The Heir Apparent (105 page)

100
.  See Francis Knollys’s letter to Lord Granville, in Lee,
Edward VII
, vol. 1, p. 514.

101
.  RA VIC/Z453/79, Henry Ponsonby to QV, 17 February 1880; RA VIC/Z453/95, Ponsonby to B, 21 May 1880; RA VIC/Z453/100, Francis Knollys to Ponsonby, 23 May 1880; RA VIC/Z453/103, Knollys to Ponsonby, 25 May 1880.

102
.  RA VIC/Add A15/3327, QV to Arthur, 27 May 1880.

103
.  RA VIC/Z453/112, B to QV, 7 June 1880.

104
.  RA VIC/EVIID/1881: 13 March.

105
.  Stephen Gwynn and Gertrude Tuckwell,
Life of Sir Charles Dilke
(John Murray, 1917), vol. 1, p. 414.

106
.  Bodleian Library, Harcourt Papers, MSS dep 348, Diary, 21 March 1881.

107
.  
The Times
, 28 March 1881. RA VIC/Z454/58, Charlotte Knollys to QV, 28 March 1881.

108
.  Lee,
Edward VII
, vol. 1, p. 505.

109
.  Lord Frederick Hamilton, quoted in Battiscombe,
Queen Alexandra
, pp. 160–61.

  
1
.  Magnus,
Edward VII
, p. 198.

  
2
.  RA VIC/Z162/10, B to QV, 22 January 1887.

  
3
.  Magnus,
Edward VII
, pp. 181–82.

  
4
.  RA VIC/EVIID/1881: 17 July. Bertie stayed at Waddesdon 14 July 1883, 21 July 1884, 18 July 1885, 17 July 1887 (see
The Times
for these dates).

  
5
.  McKinstry,
Rosebery
, p. 69.

  
6
.  Frances, Countess of Warwick,
Afterthoughts
(Cassell, 1931), pp. 88–89.

  
7
.  Michael Hall,
Waddesdon Manor: The Heritage of a Rothschild House
(New York: Abrams, 2002), pp. 149–69. Magnus,
Edward VII
, p. 106.

  
8
.  Warwick,
Afterthoughts
, pp. 44, 255.

  
9
.  Rosemary Baird,
Goodwood
(Francis Lincoln, 2007), pp. 193, 197.

 
10
.  RA VIC/EVIID/1881: 25 July. See
The Times
, 21 July 1881.

 
11
.  RA VIC/Z454/140, QV to B, 27 July 1881.

 
12
.  Gwynn and Tuckwell,
Dilke
, vol. 1, p. 415.

 
13
.  Hibbert,
Edward VII
, pp. 98–99.

 
14
.  Bodleian Library, Lincolnshire Papers, MS Film 1120, Charles Carrington to his wife, 20 December 1881.

 
15
.  RA VIC/EVIID/1882: 10–13 January.
The Times
, 13 January 1882.
Leicester Chronicle and Leicester Mercury
, 14 January 1882. Ruffer,
Big Shots
, pp. 130–31.

 
16
.  Amanda Mackenzie Stuart,
Consuelo and Alva
(HarperCollins, 2005), pp. 29–31, 49–50. Consuelo was always short of money, even after she became Duchess of Manchester in 1890. When she died in 1909, her inheritance from her father was valued at $120,000, not a large sum by ducal standards. She left an American fortune of $2.5 million. This was tied up in trust funds established in 1901–2 by her brother, who was a brother-in-law and business associate of William Kissam Vanderbilt.

 
17
.  Edith Wharton’s
The Buccaneers
(Penguin, 1993); the original 1938 edition, which Wharton left unfinished at her death, can be read in the 1993 University Press of Virginia edition. Hermione Lee,
Edith Wharton
(Vintage, 2008), pp. 722–29.

 
18
.  Duke of Manchester,
My Candid Recollections
(Grayson and Grayson, 1932), pp. 28, 55–56. Rossmore,
Things I Can Tell
, pp. 110–11.

 
19
.  Vane,
Affair of State
, p. 186.

 
20
.  Richard W. Davis, “ ‘We Are All Americans Now!,’
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society
, vol. 135 (1991), pp. 140–99.

 
21
.  Wharton,
Buccaneers
, pp. 79, 122.

 
22
.  Vane,
Affair of State
, p. 187.

 
23
.  Williams,
It Was Such Fun
, p. 41.

 
24
.  RA VIC/EVIID/1882: 20 August–11 September. Herman Weber and F. Parkes Weber,
The Spas and Mineral Waters of Europe
(Smith, Elder, 1896), pp. 91–93.

 
25
.  Warwick,
Afterthoughts
, p. 39.

 
26
.  Hibbert,
Edward VII
, p. 236.

 
27
.  
Diary of Sir Edward Walter Hamilton
, ed. Dudley W. R. Bahlman (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972), vol. 2, p. 659. RA VIC/Add A/5/426, B to Alfred, 18 August 1884. Camp,
Royal Mistresses
, p. 368. Author email from Sir Philip Naylor-Leyland, May 2011.

