Censoring Queen Victoria (22 page)

papers of,
66–67

Peel and,
122

political ambitions of,
83
,
117–120
,
122–123
,
138–139

portrait by Landseer,
73

role as consort,
115–116

title of Prince Consort,
113

Victoria, courtship,
45
,
150–151

Victoria, marriage to,
4
,
112–113

Victoria, presents from,
74

Wellington College,
37

Alexandra, Queen,
12
,
162

Alexandrine, Duchess of Saxe-Coburg,
125
,
126

Alice, Princess,
129
,
166

Anson, George,
116
,
117
,
119
,
121
,
138–139

Army Review Committee,
146

Arnold, Dr,
37

Arnstein, Walter,
77

Aronson, Theo,
25

Augustus,
107

Austerlitz, Battle of,
141

Australia,
65

Austria,
141

Austro–Italian war,
137

Beatrice, Princess,
10–11
,
12
,
15

Belgium,
109
,
165
,
166–167

Benson, Arthur Christopher

birth,
38

Book of the Queen's Dolls, The
,
55–56

capacity to keep things hidden,
41–42

champions homosexuality,
47–51

Cory's letters,
49

Cory's poems,
50–51

diaries,
33
,
41

Eton, work at,
15
,
16
,
17
,
38
,
48

father, biography of,
42
,
43–45

father, relations with,
37–39

homosexuality,
51

hypochondria,
62

literary output,
38
,
41
,
47

mood swings,
63–64

mother, reads diaries of,
46

mother, relations with,
39–40

nervous breakdown,
172

Queen Victoria, relations with,
52–53

Benson, Arthur Christopher: editor

accepts editorship of Victoria's letters,
16–17
,
56

agricultural metaphors,
77

aims,
81
,
83–84
,
91–92

Albert, protocol for authorship of documents,
120

Buckingham Palace, visits to view portraits,
72–73

contract with Murray,
19

daily routine,
64

dream,
54–55

Edward VII, attitude towards,
53–54
,
55

Edward VII, awaits approval for Volume I from,
146

Edward VII, writes to, asking for fourth volume,
82

Esher, agreement with, over profits,
20

Esher, approached by, to publish Victoria's letters,
13–16

Esher, relations with,
59
,
60–61

Esher's attitude towards,
17
,
24
,
59
,
60–61
,
73

excisions, protests to Esher over,
75–77
,
158–161
,
163

excisions: Murray and,
154

exclusions: anxiety over,
78–79

exclusions: correspondence with Leopold I,
105
,
109–110

exclusions: Ferdinand's letters,
107–108

exclusions: foreign influence on Victoria,
104
,
110

exclusions: Lady Flora Hastings affair,
99–100
,
101

exclusions: references to pregnancy in general,
128

exclusions: Regency Act,
118

exclusions: Victoria's pregnancies,
123

exclusions: women's letters,
125–126

extent of Victoria's correspondence,
63
,
66

inclusions: Albert's influence,
112
–
113
,
117
,
123
,
139

inclusions: colourless text to replace excisions,
155–156

inclusions: correspondence with Leopold I,
108–109
,
116

inclusions: influence of men,
133

inclusions: Palmerston's influence,
138

Ladies of Bedchamber crisis,
121–122

leaks news of publication,
18

limitations as,
1–2
,
52
,
55
,
115

Melbourne, admiration for,
100
–
101

number of volumes,
79–82
,
84
,
86

Palmerston, dismissal dilemma,
142–143

private letters,
57–59

publication of
Letters of Quee
n
Victoria
,
171

recruits assistant,
64–65

recruits staff,
61

Round Tower at Windsor Castle, visits,
60
,
62

work begins,
62

working conditions,
65

working methods,
67–68

Benson, Edward White,
37
,
38–39
,
42–45
,
52

Benson, Fred,
40–41
,
42
,
46
,
47

Benson, Hugh,
41

Benson, Maggie,
41

Benson, Martin,
39

Benson, Mary
see
Sidgwick, Mary

Bigge, Arthur,
68
,
148–153

biographies of nineteenth century,
77–78
,
87

Bismarck,
127

Bolitho, Hector,
111
,
112
,
118

Broadmoor,
39

Brett, Dorothy,
26
,
31

Brett, Sylvia,
26
,
31

Brodrick, St John,
135–136

Brooke, Charles Vyner,
31

Brown, John,
10

Buckingham Palace,
8
,
72–73

Burne-Jones, Edward,
38

Burne-Jones, Sir Philip,
37–38

Cambridge,
22

Cambridge, Augusta,
108

Card, Tim,
51

Carrington, Lord,
142

Cassel's,
32

Charles,
3
rd Prince of Leiningen,
169

Charlot, Monica,
118
,
119
,
122

Charlotte, Princess of Wales,
111–112
,
153
,
167–168

Childers, H.C.,
65

Childers, Hugh,
