisdom, 262
Bosnia, 397
Botha, Louis, 564
Boycott, Captain, 413
Boyd, Lieutenant General Sir Robert, 25
Bradlaugh, Charles, 410–11
Bradley, George, Dean of Westminster, 458
Bramann, Dr, 468<
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Brand, Sir Henry, 410
Breadalbane, Countess of, 419
Breadalbane, Lord, 120
Breton, Madame de, 336
Brett, Police Sergeant, 306
Briggs, William, 414–15
Bristol, disturbances in, 89
British Constitution, 4, 101, 146, 327, 501, 506
British East Africa Company, 507
British Museum, 483
British Orphan Asylum, 552
Brock, Mrs (nursemaid), 49
Brocky, Charles, 99–101
Brontë, Charlotte, 159–60
Brooke, Daisy, 491–4, 503
Brooke, Francis Greville, Lord, 492
Brown, Archie, 320, 423
Brown, Dr, 235, 253–4
Brown, John
and alcohol, 298, 324, 424
and attempts on Queen’s life, 352–3, 412
and Bulgarian independence, 384–5
comes to England, 286–7, 298
his death, 423–4
early years in royal household, 141, 180
foresees deaths, 248–9
and Lady Florence Dixie affair, 422–3
his opinion of Gladstone, 363
Ponsonby’s handling of, 287, 335
and Princess Victoria’s pregnancy, 228
and Queen’s death, 387
and Queen’s funeral, 554–5, 570
and Queen’s letters, 12, 421–2, 574
Queen’s memoir of, 9, 426–9
and Queen’s published journals, 297
statues of, 574
Browne, Harold, Bishop of Winchester, 408
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 240–1
Browning, Robert, 240–1
Bruce, General, 225, 242–3, 250, 255, 284
his death, 270–1
Bruce, Lady Augusta, 175, 225, 269, 284
Brunel, Isambard Kingdom, 156
Buccleuch, Duke of, 119
Buchanan, Sir A., 281
Buckingham Palace
alterations under George IV, 111
alterations under Prince Albert, 116, 118
Juvenile Ball at, 191
Buksch, Mohammed, 462, 464
Bulgarian atrocities, and Gladstone’s pamphlet, 379–81, 394, 548
Bulgarian independence, 383–5, 397
Buller, Sir Redvers, 564
Bullock, William, and Paul Fildes, 31
Bulteel, Mary, see Ponsonby, Lady Mary
Burgoyne, Sir John, 336
Burke, Thomas, 413
Burma, conquest of, 186
Burns, J. W., 501
Burton, Decimus, 115
Butler, Major General, 561
Byron, Lord, 38, 81–2, 302
Cada, Dolores, 465
Caesar (dog), 574
Calcutta, 211–12, 253, 370, 458
Calthorpe Estate, Bloomsbury, 115
Cambridge, Adolphus, Duke of, 23–4, 26, 29, 96, 103, 154, 572
Cambridge, Adolphus Augustus Frederick, 155
Cambridge, Augusta, 47
Cambridge, Prince George, 2nd Duke of, 47, 92, 175, 303, 443, 484, 550
appointed army commander, 217–18
and army reforms, 313–15, 338–9
blimpishness, 159
friendship with Queen, 154–5
his mistress, 496
and Queen’s funeral, 572
resignation as army commander, 514–15
and royal finances, 417, 515
Cambridge, George William Adolphus, 155
Cambridge University, 219, 248, 250–1
Campbell, Edith, 192–3
Campbell, Colonel John, 192–3
Campbell, Lady Mary, 539
Campbell-Bannerman, Henry, 506, 521–2
Canada, 372, 430–1, 451–2, 536, 547, 549
Canada Corn Act, 110, 122
Canning, George, 62–3, 82
Canning, Lady, 253
Canning, Lord (‘Clemency Canning’), 212, 223–4
Canrobert, Marshal, 187
Cape Colony, 186, 527, 560, 564
Captain Swing riots, 89
Cardigan, Lord, 186–7, 197
cardigans, 203
Cardwell, Edward, 302, 312–15, 327, 338–9, 354
Carisbrooke, Alexander (‘Drino’), Marquess of, 439, 534
Carlingford, Lord, 424, 427, 438–9
Carlos, King of Portugal, 571
Carlton Club, 435, 540
Carlyle, Thomas, 3, 5–7, 13, 219, 243, 292
Carnarvon, Lady Elsie, 429
Carnarvon, Lord, 379, 382, 392, 429, 450 453, 509
Caroline of Brunswick, Princess, 5, 23, 36
Caroline Amalie, Duchess, 136
Caroline Mathilde (‘Calma’) of Schleswig-Holstein, Princess, 419
Carpenter, William Boyd, Bishop of Ripon, 517
Carrington, Lord, 369
Carroll, Lewis, 357, 361
Cart (Prince Albert’s valet), 228, 249
Cary, Henry, 240
Castlereagh, Lord, 29
Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, 20
Catherine, Grand Duchess, 22
Cavendish, Lord Frederick, 412–13
Cavour, Camillo, Count, 203, 241
