24. A nameless contributor to Fraser’s Magazine (1823), quoted in The Ramsgate Millennium Book, The Ramsgate Society (2000) p. 544
25. Charles Busson, The Boot of Ramsgate, Buckingham (1985) p. 133
26. Ibid., p. 66
27. ‘Map of the Town and Royal Harbour of RAMSGATE From an actual Survey made in the Year 1849’, reproduced in The Ramsgate Millennium Book, The Ramsgate Society (2000) p. 8.1.5
28. Anon., Isle of Thanet Illustrated Visitors’ Guide, n.p. (1887) p. 40
29. RA QVJ/1832: 1 August
30. Benson and Esher, eds. (1907, 1908 edition) vol. 1, p. 11
31. Albert, ed., (1967) p. 40
32. Christopher Thomas Richardson, Fragments of History pertaining to … Ramsgate, Ramsgate (1885, 1999 edition) p. 18
33. RA VIC/ADDA/11/22, Baroness Lehzen to King Leopold (n.d.)
34. RA QVJ/1835: 18 September
35. Notebook belonging to Dr William Mason quoted in Gray (2017) p. 27
36. Gower, ed. (1893) p. 169
37. Maxwell, ed. (1904–5) vol. 2, p. 326; Private Life (1897; 1901 edition) p. 140
38. Quoted in Woodham-Smith (1972) p. 92
39. Gray (2017) p. 28
40. RA VIC/ADDA/11/22, Baroness Lehzen to King Leopold (n.d.)
41. Hunter, (1815) p. 2
42. RA QVJ/1835: 4 October
43. Benson and Esher, eds. (1907, 1908 edition) vol. 1, p. 72
44. RA VIC/MAIN/Z/482/1, John Conroy to the Duchess of Kent (15 July 1837)
45. RA VIC/ADDA/11/22, Baroness Lehzen to King Leopold (n.d.)
46. RA QVJ/1835: 7 October
47. R. A. L. Agnew, ‘Clark, Sir James, first baronet (1788–1870)’ in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004) (accessed 2 June 2017)
