8. Albert’s diary (24 November 1861) quoted in Martin (1880) vol. 5, p. 346
9. RA VIC/MAIN/Z/142
10. Rowland Ernle, ed., Life and Letters of Dean Stanley, London (1909) p. 342
11. RA VIC/MAIN/Z/142
12. A letter by ‘Lina’ Hocédé, royal governess, printed as ‘The Last Hours of Prince Albert’ in many British newspapers and in George Barnett Smith, Queen Victoria, London (1887) p. 351; Rappaport (2011) p. 268
13. RA VIC/MAIN/Z/142
14. Quoted in Rappaport (2011) p. 60
15. Staatschiv Darmstadt, Alice to Louis in Hesse (3 December 1861) quoted in Rappaport (2011) p. 60
16. RA VIC/MAIN/Z/142
17. Weintraub (1987) p. 371
18. Marsden, ed. (2012) p. 51
19. Martin (1875) vol. 1, p. 487
20. Fulford, ed. (1964; 1981 edition) p. 213
21. Vera Watson, A Queen at Home, London (1952) p. 97
22. St Aubyn (1979) p. 213
23. David Duff, Queen Mary, London (1985) p. 38
24. William Budd, ‘On Intestinal Fever’, The London Lancet, vol. 1, New York, NY (1860) p. 391
25. Chadwick quoted in Bartley (2016) p. 91
26. Weintraub (1987) p. 148
27. Robert Wilson, Life and Times of Queen Victoria, London (1891–2) vol. 2, p. 100
28. William Jenner, On the Identity or Non-Identity of Typhoid and Typhus Fevers, London (1850); Rappaport (2011) p. 33
29. Martin (1880) vol. 5, p. 431
30. RA QVJ/1861: 7 December
31. Royal College of Physicians, MS 30/2, Sir James Clark’s Journal p. 105 (1865)
32. Martin (1876) vol. 2, p. 359
33. RA VIC/MAIN/Z/171/5 (12 March 1844)
34. Fulford, ed. (1964, 1981) pp. 308, 354
35. RA VIC/MAIN/Y/189/26 (29 September 1855) translated in Woodham-Smith (1972) p. 372
36. Rappaport (2011) p. 259
37. Andreae, trans. (1890) p. 55
38. Royal College of Physicians, MS 30/2, Sir James Clark’s Journal, p. 105 (1868)
39. RA QVJ/1861: 15 March
40. RA VIC/MAIN/Y/106/14 (9 April 1861)
41. RA VIC/ADD/U2/7 (19 January 1842) (translation)
42. RA VIC/MAIN/Z/140/46–51 (12 March 1857)
43. Albert to Victoria (22 October 1861) quoted in Rappaport (2011) p. 45
44. RA VIC/MAIN/Z/140/12–13 (9 May 1853)
45. Munich (1996) p. 62
46. RA VIC/MAIN/Z/491, fo. 5v (January 1862)
47. Jagow, ed. (1938) p. 305
48. Sale catalogue, Prince Albert’s medicine chest, in the files of Kay Staniland, Museum of London (consulted August 2017)
