Authors: Matthew Dennison
Tags: #History, #Europe, #Great Britain, #Biography & Autobiography, #Royalty
20
Wake, op. cit., p. 63.
21
Fulford (ed.),
Dearest Mama,
p. 198.
CHAPTER SIX: ‘A nervous way of speaking and laughing’
1
Hough, Richard,
Louis and Victoria: The Family History of the Mountbattens
(Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1974), p. 18.
2
Ibid., p. 17.
3
Rowell, George,
Queen Victoria Goes to the Theatre
(Paul Elek, London, 1978), p. 84; Queen Victoria's Journal, 2 October 1865.
4
Matson, John,
Dear Osborne
(Hamish Hamilton, London, 1978), p. 75.
5
Fulford (ed.),
Your Dear Letter,
p. 121.
6
Zeepvat, op. cit., p. 57.
7
Lady Waterpark's Diary 1865-91, British Library Add 60750, 21 November 1865.
8
Ibid., 7 April 1868.
9
RA VIC/Add C26/142, Princess Beatrice to Lady Caroline Barrington, undated, 1868.
10
Tisdall, op. cit., p. 164.
11
Fulford (ed.),
Your Dear Letter,
p. 217.
12
Wake, op. cit., p. 78.
13
Hough,
Advice,
p. 29.
14
Zeepvat, op. cit., p. 114.
15
Lady Waterpark's Diary, 29 January 1877; 19 January 1878.
16
Arengo-Jones, Peter,
Queen Victoria in Switzerland
(Robert Hale, London, 1995), p. 98.
17
RA VIC/Add A17/677, Princess Beatrice to Princess Louise, 19 January 1875.
18
Fulford (ed.),
Your Dear Letter,
p. 259.
19
Victoria, Queen,
More Leaves from the Journal of a Life in the Highlands: from 1862 to 1882
(Smith, Elder
&C
Co., London, 1884), 10 September 1873.
20
Lady Waterpark's Diary, 14 August 1874.
21
Ibid., 14 April, 1881.
CHAPTER SEVEN: ‘Auntie Beatrice sends you many loves’
1
Princess Alice to Princess Charlotte of Prussia, 1 March 1877, previously with Sophie Dupre.
2
Van der Kiste, John,
Edward VII's Children
(Sutton, Stroud, 1989), p. 21.
Windsor, Dean of etc.,
Letters,
p. 218, 9 June 1861.
4
Pakula, Hannah,
An Uncommon Woman: The Empress Frederick
(Phoenix paperback, London, 1997), p. 371.
5
Fulford (ed.),
Your Dear Letter,
p. 114.
6
Fulford (ed.),
Dearest Mama,
p. 168.
7
Hough,
Advice,
p. 9.
8
Ibid., p. 11.
9
Ibid., p. 12.
10
Ibid., p. 25.
11
Fulford (ed.),
Dearest Mama,
p. 311.
12
Hibbert,
Queen Victoria,
p. 411.
13
Duff,
Hessian Tapestry,
p. 158.
14
RA VIC/Add C26/146, Princess Beatrice to Lady Caroline Barrington, 21 July 1870.
15
Marie Louise, Princess,
My Memories of Six Reigns
(Evans Brothers, London, 1956), p. 153.
16
Hibbert,
Queen Victoria,
p. 332.
17
Fulford, Roger (ed.),
Beloved Mama: private correspondence of Queen Victoria and the German Crown Princess, 1878-1885
(Evans Brothers, London, 1981), p. 87.
18
Victoria, Queen,
Our Life n the Highlands
(Victorian
&
Modern History Book Club, Newton Abbot, 1972), p. 127.
CHAPTER EIGHT: ‘Youngest daughters have a duty… ’
1
Bennett, op. cit., p. 129.
2
Hibbert,
Queen Victoria,
p. 340
3
Bennett, op.cit., p. 136.
4
Longford,
Victoria RI,
p. 368.
5
Bennett, op. cit., p. 129.
6
Windsor, Dean of etc.,
Later Letters,
p. 160, late 1872.
7
Ibid.
8
RA VIC/Add C26/145, Princess Beatrice to Lady Caroline Barrington, 8 June 1870.
9
Wake, op. cit., p. 65.
10
Fulford (ed.),
Your Dear Letter,
p. 20.
11
Fulford (ed.),
Darling Child,
p. 188.
12
Lutyens, Mary (ed.),
Lady Lytton's Diary
(Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1961), p. 109.
13
Plunkett, John,
Queen Victoria, First Media Monarch
(Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003), p. 140.
14
Ponsonby, Magdalen (ed.), op. cit., p. 63.
15
Fulford
(ed.),Your Dear Letter,
p. 314.
16
RA VIC/S31/99, Princess Beatrice to Disraeli, 5 February 1881.
17
Longford (ed.),
Darling Loosy,
p. 105.
18
Pakula, op. cit., p. 293.
19
St-John Nevill, Barry,
Life at the Court of Queen Victoria 1861-1901
(Webb & Bower, Exeter, 1984), p. 72.
20
Fulford (ed.),
Darling Child,
p. 86.
21
Noel,
Princess Alice,
p. 169.
22
Hibbert,
Queen Victoria,
p. 340.
23
Fulford (ed.),
Darling Child,
p. 18.
24
St-John Nevill, op. cit., p. 73.
25
Ibid.
26
Ibid., p. 74.
27
Lady Waterpark's Diary, 25 December 1871.
