The Heir Apparent (107 page)

100
.  QV’s Memo, 29 August 1890, in Harcourt-Williams,
Salisbury–Balfour Correspondence
, p. 320.

101
.  Balfour’s copy of Alix’s letter to QV, in Harcourt-Williams,
Salisbury–Balfour Correspondence
, p. 322.

102
.  Arthur Balfour to Lord Salisbury, 30 August 1890, in Harcourt-Williams,
Salisbury–Balfour Correspondence
, p. 322.

103
.  Roberts,
Salisbury
, p. 550.

104
.  RA GV/AA18/38, B to George, 23 November 1890.

105
.  RA VIC/Add C07/1, Henry Ponsonby to Francis Knollys, 15 October 1890. RA VIC/Add C07/1, Ponsonby to Knollys, 30 October 1890.

106
.  Bodleian Library, Margot Asquith Papers, MSS Eng d3199, Diary, 22 June 1895.

107
.  Eddy to Lady Sybil St Clair Erskine, 21 June 1891, in Pope-Hennessy,
Queen Mary
, pp. 199–200.

108
.  See Cook,
Prince Eddy
, pp. 235–36.

109
.  Aronson,
Prince Eddy
, p. 199. Hyde,
Cleveland Street
, p. 57.

  
1
.  RA GV/AA18/26, B to George, 26 August 1890.

  
2
.  RA VIC/Z456/85, B to QV, 17 August 1889. RA GV/AA21/25, B to George, 5 April 1897.

  
3
.  Magnus,
Edward VII
, p. 219. See RA EVIID/1890 (June, July).

  
4
.  Warwick,
Afterthoughts
, pp. 38–39, 93–94, 163.

  
5
.  RA VIC/Add C07/1, B to Francis Knollys, 7 November 1889.

  
6
.  RA GV/AA18/28, B to George, 9 September 1890. See Blunden,
Countess of Warwick
, p. 72.

  
7
.  Jason Tomes, “Sir William Gordon-Cumming,”
ODNB
.

  
8
.  Vane,
Affair of State
, p. 189. Tomes, “Gordon-Cumming,”
ODNB
. Bertie lunched at Harriet Street on 20 January 1880 and 6 February 1889. (RA VIC EVIID/1880: 20 January; RA VIC/EVIID/1889: 6 February 1889.) Gordon-Cumming stayed three times at Sandringham (
ODNB
).

  
9
.  RA GV/AA18/28, B to George, 9 September 1890. See Crook,
Nouveaux Riches
, pp. 27–28.

 
10
.  RA VIC/Y182/28, Hon. Arthur Somerset, “Tranby Croft Scandal,” transcript, April 1940.

 
11
.  Allfrey,
Jewish Court
, pp. 52, 55. The London Library copy has a marginal note in pencil: “only when he was a very old man.” See Roth, “Court Jews,”
Jewish Social Studies
(1943), p. 361.

 
12
.  
The Baccarat Case
, ed. W. Teignmouth Shore (William Hodge, 1932), p. 115.
The Times
, 4 June 1891 (Baccarat Case: Stanley Wilson’s evidence).

 
13
.  
The Times
, 4 June 1891.

 
14
.  George MacDonald Fraser wrote a story about Tranby Croft, which is published in
Flashman and the Tiger
(HarperCollins, 1999).

 
15
.  Michael Havers, Edward Grayson, and Peter Shankland,
The Royal Baccarat Scandal
(Souvenir Press, 1988), p. 123.

 
16
.  
The Times
, 4 June 1891.

 
17
.  Havers, Grayson, and Shankland,
Royal Baccarat Scandal
, p. 50.

 
18
.  Ibid., p. 32.

 
19
.  
The Times
, 3 June 1891 (evidence of Prince of Wales).

 
20
.  Shore,
Baccarat Case
, p. 181.

 
21
.  Ibid., p. 32.

 
22
.  RA VIC/Add U/32, QV to Vicky, 24 February 1891 [transcript].

 
23
.  Havers, Grayson, and Shankland,
Royal Baccarat Scandal
, p. 237.

 
24
.  Vincent,
Derby Diaries 1878–93
(3 February 1891), p. 867.

 
25
.  Leslie,
Edwardians in Love
, p. 141.

 
26
.  Havers, Grayson, and Shankland,
Royal Baccarat Scandal
, p. 269.

 
27
.  Ibid., p. 269. Vane,
Affair of State
, p. 189.

 
28
.  RA GV/AA18/29, B to George, 16 September 1890. RA VIC/EVIID/1890: 11 September.

 
29
.  RA VIC/EVIID/1890: 12 September.

 
30
.  Shore,
Baccarat Case
, p. 78.

 
31
.  William Gordon-Cumming to B, 12 September 1890, in Havers, Grayson, and Shankland,
Royal Baccarat Scandal
, p. 40.

 
32
.  
The Times
, 9 February 1911 (Letter from Daisy Warwick). Blunden,
Countess of Warwick
, pp. 72–73.