48. A. A. Cormack, Two Royal Physicians, London (1965) p. 17
49. RA VIC/ADDA/11/22, Baroness Lehzen to King Leopold (n.d.)
50. Quoted in Hudson (1994) p. 106
51. RA VIC/ADDA/11/22, Baroness Lehzen to King Leopold (n.d.)
52. RA QVJ/1838: 26 February
53. RA VIC/MAIN/Z/485/11 (15 November 1879)
54. RA QVJ/1838: 26 February
55. Quoted in Woodham-Smith (1972) p. 70
56. RA VIC/MAIN/Y/65/37, Leopold to Victoria (12 March 1839)
57. RA VIC/MAIN/4/16 (12 January 1830)
58. RA VIC/ADDA/11/22, Baroness Lehzen to King Leopold (n.d.)
59. Ibid.
60. Kentish Gazette (14 October 1834) (14 November 1837), England, Wales & Scotland Census (1851)
61. RA VIC/ADDA/11/22, Baroness Lehzen to King Leopold (n.d.)
62. RA QVJ/1835: 31 October
63. RA QVJ/1838: 17 October
64. RA QVJ/1835: 31 October
65. RA VIC/MAIN/Y/88/4 (3 November 1835)
66. Walter Scott, The Bride of Lammermoor, London (1819; 1858 edition) p. 5
67. Warner (1979) p. 68
68. Balliol College Conroy Papers 11 [6F] Edward Conroy’s memorandum
69. Quoted in Hudson (1994) p. 83
70. RA VIC/ADDA/11/2 (1 May 1836)
71. Royal College of Physicians, MS 4973, pp. 6, 12
72. RA QVJ/1838: 17 October
73. RA VIC/ADDA/12, part three (8–13 June 1837)
74. Lady Elizabeth Grosvenor, quoted in Weintraub (1987) p. 69
6. Albert: Kensington Palace, 18 May 1836
1. RA QVJ/1836: 18 May
2. Deirdre Murphy, “ ‘I like this poor palace”: Victoria’s Childhood’, in Fryman, ed., (forthcoming, 2019)
3. Ibid.
4. RA VIC/MAIN/Y/88/33 (14 March 1837)
5. Sir John Conroy to Lord Durham (6 February 1836), quoted in Hudson (1994) p. 114
6. TNA WORKS 19/16/1/655, ‘Kensington Palace Inventory’ (18 February 1862)
7. RA VIC/MAIN/5/9/86, James Clark (29 January 1836)
8. RA QVJ/1837: 24 May
9. Quoted in Hudson (1994) p. 114
10. Ibid., p. 114; Anon., ‘A Lady’, Anecdotes, Personal Traits, and Characteristic Sketches of Victoria, London (1840) p. 472
11. Thomas Sully, Journal (22 March 1838), transcribed in Kay Staniland files, Museum of London (consulted August 2017)
12. Edward Boykin, ed., Victoria, Albert and Mrs Stevenson, New York, NY (1957) p. 57
13. Gray (2017) p. 40
14. Sully (22 March 1838)
15. Boykin, ed. (1957) p. 104
16. Ibid; Maxwell, ed. (1904–5) vol. 2, p. 326
17. E.E.P. Tisdall, Queen Victoria’s Private Life, 1837–1901, London (1961) p. 15
18. Henry Reeve, ed., The Greville Memoirs, London (1896 edition) vol. 4, p. 81
19. Boykin, ed. (1957), p. 57
20. Benson and Esher, eds. (1907, 1908 edition) vol. 2, p. 49
21. Staniland (1997) p. 92
22. Scott (1819; 1858 edition) p. 368
24. Benson and Esher, eds. (1907, 1908 edition) vol. 1, pp. 48–9
25. Charles Grey, The Early Years of the His Royal Highness the Prince Consort, London and New York, NY (1867) p. 90
26. Doris Almon Ponsonby, The Lost Duchess: The Story of the Prince Consort’s Mother, (London, 1958) p. 151
27. Arthur Gould Lee, ed., The Empress Frederick Writes to Sophie, Her Daughter, London (1955) pp. 199–200
28. Klaus Weschenfelder, ‘Prince Albert: Early Encounters with Art and Collecting’, Essays from Study Day Held at the National Gallery, 2010, London (2012) pp. 12, 7
29. Benson and Esher, eds. (1907, 1908 edition) vol. 1, p. 49
30. Quoted in Theodore Martin, The Life of His Royal Highness the Prince Consort 1819–1861, London (1875; 1879 edition) vol. 1, p. 2
