The Heir Apparent (102 page)

100
.  
The Times
, 9 December 1871. Tom Cullen,
The Empress Brown
(Bodley Head, 1969), p. 151.

101
.  Bodleian Library, Lincolnshire Papers, MS Film 1120, Carrington Diary, 30 October 1871.
The Times
, 1 December 1871.

102
.  Wellcome Library, William Gull Papers, MS 5873, B/4, Gull’s Notes on Prince of Wales’s Illness, 13 November 1871.

103
.  Bodleian Library, Lincolnshire Papers, MS Film 1120, Carrington Diary, 14, 15, 16, 17 November 1871. The shoot was at Gayhurst, near Gerrards Cross.

104
.  Alix to Louise, 23 November 1871, in Longford,
Darling Loosy
, p. 158.

105
.  Wellcome, Gull Papers, MS 5873, B/4, Gull’s Notes on Prince’s Illness, 16–22 November 1871.

106
.  Wellcome, Gull Papers, MS 5873, B/4, Gull’s Notes on Prince’s Illness, 11 December 1871.

107
.  Alix to Louise, 29 November 1871, in Longford,
Darling Loosy
, p. 159. Copenhagen Letters, Box 103, Alix to Minnie, 22 November 1871.

108
.  Wellcome, Gull Papers, MS 5873, B/7, Gull’s Notes on Prince’s Illness, 27 November 1871.

109
.  Alix to Louise, 29 November 1871, in
Darling Loosy
, p. 159.

110
.  Lady Macclesfield, quoted in Battiscombe,
Queen Alexandra
, p. 115.

111
.  Ibid., p. 114.

112
.  
The Times
, 27, 28 November 1871.

113
.  QVJ, 27 November 1871, in Buckle,
Letters
(2nd series), vol. 2, p. 169.

114
.  RA QVJ, 29 November 1871.

115
.  RA VIC/Add A36/395, Henry Ponsonby to Mary Ponsonby, 29 November 1871.

116
.  Alice to Louis of Hesse, 29 November 1871, in Noel,
Princess Alice
, p. 172.

117
.  RA QVJ, 30 November 1871.

118
.  RA QVJ, 1 December 1871.

119
.  
The Times
, 2 December 1871.

120
.  RA VIC/T5/50, Lady Macclesfield to the Duchess of Teck, 4 December 1871.

121
.  Wellcome, Gull Papers, MS 5873, B/14, Gull’s Notes on Prince’s Illness, 4 December 1871.

122
.  Wellcome, Gull Papers, MS 5873, Gull’s Notes on Prince’s Illness, A/27, 8 December 1871; B/17, 8 December 1871.

123
.  
The Times
, 9 December 1871.

124
.  RA QVJ, 8 December 1871.

125
.  Wellcome, Gull Papers, MS 5873, J/3, 29 April 1889, MS page re 8 December 1871.

126
.  RA QVJ, 8 December 1871.

127
.  RA VIC/A36/401, Henry Ponsonby to Mary Ponsonby, 13 December 1871.

128
.  
The Graphic
, 9 December 1871.

129
.  
The Times
, 11 December 1871.

130
.  Wellcome, Gull Papers, MS 5873, A1/97, Gull’s drafts of press bulletins, 10 December 1871.
The Times
, 11 December 1871.

131
.  Wellcome, Gull Papers, MS 5873, B/25, Gull’s Notes on Prince’s Illness, 11 December 1871.

132
.  RA QVJ, 11 December 1871. RA VIC/T5/64, Lady Macclesfield to Duchess of Teck, 13 December 1871.

133
.  RA VIC/Add A36/395, Henry Ponsonby to Mary Ponsonby, 29 November 1871.

134
.  QV to Arthur, 30 December 1871, in Downer,
Queen’s Knight
, p. 266. RA VIC/ Add A36/396, Henry Ponsonby to Mary Ponsonby, 30 November 1871.

135
.  Lady Macclesfield, quoted in Battiscombe,
Queen Alexandra
, p. 117.

136
.  William Gladstone to Lord Granville, 10 December 1871, in Ramm,
Political Correspondence
, vol. 2, p. 290.

137
.  QVJ, 13 December 1871, in Buckle,
Letters
(2nd series), vol. 2, p. 178.

138
.  RA VIC/Add A36/401, Henry Ponsonby to Mary Ponsonby, 13 December 1871.

139
.  RA VIC/T5/64, Lady Macclesfield to the Duchess of Teck, 13 December 1871.