 
33
.  RA VIC/Y182/5, Redvers Buller to Henry Ponsonby, 13 February 1891. Magnus,
Edward VII
, p. 225.

 
34
.  RA VIC/Y182/22, Duke of Connaught to Henry Ponsonby, 22 February 1891.

 
35
.  See press comment in Havers, Grayson, and Shankland,
Royal Baccarat Scandal
, pp. 61–63.

 
36
.  RA VIC/Y182/23, Memo by Ponsonby, 22 February 1891.

 
37
.  Ibid., QV’s note.

 
38
.  RA VIC/Y182/18, Lord Rowton to Henry Ponsonby, 19 February 1891.

 
39
.  RA VIC/Add U/32, QV to Vicky, 24 February 1891 [transcript].

 
40
.  RA VIC/Add A12/1774, Francis Knollys to Henry Ponsonby, 17 April 1891.

 
41
.  RA GV/AA18/55, B to George, 29 March 1891.

 
42
.  RA VIC/Add A4/29, B to Vicky, 20 May 1891.

 
43
.  RA VIC/Y182/28, Hon. Arthur Somerset, “Tranby Croft Scandal,” transcript, April 1940.

 
44
.  T. H. S. Escott,
King Edward and His Court
(T. F. Unwin, 1903), p. 109. Richard Davenport-Hines, “Sir George Lewis,”
ODNB
. Allfrey,
Jewish Court
, pp. 206–7.

 
45
.  Hatfield House, 3M/E, Lord Charles Beresford to B, 12 July 1891. RA VIC/EVIID/1890: 25 January. Juxon,
Lewis and Lewis
, pp. 96–97.

 
46
.  Bodleian Library, Lincolnshire Papers, MS Film 1120, Carrington Diary, 17 May 1891.

 
47
.  RA VIC/Add A12/1789, Henry Ponsonby to QV, 2 June 1891.

 
48
.  Havers, Grayson, and Shankland,
Royal Baccarat Scandal
, pp. 95–96.

 
49
.  
The Times
, 3 June 1891.

 
50
.  RA VIC/Add C07/9, Francis Knollys to Henry Ponsonby, 4 June 1891.

 
51
.  Ibid.

 
52
.  Havers, Grayson, and Shankland,
Royal Baccarat Scandal
, p. 154.

 
53
.  RA VIC/Add C07/9, Francis Knollys to Henry Ponsonby, 4 June 1891.

 
54
.  Havers, Grayson, and Shankland,
Royal Baccarat Scandal
, p. 203.

 
55
.  Ibid., p. 216.

 
56
.  RA VIC/Add C07/9, Francis Knollys to Henry Ponsonby, 8 June 1891.

 
57
.  Bodleian Library, Lincolnshire Papers, MS Film 1120, Carrington Diary, 10 June 1891.

 
58
.  RA GV/AA19/11, B to George, 17 June 1891.

 
59
.  Bodleian Library, Lincolnshire Papers, MS Film 1120, Carrington Diary, 12 June 1891.

 
60
.  RA VIC/Add U32/, QV to Vicky, 8 June 1891.

 
61
.  RA GV/AA19/11, B to George, 17 June 1891.

 
62
.  RA VIC/Add C07/1, Bundle labeled “June 1891, Cumming Case, letters and resolutions, none of which have been answered.” St. Aubyn,
Edward VII
, pp. 171–72.
The Times
, 15 June 1891. Williams,
Contentious Crown
, pp. 66–67.

 
63
.  RA VIC/Add C07/1, Jennings to Knollys, 16 June 1891.

 
64
.  
Reynolds’s Newspaper
, 14 June 1891.

 
65
.  RA VIC/Z50/45, Vicky to QV, 14 June 1891.

 
66
.  
Pall Mall Gazette
, 15 June 1891. RA VIC/Y182/28, Hon. Arthur Somerset, “Tranby Croft Scandal,” transcript, April 1940.

 
67
.  Ross McKibbon, “Working-Class Gambling in Britain 1880–1939,”
Past and Present
, no. 82 (1979).

 
68
.  
The Times
, 10 June 1891.

 
69
.  RA VIC/Add A4/32, B to Vicky, 14 June 1891.

 
70
.  Magnus,
Edward VII
, p. 229.

 
71
.  RA GV/AA19/10, B to George, 10 June 1891.

 
72
.  Ibid.

 
73
.  RA VIC/Add A4/33, B to Vicky, 23 June 1891.

 
74
.  RA GV/AA18/55, B to George, 29 March 1891.

 
75
.  Battiscombe,
Queen Alexandra
, p. 182.

 
76
.  Quoted in Pope-Hennessy,
Queen Mary
, p. 193.

 
77
.  Bodleian Library, Lincolnshire Papers, MS Film 1120, Carrington Diary, 19 May 1891.

 
78
.  Cook,
Prince Eddy
, p. 250.

 
79
.  RA VIC/Z475/16, QV to Salisbury, 4 August 1891 (draft).

