51. RA QVJ/1839: 25–27 June
52. Statement by Lady Flora Hastings published in The Times (16 September 1839), issue 17148, p. 3
53. RA QVJ/1839: 2 February
54. G. C. Boase, ‘Portman, Edward Berkeley, first Viscount Portland (1799–188)’ revised H.C.G. Matthew, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004)
55. RA VIC/MAIN/Z/486/2 (17 February 1839)
56. TNA PRO 30/29/9/4, fo. 547v (5 March 1830)
57. Charles Mansfield Clarke, ‘Notes on lectures on Midwifery and the Diseases of Women and Children’ (1815), Wellcome Library MS 5605, quoted in Kathryn Hughes, Victorians Undone, London (2017) p. 42
58. Quoted in Martin, (1962) p. 37
59. Hughes (2017) p. 45
60. The London Medical and Physical Journal (1819) vol. 42, p. 26
61. Hughes (2017) p. 56
62. Reeve, ed. (1896 edition) vol. 4, p. 178
63. Balliol College Conroy Papers 14B.A.(a).4 Lady Flora Hastings to Sir John Conroy (October 1837)
64. RA QVJ/1839: 2 February
65. Hughes (2017) p. 27
66. Jennings, ed. (1884) vol. 2, p. 117
67. Reeve, ed. (1896 edition) vol. 4, p. 240
68. RA MP/116/95, Lord Duncannon to Lord Melbourne (11 December 1837)
69. Quoted in Plunkett (2003) p. 19
70. Royal College of Physicians, MS 4973, p. 10
71. Reeve, ed. (1896 edition) vol. 4, p. 209
72. Quoted in Robert Rhodes James, Prince Albert, London (1984) p. 75
73. Vernon Bogdanor, Gresham College History Lecture (20 September 2016)
74. Jane Ridley, Bertie: A Life of Edward VII, London (2012; 2013 edition) (2015) p. 19
75. RA MRH/MRHF/MENUS/MAIN/BP/1839 (28 June 1839); RA QVJ/1839: 27 June
76. Martin (1962) p. 65
77. Quoted in Martin (1962) p. 64
78. Ibid., p. 50
79. RA QVJ/1839: 5 July
80. Sir James Clark, statement in The Times (6 October 1839)
81. RA QVJ/1839: 15 June, 6–7 July
82. Fulford, ed. (1963 edition) p. 171
83. Lady Flora, quoted in Martin (1962) p. 58
84. RA VIC/MAIN/L/17/56 (30 October 1897)
85. Ponsonby (1942) p. 81
86. Benson and Esher, eds. (1907, 1908 edition) vol. 1, p. 184 (26 August 1839)
87. RA QVJ/1839: 29 May
88. RA QVJ/1839: 17 April
89. RA QVJ/1839: 15–18 April
10. The Proposal: Windsor Castle, 10–15 October 1839
1. Anon., The Annual Register For the Year 1839, London (1839) pp. 199, 246, 262
2. The Satirist, quoted in Plunkett (2003) p. 31
3. Benson and Esher, eds. (1907 1908 edition) vol. 1, p. 188 (12 October 1839)
4. The Morning Chronicle (11 October 1839) pp. 2, 4
5. Stoney and Weltzien, eds. (1994) pp. 40, 39
6. Grey (1867) p. 201
7. Jonathan Marsden, ed. Victoria & Albert, Art & Love, London (2010) p. 17
8. Ibid.
9. Quoted in Roger Fulford, The Prince Consort, London (1949) p. 31
10. Albert to Prince Lowenstein, June 1838, quoted in Marsden, ed. (2010) p. 17
11. Quoted in James (1984) p. 35
12. Royal College of Physicians, MS 4973, p. 8
13. Quoted in James (1984) p. 41
14. Royal College of Physicians, MS 4973, p. 7