28
Lant, Jeffrey L.,
Insubstantial
Pageant: Ceremony and Confusion at Queen Victoria's Court
(Hamish Hamilton, London, 1979), p. 33.
29
St-John Nevill, op. cit., p. 80.
30
Lant, op. cit., p. 26.
31
St-John Nevill, op. cit., p. 76.
32
St Aubyn, Giles,
Edward VII
Prince and King
(Collins, London, 1979), p. 217.
CHAPTER NINE: ‘The flower of the flock'
1
Longford (ed.),
Darling Loosy,
p. 177.
2
Fulford (ed.),
Darling Child,
p. 124.
3
Ibid., p. 34.
4
Fulford (ed.),
Your Dear Letter,
p. 142.
5
Pakula, op. cit., p. 71.
6
Fulford (ed.),
Darling Child,
p. 124.
7
RA VIC/Add C26/153, Princess Beatrice to Lady Caroline Barrington, 20 January 1874.
8
Millar, op. cit., p. 88.
9
Ibid.
10
Ibid.
11
Victoria, Queen,
Our Life,
14 September 1873.
12
Epton, op. cit., pp. 224-5.
13
Ibid., p. 146.
14
Aronson, Theo,
Queen Victoria and the Bonapartes
(London, Cassell, 1972), p. 151.
15
Ibid.
16
Fulford (ed.),
Your Dear Letter,
p. 311.
17
Stothard, Jane T.,
The Life of the Empress Eugenie
(Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1906), p. 296.
18
Lady Waterpark's Diary, 9 August 1876.
19
Stothard, op. cit., p. 290.
20
Aronson, op. cit., p. 169.
21
Wade, Alf, The South African Military History Society,
Military History Journal,
vol. 3, no. 2, ‘The Prince Imperial', 1974
22
Stothard, op. cit., p. 273.
23
Weintraub, op. cit., p. 436.
24
St-John Nevill, op. cit., p. 102.
CHAPTER TEN: ‘A good, handy, thoughtful servant'
1
St-John Nevill, op. cit., p. 95.
2
Epton, op. cit., p. 146.
3
Fulford (ed.),
Beloved Mama,
p. 3.
4
Lady Waterpark's Diary, 10 August 1876.
5
Noel,
Princess Alice,
p. 237.
6
Longford,
Victoria RI,
p. 457
7
Longford,
Darling Loosy,
p. 224.
8
Reid, Michaela,
Ask Sir James
(Hodder
&C
Stoughton, London, 1987), P.57.
9
Ibid., p. 55.
10
Queen Victoria to Mrs William Brown and Mrs Hugh Brown, Windsor Castle, April 3 1883; qu. Lamont-Brown, Raymond,
John Brown, Queen Victoria's Highland Servant
(Sutton, Stroud, 2000), p. 142.
11
Hibbert,
Queen Victoria,
p.323.
12
Cullen, Tom,
The Empress Brown
(The Bodley Head, London, 1969), p. 82.
13
St Aubyn, op. cit., p. 141.
14
Hibbert,
Queen Victoria,
P.399.
15
Fulford (ed.),
Your Dear Letter,
p.23.
16
Ibid., p. 90.
17
Auchincloss, Louis,
Persons of Consequence: Queen Victoria and her Circle
(Weidenfeld
&C
Nicolson, London, 1979), p. 154.
18
Victoria, Queen,
Our Life,
13 November 1872.
19
Ibid., 6 September 1872.
20
Ibid., 12 September 1877.
21
Hough,
Advice,
p. 24.
22
Stoney and Weltzein, p. 25.
23
Epton, op. cit., p. 164.
CHAPTER ELEVEN: ‘She is my constant companion'
1
Duff,
Shy Princess
p. 89.
2
Hibbert,
Queen Victoria,
p. 411.
3
Reid, op. cit., p. 207.
4
Hough,
Advice,
p. 10.
5
RA VIC/Add A8/2362, Princess Beatrice to Princess Mary Adelaide, Duchess of Teck, 22 January 1879.
6
RA VIC/Add A8/2369, as above, 2 March 1879.
7
Bennett, op. cit., p. 135.
8
Longford,
Victoria RI, p. 456.
9
Duff,
Shy Princess,
p. 92.
10
RA VIC/2 506/56, Princess Beatrice to Theodore Martin, 29 April 1879.
CHAPTER TWELVE: ‘Dear Beatrice suffered much
1
Mallet, Victor (ed.),
Life with Queen Victoria: Marie Mallet's letters from court, 1887-1901
(John Murray, London, 1968), p. 5.
2
Victoria, Queen,
Our Life,
pp. 168-9, I O September 1873.
3
Zeepvat, op.cit., p. 175.
4
Lutyens, op. cit., p. 16.
5
Clark, op. cit., p. 124.
6
RA Vic Add C26 154, Princess Beatrice to Lady Caroline Barrington, 21 May 1874.
7
Mallet, op. cit., p. xix.
8
Longford,
Victoria RI,
p. 205.
9
Grihangne, Roger (trans. David Lockie),
Queen Victoria in Grasse
(Imprimerie Magenta, 1991), p. 14.
10
Noel, op. cit., p. 136.
11
Ibid., p. 99.
12
Victoria, Queen,
Our Life,
p. 226, 17 September 1877.
13
Lady Waterpark's Diary, 10 January 1879.
14
Mallet, op. cit., p. 94.