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Index
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Abbey, Edwin
Aberacke Indians
Adam, John
Adeane, Mary
Adelaide, Queen
Aestheticism/Aesthetes
Aitchison, George
Aix-les-Bains, France
Albert, Prince Consort; home town; and Victoria; and Louise; and his children; on Beatrice; rebuilds Osborne House; his ideas on education and child-rearing; learns to sculpt; as collector; and the Great Exhibition; in Paris; at Vicky’s wedding; interest in photography; disagrees with brother over wife for Bertie; and Bertie’s affair; illness and death; statues (Thornycroft) (Woolner) (Boehm)
Alberta (royal yacht)
Albert Memorial, London
Albert Victor, Prince (‘Prince Eddy’)
Alexander of Battenberg, Prince (‘Drino’)
Alexandra (flagship)
Alexandra (royal yacht)
Alexandra, Princess of Wales (‘Alix’); and Victoria; and Louise; wedding; praises Louise’s sculpture; and Eddy’s birth; and George’s birth; and Princess Helena’s marriage; her usual time for breakfast; and Louise Victoria’s birth; illness and marriage problems; as fashion icon; sends supportive letters to Louise; in Ireland with Bertie; hopes Louise will marry her brother; stands in for Victoria; birth of third child; and Franco-Prussian War; further illness; opposes Louise’s marriage; misreads Lorne; at Louise’s wedding; and death of newborn son; and Bertie’s illness; and Bertie’s tour of India; sees Leopold and Louise at Osborne; and sister’s post-natal depression; at Victoria’s jubilee celebrations; celebrates silver wedding anniversary; and daughter’s marriage; and Eddy’s implication in Cleveland Street Scandal; and Eddy’s death; deafness; and Bertie’s infidelities; and Lorne’s silver wedding anniversary; survives assassination attempt; and Victoria’s death; further illness; holds first official court as queen; coronation; devastated by Edward’s death; sympathetic towards Louise; sends watercolour to War Relief Exhibition; welcomes troops back to London; death
Alexandra, Tsarina of Russia
Alfonso XIII, King of Spain
Alfred, Prince (‘Affie’), Duke of Edinburgh: birth and childhood; joins navy; at Alice’s wedding; and Bertie’s engagement; his ‘sexual escapade’ in Malta; wounded in assassination attempt; marriage; and Louise’s arrival in Canada; Louise visits in Germany, and Malta; and son’s suicide; alcoholism; in debt; death
Alfred, Prince (son of Prince Alfred)
Alice, Princess: birth and childhood; character and personality; and Victoria; at Vicky’s wedding; visits orphan asylum; and father’s death; wedding; in Germany with Victoria; birth of daughter; meeting with Louise worries Victoria; with Louise and Lorne in France; death
Alice, Princess, Countess of Athlone
Alice of Battenberg, Princess
Aline (yacht)
Alma-Tadema, Laura
Alma-Tadema, Lawrence; Caracalla and Geta
Amberley, Lady
American Exhibition, London (1887)
Anglo-Ashanti War, Fourth
Applied Arts and Handicrafts Exhibition (1926), London
Argus, The (Melbourne)
Argyll, Amelia (‘Mimi’) Campbell (formerly Anson)
Argyll, Elizabeth Campbell, Duchess of (née Leveson Gower)
Argyll, George Campbell, 8th Duke of: and Lorne’s academic life; visits Victoria; liked by Louise; and son’s marriage to Louise; and death of wife; relations with Louise; marries again; yachting with Lorne; and death of son; widowed again and remarries; sells properties; death and funeral; leaves financial mess
