The Last Princess (49 page)

22
Princess Beatrice to Colonel Seely, 24 March 1913, Mottistone Papers MS M 20: 172-4, Nuffield College Library.

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: ‘Days of overwhelming anxiety’

1
Letter from Princess Beatrice, 22 June 1911, Isle of Wight Record Office, CC/ED/A/10/1.

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

3
Princess Beatrice to General Seely, 1 September 1924, Mottistone Papers MS M 3: 22 26, Nuffield College Library.

4
Princess Beatrice to Lord Tennyson, 31 August 1914, Isle of Wight Record Office, TSN/2.

5
Prince Leopold of Battenberg to Colonel Seely, 16 March 1914, Mottistone Papers MS M 22:118, Nuffield College Library.

6
Duff,
Hessian Tapestry,
p. 305.

7
Epton, op. cit., p. 224.

8
Princess Beatrice to Ernest, Grand Duke of Hesse, 30 September 1909, Grand Ducal Family Archives, Hesse, D24/35/5.

9
Ibid.

10
Marie Louise, Princess, op. cit., p. 178.

11
Princess Beatrice to Sir Frederick Milner, 4 January 1915, private collection.

12
Lord Stamfordham to John Murray, 12 May 1917, John Murray Archive AN4.

13
Princess Beatrice to Colonel Seely, 13 December 1914,
Mottistone Papers MSS M 2:141-2, Nuffield College Library.

14
The
Sketch,
4 November 1914.

15
Gelardi, op. cit., p. 228.

16
RA VIC/Add A 25/877, Princess Beatrice to Lady Elphinstone, 13 November 1914.

17
RA VIC/Add A 21/234, Princess Beatrice to Lord Knutsford, 3 January 1915.

18
Marie Louise, Princess, op. cit., p. 179.

19
Princess Beatrice to Earl Cadogan, 18 November 1914, Cadogan Archives.

20
Princess Beatrice to Colonel Seely, 13 December 1914, Mottistone Papers, MSS M 2:141-2, Nuffield College Library.

21
Princess Beatrice to Sir Frederick Milner, 4 January 1915, private collection.

22
Rutter, Owen,
Portrait of a Painter: The Life of Philip de Laszlo
(Hodder
&C
Stoughton, London, 1939)^. 278.

23
Hough,
Louis and Victoria,
p. 319.

24
Ibid., p. 320.

25
Vickers, op. cit., p. 126.

26
Princess Beatrice to ‘Dear Archdeacon’, 29 December 1926, private collection.

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: ‘Th e older one gets…’

1
Longford,
Louisa,
p. 213.

2
Princess Beatrice to General Seely, 1 September 1924, Mottistone Papers, MS M 3: 22-26, Nuffield College Library.

3
The
Tatler,
8 December 1909.

4
Vickers, op. cit., p. 192.

5
Longford,
Darling Loosy,
p. 297.

6
Princess Beatrice to Lady Bathurst, 16 May 1920, Special Collections, Brotherton Library, Leeds University, 1990/1/2780.

7
Duff,
Hessian Tapestry,
p. 325.

8
Frederick Ponsonby to Major General Seely, 14 December 1931, Mottistone Papers, MSS M 4:70, Nuffield College Library.

9
Frederick Ponsonby to Major General Seely, 14 December 1931, Mottistone Papers, MSS M 4:67-8, Nuffield College Library.

10
Van der Kiste, John,
Queen Victoria's Children
(Sutton, Stroud, 1986), p. 197.

11
Ponsonby, Frederick, op. cit., p. 112.

12
Princess Beatrice to Lady Mottistone, 2 November 1934, Mottistone Papers, MSS M 5:65-66, Nuffield College Library.

13
Bessie Bulteel to Lady Mottistone, 16 March 1936, Mottistone Papers, MSS M 5:111, Nuffield College Library.

14
Princess Beatrice to General Seely, 13 February 1930, Mottistone Papers, MSS M 25A:3, Nuffield College Library.

15
Queen Sophie of Greece to Hon. Lady Corkran, 10 January 1931, previously with Sophie Dupre.

16
Bessie Bulteel to Lady Mottistone, 16 March 1936, Mottistone Papers, MSS M 5:111, Nuffield College Library.

17
Isle of Wight County Press,
9 October 1937.

18
Princess Beatrice to Lord Mottistone, 28 July 1940, Mottistone Papers, MSS M 6: 27-28, Nuffield College Library.

19
Mottistone Papers, MS25, 21 October 1944, Nuffield College Library.

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: ‘She struggled so hard…’

1
Longford,
Darling Loosy,
p. 319.

2
Ibid., p. 311.

3
Princess Beatrice to ‘Evie’ (Lady Mottistone), 2 July 1936, Mottistone Papers, MSS M 5:115-116, Nuffield College Library.

4
Surviving typescript, John Murray Archives.

5
John Murray to Princess Beatrice, 6 December 1940, John Murray Archives.

6
Longford,
Darling Loosy,
p. 311.

7
Minnie Cochrane to John Murray, 28 October 1940, John Murray Archives.

8
Princess Beatrice to Lord Mottistone, 28 July 1940, Mottistone Papers, MSS M 6: 27-28, Nuffield College Library.

9
Ibid.

10
Minnie Cochrane to John Murray, 1 November 1940, John Murray Archives, JM A 2.

11
Princess Beatrice to John Murray, 26 November 1940, John Murray Archives, JM3.

12
John Murray to Princess Beatrice, 6 December 1940, John Murray Archives.

13
John Murray to Owen Morshead, 15 January 1941, John Murray Archives.

14
John Murray to Princess Beatrice, 12 December 1940, John Murray Archives.

15
Norah Thomas to John Murray, 6 February 1941, John Murray Archives.

16
Princess Beatrice to John Murray, 24 January 1941, John Murray Archives.

17
Marchioness of Carisbrooke to Lady Mottistone, 7 November 1944, Mottistone Papers, MSS M 6:142, Nuffield College Library.

18
Princess Beatrice to Lord Mottistone, 11 November 1943, Mottistone Papers, MSS M 6:113, Nuffield College Library.

19
Vickers, op. cit., p. 314.

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