140
.  QVJ, 14 December 1871, in Buckle,
Letters
(2nd series), vol. 2, p. 179.

141
.  Plomer,
Kilvert’s Diary
, vol. 1, pp. 155, 157.

  
1
.  RA VIC/Add A36/405, Henry Ponsonby to Mary Ponsonby, 16 December 1871.

  
2
.  RA VIC/T5/80, Francis Knollys to Henry Ponsonby, 19 December 1871.

  
3
.  Ibid.

  
4
.  RA VIC/Add A36/371, Henry Ponsonby to Mary Ponsonby, 7 October 1871.

  
5
.  QVJ, 21 December 1871, in Buckle,
Letters
(2nd series), vol. 2, p. 181.

  
6
.  Gladstone’s Memorandum, 21 December 1871, in
The Gladstone Diaries
, vol. 8, ed. H. C. G. Matthew (Clarendon Press, 1982), p. 81.

  
7
.  Wellcome Library, Gull Papers, MS 5873, A/84, Gull’s Bulletin, 27 December 1871; B/46, Gull’s notes, 22 December 1871. RA VIC/Add A36/410, Henry Ponsonby to Mary Ponsonby, 31 December 1871.

  
8
.  QV to Vicky, 30 December 1871, in Fulford,
Darling Child
, p. 21.

  
9
.  RA VIC/Z450/41, James Paget to QV, 5 June 1872.

 
10
.  RA VIC/Add A17/531, QV to Princess Louise, 16 February 1872. RA QVJ, 12 February 1872. RA VIC/Z450/11, William Gull to QV, 25 February 1872.

 
11
.  RA VIC/Add A17/532, Leopold to Louise, 21 February 1872.

 
12
.  Alix to Louise, 7 February 1872, in Longford,
Darling Loosy
, p. 164.

 
13
.  Copenhagen Letters, Box 103, Alix to Minnie, 8 January 1873.

 
14
.  QV to Vicky, 14 February 1872, in Fulford,
Darling Child
, p. 28.

 
15
.  See RA Photograph Collection, Wales Family Photographs, RCINs 2108424–428, February 1872; RCIN 2108454, April 1872.

 
16
.  RA VIC/Add A17/532, Leopold to Louise, 21 February 1872.

 
17
.  Wellcome, Gull Papers, MS 5873, F/S/1–2, Alix to William Gull, 16 January 1872.

 
18
.  
The Economist
, 24 February 1874, in St. John Stevas,
Collected Works
, vol. 5, p. 439.

 
19
.  David Cannadine, “The Context, Performance and Meaning of Ritual: The British Monarchy and the ‘Invention of Tradition,’ ” in
The Invention of Tradition
, ed. E. Hobsbawm and T. Ranger (Cambridge University Press, 1983), p. 118. William M. Kuhn,
Democratic Royalism
(Macmillan, 1996), pp. 43–44.

 
20
.  Kuhn,
Democratic Royalism
, pp. 43–44.

 
21
.  RA VIC/Z450/2, Alix to QV, 30 January 1872.

 
22
.  QV to Vicky, 28 February 1872, in Fulford,
Darling Child
, p. 32.

 
23
.  QVJ, 27 February 1872, in Buckle,
Letters
(2nd series), vol. 2, p. 194.

 
24
.  QV to Vicky, 28 February 1872, in Fulford,
Darling Child
, p. 31.

 
25
.  QVJ, 27 February 1872, in Buckle,
Letters
(2nd series), vol. 2, p. 195.

 
26
.  B to QV, 27 February 1872, in Buckle,
Letters
(2nd series), vol. 2, p. 196.

 
27
.  Alix to QV, n.d. [December 1871], in Lee,
Edward VII
, vol. 1, p. 323.

 
28
.  William Gladstone to Henry Ponsonby, 22 December 1871, in Philip Guedella,
The Queen and Mr. Gladstone
(Hodder and Stoughton, 1933), vol. 1, p. 321.

 
29
.  Matthew,
Gladstone Diaries
, vol. 8, p. 173, 2 July 1872.

 
30
.  William Gladstone to QV, 5 July 1872, in Guedella,
Queen and Mr. Gladstone
, vol. 1, pp. 351–8.

 
31
.  RA VIC/Z459/35, QV’s memo dictated to Henry Ponsonby, 9 July 1872.

 
32
.  Guedella,
Queen and Mr. Gladstone
, vol. 1, pp. 359–61.

 
33
.  William Gladstone to QV, 5 July 1872, in ibid., vol. 1, p. 358.

