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Queen Victoria--Twenty-Four Days That Changed Her Life

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by Lucy Worsley


  51. RA QVJ/1839: 25–27 June

  52. Statement by Lady Flora Hastings published in The Times (16 September 1839), issue 17148, p. 3

  53. RA QVJ/1839: 2 February

  54. G. C. Boase, ‘Portman, Edward Berkeley, first Viscount Portland (1799–188)’ revised H.C.G. Matthew, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004)

  55. RA VIC/MAIN/Z/486/2 (17 February 1839)

  56. TNA PRO 30/29/9/4, fo. 547v (5 March 1830)

  57. Charles Mansfield Clarke, ‘Notes on lectures on Midwifery and the Diseases of Women and Children’ (1815), Wellcome Library MS 5605, quoted in Kathryn Hughes, Victorians Undone, London (2017) p. 42

  58. Quoted in Martin, (1962) p. 37

  59. Hughes (2017) p. 45

  60. The London Medical and Physical Journal (1819) vol. 42, p. 26

  61. Hughes (2017) p. 56

  62. Reeve, ed. (1896 edition) vol. 4, p. 178

  63. Balliol College Conroy Papers 14B.A.(a).4 Lady Flora Hastings to Sir John Conroy (October 1837)

  64. RA QVJ/1839: 2 February

  65. Hughes (2017) p. 27

  66. Jennings, ed. (1884) vol. 2, p. 117

  67. Reeve, ed. (1896 edition) vol. 4, p. 240

  68. RA MP/116/95, Lord Duncannon to Lord Melbourne (11 December 1837)

  69. Quoted in Plunkett (2003) p. 19

  70. Royal College of Physicians, MS 4973, p. 10

  71. Reeve, ed. (1896 edition) vol. 4, p. 209

  72. Quoted in Robert Rhodes James, Prince Albert, London (1984) p. 75

  73. Vernon Bogdanor, Gresham College History Lecture (20 September 2016)

  74. Jane Ridley, Bertie: A Life of Edward VII, London (2012; 2013 edition) (2015) p. 19

  75. RA MRH/MRHF/MENUS/MAIN/BP/1839 (28 June 1839); RA QVJ/1839: 27 June

  76. Martin (1962) p. 65

  77. Quoted in Martin (1962) p. 64

  78. Ibid., p. 50

  79. RA QVJ/1839: 5 July

  80. Sir James Clark, statement in The Times (6 October 1839)

  81. RA QVJ/1839: 15 June, 6–7 July

  82. Fulford, ed. (1963 edition) p. 171

  83. Lady Flora, quoted in Martin (1962) p. 58

  84. RA VIC/MAIN/L/17/56 (30 October 1897)

  85. Ponsonby (1942) p. 81

  86. Benson and Esher, eds. (1907, 1908 edition) vol. 1, p. 184 (26 August 1839)

  87. RA QVJ/1839: 29 May

  88. RA QVJ/1839: 17 April

  89. RA QVJ/1839: 15–18 April

  10. The Proposal: Windsor Castle, 10–15 October 1839

  1. Anon., The Annual Register For the Year 1839, London (1839) pp. 199, 246, 262

  2. The Satirist, quoted in Plunkett (2003) p. 31

  3. Benson and Esher, eds. (1907 1908 edition) vol. 1, p. 188 (12 October 1839)

  4. The Morning Chronicle (11 October 1839) pp. 2, 4

  5. Stoney and Weltzien, eds. (1994) pp. 40, 39

  6. Grey (1867) p. 201

  7. Jonathan Marsden, ed. Victoria & Albert, Art & Love, London (2010) p. 17

  8. Ibid.

  9. Quoted in Roger Fulford, The Prince Consort, London (1949) p. 31

  10. Albert to Prince Lowenstein, June 1838, quoted in Marsden, ed. (2010) p. 17

  11. Quoted in James (1984) p. 35

  12. Royal College of Physicians, MS 4973, p. 8

  13. Quoted in James (1984) p. 41

  14. Royal College of Physicians, MS 4973, p. 7

  15. Private Life (1897; 1901 edition) p. 39; for beefeaters on the stairs, see RA QVJ/1863: 10 March

  16. RA QVJ/1839: 6 August

  17. Benson and Esher, eds. (1907, 1908 edition) vol. 1, p. 186

  18. Quoted in Ziegler (1976) p. 254

  19. RA QVJ/1839: 10 October

