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A Magnificent Obsession: The Death That Changed the Monarchy

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by Helen Rappaport


  Dilke, Sir Charles

  Disraeli, Benjamin

  Dittweiler, Emilie

  Drawing Rooms

  Dresden

  Du Plat, Major Charles

  Dublin

  Mansion House

  Duff Gordon, Lady

  Dundee

  Dürer, Albrecht

  East End

  Eastlake, Sir Charles

  Economist, The

  Edinburgh

  Egypt

  Egypt, Khedive of

  Electric and International Telegraph Company

  Elizabeth II, Queen

  Ellenborough, Lord

  Elphinstone, Howard

  Elvey, Dr George

  Ely, Lady

  Era

  Ernst (Ernie), Prince of Hesse (Princess Alice’s son)

  Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Albert’s brother)

  Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Albert’s father)

  Ernst, Prince of Leiningen

  Eton Volunteers

  Eugénie, Empress of France 91

  Eurydice

  Evangelical Alliance

  Examiner

  Exeter

  Cathedral

  Exeter Hall, London

  Eyck, Jan van

  Fairy

  Farquharsons of Inverey

  Farringford

  Federal Union (America)

  Fenians

  Feodora, Princess of Hohenloe-Langenburg (Victoria’s half sister) 41

  Ferdinand, Prince of Portugal

  Ferguson, Dr Robert

  Fettercairn

  Fine Arts Commission

  Flahaut, Comte de

  Flanders, Count of

  Florschütz, Christoph

  Foley, John

  Foreign Office

  Fowke, Captain Francis

  France

  Franco-Prussian War

  Franklin, Lady Jane

  Franklin, Sir John

  Fraser’s Magazine

  Frederick VII, King of Denmark

  Frederick, Crown Prince of Prussia see Fritz (Frederick), Crown Prince of Prussia

  Frederick Christian, Prince of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg

  French Riviera

  Friedrich Wilhelm IV, King of Prussia, Friend of India

  Frittie (Wilhelm Friedrich), Prince of Hesse

  Fritz (Frederick), Crown Prince of Prussia

  Frogmore

  Duchess of Kent’s mausoleum

  Royal Mausoleum

  Fylingdales

  Garrard’s

  Gaskell, Elizabeth

  Gavard, Charles

  Gazette de Lausanne

  George III, King

  George IV, King

  George, Prince of Denmark

  Germany see also names of states and places

  Gieve, Elizabeth

  Gillray, James 190

  Gladstone, William

  Duchess of Sutherland’s communications with

  thinks he detects signs of recovery in V

  and V’s interest in foreign affairs

  resolution to disestablish Irish Protestant Church

  becomes Prime Minister

  relationship with V

  tries to persuade V to fulfil public engagement

  perceives need to address ‘the Royalty Question’

  argues for more responsible role for Bertie

  supports V’s request for money from Parliament

  fails to persuade V to increase her official duties

  asks V to postpone her departure to Balmoral

  finds V’s continuing protests ‘sickening’

  and Dilke’s criticisms of V

  and Bertie’s illness

  and service of thanksgiving

  opinion of Jenner

  brief references

  Glanville, Lord

  Glasgow

  Glasgow Herald

  Glassalt Shiel

  Glen Mark

  Glen Tanar

  Globe

  Goethe

  Golden Jubilee

  Gordon, Sir Robert

  Gosport

  Gothic Revival

  Granville, Lord

  Grasse

  Gravesend

  Great Exhibition (1851)

  Great London Exposition (1862)

  Great Synagogue

  Green, Mrs Everett

  Grenadier Guards

  Greville, Charles

  Greville, Henry

  Grey, General Charles

  Christmas gift

  admires Royal domestic life

  and Albert’s illness and death

  rivalry with Phipps develops

  V discusses plans for statue of Albert with

  detects signs of avoidance in V

  and John Brown’s presence

  and the public mood

  position as Private Secretary ratified

  experience of writing about Albert

  concerned about V’s continuing seclusion

  opinion about V’s workload

  death

  Ponsonby contrasted with

  brief references

  The Early Years of the Prince Consort

  Grey, Sir George

  Grosse Kurfürst

  Grüner, Ludwig

  Guardian

  Guildhall, London

  Gull, Dr William

  Günther, Dr

  Halifax, Lord

  Hallam, Arthur

  Hambro synagogue

  Handel, George Frederick: ‘Dead

  March in Saul’

