The Heir Apparent (114 page)

100
.  Ponsonby,
Three Reigns
, p. 271.

101
.  Churchill Archives Centre, Esher Papers, 2/12, Journal, 10 May 1910.

102
.  McKinstry,
Rosebery
, p. 496.

103
.  Keppel,
Edwardian Daughter
, p. 53.

104
.  Allfrey,
Jewish Court
, p. 247. Souhami,
Mrs. Keppel
, p. 92.

105
.  Fitzwilliam, Wilfrid Blunt Papers, MS 10–1975, Diary, 13 May 1910.

106
.  Reid,
Ask Sir James
, p. 243.

107
.  Mrs. Keppel to Lady Knollys, n.d., in Souhami,
Mrs. Keppel
, p. 96.

108
.  Churchill Archives Centre, Esher Papers, 2/12, Journal, 12 June 1910. For the house in Grosvenor Street, see Osbert Lancaster,
Great Morning
(Reprint Society, 1949), pp. 216–17.

109
.  McKinstry,
Rosebery
, p. 496.

110
.  Admiral John Fisher to Reginald McKenna, 14 May 1910, in Marder,
Fear God and Dread Nought
, vol. 2 p. 325.

111
.  Queen Alexandra’s Message,
The Times
, 23 May 1910. Battiscombe,
Queen Alexandra
, pp. 272–73.

112
.  Reid,
Ask Sir James
, p. 242.

113
.  St. Aubyn,
Edward VII
, p. 475, quoting Alix’s remarks to Theodore Roosevelt.

114
.  Diary of George V, 11 May 1910, in Kuhn,
Democratic Royalism
, p. 101.

115
.  
The Times
, 14 May, 16 May 1910.

116
.  PRO Northern Ireland, D/4091/A/6/1, Schomberg McDonnell’s journal, “Edward VII,” May 1910, p. 13.

117
.  
The Times
, 17 May 1910.

118
.  Holmes,
Edward VII
, vol. 2, p. 614.

119
.  
The Times
, 13 May 1910.

120
.  Holmes,
Edward VII
, vol. 2, p. 615.
The Times
, 18 May 1910.

121
.  RA GV/CC25/59, Queen Mary to Augusta Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, 22 May 1910.

122
.  Carrington Diary, 17 May 1910, in Hibbert,
Edward VII
, pp. 312–13.

123
.  Holmes,
Edward VII
, vol. 2, p. 620.

124
.  Lord Esher to Schomberg McDonnell, 9 May 1910, in Kuhn,
Democratic Royalism
, p. 103.

125
.  Schomberg McDonnell to Arthur Bigge, 10, 11 May 1910, in ibid., p. 104.

126
.  John Wolffe,
Great Deaths
(British Academy, 2000), p. 252.

127
.  PRO Northern Ireland, D/4091/A/6/1, Schomberg McDonnell’s journal, “Edward VII,” May 1910, p. 26.

128
.  Holmes,
Edward VII
, vol. 2, p. 625.

129
.  PRO Northern Ireland, D/4091/A/6/1, Schomberg McDonnell’s journal, “Edward VII,” May 1910, p. 26.

130
.  Carrington Diary, 18 May 1910, in Hibbert,
Edward VII
, p. 313.

131
.  Ibid.

132
.  PRO Northern Ireland, D/4091/A/6/1, Schomberg McDonnell’s journal, “Edward VII,” May 1910, pp. 35–36.

133
.  Carrington Diary, 18 May 1910, in Hibbert,
Edward VII
, p. 313.

134
.  PRO Northern Ireland, D/4091/A/6/1, Schomberg McDonnell’s journal, “Edward VII,” May 1910, pp. 39–41.

135
.  PRO Northern Ireland, D/4091/A/6/1, Schomberg McDonnell’s journal, “Edward VII,” May 1910, pp. 42–3.

136
.  Holmes,
Edward VII
, vol. 2, p. 625. Kuhn,
Democratic Royalism
, p. 105. There was no official count of attendance, and estimates vary. See Wolffe,
Great Deaths
, pp. 252–53.

