The Heir Apparent (99 page)

  
1
.  RA VIC/Z446/5, Dean Liddell to General Bruce, 19 December 1860.

  
2
.  RA VIC/Z461/115, B to Albert, 9 February 1861. RA VIC/Z446/12, Charles Kingsley to Dean of Windsor, 9 February 1861. RA VIC/T3/61, B to QV, 19 January 1861.

  
3
.  Rothschild Archive, 000/12, Nathaniel Rothschild to his parents, n.d. [1861].

  
4
.  RA VIC/T3/58a, QV to B, 22 November 1860. RA VIC/T3/58b, B to QV, 23 November 1860.

  
5
.  RA VIC/Add MSS U143/Reel 4, 26 July 1861. QV to Vicky, 26 December 1860, in Fulford,
Dearest Child
, p. 295.

  
6
.  RA VIC/Z446/13, General Bruce to Albert, 10 March 1861. Rothschild Archive, 000/12, Nathaniel Rothschild to his parents, n.d. [1861].

  
7
.  Niall Ferguson,
The World’s Banker
(Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1998), p. 769.

  
8
.  Rothschild Archive, 000/12, Nathaniel Rothschild to his parents, n.d. [1861]. Stanley Weintraub,
Charlotte and Lionel: A Rothschild Love Story
(Simon and Schuster, 2003), pp. 159–60.

  
9
.  Albert to Stockmar, 5 April 1861, in Martin,
Prince Consort
, vol. 5, p. 335.

 
10
.  Ibid.

 
11
.  Charlot,
Victoria
, pp. 410–13. Woodham-Smith,
Queen Victoria
, pp. 523–24.

 
12
.  Kennedy,
“My Dear Duchess,”
pp. 143–44.

 
13
.  Vicky to QV, 4 April 1861; QV to Vicky, 10 April 1861; QV to Vicky, 17 April 1861, in Fulford,
Dearest Child
, pp. 318, 320–21.

 
14
.  RA VIC/Add A3/38, QV to B, 13 April 1861.

 
15
.  RA VIC/Add A3/40, B to QV, 16 April 1861.

 
16
.  RA VIC/Z462/between 101 and 102.

 
17
.  RA VIC/Z462/14, Vicky to QV, 1 March 1861. Vicky to QV, 20 April 1861, in Fulford,
Dearest Child
, p. 323.

 
18
.  RA VIC/Z462/22, Baron Stockmar to QV, 6 April 1861. Vicky to QV, 21 December 1860; Vicky to QV, 22 February 1861, in Fulford,
Dearest Child
, pp. 293, 311.

 
19
.  RA VIC/Z462/43, Vicky to Albert, 6 June 1861. Vicky to QV, 4 June 1861, in Fulford,
Dearest Child
, pp. 337–38. Pakula,
Uncommon Woman
, p. 48.

 
20
.  Vicky to QV, 6 September 1862, in
Dearest Mama: Letters Between Queen Victoria and the Crown Princess of Prussia, 1861–1864
, ed. Roger Fulford (Evans, 1968), p. 104.

 
21
.  QV to Vicky, 19 June 1861, in Fulford,
Dearest Child
, p. 342.

 
22
.  RA VIC/Z141/82, Albert to B, 10 June 1861. RA QVJ, 26 May 1861.

 
23
.  RA VIC/Z462/46, B to Albert, 11 June 1861. RA QVJ, 12 June 1861.

 
24
.  RA VIC/Z446/13, General Bruce to Albert, 10 March 1861. RA VIC/Z446/31, Bruce to Charles Phipps, 4 July 1861.

 
25
.  RA VIC/Add A3/56, B to QV, 17 July 1861.

 
26
.  RA VIC/Y107/2, QV to King Leopold, 16 July 1861.

 
27
.  RA VIC/Z446/38, General Bruce to Albert, 15 August 1861. RA QVJ, 24 August 1861.

 
28
.  RA VIC/EVIID/1861: 6, 9, 10 September.

 
29
.  RA VIC/Z141/94, Albert to B, 16 November 1861. According to Albert, this took place in another officer’s tent; but it seems more likely that it was a hut.

