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Queen Victoria

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by Matthew Dennison


  Epton, Nina, Victoria and Her Daughters (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1971)

  Erbach-Schönberg, Princess Marie zu, Princess of Battenberg, Reminiscences (Royalty Digest reprint, Ticehurst, 1996)

  Erickson, Carolly, Her Little Majesty: The Life of Queen Victoria (Robson Books, London, 1997)

  Feuchtwanger, Edgar, Albert and Victoria: The Rise and Fall of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (Hambledon Continuum, London, 2006)

  Field, Leslie, The Queen’s Jewels (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1987)

  Fraser, Flora, Princesses: The Six Daughters of George III (John Murray, London, 2004)

  Fulford, Roger, Queen Victoria (Collins, London, 1951)

  Fulford, Roger, ed., Dearest Child: Letters from Queen Victoria and the Princess Royal, 1858–1861 (Evans Brothers, London, 1964)

  —Dearest Mama: Letters Between Queen Victoria and the Crown Princess of Prussia 1861–64 (Evans Brothers, London, 1968)

  —Your Dear Letter: Private Correspondence of Queen Victoria and the Crown Princess of Prussia, 1856–71 (Evans Brothers, London, 1971)

  —Darling Child: Private Correspondence of Queen Victoria and the Crown Princess of Prussia, 1871–78 (Evans Brothers, London, 1976)

  —Beloved Mama: Private Correspondence of Queen Victoria and the German Crown Princess, 1878–85 (Evans Brothers, London, 1981)

  Gelardi, Julia, Born to Rule (St Martin’s Press, New York, 2004)

  Gernsheim, Helmut and Alison, Queen Victoria (Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1959)

  Gilmartin, Sophie, Ancestry and Narrative in Nineteenth-Century British Literature: Blood Relations from Edgeworth to Hardy (CUP paperback, Cambridge, 2005)

  Gordon, Sophie, Noble Hounds and Dear Companions (Royal Collection Publications, London, 2007)

  Grihange, Roger (trans. David Lockie), Queen Victoria in Grasse (Imprimerie Magenta, 1991)

  Hibbert, Christopher, Edward VII: A Portrait (Allen Lane, London, 1976)

  —George III: A Personal History (Viking, London, 1998)

  —Queen Victoria: A Personal History (HarperCollins, London, 2000)

  —Disraeli: A Personal History (HarperCollins, London, 2004)

  Hibbert, Christopher, ed., Queen Victoria in Her Letters and Journals (Viking, New York, 1985)

  Homans, Margaret, and Munich, Adrienne, eds., Remaking Queen Victoria (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1997)

  Hough, Richard, Advice to a Granddaughter: Letters from Queen Victoria to Princess Victoria of Hesse (Heinemann, London, 1975)

  —Edward & Alexandra: Their Private and Public Lives (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1993)

  Housman, Laurence, Happy and Glorious: A Dramatic Biography (The Reprint Society, London, 1943)

  Houston, Gail Turley, Royalties: The Queen and Victorian Writers (University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville and London, 1999)

  Howard McClintock, Mary, The Queen Thanks Sir Howard (John Murray, London, 1945)

  Hubbard, Kate, Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal Household (Chatto & Windus, London, 2012)

  Hudson, Katherine, A Royal Conflict: Sir John Conroy and the Young Victoria (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1994)

  Hudson, W. H., Birds in London (Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1898)

  Impey, Edward, Kensington Palace: The Official Illustrated History (Merrell, London, 2003)

  Jagow, Dr Kurt, Letters of the Prince Consort 1831–1861 (John Murray, London, 1938)

  Jenkins, Roy, Gladstone (Macmillan, London, 1995)

  Johnson, Malcolm, Bustling Intermeddler? The Life and Work of Charles James Blomfield (Gracewing paperback, Leominster, 2001)

  Kuhn, William H., Henry and Mary Ponsonby: Life at the Court of Queen Victoria (Duckworth, London, 2002)

