Fox, John Shirley
Francis, John
Franco-Prussian War (1870–71)
Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria
Frederick, Crown Prince of Denmark
Frederick, Crown Prince of Prussia (‘Fritz’)
Freeman’s Journal
Frisky (terrier)
Frith, William Powell
Galsworth, Mary: photograph of Princess Louise
Garnett, Henrietta; Anne: A Life of Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Garrett, Elizabeth
Gentlewomen’s Employment Association
George I
George IV
George V (and as Prince of Wales): birth and childhood; relationship with Louise; marriage; in India; and Lorne’s death; 25th wedding anniversary; opens British Empire Exhibition; illness; jubilee celebrations; and Prince of Wales and Wallis Simpson; death
George VI
Gilbert, Alfred: and Louise; bronze statue of Victoria; and Boehm’s death; Eros; later career; Henry of Battenberg’s memorial; death
Gilbert (W. S.) and Sullivan (A.) operettas; Patience; The Pirates of Penzance
Girl Guides
Girls’ Public Day School Company/Trust
Giuliano, Carlo
Gladstone, Mary
Gladstone, William Ewart
Glasgow University
Gledhill, Michael, QC
Gledhill, Ruth
Gleichen, Count (Prince Victor of Hohenlohe-Langenburg)
Gloucester, Duchess of, Prncess Mary 11
Gloucester Citizen
Godwin, Edward William; White House
Gordon, General Charles
Gordon-Cumming, Sir William
Goschen, George
Gower, Lord Ronald (‘Ronnie’); on the Great Exhibition; on Princess Alexandra; on Louise’s wedding, her ‘homecoming’ at Inveraray, her love of Dornden, and her reluctance to go to Canada; escorts her; meets her at Liverpool; and Wilde; alarmed at Louise’s depression over Leopold’s death; on holiday with Lorne in France; shocked at Duke of Argyll’s indifference to death of son; notes contrast between Louise and Beatrice; accompanies Louise and Lorne on holiday; visits old nurse with Louise; bankrupt; shocked at Lorne’s mental state
Grange Fell, Borrowdale: memorial to Edward VII
Grant, Duncan
Grant, Sir Francis
Granville, Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl
Graphic, The
Grasse, France
Great Exhibition, London (1851)
Great Ormond Street Hospital, London
Greenaway, Kate
Grey, General Charles; bust (Princess Louise)
Grey, Sybil see St Albans, Sybil
Grosvenor Crescent (No. 1), London
Grosvenor Gallery, London
Guildhall Art Gallery, London
Gustaf Adolf, Crown Prince of Sweden
Gwyn, Sandra: The Private Capital
Haakon VII, of Norway
Halifax, Frederick Wood, Lord
Hall, Mrs Matthew
Hall, Sydney Prior; ‘Princess Louise Reviewing Twenty Thousand Children in Battersea Park’
Hamilton, Lord Frederic
Harper, J. Russell: Painting in Canada
Hastings, Lord
Hatherley, William Wood, Baron
Hawaii, Queen of
Helen of Waldeck-Pyrmont, Princess
Helena, Princess (‘Lenchen’): birth and childhood; and Victoria; at Vicky’s wedding; and Princess Alice’s wedding; at Bertie’s wedding; as Victoria’s lackey; engagement and marriage; visits sculptors’ studios with Louise; opposes Louise’s marriage; at her wedding; children; enlists Louise’s help with Great Ormond Street Hospital; appointed president of School of Art Needlework; supports Beatrice over Arthur Bigge scandal; death of son; widowed; and end of war; death
Henry of Battenberg (‘Liko’), Prince: marriage to Beatrice; wins Victoria over; disapproved of by her children; relationship with Louise; and Bigge affair; death and funeral
Henschel, George
Herbert, John Rogers
Herkomer, Hubert von: Princess Louise
Heyl, James B.
Hildyard, Miss
Hill, Octavia
Hird, Frank
Hocédé, Madame (‘Lina’)
Holl, Frank
Holland, Sir Henry
Hollyer, Frederick
Home Education Society
Horsley, J. C.
