Ottoman Empire
Paget, Lady Eleanor
Palmerston, Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount
Panam, Pauline
Panmure, Lord Fox Maule-Ramsay
Peel, Sir Robert
Pegley, Mrs
Percy, Colonel
Pevsner, Nikolaus
philanthropy
photographs
of Albert
of Victoria
of Victoria and Albert
Victoria’s collections
Plenderleath, Dr
Plunkett, John
Ponsonby, Arthur
Ponsonby, Frederick
Ponsonby, Henry
Abdul Karim
Bertie’s illness
cooking the paper
Disraeli
final interview
home life
John Brown biography
Princess Beatrice
Victoria’s children
Ponsonby, Mary
Portman, Emma, Baroness
press, the
Accession Council meeting
Albert
Beatrice, Princess
Bertie’s illness
Bosnia, Turkish atrocities in
Christmas trees
Diamond Jubilee
Florence Nightingale
happy families
Karim, Abdul
Lady Flora’s illness
Maharaja Duleep
photographs of Victoria
Victoire
Victoria – Disraeli lunch
Victoria – Melbourne relationship
Victoria and Albert’s wedding
Victoria’s death
Victoria’s last illness
Victoria’s letters
Privy Council
Queen Charlotte’s Lying-In Hospital
railways
Ramsgate, Kent
Rappaport, Helen
Ratsey, Mrs
Reid, Dr James
Beatrice, Princess
Karim, Abdul
Victoria’s coffin items
Victoria’s death
Victoria’s last illness
Rennell, Tony
Richmond, Frances Gordon-Lennox
Duchess of
Ridley, Jane
Roberts, Frederick, st Earl
Rolle, John, Baron
Royal Dukes
Royal Marriages Act (1772)
Rundell, Bridge & Rundell
Ruskin, John
Russia
1896 coronation stampede
Crimean War
Russo-Turkish War ()
St George the Martyr Church Southwark
Saint-Laurent, Julie de
St Mildred’s Church, Whippingham
Salisbury, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess
Sandringham House, Norfolk
Saunders, Mr
Scotland see also Balmoral Castle, Aberdeenshire
Scott, Sir Walter
Second Reform Act (1867)
sexism
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Sidmouth, Devon
Siebold, Charlotte Heidenreich von
Sophia, Princess
Squire, Peter
Stanhope, Lady Wilhelmina
Stanley, Eleanor
Stead, W.T.
steam yachts
Stockmar, Christian, Baron
Stopford, Horatia
Sully, Thomas
Sutherland, Harriet Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of
Swifte, Mr
‘System,’ the
Taylor, John
Tories
Torrington, George Byng, th Viscount
Trevelyan, George Otto
Turkey
Twain, Mark
typhoid fever
typhus
underwear, Victorian
Vallone, Lynn
Victoire of Saxe-Coburg, Duchess of Kent
Albert, relationship with
Buckingham Palace rooms
children of first marriage
Conroy, dependence on
Edward
courtship
illness
love for
wedding
first husband
Flora Hastings’s illness
Florence Nightingale
income
Kensington Palace
kindness
Lehzen, attempt to replace
life after Edward’s death
optimism
physical appearance
at Sidmouth
spending and debts
Victoria
1835 illness
accession
birth
breastfeeding
bullying
coronation
fear of losing
learning about succession
Melbourne
money spent on
relationship with
the ‘System’
Vicky’s birth
wedding
Woolbrook Cottage
Victoria
LIFE EVENTS
1819, birth
1819, christening
1820, death of father
1830, learning about succession
1835, Ramsgate visit and illness
1836, meeting Albert
1837, accession
first year of reign
1838, coronation see coronation
1839, Albert and Ernest’s second visit
1839, Bedchamber Crisis
1839, Lady Flora Hastings
1839, marriage proposal and engagement
1840, wedding see wedding
Victoria and Albert’s
1840, first child
1841, second child
1850, Christmas
1853, Crimean War
1854, Koh-i-noor Diamond scene
1854, Maharaja Duleep’s visit
1856, Florence Nightingale’s visit
1861, at Curragh, Ireland
1861, Albert’s illness blaming Bertie