  Lamont-Brown, Raymond, John Brown, Queen Victoria’s Highland Servant (Sutton, Stroud, 2000)

  Lant, Jeffrey L., Insubstantial Pageant: Ceremony and Confusion at Queen Victoria’s Court (Hamish Hamilton, London, 1979)

  Lee, Sidney, King Edward VII (Macmillan, London, 1925)

  Longford, Elizabeth, Victoria RI (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1964)

  Longford, Elizabeth, ed., Louisa, Lady-in-Waiting (Jonathan Cape, London, 1979)

  —ed., Darling Loosy: Letters to Princess Louise 1856–1939 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1991)

  Lutyens, Mary, ed., Lady Lytton’s Diary (Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1961)

  Magnus, Philip, King Edward VII (John Murray, London, 1964)

  Mallet, Victor, ed., Life with Queen Victoria: Marie Mallet’s Letters from Court, 1887–1901 (John Murray, London, 1968)

  Marie Louise, Princess, My Memories of Six Reigns (Evans Brothers, London, 1956)

  Marsden, Jonathan, ed., Victoria and Albert: Art and Love (Royal Collections Publications, London, 2010)

  Marshall, Dorothy, The Life and Times of Queen Victoria (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1972)

  Martin, Theodore, Queen Victoria As I Knew Her (William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1908)

  Matson, John, Dear Osborne (Hamish Hamilton, London, 1978)

  Menkes, Suzy, The Royal Jewels (Grafton Books, London, 1985)

  Meylan, Vincent, Queens’ Jewels (Assouline, New York, 2002)

  Millar, Oliver, The Victorian Paintings in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1992)

  Munn, Geoffrey, Tiaras: A History of Splendour (Antique Collectors’ Club, Woodbridge, 2001)

  Murphy, Paul Thomas, Shooting Victoria: Madness, Mayhem and the Modernisation of the Monarchy (Head of Zeus, London, 2012)

  Murray, Venetia, High Society in the Regency Period (Penguin, London, 1999)

  Nelson, Michael, Queen Victoria and the Discovery of the Riviera (I. B. Tauris, London, 2001)

  Noel, Gerard, Princess Alice: Queen Victoria’s Forgotten Daughter (Constable, London, 1974)

  —Ena: Spain’s English Queen (Constable, London, 1984)

  Oliphant, Mrs, Queen Victoria: A Personal Sketch (Cassell and Company, London, 1901)

  Packard, Jerrold M., Queen Victoria’s Daughters (St Martin’s Press, New York, 1998)

  —Farewell in Splendour: The Death of Queen Victoria and Her Age (Sutton, Stroud, 2000)

  Pakula, Hannah, An Uncommon Woman: The Empress Frederick (Phoenix paperback, London, 1997)

  Parissien, Steven, George IV, The Grand Entertainment (John Murray, London, 2001)

  Paxman, Jeremy, The Victorians: Britain through the Paintings of the Age (BBC Books, London, 2009)

  Plunkett, John, Queen Victoria, First Media Monarch (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003)

  Ponsonby, Arthur, Henry Ponsonby, Queen Victoria’s Private Secretary: His Life from His Letters (Macmillan & Co., London, 1943)

  Ponsonby, Frederick, Recollections of the Three Reigns (Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1951)

  Ponsonby, Frederick, ed., Letters of the Empress Frederick (Macmillan, London, 1928)

  Ponsonby, Magdalen, ed., Mary Ponsonby: A Memoir, Some Letters and a Journal (John Murray, London, 1927)

  Pope-Hennessy, James, Queen Mary (Allen & Unwin, London, 1959)

  Pope-Hennessy, James, ed., Queen Victoria at Windsor and Balmoral: Letters from Her Granddaughter Princess Victoria of Prussia June 1889 (George Allen & Unwin, London, 1959)

  Ramm, Agatha, ed., Beloved and Darling Child: Last Letters Between Queen Victoria and Her Eldest Daughter 1886–1901 (Sutton, Stroud, 1990)

