The Heir Apparent (103 page)

100
.  Leslie,
Edwardians in Love
, pp. 70–72. Painter,
Proust
, vol. 1, pp. 154–55.

101
.  
The Times
, 23 March 1874.

102
.  RA VIC/T6/27, Benjamin Disraeli to Henry Ponsonby, 1 July 1875.

103
.  RA VIC/Add A36/960, Henry Ponsonby to Mary Ponsonby, 13 September 1875.

104
.  RA VIC/Add A36/921, Henry Ponsonby to Mary Ponsonby, 5 June 1875.

105
.  Vincent,
Derby Diaries 1869–78
, p. 221 (5 June 1875).

106
.  RA VIC/T6/22, Note by Henry Ponsonby, [7] June 1875.

107
.  RA VIC/T6/18, Francis Knollys to Henry Ponsonby, 4 June 1875.

108
.  RA VIC/T6/22, Note by Henry Ponsonby, June 1875.

109
.  Vincent,
Derby Diaries 1869–78
, p. 229 (14 July 1875).

110
.  Ibid., pp. 223, 227–28, 229–50 (9, 12 June, 3 July 1875).

111
.  Marquis of Zetland,
Letters of Disraeli
, vol. 1, p. 227.

112
.  Vincent,
Derby Diaries 1869–78
, pp. 203–4 (31 March 1875).

113
.  Copenhagen Letters, Box 103, Alix to Minnie, 5 April–8 May 1875; Marquis of Zetland,
Letters of Disraeli
, vol. 1, p. 224.

114
.  RA VIC/T6/48, B to Benjamin Disraeli, 13 September 1875.

115
.  RA VIC/Z468/46, Benjamin Disraeli to QV, n.d.

116
.  Benjamin Disraeli to Lady Chesterfield, 4 October 1875, in Marquis of Zetland,
Letters of Disraeli
, vol. 1, p. 224.

117
.  RA VIC/Z468/56, Helena to QV, 11 October 1875.

118
.  Copenhagen Letters, Box 103, Alix to Minnie, 26 October 1875.

119
.  RA VIC/Z468/67, Alix to QV, 14 October 1875.

  
1
.  Bodleian Library, Lincolnshire Papers, MS Film 1120, Charles Carrington to his mother, 22 October 1875.

  
2
.  Copenhagen Letters, Box 103, Alix to Minnie, 26 October 1875.

  
3
.  B to Lord Granville, 29 October 1875, in Lee,
Edward VII
, vol. 1, p. 379.

  
4
.  QV to Vicky, 4 August 1875, in Fulford,
Darling Child
, p. 187.

  
5
.  RA VIC/T6/56, Sir Thomas Biddulph to Bartle Frere, 6 October 1875. RA VIC/Add A36/959, Henry Ponsonby to Mary Ponsonby, 12 September 1875.

  
6
.  RA VIC/Add A36/964, Henry Ponsonby to Mary Ponsonby, 17 September 1875. Turner,
Court of St. James’s
, pp. 294–95.

  
7
.  RA VIC/Add A36/959, Henry Ponsonby to Mary Ponsonby, 12 September 1875.

  
8
.  Bodleian Library, Lincolnshire Papers, MS Film 1120, Charles Carrington to his mother, 5 November 1875.

  
9
.  BL, India Office Collections, Bourne and Shepherd’s Royal Photographic Album, HRH’s Tour in India (1876).

 
10
.  Bodleian Library, Lincolnshire Papers, MS Film 1120, Charles Carrington to
his mother, 22 October 1875. RA VIC/Z468/87, Francis Knollys to Henry Ponsonby, 7 November 1875.

 
11
.  BL, India Office, MSS Eur C144/12, Arthur Ellis to Lord Salisbury, 31 August 1875; Salisbury to Northbrook, 1 September 1875.
The Times
, 19 November 1875.

 
12
.  
The Times
, 19 November 1875. W. H. Russell,
The Prince of Wales’s Tour
(Sampson Low, 1877), p. 7.

 
13
.  Bodleian Library, Lincolnshire Papers, MS Film 1120, Charles Carrington to his mother, 5 November 1875.