Hour, The (journal)
House of Shelter
How, Harry
Hubbard, Kate: Serving Victoria
Hunt, William Holman 1
Illustrated London News
Incorporated Society of British Artists
Inflexible, HMS
influenza epidemic (1890s)
Inglewood House, Bermuda
Ingrid of Sweden, Princess
Institute of Hygiene, London: exhibition (1917)
International Exhibition, London (1862)
International Health Exhibition (1884)
International Women’s Review
Inveraray Castle; fire (1877)
Ireland: Home Rule, see also Fenians
Irene, Princess (Princess Henry of Prussia)
Irish Crown Jewels, theft of
Irish Distressed Ladies’ Fund
Isle of Wight Observer
‘Jack the Ripper’
James, Henry
James, John
Jekyll, Gertrude
Jekyll, Walter
Jenner, Dr Sir William
John, Prince
John, William Goscombe: memorial to Sullivan
Johnson, William
Jopling, Louise
Jordan, Anne: Love Well the Hour
Jordan, Mrs Dorothea
Jubilee Institute for Nurses
Jubilee Yacht Race (1887)
Kapiolani, Queen
Karim, Abdul (‘the Munshi’)
Kelly, Charles
Kensington District Nursing Association
Kensington Gardens: statue of Victoria (Princess Louise)
Kensington Memorial Recreation Ground
Kensington Palace, London; Louise’s studio; renovation; bricking up of windows; in World War I; Louise’s last years in
Kensington Philanthropic Society
Kent, Prince Edward, Duke of
Kent, Victoria, Duchess of
Kent, William
Kent House, Isle of Wight
Keppel, Mrs Alice
Kettlewell, Charlie
Klepac, Madame
Knightley, Lady Louisa
Koh-i-noor Diamond
Ladies’ Guild of the Lifeboat Institution
Ladies’ Work Society
Laking, Dr Sir Francis
Lancashire, SS
Lancet, The
Landseer, Edwin
Lang, Cosmo Gordon, Archbishop of York
Langtry, Lillie
Lansdown, George A., and Saunders, J. T.: Princess Louise Hospital for Children
Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of
Lascelles, Henry, Viscount
László, Lucy
László, Philip de
Latymer Road Mission, London
Lavenham, Suffolk; Old Wool Hall; Swan Hotel
Lavery, John: Air Station, North Queensferry
Lawrence, T. E.
Lear, Edward
Leech, John
Leeds music festival
Lehzen, Baroness Louise
Leighton, Frederic, Lord
Leighton House, Holland Park, London
Leitch, William
Leopold I, of the Belgians; Victoria to
Leopold, Prince, Duke of Albany: birth; his haemophilia; and Beatrice’s birth; has scarlet fever; detests Balmoral; and Victoria’s treatment; and Walter Stirling’s dismissal; bullied by Archie Brown; and Reverend Duckworth; kept from seeing Louise; afraid she will go away; writes poem for her 20th birthday
; nursed by her; in Switzerland with family; his 15th birthday; and Fenian attack; in constant pain; dangerously ill; Victoria keeps Louise from visiting; at Oxford; and Alice Liddell; at Louise’s farewell dinner; accompanies her to Liverpool; with her in London on her return from Canada; in Canada; returns to England after accident; becomes Duke of Albany; engagement and marriage; first child; described by Major Collins; greets Louise and Lorne on their return; death
Lewes, George Henry
Liddell, Alice
Lifeboat Fund
Lindsay, Lady Blanche
Lindsay, Colonel Charles
Lindsay, Sir Coutts
Lisle, Professor Conrad
Liverpool: welcomes given to Princess Louise (1878) (1879) (1883); Deaf and Dumb Institute; Royal Jubilee Exhibition (1887); School of Cookery
Liverpool Mercury
Lloyd, Mrs (model)
Lloyd George, Margaret
Locock, Amelia
Locock, Sir Charles
Locock, Frederick
Locock, Henry Frederick Leicester
Locock, Mary (née Blackshaw)
Locock, Nicholas
London School of Medicine for Women
London Standard
London Truth
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Longford, Elizabeth: Darling Loosy
Longley, Charles, Archbishop of Canterbury
Lorne, John Campbell (‘Ian’), Marquess of (later 9th Duke of Argyll): early life; his voice; engagement to Princess Louise; and Victoria; snubbed by Bertie; and rumours about his sexual proclivities; wedding and honeymoon; his failure to wash; politics and ideals shared with Louise; brings her ‘home’ to Inveraray; prevented by Victoria from going abroad with her; in France; in their first London home; at Dornden; and Gower; accused of being a bad influence on Louise by Victoria; political career; and fire at Inveraray Castle; his interest in spiritualism; appointed Governor-General of Canada; persuaded to help Godwin continue building his White House; departs from Liverpool for Canada; welcomed in Halifax; in Ottawa; enjoys his new role; and