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

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by Lucy Worsley


  Ottoman Empire

  Paget, Lady Eleanor

  Palmerston, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount

  Panam, Pauline

  Panmure, Lord Fox Maule-Ramsay

  Peel, Sir Robert

  Pegley, Mrs

  Percy, Colonel

  Pevsner, Nikolaus

  philanthropy

  photographs

  of Albert

  of Victoria

  of Victoria and Albert

  Victoria’s collections

  Plenderleath, Dr

  Plunkett, John

  Ponsonby, Arthur

  Ponsonby, Frederick

  Ponsonby, Henry

  Abdul Karim

  Bertie’s illness

  cooking the paper

  Disraeli

  final interview

  home life

  John Brown biography

  Princess Beatrice

  Victoria’s children

  Ponsonby, Mary

  Portman, Emma, Baroness

  press, the

  Accession Council meeting

  Albert

  Beatrice, Princess

  Bertie’s illness

  Bosnia, Turkish atrocities in

  Christmas trees

  Diamond Jubilee

  Florence Nightingale

  happy families

  Karim, Abdul

  Lady Flora’s illness

  Maharaja Duleep

  photographs of Victoria

  Victoire

  Victoria – Disraeli lunch

  Victoria – Melbourne relationship

  Victoria and Albert’s wedding

  Victoria’s death

  Victoria’s last illness

  Victoria’s letters

  Privy Council

  Queen Charlotte’s Lying-In Hospital

  railways

  Ramsgate, Kent

  Rappaport, Helen

  Ratsey, Mrs

  Reid, Dr James

  Beatrice, Princess

  Karim, Abdul

  Victoria’s coffin items

  Victoria’s death

  Victoria’s last illness

  Rennell, Tony

  Richmond, Frances Gordon-Lennox

  Duchess of

  Ridley, Jane

  Roberts, Frederick, st Earl

  Rolle, John, Baron

  Royal Dukes

  Royal Marriages Act (1772)

  Rundell, Bridge & Rundell

  Ruskin, John

  Russia

  1896 coronation stampede

  Crimean War

  Russo-Turkish War ()

  St George the Martyr Church Southwark

  Saint-Laurent, Julie de

  St Mildred’s Church, Whippingham

  Salisbury, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess

  Sandringham House, Norfolk

  Saunders, Mr

  Scotland see also Balmoral Castle, Aberdeenshire

  Scott, Sir Walter

  Second Reform Act (1867)

  sexism

  Shelley, Percy Bysshe

  Sidmouth, Devon

  Siebold, Charlotte Heidenreich von

  Sophia, Princess

  Squire, Peter

  Stanhope, Lady Wilhelmina

  Stanley, Eleanor

  Stead, W.T.

  steam yachts

  Stockmar, Christian, Baron

  Stopford, Horatia

  Sully, Thomas

  Sutherland, Harriet Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of

  Swifte, Mr

  ‘System,’ the

  Taylor, John

  Tories

  Torrington, George Byng, th Viscount

  Trevelyan, George Otto

  Turkey

  Twain, Mark

  typhoid fever

  typhus

  underwear, Victorian

  Vallone, Lynn

  Victoire of Saxe-Coburg, Duchess of Kent

  Albert, relationship with

  Buckingham Palace rooms

  children of first marriage

  Conroy, dependence on

  death

  Edward

  courtship

  illness

  love for

  wedding

  first husband

  Flora Hastings’s illness

  Florence Nightingale

  income

  Kensington Palace

  kindness

  Lehzen, attempt to replace

  life after Edward’s death

  optimism

  physical appearance

  at Sidmouth

  spending and debts

  Victoria

  1835 illness

  accession

  birth

  breastfeeding

  bullying

  coronation

  fear of losing

  learning about succession

  Melbourne

  money spent on

  relationship with

  the ‘System’

  Vicky’s birth

  wedding

  Woolbrook Cottage

  Victoria

  LIFE EVENTS

  1819, birth

  1819, christening

  1820, death of father

  1830, learning about succession

  1835, Ramsgate visit and illness

  1836, meeting Albert

  1837, accession

  first year of reign

  1838, coronation see coronation

  1839, Albert and Ernest’s second visit

  1839, Bedchamber Crisis

  1839, Lady Flora Hastings

  1839, marriage proposal and engagement

  1840, wedding see wedding

  Victoria and Albert’s

  1840, first child

  1841, second child

  1850, Christmas

  1853, Crimean War

  1854, Koh-i-noor Diamond scene

  1854, Maharaja Duleep’s visit

  1856, Florence Nightingale’s visit

  1861, at Curragh, Ireland

  1861, Albert’s illness blaming Bertie

  blindness to seriousness of

  deterioration

  reading to Albert

  seeming improvement

  1861, Albert’s death

  1871, Bertie’s illness

  1871, Bertie’s recovery

  1877, Disraeli and the ‘Eastern Question’