Argyll, Ian Campbell, 11th Duke of
Argyll, Ian Campbell, 12th Duke of
Argyll, Ina Campbell (formerly McNeill), Duchess of
Argyll, John Campbell, 9th Duke of see Lorne, Marquess of
Argyll, Margaret Campbell (née Whigham)
Argyll, Niall Campbell, 10th Duke of
Argyll family
Argyllshire and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise’s); War Memorial Club
Armstrong, Lord William
Arthur, Prince, Duke of Connaught: birth; and Beatrice’s birth; and Victoria; and Albert’s death; dislikes Balmoral; correspondence with Louise; and Stirling; and Louise’s probable pregnancy; interest in Louise’s art school friend; his annuity; accompanies Louise to Liverpool; wedding; tells Louise of John Brown’s death; and Campbell divorce case; has problems with Victoria over his children; concerned about Alfred; in South Africa; appointed Governor-General of Canada; close relations with Louise; his guttural pronunciation; and death of wife; welcomes troops back to London; with Louise in his villa in France; and Kaiser Wilhelm; discovers Sidmouth; letters to Louise; death
Arthur, Prince of Connaught
Arthur, Chester, US President
Arts & Crafts Movement
Ashburton, Lady
Asquith, Margot (née Tennant)
Athlone, Alexander Cambridge,1st Earl of
Atholl, Dowager Duchess of
Auckland Star
Augusta, Queen of Prussia
‘baccarat scandal’ (1891)
Badcock, Baynes
Badcock, Ethel
Baldwin, Stanley
Balfour, Arthur
Balfour, Lady Frances
Balmoral, people of
Balmoral Castle
Barbour, Lyell
Barrett, Jerry: Queen Victoria’s First Visit to her Wounded Soldiers
Bath
Bath Chronicle
Battenberg see Mountbatten
Battersea, Constance (‘Connie’), Lady (née de Rothschild)
Battersea, Cyril Flower, Lord
Bauer, Fräulein
Beaton, Cecil
Beatrice, Princess (Princess Henry of Battenberg): birth and babyhood; and Victoria after Albert’s death; Louise sculpts bust of; childhood; and Louise’s wedding; and Victoria’s demands; marriage possibilities; supports mother at John Brown’s funeral; marriage to Henry of Battenberg; suffers miscarriage; distrusted by siblings; resents her children loving Lo
uise; praises Louise; at Aix-les-Bains with Victoria; birth of daughter; unmaternal; quarrels with Louise; at Biarritz with Victoria; birth of her son; at Grasse with Victoria; comparisons with Louise; another baby; grows fat; relationship with Louise; and husband’s death; and Bertie’s accession; her heavy editing of Victoria’s journals; winters in Egypt; in France; moves into Kensington Palace; increasingly infirm; and Helena’s death; visits South Africa; at Alix’s memorial service; stays with Arthur; has serious fall; has cataract operation; death
Beaven, Robert
Bell, Vanessa
Bell-Smith, Frederick
Benmore Lodge, Isle of Mull
Bentinck, H. J. Cavendish
Beresford, Lord Charles
Bermuda (1883)
‘Bertie’ see Edward VII
Bickerton, J. P.
Biddulph, Lady Mary (née Seymour)
Biddulph, Sir Thomas
Bigge, Arthur
Birendra Singh, Baro Raja
Birmingham: children’s hospital
Black, Clementina
Blackburn: statue of Queen Victoria (Mackennal)
Blackmore, R. D.; Lorna Doone
Blackpool: first royal visit (1912)
Black Prince, The (ship)
Blumenthal, Jacques
Blumenthal, Léonie
Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen; The Future of Islam
Bob (dog)
Boehm, Edgar C.