49. Royal Pharmaceutical Society, account book for ‘The Queen’ (1861–1869) (14, 17 October 1861)
50. Rappaport (2011) p. 48; Royal Pharmaceutical Society, account book for ‘The Queen’ (1861–1869)
51. Notes on Sir James Clark’s Journal, Royal College of Physicians, AIM25 website
52. Martin (1879 edition) vol. 4, p. 501
53. Benson and Esher, eds. (1907, 1908 edition) vol. 3, p. 469
54. Ibid., p. 470
55. Quoted in Rappaport (2011) p. 268
56. Quoted in Woodham-Smith (1972) p. 417
57. Benson and Esher, eds. (1907, 1908 edition) vol. 3, pp. 464–5
58. Quoted in Rappaport (2011) p. 69
59. RA VIC/MAIN/Z/142
60. Ibid.
61. Edward Walford, Life of the Prince Consort, London (1862) p. 96 (‘Windsor Castle, December 14th, 4.30pm’)
62. RA VIC/MAIN/Z/142
63. RA VIC/ADDU/416 (26 December 1861)
64. RA VIC/MAIN/Z/142
65. Ibid.
66. St Aubyn (1979) p. 55
67. RA VIC/MAIN/Z/142
68. Ibid.
69. Windsor and Bolitho, eds. (1927) p. 245
70. RA VIC/ADDU/416 (26 December 1861)
71. RA VIC/MAIN/Z/142
72. Windsor and Bolitho, eds. (1927) p. 245
73. Ibid., p. 245
74. Erskine, ed. (1916) pp. 388–9
75. RA VIC/ADDU/416 (26 December 1861)
76. Royal Pharmaceutical Society, account book of ‘The Queen’ (1861–1869) (14 December 1861)
77. Windsor and Bolitho, eds. (1927) p. 245
78. William M. Kuhn, Henry and Mary Ponsonby, London (2002) p. 82
79. Tisdall (1961) p. 50
80. Erskine, ed. (1916) pp. 388–9
81. Windsor and Bolitho, eds. (1927) p. 246
82. RA VIC/MAIN/Z/142
83. Erskine, ed. (1916) pp. 388–9
84. Quoted in Pakula (1995; 1997 edition) p. 160
85. Wyndham, ed. (1912) p. 422
86. A. L. Kennedy, ed., ‘My Dear Duchess’: Social and Political Letters to the Duchess of Manchester, 1858–1869, London (1956) p. 183
1. RA QVJ/1871: 13 December
2. RA VIC/ADDC/18/71 (30 November 1871)
3. RA QVJ/1871: 13 December
4. RA QVJ/1871: 11 December
5. Ibid.
6. Wellcome Library MS 5873 A/53 (1 a.m., 13 December 1871)
7. Wellcome Library MS 5873 B/30 (13 December 1871)
8. RA QVJ/1871: 11 December
9. RA QVJ/1871: 29 November
10. Bartley (2016) p. 204
11. Benson and Esher, eds. (1907, 1908 edition) vol. 3, p. 474
12. Sir H. Maxwell, ed. The Life and Letters of the Fourth Earl of Clarendon, London (1913) vol. 2, pp. 250–1
13. Bostridge (2008; 2009 edition) p. 388
14. Hibbert (2000; 2001 edition) p. 308
15. Edward John Tilt, The Change of Life, London (1857) p. 6; W. Tyler Smith, ‘The Climacteric Disease in Women’, London Journal of Medicine, vol. 7 (July 1849) pp. 604–5; Munich (1996) p. 105
16. Michaela Reid, Ask Sir James, London (1987) p. 107
17. Hector Bolitho, ed., Letters of Queen Victoria From the Archives of the House of Brandenburg-Prussia, New Haven, CT (1938) p. 143
18. Royal Collection Inventory Number 55254
19. Quoted in Gray (2017) p. 217
20. David Duff, Alexandra, Princess and Queen, London (1980) p. 106
21. Wellcome Library MS 5873 J/3 (29 April 1889)
22. The Dean of Windsor and Hector Bolitho, eds., Later Letters of Augusta Stanley, London (1929) p. 148
23. Brewer (2005 edition) pp. 248–8
24. Quoted in Weintraub (1987) p. 365
25. Fulford, ed. (1971) p. 21
26. Staniland (1997) p. 157
27. Plunkett (2003) p. 156