31. Quoted in Martin (1875; 1879 edition) vol. 1 pp. 2–3
32. RA QVJ/1836: 18 May
33. Grey (1867) p. 90
34. RA QVJ/1836: 23 May
35. RA QVJ/1836: 24 May
36. Percy Andreae, trans., Memoirs of Ernest II, London (1880) vol. 1 p. 69
37. Müller, ed. (1873) vol. 2, p. 7
38. RA VIC/MAIN/Y/34/51 (16 April 1836)
39. RA QVJ/1836: 10 June
40. RA VIC/MAIN/M/4/55, Palmerston to Conroy (13 May 1836)
41. RA VIC/MAIN/M/4/57, Albert’s notes on a memorandum of Charles of Leiningen
42. RA QVJ/1836: 10 June
43. RA VIC/MAIN/M/4/57
44. RA VIC/MAIN/M/4/57, memorandum of Charles of Leiningen, translated in Woodham-Smith (1972) p. 116
45. Quoted in Woodham-Smith (1972) p. 122
46. Benson and Esher, eds. (1907 1908 edition) vol. 1, p. 49
47. RA VIC/MAIN/QVLB/24 January 1838
7. Accession: Kensington Palace, 20 June 1837
1. Lorne (1901) p. 61
2. Private Life (1897; 1901 edition) p. 153
3. RA VIC/MAIN/Z/294, fo. 3r
4. RA QVJ/1836: 13 January
5. RA QVJ/1837: 24 May
6. Lord Palmerston (26 May 1837), quoted in Christopher Hibbert, Victoria, London (2000; 2001 edition) p. 50.
7. W. F. Monypenny and G. E. Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, London (1910) vol. 1, p. 370
8. Quoted in Ziegler (1971) p. 289; Clifford Brewer, The Death of Kings, London (2005 edition) pp. 238–9
9. RA ADDA/11/12 (8–13 June 1837), translated in Woodham-Smith (1972) p. 136
10. Benson and Esher, eds. (1907, 1908 edition) vol. 1, p. 72
11. RA VIC/ADDA/15 (16 June 1837)
12. RA VIC/MAIN/M/4/57, memorandum of Charles of Leiningen, translated in Woodham-Smith (1972) p. 137
13. Quoted in Hudson (1994) p. 130
14. TNA PRO 30/29/423, Palmerston to Granville (26 May 1837)
15. RA VIC/MAIN/M/7/67, memorandum of Charles of Leiningen, translated in Hudson (1994) p. 121
16. Benson and Esher, eds. (1907, 1908 edition) vol. 1, p. 70
17. RA QVJ/1837: 19 May
18. RA VIC/MAIN/Z/294, fo. 3v
19. Ibid, f
o. 3r–v
20. Woodham-Smith (1972) p. 138
21. RA VIC/MAIN/Z/294, fo. 3v
22. Tooley (1897) pp. 70–2. The evidence given by Dean Stanley records that the duchess advised that her daughter must go in alone, rather than, as some historians have said, Victoria ordering her mother to remain behind
23. Anon., The Annual Register and Chronicle for the Year 1837, London (1838) p. 61
24. Tooley (1897) pp. 70–2
25. Peter Quennell, ed., The Private Letters of Princess Lieven, London (1937) p. 200
26. Tooley (1897) p. 72
27. Thomas Dixon, Weeping Britannia, Oxford (2015) pp. 177–9
28. Theodore Martin, Queen Victoria as I Knew Her, London (1901) p. 65
29. RA VIC/MAIN/QVLB/19 June 1837
30. Anon., The Annual Register and Chronicle for the Year 1837, London (1838) p. 65
31. Benson and Esher, eds. (1911 edition) vol. 1, p. 72
32. RA VIC/MAIN/QVLB/20 June 1837
33. Sir John Clark, Sir James Clark’s son, made this claim; Elizabeth Longford, ‘Queen Victoria’s Doctors’, in Martin Gilbert, ed., A Century of Conflict, 1850–1950, London (1966) p. 84
34. Philip Ziegler, Melbourne, London (1976) p. 123
35. RA QVJ/1838: 30 December
36. RA QVJ/1837: 20 May
37. Anon., The Annual Register and Chronicle for the Year 1837, London (1838) p. 63
38. Reeve, ed. (1899 edition) vol. 3, p. 415
39. Quoted in Bartley (2016) p. 42
40. Tooley (1897) pp. 70–2
41. De-la-Noy (1990) p. 101
42. Barratt (2000) p. 45, quoted in Gray (2017) p. 279
43. Eyewitness Barrett Lennard, quoted in Ernest Law, Kensington Palace, London (1899) p. 37; Allan Cunningham, The Life of Sir David Wilkie, London (1843) p. 229