 
14
.  Lord Suffield,
My Memories
(Herbert Jenkins, 1913), p. 160. See Katherine Prior, “Edward Bradford,”
ODNB
.

 
15
.  RA VIC/Add A2/6, QV to B, 26 November 1875. RA VIC/Add A2/11, QV to B, 31 December 1875.

 
16
.  Lord Northbrook to QV, 13 November 1875, in Buckle,
Letters
(2nd series), vol. 2, p. 431.

 
17
.  
The Times
, 6 December 1875.

 
18
.  Ibid., 7 December 1875.

 
19
.  Bodleian Library, Lincolnshire Papers, MS Film 1120, Charles Carrington to his mother, 22 November 1875. See David Gilmour,
The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj
(John Murray, 2005), pp. 196–97.

 
20
.  
The Times
, 20 December 1875.

 
21
.  BL, India Office, MSS Eur C144/12/64, Lord Salisbury to Lord Northbrook, 22 July 1875.

 
22
.  Bodleian Library, Lincolnshire Papers, MS Film 1120, Charles Carrington to his mother, 14 November 1875.

 
23
.  Russell,
Prince of Wales’s Tour
, pp. 276–84.
The Times
, 13 December 1875.

 
24
.  Antony Taylor, “ ‘Pig-Sticking Princes’: Royal Hunting, Moral Outrage, and the Republican Opposition to Animal Abuse in 19th and early 20th c Britain,”
History
, vol. 89 (2004), p. 44.

 
25
.  
Reynolds’s Newspaper
, 19 December 1875.

 
26
.  Ibid., 16 January 1876.

 
27
.  QV to Vicky, 2 February 1876, in Fulford,
Darling Child
, p. 204.

 
28
.  Bartle Frere to QV, 10 February 1876, in Lee,
Edward VII
, vol. 1, p. 385.

 
29
.  Russell,
Prince of Wales’s Tour
, p. 461.

 
30
.  RA VIC/Z469/29, Extract from Daly’s Report, n.d.

 
31
.  
The Times
, 31 January 1876. Suffield,
Memories
, p. 215.

 
32
.  Barbara Strachey,
The Strachey Line
(Gollancz, 1985), p. 159.

 
33
.  
The Times
, 31 January, 6 March 1876.

 
34
.  B to Lord Granville, 30 November 1875, in Lee,
Edward VII
, vol. 1, p. 399.

 
35
.  Quoted in ibid., vol. 1, p. 399.

 
36
.  B to QV, 14 November 1875, in ibid. RA VIC/Add A2/8, QV to B, 9 December 1875.

 
37
.  BL, India Office, MSS Eur C144/12, Lord Salisbury to Lord Northbrook, 17 December 1875.

 
38
.  Lady Strachey’s Diary, November 1875, in Diana Souhami,
The Trials of Radclyffe Hall
(Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1998), p. 37.

 
39
.  Strachey,
Strachey Line
, p. 159.

 
40
.  Cara Lancaster Papers, B to Mabel Batten, 11 March 1876.

 
41
.  Cara Lancaster Papers, Running Order for Radio 4 Programme on Mabel Batten, 3 March 1999. Souhami,
Trials of Radclyffe Hall
, pp. 35–39. Camp,
Royal Mistresses
, pp. 363–64.

 
42
.  Battiscombe,
Queen Alexandra
, pp. 130–31.

 
43
.  RA VIC/Add A2/19, QV to B, 19 February 1876.

 
44
.  
Reynolds’s Newspaper
, 13 February 1876.

 
45
.  
The Times
, 9 February 1876.

 
46
.  Walter L. Arnstein, “Queen Victoria Opens Parliament,”
Historical Research
, vol. 63 (1990), pp. 185–87.

 
47
.  RA VIC/Add A2/18, QV to B, 18 February 1876.

 
48
.  RA VIC/Add A2/23, QV to B, 17 March 1876. Miles Taylor, “Queen Victoria and India, 1837–61,”
Victorian Studies
, vol. 46 (2004), pp. 264–66.