 
30
.  Ulrik Langen, “Travelling Incognito,”
Court Historian
, vol. 7 (2002), pp. 154–55.

 
31
.  RA VIC/Z462/73, QV’s memo, 9 August 1861. Vicky to QV, 21 September 1861; Vicky to QV, 26 September 1861, in Fulford,
Dearest Child
, pp. 349–51. Magnus,
Edward VII
, pp. 48–49; Georgina Battiscombe,
Queen Alexandra
(Constable, 1969), p. 27.

 
32
.  QV to Vicky, 1 October 1861, in Fulford,
Dearest Child
, p. 353.

 
33
.  Vicky to QV, 12 October 1861, in ibid., p. 356.

 
34
.  QV to Vicky, 10 October 1861, in ibid., p. 357.

 
35
.  Albert’s memo to B, 7 October 1861, in Magnus,
Edward VII
, pp. 49–50.

 
36
.  Albert to his brother Ernest, 22 July 1861, in Bolitho,
Prince Consort and His Brother
, pp. 364–66.

 
37
.  Baron Stockmar to Albert, 20 November 1861; QV to Vicky, 11 January 1862, in Fulford,
Dearest Mama
, p. 38.

 
38
.  Bodleian Library, MSS Film 1120, Lincolnshire Papers, B to Charles Carrington, 23 January 1862.

 
39
.  See Michael Mason,
The Making of Victorian Sexuality
(OUP, 1995), pp. 94–95, 119–22.

 
40
.  QV to Vicky, 12 November 1861, in Fulford,
Dearest Mama
, p. 132.

 
41
.  RA VIC/Z141/94, Albert to B, 16 November 1861.

 
42
.  Derby diary, 25 December 1861, in Vincent,
Disraeli, Derby
, p. 181.

 
43
.  RA VIC/Add C07/1/0313, Charles Phipps to General Knollys, 22 November 1864. Genealogical research has failed to produce a convincing identity for the Greens: author emails from Anthony Camp, 24 January, 3 February, 23 February 2010.

 
44
.  RA VIC/Z141/95, Albert to B, 20 November 1861.

 
45
.  RA VIC/Y43/7, Feodora to QV, 4 December 1861.

 
46
.  RA, VIC/Add C/24/18, Lord Granville to Delane, 19 December 1861.

 
47
.  Longford,
Victoria RI
, p. 288.

 
48
.  Helen Rappaport,
Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert and the Death That Changed the Monarchy
(Hutchinson, 2011), pp. 25–38.

 
49
.  Bodleian Library, MSS Film 1120, Lincolnshire Papers, Carrington Diary, 25 November 1861.

 
50
.  QV to Vicky, 12 November 1862, in Fulford,
Dearest Mama
, p. 132.

 
51
.  QV to Vicky, 27 November 1861, in Fulford,
Dearest Child
, p. 370.

 
52
.  Albert to Vicky, 29 November 1861, in Pakula,
Uncommon Woman
, p. 56.

 
53
.  Rothschild Archive, 000/12, Nathaniel Rothschild to his parents, “Sunday” [15 December 1861].

 
54
.  Rothschild Archive, 000/12, Nathaniel Rothschild to his parents, “Sunday” [8 December 1861].

 
55
.  Lee,
Edward VII
, vol. 1, p. 123.

 
56
.  Rappaport,
Magnificent Obsession
, pp. 68–69.

 
57
.  RA VIC/Add C30/53, Account of the Prince Consort’s death, possibly written by or for Sir Charles Locock. Martyn Downer,
The Queen’s Knight
(Bantam Press, 2007), p. 121.

 
58
.  RA VIC/Add C30/53, Account of the Prince Consort’s death, possibly written by or for Sir Charles Locock.

 
59
.  The date of Alice’s telegram is not clear. According to one account (RA VIC/Add C30/53), Alice telegrammed Bertie after the conversation with Albert on Wednesday 11 December; however, Ponsonby suggests the telegram was sent on Thursday evening. (RA VIC/Add A36/5, Henry Ponsonby to his mother, Lady Emily Ponsonby, 14 December 1861.)