  Rappaport, Helen, Queen Victoria: A Biographical Companion (ABC Clio, 2003)

  —Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert and the Death that Changed the Monarchy (Hutchinson, London, 2011)

  Raymond, John, ed., Queen Victoria’s Early Letters (Batsford, London, 1963)

  Reid, Michaela, Ask Sir James (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1987)

  Rennell, Tony, Last Days of Glory: The Death of Queen Victoria (Viking, London, 2000)

  Reynolds, K. D., and Matthew, H. C. G., Queen Victoria (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007)

  Ridley, Jane, Bertie:
A Life of Edward VII (Chatto & Windus, London, 2012)

  Roberts, Hugh, The Queen’s Diamonds (Royal Collection, London, 2012)

  Roberts, Jane, Royal Artists from Mary Queen of Scots to the Present Day (Grafton Books, London, 1987)

  Robinson, John Martin, Windsor Castle (Michael Joseph, London, 1996)

  Rowell, George, Queen Victoria Goes to the Theatre (Paul Elek, London, 1978)

  St Aubyn, Giles, Edward VII Prince and King (Collins, London, 1979)

  —Queen Victoria: A Portrait (Sinclair Stevenson, London, 1991)

  St-John Nevill, Barry, Life at the Court of Queen Victoria 1861–1901 (Webb & Bower, Exeter, 1984)

  Sheppard, Edgar, Memorials of St James’s Palace (Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1894)

  Sinclair, Andrew, The Other Victoria: The Princess Royal and the Great Game of Europe (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1981)

  Steuart Erskine, Mrs, ed., Twenty Years at Court: From the Correspondence of the Hon. Eleanor Stanley, 1842–62 (Nisbet & Co., London, 1916)

  Stoney, Benita, and Weltzein, Heinrich C., My Mistress the Queen: The Letters of Frieda Arnold, Dresser to Queen Victoria, 1854–59, trans. by Sheila de Bellaigue (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1994)

  Stothard, Jane T., The Life of the Empress Eugenie (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1906)

  Strachey, Lytton, Queen Victoria (Chatto & Windus reprint, London, 1928)

  Stuart, D. M., Daughter of England (Macmillan & Co., London, 1951)

  Thomson, David, England in the Nineteenth Century (Penguin reprint, London, 1986)

  Tisdall, E. E. P., Queen Victoria’s Private Life (Jarrolds, London, 1961)

  Vallone, Lynne, Becoming Victoria (Yale University Press, 2001)

  Van der Kiste, John, Queen Victoria’s Children (Sutton, Stroud, 1986)

  —Edward VII’s Children (Sutton, Stroud, 1989)

  —George V’s Children (Sutton, Stroud, 1991)

  —George III’s Children (Sutton, Stroud, 1992)

  —Sons, Servants and Statesmen: The Men in Queen Victoria’s Life (Sutton, Stroud, 2006)

  Vickers, Hugo, Alice, Princess Andrew of Greece (Viking, London, 2000)

  Victoria, Queen, Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands: From 1848 to 1861 (Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1868)

  —More Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands: From 1862 to 1882 (Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1884)

  Wake, Jehanne, Princess Louise: Queen Victoria’s Unconventional Daughter (London, Collins, 1988)

  Ward, Yvonne M., Editing Queen Victoria: How Men of Letters Constructed the Young Queen (PhD thesis, La Trobe University, Australia, 2004)

  Warner, Marina, Queen Victoria’s Sketchbook (Macmillan, London, 1979)

  Watson, Vera, A Queen at Home: An Intimate Account of the Social and Domestic Life of Queen Victoria’s Court (W. H. Allen, London, 1952)

  Weintraub, Stanley, Victoria: Biography of a Queen (Unwin, London, 1987)

  —Albert Uncrowned King (John Murray paperback, London, 1998)

