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

by Lucy Worsley

  76. Ponsonby (1942) p. 64

  77. Hallam Tennyson, ed., Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir, London (1899) p. 406

  78. Lily Langtry quoted in Tisdall (1961) p. 132

  79. Kuhn (2002) p. 206

  80. Quoted in Jenkins, (1995; 2002 edition) p. 336

  81. Bell (1935) vol. 1, pp. 82, 81

  82. Lambeth Palace Library, Davidson Papers, Private Papers, vol. 4, f. 72

  83. Bell (1935) vol. 1, p. 94

  84. Lambeth Palace Library, Davidson Papers, Private Papers, vol. 4, following f. 79; Wilson (2014) pp. 426–7

  85. Jenkins (1995; 2002 edition) p. 469

  86. Marie Louise, Her Highness Princess, My Memories of Six Reigns, London (1956; 1979 edition) p. 143

  87. Miss Harriet Phipps quoted in Mallet (1968) p. xxiii

  88. Tisdall (1961) p. 77

  89. Lambeth Palace Library, Davidson Papers, Private Papers, vol. 4, fo. 73 (8 March 1884)

  90. Randall Davidson quoted in Bell (1935) vol. 1, p. 95

  91. Reid (1987) pp. 227–7; Ridley (2012; 2013 edition) p. 483

  92. Kuhn (2002) p. 237

  21. Baby Gets Married: Osborne House, 23 July 1885

  1. RA QVJ/1885: 23 July

  2. Marie, Queen of Romania, (1934), vol. 1, p. 20

  3. Quoted in Christopher Hibbert, The Court of St James, London (1979) p. 48

  4. RA QVJ/1885: 23 July

  5. Quoted in Dennison (2007) p. 11

  6. RA QVJ/1858: 14 April; Bartley (2016) p. 126

  7. Nina Consuelo Epton, Queen Victoria and Her Daughters, New York, NY (1971) p. 81

  8. Erskine, ed. (1916) p. 371

  9. Windsor and Bolitho, eds. (1927) p. 207

  10. Ridley (2015) p. 85

  11. Quoted in Dennison (2007) p. 33

  12. Quoted in Epton (1971) p. 109

  13. Ibid., pp. 150–2

  14. Dennison (2007) p. 124

  15. Ibid., p. 120

  16. RA VIC/MAIN/Z/140/60–3 (n.d.)

  17. Norman Rich, ed., The Holstein Papers, Cambridge (1959) vol. 2, p. 139

  18. Fulford, ed. (1981) p. 187

  19. Helen Rappaport, Queen Victoria: A Biographical Companion, London (2003) p. 57

  20. RA QVJ/1885: 23 July

  21. David Duff, The Shy Princess, London (1958) p. 113; Dennison (2007) p. 130

  22. RA QVJ/1884: 8 July

  23. Fulford, ed. (1981) pp. 176–7

  24. Longford, ed. (1991) p. 139

  25. Quoted in Ridley (2015) p. 72

  26. Quoted in G. B. Tennyson, ed., A Carlyle Reader, Cambridge (1969) p. 495

  27. Rich, ed. (1957) vol. 2, p. 139

  28. Quoted in Hibbert (1979) p. 47

  29. Fulford, ed. (1981) p. 185

  30. Buckle, ed., second series (1928) vol. 3, p. 593

  31. RA QVJ/1884: 29 December

  32. Fulford, ed. (1981) p. 177

  33. Walter Bagehot, The English Constitution, London (1867) pp. 85–6, quoted in Homans (1998) p. 107

  34. Loewe, ed. (1890) vol. 2, p. 339

  35. Watson (1952) p. 255

  36. Ibid., p. 252

  37. Bartley (2016) p. 231

  38. RA QVJ/1885: 23 July

  39. Tooley (1897) p. 242; Tennyson (1899) vol. 4, p. 238

  40. RA QVJ/1885: 23 July

  41. Hesketh Pearson, Labby, London (1936) p. 255