 
49
.  RA VIC/Add C07/1/Ponsonby, Francis Knollys to Henry Ponsonby, 7 April 1876, “Confidential.”

 
50
.  RA VIC/Add C07/1/0992, B to Benjamin Disraeli, 22 April 1876, copy.

 
51
.  Francis Knollys to Benjamin Disraeli, 22 April 1876, in Lee,
Edward VII
, vol. 1, p. 403.

 
52
.  Russell,
Prince of Wales’s Tour
, pp. 469, 471–72, 476, 492.

 
53
.  RA VIC/Add A2/24, QV to B, 23 March 1876.

 
54
.  
Reynolds’s Newspaper
, 5 March 1876.

 
55
.  RA VIC/EVIID/20 February 1876.

 
56
.  RA GV/AA13/14, B to George, 23 February 1876.

  
1
.  Edward Marjoribanks to the Duke of Marlborough, 1 March 1876, in Randolph Churchill,
Winston S. Churchill: Companion
, vol. 1 (Heinemann, 1967), part 1, p. 29.

  
2
.  QV to Ponsonby, [?11 May 1876], in ibid., part 1, p. 41.

  
3
.  Aylesford Papers, Packington Hall, Album on Royal Visit, 1874. Lord Aylesford letters to author, 30 October 2006, 3 December 2006. Copenhagen Letters, Box 103, Alix to Minnie, 22 November 1874.

  
4
.  Aylesford Papers, Packington Hall, Album on Royal Visit, 1874.

  
5
.  See B to Harriett Mordaunt, 30 November and 5 December 1867, in
The Times
, 21 February 1870.

  
6
.  Sir William Dugdale, author interview, 10 February 2007.

  
7
.  Statement by Lord Blandford, 27 July 1876, in Randolph Churchill,
Churchill: Companion
, vol. 1, part 1, p. 49.

  
8
.  Edith Aylesford to Jane, Countess of Aylesford, ?25 February 1876, in Randolph Churchill,
Churchill: Companion
, vol. 1, part 1, p. 27.

  
9
.  
The Times
, 4 July 1878.

 
10
.  Author interview with Lord Aylesford, November 2006. Randolph Churchill,
Churchill: Companion
, vol. 1, part 1, pp. 26ff.
The Times
, 4 July 1878.

 
11
.  Joe Aylesford to Edith Aylesford, 15 February 1876, in Randolph Churchill,
Churchill: Companion
, vol. 1, part 1, p. 26.

 
12
.  RA VIC/Add C07/1/1071, Joe Aylesford to Edith Aylesford, telegram (copy), 22 February 1876.

 
13
.  RA VIC/Add C07/1/1072, Joe Aylesford to Jane, Countess of Aylesford, telegram (copy), 22 February 1876.

 
14
.  Bodleian Libray, Lincolnshire Papers, MS Film 1120, Charles Carrington to his mother, 1 March 1876.

 
15
.  RA VIC/Add C07/1/1073, Alix to B, telegram, 23 February 1876.

 
16
.  RA VIC/Add C07/1/1075, Alix to B, telegram, 27 February 1876.

 
17
.  RA VIC/Add C07/1/1076, B to Alix, telegram, 29 February 1876.

 
18
.  RA VIC/Add C07/1/1078, Duchess of Manchester to B, telegram, 27 February 1876.

 
19
.  RA VIC/Add C07/1/1079, B to the Duchess of Manchester, telegram, 28 February 1876.

 
20
.  RA VIC/Add C07/1/1090, Duchess of Manchester to B, 27 March 1876.

 
21
.  Lord Blandford to Randolph Churchill, 5 April 1876, in Randolph Churchill,
Churchill: Companion
, vol. 1, part 1, p. 36.

 
22
.  Lord Lansdowne to B, 29 February 1876, in St. Aubyn,
Edward VII
, p. 175.

 
23
.  B to Lord Lansdowne, 11 May 1876, in ibid.

 
24
.  RA VIC/Add C07/1/1080, Randolph Churchill to B, telegram, 28 February 1876.

 
25
.  RA VIC/Add C07/1/1081, B to Randolph Churchill, telegram, 29 February 1876.

