3. Douglas, Bonnie Prince Charlie in Love, p. 94.
4. http://www.clanmacfarlanegenealogy.info/genealogy/TNGWebsite/getperson.php?personID=I8826&tree=CC (May 2012).
5. Catherine’s appointment followed the marriage of the Prince and Princess of Wales, which took place in April 1736.
6. https://www.history.ac.uk:443/resources/office/augusta-alpha (May 2012). Walpole’s letters were written on 9 August 1784 to Mann, and on 26 August 1784 to Lady Ossory.
7. Douglas, Bonnie Prince Charlie in Love, p. 164.
8. James’ ‘reign’ lasted for 64 years and 108 days – more than eight months longer than the reign of Queen Victoria (who is otherwise the longest-serving British monarch to date).
9. In 1771 Louise’s sister, Caroline of Stolberg-Gedern, had married Charles’ cousin, Charles FitzJames Stuart, fourth Duke of Berwick.
10. A.F. Steuart, ‘Last Days of Clementina Walkinshaw’, The Scottish Historical Review, vol. XVII, no. 67, April 1920, pp. 249–51 (p. 250).
11. Douglas, Bonnie Prince Charlie in Love, p. 179.
12. ODNB, H. Douglas, ‘Walkinshaw, Clementine’.
13. Douglas, Bonnie Prince Charlie in Love, p. 182.
14. ODNB, Douglas, ‘Walkinshaw, Clementine’.
15. Douglas, Bonnie Prince Charlie in Love, p. 182.
16 QUEEN HANNAH AND PRINCESS OLIVE
1. Quoted in W J Thoms, Hannah Lightfoot; Queen Charlotte & the Chevalier d’Eon; Dr Wilmot’s Polish Princess, London 1867, p. 25.
2. Monthly Magazine, April 1821, vol. li, p. 523, reprinted in Thoms, Hannah, p. 4.
3. Monthly Magazine, July 1821, vol. li, p. 532, reprinted in Thoms, Hannah, p. 5.
4. Ibid.
5. Monthly Magazine, October 1821, p. 197, reprinted in Thoms, Hannah, p. 7.
6. National Archives, RG 7_272.
7. Monthly Magazine, July 1821, vol. li, p. 532, reprinted in Thoms, Hannah, p. 6.
8. M. Macnair, Olive Princess of Cumberland (1772–1834) a Royal Scandal, Studley 2011, p. 16.
9. Macnair, Olive, pp. 14, 52.
10. Macnair, Olive, p. 16.
11. Monthly Magazine, July 1821, vol. li, p. 532, reprinted in Thoms, Hannah, p. 6. An alternative account described Hannah as short and very pretty (Thoms, p. 8).
12. Thoms, Hannah, p. 10.
13. Thoms, Hannah, p. 12.
14. Macnair, Olive, pp. 95–96, 105 and figure 4.
15. Macnair, Olive, p. 17, citing [Anonymous], ‘An Historical Fragment relative to her late Majesty Queen Caroline’, 1824.
16. Macnair, Olive, pp. 187–88, citing BM, Egerton MSS 1719, f.81.
17. Thoms, Hannah, p. 35.
18. http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?title=Princess_Olive_and_the_Letters_of_Junius (June 2012).
17 PRINCESS FITZ
1. Mary Anne, Walter, John, Charles, Henry, Edward and Barbara. Some modern writers refer to only six children, but seven seems the correct total, though one son – Edward – apparently died young. J. Munson, Maria Fitzherbert the Secret Wife of George IV, London 2001, 2002, pp. 16–17.
2. Munson, Maria Fitzherbert, p. 16.
3. One of Mary (Maria)’s great great grandmothers was Grace Turville, daughter of Henry Turville. Henry’s relative, Francis Fortescue-Turville of Husbands Bosworth, married ‘Lady’ Barbara Talbot, sister of the soi-disant sixteenth Earl of Shrewsbury (J. Ashdown-Hill, ‘The Bosworth Crucifix’, Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological & Historical Society vol. 78 (2004), pp. 83–96.
4. Her ancestry includes members of a Car(e)y family.
5. http://archive.catholicherald.co.uk/article/5th-july-1985/7/the-fitzherrerts-five (June 2012).
6. E. Ponsonby, Earl of Bessborough, ed., Georgiana: Extracts From the Correspondence of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, London 1955, p. 87.
7. Quoted in C. Hibbert, George IV, vol. 1: Prince of Wales, Harlow 1972, p. 51.
8. Off Park Lane, in London.
9. A. Aspinall, ed., The Correspondence of George, Prince of Wales, 1770–1812, 8 vols. London 1963–71,vol. 1, frontispiece. The document is now preserved in the Royal Library at Windsor.