  20. The Morning Chronicle (11 October 1839) p. 2

  21. Benson and Esher, eds. (1907, 1908 edition) vol. 1, p. 188

  22. RA QVJ/1839: 10 October

  23. RA VIC/MAIN/Z/294, fo. 7v

  24. RA VIC/ADDV/2, translation of RA VIC/ADDA/14/84 (12 October 1839)

  25. Benson and Esher, eds. (1907, 1908 edition) vol. 1, p. 188

  26. RA QVJ/1838: 11 October

  27. Grey (1867) p. 183

  28. Benson and Esher, eds. (1907, 1908 edition) vol. 1, p. 188

  29. RA QVJ/1839: 13 October

  30. Quoted in Woodham-Smith (1972) p. 184

  31. Benson and Esher, eds. (1907, 1908 edition) vol. 1, p. 186

  32. RA QVJ/1839: 11 October

  33. RA QVJ/1839: 14 October

  34. RA VIC/ADDV/2, translation of ADDA/14/85 (15 October 1839)

  35. Mr Arbuthnot to Robert Peel (12 December 1839) in Charles Stuart Parker, ed., Sir Robert Peel: From His Private Papers, London (1899 edition) vol. 2, p. 424

  36. Grey (1867) p. 144

  37. Ibid., p. 187

  38. RA QVJ/1830: 14 October

  39. Benson and Esher, eds. (1907, 1908 edition) vol. 1, p. 189

  40. Gill (2010) p. 151

  41. Margaret Homans, Royal Representations, Queen Victoria and British Culture, 1837–1876, Chicago, IL (1998) p. 17

  42. RA QVJ/1839: 15 October

  43. Ibid.

  44. Quoted in Charlot (1991) p. 165

  45. RA VIC/ADDV/2, translation of RA VIC/ADDA/14/85 (15 October 1839)

  46. Martin (1879 edition) vol. 4, p. 169; Kurt Jagow, ed., Letters of the Prince Consort, 1831–1861, London (1938) p. 23

  47. Jagow, ed. (1938) p. 25

  48. Royal College of Physicians, MS 4973, p. 7

  49. RA MRH/MRHF/MENUS/MAIN/WC/1840 (15 October 1839)

  50. Healey (1997) p. 134

  51. Quoted in Daphne Bennet, King Without a Crown, Philadelphia, PA (1977) p. 89

  52. RA VIC/ADDV/2, translation of RA VIC/ADDA/14/66 (6 March 1838)

  53. Magdalen Ponsonby, ed., Mary Ponsonby: A Memoir, Some Letters and a Journal, London (1927) pp. 4–5

  54. Warner (1979) p. 89

  55. RA VIC/ADDV/2, translation of RA VIC/ADDA/14/84 (12 October 1839)

  56. Boykin, ed. (1957) p. 104; Sully (22 March 1383)

  57. TNA PRO 30/29/424 (30 June 1837)

  58. RA QVJ/1840: 2 February

  59. Martin (1875; 1879 edition) vol. 1, p. 5

  60. Prince William of Lowenstein, quoted in James (1984) p. 51

  61. RA QVJ/1839: 1–4 November

  62. Leslie (1860) vol. 2, p. 249

  63. Scott (1819; 1858 edition) p. 157

  64. Gill (2010) p. 149

  65. Müller, ed. (1873) vol. 2, p. 3

  66. London street ballad (1841), quoted in Homans (1998) p. 1

  67. Sarah Ellis, The Wives of England, London (1843) p. 263

  68. Quoted in Plunkett (2003) p. 102

  69. Benson and Esher, eds. (1907, 1908 edition) vol. 1, p. 191

  70. Roger Fulford, ed., Dearest Child, London (1964; 1981 edition) p. 209

  71. Benson and Esher, eds. (1907, 1908 edition) vol. 1, p. 189

  72. Marsden, ed. (2010) p. 335

  73. RA VIC/MAIN/Z/296/19 (15 October 1839)

  11. Wedding Day: three palaces, 10 February 1840

  1. RA QVJ/1840: 10 February

  2. Kay Staniland and Santina M. Levey, ‘Queen Victoria’s Wedding Dress and Lace’, Costume, vol. 17 (1983) pp. 1–32

  3. Jennings, ed. (1884) vol. 2, p. 154, Croker to Lady Hardwicke (24 November 1839)

  4. RA QVJ/1840: 10 February

  5. RA VIC/MAIN/z/490/24, translated in Benson and Esher, eds. (1907, 1908 edition) vol. 1, p. 217. Interestingly, Benson and Esher make no mention of the language of the original: part of a project to make Albert seem less German and more acceptable