  Williams, Kate, Becoming Queen (Hutchinson, London, 2008)

  Williams, Richard, The Contentious Crown: Public Discussion of the British Monarchy in the Reign of Queen Victoria (Ashgate, Aldershot, 1997)

  Windsor, Dean of, and Bolitho, Hector, eds., Letters of Lady Augusta Stanley (George Howe, London, 1927)

  —Later Letters of Lady Augusta Stanley (Jonathan Cape, London, 1929)

  Woodham-Smith, Cecil, Victoria 1819–1861 (Hamish Hamilton, London, 1972)

  Zeepvat, Charlotte, Prince Leopold: The Untold Story of Queen Victoria’s Youngest Son (Sutton, Stroud, 1988)

  INDEX

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  Aberdeen Herald & Weekly Free Press, 106

  Adams, William Henry Davenport: Celebrated Englishwomen of the Victorian Era, 24

  Adelaide, of Saxe-Meiningen, consort of William IV (earlier Duchess of Clarence), 12

  Albert, Prince Consort: and royal dukes, 7; status, 14; influences QV’s control of temper, 26, 68; congratulates QV on accession, 30; and Melbourne’s relations with QV, 37; courtship and marriage, 46–50, 55; qualities, 46–9, 51; upbringing and character, 46; attitude of English to, 47; allowance from Parliament, 49–50; portrait, 51–2, 96, 132; remoulds QV, 52–3; wedding, 53; denied public role, 54; nominated as Regent, 55; QV’s devotion to, 56; co-plans Great Exhibition, 59, 71–2; granted title Prince Consort, 59; marriage relations and role, 59–61, 131; family life, 62, 65–7; photographed, 64–5; dismisses Lehzen, 65–6, 79, 147; manages and rationalises household, 65; sense of duty, 67, 71; feelings for QV, 68–9; and social change, 70; and ideal monarchy, 71; and daughter Vicky’s marriage, 76; and death of Victoire de Nemours, 78; relations with aunt Duchess of Kent, 79; illness and death, 82–3, 85–9; sculpture of, 83; and son Bertie’s misbehaviour, 83–4; period of mourning, 91; agrees Bertie’s marriage, 92; QV mourns for, 92–4; monuments and memorials, 95, 97; QV’s dependence on, 96–7; engages John Brown, 105; approves of Gladstone, 121; arranges purchase of Sandringham, 125; hopes for Anglo–Prussian unity, 132, 152; QV buried alongside, 154

  Albert Victor, Prince, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (‘Eddy’), 151

  Alexander, Tsarevitch of Russia, 43, 51

  Alexandra of Denmark, Princess (later Queen; ‘Alix’): marriage, 92–3; and Bertie’s typhoid, 125; shuns Crown Prince of Prussia, 134

  Alfred, Prince: birth, 58; at sister Alice’s wedding, 92; in family portrait, 134

  Alice, Princess, Grand Duchess of Hesse: birth, 58; childhood, 62; and Albert’s illness and death, 82, 86; cares for mother, 89; marriage, 92; and Bertie’s typhoid, 124; death, 132

  Angeli, Heinrich von, 121, 132

  Anglau, Count d’, 51

  Anson, George, 50

  Appleton, Elizabeth, 26

  Arbuthnot, Harriet, 26

  Arthur, Prince, 58, 102, 107, 122, 134, 138–9

  Ashanti Wars, 151

  Atholl, Anne, Duchess of, 96

  Augusta, Duchess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, 68

  Augusta, Princess (daughter of George III and QV’s aunt), 16, 80

  Austin, Alfred, 135

  Bagehot, Walter: The English Constitution, 3

  Bagshot Park, Surrey, 18

  Balfour, Arthur James, 145

  Balmoral (estate), Scotland, 58, 65–6, 74, 105–6, 112

  Bambridge, William: Mourning the Prince Consort (photograph), 95

  Barber, Charles Burton: Queen Victoria seated on ‘Florrie’, John Brown in Attendance, Balmoral in the Distance (painting), 113–14