  1883, death of John Brown

  280; see also Brown, John

  1885, Beatrice’s wedding

  1897, Riviera holiday

  1897, Diamond Jubilee see

  Diamond Jubilee

  1900, decline

  1901, death

  ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS

  CHARACTER AND QUALITIES

  anger

  dedication to duty

  detail-orientated

  dictatorialness

  empathy and emotional intelligence

  foreign diplomacy

  frankness

  fun, sense of

  grief and mourning

  inconsistency

  isolation and loneliness

  maternal instinct, lack of

  melodrama

  mental resilience

  middle class views

  need for love

  nostalgia

  religiousness

  self-confidence

  self-control, emotional

  self-doubt

  self-possession

  selfishness

  simple pleasures, enjoyment in

  stubbornness

  uniqueness

  DIET

  alcohol

  appetite

  as child/adolescent

  Christmas meals

  Diamond Jubilee meals

  everyday meals

  restricted

  EDUCATION

  FAMILY TREE vi–vii

  ILLNESSES AND INJURIES

  1871 illness

  depression

  f
all on stairs

  headaches

  illness at Ramsgate

  last illness

  osteoarthritis

  as smokescreen for wilfulness

  ventral hernia

  INCOME

  INTERESTS

  books

  dancing

  India

  music

  outdoors activities

  Scotland

  ITEMS IN COFFIN

  JOURNALS

  LEGACY

  OPINIONS AND VIEWS

  Albert

  Alix

  babies

  Balmoral

  Bertie, Prince of Wales

  Bertie’s blame for Albert’s illness

  breastfeeding

  Conroy

  crown as a trap

  deathbed scenes

  Ernest (brother-in-law)

  Florence Nightingale

  the Irish

  Islam

  Lady Flora Hastings

  marriage and motherhood

  Melbourne

  Osborne House

  the poor

  pregnancy

  Riviera

  Russo-Turkish War ()

  Vicky

  PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS

  appearance

  in middle-age

  in old age

  in youth

  eyesight

  immobility in later years

  laughter and voice

  weight

  PUBLIC IMAGE

  after Albert’s death

  scommodification of

  during Crimean War

  at death

  at Diamond Jubilee

  films

  during first year of reign

  in France

  in Ireland

  during John Brown’s tenure

  during Lady Flora’s illness

  with middle class

  modern

  photographs

  and relationship with mother

  as saviour of monarchy

  in the ‘System’

  through her writing

  upon accession

  RELATIONSHIPS

  with Abdul Karim

  with Albert

  correspondence

  cousinly love

  dependence on

  disagreements and rows

  faithfulness

  first meeting

  honesty

  love

  marriage proposal and engagement

  power balance

  rows

  second meeting

  shared interests

  subordination

  wedding day see wedding, Victoria and Albert’s

  with aristocratic women

  with Beatrice

  B as constant companion

  B as private secretary

  domination

  estrangement

  refusal to allow marriage

  stipulation on marriage

  on wedding day

  with Bertie

  with Conroy

  with Davidson

  with Disraeli

  with Gladstone

  with half-sister Feodore

  with Harriet, Duchess of Sutherland

  with her children

  with her grandchildren

  with John Brown

  with ladies-in-waiting

  with Lehzen

  with Maharaja Duleep

  with Melbourne

  with mother

  with Ponsonby

  with servants

  with Uncle Leopold

  with Vicky

  SIZE OF FAMILY

  WARDROBE

  WORKS

  articles

  John Brown biography (unfinished)

  Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands

  More Leaves From The Journal of a

  Life in the Highlands

  Victoria Cross

  Victoria television series (ITV)

  Victoria (Vicky), Princess Royal Empress of Germany, Queen of Prussia

  baked goods from siblings

  birth

  character

  father, relationship with

  finding bride for Bertie

  marriage

  mother, relationship with

  mother’s Diamond Jubilee

  Victorian era legacy

  Villiers, Charles Pelham

  Villiers, Lady Sarah

  Ward, Yvonne M.