  6. Jagow, ed. (1938) p. 61

  7. Benson and Esher, eds. (1907, 1908 edition) vol. 1, p. 215

  8. Plunkett (2003) p. 29

  9. Penny Satirist, quoted in Plunkett (2003) p. 36

  10. RA QVJ/1839: 5 December

  11. Philip Whitwell Wilson, ed., The Greville Diary, London (1927 edition) p. 130

>   12. Ibid., p. 129

  13. Quoted in Cecil Woodham-Smith, Florence Nightingale, London (1951) p. 16

  14. RA QVJ/1838: 20 September

  15. RA QVJ/1839: 18 August

  16. Wilson, ed. (1927 edition) p. 130

  17. RA QVJ/1840: 10 February

  18. RA VIC/MAIN/Z/294, fos. 8r–v

  19. RA QVJ/1840: 10 February

  20. Woodham-Smith, (1951) p. 26

  21. RA QVJ/1840: 10 February

  22. Staniland (1997) p. 118

  23. Ibid., p. 120

  24. Ponsonby, ed. (1927) p. 6

  25. Fulford, ed., (1964, 1981 edition) p. 44

  26. Quoted in Weintraub (1987; 1996 edition) p. 123

  27. TNA LC 13/2, fo. 112r, an account of the expenses of the Mistress of the Robes (1839); fo. 46v, Duchess of Sutherland to the Treasury (21 December 1837)

  28. Mundy, ed. (1885) p. 413

  29. RA QVJ/1840: 10 February

  30. Tooley (1897) p. 118

  31. Reeve, ed. (1902 edition) vol. 4, p. 276

  32. Mundy, ed. (1885) p. 413

  33. The Times (11 February 1840)

  34. Plunkett (2003) p. 102

  35. Lady Wilhelmina Stanhope, quoted in Lorne (1901) p. 112

  36. RA QVJ/1840: 10 February

  37. Wyndham, ed. (1912) p. 297

  38. Lady Wilhelmina Stanhope, quoted in Lorne (1901) p. 112

  39. Anon., The Annual Register, 1840, London (1840) p. 16

  40. The Times (11 February 1840)

  41. Boykin, ed. (1957) p. 243

  42. The Times (11 February 1840)

  43. Lady Wilhelmina Stanhope, quoted in Lorne (1901) p. 112

  44. Anon., The Annual Register, 1840, London (1840) p. 17

  45. Tooley (1897) p. 118

  46. Woodham-Smith (1972) p. 204

  47. Boykin, ed. (1957) p. 243

  48. Jagow, ed. (1938) p. 59

  49. RA QVJ/1840: 10 February

  50. Lady Wilhelmina Stanhope, quoted in Lorne (1901) p. 112

  51. Boykin, ed. (1957) p. 243

  52. Mundy, ed. (1885) p. 412

  53. RA QVJ/1840: 10 February

  54. Mundy, ed. (1885) pp. 401–11, Miss Charlotte Neave (11 February 1840) p. 411

  55. Boykin, ed. (1957) p. 243

  56. Anon., The Annual Register, 1840, London (1840) p. 20

  57. Mundy, ed. (1885) pp. 410–11, Miss Charlotte Neave (11 February 1840); Anon., The Annual Register, 1840, London (1840) p. 20