 
60
.  Rothschild Archive, 000/12, Nathaniel Rothschild to his parents, Sunday [15 December 1861].

 
61
.  RA VIC/Add A36/5, Henry Ponsonby to his mother, Lady Emily Ponsonby, 14 December 1861.

 
62
.  Quoted in Rappaport,
Magnificent Obsession
, p. 76.

 
63
.  RA VIC/Add A36/6, Henry Ponsonby to his mother, Lady Emily Ponsonby, 14 December 1861. RA VIC/Add C30/53, Account of the Prince Consort’s death, possibly written by or for Sir Charles Locock.

 
64
.  Ibid. RA VIC/Add A36/6, Henry Ponsonby to his mother, Lady Emily Ponsonby, 14 December 1861.

 
65
.  RA VIC/Add C24/20, Lord Torrington to Delane, 23 December 1861.
The Times
, 24 December 1861.

 
66
.  RA VIC/Add C24/17, Lord Torrington to Delane, 18 December 1861. RA VIC/Add C30/53, Account of the Prince Consort’s death, possibly written by or for Sir Charles Locock.

 
67
.  Longford, “Queen Victoria’s Doctors,” pp. 85–86. Longford,
Victoria RI
, pp. 295–96.

 
68
.  See Stanley Weintraub, “Prince Albert,”
ODNB
.

 
69
.  Rappaport,
Magnificent Obsession
, pp. 249–60.

 
70
.  Martin,
Prince Consort
, vol. 5, p. 415. Vicky to QV, 29 December 1861, in Fulford,
Dearest Mama
, p. 32.

 
71
.  Royal College of Physicians, Diary of Sir James Clark, December 1861.

  
1
.  RA VIC/Add C10/49, Francis Seymour to his father, George Seymour, 25 December 1861.

  
2
.  Bodleian Library, MSS Film 1120, Lincolnshire Papers, B to Charles Carrington, 19 December 1861.

  
3
.  Mapperton, Sandwich Papers, B to Lord Hinchingbrooke, 20 December 1861.

  
4
.  
The Times
, 24 December 1861.

  
5
.  William Kuhn, “Queen Victoria’s Civil List: What Did She Do With it?,”
Historical Journal
, vol. 36 (1993), pp. 653–58.

  
6
.  Derby diary, 23 January 1862, in Vincent,
Disraeli, Derby
, p. 182. See David Cannadine, “The Last Hanoverian Sovereign?: The Victorian Monarchy in Historical Perspective, 1688–1988,” in
The First Modern Society: Essays in English History in Honour of Lawrence Stone
, ed. A. L. Beier, David Cannadine, and James M. Rosenheim (Cambridge University Press, 1989), esp. pp. 143–45.

  
7
.  Derby diary, 16 December 1861, in Vincent,
Disraeli, Derby
, p. 180.

  
8
.  
The Times
, 17, 24 December 1861. Delane, the editor of
The Times
, was inspired by Lord Torrington and Lord Granville. See RA VIC/Add C24/17, Torrington to Delane, 18 December 1861; RA Vic/Add C24/18, Granville to Delane, 19 December 1861.

  
9
.  RA VIC/Add C10/49, Francis Seymour to his father, George Seymour, 25 December 1861.

 
10
.  QV to Vicky, 18 December 1861, in Fulford,
Dearest Mama
, p. 23.

 
11
.  RA VIC/Z261, QV’s “Remarks Conversations Reflections,” p. 230.

 
12
.  Magnus,
Edward VII
, p. 53. Longford,
Victoria RI
, p. 312.

 
13
.  Lord Clarendon to the Duchess of Manchester, 14 March 1862, in Kennedy,
“My Dear Duchess,”
p. 186.

 
14
.  QV to Vicky, 8 January 1862, in Fulford,
Dearest Mama
, p. 38.

 
15
.  QV to Vicky, 27 December 1861, in ibid., p. 30.