15. Private Life (1897; 1901 edition) p. 39; for beefeaters on the stairs, see RA QVJ/1863: 10 March
16. RA QVJ/1839: 6 August
17. Benson and Esher, eds. (1907, 1908 edition) vol. 1, p. 186
18. Quoted in Ziegler (1976) p. 254
19. RA QVJ/1839: 10 October
20. The Morning Chronicle (11 October 1839) p. 2
21. Benson and Esher, eds. (1907, 1908 edition) vol. 1, p. 188
22. RA QVJ/1839: 10 October
23. RA VIC/MAIN/Z/294, fo. 7v
24. RA VIC/ADDV/2, translation of RA VIC/ADDA/14/84 (12 October 1839)
25. Benson and Esher, eds. (1907, 1908 edition) vol. 1, p. 188
26. RA QVJ/1838: 11 October
27. Grey (1867) p. 183
28. Benson and Esher, eds. (1907, 1908 edition) vol. 1, p. 188
29. RA QVJ/1839: 13 October
30. Quoted in Woodham-Smith (1972) p. 184
31. Benson and Esher, eds. (1907, 1908 edition) vol. 1, p. 186
32. RA QVJ/1839: 11 October
33. RA QVJ/1839: 14 October
34. RA VIC/ADDV/2, translation of ADDA/14/85 (15 October 1839)
35. Mr Arbuthnot to Robert Peel (12 December 1839) in Charles Stuart Parker, ed., Sir Robert Peel: From His Private Papers, London (1899 edition) vol. 2, p. 424
36. Grey (1867) p. 144
38. RA QVJ/1830: 14 October
39. Benson and Esher, eds. (1907, 1908 edition) vol. 1, p. 189
40. Gill (2010) p. 151
41. Margaret Homans, Royal Representations, Queen Victoria and British Culture, 1837–1876, Chicago, IL (1998) p. 17
42. RA QVJ/1839: 15 October
43. Ibid.
44. Quoted in Charlot (1991) p. 165
45. RA VIC/ADDV/2, translation of RA VIC/ADDA/14/85 (15 October 1839)
46. Martin (1879 edition) vol. 4, p. 169; Kurt Jagow, ed., Letters of the Prince Consort, 1831–1861, London (1938) p. 23
47. Jagow, ed. (1938) p. 25
48. Royal College of Physicians, MS 4973, p. 7
49. RA MRH/MRHF/MENUS/MAIN/WC/1840 (15 October 1839)
50. Healey (1997) p. 134
51. Quoted in Daphne Bennet, King Without a Crown, Philadelphia, PA (1977) p. 89
52. RA VIC/ADDV/2, translation of RA VIC/ADDA/14/66 (6 March 1838)
53. Magdalen Ponsonby, ed., Mary Ponsonby: A Memoir, Some Letters and a Journal, London (1927) pp. 4–5
54. Warner (1979) p. 89
55. RA VIC/ADDV/2, translation of RA VIC/ADDA/14/84 (12 October 1839)
56. Boykin, ed. (1957) p. 104; Sully (22 March 1383)
57. TNA PRO 30/29/424 (30 June 1837)
58. RA QVJ/1840: 2 February
59. Martin (1875; 1879 edition) vol. 1, p. 5
60. Prince William of Lowenstein, quoted in James (1984) p. 51
61. RA QVJ/1839: 1–4 November
62. Leslie (1860) vol. 2, p. 249
63. Scott (1819; 1858 edition) p. 157
64. Gill (2010) p. 149
65. Müller, ed. (1873) vol. 2, p. 3
66. London street ballad (1841), quoted in Homans (1998) p. 1
67. Sarah Ellis, The Wives of England, London (1843) p. 263
68. Quoted in Plunkett (2003) p. 102
69. Benson and Esher, eds. (1907, 1908 edition) vol. 1, p. 191
70. Roger Fulford, ed., Dearest Child, London (1964; 1981 edition) p. 209
71. Benson and Esher, eds. (1907, 1908 edition) vol. 1, p. 189
