Victoria: A Life

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by A. N. Wilson


  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

 

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