64–65
,
69
,
70
,
71
,
76
,
172

Churchill, Lord,
14

Clark, Sir James,
95

classical Greek education,
22
,
51
,
173

Clementine of France, Princess,
108

Cleveland Street brothel scandal,
24–25
,
34

Coburg, Dowager Duchess of,
112

Coburg, House of
see
Saxe-Coburg, House of

College of Arms,
71

Connolly, Cyril,
22

Conroy, Sir John,
3
,
93–95
,
97
,
99–100
,
117
,
151

Conroy, M.H.,
99

Cory, William
see
Johnson, William

Cowper, Lady Emily,
137
,
138

Creevey, Thomas,
69

Creston, Dormer,
99

Cumberland, Duke of,
99

Curzon, George,
22

Cust, Lionel,
72–73
,
74

Dare, Zena,
31

Davidson, Randall, Dean of Windsor,
10
,
13
,
16

Derby, Lord,
136

Devonshire, Duke of (Lord Hartington),
23
,
28

Dictionary of National Biography
,
83

Dilke, Charles,
24

Disraeli, Benjamin,
10
,
32

Dona Maria da Gloria II, Queen of Portugal,
105–106
,
113
,
125
,
126
–
128
,
129–133
,
138

Duff, David,
111

Duke of Clarence,
25

Eddy, Prince,
68

Edward, Duke of Kent,
2
,
93

Edward VII,
1
,
7

anxiety over Victoria's biography,
76
,
128

approval for Volume I,
145
,
148
,
157–158

approves Benson as editor of Victoria's letters,
14

approves three volumes,
84

Charles,
3
rd Prince of Leiningen, and,
169

Esher, meets,
24

Esher, visits rooms in Windsor Castle,
29

Esher approaches to publish Victoria's letters,
11–12

fondness for French,
162–163

Franz Josef and,
160

Gladstone and,
33

lack of interest in reading,
97–98
,
146

Morley and,
158

Palmerston and,
143

pedantry,
160

relations with ministers,
135–136
,
143

support for reform,
142–143

visits Germany and Austria,
146

visits Ireland,
162

Egalité, Philip,
169

Elgar, Sir Edward,
13

Enigmatic Edwardian, The
(Lees-Milne),
34

Ernest (Albert's older brother),
108
,
111
,
112
,
114
,
117

Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld,
111–112

Ernest II, Duke of Coburg,
169

Esher, Lionel,
21–22
,
32
,
34

Esher, Lord (1818–1898),
21
,
23
,
30

Esher, Maurice,
8
,
26

in Coldstream Guards,
65

Edward VII corrects,
160

Esher appoints as literary executor,
34

Esher's pet name for,
29

marries Zena Dare,
31

Esher, Oliver,
26
,
31–32
,
34

Esher, Reginald Brett, Viscount

Ainger and,
63

attitude towards marriage,
25–26
,
28

Beatrice and,
12

children,
26
,
32–33

Cleveland Street brothel scandal,
25
,
34

criticism of,
33

Edward VII, influence on,
135–136

Edward VII, price of disapproval,
145

establishes Royal Archives,
172

at Eton,
21–22
,
29

fondness for French,
163
,
164

homosexuality,
28–30

Lord Hartington, becomes private secretary to,
23–24

marries Nellie Van de Weyer,
26–28

meets Prince of Wales,
24

obsession with Eton boys,
29

obsession with Maurice,
29–30
,
65

offices and trusteeships,
32–33
,
146

Orchard Lea,
14
,
34

penchant for secrecy,
34–35

personal archive,
25
,
30
,
34

personal archive: publication of journals and letters,
34

personal archive: rare copies of own letters,
86

personal archive: reviews of
Letters of Queen Victoria
,
171

publications,
57

role in royal family life,
12
,
33–34
,
74

rooms at Windsor Castle,
29

wide and considerable influence of,
7–8

Yoke of Empire: Sketches of the Queen's Prime Ministers
,
32–33

Esher, Reginald Brett, Viscount: editor

admiration for Victoria's executive abilities,
136–137

aims as,
81
,
82–83
,
84–86
,
91–92

Albert, protocol for authorship of documents,
120

announces publication of letters,
18

anxiety over access to royal material,
69

Benson, agreement with, over profits,
20

Benson, approaches, to edit Victoria's letters,
13–16

Benson, attitude towards,
17
,
24
,
59
,
60–61
,
73

Benson, rejects inclusion of private letters,
57–59

Edward VII, approaches, to publish Victoria's letters,
11–12

Edward VII, approval for Volume I,
145
,
147–148
,
153–154
,
157–158

Edward VII, writes to, advising three volumes,
84

excisions,
75–77

excisions: ‘by the King' to Volume II,
158–160

excisions: categories of,
161