The Last Princess (47 page)

15
Ibid., p. 130.

16
Epton, op. cit., p. 163.

17
Fulford (ed.),
Beloved Mama,
p. 144.

18
Ibid., p. 146.

19
The
Illustrated London News, 1
August 1885.

CHAPTER THIRTEEN: ‘If only she could marry now’

1
Hough,
Advice,
p. 48.

2
Hibbert, Christopher,
Queen Victoria in her Letters & Journals
(Viking, London, 1985), p. 234.

3
RA VIC/Add A 30/432, Princess Beatrice to Prince Leopold, 18 November 1881.

4
RA VIC/Add A 30/433, Princess Beatrice to Princess Helen of Waldeck-Pyrmont, 23 November 1881.

5
Hough,
Advice,
p. 29.

6
Ibid., p. 60.

7
Ibid., p. 48.

8
Ibid., p. 58.

9
Millar, op. cit., p. 241.

10
Ibid., p. 233.

11
Lutyens, op. cit., p. 106.

12
Epton, op. cit., p. 150.

13
Ibid., p. 152.

14
Zeepvat, op. cit., p. 77.

CHAPTER FOURTEEN: The Handsomest Family in Europe

1
Reid, op. cit., p. 62.

2
Vickers, Hugo,
Alice, Princess Andrew of Greece
(Viking, London, 2000), p. 17.

3
Pakula, op. cit., p. 416.

4
Fulford (ed.),
Beloved Mama,
p. 98.

5
St-John Nevill, op. cit., p. 133.

6
Fulford (ed.),
Beloved Mama,
p. 187.

7
Longford,
Darling Loosy,
p. 139.

8
Zeepvat, op. cit., p. 169.

9
Fulford (ed.),
Beloved Mama,
p. 111.

10
Ibid., p. 111.

11
Gelardi, Julia,
Born to Rule
(St Martin's Press, New York, 2004), p. 37.

12
Fulford (ed.),
Beloved Mama,
p. 168.

13
Hibbert,
Letters & Journals,
p. 287.

14
Ibid.

15
Battiscombe, Georgina,
Queen Alexandra
(Constable, London, 1969), p. 151.

16
Ibid.

17
Hibbert,
Letters & Journals,
p. 287.

18
RA VIC/Add A 30/1357, Princess Beatrice to the Duchess of Albany, 24 July 1885.

CHAPTER FIFTEEN: ‘Many daughters…’

1
The Times,
9 July 1885.

2
Fulford (ed.),
Beloved Mama,
p. 176.

3
Hough,
Louis and Victoria,
p. 129.

4
Ibid.

5
Fulford (ed.),
Beloved Mama,
p. 178.

6
The Illustrated London News, 1
February 1896.

7
Lady Waterpark's Diary, 30 January 1885.

8
Hibbert,
Letters & Journals,
p. 287.

9
Millar, op. cit., p. 350.

10
Duff,
Victoria Travels,
p. 115.

11
Hibbert,
Letters & Journals,
p. 287.

12
Fulford (ed.),
Beloved Mama,
p. 178.

13
Duff,
Hessian Tapestry,
p. 207.

14
Fulford (ed.),
Beloved Mama,
p. 178.

15
Longford,
Victoria RI.
p. 478.

16
Meres, the Rev. H. J., ‘A Sermon Preached in the Stowell Memorial Church, Salford, 9, February 1896, the Sunday after the Funeral of His Royal Highness Prince Henry Maurice of Battenberg’, p. 18.

17
Fulford (ed.),
Your Dear Letter,
p. 303.

18
Ibid., p. 309.

19
Hough,
Advice,
p. 74.

20
‘Mr Bright on The Princess Beatrice's Dowry’, 16 May 1885, collection Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council.

21
The Prince of Wales to John Bright, MP, Marlborough House, 19 May 1885, collection Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council.

22
Fulford (ed.),
Beloved Mama,
p. 178.

23
Tisdall, op. cit., p. 153.

24
Gelardi, op. cit., p. 17.

25
RA VIC/Z 88/67, Princess Irene of Hesse to Queen Victoria, 10 January 1885.

26
Princess Beatrice to Lady Waterpark (Lady Waterpark's Diary), 6 January 1885.

27
Gelardi, op. cit., p. 17.

CHAPTER SIXTEEN: ‘Th e fatal day approaches’

1
Tisdall, op. cit., p. 152.

2
Dyson & Tennyson (eds.), op. cit., p. 120.

3
Millar, op. cit., p. 338.

4
Watson, op. cit., p. 256.

5
Ibid., p. 251.

6
St-John Nevill, op. cit., p. 117.

7
Fulford (ed.),
Beloved Mama,
p. 185.

8
St-John Nevill, op. cit., p. 116.

9
Hough,
Advice,
p. 75.

10
The Times,
Court Circular, 17 July 1885.

11
Princess Beatrice to Lady Waterpark, 18 June 1885.

12
Watson, op. cit., p. 251.

13
Ibid., p. 252.

14
RA VIC/Add A30/1357, Princess Beatrice to the Duchess of Albany, 24 July 1885.

15
Hough,
Louis and Victoria,
p. 132.

16
St-John Nevill, op. cit., p. 117.

17
Weintraub, op. cit., p. 475.

18
Hibbert,
Queen Victoria,
p. 373.

19
Hibbert,
Letters & Journals,
p. 294.

20
Epton, op. cit., p. 174.

21
The
Illustrated London News,
1 August 1885.

22
Erbach-Schonberg, Princess Marie zu, Princess of Battenberg,
Reminiscences
(Royalty Digest reprint, Ticehurst, 1996), p. 218.