blindness to seriousness of
deterioration
reading to Albert
seeming improvement
1861, Albert’s death
1871, Bertie’s illness
1871, Bertie’s recovery
1877, Disraeli and the ‘Eastern Question’
1883, death of John Brown
280; see also Brown, John
1885, Beatrice’s wedding
1897, Riviera holiday
1897, Diamond Jubilee see
Diamond Jubilee
1900, decline
1901, death
ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS
CHARACTER AND QUALITIES
anger
dedication to duty
detail-orientated
dictatorialness
empathy and emotional intelligence
foreign diplomacy
frankness
fun, sense of
grief and mourning
inconsistency
isolation and loneliness
maternal instinct, lack of
melodrama
mental resilience
middle class views
need for love
nostalgia
religiousness
self-confidence
self-control, emotional
self-doubt
self-possession
selfishness
simple pleasures, enjoyment in
stubbornness
uniqueness
DIET
alcohol
appetite
as child/adolescent
Christmas meals
Diamond Jubilee meals
everyday meals
restricted
EDUCATION
FAMILY TREE vi–vii
ILLNESSES AND INJURIES
1871 illness
depression
f
all on stairs
headaches
illness at Ramsgate
last illness
osteoarthritis
as smokescreen for wilfulness
ventral hernia
INCOME
INTERESTS
books
dancing
India
music
outdoors activities
Scotland
ITEMS IN COFFIN
JOURNALS
LEGACY
OPINIONS AND VIEWS
Albert
Alix
babies
Balmoral
Bertie, Prince of Wales
Bertie’s blame for Albert’s illness
breastfeeding
Conroy
crown as a trap
deathbed scenes
Ernest (brother-in-law)
Florence Nightingale
the Irish
Islam
Lady Flora Hastings
marriage and motherhood
Melbourne
Osborne House
the poor
pregnancy
Riviera
Russo-Turkish War ()
Vicky
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS
appearance
in middle-age
in old age
in youth
eyesight
immobility in later years
laughter and voice
weight
PUBLIC IMAGE
after Albert’s death
scommodification of
during Crimean War
at death
at Diamond Jubilee
films
during first year of reign
in France
in Ireland
during John Brown’s tenure
during Lady Flora’s illness
with middle class
modern
photographs
and relationship with mother
as saviour of monarchy
in the ‘System’
through her writing
upon accession
RELATIONSHIPS
with Abdul Karim
with Albert
correspondence
cousinly love
dependence on
disagreements and rows
faithfulness
first meeting
honesty
love
marriage proposal and engagement
power balance
rows
second meeting
shared interests
subordination
wedding day see wedding, Victoria and Albert’s
with aristocratic women
with Beatrice
B as constant companion
B as private secretary
domination
estrangement
refusal to allow marriage
stipulation on marriage
on wedding day
with Bertie
with Conroy
with Davidson
with Disraeli
with Gladstone
with half-sister Feodore
with Harriet, Duchess of Sutherland
with her children
with her grandchildren
with John Brown
with ladies-in-waiting
with Lehzen
with Maharaja Duleep
with Melbourne
with mother
with Ponsonby
with servants
with Uncle Leopold
with Vicky
SIZE OF FAMILY
WARDROBE
WORKS
articles
John Brown biography (unfinished)
Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands
More Leaves From The Journal of a
Life in the Highlands
Victoria Cross
Victoria television series (ITV)
Victoria (Vicky), Princess Royal Empress of Germany, Queen of Prussia
baked goods from siblings
birth
character
father, relationship with
finding bride for Bertie
marriage
mother, relationship with
mother’s Diamond Jubilee
Victorian era legacy
Villiers, Charles Pelham
Villiers, Lady Sarah
Ward, Yvonne M.