  42. RA QVJ/1885: 23 July

  43. Watson (1952) p. 251

  44. John Matson, Dear Osborne, London (1978) p. 97

  45. Ibid., p. 97

  46. RA QVJ/1885: 23 July

  47. Anon. Private Life (1897; 1901 edition) p. 69

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

  49. RA QVJ/1885: 23 July

  50. Pearson (1936) p. 255

  51. Dennison (2007) p. 151

  52. Illustrated London News quoted in Dennison (2007) p. 154

  53. Maurice V. Brett, ed., Journals and Letters of Reginald Viscount Esher, London (1934) vol. 1, p. 208

  54. Recollections of Osborne by Somerset North Gough Colthorpe, MS in possession of English Heritage, kindly shown to me by Osborne curator Michael Hunter

  55. Quoted at lukemckernan.com/wp-content/uploads/queen_victoria_diamond_jubilee.pdf

  56. RA QVJ/1885: 23 July

  57. Quoted in Hibbert (1980) p. 48

  58. RA QVJ/1885: 23 July

  59. Quoted in Matson (1978) p. 99

  60. RA QVJ/1885: 23 July

  61. Private Life (1897; 1901 edition) p. 122

  62. Dennison (2007) p. 155

  63. RA QVJ/1885: 23 July

  64. RA VIC/ADDA/30/1357 (24 July 1885); Dennison (2007) p. 133

  65. Quoted in Dennison (2007) p. 159

  66. RA QVJ/1886: 26 April

  67. Mallet (1968) p. 71

  68. Bruce Vandervort, Wars of Imperial Conquest in Africa, 1830–1914, London (1998) pp. 113–14

  69. Weintraub (1987) p. 565

  70. Mary Lutyens, ed., Lady Lytton’s Court Diary, London (1961) p. 157

  22. Munshi-Mania: Excelsior Hotel Regina, French Riviera, 4 April 1897

  1. RA QVJ/1896: 28 April

  2. Quoted in Nelson (2007) p. 120

  3. Advert in Bradshaw’s Watering Places, London (1904)

  4. L’Eclaireur de Nice, quoted in Nelson (2007) p. 119

  5. Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff, Notes from a Diary, London (1905) p. 174

  6. Quoted in Michael Nelson, Queen Victoria and the Discovery of the Riviera, London (2007) p. 120

  7. David Duff, Victoria Travels, London (1970) p. 323

  8. RA QVJ/1837: 18 April

  9. Nelson (2007) p. 9

  10. Mallet (1968) p. 153

  11. Nelson (2007) p. 7

  12. Stoney and Weltzien, eds. (1994) pp. 11–12

  13. Royal Pharmaceutical Society, account book for ‘The Queen’ (1861–1869)

  14. Staniland (1997) p. 186

  15. Quoted in King (2007) p. 100

  16. Princess Marie Louise (1956) p. 141

  17. Quoted in King (2007) p. 101

  18. Xavier Paoli, My Royal Clients, London (1910) p. 340

  19. Stoney and Weltzien, eds. (1994) p. 13

  20. Tisdall (1961) p. 54

  21. Stoney and Weltzien, eds. (1994) p. 13

  22. Queen Victoria’s ‘Rules for Scotland’ (20 August 1887) quoted in Reid (1987) p. 129

  23. Private Life (1897; 1901 edition) p. 14

  24. King (2007) p. 102

  25. RA QVJ/1892: 18 August

  26. Ponsonby (1942; 1943 edition) p. 45

  27. King (2007) p. 103

  28. Paoli (1910) p. 348

  29. Ibid., p. 351

  30. Richard Hough, ed., Advice to a Grand-daughter: Letters from Queen Victoria to Princess Victoria of Hesse, New York, NY (1975) p. 36