 
28
.  Arthur Ponsonby,
Henry Ponsonby
, p. 129.

 
29
.  RA VIC/Z162/7, Alix to QV, 1 October 1883.

 
30
.  RA VIC/Z162/8, Alix to QV, 14 December 1883.

 
31
.  RA VIC/Z173/4, B to QV, 1 January 1884.

 
32
.  RA VIC/Z173/5, QV to B, 3 January 1884.

 
33
.  
The Gladstone Diaries
, vol. 10, ed. H. C. G. Matthew (Clarendon Press, 1990), p. clxv.

 
34
.  RA VIC/Z173/15, B to QV, 26 February 1884.

 
35
.  RA VIC/Z173/18, QV to B, 27 February 1884.

 
36
.  RA VIC/Z173/20, QV to B, 29 February 1884.

 
37
.  Arnstein, “Queen Victoria Opens Parliament,”
Historical Research
, vol. 63 (1990), pp. 186–87.

 
38
.  RA VIC/Z460/140, B to QV, 6 February 1887.

 
39
.  RA VIC/Add C07/1/7, Francis Knollys to Henry Ponsonby, 16 January 1881.

 
40
.  Matthew,
Gladstone Diaries
, vol. 9, p. 619 (21 November 1880). See RA VIC/Add C07/1/9, Francis Knollys to Henry Ponsonby, 22 November 1880.

 
41
.  Bahlman,
Diary of Edward Hamilton
, vol. 1, p. 245 (1 April 1882).

 
42
.  Fitzwilliam, Blunt Papers, MS 333–1975, Diary, 17 May 1885.

 
43
.  RA VIC/EVIID/1882: 11 July.

 
44
.  Bahlman,
Diary of Edward Hamilton
, vol. 1, pp. 312, 314 (27, 30 July 1882). Henry Ponsonby to B, 31 July 1882, in Lee,
Edward VII
, vol. 1, pp. 457–58.

 
45
.  Henry Ponsonby to Mary Ponsonby, 5 April 1880, in Arthur Ponsonby,
Henry Ponsonby
, p. 185. Gwynn and Tuckwell,
Dilke
, vol. 1, pp. 302, 475.

 
46
.  Bodleian Library, Lincolnshire Papers, MS Film 1120, Carrington Diary, 18 February 1884.

 
47
.  RA VIC/EVIID/1884: 18 February.

 
48
.  
Hansard
(Lords), 22 February 1884.

 
49
.  Gwynn and Tuckwell,
Dilke
, vol. 2, p. 26. See Lee,
Edward VII
, vol. 1, pp. 547–51.

 
50
.  BL, Sidney Lee Papers, Add MS 56087B, fol. 9, Sir Charles Dilke to B, 26 July 1885. Gwynn and Tuckwell,
Dilke
, vol. 2, p. 166. See McKinstry,
Rosebery
, pp. 149–53.

 
51
.  Fitzwilliam, Blunt Papers, MS 333–1975, Diary, 4 August 1885.

 
52
.  RA VIC/Add C07/1, B to Francis Knollys, 28 September 1885.

 
53
.  RA VIC/EVIID/1884: 28 March.
The Times
, 29 March 1884.

 
54
.  QVJ, 28 March 1884, in Buckle,
Letters
(2nd series), vol. 3, p. 489.

 
55
.  QVJ, 29 March 1884, in ibid., vol. 3, p. 492.

 
56
.  
The Times
, 2 April 1884.

 
57
.  RA GV/AA14/58, B to George, 1 May 1884.

 
58
.  Frank Hardie,
The Political Influence of Queen Victoria, 1861–1901
(Oxford University Press, 1935), pp. 76, 192–93.

 
59
.  QV to Vicky, 29 March 1884, in Fulford,
Beloved Mama
, p. 162.

 
60
.  See Hermione Lee,
Virginia Woolf
(Vintage, 1997), pp. 64–65.

 
61
.  RA VIC/Z473/63, Report by J. K. Stephen, 30 August 1883.

 
62
.  
The World
, 20 October 1883.

 
63
.  See Lee,
Woolf
, p. 64. Andrew Cook,
Prince Eddy
(History Press, 2008), pp. 101–10.

 
64
.  
Standard
, 26 May 1884.

 
65
.  RA VIC/W64/64, Austen Chamberlain to B, 12 December 1905.

 
66
.  RA GV/AA6/333, B to John Dalton, 12 July 1884.

 
67
.  RA VIC/Z162/7, Alix to QV, 1 October 1883.

 
68
.  RA GV/AA14/52, B to George, 16 February 1884.

 
69
.  Copenhagen Letters, Box 104, Alix to Minnie, 3 October 1884.

 
70
.  Copenhagen Letters, Box 104, Alix to Minnie, 30 December 1884.

 
71
.  Alexander Mikhailovich, Grand Duke of Russia,
Once a Grand Duke
(Royalty Digest, 1995), p. 113.

 
72
.  RA VIC/Add C07/1, B to Francis Knollys, 3 May 1888.