Warner, Marina
Warwick, Daisy Greville, Countess of
wedding, Victoria and Albert’s
bridesmaids
bridesmaids’ dresses
Buckingham Palace
ceremony
Chapel Royal of St James’s Palace
guest list
honeymoon
processions
public spectacle
venues
Victoria’s diary entries
Victoria’s dress and hair
Victoria’s post-wedding dresses
wedding breakfast
wedding morning
Windsor Castle
weeping
Weintraub, Stanley
Weiss, Sophie
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, st Duke
Westminster Abbey
What Does She Do With It? pamphlet
Whigs
widowhood
Wilhelm II (Willy), Kaiser
William, Duke of Clarence / William IV
appearance
coronation
death
mistresses
seeking husband for Victoria
Victoire, disagreements with
Victoria as heir presumptive
wedding
Winchester, Randall Davidson, Bishop of
Windsor Castle
Blue Room
Christmases at
coldness
controlled by Albert
description
drain problems
Grand Staircase
kitchens and kitchen staff
meals
Norman Tower
preservation of rooms as memorial
quietness
routine
Victoria and Albert’s rooms
Windsor, Gerald Wellesley, Dean of
Windsor, Randall Davidson, Dean of
Windsor Uniform
Winterhalter, Franz Xaver
Wolseley, Garnet, st Viscount
women-of-the-bedchamber
Woolbrook Cottage, Sidmouth
Wrens of Curragh
Young Victoria film
Also by Lucy Worsley
NONFICTION
Cavalier: A Tale of Chivalry, Passion, and Great Houses
The Courtiers: Splendor and Intrigue in the Georgian Court at Kensington Palace
If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home
A Very British Murder
Jane Austen at Home: A Biography
FICTION
Eliza Rose
My Name Is Victoria
Lady Mary
Picture Acknowledgements
Bridgeman Images: 1 above left/engraving by Charles Hullmandel/Yale Center for British Art Paul Mellon Collection USA, 1 above right/portrait by Jeremiah Meyer/Ashmolean Museum University of Oxford UK, 2 above left/engraving by William Westall/private collection, 2 below right/portrait by Henry William Pickersgill/private collection, 3 below/engraving by William Dummond/British Library London UK ©British Library Board All Rights Reserved, 4 above left/portrait by Thomas Sully/Wallace Collection London UK, 6 above right/private collection, 7 centre right/aquatint by William Henry Payne/private collection, 7 below left/music cover/Victoria & Albert Museum London UK, 13 centre left/Florence Nightingale Museum London UK, 15 above right/photo Alexander Bassano Studio/Alinari Archives Florence, text page 7/engraving by George Hayter/private collection, text page 241. Mary Evans Picture Library: 6 below, 16 above/©The Boswell Collection Bexley
Heritage Trust, text page 121/©Charlotte Zeepvat/ILN. ©Historic Royal Palaces: 8 below right. ©National Portrait Gallery London: 15 above left/retouched negative Bassano Studio. Royal Archives/ © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2018: 3 centre right/self-portrait by Queen Victoria. Royal Collection Trust ©Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2018: 10 below/photo Dr Ernst Becker, 11 above left and above right/photos after Bryan Edward Duppa, 11 below left and below right/photos Dr Ernst Becker, 12 above left/photo Hills & Saunders, 12 centre left/sculpture attributed to Mary Thornycroft, 12 below right/photo William Bambridge, 13 above right/photographer unknown, 13 below right/photographer unknown, 14 above right/photographer unknown, 14 below right/photo Byrne & Co, 15 below/photo Gustav Mullins, 16 below/photographer unknown. Royal Collection Trust ©Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2018/Bridgeman Images: 1 below left/portrait English School, 1 below right/portrait by George Hayter, 2 centre right/English School, 2 below left/portrait by Carl Friedrich Koepke, 3 above left/sketch by Queen Victoria, 4 centre right, 4 below left/sketch by Queen Victoria, 5 above/engraving after George B Campion, 5 below/detail of painting by Charles Robert Leslie, 7 above right/engraving by Carl Mayer, 8 above right/portrait by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 8 above left/sketch by Queen Victoria, 9 above left/portrait by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 9 above right/engraving by W Clerk, 10 above/painting by James Roberts, 12 below left/watercolour by Princess Louise. Wellcome Collection: 6 centre left. Lucy Worsley: 9 below left. Wycombe Museum Bucks UK: 14 centre left.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
LUCY WORSLEY is an historian, author, curator and television presenter. Lucy read Ancient and Modern History at New College, Oxford and worked for English Heritage before becoming Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces, based at Hampton Court. She also presents history programmes for the BBC including ‘Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia with Lucy Worsley’ and ‘Lucy Worsley’s Reins of Power: The Art of Horse Dancing’. Her bestselling books include A Very British Murder: The Curious Story of how Crime was Turned into Art, If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home, Courtiers: the Secret History of the Georgian Court and Cavalier: The Story of a 17th century Playboy. She lives in London, England. You can sign up for author updates here.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Worsley, Lucy, author.
Title: Queen Victoria : twenty-four days that changed her life / Lucy Worsley.
Description: New York : St. Martin’s Press, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018039820 | ISBN 9781250201423 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781250201430 (ebook)