  31. Duff (1970) pp. 338–9

  32. Lady Paget quoted in Weintraub (1987) p. 539

  33. Galignani Messenger quoted in Nelson (2007) p. 108

  34. Quoted in Shrabani Basu, Victoria and Abdul, Stroud (2010, 2011 edition) p. 176

  35. Queen Marie of Romania (1934) vol. 1, p. 230

  36. Paoli (1910) p. 338

  37. Martin (1879 edition) vol. 4, p. 148

  38. RA QVJ/1887: 3 August

  39. Reid (1987) p. 131

  40. Basu (2010, 2011 edition) p. 167

  41. Abdul Karim’s Journals are quoted in Basu (2010, 2011 edition) p. 30

  42. Reid (1987) p. 132

  43. Ponsonby (1942; 1943 edition) p. 131

  44. Kuhn (2002) p. 223

  45. Reid (1987) p. 24

  46. Frederick Ponsonby quoted in Reid (1987) p. 255

  47. Robert C. Abrams, ‘Sir James Reid and the Death of Queen Victoria’, The Gerontologist, vol. 55, issue 6 (December 2015) pp. 943–50, p. 944

  48. Reid (1987) p. 139

  49. Ibid., pp. 133, 142

  50. Duff (1970) p. 333

  51. Ibid.

  52. Paoli (
1910) pp. 339–40

  53. Mallet (1968) pp. 152, 76

  54. Paoli (1910) p. 334

  55. Court Circular quoted in Nelson (2007) p. 107

  56. RA QVJ/1897: 4 April

  57. Reid (1987) p. 145

  58. Ponsonby (1942; 1943 edition) p. 131

  59. Quoted in Hubbard (2012) p. 318

  60. Munich (1998) p. 151

  61. Basu (2010, 2011 edition) p. 192

  62. Buckle, ed., third series, London (1931) vol. 2, p. 68

  63. Reid (1987) p. 144

  64. James Reid’s diary quoted in Hubbard (2012) p. 325

  65. Reid (1987) p. 144

  66. Ibid., p. 146

  67. Ibid., p. 57

  68. Andrew Roberts, Salisbury: Victorian Titan, London (1999) p. 680

  69. Ridley (2012; 2013 edition) p. 351

  70. RA VIC/ADDC/07/2/P (17 August 1909)

  71. James Reid’s diary quoted in Hubbard (2012) p. 326

  72. Roberts (1999) p. 681

  73. Eustace A. Reynolds-Ball, Mediterranean Resorts, London (1908) p. 74

  74. RA QVJ/1899: 1 May

  75. Paoli (1910) p. 332

  23. Apotheosis: London, 22 June 1897

  1. Private Life (1897; 1901 edition) p. 12

  2. Anon, ‘The Queen’s Bedroom’, Woman’s Life (23 May 1896) p. 431

  3. RA QVJ/1897: 22 June

  4. Queen Victoria’s granddaughter quoted in Tisdall (1961) p. 145

  5. Mary Hannah Krout, A Looker on in London, New York, NY (1899) p. 307

  6. RA QVJ/1897: 22 June

  7. Weintraub (1987) p. 581

  8. RA QVJ/1897: 22 June

  9. Ponsonby (1942) p. 79

  10. Smyth (1921) p. 99

  11. RA QVJ/1897: 22 June

  12. Gray (2017) p. 243; RA QVJ/1897: 22 June

  13. Quoted in Ridley (2012; 2013 edition) p. 168

  14. Quoted in King (2007) pp. 220–1

  15. Quoted in Weintraub, (1987, 1988 edition) p. 507

  16. Quoted in King (2007) p. 43

  17. Buckle, ed., second series (1932) vol. 3, p. 124

  18. King (2007) p. 21

  19. Jeffrey L. Lant, Insubstantial Pageant: Ceremony and Confusion at Queen Victoria’s Court, London (1979) p. 216

  20. Ibid., p. 217

  21. RA QVJ/1897: 22 June

  22. Lutyens, ed. (1961) p. 25

  23. Private Life (1897; 1901 edition) p. 59

  24. RA QVJ/1897: 22 June

  25. Lincoln, President of USA (1865), Prim, Prime Minster of Spain (1870), Alexander II, Tsar of Russia (1881), Carnot, President of France (1894)