 
80
.  Hatfield House, 3M/E, Francis Knollys to Lord Salisbury, 8 August 1891.

 
81
.  Pope-Hennessy,
Queen Mary
, p. 103. For Mary of Teck, see p. 280, note.

 
82
.  Pope-Hennessy,
Queen Mary
, pp. 114–18.
The Daily News
, 27 July 1883.
Dundee Courier
, 3 August 1883.

 
83
.  Pope-Hennessy,
Queen Mary
, p. 105.

 
84
.  Ibid., p. 186.

 
85
.  Ibid., p. 137.

 
86
.  Arthur Balfour to Lord Salisbury, 30 August 1890, in Harcourt-Williams,
Salisbury–Balfour Correspondence
, p. 321. Pope-Hennessy,
Queen Mary
, p. 52.

 
87
.  Mapperton Papers, 287, Oliver Montagu to Aunt E [August 1891].

 
88
.  
The Times
, 10, 20 October 1891.

 
89
.  Francis Knollys to Henry Ponsonby, 19 August 1891, in Magnus,
Edward VII
, p. 299.

 
90
.  Cook,
Prince Eddy
, pp. 253–54.

 
91
.  
The Times
, 2 November 1891.

 
92
.  RA VIC/Z457/32, Alix to QV, 4 November 1891.

 
93
.  RA VIC/Z457/31, Dighton Probyn to QV, 2 November 1891.
The Times
, 10 November 1891.

 
94
.  
The Times
, 18, 21 November 1891.

 
95
.  RA VIC/Add 4/38, B to Vicky, 16 November 1891.

 
96
.  RA VIC/Z457/42, Alix to QV, 17 November 1891.

 
97
.  Pope-Hennessy,
Queen Mary
, p. 210.

 
98
.  RA VIC/Add A4/42, B to Vicky, 9 December 1891.

 
99
.  Pope-Hennessy,
Queen Mary
, p. 213.

100
.  RA VIC/Z475/49, Alix to QV, 6 December 1891 (copy).

101
.  Francis Knollys to Schomberg McDonnell, 6 January 1892, in Cook,
Prince Eddy
, p. 263.

102
.  RA VIC/Z475/137, Alix to QV, telegram, 8:28 p. m., 8 January 1892.

103
.  RA VIC/Z475/140, B to QV, telegram, 11:10 a.m., 10 January 1892. See Buckle,
Letters
(3rd series), vol. 2, p. 91.

104
.  
The Times
, 14 January 1892.

105
.  RA VIC/Z475/154, B to QV, telegram, 11 a.m., 13 January 1892. See Buckle,
Letters
(3rd series), vol. 2, p. 92.

106
.  Cook,
Prince Eddy
, p. 268.
The Times
, 14 January 1892.

107
.  Pope-Hennessy,
Queen Mary
, pp. 222–23. Cook,
Prince Eddy
, pp. 269–70. Battiscombe,
Queen Alexandra
, pp. 189–90.

108
.  RA VIC/Z475/169, B to QV, telegram, 9:35 a.m., 14 January 1892.

109
.  RA VIC/Z95/5, B to QV, 14 January 1892.

110
.  RA VIC/Z95/11, George to QV, 18 January 1892.

111
.  RA VIC/Z475/188, B to QV, telegram, 11:13 a.m., 16 January 1892.

112
.  RA VIC/Z475/198, QV to B, telegram (draft), 18 January 1892.

113
.  RA VIC/Z475/199, B to QV, telegram (draft), 18 January 1892.

114
.  RA VIC/Z475/207, QV to B, telegram draft, 19 January 1892.

115
.  RA VIC/Z475/200, Alix to QV, telegram draft, 18 January 1892.

116
.  Bodleian Library, Lincolnshire Papers, MS Film 1120, Carrington Diary, 20 January 1892.

  
1
.  Quennell,
Lonely Business
, p. 231.

  
2
.  Alix to George, September 1902, in Pope-Hennessy,
Queen Mary
, p. 373.

  
3
.  Mapperton Papers, Alix to Lady Sydney, 13 January 1893.

  
4
.  RA GV/CC27/30, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz to Princess Mary of Teck, 16 May 1892.

  
5
.  QVJ, 2 February 1892, in Buckle,
Letters
(3rd series), vol. 2, p. 96.

  
6
.  RA VIC/Z457/62, Alix to QV, 12 February 1892. Pope-Hennessy,
Queen Mary
, pp. 231–32.

  
7
.  Williams,
Contentious Crown
, p. 67.
Reynolds’s Newspaper
, 17 January 1892.
The Times
, 15 January 1892.

  
8
.  RA VIC/Add A12/1910, Francis Knollys to Henry Ponsonby, 15 August 1892.

  
9
.  William Gladstone to QV, 7 November 1892, and QV to Henry Ponsonby, 9 November 1892, in Buckle,
Letters
(3rd series), vol. 2, pp. 178–79.