Marie von Bunsen; on sightseeing trips; bust sculpted by Henrietta Montalba; in Quebec; not as popular as his wife; admires William Morris; greets Louise on her return to Canada; in sleigh accident; writes ‘Dominion Hymn’; helps to improve artistic and cultural life in Canada; defends Louise’s decision to leave Canada; and his brother’s marriage; visits England; his unusual personal habits; and Wilde; has further narrow escapes; in USA; visits Vancouver Island; writes a dreadful poem; returns to USA; and Twain’s visit; decides to leave Canada; arrival in Liverpool; prepares lectures on Canada; in France; and reports of marriage difficulties; eccentricities and possible dementia; returns to politics; at Beatrice’s wedding; and brother’s divorce case; absences noted; and golden jubilee activities; in France with Louise; relations with Louise; becomes MP; holidays with Louise and Gower; at Osborne for funerals; his silver wedding anniversary; a new closeness with Louise; his attempts to dominate her; refuses to go to father’s funeral; inherits a financial mess; and Victoria’s death; publishes The Life of Queen Victoria; continues to work for emancipation and suffrage; his increasingly erratic behaviour; in Egypt and Italy with Louise; nostalgic for Canada; travels with friends; friendship with Frank Shackleton; personality changes and dementia; nursed by Louise; publishes Yesterday and Today in Canada; death and funeral; obituary
Louis of Hesse, Prince
Louise Caroline Alberta, Princess: 1846–83, birth; christening; childhood blighted by Victoria; and Beatrice’s birth; character and personality; first birthday; and her father; first art lessons; at Osborne House; and Crimean War; dislikes Balmoral; meets Florence Nightingale; first trip abroad; and Vicky’s wedding; close relationship with Bertie; interest in art increases; and Albert’s death; and Alice’s wedding; suffers acute headaches; enchanted with Alexandra; at Bertie’s wedding; at Osborne without her mother; her interest in sculpture develops; and Lady Caroline Lyttelton; Victoria’s treatment of her in adolescence; friendships; and Leopold’s illness; seriously ill herself; her first ball; convalesces abroad; types of men preferred; and Helena’s wedding; completes first unaided sculpture; further illness; and Walter Stirling; and Robinson Duckworth; and rumours of an illegitimate baby; attends opening of Parliament (1867); not allowed to help Alix with new baby; nurses Leopold; in Switzerland; relations with Victoria improve; love of exercise; allowed to go to art school; refuses to marry a foreigner; relationship with Boehm see Boehm, Joseph; joins artistic milieu; appearance; and John Brown; her 21st birthday; her bust of Victoria exhibited at Royal Academy; interested in social reform; offers support to Josephine Butler; meets Elizabeth Garrett; engagement and marriage see Lorne, Marquess of; and Franco-Prussian War; attends functions with Bertie; exhibits her art; injures knee; and siblings’ opposition to her marriage; receives wedding presents; her dogs; at opening of Royal Albert Hall; honeymoons in Italy; relationship with Lorne; in Scotland with Argylls; works on portrait medallion of dead friend; prevented from going abroad with Lorne by Victoria; takes spa trips; rumoured to be pregnant; illness; renowned for her medicine case; in France with Lorne; and educational reform; supports artists; involved with the Souls; her lack of money; moves into Kensington Palace; her attachment to Dornden; at a party in Switzerland; and Victoria’s jealousy of her closeness to Leopold; dislikes Victoria’s title of Empress; embraces Aestheticism; does ‘good works’; meets George Eliot; and opening of Grosvenor Gallery; survives fire in Inveraray Castle; her reputation among fellow artists; exhibits sculpture and paintings; leaves for Canada; in Ottawa; sightseeing with Lorne; gives ice-skating party; at Rideau Hall; her popularity; returns to England; back in Canada; rumours abound; injured in sleigh accident; joins with Lorne to improve artistic life of Canada; and Leopold’s visit; unwell and returns to England; holidays in Germany; and Campbell divorce; rumoured to have clashed with the queen; has freedom to live life as an independent artist; in Italy; and her father-in-law; and Victoria’s demands; reunion with Lorne; at