The Last Princess (48 page)

14
Vickers, op. cit., p. 20.

15
Princess Beatrice to ‘Dear Archdeacon’, 29 December 1926, private collection.

16
Grihangne, op. cit., p. 17.

17
Epton, op. cit., p. 205.

18
Erbach-Schonberg, op. cit., p. 277.

19
Lutyens, op. cit., p. 82.

20
Erbach-Schonberg, op. cit., p. 277.

21
Epton, op. cit., p. 176.

22
Hough,
Advice,
p. 118.

23
Vickers, op. cit., p. 34.

24
Hough,
Advice,
p. 118.

25
Vickers, op. cit., p. 34.

26
Pope-Hennessy, James,
Queen Mary
(Allen & Unwin, London, 1959). P. I34.

27
Vickers, op. cit., p. 34.

28
Hough,
Advice,
p. 118.

29
Epton, op. cit., p. 205.

30
Ibid., p. 206.

CHAPTER TWENTY: ‘Blighted happiness’

1
Lutyens, op. cit., p. 157.

2
St-John Nevill, op. cit., p. 160.

3
Reid, op. cit., p. 167.

4
Princess Beatrice to Lady
Martin, 21 December 1896, private collection.

5
Langston, E. L.,
Bishop Taylor Smith
(Marshall, Morgan & Scott, London, 1938), p. 73.

6
RA VIC Add X 8/32, Princess Beatrice to Canon Taylor Smith, 22 March 1898.

7
Erbach-Schonberg, op. cit., p. 274.

8
Duff,
Hessian Tapestry,
p. 243.

9
Mallet, op. cit., p. 71.

10
Weintraub, op. cit., p. 563.

11
Ernie, Lord,
Whippingham to Westminster: The Reminiscences of Lord Ernie (Rowland Prothero)
(John Murray, London, 1938), p. 181.

12
Lutyens, op. cit., p. 49.

13
Epton, op. cit., p. 207.

14
Weintraub, op. cit., p. 564.

15
Ibid., p. 565.

16
St-John Nevill, op. cit., p. 157.

17
Weintraub, op. cit., p. 565.

18
Ibid.

19
Princess Beatrice to Edith, Countess of Lytton, 6 February 1896, Knebworth Archive.

20
Buckle (ed.),
Letters of Queen Victoria 1886-1901,
third series, vol. iii (John Murray, London, 1932), p. 36.

21
Epton, op. cit., p. 207.

22
RA VIC Add X 8/2, Princess Beatrice to Canon Taylor Smith, 23 May 1896.

23
RA VIC Add X 8/8, Princess Beatrice to Canon Taylor Smith, 22 September 1896.

24
Princess Helena to Professor Story, 29 January 1896, Story Papers, Glasgow University Archives, DC21/49.

25
Bishop Boyd-Carpenter to Queen Victoria, 18 March, 1896, Boyd-Carpenter Papers, British Library, Add 46720.

26
Lutyens, op. cit., p. 57.

27
RA VIC Add A 15/6078, Princess Beatrice to Prince Arthur, 15 April 1896.

28
RA VIC Add A 15/6082, Princess Beatrice to Prince Arthur, 29 April 1896.

29
Hough,
Advice,
p. 135.

30
Ramm (ed.), op. cit., p. 188.

31
Mallet, op. cit., p. 74.

32
Duff,
Shy Princess,
p. 178.

33
Lutyens, op. cit., p. 54.

34
RA VIC/Ad d X 8/22, Princess Beatrice to Canon Taylor Smith, 20 October 1897.

35
RA VIC/Add X 8/9, Princess Beatrice to Canon Taylor Smith, 26 November 1896.

36
Gelardi, op. cit., p. 74.

37
Princess Beatrice to Lady Martin, 21 December 1896, private collection.

38
Princess Beatrice to ‘Dear Archdeacon’, 29 December 1926, private collection.

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: ‘I have taken up my life again’