  58. George Barnett Smith, Life of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, London (1887) p. 128

  59. Lady Wilhelmina Stanhope, quoted in Lorne (1901) p. 114

  60. RA QVJ/1840: 10 February

  61. Boykin, ed. (1957) p. 243

  62. RA VIC/MAIN/Z/491, fo. 2v (January 1862)

  63. RA QVJ/1840: 10 February

  64. Ibid.

  65. Reeve, ed. (1902 edition) vol. 4, p. 277

  66. RA QVJ/1840: 10 February

  67. The Times (11 February 1840)

  68. Boykin, ed. (1957) p. 243

  69. Bartley (2016) p. 74

  70. RA QVJ/1840: 10 February; MRH/MRHF/MENUS/MAIN/WC/1840 (10 February 1840)

  71. RA VIC/MAIN/Z/491, fo. 2v (January 1862)

  72. RA QVJ/1840: 10 February

  73. RA VIC/MAIN/Z/491, fo. 2v (January 1862); RA QVJ/1840: 11 February

  74. RA QVJ/1840: 11 February

  75. Anon., The Annual Register, 1840, London (1840) p. 28

  76. Benson and Esher, eds. (1907, 1908 edition) vol. 1, p. 213

  77. Jagow, ed. (1938) p. 69

  78. Ellis (1843) p. 76

  79. Wilson, ed. (1927 edition) vol. 2, p. 131

  80. Plunkett (2003) p. 105

  12. ‘Oh Madam it is a princess’: Buckingham Palace, 21 November 1840

  1. William Munk, The Roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London, London (1878) vol. 3, p. 297; The Medical Times, London (1846) p. 17

  2. Thomas Ryan, Queen Charlotte’s Lying-In Hospital, London (1885) p. 13

  3. Quoted in Hannah Pakula, An Uncommon Woman, New York, NY (1995; 1997 edition) p. 104

  4. John Darton, Famous Girls Who Have Become Illustrious Women, New York, NY (1864), quoted in Vallone (2001) p. xvi

  5. RA QVJ/1840: 24 April

  6. RA VIC/MAIN/QVLB/10 November 1840

  7. Royal Pharmaceutical Society, account book for ‘The Queen’ (1837–1844), p. 64

  8. Thomas Bull, Hints to Mothers, London (1837) p. 23

  9. Ibid., pp. 25–6

  10. RA QVJ/1840: 20 November

  11. RA MRH/MRHF/MENUS/MAIN/BP/1840 (20 November 1840)

  12. Anon., The Annual Register, 1840, London (1840) p. 109

  13. Royal College of Physicians, MS 4973, p. 10

  14. RA QVJ/1840: description of 21 November written up on 1 December

  15. Bull (1937) p. 135

  16. Munk (1878) vol. 3, p. 271

  17. Stratfield Saye MS, quoted in Longford (1966) p. 76

  18. Matthew Dennison, The Last Princess, The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria’s Youngest Daughter, London (2007) p. 3