72. Marsden, ed. (2010) p. 335
73. RA VIC/MAIN/Z/296/19 (15 October 1839)
11. Wedding Day: three palaces, 10 February 1840
1. RA QVJ/1840: 10 February
2. Kay Staniland and Santina M. Levey, ‘Queen Victoria’s Wedding Dress and Lace’, Costume, vol. 17 (1983) pp. 1–32
3. Jennings, ed. (1884) vol. 2, p. 154, Croker to Lady Hardwicke (24 November 1839)
4. RA QVJ/1840: 10 February
5. RA VIC/MAIN/z/490/24, translated in Benson and Esher, eds. (1907, 1908 edition) vol. 1, p. 217. Interestingly, Benson and Esher make no mention of the language of the original: part of a project to make Albert seem less German and more acceptable
6. Jagow, ed. (1938) p. 61
7. Benson and Esher, eds. (1907, 1908 edition) vol. 1, p. 215
8. Plunkett (2003) p. 29
9. Penny Satirist, quoted in Plunkett (2003) p. 36
10. RA QVJ/1839: 5 December
11. Philip Whitwell Wilson, ed., The Greville Diary, London (1927 edition) p. 130
12. Ibid., p. 129
13. Quoted in Cecil Woodham-Smith, Florence Nightingale, London (1951) p. 16
14. RA QVJ/1838: 20 September
15. RA QVJ/1839: 18 August
16. Wilson, ed. (1927 edition) p. 130
17. RA QVJ/1840: 10 February
18. RA VIC/MAIN/Z/294, fos. 8r–v
19. RA QVJ/1840: 10 February
20. Woodham-Smith, (1951) p. 26
21. RA QVJ/1840: 10 February
22. Staniland (1997) p. 118
23. Ibid., p. 120
24. Ponsonby, ed. (1927) p. 6
25. Fulford, ed., (1964, 1981 edition) p. 44
26. Quoted in Weintraub (1987; 1996 edition) p. 123
27. TNA LC 13/2, fo. 112r, an account of the expenses of the Mistress of the Robes (1839); fo. 46v, Duchess of Sutherland to the Treasury (21 December 1837)
28. Mundy, ed. (1885) p. 413
29. RA QVJ/1840: 10 February
30. Tooley (1897) p. 118
31. Reeve, ed. (1902 edition) vol. 4, p. 276
32. Mundy, ed. (1885) p. 413
33. The Times (11 February 1840)
34. Plunkett (2003) p. 102
35. Lady Wilhelmina Stanhope, quoted in Lorne (1901) p. 112
36. RA QVJ/1840: 10 February
37. Wyndham, ed. (1912) p. 297
38. Lady Wilhelmina Stanhope, quoted in Lorne (1901) p. 112
39. Anon., The Annual Register, 1840, London (1840) p. 16
40. The Times (11 February 1840)
41. Boykin, ed. (1957) p. 243
42. The Times (11 February 1840)
43. Lady Wilhelmina Stanhope, quoted in Lorne (1901) p. 112
44. Anon., The Annual Register, 1840, London (1840) p. 17
45. Tooley (1897) p. 118
46. Woodham-Smith (1972) p. 204
47. Boykin, ed. (1957) p. 243
48. Jagow, ed. (1938) p. 59
49. RA QVJ/1840: 10 February
50. Lady Wilhelmina Stanhope, quoted in Lorne (1901) p. 112
51. Boykin, ed. (1957) p. 243
52. Mundy, ed. (1885) p. 412
53. RA QVJ/1840: 10 February
54. Mundy, ed. (1885) pp. 401–11, Miss Charlotte Neave (11 February 1840) p. 411
55. Boykin, ed. (1957) p. 243
56. Anon., The Annual Register, 1840, London (1840) p. 20
57. Mundy, ed. (1885) pp. 410–11, Miss Charlotte Neave (11 February 1840); Anon., The Annual Register, 1840, London (1840) p. 20