 
16
.  RA VIC/Add MSS U/16, Lord Hertford’s Account of Queen Victoria, 12 February 1862.

 
17
.  RA VIC/Z446/49, QV’s memo, 5 January 1862.

 
18
.  Lord Clarendon to the Duchess of Manchester, 24 January 1862, in Kennedy,
“My Dear Duchess,”
p. 181.

 
19
.  RA QVJ, 29 January 1862.

 
20
.  QV to Vicky, 11 January 1862, in Fulford,
Dearest Mama
, p. 38.

 
21
.  RA QVJ, 6 February 1862.

 
22
.  RA VIC/EVIID, Diary of Grand Tour, 17, 18 February 1862. Bodleian Library, MSS Film 1120, Lincolnshire Papers, B to Charles Carrington, 10 March 1862.

 
23
.  
A Victorian Dean: A Memoir of Arthur Stanley
, ed. Dean of Windsor and Hector Bolitho (Chatto and Windus, 1930), pp. 120–22.

 
24
.  Bodleian Library, MSS Film 1120, Lincolnshire Papers, B to Charles Carrington, 10 March 1862.

 
25
.  Dean of Windsor and Bolitho,
Victorian Dean
, p. 194.

 
26
.  RA VIC/EVIID, Diary of Grand Tour, 1 April 1862. Martin Gilbert, author information, November 2010.

 
27
.  Bodleian Library, MSS Film 1120, Lincolnshire Papers, B to Charles Carrington, 25 May 1862.

 
28
.  QV to Vicky, 11 January 1862, in Fulford,
Dearest Mama
, p. 5.

 
29
.  Vicky to QV, 19 January 1862, in ibid., pp. 43–44.

 
30
.  Vicky to QV, 11 April 1862, in ibid., p. 51.

 
31
.  RA VIC/Z462/102, Wally Paget to Countess Blucher, 5 January 1862. RA VIC/Z462/103, Augustus Paget to Countess Blucher, 8 January 1862. RA VIC/Z462/108, Augustus Paget to Baron Stockmar, 17 January 1862.

 
32
.  QV to Vicky, 16 April 1862, in Fulford,
Dearest Mama
, p. 62.

 
33
.  Vicky to QV, 21 June 1862, in Fulford,
Dearest Mama
, p. 82.

 
34
.  QV to Vicky, 25 June 1862, in Fulford,
Dearest Mama
, pp. 83–84.

 
35
.  Vicky to QV, 15 April 1862, in Fulford,
Dearest Mama
, p. 54.

 
36
.  QV to Vicky, 18 June 1862, in Fulford,
Dearest Mama
, p. 78.

 
37
.  RA VIC/Add U143/Reel 1, QV to Alice, 21 July 1862. QV to Vicky, 29 July 1862, in Fulford,
Dearest Mama
, p. 98.

 
38
.  Rappaport,
Magnificent Obsession
, p. 132.

 
39
.  Lord Clarendon to the Duchess of Manchester, 20 March 1862, in Kennedy,
“My Dear Duchess,”
p. 189. Rappaport,
Magnificent Obsession
, p. 133.

 
40
.  Lord Clarendon to the Duchess of Manchester, 25 December 1862, in Kennedy,
“My Dear Duchess,”
p. 207.

 
41
.  QV to Vicky, 2 July 1862, in Fulford,
Dearest Mama
, p. 85.

 
42
.  RA VIC/Z463/50, QV to B, 28 August 1862.

 
43
.  RA VIC/Z447/21, QV to B, 9 July 1862.

 
44
.  RA VIC/Z447/27, B to QV, 15 July 1862.

 
45
.  RA VIC/Z463/50, QV to B, 28 August 1862.

 
46
.  RA VIC/Z463/52, B to QV, 31 August 1862.

 
47
.  Bodleian Library, MSS Film 1120, Lincolnshire Papers, B to Charles Carrington, 7 August 1862.

 
48
.  QV to Vicky, 24 January 1862, in Fulford,
Dearest Mama
, p. 44.