23
Hibbert,
Letters & Journals,
p. 294.

24
Ednay, Peter,
Princess Beatrice: Island Governor
(Vectis, 1994), p. 17.

25
Reid, op. cit., p. 65.

26
RA VIC/Add A 30/1357, Princess Beatrice to the Duchess of Albany, 24 July 1885.

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: ‘There no w burnt a… fiery passion’

1
‘T o HRH Beatrice Mary Victoria Feodore, Princess of Battenberg’, from ‘the Aldermen and Burgesses of the ancient and loyal borough of Southampton in Council’, 31 July 1886.

2
‘Goodie’ to ‘Darling Granny’, Bloomsbury Book Auctions, sale 504 (5 November 2004), lot 176, letters 16 February to 6 November 1886.

3
Cullen, op. cit., p. 181.

4
Erbach-Schonberg, op. cit., p. 231.

5
Gelardi, op. cit., p. 17.

6
Hough,
Advice,
p. 77.

7
Erbach-Schonberg, op. cit., p. 231.

8
‘Goodie’, op. cit.

9
Princess Beatrice to ‘Dear Dean’, 5 August 1890, John Murray Archives.

10
Ramm, Agatha (ed.),
Beloved and Darling Child: last letters between Queen Victoria and her eldest daughter, 1886-1901
(Sutton, Stroud, 1990), p. 141.

11
Battenberg, Princess Henry of,
The Adventures of Count Georg Albert of Erbach
(John Murray, London, 1890), p. 101.

12
Ibid., p. 237.

13
Ibid., p. 235.

14
Hough,
Advice,
p. 79.

15
Reid, op. cit., p. 68.

16
Ibid.

17
Hough,
Advice,
p. 82.

18
Ibid., p. 83.

19
Fulford (ed.),
Beloved Mama,
p. 185.

20
Reid, op. cit., p. 68.

21
Longford,
Darling Loosy,
p. 228.

22
Hough,
Advice,
pp. 84-5.

23
Ibid.

24
Ibid.

25
Lady Waterpark's Diary, 21 December 1886.

26
RA VIC/Add A 8/2657, Princess Beatrice to Princess Mary Adelaide, Duchess of Teck, 18 February 1887.

27
St-John Nevill, op. cit., p. 136.

28
Noel, Gerard,
Ena: Spain's English Queen
(Constable, London, 1984), p. 2.

29
Ibid.

30
Reid, op. cit., p. 69.

31
Hough,
Advice,
p. 93.

32
Noel,
Ena,
p. 3.

33
Ibid., p. 4.

34
Ramm (ed.), op. cit., p. 87.

35
Reid, op. cit., p. 70.

36
Mallet, op. cit., p. 27.

37
Pope-Hennessy, James (ed.),
Queen Victoria at Windsor and Balmoral: Letters from her Granddaughter Princess Victoria of Prussia June 1889
(George Allen & Unwin, London, 1959), p. 29.

38
Ramm (ed.), op. cit., p. 88.

39
Reid, op. cit., p. 71.

40
Pope-Hennessy, op. cit., p. 48.

41
Hough,
Advice,
p. 113.

42
Ibid., p. 111.

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: ‘Capital fun’

1
The
Colliery Guardian,
30 August 1889, reproduced, collection Staffordshire Record Office, File D4466/H/3/1, 1889.

2
Mallet, op. cit., p. 4.

3
Ibid., p. 15.

4
Hough,
Advice,
p. 70.

5
Rowell, op. cit., p. 90.

6
Ramm (ed.), op. cit., p. 167.

7
Mallet, op. cit., p. 151.

8
St-John Nevill, op. cit., p. 143.

9
Ramm (ed.), op. cit., p. 103.

10
Reid, op. cit., p. 117.

11
Lady Waterpark's Diary, 22 January 1877.

12
Osborne House guidebook, P. 39.

13
Ponsonby, Frederick,
Recollections of Three Reigns
(Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1951), p. 51.

14
Epton, op. cit., p. 201.

15
Mallet, op. cit., p. 37.

CHAPTER NINETEEN: ‘A simple life…’

1
Klein, Herman,
The Reign of Patti
(The Century Company, New York, 1920), p. 299.

2
Ibid., p. 300.

3
Erbach-Schonberg, op. cit., p. 273.

4
Hough,
Advice,
p. 105.

5
Mallet, op. cit., p. 34.

6
Ramm (ed.), op. cit., p. 104.

7
Cook, Andrew,
Prince Eddy: The King Britain Never Had
(Tempus, Stroud, 2006), pp. 141-2.

8
Longford,
Darling Loosy,
p. 227.

9
Cook, op. cit., p. 142.

10
Pope-Hennessy, op. cit., p. 89.

11
Benson, E. F., op. cit., p. 255.

12
Lutyens, op. cit., p. 46.

13
Longford,
Darling Loosy,
p. 231.