Leopold’s wedding; back in Canada; has narrow escape sailing; in USA with Lorne; on Vancouver Island; back in USA; in Bermuda to escape Fenians; returns to Canada via Boston; and need for security; and Mark Twain’s visit; enjoys final months in Canada; places named after her 1883–1939 embroils herself in London life; and Leopold’s death; her separation from Lorne attracts comment; ‘flighty’; becomes president of Society for Home Education; fund-raises for war efforts; has carriage accident; lays foundation stone of Victoria Hospital for Children; and Burne-Jones; returns to Aix-les-Bains; stays with Prince Alfred in Malta; meets Beatrice’s husband in Rome; as her siblings’ children’s favourite aunt; in England for Victoria’s golden jubilee; praised by the queen for her statue; unveils statue of Victoria by Gilbert; her charities; depressed and ill; goes abroad; as a go-between for Arthur and the queen; further public appearances; at home in bohemian London; unhappy and unpleasant; too ill to travel; thrilled by Tate’s offer of his collection; and Boehm’s death; stays with Alice de Rothschild in Grasse; and the Campbell men; keeps busy with numerous public engagements; devotes time to art; paints Paderewski; sends bust of Victoria to Chicago ‘World’s Fair’; involvement with Argyll Highlanders; relations with Victoria improve; further publicity about her relationship with Lorne; and Beatrice; continues to exercise; and Arthur Bigge/Liko scandal; relations with Beatrice improve; her silver wedding anniversary; renovates Rosneath Castle; and Alfred’s unhappiness; and Boer Wars war work; becomes closer to Lorne; exhibits painting; and the Balfours; prevented by Lorne from playing billiards; sends statue of Victoria to Montreal; and Duke of Argyll’s funeral; devastated by deaths; and Victoria’s death; at Windsor under the new king; renovates Kent House; stands in for Bertie when ill; and his coronation; works for emancipation; and Lorne’s mental health; her public appearances; exhausted by creating Boer War Memorial; tours abroad with Ethel Badcock; publishes articles under pseudonym; in Egypt with Lorne; in Buxton with the Alma-Tademas; at a Windsor Castle
garden party; forced to cancel engagements through ‘indisposition’; hears of the death of her son, Henry Locock; and Kaiser Wilhelm; supports the National Trust and Royal Horticultural Society; fund-raises for memorial to Bertie; and fire at Rosneath; and Prince Arthur’s appointment as Governor-General of Canada; in Blackpool; and the Old Wool Hall, Lavenham; her punishing workload; and Lorne’s death; and First World War; as gardener; hospital visiting; painted by de László; public appearances; poor health; her voice; shares Kensington Palace with niece and Beatrice; gives Kent House to Louis Mountbatten; relationship with Beatrice in old age; grows closer to Arthur; made a Dame of the British Empire; welcomes troops home to Scotland; retains her trim figure; her life postwar; visits Arthur in France; and the Sunlight Clinic; and Alix’s death; charities supported; further illness; turns to music; her 80th birthday; further public appearances; poses for Beaton; at Sidmouth; with Arthur in France again; a tireless hospital visitor; and Gilbert’s death; and Wallis Simpson; becomes honorary freeman of Royal Borough of Kensington; disappears from public life; death and cremation
Louise of Battenberg, Princess
Louise of Prussia (‘Louischen’), Princess, Duchess of Connaught
Louise Victoria Alexandra Dagmar, Princess of Wales, Duchess of Fife
Lutyens, Edward (‘Ned’)
Lutyens, Lady Emily (née Bulwer-Lytton)
Lyttelton, Lady Caroline (later Cavendish)
Lyttelton, Laura (née Tennant)
Lyttelton, May (née Tennant)
Lyttelton, Lady Sarah (‘Laddle’)
McAllister, Isabel
Macarthur, Captain
McCarthy, Mrs (Bermudan resident)
McCaskie, Dr
McCrossan, Peter Russell
Macdonald, Lady Agnes (née Bernard)
Macdonald, Lord John, Prime Minister of Canada
McFarlane, Colin F.
Mackennal, Bertram: statue of Queen Victoria
Maclean, Roderick
Macleod, Dr Norman
MacNamara, Lady Sophia (‘Smack’)
McNeill, Colonel
McNeill, Ina
McNeill, Sir John
Madrid (1906)
Mahdi, the (Muhammad Ahmed)
Mallet, Marie
Malta (1887)
Manchester: and Victoria’s gold jubilee; Lorne as MP
Manchester Courier
Manchester Evening News
Mangeot, Auguste
Margaret, Princess
Maria Cristina, Princess