 
49
.  RA VIC/T3/81, QV to B, 28 August 1862. RA VIC/T3/82, QV’s memo of 23 August 1862.

 
50
.  RA QVJ, 3 September 1862.

 
51
.  RA VIC/T3/88, QV to B, 3 September 1862.

 
52
.  RA VIC/Z463/60, B to QV, 7 September 1862.

 
53
.  RA VIC/Z463/67, B to QV, 9 September 1862.

 
54
.  RA VIC/Z463/71, King Leopold to QV, 9 September 1862.

 
55
.  RA QVJ, 9 September 1862. RA VIC/Z463/59, the Duke of Newcastle to QV, 6 September 1862.

 
56
.  RA VIC/Z463/83, B to QV, 11 September 1863.

 
57
.  BL, Paget Papers, Add MS 51237, fols. 173–77, General Grey to Augustus Paget, 10 December 1862.

 
58
.  RA VIC/Z463/116, Lady Augusta Bruce to Wally Paget, 26 October 1862.

 
59
.  RA VIC/Z463/135, QV to Vicky, 12 November 1862.

 
60
.  Copenhagen Letters, Alix to Minnie, 10 November 1862.

 
61
.  Battiscombe,
Queen Alexandra
, p. 41. RA VIC/T3/105, General Grey to Augustus Paget, 27 November 1862.

 
62
.  QV to Vicky, 6 November 1862, in Fulford,
Dearest Mama
, pp. 125–26.

 
63
.  Lord Clarendon to the Duchess of Manchester, 14 September 1862, in Kennedy,
“My Dear Duchess,”
p. 201.

 
64
.  Vicky to QV, 15 November 1862, in Fulford,
Dearest Mama
, p. 134.

 
65
.  RA VIC/Add C24/37, Lord Torrington to Delane, 7 December 1862.

 
66
.  RA VIC/Add C24/35, Lord Torrington to Delane, 3 December 1862. RA VIC Add C24/36, Lord Torrington to Delane, 6 December 1862.

 
67
.  BL, Paget Papers, Add MS 51237, fols. 6–8, Augustus Paget to Wally Paget, 27 February 1863.

 
68
.  RA QVJ, 7 March 1863.

 
69
.  BL, Paget Papers, Add MS 51237, fols. 29–32, Augustus Paget to Wally Paget, 8 March 1863.

 
70
.  RA VIC/Z463/45, Lord Palmerston to QV, 6 March 1863. RA VIC/ Z463/46, QV to Lord Palmerston, 7 March 1863.

 
71
.  RA QVJ, 7 March 1863.

 
72
.  Lord Clarendon to the Duchess of Manchester, 10 March 1863, in Kennedy,
“My Dear Duchess,”
p. 214.

 
73
.  RA QVJ, 10 March 1863.

 
74
.  Lord Clarendon to the Duchess of Manchester, 10 March 1863, in Kennedy,
“My Dear Duchess,”
p. 214.

 
75
.  RA QVJ, 10 March 1863.

 
76
.  Battiscombe,
Queen Alexandra
, pp. 49–50.

 
77
.  Lord Clarendon to the Duchess of Manchester, 10 March 1863, in Kennedy,
“My Dear Duchess,”
p. 214.

 
78
.  RA QVJ, 10 March 1863.
Disraeli’s Reminiscences
, ed. Helen M. Swartz and Martin Swartz (Hamish Hamilton, 1975), p. 78.

 
79
.  RA QVJ, 10 March 1863.

 
80
.  Bodleian Library, MSS Film 1120. Lincolnshire Papers, Carrington Diary, 10 March 1863. Magnus,
Edward VII
, p. 68.

 
81
.  Margaret Homans,
Royal Representations: Queen Victoria and British Culture, 1837–1876
(University of Chicago Press, 1998), pp. 60–61.

 
82
.  RA QVJ, 26 March 1863.

 
83
.  RA QVJ, 9 March 1863.

 
84
.  Homans,
Royal Representations
, pp. 171–74.

 
85
.  RA VIC/Add C10/73, Francis Seymour to his father, George Seymour, 3 December 1862.