1
Lutyens, op. cit., p. 157.

2
Wake, op. cit., p. 315.

3
Ibid., p. 316.

4
Lutyens, op. cit., p. 52.

5
Reid, op. cit., p. 103.

6
Ibid., p. 102.

7
Ibid., p. 208.

8
Lutyens, op. cit., p. 51.

9
Mallet, op. cit., p. 74.

10
Matson, op. cit., p. 113.

11
St-John Nevill, op. cit., p. 170.

12
RA/VI C Add X 8/21, Princess Beatrice to Canon Taylor Smith, 14 October 1897.

13
Princess Beatrice to Willingham Franklin Rawnsley, 26 December 1899, Dixon
19/4/3/30,
Lincolnshire Archives.

14
Epton, op. cit., p. 209.

15
RA/VI C Add X 8/34, Princess Beatrice to Canon Taylor Smith, 15 July 1898.

16
St-John Nevill, op. cit., p. 170.

17
Hough,
Advice,
p. 143.

18
Reid, op. cit., p 84.

19
Ibid., p. 85.

20
Ramm (ed.), op. cit., p. 229.

21
Erickson, Carolly,
Her Little Majesty: the Life of Queen Victoria
(Robson Books, London, 1997), p. 237.

22
Epton, op. cit., p. 211.

23
Mallet, op. cit., p. 147.

24
Duff,
Shy Princess,
p. 193.

25
Wake, op. cit., p. 340.

26
Ponsonby, Frederick, op. cit., p. 71.

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: ‘I… can hardly realise… ‘

1
Quigley, D. J.,
The Isle of Wight Rifles,
privately printed, 1977.

2
Collection of Isle of Wight Record Office.

3
Ponsonby, Frederick, op. cit., p. 51.

4
St-John Nevill, op. cit., pp. 206-7.

5
Reid, op. cit., p. 190.

6
Princess Beatrice to Dr Story, 15 March 1901, Story Papers, Glasgow University Archives, 49. 21
66.

7
Epton, op. cit., p. 234.

8
Princess Beatrice to Willingham Franklin Rawnsley, 31 October 1899, Dixon 19/4/3/29, Lincolnshire Archives.

9
Princess Beatrice to Willingham Franklin Rawnsley, 26 December 1899, Dixon 19/4/3/30, Lincolnshire Archives.

10
RA VIC/Add X 8/23, Princess Beatrice to Canon Taylor Smith, 26 October 1897.

11
RA VIC/Add X 8/23, Princess Beatrice to Canon Taylor Smith, 21 September 1897.

12
Reid, op. cit., p. 206.

13
Gelardi, op. cit., p. 29.

14
RA VIC/Add X 8/36, Princess Beatrice to Canon Taylor Smith, 9 February 1900.

15
Duff,
Shy Princess,
p. 195.

16
Longford,
Victoria RI,
p. 560.

17
Kuhn, William H.,
Henry and Mary Ponsonby: Life at the Court of Queen Victoria
(Duckworth, London, 2002), p. 245.

18
Princess Beatrice to Dr Story, 15 March 1901, Story Papers, Glasgow University Archives, 49. 21
66.

19
RA VIC/Ad d A 25/841, Princess Beatrice to Lady Elphinstone, 21 March 1901.

20
Epton, op. cit., p. 224.

21
RA VIC/Ad d X 8/22, Princess Beatrice to Canon Taylor Smith, 20 October 1897.

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: ‘I have my dear Mother's… instructions’

1
Longford, Elizabeth (ed.),
Louisa, Lady-in-Waiting
(Jonathan Cape, London, 1979), P. 87.

2
Princess Beatrice to ‘Dearest Violet, 25 June 1937, previously with Sophie Dupre.’

3
Information from Royal Archives.

4
Howard McClintock, op. cit., p. 221.

5
Sir Sydney Cockerell to Sir Shane Leslie, 9 July 1945, Sir Shane Leslie Papers, Georgetown University Library, 3/35.

6
See ESHR 11/3, 13/12/1905, Esher Papers, Churchill Archive, Churchill College, Cambridge.

7
Ward, Yvonne M.,
Editing Queen Victoria: How Men of Letters Constructed the Young Queen
(PhD thesis, La Trobe University, Australia, 2004), pp. 30-31.

8
Ibid, p. 143.

9
Brett, Maurice V. (ed.),
Journals & Letters of Reginald Viscount Esher
(Ivor Nicholson & Watson, London, 1934, 2 vols.), vol ii, p. 133.

10
Ward, op. cit., p. 17.

11
Brett (ed.), op. cit. (vol ii), p. 363.

12
Sir Sydney Cockerell to Sir Shane Leslie, 9 April 1945, Sir Shane Leslie Papers, Georgetown University Library, 3/35/1.

13
Ibid.

14
Fulford (ed.),
Darling Child,
p. 131.

15
Ibid., pp. 132/3.

16
Beatrice to Lord Esher, ESH R 11/3, 21/11/1904, Esher Papers, Churchill Archive.

17
Epton, op. cit., p. 224.

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: ‘Osborn e… is like the grave…’

1
www.genogold.com/html/owen_charles_budd.html

2
Bessie Bulteel to Mrs Oglander, 17 May 1911, Isle of Wight Record Office, OG/07/218.

3
Epton, op. cit., p. 224.

4
Pope-Hennessy,
Queen Mary,
p. 356.

5
Brett (ed.), op. cit., vol i, p. 325.

6
Ibid.

7
Ibid.

8
Princess Beatrice to ‘Evie’ (Lady Mottistone), 2 July 1936, Mottistone Papers 5:115-6, Nuffield College Library.

9
Matson, op. cit., p. 131.

10
Unnamed to Mrs Oglander, 7 December 1903, Isle of Wight Record Office, OG/03/121.

11
RA VIC Add A7/227, Prince Maurice of Battenberg to Mr Theobold, 5 March 1904.

12
RA VIC Add A7/223, Princess Beatrice to Mr Theobold, 3 June 1903.

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: ‘Please God …’

1
www.fbarnard.org.uk

2
Epton, op. cit., p. 224.

3
The Sphere,
2 June 1906.

4
Brett (ed.), op. cit., vol ii, p. 201.

5
Jullian, Philippe,
Edward and the Edwardians
(Sidgwick
&c
Jackson, London, 1967), p. 291.

6
Duff,
Shy Princess,
p. 214.

7
Gelardi, op. cit., p. 131.

8
Princess Beatrice to Lady Bathurst, 8 May 1906, Special Collections, Brotherton Library, Leeds University, 1990/1/2778.

9
Archbishop of Canterbury to Princess Beatrice, 30 July 1905, Davidson Papers (vol. 21), Lambeth Palace Archives.

10
The Sphere,
9 June 1906.

11
RA VIC/W 48/31, Princess Beatrice to Edward VII, undated February 1906.

12
R A VIC/X 21/2, Princess Beatrice to Edward VII, 7 March 1906.

13
Pope-Hennessy,
Queen Mary,
P. 40T.

14
Gelardi, op. cit., p. 131.

15
Pope-Hennessy,
Queen Mary,
p. 401.

16
Erbach-Schonberg, op. cit., p. 314.

17
Longford,
Louisa,
p. 125.

18
Erbach-Schonberg, op. cit., p. 313.

19
Gelardi, op. cit., p. 142.

20
Ibid., p. 151.

21
Prince Alexander of Battenberg to Onor, Grand Duchess of Hesse, 24 July 1908, Grand Ducal Family Archives, Hesse, D24 45/8.