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Chapter Seven (pp. 115–26)
1 | Lamont-Brown, John Brown , p. 37 |
2 | Aberdeen Herald & Weekly Free Press , 31.3.1883; Cullen, p. 43 |
3 | Cullen, Empress Brown , p. 50 |
4 | QVJ 3.2.1865 |
5 | Longford, p. 325 |
6 | Ibid ., p. 326, QV to V, 5.4.1865 |
7 | Victoria, Letters 1862–1885 , vol. I, p. 255, QV to KL, 24.11.1865 |
8 | Lamont-Brown, Royal Poxes , p. 176 |
9 | A morganatic marriage is one between two persons of unequal rank, generally a sovereign or senior member of a royal or imperial house and a commoner, in which any children born would have no claim on the higher-ranking parent’s titles, rights or property. |
10 | Cullen, Empress Brown , p. 95 |
11 | Punch , 7.7.1866 |
12 | Thompson, Queen Victoria , p. 62 |
13 | QVJ 24.5.1870 |
14 | Tingsten, Victoria , p. 112 |
15 | Gibb, ‘Victoria and John Brown’ |
16 | Royalty Digest , January 2005 |
17 | Lamont-Brown, ‘Queen Victoria’s “secret marriage”’ |
18 | Ponsonby F., Recollections , p. 95 |
19 | Cullen, Empress Brown , pp. 102–3 |
20 | Saturday Review , April 1867 |
21 | Longford, p. 329 |
22 | Ibid ., p. 331 |
23 | Ponsonby A., Henry Ponsonby , p. 128 |
24 | Wilson, V ictorians , p. 504 |
25 | Victoria, Leaves 1848–1861 , p. 128, footnote to entry of 16.9.1850 |
26 | Ibid ., pp. viii–ix |
27 | Stanley, Later Letters , p. 73, 26.1.1868 |
28 | Tisdall, John Brown , pp. 141–2 |
Chapter Eight (pp. 127–47)
1 | Victoria, Letters 1837–1861 , vol. III, p. 476, QV to KL, 24.12.1861 |
2 | Hibbert, Queen Victoria , p. 307, QV to Grey, 25.1.1863 |
3 | Ponsonby A., Henry Ponsonby , p. 36 |
4 | Jenkins, Gladstone , p. 344 |
5 | Longford, pp. 379–80 |
6 | Ponsonby A., Henry Ponsonby , p. 35 |
7 | Victoria, Your Dear Letter , p. 273, QV to V, 2.4.1870 |
8 | Cullen, Empress Brown , p. 131 |
9 | Kuhn, Henry and Mary Ponsonby , p. 92 |
10 | Lamont-Brown, ‘Queen Victoria’s “secret marriage”’ |
11 | Magnus, Gladstone , p. 217 |
12 | Ponsonby A., Henry Ponsonby , pp. 253–4, Henry Ponsonby to Gladstone, 13.7.1875 |
13 | Ibid ., p. 244, Henry Ponsonby to Mary Ponsonby, October 1873 |
14 | RA Add. A/36, Henry Ponsonby to Mary Ponsonby, 26.4.1884 |
15 | Ponsonby A., Henry Ponsonby , p. 134 |
16 | Ibid ., pp. 134–5 |
17 | Mullen and Munson, Victoria , p. 110 |
18 | Aronson, Heart of a Queen , p. 162 |
19 | Longford, p. 386, Ponsonby Letters, 13.9.1871 |
20 | Cullen, Empress Brown , pp. 170–1 |
21 | Ibid ., p. 179 |
22 | Lamont-Brown, John Brown , p. 62 |
23 | Burrell, A Royal Duty , p. 43 |
24 | Kuhn, Henry and Mary Ponsonby , p. 167 |
25 | Ibid ., p. 171 |
26 | Reid, Ask Sir James , p. 41 |
27 | Cullen, Empress Brown , p. 192 |
28 | Reid, Ask Sir James , p. 46, QV to Reid, probably August 1881 |
29 | Ibid ., p. 33 |
30 | Cullen, Empress Brown , p. 199 |
31 | Lamont-Brown, John Brown , p. 139, Leopold to Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, 28.3.1883 |