28. Dimond and Taylor (1987) p. 20
29. The Photographic News (28 February 1862) quoted in Dimond and Taylor (1987) p. 22
30. RA QVJ/1871: 13 December
31. Philip Guedalla, The Queen and Mr Gladstone, London (1933) vol. 2, p. 357
32. RA VIC/ADDC/18/72 (1 December 1871)
33. ‘The Illness of H.R.H. The Prince of Wales,’ British Medical Journal (9 December 1871) p. 671
34. Wellcome Library MS 5873 C/1 (26 November 1871)
35. RA VIC/ADDC/18/80 (7 December 1871)
36. Quoted in Georgina Battiscombe, Queen Alexandra, London (1969) p. 116
37. Ponsonby (1942) p. 98
38. Helen Walch, Sandringham: A Royal Estate for 150 Years, Norwich (2012) p. 35
39. The Strand magazine quoted in Walch (2012) p. 45
40. C. Rachel Jones, Sandringham, Past and Present, London (1888) p. 12
41. RA VIC/Add A36/395 (29 November 1871)
42. Ridley (2012; 2013 edition) p. 91
43. Walch (2012) p. 30
44. Duff (1980) p. 108
45. RA VIC/ADDC/18/68 (27 November 1871)
46. Walch (2012) p. 43; Roger Fulford, ed., Darling Child: Private Correspondence of Queen Victoria and the Crown Princess of Prussia, 1871–78, London (1976) p. 20
47. Ponsonby (1942) p. 9
9
48. The Strand magazine quoted in Walch (2012) p. 45
49. RA QVJ/1871: 13 December
50. Quoted in Weintraub (1987; 1988 edition) p. 321
51. RA VIC/ADDC/18/72 (1 December 1871)
52. Quoted in Ridley (2012; 2013 edition) p. 78
53. RA QVJ/1871: 11 December
54. RA QVJ/1871: 13 December; Wellcome Library MS 5873 B/33 (14 December 1871)
55. Quoted in Martyn Downer, The Queen’s Knight, London (2007) p. 266
56. RA VIC/ADDC/18/70 (29 November 1871)
57. Wellcome Library MS 5873 B/33
58. Wellcome Library MS 5873 C/22
59. Windsor and Bolitho, eds. (1929) pp. 149–50
60. RA VIC/ADDC/18/84 (10 December 1871)
61. Quoted in Battiscombe (1969) p. 115, most likely in RA VIC/ADDC/18 but her footnote is not traceable
62. RA VIC/ADDA36/395 (29 November 1871)
63. Wellcome Library MS 5873 B/31
64. RA QVJ/1871: 13 December
65. RA VIC/ADDA/36/401 (13 December 1871)
66. RA QVJ/1871: 13 December
67. The Times (12 December 1871) issue 27244, p. 9
68. St Aubyn (1979) p. 215
69. Duff (1980) p. 107
70. Pall Mall Gazette quoted in Weintraub (1987) p. 370
71. RA QVJ/1871: 13 December
72. Wellcome Library MS 5873 B/32
73. RA VIC/ADDC/18/88 (13 December 1871)
74. RA QVJ/1871: 13 December
75. Ibid.
76. Richard R. Holmes, Edward VII, London (1910) vol. 1, p. 246
77. Windsor and Bolitho, eds. (1929) p. 150
78. Wellcome Library MS 5873 A/53 (8 am, 14 December 1871)
79. Wellcome Library MS 5873 B/33 (14 December 1871)
80. Windsor and Bolitho, eds. (1929) p. 150
81. RA QVJ/1871: 14 December
82. Wellcome Library MS 5873 B/34
83. Holmes (1910) vol. 1, p. 247
84. RA QVJ/1871: 11 December
85. RA QVJ/1868: 13 December; Bartley (2016) p. 215
86. Bartley (2016) p. 15
87. Ponsonby (1942) p. 75
88. Quoted in Philip Guedalla, Idylls of the Queen, London (1937) p. 66
89. Wellcome Library MS 5873 E/21 (25 January 1872)
90. Lorne (1901) pp. 278–9
91. RA QVJ/1872: 27 February
92. Vernon Bogdanor, Gresham College History Lecture (20 September 2016)
93. Lord Halifax (28 August 1871) quoted in Ponsonby (1942) p. 72
94. Homans (1998) p. xix