 
34
.  Matthew,
Gladstone Diaries
, vol. 8, p. 173, 4 July 1873; William Gladstone to Lord Granville, 18 January 1872, in Ramm,
Political Correspondence
, vol. 2, p. 300.

 
35
.  QV to Vicky, 5 June 1872, in Fulford,
Darling Child
, p. 47.

 
36
.  William Gladstone to Lord Halifax, 28 August 1872, in Matthew,
Gladstone Diaries
, vol. 8, p. 202.

 
37
.  Lord Granville to William Gladstone, 4 September 1872, in Ramm,
Political Correspondence
, vol. 2, pp. 342–43.

 
38
.  William Gladstone to QV, 28 August 1872: QV to William Gladstone, 2 September 1872, in Guedella,
Queen and Mr. Gladstone
, vol. 2, pp. 376–79.

 
39
.  QV to William Gladstone, 18 November 1872, in ibid., vol. 2, p. 385.

 
40
.  Matthew,
Gladstone Diaries
, vol. 8, p. 251, 30 November, 1 December 1872.

 
41
.  Francis Knollys to Henry Ponsonby, 8 December 1872, in Magnus,
Edward VII
, pp. 123–24.

 
42
.  Lord Granville to Henry Ponsonby, 26 December 1871, in Arthur Ponsonby,
Henry Ponsonby
(Macmillan, 1943), p. 102.

 
43
.  RA VIC/Add A36/640, Henry Ponsonby to Mary Ponsonby, 17 September 1873.

 
44
.  William Gladstone to Lord Granville, 15 January 1873, in Ramm,
Political Correspondence
, vol. 2, p. 375.

 
45
.  QV to Vicky, 20 December 1871, in Fulford,
Darling Child
, p. 20.

 
46
.  Magnus,
Edward VII
, p. 125.

 
47
.  QV to Vicky, 3 April 1875, in Pope-Hennessy,
Queen Mary
, p. 74n.

 
48
.  Vincent,
Derby Diaries, 1869–78
, pp. 178–79 (2 September 1874), recording Disraeli’s conversation with QV.

 
49
.  Diary of Lady Frederick Cavendish, 20 December 1872, in Battiscombe,
Queen Alexandra
, p. 127.

 
50
.  Tosh,
Man’s Place
, ch. 4. Nancy Ellenberger, “George Wyndham,”
Journal of British Studies
, vol. 39 (2000), pp. 493–94.

 
51
.  Rohl,
Young Wilhelm
, p. 117.

 
52
.  Vicky to QV, 6 June 1874, in Fulford,
Darling Child
, p. 141.

 
53
.  QV to Vicky, 16 June 1874, in Fulford,
Darling Child
, p. 143. Pope-Hennessy,
Queen Mary
, pp. 56–57.

 
54
.  QV to Vicky, 30 April 1870, in Fulford,
Your Dear Letter
, p. 277.

 
55
.  Letter from QV, 17 March 1872, in Battiscombe,
Queen Alexandra
, pp. 122–23.

 
56
.  Benjamin Disraeli to Lady Chesterfield, 15 December 1873, in
Letters of Disraeli to Lady Bradford and Lady Chesterfield
, ed. Marquis of Zetland (Ernest Benn, 1929), vol. 1, pp. 291–93.

 
57
.  RA VIC/Add A36/959, Henry Ponsonby to Mary Ponsonby, 12 September 1875.

 
58
.  See Richard Davenport-Hines, “John Dalton,”
ODNB
.

 
59
.  RA VIC/Add A36/776, Henry Ponsonby to QV, 9 August 1874.

 
60
.  RA VIC/Add A36/474, Henry Ponsonby to Mary Ponsonby, 20 December 1872.

 
61
.  [A. A. Doughty and S. O. Beeton],
Beeton’s Christmas Annual: The Coming K—
(Ward, Lock and Tyler, 1872), pp. 39–40.

 
62
.  Fitzwilliam, Wilfrid Blunt Papers, MS 398–1975, Diary, 5 March 1909. See Vane,
Affair of State
, pp. 49–69.

 
63
.  Fitzwilliam, Blunt Papers, MS 398–1975, Diary, 5 March 1909.

 
64
.  Ibid.

 
65
.  Stocker,
Royalist and Realist
, pp. 283–84.

 
66
.  Fitzwilliam, Blunt Papers, MS 7–1975, Diary, 15 April 1906.

 
67
.  Leo McKinstry,
Rosebery
(John Murray, 2005), pp. 43–44.