  Hanover, King of

  Harcourt, General

  Hardman, Lord

  Hartley, Mrs

  Hartley Colliery

  Hastings

  Hawker, Robert

  Haydon, Benjamin

  Heidenreich von-Siebold, Charlotte

  Helena (Lenchen), Princess

  Helps, Arthur

  Henry, Prince of Battenberg

  Henry, Prince of Hesse

  Hertford, Lord

  Hesse

  royal family see names of individuals

  Hesse, Mathilde Grand Duchess of

  Hesse family mausoleum, Rosenhöhe

  Hildyard, Sara Ann

  Hocédé, Madame

  Hoffman’s Drops

  Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Prince of

  Holbein, Hans

  Holborn Circus

  Holborn Viaduct

  Holland, Sir Henry

  Holland & Sons

  Holstein

  Holy Land

  Holyhead

  Homburg

  Home, David Dunglass

  Home Office

  Hook, James Clarke

  Horse Artillery

  Horticultural Society’s Garden

  House of Commons see also Parliament

  House of Lords see also Parliament

  Houses of Parliament

  Howden, Lord

  Huddersfield

  Hull, Mrs

  Humbert, Prince of Italy

  Humbert, Albert Jenkins

  Hyam & Co.

  Hyde Park

  Illustrated London News

  India

  Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine

  International Democratic Association

  Invermark

  Ireland see also Curragh, the; Belfast; Dublin

  Irene, Princess of Hesse

  Irish Protestant Church

  Irish Temperance Journal

  Isle of Wight see Osborne House

  Italy

  James I, King: ‘A Counterblaste to Tobacco’

  Jay’s London General Mourning Warehouse

  Jenner, Dr William and V’s fears about Vicky

  and Albert’s illness

  and Albert’s death

  sits with V, and gives her opiates

  as V’s doctor

  and Bertie’s illness

  sent to Alice

  s
tudy of typhoid fever

  Jennings, Henry James

  Jet Men’s Arms, Whitby

  Jews

  Jin Kie

  Kensington

  Kensington Gardens

  Kent

  Kent, Victoria, Duchess of (V’s mother)

  illness and death

  V’s grief following death of

  mourning for

  funeral

  mausoleum

  brief references

  Kent, Edward, Duke of (V’s father)

  Kew

  Kildale

  Killarney

  King’s College, University of London

  Kingsley, Reverend Charles

  Kinnaird, Lord

  Koch, Robert

  Koh-i-noor diamond

  Ladies’ Companion

  Lady’s Magazine

  Laeken

  Lake Lucerne

  Lambeth Orphan Asylum

  Lancashire cotton industry

  Lancet, The

  Land and Labour League

  Landseer, Sir Edwin: ‘Her Majesty at Osborne 1866’

  Lausanne Bible

  Lavradio, Count

  Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands from 1848–1861

  Leech, John

  Leeds

  Leeds Mercury

  Leeds Mourning Warehouse

  Lehzen, Baroness Louise

  Leighton, William

  Leiningen, Emich Charles, Prince of (first husband of Duchess of Kent)

  Lennox, Lord Henry

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Leopold, King of the Belgians

  V’s letters to

  Leopold, Prince

  Les Invalides

  Lever, Charles: The Dodd Family Abroad

  Lewis, Sir George

  Lewis & Allonby

  Liberals

  Life Guards

  Lighthouse Service

  Lincoln, President Abraham

  Lincoln, Mary

  Lind, Jenny

  Lister, Dr Joseph

  Liverpool

  Lloyds’ Weekly

  Loch Muick

  Loch-na-Gar

  Lockinge House

  Löhlein, Rudolf

  Londesborough, Lord

  London in winter of 1860

  gloomy atmosphere following death of Duchess of Kent

  scandalous rumours about Bertie in

  and news of Albert’s death

  American ambassador in

  Wellington’s funeral in

  and mourning for Albert

  on day of Albert’s funeral

  trade suffers in

  procession of Bertie and Alix across

  residence of Bertie and Alix in

  celebrations for wedding of Bertie and Alix in

  public desire for V to come to

  V’s absence from

  V fails to entertain foreign visitors to

  republican ideas in

  V attends events in

  V opens Blackfriars bridge and Holborn Viaduct in

  demonstration in Trafalgar Square

  Bertie urges V to visit

  Jenner argues against need for V to spend time in

  public anxiety about Bertie in

  Service of National Thanksgiving

  V drives in Regent’s Park

  supposed ‘assassination’ attempt

  Albertopolis

  brief references

  see also Albert Memorial; names of locations in London

  London, Lord Mayor of

  London City Mission

  London Fever Hospital

  London Gazette Extraordinary

  London Republican Club

  London Review

  London Season

  London Wall: Greek Orthodox church

  London Zoo

  Longford, Elizabeth

  Lord Chamberlain see Sydney, Viscount, Lord Chamberlain

  Lord Chamberlain’s office

  Lords, House of

  Louis, Prince of Hesse (later Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine)