 
26
.  RA VIC/Add C07/1/1087, Randolph Churchill to B, telegram, 4 March 1876.

 
27
.  RA VIC/Add C07/1/1088, Randolph Churchill to B, telegram, 4 March 1876.

 
28
.  Henry Ponsonby to B, 4 April 1876, in Randolph Churchill,
Churchill: Companion
, vol. 1, part 1, pp. 33–34.

 
29
.  Battiscombe,
Queen Alexandra
, pp. 132–33. St. Aubyn,
Edward VII
, pp. 176–77.

 
30
.  Battiscombe,
Queen Alexandra
, pp. 133–34.

 
31
.  Ibid., p. 134.

 
32
.  The Court Circular for 6 March 1876 reports under both Buckingham Palace and Marlborough House that the princess visited the Queen. (
The Times
, 7 March 1876.)

 
33
.  RA VIC/Add A2/22, QV to B, 10 March 1876.

 
34
.  Lord Hardwicke to B, 4 April 1876, in St. Aubyn,
Edward VII
, p. 179: “I read to [Randolph] the passage in your letter as regarding himself, at the same time saying it was evidently written under great excitement, and that I could not press the mention of Your Royal Highness having a hostile meeting with him.”

 
35
.  Randolph Churchill to B, 3 April 1876, in St. Aubyn,
Edward VII
, p. 179.

 
36
.  Copenhagen Letters, Box 103, Alix to Minnie, 26 October 1875.

 
37
.  Hardwicke to B, 4 April 1876, in St. Aubyn,
Edward VII
, pp. 178–79.

 
38
.  Ibid., p. 188. Francis Knollys to Henry Ponsonby, 17 December 1876, in Randolph Churchill,
Churchill: Companion
, vol. 1, part 1, p. 37.

 
39
.  Henry Ponsonby to Francis Knollys, n.d., in Randolph Churchill,
Churchill: Companion
, vol. 1, part 1, p. 37.

 
40
.  RA VIC/Add C07/1/1137, B to Edith Aylesford, 11 December [1873].

 
41
.  RA VIC/Add C07/1/1138, B to Edith Aylesford, 18 December 1873.

 
42
.  RA VIC/Add C07/1/1139, B to Edith Aylesford, 26 December 1873.

 
43
.  RA VIC/Add C07/1/1112, Lord Hartington to Lord Cairns, 24 July 1876.

 
44
.  RA VIC/Add A36/1051, Henry Ponsonby to Mary Ponsonby, 18 April 1876.

 
45
.  Randolph Churchill to Jennie Churchill, 20 April 1876, in Randolph Churchill,
Churchill: Companion
, vol. 1, part 1, pp. 39–40.

 
46
.  R. F. Foster,
Lord Randolph Churchill
(Oxford University Press, 1988), pp. 16–17; Mrs. George Cornwallis-West,
Reminiscences of Lady Randolph Churchill
(Edward Arnold, 1908), p. 61.

 
47
.  RA VIC/Add C07/1/1143, Randolph Churchill to Francis Knollys, “Monday 5th” [1873].

 
48
.  RA VIC/Add C07/1/1140, Randolph Churchill to Francis Knollys, “Wed 17th” [September 1873].

 
49
.  RA VIC/Add C07/1/1141 and 1142, Randolph Churchill to Francis Knollys, 24 and 26 September 1873.

 
50
.  Churchill College, Randolph Churchill Papers, CHAR 28/4/37, Randolph Churchill to Jennie Jerome, 9 March 1874.

 
51
.  Quoted in Magnus,
Edward VII
, p. 351.

 
52
.  See Anne Sebba,
Jennie Churchill
(John Murray, 2007), pp. 51–52.

 
53
.  Leslie,
Edwardians in Love
, p. 191.

 
54
.  RA VIC/EVIID/1875: 21 March, 4 April 1875, 15 August.

 
55
.  Leslie,
Edwardians in Love
, p. 191.

 
56
.  Cornwallis-West,
Reminiscences
, pp. 4–17, 39–49, 60–61.