137
.  Vincent,
Crawford Papers
, p. 155 (19 May 1910).

138
.  
The Times
, 13 May 1910.

139
.  Arthur Davidson to Arthur Bigge, 7 May 1910, in Kuhn,
Democratic Royalism
, p. 101.

140
.  Asquith,
Autobiography
, vol. 2, p. 140.

141
.  Ibid.

142
.  Ibid., vol. 2, p. 141.

143
.  St. Aubyn,
Edward VII
, p. 477.

144
.  
The Times
, 21 May 1910. Holmes,
Edward VII
, vol. 2, p. 628.

145
.  Vincent,
Crawford Papers
, p. 156 (20 May 1910).

146
.  
The Times
, 21 May 1910.

147
.  Vincent,
Crawford Papers
, pp. 155–56 (20 May 1910).

148
.  Ibid.

149
.  BL, Sidney Lee Papers, Add MS 56087A, fols. 1–3, George Saunders to Sidney Lee, 22 November 1911.

150
.  Leslie,
Edwardians in Love
, p. 340.

151
.  PRO Northern Ireland, D/4091/A/6/1, Schomberg McDonnell’s journal, “Edward VII,” May 1910, p. 27. See Wolffe,
Great Deaths
, pp. 247–48, for a more positive assessment of Norfolk’s role.

152
.  Asquith,
Autobiography
, vol. 2, p. 142. Kuhn,
Democratic Royalism
, p. 129.

153
.  Fitzroy,
Memoirs
, vol. 1, p. 142.

154
.  PRO Northern Ireland, D/4091/A/6/1, Schomberg McDonnell’s journal, “Edward VII,” May 1910, p. 47.

155
.  Holmes,
Edward VII
, vol. 2, p. 644.
The Times
, 23 May 1910.

156
.  Pope-Hennessy,
Queen Mary
, p. 422.

157
.  Bodleian Library, MS Eng. d. 3208, Margot Asquith Diary, 20 May 1910.

158
.  Asquith,
Autobiography
, vol. 2, p. 143.

  
1
.  Owen Morshead, quoted in Lees-Milne,
Harold Nicolson
, vol. 2, p. 230.

  
2
.  Bodleian Library, MS Eng. d. 3206, Margot Asquith Diary, 20 June 1908.

  
3
.  Strachey’s review of Sidney Lee’s
Edward VII
in
Daily Mail
, 11 October 1927, cited in Hardie,
Political Influence of the British Monarchy
, p. 115.

  
4
.  Logan Pearsall Smith,
Afterthoughts
(Cassell, 1931), p. 34. Rose,
George V
, p. 303.

  
5
.  McLean,
Royalty and Diplomacy
, p. 138.

  
6
.  Cannadine, “The Last Hanoverian Sovereign?,” pp. 156–57. Peter Clarke,
Hope and Glory: Britain 1900–1990
(Penguin Books, 1997), pp. 34, 36.

  
7
.  Heffer,
Power
, pp. 2–3, 304.

  
8
.  I am indebted to Bogdanor,
Monarchy and the Constitution
, pp. 32–41.

  
9
.  Lord Fisher,
Memories
(Hodder and Stoughton, 1919), p. 3.

 
10
.  Esher quoted in Hibbert,
Edward VII
, p. 205.

 
11
.  RA GV/GG9/76, Arthur Davidson to Dighton Probyn, 15 September 1912. RA GV/GG9/82, Davidson to Probyn, 4 October 1912.

 
12
.  Alexander Mikhailovich, Grand Duke of Russia,
Always a Grand Duke
(Royalty Digest, 1995), pp. 202–3.

 
13
.  Battiscombe,
Queen Alexandra
, p. 274.

 
14
.  Quoted in Leslie,
Edwardians in Love
.

 
15
.  Rose,
George V
, p. 291.

 
16
.  Author interview, Mrs. Maud Hutton-Attenborough, née Ponsonby, 8 March 2004.

 
17
.  T. E. Lawrence,
The Mint
(Cape, 1973).