  19. Stratfield Saye MS, quoted in Longford, (1966) p. 76

  20. Fulford, ed., (1964; 1981 edition) p. 265

  21. Stratfield Saye MS, quoted in Longford (1966) p. 76

  22. RA VIC/MAIN/QVLB/10 November 1840

  23. In the Royal Ceremonial Dress Collection, Historic Royal Palaces.

  24. Staniland (1997) p. 126

  25. Quoted in Frances Dimond and Roger Taylor, Crown and Camera, Harmondsworth (1987) p. 69

  26. Tooley (1897) pp. 42–3

  27. Self-portrait dated 19 May 1845, Royal Collection Inventory Number 980025.ag

  28. Stratfield Saye MS, quoted in Longford, (1966) p. 76

  29. Ibid.

  30. Royal College of Physicians, MS 4973, pp. 21–3

  31. RA VIC/MAIN/Z/294, fo.12r

  32. Ridley (2012; 2013 edition) p. 3

  33. Roger Fulford, Dearest Mama, London (1968) p. 192

  34. Royal College of Physicians, MS 4973, pp. 21–3

  35. Fulford, ed. (1964; 1981 edition) p. 151

  36. Bull (1837) pp. 130–2

  37. Dennison (2007) p. 2

  38. Roger Fulford, ed., Beloved Mama, London (1981) p. 172

  39. Royal College of Physicians, MS 4973, pp. 21–3

  40. Ibid., p. 22

  41. Fulford, ed. (1964; 1981 edition) pp. 150–1

  42. RA QVJ/1840: description of 21 November written up on 1 December

  43. Quoted in Charlot (1991) p. 195

  44. Quoted in Woodham-Smith (1972) pp. 216–17

  45. Royal College of Physicians, MS 4973, pp. 21–3

  46. RA QVJ/1840: description of 21 November written up on 1 December

  47. Private Life (1897; 1901 edition) p. 23

  48. Quoted in Woodham-Smith (1972) pp. 216–17

  49. RA QVJ/1840: description of 21 November written up on 1 December

  50. Royal College of Physicians, MS 4973, pp. 21–3

  51. RA QVJ/1840: description of 21 November written up on 1 December

  52. Quoted in Woodham-Smith (1972) pp. 216–17

  53. Boykin, ed. (1957) p. 276

  54. Anon., The Annual Register, 1840, London (1840) p. 108; Boykin, ed. (1957) p. 276

  55. RA VIC/MAIN/QVLB/14 November 1840; RA VIC/MAIN/Y/36/28 (19 March 1841)

  56. Boykin, ed. (1957) p. 276

  57. Pakula (1995; 1997 edition) p. 28

  58. Quoted in Woodham-Smith (1972) pp. 216–17; RA QVJ/1840: description of 22 November written up on 1 December

  59. Fulford, ed., (1964; 1981 edition) p. 115

  60. RA QVJ/1840: 1 December; Bartley (2016) p. 77

  61. Boykin, ed. (1957) pp. 281–2. Weintraub (1987) p. 149 corrects Boykin’s misreading of ‘Locock’ as ‘South’

  62. RA QVJ/1840: 1 December; Bartley (2016) p. 77

  63. RA QVJ/1843: 19 May; Bartley (2016) p. 82

  64. RA QVJ/1840:
28 December; Pakula (1995; 1997 edition) p. 6

  65. Wyndham, ed. (1912) p. 332

  66. Quoted in Pakula (1995; 1997 edition) p. 105

  67. Yvonne M. Ward, Censoring Queen Victoria, London (2013; 2015) p. 128

  68. Julia Baird, Victoria: The Queen, London (2016) p. 166

  69. RA QVJ/1840: 25 December

  70. RA QVJ/1841: 24 July

  71. Staniland (1997) p. 127

  72. F.M.L. Thompson, ed., The Cambridge Social History of Britain, 1750–1950, Cambridge (1990) vol. 2, p. 38

  73. Gill (2010) p. 169

  74. Quoted in Longford, (1966) p. 86

  75. RA VIC/MAIN/Z/484/43 (5 March 1854)

  76. RA QVJ/1840: description of 21 November written up on 1 December

  77. Hector Bolitho, ed., The Prince Consort and His Brother: Two Hundred New Letters, London (1933) p. 21

  78. Pakula (1995; 1997 edition) p. 9

  79. Helen Rappaport, Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert and the Death that Changed the Monarchy, London (2011) p. 21

  80. Ellis (1843) pp. 24–5

  81. Martin (1901) p. 70

  82. Grey (1867) pp. 288–9

  83. RA QVJ/1845: 18 February

  84. H. C. G. Matthew and K. D. Reynolds, ‘Victoria (1819–1901)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press (2004)

  85. RA VIC/MAIN/Y/54/11 (20 December 1840)

  86. Bolitho, ed. (1933) p. 31

  87. Vernon Bogdanor, Gresham College History Lecture (20 September 2016)

  88. Quoted in Woodham-Smith (1972) p. 299

  89. Vernon Bogdanor, Gresham College History Lecture (20 September 2016)

  90. Longford (1964; 1987 edition) p. 155

  13. Christmas at Windsor: 25 December 1850

  1. Royal Collection Inventory Number 919812

  2. RA QVJ/1850: 25 December

  3. Jagow, ed. (1938) p. 134

  4. Edward Holt, The Public and Domestic Life of His Late, Most Gracious Majesty, George III, London (1820) vol. 1, p. 417

  5. Arthur Dasent, John Thadeus Delane, His Life and Correspondence, London (1908) vol. 2, p. 14

  6. Private Life (1897; 1901 edition) p. 84

  7. Grey (1867) p. 276

  8. RA VIC/MAIN/Z/491, fo. 4 (January 1862)

  9. Benson and Esher, eds. (1907, 1908 edition) vol. 1, p. 463

  10. Fulford, ed. (1968) p. 23

  11. Martin (1875) vol. 1, p. 276

  12. Fulford, ed. (1968) p. 23

  13. Charles C. F. Greville, The Greville Memoirs, second series, London (1885) vol. 2, p. 323

  14. Albert to Vicky (1 September 1858) quoted in Weintraub (1987) p. 269

  15. Reeve, ed. (1911 edition) vol. 8 p. 128

  16. Quoted in Lorne (1901) p. 125

 

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