95. Private Life (1897, 1901 edition) p. 215
96. Homan (1998) pp. 113, 101
97. Benson and Esher, eds. (1907, 1908 edition) vol. 3, p. 476 (24 December 1861)
98. Kennedy, ed. (1956) p. 183
99. Holmes (1910) vol. 1, p. 249
100. Fulford, ed., (1976) p. 28
101. Windsor and Bolitho, eds. (1929) p. 149
19. Lunch with Disraeli: Hughenden Manor, 15 December 1877
1. Private Life (1897; 1901 edition) p. 14
2. RA QVJ/1871: 13 December
3. Quoted in in R. W. Seton-Watson, Disraeli, Gladstone and the Eastern Question, London (1935) p. 243
4. Quoted in Weintraub (1987) p. 427
5. Private Life (1897; 1901 edition) p. 112
6. The Times, London (17 December 1877) p. 9
7. Quoted in Wilfred Meynell, Benjamin Disraeli: An Unconventional Biography, London (1903) p. 488
8. Christopher Hibbert, Disraeli: A Personal History, London (2004; 2005 edition) pp. 331, 333
9. Ibid., p. 184
10. Monypenny and Buckle (1910; 1929 edition) vol. 2, p. 273
11. Zetland, ed. (1929) vol. 2, p. 148, Disraeli to Lady Chesterfield (13 December 1877)
12. RA QVJ/1852: 1 April
13. Fulford, ed. (1971) p. 176
14. Buckle, ed. 2nd series, vol. 1 (1926) p. 505
15. Ibid., p. 385
16. Ponsonby (1942) pp. 244–5
17. Buckle, ed., 2nd series, vol. 3 (1928) p. 38
18. G. E. Buckle, ed., The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, London (1920) vol. 6, p. 203
19. Served in 1875. Gray (2017) p. 177
20. Private Life (1897; 1901 edition) p. 137
21. RA QVJ/1871: 13 December
22. Tooley (1897) pp. 126-7
23. RA QVJ/1837: 8 February
24. Anon., ‘Queen Victoria and the Medical Profession’, The British Medical Journal (26 January 1901) p. 235
25. Clark (1981) p. 84
26. Gray (2017) p. 229
27. John Parker, The Early History and Antiquities of Wycombe, Wycombe (1878) p. 175
28. Ibid., p. 175
29. L. J. Ashford, The History of the Borough of High Wycombe, London (1960) p. 327
30. RA QVJ/1871: 13 December
31. Parker (1878) p. 175; The Times, London (17 December 1877) p. 9
32. L. J. Mayes, Chair making in High Wycombe, Local History Essays, High Wycombe Library Local Studies Collection, (n.d.) p. 1
33. William Judson, A Local Guide and Directory for the Town of High Wycombe, High Wycombe (1875) p. 16
34. The Cabinet Maker & Complete House Furnisher (6 November 1915) quoted at www.wycombe.gov.uk/pages/Sports-leisure-and-tourism/Wycombe-Museum/Chair-arches.aspx
35. Zetland, ed. (1929) vol. 2, p. 148, Disraeli to Lady Bradford (17 December 1877)
36. The Times, London (17 December 1877) p. 9
37. Sally Stafford, Disraeli and Hughenden: Buckinghamshire: a Souvenir Guide, The National Trust (2010) p. 17, 24
38. For Mary Anne in particular, see Daisy Hay, Mr and Mrs Disraeli: A Strange Romance, London (2015)
39. RA QVJ/1871: 13 December
40. Victoria to Disraeli (27 June 1877) quoted in Seton-Watson (1935) p. 216
41. Quoted in Seton-Watson (1935) p. 236
42. RA QVJ/1871: 13 December
43. Buckle, ed. (1929) vol. 6, p. 217
44. RA QVJ/1871: 13 December
45. Sarah Bradford, Disraeli, London (1982; 1996 edition) p. 347
46. Pamela Horn, ‘Lord and Lady of the Manor: The Disraelis at Hughenden’, Records of Buckinghamshire, vol. 51 (2011) pp. 205–213, p. 208