  Warner, Marina

  Warwick, Daisy Greville, Countess of

  wedding, Victoria and Albert’s

  bridesmaids

  bridesmaids’ dresses

  Buckingham Palace

  ceremony

  Chapel Royal of St James’s Palace

  guest list

  honeymoon

  processions

  public spectacle

  venues

  Victoria’s diary entries

  Victoria’s dress and hair

  Victoria’s post-wedding dresses

  wedding breakfast

  wedding morning

  Windsor Castle

  weeping

  Weintraub, Stanley

  Weiss, Sophie

  Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, st Duke

  Westminster Abbey

  What Does She Do With It? pamphlet

  Whigs

  widowhood

  Wilhelm II (Willy), Kaiser

  William, Duke of Clarence / William IV

  appearance

  coronation

  death

  mistresses

  seeking husband for Victoria

  Victoire, disagreements with

  Victoria as heir presumptive

  wedding

  Winchester, Randall Davidson, Bishop of

  Windsor Castle

  Blue Room

  Christmases at

  coldness

  controlled by Albert

  description

  drain problems

  Grand Staircase

  kitchens and kitchen staff

  meals

  Norman Tower

  preservation of rooms as memorial

  quietness

  routine

  Victoria and Albert’s rooms

  Windsor, Gerald Wellesley, Dean of

  Windsor, Randall Davidson, Dean of

  Windsor Uniform

  Winterhalter, Franz Xaver

  Wolseley, Garnet, st Viscount

  women-of-the-bedchamber

  Woolbrook Cottage, Sidmouth

  Wrens of Curragh

  Young Victoria film

  Also by Lucy Worsley

  NONFICTION

  Cavalier: A Tale of Chivalry, Passion, and Great Houses

  The Courtiers: Splendor and Intrigue in the Georgian Court at Kensington Palace

  If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home

  A Very British Murder

  Jane Austen at Home: A Biography

  FICTION

  Eliza Rose

  My Name Is Victoria

  Lady Mary

  Picture Acknowledgements

  Bridgeman Images: 1 above left/engraving by Charles Hullmandel/Yale Center for British Art Paul Mellon Collection USA, 1 above right/portrait by Jeremiah Meyer/Ashmolean Museum University of Oxford UK, 2 above left/engraving by William Westall/private collection, 2 below right/portrait by Henry William Pickersgill/private collection, 3 below/engraving by William Dummond/British Library London UK ©British Library Board All Rights Reserved, 4 above left/portrait by Thomas Sully/Wallace Collection London UK, 6 above right/private collection, 7 centre right/aquatint by William Henry Payne/private collection, 7 below left/music cover/Victoria & Albert Museum London UK, 13 centre left/Florence Nightingale Museum London UK, 15 above right/photo Alexander Bassano Studio/Alinari Archives Florence, text page 7/engraving by George Hayter/private collection, text page 241. Mary Evans Picture Library: 6 below, 16 above/©The Boswell Collection Bexley
Heritage Trust, text page 121/©Charlotte Zeepvat/ILN. ©Historic Royal Palaces: 8 below right. ©National Portrait Gallery London: 15 above left/retouched negative Bassano Studio. Royal Archives/ © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2018: 3 centre right/self-portrait by Queen Victoria. Royal Collection Trust ©Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2018: 10 below/photo Dr Ernst Becker, 11 above left and above right/photos after Bryan Edward Duppa, 11 below left and below right/photos Dr Ernst Becker, 12 above left/photo Hills & Saunders, 12 centre left/sculpture attributed to Mary Thornycroft, 12 below right/photo William Bambridge, 13 above right/photographer unknown, 13 below right/photographer unknown, 14 above right/photographer unknown, 14 below right/photo Byrne & Co, 15 below/photo Gustav Mullins, 16 below/photographer unknown. Royal Collection Trust ©Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2018/Bridgeman Images: 1 below left/portrait English School, 1 below right/portrait by George Hayter, 2 centre right/English School, 2 below left/portrait by Carl Friedrich Koepke, 3 above left/sketch by Queen Victoria, 4 centre right, 4 below left/sketch by Queen Victoria, 5 above/engraving after George B Campion, 5 below/detail of painting by Charles Robert Leslie, 7 above right/engraving by Carl Mayer, 8 above right/portrait by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 8 above left/sketch by Queen Victoria, 9 above left/portrait by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 9 above right/engraving by W Clerk, 10 above/painting by James Roberts, 12 below left/watercolour by Princess Louise. Wellcome Collection: 6 centre left. Lucy Worsley: 9 below left. Wycombe Museum Bucks UK: 14 centre left.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  LUCY WORSLEY is an historian, author, curator and television presenter. Lucy read Ancient and Modern History at New College, Oxford and worked for English Heritage before becoming Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces, based at Hampton Court. She also presents history programmes for the BBC including ‘Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia with Lucy Worsley’ and ‘Lucy Worsley’s Reins of Power: The Art of Horse Dancing’. Her bestselling books include A Very British Murder: The Curious Story of how Crime was Turned into Art, If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home, Courtiers: the Secret History of the Georgian Court and Cavalier: The Story of a 17th century Playboy. She lives in London, England. You can sign up for author updates here.

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Names: Worsley, Lucy, author.

  Title: Queen Victoria : twenty-four days that changed her life / Lucy Worsley.

  Description: New York : St. Martin’s Press, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

  Identifiers: LCCN 2018039820 | ISBN 9781250201423 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781250201430 (ebook)

 

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