32 | Reid, Ask Sir James , p. 53, QV to Reid, probably 28.3.1883 |
33 | Ponsonby A., Henry Ponsonby , p. 129 |
34 | QVJ 28.3.1883, Cullen, Empress Brown , p. 211, Lamont-Brown, John Brown , p. 139 |
35 | Court Circular, 28.3.1884 |
36 | Tisdall, John Brown , pp. 223–4, Gladstone to QV, 28.3.1884 |
37 | Cullen, Empress Brown , p. 225 |
38 | Fenton, ‘Twice bereaved’ |
39 | The Times , 29.3.1883 |
40 | Victoria, More Leaves 1862–1882 , pp. v–vi |
41 | Ibid ., p. 406 |
42 | RA Add A/36, Henry Ponsonby to Mary Ponsonby, 22.7.1884 |
Chapter Nine (pp. 148–68)
1 | Mallet, Life with Queen Victoria , pp. 95–6, 5.11.1896 |
2 | Ponsonby A., Henry Ponsonby , p. 131, Henry Ponsonby to Mary Ponsonby, nd |
3 | Anand, Indian Sahib , p. 54, Frederick Ponsonby to Lord Elgin, 16.1.1895 |
4 | Reid, Ask Sir James , p. 132 |
5 | Aronson, Heart of a Queen , p. 237 |
6 | Ibid . |
7 | Reid, Ask Sir James , p. 162 |
8 | Ponsonby A., Henry Ponsonby , p. 135, Henry Ponsonby to Mary Ponsonby (?), c . 1893 |
9 | Kuhn, Henry and Mary Ponsonby , p. 237 |
10 | Reid, Ask Sir James , p. 164 |
11 | Ibid ., p. 142 |
12 | Ibid ., p. 163 |
13 | Ibid ., p. 114 |
14 | Ibid ., p. 142 |
15 | Wilson, Victorians , p. 507 |
16 | Reid, Ask Sir James , p. 144 |
17 | Ibid . |
18 | Reid, Ask Sir James , p. 151 |
19 | Ibid ., p. 154 |
20 | Ibid ., p. 181 |
21 | Ibid ., p. 184 |
22 | Ibid ., p. 190 |
23 | Boyd Carpenter, Some Pages , p. 295 |
24 | Reid, Ask Sir James , p. 200 |
25 | Packard, Farewell in Splendour , p. 30 |
26 | Reid, Ask Sir James , p. 205 |
27 | Lamont-Brown, John Brown , p. 162 |
28 | Anand, Indian Sahib , p. 102, Lady Curzon to Lord Curzon, 9.8.1901 |
29 | The Times , 24.4.1909 |
30 | Reid, Ask Sir James , p. 255 |
Chapter Ten (pp. 171–87)
1 | Victoria, Dearest Child , p. 167, QV to V, 16.3.1859 |
2 | Ibid ., pp. 77–8, QV to V, 24.3.1858 |
3 | James, Albert , p. 244, A to QV, 1.10.1856 |
4 | Magnus, King Edward , p. 5 |
5 | Victoria, Letters 1837–1861 , vol. I, p. 458, Melbourne to QV, 13.2.1843 |
6 | Lyttelton, Correspondence , p. 340 |
7 | QVJ 9.11.1850 |
8 | Victoria, Dearest Child , pp. 173–4, QV to V, 9.4.1859 |
9 | McClintock, The Queen , pp. 25–6, QV to A, 7.10.1858 |
10 | Ibid ., p. 43, Elphinstone diary 19.1.1860 |
11 | Victoria, Dearest Child , p. 164, QV to V, 2.3.1859 |
12 | RA Y104/26; QV to KL, 26.8.1859 |
13 | Victoria, Dearest Child , p. 208, QV to V, 2.9.1859 |
14 | Corti, The English Empress , p. 63, QV to V, 31.10.1860 |
15 | Victoria, Letters 1837–1861 , vol. III, p. 413, QV to KL, 13.11.1860 |
16 | Victoria, Your Dear Letter , p. 200, QV to V, 8.7.1868 |
17 | Ibid ., p. 158, QV to V, 9.11.1867 |
18 | Magnus, King Edward , p. 88, QV to V, 3.7.1869 |
19 | RA Add. MSS A.3/121, QV to Prince of Wales, 18.1.1869 |
20 | RA Add. MSS A.3/1108, Prince of Wales to QV 1.3.1868 |
21 | RA Add. MSS A.3/128, Prince of Wales to QV, 26.2.1869 |
22 | RA Add. MSS A.3/131, Prince of Wales to QV, 28.2.1869 |
