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Germany: Princess Beatrice visits (1863 and 1865),
40
–41; and (1898),
202
; and (1900),
212
–13; anc l (I 9 01). 225,
232
;
see also
Darmstadt, Heiligenberg

Gibraltar,
224
Gilbert, (Sir) Alfred,
197
,
200

Gladstone, Catherine,
198

Gladstone, William Ewart,
75
,
78
,
119
,
139
,
153

Gloucester, Princess Mary, Duchess of,
6
,
8
,
18

Godwin, Edward William,
108

‘Goodie’ (Empress Eugenie's maid),
157
,
159

Gordon, General Charles,
118
–19,
144
,
148
,
229

Graefle, Albert,
7

Grafton, Augustus FitzRoy, 7th Duke of,
135

Grand Cross of the Order of St Catherine,
83

Graphic
(newspaper),
109
,
115
,
166
,
225

Grasse, i n,
182

Graves, Henry Richard,
82
–4,
85
,
129

Green, Nathaniel Everett,
106

Grey, General Charles,
12

Grosvenor, Lady Elizabeth,
54

Guilford, Dudley North, 7th Earl of,
186

Haakon VII, King of Norway,
234

haemophilia,
56
,
112
,
114
,
127
,
232
,
237
,
239
–40,
242
,
250

Hahn, Sophie,
185

Halle, (Sir) Charles,
58

Hauke, Countess Julie von
(later
Princess of Battenberg),
49
,
125
,
166
,
173

Heathcote, Mrs Wilson,
256

Heiligenberg,
184
–5,
202

Helen of Waldeck-Pyrmont, Princess
(later
Duchess of Albany): marriage,
118
; portrait of,
120
; and Princess Beatrice's marriage,
131
,
132
,
150
,
155
,
156
; commended by Princess Beatrice,
201
–2; and death of Prince Henry,
201
; death,
251

Helena, Princess
(later
Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein; ‘Lenchen'): at parents’ wedding anniversary,
17
; and Prince Albert's funeral,
25
–6; appearance,
30
,
49
–50; on the young Princess Beatrice,
33
,
47
; and Queen Victoria's widowhood,
35
; at Prince of Wales's wedding,
36
; and reception of
Maori chiefs,
39
; relationship with Princess Beatrice,
47
–8; family life,
70
,
184
; and Princess Beatrice's confirmation,
80
; and Princess Alice's children,
105
–6; over-protectiveness,
112
; and Princess Beatrice's lady-in-waiting,
137
; wedding,
141
–2;
Memoirs ofWilhelmine, Margravine of Bayreuth,
161; in group portrait,
176
; and death of Prince Henry,
193
,
201
; relationship with Princess Louise,
199
; and Queen Victoria's correspondence,
204
; and death of Edward VII,
234
; death,
251

Henry of Battenberg, Prince ('Liko'): and Louis Napoleon,
87
; falls in love with Princess Beatrice,
124
; Queen Victoria's conditions for their marriage,
131
,
132
,
134
–6,
137
–8; appearance,
135
,
179
–80; public opinion of,
139
; wedding,
146
,
150
–56; granted the style ‘Royal Highness',
150
; visit to Empress Eugenie (1886),
157
; naturalization,
159
; children,
164
–9,
183
–4; his command of English,
173
; amateur dramatics,
174
–5; sailing trips,
177
,
178
,
179
–80,
183
,
186
; and Angelina Patti,
178
; trip to Corfu and Albania (1889–90),
178
–9; sporting life,
180
–82; appointed governor of the Isle of Wight,
182
–3; frustrated by royal life,
185
–6; expedition to Ashanti,
188
–91; death 187–8,
191
–2,
245
–6; his memorials,
197
–8,
200
,
248
; as confidante to Princess Louise,
198
–9

Henry of Prussia, Prince,
63

Hesse, Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of
see
Alice, Princess Hesse, Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of,
108
,
243

Hesse, Onor, Grand Duchess of,
240

Hildyard, Sarah Anne ('Tilla'),
41

Holyrood Palace,
41

Hopton Wood Stone Company,
197

Horsley, John Calcott,
13

Housman, Laurence:
Victoria Regina,
216

Illustrated London News,
6
,
115,
154
,
189
,
225
,
239
,
251

Illustrated War News,
244

Imperial Order of the Crown of India,
152

In Napoleonic Days,
241,
259
–60,
261
–3

Inconstant
(ship),
117

Inverlochy Castle,
58
,
110

Irene of Hesse, Princess,
141
,
142

Isle of Wight: Prince Henry and Princess Beatrice as governors,
182
–3,
208
–9,
231
,
241
–2,
244
–5,
254
,
256
–7,
264