58. George Barnett Smith, Life of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, London (1887) p. 128
59. Lady Wilhelmina Stanhope, quoted in Lorne (1901) p. 114
60. RA QVJ/1840: 10 February
61. Boykin, ed. (1957) p. 243
62. RA VIC/MAIN/Z/491, fo. 2v (January 1862)
63. RA QVJ/1840: 10 February
64. Ibid.
65. Reeve, ed. (1902 edition) vol. 4, p. 277
66. RA QVJ/1840: 10 February
67. The Times (11 February 1840)
68. Boykin, ed. (1957) p. 243
69. Bartley (2016) p. 74
70. RA QVJ/1840: 10 February; MRH/MRHF/MENUS/MAIN/WC/1840 (10 February 1840)
71. RA VIC/MAIN/Z/491, fo. 2v (January 1862)
72. RA QVJ/1840: 10 February
73. RA VIC/MAIN/Z/491, fo. 2v (January 1862); RA QVJ/1840: 11 February
74. RA QVJ/1840: 11 February
75. Anon., The Annual Register, 1840, London (1840) p. 28
76. Benson and Esher, eds. (1907, 1908 edition) vol. 1, p. 213
77. Jagow, ed. (1938) p. 69
78. Ellis (1843) p. 76
79. Wilson, ed. (1927 edition) vol. 2, p. 131
80. Plunkett (2003) p. 105
12. ‘Oh Madam it is a princess’: Buckingham Palace, 21 November 1840
1. William Munk, The Roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London, London (1878) vol. 3, p. 297; The Medical Times, London (1846) p. 17
2. Thomas Ryan, Queen Charlotte’s Lying-In Hospital, London (1885) p. 13
3. Quoted in Hannah Pakula, An Uncommon Woman, New York, NY (1995; 1997 edition) p. 104
4. John Darton, Famous Girls Who Have Become Illustrious Women, New York, NY (1864), quoted in Vallone (2001) p. xvi
5. RA QVJ/1840: 24 April
6. RA VIC/MAIN/QVLB/10 November 1840
7. Royal Pharmaceutical Society, account book for ‘The Queen’ (1837–1844), p. 64
8. Thomas Bull, Hints to Mothers, London (1837) p. 23
9. Ibid., pp. 25–6
10. RA QVJ/1840: 20 November
11. RA MRH/MRHF/MENUS/MAIN/BP/1840 (20 November 1840)
12. Anon., The Annual Register, 1840, London (1840) p. 109
13. Royal College of Physicians, MS 4973, p. 10
14. RA QVJ/1840: description of 21 November written up on 1 December
15. Bull (1937) p. 135
16. Munk (1878) vol. 3, p. 271
17. Stratfield Saye MS, quoted in Longford (1966) p. 76
18. Matthew Dennison, The Last Princess, The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria’s Youngest Daughter, London (2007) p. 3