44. Anon., The Annual Register and Chronicle for the Year 1837, London (1838) p. 63
45. Quoted in John Plunkett, Queen Victoria, First Media Monarch, Oxford (2003) p. 89
46. Deirdre Murphy, “ ‘I like this poor palace”: Victoria’s childhood’, in Fryman, ed., (forthcoming, 2019)
47. Reeve, ed. (1899 edition) vol. 3, p. 415
48. Marshall (1887) p. 301
49. Reeve, ed. (1899 edition) vol. 3, p. 415
50. Quoted in Woodham-Smith (1972) p. 140
51. Anon., The Annual Register and Chronicle for the Year 1837, London (1838) p. 63
52. Law, (1899) p. 37
53. Vernon Bogdanor, Gresham College History Lecture (20 September 2016)
54. RA VIC/MAIN/4/28 (23 April 1831)
55. Cunningham, (1843) p. 229
56. The Bishop of London, quoted in Lorne (1901) p. 67
57. RA VIC/MAIN/M/7/68, memorandum of Baron Stockmar (1847); RA MP/116/89, memorandum of Sir John Conroy
58. RA VIC/MAIN/M/7/68, memorandum of Baron Stockmar (1847)
59. RA VIC/ADDA/11/4 Stockmar to Leopold (3 April 1837), translated in Woodham-Smith (1972) p. 131
60. RA QVJ/1837: 20 May
61. RA VIC/MAIN/Z/294, fo. 3r
62. RA VIC/MAIN/Z/294, fo. 3v
63. RA QVJ/1839: 8 January
64. Quoted in Vallone (2001) p. 199
65. RA QVJ/1837: 20 May
66. Adrienne Munich, Queen Victoria’s Secrets, New York, NY (1996) p. 16
67. Reeve, ed. (1896 edition) vol. 4, pp. 16–17
8. Coronation: Buckingham Palace, 28 June 1838
1. RA QVJ/1838: 28 June
2. Lady Wilhelmina Stanhope, quoted in Lorne (1901) p. 82
3. Staniland (1997) p. 114
4. Private Life (1897; 1901 edition) p. 62
5. Plunkett (2003) pp. 18–19
6. Caledonian Mercury (1 July 1837) p. 5, quoted in Bartley (2016) p. 39
7. Benson and Esher, eds. (1907, 1908 edition) vol. 1, p. 86
8. Ibid., p. 106
9. Ibid., p. 115
10. Anon., The Annual Register For the Year 1838, London (1838) p. 135
11. Charlot (1991) p. 115
12. Weintraub (1987) pp. 112, 650
13. Reeve, ed. (1896 edition) vol. 4, p. 113; Plunkett (2003) p. 23
14. Anon., The Annual Register For the Year 1838, London (1838) p. 96
15. Harriot Georgiana Mundy, ed., The Journal of Mary Frampton, London (1885) p. 404
16. Ibid., pp. 404–5
17. Anon., The Annual Register For the Year 1838, London (1838) pp. 96–7
18. RA QVJ/1838: 28 June
19. Roy Strong, Coronation, London (2005) p. 406
20. Mundy, ed., (1885) p. 406
21. Ibid., pp. 407–8
22. Anon., The Annual Register For the Year 1838, London (1838) p. 97
23. Felix Mendelssohn, quoted in Charlotte M. Yonge, The Victorian Half Century, London (1887) p. 9
24. RA QVJ/1838: 28 June
25. Yonge (1887) p. 9
26. Ibid.
27. Lord Beaconsfield’s letters, published in New Outlook, New York, NY (1886) vol. 33, p. 24; Rix (2013)
28. TNA LC 2/67, pp. 23–4
29. Lady Wilhelmina Stanhope, quoted in Lorne (1901) p. 82
30. RA QVJ/1838: 28 June
31. Grace Greenwood, Queen Victoria, Her Girlhood and Womanhood, London (1883) p. 117
32. Ralph Disraeli, ed., Lord Beaconsfield’s Correspondence with His Sister, London (1886 edition) p. 109
33. RA QVJ/1838: 28 June
34. Lady Wilhelmina Stanhope, quoted in Lorne (1901) p. 82
35. RA QVJ/1838: 28 June
36. Quoted in Yonge (1887) pp. 10–11
37. C. R. Leslie, Autobiographical Recollections, London (1860) vol. 2, p. 239
38. Quoted in Yonge (1887) pp. 10–11
39. Warner (1979) p. 84
40. Quoted in Yonge (1887) pp. 10–11
41. RA QVJ/1838: 28 June
42. Benjamin Robert Haydon, The Diary of Benjamin Robert Haydon, Cambridge, MA (1960) p. 350
43. Strong (2005) p. 381
44. Kilby, ed. (2012) p. 35
45. TNA LC 2/67, p. 66
46. Reeve, ed., (1896 edition) vol. 4, pp. 111–12
47. Lady Wilhelmina Stanhope, quoted in Lorne (1901) pp. 83–4
48. TNA LC 2/68 (22 June 1838)
49. RA QVJ/1838: 28