 
73
.  Warwick,
Afterthoughts
, p. 41.

 
74
.  Marie, Queen of Romania,
The Story of My Life
(Cassell, 1934), vol. 1, p. 43.

 
75
.  Princess Louise to Francis Knollys [1885], in St. Aubyn,
Edward VII
, p. 103.

 
76
.  Magnus,
Edward VII
, p. 182.

 
77
.  Bodleian Library, Lincolnshire Papers, MS Film 1120, Carrington Diary, 21 July 1884. See
The Times
, 24 July 1884.

 
78
.  
The Times
, 14 April 1885.

 
79
.  RA VIC/Z455/20, B to QV, 19 April 1885.

 
80
.  RA VIC/Z455/17, Arthur Ellis to QV, 15 April 1885.

 
81
.  RA QVJ, 18 April 1885.

 
82
.  Bahlman,
Diary of Edward Hamilton
, vol. 2, p. 840 (16 April 1885).

 
83
.  Ibid., vol. 2, pp. 860–61 (10 May 1885).

 
84
.  BL, Sidney Lee Papers, Add MS 56087B, fol. 5, Francis Ponsonby to QV, 12 May 1885.

 
85
.  BL, Sidney Lee Papers, Add MS 56087B, fol. 7, Francis Ponsonby to QV, 18 May 1885.

 
86
.  Quoted in Leslie,
Edwardians in Love
, p. 120.

 
87
.  Battiscombe,
Queen Alexandra
, p. 173.

 
88
.  Copenhagen Letters, Box 104, Alix to Minnie, 23 December 1881.

 
89
.  Lady Geraldine Somerset’s Diary, 21 February 1886, in Battiscombe,
Queen Alexandra
, pp. 172–73.

 
90
.  Hon. Georgina Stonor, letter to author, 30 April 2010. Robert Julian Stonor,
Stonor
(Newport: R. H. Johns, 1951), pp. 339–41.

 
91
.  Margot Asquith,
The Autobiography of Margot Asquith
(Thornton, Butterworth, 1920), vol. 1, pp. 63–65.

 
92
.  Bodleian Library, Margot Asquith Papers, MS Eng. P. 3198, fol. 167: Diary, 6 August 1885.

 
93
.  Bodleian Library, Margot Asquith Papers, MS Eng. D. 3268, fol. 29, B to Margot Tennant, 25 April 1886.

 
94
.  Bodleian Library, Margot Asquith Papers, MS Eng. D. 3268, fol. 32, B to Margot Tennant, 29 December 1886.

 
95
.  Bodleian Library, Margot Asquith Papers, MS Eng. D. 3268, fol. 33, B to Margot Tennant, n.d.

 
96
.  Bodleian Library, Margot Asquith Papers, MS Eng. D. 3268, fol. 34, B to Margot Tennant, n.d.

 
97
.  Quoted in Leslie,
Edwardians in Love
, p. 192.

 
98
.  
The Times
, 17 July 1886, 8 November 1886, 7 December 1886.

 
99
.  Churchill Archives Centre, Jennie Churchill Papers, CHAR 28/7/72, Randolph Churchill to Jennie Churchill, 10 January 1886; CHAR 28/8/85, Randolph Churchill to Jennie Churchill, 25 October 1888.

100
.  RA VIC/Z162/10, B to QV, 22 January 1887.

101
.  Sebba,
Jennie Churchill
, pp. 96–97.

102
.  Leslie,
Edwardians in Love
, p. 194.

103
.  Churchill Archives Centre, Jennie Churchill Papers, CHAR 28/49/18–19, B to Jennie Churchill, 26 March 1886. He didn’t lunch with her on “Monday next.”

104
.  Churchill Archives Centre, Jennie Churchill Papers, CHAR 28/49/12–13, B to Jennie Churchill, n.d.

105
.  Asquith,
Autobiography
, vol. 1, pp. 63–64.

106
.  Churchill Archives Centre, Jennie Churchill Papers, CHAR 28/48/5–6, B to Jennie Churchill, 23 March 1887.

  
1
.  Sir Richard Holmes,
Edward VII: His Life and Times
(Amalgamated Press, 1911), vol. 2, p. 363.

  
2
.  
The Times
, 22 June 1887. Pakula,
Uncommon Woman
, p. 487.

  
3
.  Alix, quoted in Battiscombe,
Queen Alexandra
, p. 174. QVJ, 21 June 1887, in
Letters of Queen Victoria
(3rd series), ed. G. E. Buckle (John Murray, 1930), vol. 1, p. 322.
The Times
, 3 June 1887.

  
4
.  Holmes,
Edward VII
, vol. 2, p. 367.

  
5
.  
The Times
, 22 June 1887.

  
6
.  
Pall Mall Gazette
, 22 June 1887. Williams,
Contentious Crown
, p. 61.

  
7
.  Rohl,
Young Wilhelm
, pp. 675–80.

  
8
.  Hough,
Louis and Victoria
, p. 111.

  
9
.  Rohl,
Young Wilhelm
, p. 518.