Cawnpore, and treachery of Nana Sahib, 212
Cecil, William (Lord Burghley), 434, 522
Cetshwayo, King of the Zulus, 392
Chadwick, Owen, 151
Challemel-Lacour, Paul-Armand, 399
Chamberlain, Joseph, 410–11, 433–4, 451–2, 501, 522–3, 549
and South Africa, 529–31, 560–3
Chamberlain, Neville, 265
Charles I, King, 17, 131, 293, 296, 336–7
Charles X, King of France, 54
Charles of Hesse-Darmstadt, Princess, 264
Charles of Leiningen, Prince, 28, 45, 60, 234
Charlotte, Princess, 21–4, 27, 29, 43, 45, 71, 103, 207, 260
Charlotte, Queen, 24, 30, 84
Chartists, 61, 89, 137–40, 146, 307
Château d’Eu, 112
Château de Neuilly, 201
Chatsworth House, 113–14, 156–7
Chelmsford, General Lord, 392
Chester, Gladstone injured at, 504
China, 377, 443
chloroform, 172, 231
cholera, elimination of, 172, 177
Cholmondeley, Lord Great Chamberlain, 102
Christian, King of Denmark, 239, 279, 283
Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, Prince, 356–7, 390, 494
Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein, Prince, 533–5, 563
Christmas celebrations, 243–4
Chubb the locksmith, 500
Church, R. W., Dean of St Paul’s, 408
Church of England, 4, 29, 51, 149, 210, 307, 309, 355
appointments of bishops, 538–9
effect of Newman’s conversion, 362–3
High Church controversy, 362–6
Queen’s involvement in, 408–9
threat of disestablishment, 362, 451
Churchill, Lady Jane, 73, 225, 333, 471, 490, 545
and attempt on Queen’s life, 352–3
her death, 567–8
Churchill, Jennie, 544
Churchill, Lord Randolph, 459, 492, 498
Churchill, Winston Spencer, 558
Cimiez, 544–5, 562
City of London Imperial Volunteers, 565
Claremont
and death of Princess Charlotte, 22–3, 26–7
Queen sheltered in cottage, 119, 281
royal family visit, 110�
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Clarence, Duke of, see William IV, King
Clarence and Avondale, Albert Victor, Duke of, see Eddy, Prince
Clarendon, Lord, 129, 149, 175, 179, 194, 213, 222, 229, 268, 275, 301–2, 331
Clark, Sir James, 93, 107, 208, 227, 231, 235, 249
and Prince Albert’s death, 253–4
Clarke, Sir Edward, 492
Clarke, Mrs, and sale of commissions, 46
Clayton, Dr Oscar, 347
Clemenceau, Georges, 399
Clémentine of Orléans, 135–6, 138, 196, 201
Clerkenwell Prison, 306
Cleveland Street brothel, 488–9, 502
Clifden, Nellie, 248–51
coalition government, and role of monarchy, 146–7, 168–9, 453
Coburg
introduction of lavatories, 278
Queen’s idealization of, 264, 269
and Queen’s marriage, 92, 95–7, 103–4
Queen’s visits, 271–2, 278–9, 516–17
restoration of the Veste, 573
Coch Behar, Maharajah and Maharani of, 462
Cockfosters and Hadley Wood, 342
coinage, Queen’s image on, 478–9
Cole, Henry, 155–6
Cole, Lord, 346
Colenso, Battle of, 564–5
College of Arms, 15
Collier, Sir John, 354
Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 454–5
communism, 145–6, 164, 332, 367, 376, 505, 573
revolutionary, 397–400
‘condition of England’ question, 88, 90
Congo Free State, 443
Congress of Berlin, 384–6, 396, 468
Congress of Paris, 203–4
Connaught, Duke of, see Arthur, Prince
Connaught, ‘Louischen’, Duchess of, 536
Conroy, Lady Elizabeth (née Fisher), 33–5, 39, 42, 71
Conroy, Sir John, 33–5, 40–1, 281
assessment of his role, 59–60
his hold over Duchess of Kent, 52–4, 57, 59–61, 65, 72, 79–80, 91
and Lady Flora Hastings affair, 92–3
and Princess Sophia’s finances, 52–3, 141
Queen’s breach with, 66–8, 70–3, 79–80, 233–4
and Queen’s political education, 63–4, 80
Conservatives, emergence of modern party, 223
Conspiracy to Murder Bill, 222
Constable, William, 100
Constantine of Greece, Crown Prince, 9, 548–9
Constantine, Grand Duke, 20–1
Constantine, Bishop of, 393
Constantinople, 176, 178–81, 185, 187–8
and Eastern Question, 373, 376–7, 379, 382, 385
Constitution Hill, 473, 551
Conyngham, Henry, 53
Conyngham, Lady (the ‘Vice Queen’), 47–8, 53, 73–4
Conyngham, Lord Chamberlain, 73–5
Coorg, Rajah of, 189–90
Cope, W. C., 118