Isle of Wight County Hospital,
252

Isle of Wight County Press,
107,
233
,
256

Isle of Wight Fine Art Society,
107

Isle of Wight Hunt,
181

Isle of Wight Rifles,
183
,
186
,
208
,
254

Italy,
106
,
111

Jackson, Margaret ('Madgie'),
105

Jagow, Kurt,
260

James, Henry, ist Baron James of Hereford,
110
,
187

Jenner, Sir William,
44
,
56
,
163
,
204

John Murray (publishers),
160
–61,
245
,
260
,
261
–3

Kensington Palace,
203
,
222
,
230
,
243
–4,
250

Kent, Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of,
259

Kent, Victoria, Duchess of,
8
,
18
,
24
,
25
,
29
,
32
,
66
,
81
,
185
,
259

Khartoum,
119
,
229
–30

King Edward VII Royal Family Order,
234

Kitchener, Herbert, ist Earl,
247

Knutsford, Sydney Holland, 2nd Viscount,
246

Kolemine, Alexandrine von,
119
,
127

Kranichstein Castle,
40
Kraus, Emil,
160

Labouchere, Henry,
140
,
152

Lancet, The,
3

Landseer, Sir Edwin,
44
,
68

Lansdowne, Henry Petty-FitzMaurice, 5th Marquess of,
237

Lauchert, Richard,
40
,
62

Lavery, (Sir) John,
248

Layard, Sir Austen,
80

League of Remembrance,
251

Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands,
73–4,
107
,
245

Lehzen, Baroness Louise,
93

Leitch, William Leighton,
17
,
35
,
106

Leopold I, King of the Belgians,
30
,
35
,
39
,
93

Leopold, Prince
(later
Duke of Albany): birth,
3
,
4
; on Princess Beatrice as a baby,
13
; at parents’ wedding anniversary,
17
; and reception of Maori chiefs,
39
; relationship with Princess Beatrice,
47
,
56
–7,
172
; shyness,
50
,
122
; on family Christmas,
52
–3; fifteenth birthday,
53
; haemophilia,
56
,
112,
114
,
127
; musical aptitude,
58
; and his nieces and nephews,
63
; his dogs,
68
; at Prince of Wales's thanksgiving service,
79
; and Princess Beatrice's confirmation,
80
; his own confirmation,
81
; and John Brown,
98
; engagement and marriage,
117
–18,
128
,
129
,
145
; death,
118
–19,
127
; and Princess Beatrice's relationship with Prince Henry of Battenberg,
130

Leopold of Battenberg, Prince (
later
Lord Leopold Mountbatten): birth,
166
–7; sickliness,
211
,
232
,
242
; and death of Queen Victoria,
213
; and deaths of Prince Henry and Queen Victoria,
214
; trip to North Africa (1903–4),
229
–30; military career,
242
–3; relinquishing of German title,
248
; death,
250
–51

Leys, William (piper),
85

Lilly, Mrs (midwife),
2

Lind, Jenny,
37

Linton, Sir James,
145

Lister, Joseph (
later
Ist Baron Lister),
76

Liverpool, University of,
225

Loch Maree,
99
,
113

Lockwood (footman),
4

Locock, (Sir) Charles,
2
,
3
–5

London, Archibald Tait, Bishop of,
2
,
7

London, Arthur Winnington-Ingram, Bishop of,
236

London Gazette,
187

London Hospital,
246

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth,
106

Lome, John Campbell, Marquess of (
later
9th Duke of Argyll): marriage,
55
,
69
–70,
140
,
202
; and Princess Beatrice's wedding,
80
; and Queen Victoria,
128
,
150
; sexuality,
198
; death,
251

Lorne, Princess Louise, Marchioness of
see
Louise, Princess

Louis of Battenberg, Prince (
later
Ist Marquess of Milford Haven): relationship with Princess Beatrice,
116
–17,
124
; marriage,
118
,
119
; at Osborne,
137
,
147
; and Prince Henry,
179
; naval career,
186
; and outbreak of First World War,
243
; relinquishing of German title,
248
; death,
251
; and body of Grand Duchess Elizabeth,
252

Louis of Hesse, Prince (
later
Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse): and illness of Prince Albert,
24
; his titles,
34
; and Deceased Wife's Sister Bill,
103
–6; at Balmoral,
108
; marriage to Princess Alice, i n; second marriage,
119
,
127
–8; and marriage of Princess Victoria of Hesse,
129
; and Princess Beatrice's relationship with Prince Henry of Battenberg,
131
; and their marriage,
150

Louis Napoleon, Prince Imperial,
86
–91,
105

Louise, Princess (
later
Marchioness of Lome,
then
Duchess of Argyll): at Prince of Wales's wedding,
6
; at parents’ wedding anniversary,
17
; and Prince Albert's funeral,
26
; appearance,
30
,
49
; letter-writing,
42
; relationship with Princess Beatrice,
47
; marriage,
55
,
69
–70,
127
,
128
,
140
,
141
–2,
203
; Swiss holiday,
56
; sketching in Scotland,
67
; Queen Victoria's reservations about,
73
; sculpture classes,
74
; and Princess Beatrice's confirmation,
80
; and Princess Beatrice's lady-in-waiting,
137
; and birth of Princess Beatrice's first child,
164
; amateur dramatics,
174
–5; am l death of Prince Henry,
192
; relationship with Prince Henry,
198
–9; and with Arthur Bigge,
199
–200; her photography,
203
–4; inherits Kent House at Osborne,
226
; apartment at Kensington Palace,
230
; in Edward VII's inner circle,
233
–4; war work,
244
; and Princess Beatrice's declining health,
256
,
258
–9; death,
261

Louise of Battenberg, Princess (
later
Queen of Sweden),
185
,
248
,
249

Louise of Holstein, Princess,
141

Louise of Wales, Princess (
later
Duchess of Fife,
then
Princess Royal),
141
,
142
,
234

Low, Frances H.,
54

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