Censoring Queen Victoria (24 page)

Quick, Stanley,
18

Radical MPs,
140
,
141
,
142

Reeve, Henry,
96–97

Reform Acts,
142

Regency Act
(1830),
3

Regency Act
(1840),
118–119

Republicans,
142

Russell, Lord John

Palmerston and,
139–140
,
142

Victoria, consultation with,
136
,
137

Victoria, correspondence with,
84
,
94

Russia,
141
,
164

St Aubyn, Giles,
9–10

Salic law,
116

Sarawak, Raj of,
31

Saxe-Coburg, Duke of,
104

Saxe-Coburg, House of,
68
,
70
,
103
,
107
,
116
,
127

Saxony, King of,
165

Scotland,
129

Serbia,
167

Sidgwick, Mary,
37
,
39–40
,
42
,
45–46
,
52

Sidgwick, Reverend William,
39

Somerset, Lord Arthur,
24–25

South African War Committee,
135
–
136

Spain,
106

Stamfordham, Lord,
68
,
148–153

Starkey, David,
25

Stockmar, Baron,
83
,
105
,
112
,
117
,
119
,
127
,
139

Strachey, Lytton,
77–78
,
87
,
101
,
172

Sturgis, Julian,
22
,
26

Symonds, John Addington,
51

Tait, Lucy,
46

Tatham, Herbert,
48

The Times
,
153

Tories,
120–121

Uranian poetry movement,
49
,
51

Van de Weyer, Eleanor (‘Nellie'),
26–28

Van de Weyer, Sylvain,
26

Vaughan, Mr,
66
,
67

Victoire, Duchess of Nemours,
108
,
125
,
131

Victoria, Duchess of Kent

Conroy and,
3
,
93
,
94
,
151

death of husband,
93

Lady Flora Hastings and,
94

Leopold I and,
93
,
104
,
162
,
168

as Regent,
3
,
119

Victoria, correspondence from,
98–99

Victoria, mother to,
2

Victoria, Princess Royal,
119
,
131–132

Victoria, Queen of Great Britain accedes to throne,
3–4
,
95

Albert: as head of household,
113–114

Albert: authorises publication of letters by,
152

Albert: authorship of documents,
120
,
139

Albert: commissions life of,
77

Albert: marriage to,
4
,
112–113

Albert: political role of,
117–118

Albert: position of,
114

Albert: Regency Act,
119

Albert: relations with,
45
,
150–151

assassination attempts on,
118

audience chamber,
73

Beatrice, appoints as literary executor,
10

biographies of,
172

childbirth, rage against pregnancy and,
131–132

childbirth and confinement,
4
,
118
,
119–120
,
121
,
128–130
,
165

children,
10
,
108–109
,
128
,
129
,
139

Conroy and,
93–94
,
99

coronation,
149

death and funeral,
8
,
29

Dona Maria, correspondence with,
125
,
126–128
,
129–133

dramatis personae
of letters,
70

Edinburgh visit (1842),
129

encyclopaedic knowledge of genealogy,
71

as a European,
67

extent of correspondence,
9–10
,
57
,
63
,
66

Ferdinand and,
107
,
113

foreign policy of,
138–139

French, views of the,
162–164

influences on,
104

Irish, descriptions of,
161–162

Ladies of Bedchamber,
121

Lady Flora Hastings affair,
95–96
,
100
,
101

Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands
(1868),
10

length of reign,
4

Leopold I: correspondence to,
103
,
105
,
108–110
,
143
,
169

Leopold I: influence on,
83
,
103
–
104
,
105
,
106
,
109–110
,
116

Leopold I: resents influence of,
116

in line of succession,
2–3

Melbourne, correspondence with,
84
,
122
,
148–149

Melbourne, influence on,
83
,
91
,
109

Melbourne as Prime Minister,
120–121

ministers and,
136–143

mother, correspondence with,
98–99

Nicholas I, visit of,
165–167

Palmerston, dismissal of,
137
,
142

Palmerston, influence of,
109
,
138

Palmerston, relations with,
138
,
139–143

patriarchy, adherence to,
132

psychological illness,
94

publication of letters,
1
,
18
,
34–35

Royal Pedigree compiled,
71

women, correspondence with,
125–133

as a young woman,
73–74

Walewski, Count,
142

War Office Reconstitution Committee,
135–136

War Office Territorial Committee,
146

Warre, Edmond,
16

Weintraub, Stanley,
94

Wellington, Duke of,
115
,
119
,
120

Wellington College,
37
,
39
,
43

Whigs,
120–121
,
122–123

Wilde, Oscar,
23

William, Duke of Clarence,
2
,
3

William IV,
3
,
95
,
123

Williams, Miss Bertha,
61

Windsor Castle,
60
,
62

Royal Archives,
172

Royal Library,
66

Winterhalter, Franz Xaver,
73–74

women

barred from reigning,
116

with homosexual husbands,
28

Victoria's correspondence with,
125–133

Woolf, Virginia,
78

Yellow Book
,
49