 
57
.  Richard W. Davis, “ ‘We Are All Americans Now!’ Anglo-American Marriages in the Later 19th c,”
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society
, vol. 135 (1991), p. 142. See pp. 285–86.

 
58
.  Lord Aylesford letters to author, 30 October 2006, 3 December 2006; author interview with Lord Aylesford, 20 November 2006.

 
59
.  RA VIC/Add A2/24, QV to B, 23 March 1876.

 
60
.  Vincent,
Derby Diaries 1869–78
, p. 291 (19 April 1876). According to Derby’s sources, “lodgings had been taken for the prince under an assumed name.”

 
61
.  Bertie recorded two meetings with Mme. Murrieta in his diary. (RA VIC/EVIID/1875: 20, 23 April.) Author email from Anthony Camp, 17 May 2010.

 
62
.  Vincent,
Derby Diaries 1869–78
, p. 203 (31 March 1875). See above, p. 195.

 
63
.  Churchill Archives Centre, Jennie Churchill Papers, GBR/0014/CHAR 28/97, Jennie Churchill to Randolph Churchill, 19 April 1876. See J. Mordaunt Crook,
The Rise of the Nouveaux Riches
(John Murray, 1999), p. 241. Cornwallis-West,
Reminiscences
, p. 39.

 
64
.  Benjamin Disraeli to B, 20 April 1876, and B’s reply, in Lee,
Edward VII
, vol. 1, p. 412.

 
65
.  RA VIC/Add C07/1, Arnold White to Francis Knollys, 29 June 1877. See RA VIC/Add C07/1, T. Gibson Bowles to B, 11 June 1877.

 
66
.  Quoted in Magnus,
Edward VII
, p. 147.

 
67
.  RA VIC/EVIID/1876: 11 May.

 
68
.  QV to Vicky, 16 May 1876, in Fulford,
Darling Child
, p. 211.

 
69
.  QV to Henry Ponsonby [11 May 1876], in Randolph Churchill,
Churchill: Companion
, vol. 1, part 1, p. 41. RA VIC/T6/88, Francis Knollys to Henry Ponsonby, 2 May 1876.

 
70
.  
The Times
, 12 May 1876.

 
71
.  Lord Hardwicke to Henry Ponsonby, 12 May 1876, 14 May 1876, in Randolph Churchill,
Churchill: Companion
, vol. 1, part 1, pp. 42–43.

 
72
.  Author letter from Lord Aylesford, 3 December 2006.

 
73
.  RA VIC/Add C07/1/1089, Lord Aylesford to B, 26 March 1876.

 
74
.  RA VIC/Add C07/1/1091, Lord Hardwicke to B, 4 April 1876.

 
75
.  Ibid.

 
76
.  RA VIC/EVIID/1882: 22–27 March and 31 March.

 
77
.  Bodleian Library, Lincolnshire Papers, MS Film 1120, Carrington Diary, New Year 1882.

 
78
.  Aylesford Papers, extract from
Parish Magazine
, n.d.

 
79
.  RA VIC/EVIID/1885: 14 January.

 
80
.  John Vincent, ed.,
Later Derby Diaries
(Bristol, 1981), p. 103 (14 January 1885).

 
81
.  See Edward Marjoribanks to the Duke of Marlborough, 22 March 1876, in Randolph Churchill,
Churchill: Companion
, vol. 1, part 1, p. 32.

 
82
.  Edith Aylesford to Jane, Countess of Aylesford [25 February 1876], in Randolph Churchill,
Churchill: Companion
, vol. 1, part 1, pp. 27–28.
The Times
, 4 July 1878.

 
83
.  Williams,
It Was Such Fun
, pp. 75–76. Sophia Murphy,
The Duchess of Devonshire’s Ball
(Sidgwick and Jackson, 1984), p. 69.

 
84
.  Cornwallis-West,
Reminiscences
, p. 68.

 
85
.  Lord Cairns to Lord Beaconsfield, 20 September 1876, in Randolph Churchill,
Churchill: Companion
, vol. 1, part 1, p. 55.

 
86
.  RA VIC/Add C07/1/1136, Box 3, Lord Cairns to B, 23 July 1885.