 
18
.  RA VIC/Add A21/159, Alix to Bertie, Duke of York, 15 March 1921.

  
1
.  RA VIC/Z505/11, QV to Alice, 12 January 1875.

  
2
.  Ponsonby,
Three Reigns
, pp. 67–70.

  
3
.  RA VIC/Add C07/2/S, Fleetwood Edwards to Lord Knollys, 24 February 1901.

  
4
.  Charles Sebag-Montefiore Archive, Philip Magnus Papers, Robin Mackworth-Young to Philip Magnus, 5 July 1963. See Dennison,
Last Princess
, pp. 216–23.

  
5
.  Theodore Martin,
Queen Victoria as I Knew Her
(William Blackwood, 1908), pp. 143–46.

  
6
.  RA VIC/W41/2, Lord Esher to Lord Knollys, 14 October 1907.

  
7
.  Churchill Archives Centre, Esher Papers, ESHR/11/3, Lord Knollys to Lord Esher, 21 December 1903.

  
8
.  Benson Diary, 20 November 1903, in Ward, “Editing Queen Victoria,” p. 305.

  
9
.  RA VIC/W39/41, B’s note on Lord Esher to Lord Knollys, 3 April 1904.

 
10
.  Benson Diary, 17, 23 May, 25 June 1904, in Ward, “Editing Queen Victoria,” pp. 149–50, 190.

 
11
.  See ibid., pp. 294–96.

 
12
.  RA VIC/Add C07/1/9, Lord Esher to Lord Knollys, 17 August 1905.

 
13
.  Ward, “Editing Queen Victoria,” p. 264.

 
14
.  Lord Knollys to Lord Esher, 25 August 1906, in ibid., p. 267.

 
15
.  Ibid., p. 285.

 
16
.  Ibid., p. 322.

 
17
.  Churchill Archives Centre, Esher Papers, ESHR/11/3, Arthur Bigge to Lord Esher, 22 August 1906.

 
18
.  RA VIC/W41/37, B’s note, 28 March 1908. RA VIC/W41/36, Lord Esher to B, 23 March 1908.

 
19
.  Robin Mackworth-Young, “The Royal Archives, Windsor Castle,”
Archives
, vol. 13 (1978), p. 120.

 
20
.  RA GV/GG9/439, Lord Esher to Frederick Ponsonby, 19 April 1914.

 
21
.  Fitzroy,
Memoirs
, vol. 1, pp. 166–67 (16 November 1903).

 
22
.  RA VIC/W64/8, B’s note, 23 November 1904.

 
23
.  RA VIC/W41/5, Lord Knollys to Lord Rothschild, 28 October 1907.

 
24
.  RA VIC/X33/336, Lord Rothschild to Lord Knollys, 31 October 1907.

 
25
.  RA VIC/X33/337, Lord Esher to Lord Knollys, 1 November 1907.

 
26
.  Mackworth-Young, “Royal Archives,” p. 122.

 
27
.  Brett,
Journals and Letters
, vol. 2, p. 256 (16 November 1907). Mackworth-Young, “Royal Archives,” p. 123. Magnus,
Edward VII
, p. 462.

 
28
.  Reid,
Ask Sir James
, pp. 227–28.

 
29
.  RA VIC/Add C07/2/P, B to Lord Minto, 17 March 1909 (copy).

 
30
.  Magnus,
Edward VII
, p. 461.

 
31
.  Rose,
George V
, pp. 140–41.

 
32
.  Lord Knollys to George, 14 February 1913, in Magnus,
Edward VII
, p. 461.

 
33
.  Ibid.

 
34
.  RA GV/GG9/76, Arthur Davidson to Dighton Probyn, 15 September 1912.

 
35
.  RA GV/GG9/476, Frederick Ponsonby to Arthur Davidson, 12 May 1914. RA GV/GG9/527, Ponsonby to Davidson, 16 July 1914.

 
36
.  Eckardstein quoted in Mackworth-Young, “Royal Archives,” p. 124.

 
37
.  Cited in Magnus,
Edward VII
, p. 462.

