Queen Victoria

the cloud of years, to older and ever older memories⁠—to the spring woods at Osborne, so full of primroses for Lord Beaconsfield⁠—to Lord Palmerston’s queer clothes and high demeanour, and Albert’s face under the green lamp, and Albert’s first stag at Balmoral, and Albert in his blue and silver uniform, and the Baron coming in through a doorway, and Lord M. dreaming at Windsor with the rooks cawing in the elm-trees, and the Archbishop of Canterbury on his knees in the dawn, and the old King’s turkey-cock ejaculations, and Uncle Leopold’s soft voice at Claremont, and Lehzen with the globes, and her mother’s feathers sweeping down towards her, and a great old repeater-watch of her father’s in its tortoiseshell case, and a yellow rug, and some friendly flounces of sprigged muslin, and the trees and the grass at Kensington.

Endnotes

1. The Greville Memoirs, II, 326⁠–⁠8; Denkwurdigkeiten aus den Papieren des Freiherrn Christian Friedrich von Stockmar, zusammengestellt von Ernst Freiherr von Stockmar, chapter i, 86; The Autobiography of Miss Cornelia Knight, I, chapters xv-xviii and appendix and II, chapter i. ↩

2. Early Years of the Prince Consort, by General Charles Grey, 384, 386⁠–⁠8; The Letters of Queen Victoria, II, 40. ↩

3. Early Years of the Prince Consort, by General Charles Grey, 375⁠–⁠86. ↩

4. The Letters of Queen Victoria, I, 216, 222⁠–⁠3; II, 39⁠–⁠40; Denkwurdigkeiten aus den Papieren des Freiherrn Christian Friedrich von Stockmar, zusammengestellt von Ernst Freiherr von Stockmar, 87⁠–⁠90. ↩

5. Denkwurdigkeiten aus den Papieren des Freiherrn Christian Friedrich von Stockmar, zusammengestellt von Ernst Freiherr von Stockmar, Biographische Skizze, and chapter iii. ↩

6. The Creevey Papers Edited by Sir Herbert Maxwell, I, 264, 272: “Prinny has let loose his belly, which now reaches his knees; otherwise he is said to be well,” 279. ↩

7. The Greville Memoirs, I, 5⁠–⁠7. ↩

8. The Greville Memoirs, IV, 2. ↩

9. Denkwurdigkeiten aus den Papieren des Freiherrn Christian Friedrich von Stockmar, zusammengestellt von Ernst Freiherr von Stockmar, 95; The Creevey Papers Edited by Sir Herbert Maxwell, I, 148; The Greville Memoirs, I, 228; Letters of Dorothea, Princess Lieven, During Her Residence in London, 1812⁠–⁠1834 Edited by Lionel G. Robinson, 183⁠–⁠4. ↩

10. Victoria, Queen and Ruler by Emily Crawford, 24. ↩

11. Victoria, Queen and Ruler by Emily Crawford, 80, 113. ↩

12. Denkwurdigkeiten aus den Papieren des Freiherrn Christian Friedrich von Stockmar, zusammengestellt von Ernst Freiherr von Stockmar, 112⁠–⁠3; The Letters of Queen Victoria, I, 8; Victoria, Queen and Ruler by Emily Crawford, 27⁠–⁠30; The Life of Robert Owen Written by Himself, 193⁠–⁠4, 197⁠–⁠8, 199, 229. ↩

13. The Creevey Papers edited by Sir Herbert Maxwell, I, 267⁠–⁠71. ↩

14. The Letters of Queen Victoria, I, 1⁠–⁠3; Early Years of the Prince Consort, by General Charles Grey, 378⁠–⁠81, 389; Victoria, Queen and Ruler by Emily Crawford, 30⁠–⁠4; Denkwurdigkeiten aus den Papieren des Freiherrn Christian Friedrich von Stockmar, zusammengestellt von Ernst Freiherr von Stockmar, 113. ↩

15. The Creevey Papers Edited by Sir Herbert Maxwell, I, 282⁠–⁠4. ↩

16. Victoria, Queen and Ruler by Emily Crawford, 25, 37⁠–⁠8. ↩

17. The Greville Memoirs, IV, 21; and August 15, 1839 (unpublished). “The cause of the Queen’s alienation from the Duchess and hatred of Conroy, the Duke (of Wellington) said, was unquestionably owing to her having witnessed some familiarities between them. What she had seen she repeated to Baroness Spaeth, and Spaeth not only did not hold her tongue, but (he thinks) remonstrated with the Duchess herself on the subject. The consequence was that they got rid of Spaeth, and they would have got rid of Lehzen, too, if they had been able, but Lehzen, who knew very well what was going on, was prudent enough not to commit herself, and who was, besides, powerfully protected by George IV and William IV, so that they did not dare to attempt to expel her.” ↩

18. Recollections from 1803 to 1837 by the Hon. Amelia Murray, 62⁠–⁠3; Queen Victoria: A Biography by Sidney Lee, 11⁠–⁠12. ↩

19. Owen’s Rational Quarterly Review and Journal, No. 1, February, 1853, 28⁠–⁠9. ↩

20. Owen’s Rational Quarterly Review and Journal, No. 1, February, 1853, 31. ↩

21. The Croker Papers edited by L.J. Jennings, I, 155. ↩

22. Denkwurdigkeiten aus den Papieren des Freiherrn Christian Friedrich von Stockmar, zusammengestellt von Ernst Freiherr von Stockmar, 113. ↩

23. Denkwurdigkeiten aus den Papieren des Freiherrn Christian Friedrich von Stockmar, zusammengestellt von Ernst Freiherr von Stockmar, 114⁠–⁠5. ↩

24. The Letters of Queen Victoria, I, 15, 257⁠–⁠8; Early Years of the Prince Consort, by General Charles Grey, App. A. ↩

25. Letters of Harriet, Countess Granville, I, 168⁠–⁠9. ↩

26. The Life of William Wilberforce, V, 71⁠–⁠2. ↩

27. The Letters of Queen Victoria, I, 17. ↩

28. The Creevey Papers Edited by Sir Herbert Maxwell, I, 297⁠–⁠8. ↩

29. The Early Court of Queen Victoria by Clare Jerrold, 15⁠–⁠17. ↩

30. The Letters of Queen Victoria, I, 10. ↩

31. The Letters of Queen Victoria, I, 14; The Girlhood of Queen Victoria edited by Viscount