50. Mundy, ed., (1885) p. 408
51. Ibid.
52. Harriet Martineau, Autobiography, Boston, MA (1877) p. 422
53. RA QVJ/1838: 28 June
54. TNA LC 2/68 ‘Coronation of Her Most Sacred Majesty’
55. Newspaper account, quoted by Kathryn Rix, blog post, ‘MPs and Queen Victoria’s Coronation’ victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2013/06/28
56. Rix (2013)
57. Quoted in Yonge (1887) pp. 10–11
58. RA QVJ/1838: 28 June
59. Balliol College Conroy Papers 14.B.A.(a).10, Basil Hall to Sir John Conroy (29 June 1838)
60. Lady Wilhelmina Stanhope, quoted in Lorne (1901) pp. 83–4
61. Lord Beaconsfield’s letters, published in New Outlook, New York, NY (1886) vol. 33, p. 24
62. RA QVJ/1838: 28 June
63. Anabel Loyd, Picnic Crumbs, Clifton-upon-Teme (2012)
64. Martineau (1877) pp. 421–3
65. RA QVJ/1838: 28 June
66. Leslie, (1860) vol. 2, p. 239
67. Reeve, ed. (1896 edition) vol. 4, p. 22
68. RA QVJ/1838: 28 June
69. Quoted in Strong (2005) p. 417
70. Martineau (1877) pp. 421, 424
71. F. M. Mallalieu, ‘The Coronation’, The Times (28 June 1838)
72. Anon., The Annual Register For the Year 1838, London (1838) p. 107
73. Plunkett (2003) p. 68
74. Ibid., p. 70
9. In Lady Flora’s Bedchamber: Buckingham Palace, 27 June 1839
1. Sully (22 March 1838)
2. Benita Stoney and Heinrich Weltzien, eds., My Mistress the Queen: The Letters of Frieda Arnold, Dresser to Queen Victoria, 1854–9, Lond
on (1994) p. 52
3. Ibid., p. 51
4. Jasper Tomsett Judge, Sketches of Her Majesty’s Household, London (1848) p. 97
5. Sully (22 March 1838)
6. Stoney and Weltzien, eds. (1994) p. 52
7. J. Mordaunt Crook and M. H. Port, The History of the King’s Works, vol. 6, London (1973) p. 274
8. Ibid., p. 287
9. Ibid., p. 290
10. Judge (1848) p. 62
11. Crook and Port (1973) vol. 6, p. 376
12. Boykin, ed. (1957) p. 83
13. RA QVJ/1839: 25–27 June
14. Crook and Port (1973) vol. 6, p. 287
15. Martin (1962) p. 67
16. RA QVJ/1839: 25–27 June
17. RA MRH/MRHF/MENUS/MAIN/BP/1839 (28 June 1839)
18. RA QVJ/1839: 25–27 June
19. Martin (1962) p. 67
20. The Age (7 July 1839), quoted in Martin (1962) p. 67
21. RA QVJ/1839: 18 March
22. The Chronicle, quoted in Martin (1962) p. 70
23. Morning Post (4 July 1839), quoted in Lacy Fidler, ‘Newspaper Representations of Queen Victoria’s Agency During the Hastings Scandal and Bedchamber Crisis of 1839’, MA thesis, University of Alberta (2009) p. 90
24. RA QVJ/1839: 16 May
25. Reeve, ed. (1896 edition) vol. 4, p. 23
26. Ziegler (1976) p. 106
27. Reeve, ed. (1896 edition) vol. 4, p. 136
28. RA QVJ/1837: 3 October
29. RA QVJ/1838: 4 September
30. Roger Fulford, ed., The Greville Memoirs, London (1963 edition) p. 156
31. RA VIC/MAIN/M/7/65, Duchess of Kent to Victoria (n.d., June 1837)
32. RA QVJ/1838: 20 February
33. RA VIC/ADDV/2, translation of VIC/ADDA/14/66 (6 March 1838)
34. Woodham-Smith (1972) p. 161
35. RA QVJ/1839: 25–27 June
36. Quoted in Robert Bernard Martin, Enter Rumour, London (1962) p. 49
37. RA QVJ/1839: 25–27 June
38. Quoted in Woodham-Smith (1972) p. 162
39. Wyndham, ed. (1912) p. 285
40. RA QVJ/1838: 14 October
41. RA QVJ/1838: 4 August
42. Beatrice Erskine, ed., Twenty Years at Court: From the Correspondence of the Hon. Eleanor Stanley, 1842–1862, London (1916) p. 57
43. RA MRH/MRHF/GOODSREC/SPICE/WC, fo. 13 (21–30 June 1837)
44. Maxwell, ed. (1904) vol. 2, p. 325
45. For example, RA MRH/MRHF/MENUS/MAIN/MIXED/24, fo. 191r (29 September 1837)
46. RA QVJ/1838: 30 December
47. RA QVJ/1838: 17 December
48. Sully (24 February 1838)
49. Brewer (2005 edition) p. 244
50. Quoted in Hibbert (2000; 2001 edition) p. 61