 
38
.  Carolyn W. White, “The Biographer and Edward VII: Sir Sidney Lee and the Embarrassments of Royal Biography,”
Victorian Studies
, vol. 27 (1984), pp. 301–19.

 
39
.  “Edward VII,”
Dictionary of National Biography: Supplement 1901–1911
(Smith, Elder, 1912), pp. 606–7.

 
40
.  RA GV/GG9/58, Arthur Davidson to Alix, 10 September 1912. RA GV/GG9/76, Davidson to Dighton Probyn, 15 September 1912.

 
41
.  RA GV/GG9/27, Lord Esher to Arthur Davidson, 28 July 1912.

 
42
.  RA GV/GG9/58, Arthur Davidson to Alix, 10 September 1912.

 
43
.  RA GV/GG9/39b, Arthur Davidson to Lord Knollys, 23 August 1912.

 
44
.  Charles Sebag-Montefiore Archive, Philip Magnus Papers, Owen Morshead to Philip Magnus, 7 April 1964.

 
45
.  RA GV/GG9/64, Dighton Probyn to Lord Knollys, 13 September 1912.

 
46
.  Churchill Archives Centre, Esher Papers, ESHR/6/4, Alix to Lord Esher, 29 September 1912.

 
47
.  RA GV/GG9/82, Arthur Davidson to Dighton Probyn, 4 October 1912.

 
48
.  RA GV/GG9/114, Alix to Dighton Probyn, telegram, 22 October 1912.

 
49
.  RA GV/GG9/140, Alix to Dighton Probyn, 25 October 1912.

 
50
.  RA GV/GG9/175a, Davidson to Dighton Probyn, 16 November 1912.

 
51
.  RA GV/GG9/165, Frederick Ponsonby to Arthur Davidson, 8 November 1912.

 
52
.  RA GV/GG9/172A, Arthur Davidson to Lord Knollys, 12 November 1912. RA GV/GG9/171, H. H. Asquith to Arthur Davidson, 11 November 1912.

 
53
.  RA GV/GG9/139, Davidson’s Note, 25 October 1912.

 
54
.  BL, Balfour Papers, Add MS 49685, fols. 147–53, Short to Davidson, 4 November 1912. I am indebted to Professor R. J. Q. Adams for this reference.

 
55
.  RA GV/GG9/183, Arthur Davidson to Dighton Probyn, 3 December 1912.

 
56
.  BL, Sidney Lee Papers, Add MSS 56087A, Lee’s Notes of Conversation with Balfour, 24 November 1911.

 
57
.  RA GV/GG9/183, Arthur Davidson to Dighton Probyn, 3 December 1912.

 
58
.  RA GV/GG9/184, Frederick Ponsonby to Arthur Davidson, 4 December 1912.

 
59
.  RA GV/GG9/338, Arthur Balfour to Arthur Davidson, 13 December 1913.

 
60
.  RA GV/GG9/183, Arthur Davidson to Frederick Ponsonby, 3 December 1912.

 
61
.  
DNB: Supplement
, p. 603.

 
62
.  RA GV/GG9/183, Arthur Davidson to Frederick Ponsonby, 3 December 1912.

 
63
.  RA GV/GG9/253, Davidson’s Note on Interview with Morley and Lee, 1 July 1913. RA GV/GG9/258, Arthur Davidson to Lord Knollys, 4 July 1913.

 
64
.  RA GV/GG9/258, Arthur Davidson to Lord Knollys, 4 July 1913.

 
65
.  White, “The Biographer,” p. 312.

 
66
.  RA GV/GG9/447, Sidney Lee to Lord Knollys, 12 July 1913. RA GV/GG9/447, Lee to Ponsonby, 11 May 1914.

 
67
.  RA GV/GG9/429, Frederick Ponsonby to Arthur Davidson, 7 April 1914.

 
68
.  RA GV/GG9/512, Frederick Ponsonby to Arthur Davidson, 15 June 1914.

 
69
.  BL, Balfour Papers, Add MS 49685, Frederick Ponsonby to J. S. Sandars, 1 August 1914.

 
70
.  Ibid.