Boehm, Frances
Boehm, Joseph Edgar; bust of Thackeray; becomes Louise’s teacher; their relationship; sculpts statue of Victoria; ‘finishes off’ Louise’s work; and Louise’s studio; exhibits at Grosvenor Gallery; and Whistler; named Sculptor in Ordinary by Victoria (1881); teaches Alfred Gilbert; works on equestrian statue of Prince Albert; cares for wife; well known works; death; burial; papers and diaries bequeathed to Fitzwilliam Museum
Boer Wars; memorial (Princess Louise)
Boldini, Giovanni
Boston Evening Transcript
Bowater, Louisa
Boy Scouts
Boys’ Brigade
Brabazon, Hercules Brabazon
Bray, Mrs (nurse)
Britannia (royal yacht)
British Empire Exhibition, Wembley (1924)
British Empire League
British Institute, Brussels
British Institution, London: exhibitions (1870, 1871)
British Orphan Asylum
British Women’s Patriotic League
Brompton Hospital, Chatham, Kent
Brontë, Charlotte
Brown, Archie
Brown, John: and Victoria; bullies her children; and Boehm; and Louise’s wedding; rescues queen from Fenian; death
Brown, Lancelot (‘Capability’)
Brown, Margaret
Browning, Robert
Bruce, Lady Augusta see Stanley, Lady Augusta
Bruce, Robert
Bryant & May match factory strike (1888)
Buchanan, Robert: ‘The Fleshly School of Poetry’; The Land of Lorne
Buckingham Palace
Bunsen, Marie von
Burne-Jones, Edward; The Mirror of Venus; Wheel of Fortune
Burne-Jones, Georgiana
Bury, Adrian: Shadow of Eros
Butler, George
Butler, Josephine (née Grey); Woman’s Work and Woman’s Culture
Caesar (dog)
Caldecott, Randolph
Cambridge, Duchess of, Princess Augusta
Cameron, Julia Margaret
Camp, Anthony: Royal Mistresses and Bastards…
Campbell, Lord Archibald (‘Archie’)
Campbell, Lord Colin; death
Campbell, Lady Colin (née Gertrude Blood); portrait
Campbell, Lady Janey (née Callander)
Carew, James
Carlyle, Thomas; statue (Boehm)
Carroll, Lewis (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson); Alice in Wonderland
Cartwright, Sir Richard
Cavendish, Lord Frederick
Cavendish, Lady Lucy
Channel Tunnel excavations
Charlotte, Princess
Chartists
Chicago: World’s Fair (1893)
cholera
Christian IX, of Denmark
Christian X, of Denmark
Christian, Prince of Schleswig-Holstein
Christian Victor, Prince
Churchill, Lady Jane
Churchill, Winston
Claremont House, Surrey
Cleveland Street Scandal (1889)
Clifden, Lady
Clifden, Nellie
Clique, the (group)
Coates, Colin MacMillan: Majesty in Canada
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor; cottage
Collins, Captain (later Colonel) Arthur
Collins, Major Robert
Collinson, James; Home Again
Connolly, Billy
Conroy, Sir John
Contagious Diseases Acts (1864, 1866, 1869)
Corbould, Edward
Corsi, Antonio
Cory, William (formerly Johnson)
Costers’ and Street Traders’ Show, London (1928)
Cowell, Sir John
Cowper, Francis Cowper, 7th Earl
Crane, Walter
crime in London
Crimean War (1854–6)
Croft, Dr Sir Richard
Crofton, Marjorie
Cubitt, Thomas
Culver, Edith Bruce
Culver-Evans, Celia
Cumberland, Duchess of, Princess Thyra
Dadd, Richard
Daily Post
Daily Telegraph
Dakers, Caroline: The Holland Park Circle
Daubigny, Charles-François
Davis, General
Deceased Wife’s Sister’s Marriage Act (1907)
De Morgan, Evelyn
Denmark
Dennison, Matthew: The Last Princess
de Winton, Francis; children
Dickens, Charles; Great Expectations
Dickens, Charles, Jnr: ‘The National Art Training School’
Dickens, Henry Fielding
Dictionary of National Biography: ‘Alfred Gilbert’
Dido (ship)
Disraeli, Benjamin: on Albert; and Victoria; at the Wyndhams’; and Lorne as Governor-General of Canada; on Malta; death
Dominis, John, Governor of Hawaii
Dornden, Kent
Douglas, Lord Alfred (‘Bosie’)
Druid, HMS
Duckworth, Captain Arthur
Duckworth, Sir Dyce
Duckworth, Reverend Robinson