23 | Victoria, Your Dear Letter , pp. 200–1, QV to V, 10.7.1868 |
24 | McClintock, The Queen , p. 143, QV to Howard Elphinstone, c . 1872 |
25 | Aston, Duke of Connaught , p. 115 |
26 | McClintock, The Queen , p. 142, QV to Howard Elphinstone, 4.1.1872 |
27 | Ibid ., p. 144, QV to Howard Elphinstone, nd |
28 | Victoria, Dearest Mama , pp. 234–5, QV to V, 24.6.1863 |
29 | Diamond, Victorian Sensation , p. 23 |
30 | Duff, Hessian Tapestry , p. 117 |
31 | Epton, Victoria and Her Daughters , p. 151 |
32 | Marie Louise, Six Reigns , p. 19 |
Chapter Eleven (pp. 188–205)
1 | Ponsonby A., Henry Ponsonby , p. 98, Henry Ponsonby to Mary Ponsonby, nd |
2 | Manchester Guardian , 28.2.1872 |
3 | RA Add. MSS U/32, QV to V, 14.2.1872 |
4 | Ponsonby A., Henry Ponsonby , pp. 100–1, Henry Ponsonby to Mary Ponsonby, nd |
5 | Victoria, Darling Child , p. 105, QV to V, 2.8.1873 |
6 | Longford, Darling Loosy , p. 194, QV to Louise, 11.6.1875 |
7 | Zeepvat, Prince Leopold , p. 129, QV to Leopold, nd, c. May 1877 |
8 | Aston, Duke of Connaught , p. 98 |
9 | Alice, For My Grandchildren , p. 21 |
10 | Victoria, Beloved Mama , p. 117, QV to V, 11.4.1882 |
11 | Zeepvat, Prince Leopold , p. 186, Leopold to Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, 15.3.1884 |
12 | Victoria, Beloved Mama , p. 162, QV to V, 29.3.1884 |
13 | Boyd Carpenter, Some Pages , p. 281 |
14 | Ponsonby A., Henry Ponsonby , p. 301, Henry Ponsonby to Gladstone, nd |
15 | Epton, Victoria and Her Daughters , p. 170 |
16 | Hough, Louis and Victoria , p. 121 |
17 | Longford, Victoria RI , p. 477 |
18 | Ibid . |
19 | Victoria, Advice to a Grand-daughter , p. 66, QV to Victoria of Hesse, 20.5.1884 |
Chapter Twelve (pp. 206–24)
1 | Corti, The English Empress , p. 225, QV to V, 7.1.1885 |
2 | Victoria, Letters 1886–1901 , vol. I, p. 320, QVJ 20.6.1887 |
3 | Victoria, Beloved and Darling Child , p. 64, QV to V, 10.3.1888 |
4 | Victoria, Letters 1886–1901 , vol. I, p. 417, QVJ 15.6.1888 |
5 | Victoria, Advice to a Grand-daughter , p. 56, QV to Victoria of Hesse, 21.9.83 |
6 | Victoria, Letters 1886–1901 , vol. I, p. 417, QV to William II, 15.6.1888 |
7 | Magnus, King Edward , p. 228, QV to V, 12.6.1891 |
8 | Ibid ., p. 228 |
9 | Ibid ., p. 236, Knollys to Henry Ponsonby, 15.8.1892 |
10 | Victoria, Advice to a Grand-daughter , p. 56, QV to Victoria of Hesse, 21.9.1883 |
11 | Weintraub, Importance of Being Edward , p. 348 |
12 | Victoria, Letters, 1886–1901 , vol. III, p. 174, QVJ 22.6.1897 |
13 | The Times , 7.2.1899 |
14 | Victoria, Letters 1886–1901 , vol. III, pp. 579–80, QVJ 31.7.1900 |
15 | Ibid ., vol. III, p. 580, QVJ 31.7.1900 |
16 | Mallet, Life with Queen Victoria , p. 201, 31.7.1900 |
17 | The Times , 1.8.1900 |
18 | Mallet, Life with Queen Victoria , p. 213, 2.11.1900 |
19 | Victoria, Letters 1886–1901 , vol. III, p. 637, QVJ 1.1.1901 |
20 | Rennell, Last Days of Glory , pp. 137–8 |