 
71
.  RA GV/GG9/516, Frederick Ponsonby to Arthur Davidson, 20 June 1914. RA GV/GG9/518, Arthur Davidson to Frederick Ponsonby, 20 June 1914.

 
72
.  RA GV/GG9/465, Arthur Davidson to Frederick Ponsonby, 5 May 1914.

 
73
.  RA GV/GG9/539, Note by Davidson, 8 October 1914.

 
74
.  See Theo Lang,
My Darling Daisy
(Michael Joseph, 1966). Blunden,
Countess of Warwick
, pp. 236–44.

 
75
.  RA PS/GV/O/479B/4, Blanche Gordon-Lennox to Lord Stamfordham, 2 July 1914.

 
76
.  RA GV/GG9/527, Frederick Ponsonby to Arthur Davidson, 16 July 1914.

 
77
.  RA PS/GV/O/479B/23, Memo by Charles Russell for Stamfordham, 21 July 1914.

 
78
.  RA PS/GV/O/479B/36, Charles Russell’s Report, 30 July 1914.

 
79
.  H. H. Asquith to Venetia Stanley, 13 February 1915, in
H. H. Asquith: Letters to Venetia Stanley
, ed. Michael and Eleanor Brock (Oxford University Press, 1982), pp. 428–29.

 
80
.  RA PS/GV/O/479B/48, Charles Russell to Lord Stamfordham, 2 March 1915.

 
81
.  RA PS/GV/O/479B/52, Stamfordham’s Note, 17 June 1915. RA PS/GV/O/479B/55, Stamfordham’s Note, n.d. [c. 29 June 1915].

 
82
.  RA PS/GV/O/479B/54, Affidavit by Lady Warwick [1915]. See RA PS/GV/O/479B/53, Lady Warwick to Lord Stamfordham, 23 June 1915.

 
83
.  RA PS/GV/O/479B/61, Alice Keppel to Frederick Ponsonby, n.d. [1921].

 
84
.  Lang,
My Darling Daisy
, p. 186.

 
85
.  RA PS/GV/O/479B/63, Lord Stamfordham to George, 5 January 1921. RA GV/O/479B/48A, Lady Warwick to solicitors Langton and Passmore, 26 February 1915.

 
86
.  Lees-Milne,
Esher
, p. 347.

 
87
.  RA PS/GV/O/479B/71, Stamfordham’s Note for George V, 8 December 1927.

 
88
.  RA GV/GG9/552, Arthur Davidson to Frederick Ponsonby, 29 April 1920.

 
89
.  RA GV/GG9/556, Frederick Ponsonby to Arthur Davidson, 16 July 1920. RA GV/GG9/570, Arthur Davidson to Frederick Ponsonby, 1 August 1920.

 
90
.  Robert Faber and Brian Harrison, “The
Dictionary of National Biography
: A Publishing History,” in
Lives in Print
, ed. Robin Myers, Michael Harris and Giles Mandelbrote (Oak Knoll Press and BL, 2002), pp. 174–75.

 
91
.  RA GV/GG9/514, Arthur Davidson to Frederick Ponsonby, 16 June 1914.

 
92
.  RA GV/GG9/492, Admiral John Fisher to Frederick Ponsonby, n.d. [May 1914].

 
93
.  BL, Sidney Lee Papers, Add MSS 56087A, fol. 121, Frederick Ponsonby to Sidney Lee, 5 September 1920.

 
94
.  RA GV/GG9/868, Arthur Davidson to Frederick Ponsonby, 16 May 1922.

 
95
.  RA GV/GG9/568, John Fortescue to Frederick Ponsonby, 24 July 1920.

 
96
.  RA GV/GG9/623, Arthur Davidson to Sidney Lee, 9 November 1920.

 
97
.  RA GV/GG9/629, Arthur Davidson to Frederick Ponsonby, 12 November 1920.

 
98
.  RA GV/GG9/707, Charles Hardinge to Lord Stamfordham, 20 January 1921.

 
99
.  RA GV/GG9/909, Lord Stamfordham to Frederick Ponsonby, 29 November 1922.