19. Stratfield Saye MS, quoted in Longford, (1966) p. 76
20. Fulford, ed., (1964; 1981 edition) p. 265
21. Stratfield Saye MS, quoted in Longford (1966) p. 76
22. RA VIC/MAIN/QVLB/10 November 1840
23. In the Royal Ceremonial Dress Collection, Historic Royal Palaces.
24. Staniland (1997) p. 126
25. Quoted in Frances Dimond and Roger Taylor, Crown and Camera, Harmondsworth (1987) p. 69
26. Tooley (1897) pp. 42–3
27. Self-portrait dated 19 May 1845, Royal Collection Inventory Number 980025.ag
28. Stratfield Saye MS, quoted in Longford, (1966) p. 76
29. Ibid.
30. Royal College of Physicians, MS 4973, pp. 21–3
31. RA VIC/MAIN/Z/294, fo.12r
32. Ridley (2012; 2013 edition) p. 3
33. Roger Fulford, Dearest Mama, London (1968) p. 192
34. Royal College of Physicians, MS 4973, pp. 21–3
35. Fulford, ed. (1964; 1981 edition) p. 151
36. Bull (1837) pp. 130–2
37. Dennison (2007) p. 2
38. Roger Fulford, ed., Beloved Mama, London (1981) p. 172
39. Royal College of Physicians, MS 4973, pp. 21–3
40. Ibid., p. 22
41. Fulford, ed. (1964; 1981 edition) pp. 150–1
42. RA QVJ/1840: description of 21 November written up on 1 December
43. Quoted in Charlot (1991) p. 195
44. Quoted in Woodham-Smith (1972) pp. 216–17
45. Royal College of Physicians, MS 4973, pp. 21–3
46. RA QVJ/1840: description of 21 November written up on 1 December
47. Private Life (1897; 1901 edition) p. 23
48. Quoted in Woodham-Smith (1972) pp. 216–17
49. RA QVJ/1840: description of 21 November written up on 1 December
50. Royal College of Physicians, MS 4973, pp. 21–3
51. RA QVJ/1840: description of 21 November written up on 1 December
52. Quoted in Woodham-Smith (1972) pp. 216–17
53. Boykin, ed. (1957) p. 276
54. Anon., The Annual Register, 1840, London (1840) p. 108; Boykin, ed. (1957) p. 276
55. RA VIC/MAIN/QVLB/14 November 1840; RA VIC/MAIN/Y/36/28 (19 March 1841)
56. Boykin, ed. (1957) p. 276
57. Pakula (1995; 1997 edition) p. 28
58. Quoted in Woodham-Smith (1972) pp. 216–17; RA QVJ/1840: description of 22 November written up on 1 December
59. Fulford, ed., (1964; 1981 edition) p. 115
60. RA QVJ/1840: 1 December; Bartley (2016) p. 77
61. Boykin, ed. (1957) pp. 281–2. Weintraub (1987) p. 149 corrects Boykin’s misreading of ‘Locock’ as ‘South’
62. RA QVJ/1840: 1 December; Bartley (2016) p. 77
63. RA QVJ/1843: 19 May; Bartley (2016) p. 82
64. RA QVJ/1840:
28 December; Pakula (1995; 1997 edition) p. 6
65. Wyndham, ed. (1912) p. 332
66. Quoted in Pakula (1995; 1997 edition) p. 105
67. Yvonne M. Ward, Censoring Queen Victoria, London (2013; 2015) p. 128
68. Julia Baird, Victoria: The Queen, London (2016) p. 166
69. RA QVJ/1840: 25 December
70. RA QVJ/1841: 24 July
71. Staniland (1997) p. 127
72. F.M.L. Thompson, ed., The Cambridge Social History of Britain, 1750–1950, Cambridge (1990) vol. 2, p. 38
73. Gill (2010) p. 169
74. Quoted in Longford, (1966) p. 86
75. RA VIC/MAIN/Z/484/43 (5 March 1854)
76. RA QVJ/1840: description of 21 November written up on 1 December
77. Hector Bolitho, ed., The Prince Consort and His Brother: Two Hundred New Letters, London (1933) p. 21
78. Pakula (1995; 1997 edition) p. 9
79. Helen Rappaport, Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert and the Death that Changed the Monarchy, London (2011) p. 21
80. Ellis (1843) pp. 24–5
81. Martin (1901) p. 70
82. Grey (1867) pp. 288–9
83. RA QVJ/1845: 18 February
84. H. C. G. Matthew and K. D. Reynolds, ‘Victoria (1819–1901)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press (2004)
85. RA VIC/MAIN/Y/54/11 (20 December 1840)
86. Bolitho, ed. (1933) p. 31
87. Vernon Bogdanor, Gresham College History Lecture (20 September 2016)
88. Quoted in Woodham-Smith (1972) p. 299
89. Vernon Bogdanor, Gresham College History Lecture (20 September 2016)
90. Longford (1964; 1987 edition) p. 155
13. Christmas at Windsor: 25 December 1850
1. Royal Collection Inventory Number 919812
2. RA QVJ/1850: 25 December
3. Jagow, ed. (1938) p. 134
4. Edward Holt, The Public and Domestic Life of His Late, Most Gracious Majesty, George III, London (1820) vol. 1, p. 417
5. Arthur Dasent, John Thadeus Delane, His Life and Correspondence, London (1908) vol. 2, p. 14
6. Private Life (1897; 1901 edition) p. 84
7. Grey (1867) p. 276
8. RA VIC/MAIN/Z/491, fo. 4 (January 1862)
9. Benson and Esher, eds. (1907, 1908 edition) vol. 1, p. 463
10. Fulford, ed. (1968) p. 23
11. Martin (1875) vol. 1, p. 276
12. Fulford, ed. (1968) p. 23
13. Charles C. F. Greville, The Greville Memoirs, second series, London (1885) vol. 2, p. 323
14. Albert to Vicky (1 September 1858) quoted in Weintraub (1987) p. 269
15. Reeve, ed. (1911 edition) vol. 8 p. 128
16. Quoted in Lorne (1901) p. 125