47. RA QVJ/1871: 13 December
48. Zetland, ed. (1929) vol. 2, p. 148, Disraeli to Lady Bradford (17 December 1877)
49. RA QVJ/1871: 13 December
50. Zetland, ed. (1929) vol. 2, p. 148, Disraeli to Lady Bradford (17 December 1877)
51. The Times, London (17 December 1877) p. 9
52. Weintraub (1987) p. 429
53. Zetland, ed. (1929) vol. 2, p. 149, Disraeli to Lady Bradford (19 December 1877)
54. Bartley (2016) p. 224
55. Plunkett (2003) p. 16
20. John Brown’s Legs: 6 March 1884
1. RA VIC/ADDA/12/899 (23 February 1884)
2. Tisdall (1961) p. 57
3. Quoted in Jenkins (1995; 2002 edition) p. 468
4. Kuhn (2002) p. 4
5. Private Life (1897; 1901 edition) p. 175
6. Ibid., p. 227
7. Crook and Port (1973) p. 392
8. Royal Pharmaceutical Society, account book of ‘The Queen’ (1861–1869) (April–May 1868)
9. RA QVJ/1884: 6 March
10. Mallet (1968) p. 213
11. Tooley (1897) pp. 205–6
12. Dimond and Taylor (1987) p. 23
13. Private Life (1897; 1901 edition) pp. 204, 19.
14. Benson (1930) p. 8
15. Ward (2014) p. 60
16. Ibid.; Marsden, ed. (2010) p. 436
17. Randall Davidson in Bell (1935) vol. 1, p. 85
18. Mallet (1968) p. 213
19. Benson and Esher, eds. (1907, 1908 edition) vol. 3, pp. 461–2
20. Quoted in Clark (1981) p. 93
21. Private Life (1897; 1901 edition) p. 64
22. Ponsonby (1942) p. 126
23. Quoted in Jenkins (1
995; 2002 edition) p. 243
24. Private Life (1897; 1901 edition) p. 147
25. Ponsonby (1942) p. 128
26. Private Life (1897; 1901 edition) p. 99
27. Lausanne Gazette (September 1866)
28. Punch (7 July 1866)
29. W. Tyler Smith, ‘The Climacteric Disease in Women,’ London Journal of Medicine (July 1849) vol. 7, p. 606; Munich (1996) p. 108
30. Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, vol. 36 (December 1867) p. 99
31. Fulford, ed. (1968; 1981 edition) p.106
32. Ridley (2015) p. 77
33. Stoney and Weltzien, eds. (1994) p. 25
34. Quoted in Wilson (2014) pp. 311–27
35. Ridley (2015) p. 80
36. Weintraub (1987) p. 385
37. Royal College of Physicians MS 30/2, Sir James Clark’s diary p. 131 (1868)
38. Hibbert (2000; 2001 edition) p. 330
39. Quoted in Charlotte Zeepvat, Prince Leopold, London (1998) pp. 51, 60
40. Ponsonby (1942; 1943 edition) p. 129
41. Brewer (2005) p. 251
42. Private Life (1897; 1901 edition) p. 8
43. Weintraub (1987) p. 399
44. Queen Victoria (1885) p. 27
45. Ibid., pp. 264, 258, 203, 73
46. Ibid., p. 248
47. Ibid., p. 219
48. Dorothy Thompson, Queen Victoria, A Woman on the Throne, London (1990; 2001 edition) p. 62
49. Queen Victoria (1885) p. 226
50. Lambeth Palace Library, Randall Davidson Papers, Private Papers, vol. 4, following f. 79
51. Ponsonby (1942) p. 146
52. Kuhn (2002) p. 220
53. Private Life (1897; 1901 edition) p. 10
54. Ibid., p. 166
55. Mallet (1968) p. xxi
56. A. C. Benson, Memories and Friends, New York, NY (1927) p. p. 55
57. Ethel Smyth, As Time Went On, London (1936) p. 104
58. Quoted in Kuhn (2002) p. 17
59. Randall Davidson in Bell (1935) vol. 1, p. 79
60. Smyth (1936) pp. 90; 93
61. Ponsonby (1901) vol. 193, p. 327
62. Kuhn (2002) pp. 124–6
63. Ibid., p. 194
64. Ponsonby, ed. (1927) p. 18
65. RA VIC/ADDA/36/1566 (30 October 1878)
66. Kuhn (2002) p. 203
67. Mallet (1968) p. 45
68. Ponsonby (1942) p. 62
69. Quoted in Reid (1987) p. 58
70. Randall Davidson on Queen Victoria in Bell (1935) vol. 1, p. 77
71. Ibid., pp. 79–80
72. Lambeth Palace Library, Randall Davidson Papers, Private Papers, vol. 4 (1883–1902) f. 34 (6 December 1884)
73. Tisdall (1961) pp. 106–7
74. Randall Davidson in Bell (1935) vol. 1, p. 80
75. Mallet (1968) p. 159