  26. Ginsburg (1969) p. 43

  27. Caroline Chapman and Paul Raben, eds., Debrett’s Queen Victoria’s Jubilees, London (1977) unpaginated

  28. Mark Twain, The Writings of Mark Twain, New York, NY (1922) pp. 206–7

  29. Krout (1899) pp. 313–4; 310

  30. Twain (1922) pp. 206–7

  31. G. W. Steevens in the Daily Mail, quoted at lukemckernan.com/wpcontent/uploads/queen_victoria_diamond_jubilee.pdf

  32. See David Cannadine, ‘The British Monarchy, c.1820–1977’, in Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger, eds., The Invention of Tradition, Cambridge (1983), pp. 101–164; p. 121

  33. E.C.F. Collier (ed.), A Victorian Diarist: Later Extracts from the Journals of Mary, Lady Monkswell, 1895–1909 (1946) quoted at lukemckernan.com/wp-content/uploads/queen_victoria_diamond_jubilee.pdf

  34. Hobsbawn, ed. (1983; 1999 edition) p. 124

  35. Mary King Waddington, Letters of a Diplomat’s Wife, 1883–1900, New York, NY (1903) p. 177

  36. Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia, in his diary (1893) quoted in Miranda Blunt, The Three Emperors, London (2009; 2010 edition) p. 133