Duff, David: The Life Story of H.R.H. Princess Louise…
Dufferin, Hariot Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Lady
Dufferin, Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess
Duran, Manuel (Mateo Moral)
Durant, Susan
Dutton, Captain Joseph
Duty and Discipline Movement
Eakin, Mr (postmaster)
East End Mothers’ Home
East Ham Palace, London: parties
Eddy, Prince see Albert Victor, Prince
Edinburgh School of Cookery
Education Act (1870)
Edward VII (‘Bertie’): birth; and Louise; and Beatrice; childhood blighted by parents; his voice; visits the wounded; in Paris with parents; leaves home; travels in Europe; and grandmother’s funeral; has affair with actress; blamed by Victoria for Albert’s death; at his father’s deathbed; as chief mourner; in the Middle East; engagement and marriage; first baby; second baby; angry at Helena’s engagement; supports Louise’s choice of presents; names first daughter Louise; on bad terms with Alix; wants Louise to stay with her; praised by Victoria; in Ireland; hatred of John Brown; derides Victoria’s Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands; has affair with ‘Skittles’ (Catherine Walters); feels Louise should be married; stands in for Victoria; outraged by Louise’s involvemen
t in Josephine Butler’s work; and Franco-Prussian War; attends functions with Louise; opposes her engagement to Lorne; snubs 8th Duke of Argyll; and Lorne’s sexual ‘proclivities’; and Louise’s wedding; gives them a billiards table; survives typhoid; grows closer to mother and wife; in debt; becomes Grand Master in Freemasons; ‘stout and puffy’; on tour of India (1875–6); and Lily Langtry; and Mordaunt divorce case; supports Deceased Wife’s Sister’s Marriage Act; and Native Americans; further infidelities; sees Leopold and Louise at Osborne; and Leopold’s death; and Victoria’s golden jubilee celebrations; celebrates silver wedding anniversary; and son’s involvement in Cleveland Street Scandal; dislikes Kaiser Wilhelm; and Boehm’s death; and ‘baccarat scandal’; and Prince Eddy’s death; quarrels with Alix; social circle; visits Leighton; with Louise at Cannes; survives assassination attempt; disgusted by Lorne’s behaviour; and Victoria’s death; opens Parliament; accompanied by Louise at public events; dinner parties at Windsor; and smoking; scandalised by Lorne’s Life of Queen Victoria; treatment of Beatrice; gives Osborne House to the nation; gets rid of Victoria’s Indian servant; holds first official court; coronation; opposes women riding side-saddle; spends time in France; encourages visits from foreign royalty; suppresses investigation into theft of Irish Crown Jewels; patronises De László; antipathy towards Wilhelm; continues affair with Mrs Keppel; death and funeral
Edward VIII (David, Prince of Wales)
Egg, Augustus
Egypt (1906)
Eliot, George (Mary Ann Evans)
Elisabeth (‘Sisi’), Empress of Austria
Elizabeth, Queen Mother
Elmore, Alfred
Elphinstone, Major Howard
Elvey, Sir George: Wedding March
Ely, Jane Loftus (née Hope-Vere), Marchioness of
Ena (Victoria Eugenie Julia Ena), Princess of Battenberg (later Queen of Spain)
Epton, Nina; Victoria and her Daughters
Era, The
Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg
Eton College
Eugénie, Empress of France
Euston, Henry FitzRoy, Earl of
Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
Exposition Universelle, Paris
‘Fair Women’ (1909 exhibition)
Fairbanks, Douglas, Junior
Falkirk Herald
Female Military Orphan Asylum, Wandsworth, London
Fenians
Feodora, Princess of Leiningen
Fife, Alexander Duff, 6th Earl (later Duke) of
Fitzwilliam, Lady Mary
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Flanders, Count of
Forbes-Robertson, Norman
Ford, Mrs (suffrage campaigner)
Forster, E. M.