  Barrett, Elizabeth (later Browning): Victoria’s Tears, 32; The Young Queen, 35

  Barrie, Sir James Matthew: Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, 9

  Baynes, R.H.: ‘Hymn for the Jubilee’, 139

  Beatrice, Princess: birth, 58; appearance, 93; dull home life, 102; marriage to Henry of Battenberg, 134, 150; in tableaux vivants, 151

  Bedchamber Crisis, 38–9, 42–3, 49, 115

  Beechey, William, 16, 96

  Bertie see Edward VII, King

  Bigge, Sir Arthur, 152

  Bismarck, Prince Otto von: on Coburgs, 13; and Vicky-Frederick William marriage, 76

  Blackfriars Bridge, London, 120

  Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, 36

  Blake, William, 57

  Blore, Edward, 65

  Boer War (1899–1902), 43, 145–7

  Bourdin, Madame (dancing teacher), 25

  Bradlaugh, Charles, 7

  Brock, Mrs (QV’s nurse), 16

  Brontë, Charlotte, 74

  Brougham, Henry, Baron, 6

  Brown, John: portrayed, 105, 109–10, 114, 147; relations with QV, 105–15; QV gives painting and cottage to, 113–14; resented by courtiers, 113, 147; planned demonstrations against, 114; death, 115, 140; depicted in QV’s Leaves from the
Journal, 119; wariness of Gladstone, 121; nurses QV during illness, 123; QV dedicates More Leaves to, 140

  Browning, Robert: The Ring and the Book, 118

  Bruce, Lady Augusta, 80, 97

  Buccleuch, Louise Jane, Duchess of, 141

  Buckingham Palace: extended and improved, 59, 62, 65

  Bulgaria: Turkish atrocities in, 136

  Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron, 6

  Cambridge, Augusta, Duchess of, 7

  Cambridge, Duke of see George William, Duke of Cambridge

  Carlton, John: The Golden Jubilee, 21 June 1887 (painting), 143

  Carlyle, Thomas, 31

  Caroline, of Brunswick, consort of George IV, 6

  Carroll, Lewis, 43

  Cart, Isaac, 50

  Chamberlain, Joseph, 152

  Charles, Duke of Brunswick, 51

  Charles Emich, Prince of Leiningen (1763–1814), 10

  Charles, Prince of Leiningen (1804–56), 10

  Charlotte, Princess: death, 5–6, 8, 13; marriage to Leopold, 12; qualities, 34–5

  Charlotte, of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, consort of George III, 5

  Chartism, 57–8

  Christian Victor, Prince of Schleswig-Holstein, 100, 102, 146

  Clanricarde, Harriet, Marchioness of, 48, 78

  Claremont (estate), Surrey, 27, 49

  Clarence House, London, 80

  Clark, Sir James, 40, 78, 82–3, 85

  Clifden, Nellie, 84

  Collen, Henry, 34

  Collins, Wilkie: The Moonstone, 118

  Conroy, Sir John: as Comptroller of Duchess of Kent’s Household, 14–15, 21, 60; dismisses Baroness Späth, 16; relations with QV, 17, 19, 42; scheming, 21–2, 26, 29; devises Kensington system, 23; denied access to Victoria’s proclamation as Queen, 32; QV’s hatred of, 33, 37, 40; organises QV’s tours of England, 34; appoints Flora Hastings, 39; and Flora Hastings’ supposed pregnancy, 40; pension, 66

  Conroy, Victoire, 22

  Constable, William, 64

  Cowper, Countess see Palmerston, Emily, Viscountess

  Crimean War (1854–6), 43, 72–3

  Croft, Sir Richard, 6

  Cubitt, Joseph, 120

  Cubitt, Thomas, 65

  Cumberland, Duke of see Ernest, Duke of Cumberland

  Daily Graphic, The, 150

  Daily Mail, 32, 153

 

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