  37. Lord Frederic Hamilton, The Days Before Yesterday, London (1920) p. 27

  38. Bell (1935) vol. 1, p. 78

  39. Homans (1998) p. 5

  40. W. T. Stead, Her Majesty the Queen, London (1887) pp. 24, 153

  41. RA QVJ/1897: 22 June

  42. King (2007) p. 138

  43. Wilfred Blunt papers quoted in Ridley (2012; 2013 edition) p. 328

  44. Ponsonby (1942) p. 109

  45. Quoted in Ridley (2012; 2013 edition) p. 320

  46. Lant (1979) p. 221

  47. RA QVJ/1897: 22 June

  48. Grant Duff (1905) p. 245

  49. RA QVJ/1897: 22 June

  50. G.W. Steevens in the Daily Mail, quoted at lukemckernan.com/wp-content/uploads/queen_victoria_diamond_jubilee.pdf

  51. Bartley (2016) p. 277

  52. RA QVJ/1897: 22 June

  53. Northern Star (1843) quoted in Plunkett (2003) p. 57

  54. Quoted in Weintraub (1987) p. 551

  55. Frank Prochaska, Royal Bounty: The Making of Welfare Monarchy, New Haven and London (1995)

  56. Chapman and Raben, eds. (1977) unpaginated

  57. Ridley (2012; 2013 edition) p. 321

  58. lukemckernan.com/wp-content/uploads/queen_victoria_diamond_jubilee.pdf

  59. RA QVJ/1897: 23 November; http://lukemckernan.com/wp-content/uploads/queen_victoria_diamond_jubilee.pdf

  60. Plunkett (2003) p. 240

  61. lukemckernan.com/wp-content/uploads/queen_victoria_diamond_jubilee.pdf

  62. RA QVJ/1897: 22 June

  63. Gray (2017) p. 243

  64. Private Life (1897; 1901 edition) p. 143

  65. RA QVJ/1897: 22 June

  66. Gray (2017) p. 245; Private Life (1897; 1901 edition) p. 185

  67. RA MRHF/MENUS/WC/1850 (22 June 1897)

  68. Bartley (2016) p. 294

  69. Quoted in Ridley (2012; 2013 edition) p. 325

  70. RA QVJ/1897: 22 June

  71. RA QVJ/1885: 27 July

  72. The Times, London (9 April 1863) p. 7, quoted in Plunkett (2003) p. 189

  73. RA VIC/ADDX/2/211, p. 29

  74. Private Life (1897; 1901 edition) p. 69

  75. Plunkett (2003) p. 192

  76. Munich (1996) p. 8

  77. Weintraub (1987) p. 582; Benson (1930) p. 122

  78. RA QVJ/1897: 22 June

  79. George Warrington Steevens, Things Seen, London (1900) p. 195

  80. Jenkins (1995; 2002 edition) p. 406

  24. Deathbed: Osborne, 22 January 1901

  1. Private Life (1897; 1901 edition) pp. 204, 19.

  2. Mallet (1968) p. 212

  3. Quoted in Rennell (2000) p. 46

  4. Private Life (1897; 1901 edition) p. 139

  5. Staniland (1997) pp. 171–2

  6. Fulford, ed. (1976) p. 40

  7. Queen Marie of Romania (1934) vol. 1, p. 18

  8. RA QVJ/1901: 13 January

  9. Lady Frances Balfour, quoted in Rennell (2000) p. 74

  10. Reid (1987) p. 201

  11. Private Life (1897; 1901 edition) pp. 203, 7

  12. Quoted in Rennell (2000) p. 77

  13. Ibid., p. 80

  14. Reid (1987) p. 211

  15. Rennell (2000) p. 110

  16. Lambeth Palace Library, Davidson Papers, Private Papers, vol. 19 (21 January 1901)

  17. Ibid. (memorandum as to details connected with the death of the Queen)

  18. Lambeth Palace Library, Davidson Papers, Private Papers, vol. 19 (21 January 1901)

  19. Ibid.

  20. Anon., The Annual Register For the Year 1901, London (1902) p. 7

  21. Quoted in Rennell (2000) p. 117

  22. Ibid., p. 118

  23. Lambeth Palace Library, Davidson Papers, Private Papers, vol. 19 (memorandum as to details connected with the death of the Queen)

  24. Ibid.

  25. Quoted in Rennell (2000) p. 130

  26. Brett, ed. (1934) vol. 1, p. 282

  27. Lambeth Palace Library, Davidson Papers, Private Papers, vol. 19 (memorandum as to details connected with the death of the Queen)

  28. Sir James Reid’s diary quoted in Reid (1987) p. 211

  29. Private Life (1897; 1901 edition) p. 9

  30. Lambeth Palace Li
brary, Davidson Papers, Private Papers, vol. 19 (memorandum as to details connected with the death of the Queen)

  31. Carter (2009; 2010 edition) p. 268

  32. Rennell (2000) p. 137

  33. Wilfred Scawen Blunt, My Diaries: Being a Personal Narrative of Events, 1888–1914, New York, NY (1921) vol. 2, p. 2

  34. Quoted in Ridley (2012; 2013 edition) p. 343

  35. Rennell (2000) p. 138

  36. Lambeth Palace Library, Davidson Papers, Private Papers, vol. 19 (22 January 1901)

  37. Rennell (2000) p. 139

  38. James Vincent, correspondent for The Times, quoted in Rennell (2000) p. 139

  39. Lambeth Palace Library Davidson Papers, Victoria Visitations, vol. 506, f. 20

  40. Quoted in Reid (1989) p. 215

  41. Reid (1987) p. 216

  42. Ibid.

  43. RA VIC/MAIN/Y/203/81 (2 December 1867)

  44. RA VIC/MAIN/M/5/80 (2 August 1835)

  Index

  Abdul Hamid II, Sultan of Ottoman Empire

  Accession Council meeting

  Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, Queen consort of William IV

  Adolphus, Prince, Duke of Cambridge

  Ahmed, Rafiuddin

  Alberique, Charles

  Albert, Prince Consort

  1861 illness

  Alice’s nursing death

  deterioration

  digestive problems

  doctors’ puzzlement

  seeming improvement

  understanding seriousness

  army hospital reform

  Balmoral Castle

  birth

  character

  children

  Alice

  Bertie

  discipline

  love for

  Vicky

  Christmas decorations

  Crimean War

  at Curragh, Ireland

  education

  Grand Tour

  grievances

  as head of family

  income

  interests

  as king-in-all-but-name

  Lehzen, departure of

  Mausoleum

  morning routine

  non-acceptance by British

  non-understanding of British politics

  Osborne House

  overworking and stress

  photographs of corpse

  physical appearance

  as Private Secretary

  reforms, household

  as Regent

  rooms kept as memorial

  unhappy childhood

  Victoire, relationship with

  Victoria, relationship with

  concerns about marrying

  correspondence

  cousinly love

  disagreements and rows

  dominance

  faithfulness

  finding fault

  first meeting

  honesty