 
68
.  RA VIC/Add A36/588, Henry Ponsonby to Mary Ponsonby, 18 July 1873.

 
69
.  RA VIC/Add A36/623, Henry Ponsonby to Mary Ponsonby, 3 September 1873. For Mrs. Sloane-Stanley see Mrs. Hywfa Willliams,
It Was Such Fun
(Hutchinson, 1935), p. 23.

 
70
.  Lord Rossmore,
Things I Can Tell
(Eveleigh Nash, 1912). Leslie,
Edwardians in Love
, pp. 104–5. Camp,
Royal Mistresses
, pp. 362–63. Tim Coates claims that Patsy began an affair with Bertie in 1870, when she was sixteen, and repeats a story that “one, two or even three” of her children were Bertie’s. (
Patsy
, Bloomsbury, 2004, p. 7.)

 
71
.  Copenhagen Letters, Box 103, Alix to Minnie, 2 May 1873.

 
72
.  Author email from Anna Kirk, 23 May 2011.

 
73
.  
Freeman’s Journal
, 28 June 1873.

 
74
.  Copenhagen Letters, Box 103, Alix to Minnie, 16 September 1872. Pope-Hennessy,
Queen Mary
, p. 53.

 
75
.  Copenhagen Letters, Box 103, Alix to Minnie, n.d. [August 1873].

 
76
.  Copenhagen Letters, Box 103, Alix to Minnie, 10 September 1873.

 
77
.  Copenhagen Letters, Box 103, Alix to Minnie, 24 December 1872: “I must to bed as my Bertie, I think, will be coming immediately”; Alix to Minnie, 19 March 1874: “I now only hope that we are not, both of us, in a certain blessed condition.”

 
78
.  RA VIC/Add C07/1/Cornwallis-West, Francis Knollys to Henry Ponsonby, 29 December 1873. See Ramm,
Political Correspondence
, vol. 2, p. 442.

 
79
.  Copenhagen Letters, Box 103, Alix to Minnie, 24 March 1874.

 
80
.  Copenhagen Letters, Box 103, Alix to Minnie, 22 November 1874.

 
81
.  RA VIC/Add A36/801, Henry Ponsonby to Mary Ponsonby, 1 September 1874.

 
82
.  
The Times
, 1 October 1874.

 
83
.  QV to Vicky, 20 October 1874, in Fulford,
Darling Child
, p. 158.

 
84
.  RA VIC/Add C07/1/0889, Henry Ponsonby to Francis Knollys, 15 October 1874.

 
85
.  RA VIC/T5/131, Benjamin Disraeli to B, 9 October 1874.

 
86
.  RA VIC/T5/133, B to Benjamin Disraeli, 7 October 1874. Marquis of Zetland,
Letters of Disraeli
, vol. 1, p. 160.

 
87
.  
The Times
, 19 October 1874. RA VIC/Add A36/826, Henry Ponsonby to Mary Ponsonby, 19 October 1874.

 
88
.  RA VIC/Z450/124, William Knollys to QV, 14 September 1874.

 
89
.  Hertford Record Office, Lytton Papers, DE/K/C40/41, Robert Lytton to John Forster, 29 October 1874.

 
90
.  Copenhagen Letters, Box 103, Alix to Minnie, 3 September–20 October 1874.

 
91
.  
The Times
, 19 October 1874, gives the list of names. See Richard Davenport-Hines,
A Night at the Majestic: Proust and the Great Modernist Dinner Party of 1922
(Faber, 2006), p. 111; Philippe Jullian,
Edward and the Edwardians
(Sidgwick and Jackson, 1967), pp. 98–99.

 
92
.  
The Times
, 10 October 1874, quoting
Le Figaro
.

 
93
.  Marquis of Zetland,
Letters of Disraeli
, vol. 1, pp. 166–67.

 
94
.  Quoted in George D. Painter,
Marcel Proust
, vol. 1 (Chatto and Windus, 1959), p. 162. See Camp,
Royal Mistresses
, pp. 361–62.

 
95
.  Hertford Record Office, Lytton Papers, DE/K/C40/41, Robert Lytton to John Forster, 29 October 1874.

 
96
.  Paris Police archives, cited in Hibbert,
Edward VII
, p. 122.

 
97
.  Painter,
Proust
, vol. 1, p. 162.

 
98
.  
The Daily News
(UK), 24 October 1874. Author email from Anthony Camp, 18 November 2009.

 
99
.  Hertford Record Office, Lytton Papers, DE/K/C40/41, Robert Lytton to John Forster, 29 October 1874.