10. The daughter of his father’s sister.
11. Maria had initially planned to seek the advice of Pope Pius VI, but he had died on 29 August 1799, before the case could be put to him. Owing to the very difficult political situation in Europe, there had then been a delay until his successor was elected, in the following March.
12. S. Leslie, ed., The Letters of Mrs Fitzherbert, London 1940, p. 133.
13. http://archive.catholicherald.co.uk/article/5th-july-1985/7/the-fitzherrerts-five (June 2012).
14. C. Langdale, Memoirs of Mrs Fitzherbert, London 1856, p. 138.
18 MRS BROWN
1. H,L.F. Gale, son of a Queen’s Messenger, quoted in R. Lamont-Brown, John Brown, Stroud 2000, 2002, p. 30.
3. Letter from Queen Victoria to her eldest daughter, the Crown-Princess of Prussia, quoted in Lamont-Brown, John Brown, p. 60.
4. Lamont-Brown, John Brown, pp. 60–61, quoting Cullen, Empress Brown, p. 61.
5. Quoted in Lamont-Brown, John Brown, p. 60.
6. The Duchess of York & B. Stoney, Victoria and Albert: Life at Osborne House, London 1991, pp. 25–26.
7. Punch, 7 July 1866, reproduced in New York Herald Tribune, 3 October 1937, p. 9, http://archive.lib.msu.edu/DMC/tribune/trib10031937/trib10031937009.pdf (March 2012).
8. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown_(servant) (March 2012).
9. Letter from Queen Victoria to Viscount Cranbrook, quoted in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown_(servant) (March 2012).
10. http://www.famouspeople.co.uk/q/queenvictoria.html ‘Widowhood’ (March 2012); http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown_(servant) (March 2012), quoting Lamont-Brown, Raymond (2003). ‘Queen Victoria’s “secret marriage”’, Contemporary Review; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Victoria ‘Death and Succession’ (March 2012).
19 MURDERS IN WHITECHAPEL AND MYSTERIES IN MALTA
1. Letter cited in R. Callender Smith, ‘The Missing Witness? George V, Competence and Compellability and the Criminal Libel Trial of Edward Frederick Mylius’, 26 March 2012 (p. 2, fn. 5). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2037498 Quoted in Callender Smith, ‘The Missing Witness?’, p. 2
2. ‘Libeller of King gets Year in Jail’, New York Times, 2 February 1911.
’Sanctified Bigamy’ as subsequently quoted in the Evening Post, New Zealand, 14 Poutûterangi [March] 1911.
3. Ibid.
4. Evening Post, New Zealand, 14 Poutûterangi [March] 1911.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Callender Smith, ‘The Missing Witness?’, pp. 33–34. In 1898, at the time of the ball, George [V] was not yet the Prince of Wales, since both his father and his elder brother were still alive. He was simply ‘Prince George’. It was not until 1892 that his grandmother created him Duke of York.
8. http://www.maltagenealogy.com/libro%20d’oro/fiddien.html (June 2012).
9. Email from Charles Said-Vassallo, 7 October 2012.
10. I am enormously grateful to Robert Galea-Naudi for searching (albeit with only limited success) the Maltese Public Registry on my behalf for records of Laura Culme-Seymour’s marriage and death, and for supplying a photograph of the grave which bears her name at Ta’ Braxia (see below).
11. See Plate 32.
12. Callender Smith, ‘The Missing Witness?, pp. 3, 4.
13. Callender Smith, ‘The Missing Witness?, p. 5 and note 15.
14. Callender Smith, ‘The Missing Witness?, p. 33.
APPENDIX 3: ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS
1. Leicestershire Record Office B. R. II/3/3: R.A. Griffiths, ‘Queen Katherine de Valois and a missing statute of the realm’, Law Quarterly Review, 93 (1977), 257–58.
2. RP, vol. 6, pp. 240–42.
3. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/register.aspx (Ma
y 2012).
4. Ibid.
5. H. Gee & W.J. Harvey, eds., Documents Illustrative of English Church History, London 1914, pp. 232–42.
6. G.B. Adams & H.M. Stephens, eds., Select Documents of English Constitutional History, New York 1914, pp. 264–67.
7. MS. Petyt 47, f. 317.
8. http://australianpolitics.com/democracy-and-politics/act-of-settlement-1701 (June 2012).
9. http://regencyredingote.wordpress.com/2008/12/19/marriage-lines-really-are-lines/ (June 2012).
10. Scotland was exempt from the provisions of this act.
11. http://www.legislation.gov.uk/apgb/Geo3/12/11/contents (June 2012).
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