  engaged to Alice

  visit to Windsor at Christmas 1860

  visit to Balmoral

  Alice writes to

  Bertie writes to

  accompanies V to Osborne

  leaves Osborne to attend Albert’s funeral

  disturbed by changes in Alice

  marries Alice

  nursed by Alice

  married relationship with Alice

  becomes Grand Duke Ludwig IV

  telegram to V on death of Alice

  Louis Napoleon (Napoleon III)

  Louis Philippe, King

  Louise, Queen of the Belgians

  Louise, Princess

  Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (Albert’s mother)

  Ludgate Hill

  Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine see Louis, Prince of Hesse (later Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine)

  Luther, Martin: hymns

  Lyell, Sir Charles

  Lyons, Lord

  Lyttleton, Lady Sarah

  Lytton, Lady Constance

  Macdonald, Annie

  Macdonald, Archie

  Macleod, Reverend Norman, ix

  Madagascar

  Madingley

  Madingley Hall

  Mallet, Marie

  Malmesbury, Earl of

  Malta

  Manchester

  Manchester, Duchess of

  Manning, Cardinal

  Mansion House, Dublin

  Mansion House, London

  Maoris

  Marie, Princess of Leiningen

  Marie of Saxe-Coburg

  Marion & Co.

  Marks, Dr

  Marlborough House

  Marochetti, Baron Carlo

  Martin, Theodore

  Life of the Prince Consort

  Martineau, Harriet

  Martyrs’ Memorial, Oxford

  Mary, Queen

  Mary, Queen of Scots

  Mary Adelaide, Princess

  Mason, James Murray

  Maximilian, Archduke

  Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico

  May, Princess of Hesse

  May, Erskine

  Mayall, John

  Mayet, Gustav

  Mayhew, Henry

  Meclin’s

  Medical Times and Gazette

  ‘Medicus’

  Melbourne, Lord

  Memling, Hans

  Mendelssohn, Felix

  Methuen, Lord

  Mexico

  Meyer, Baron von

  Milan

  Milnes, Richard Monckton

  Mohammad Ali

  Mohl, Mary Clarke

  Montefiore, Sir Moses

  Moran, Benjamin

  Mordaunt, Sir Charles

  Mordaundt, Lady Harriet

  Morning Chronicle

  Morning Post

  Morning Star

  Müller, Professor Friedrich Max

  Lectures on the Science of Language

  Munby, Arthur

  Napoleon I Bonaparte

  Napoleon III (see Louis Napoleon)

  National Reformer

  Natural History Museum, London

  Natural History Museum, Oxford

  Nelson, Admiral Lord

  Nemours, Duc de

  Nemours, Duchess of

  Nevill, Lady Dorothy

  New York

  New York Times

  New Zealand

  Newcastle

  Newcastle, Duke of

  Newman, John Henry

  Nicholas I, Tsar

  Nightingale, Florence

  Nightingale Training School

  Normanby, Lady

  North British Review

  North Wales Chronicle

  North-West Passage

  North Yorkshire

  North Yorkshire Moors

  Northumberland House

  Norwich

  Nottingham


  Nova Scotia

  Nuremberg

  Observer

  O’Connor, Arthur

  O’Connor, Feargus

  Old Bailey

  Oliphant, Margaret

  Oldenburg, Princess of

  Osborne House

  Albert supervises design and construction of

  royal family plans to spend Christmas at

  visit deferred due to Albert’s illness

  V prepares to leave for

  V’s departure for

  V at

  male mourners leave for Albert’s funeral from

  Christmas at

  Marochetti at

  visitors to

  wedding of Alice and Louis at

  brief references

  Overstone, Lord

  Oxford

  Paddington Station

  Paget, Lord Alfred

  Palace Hotel, Windsor

  Pall Mall Gazette

  Palmerston, Lady

  Palmerston, Lord

  reluctant admiration for Albert

  and Trent crisis

  and Albert’s illness

  and Albert’s death

  offers condolences to V

  unable to attend Albert’s funeral

  gives support for statue of Albert

  sees V at Osborne

  concerned about V’s aversion to

  Bertie

  V writes from Scotland to

  receives letter from V about marriage of Bertie and Alix

  and the Schleswig-Holstein crisis

  and visit of Prince Humbert of Italy

  persuades Parliament to grant money for Albert memorial

 

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