The Letters of Queen Victoria, III, 474–5. ↩
The Letters of Queen Victoria, III, 476. ↩
Queen Victoria: A Biography by Sidney Lee, 322–3; Victoria, Queen and Ruler by Emily Crawford, 368. ↩
The Life and Letters of the Fourth Earl of Clarendon by Sir Herbert Maxwell, II, 257. ↩
The Life and Letters of the Fourth Earl of Clarendon by Sir Herbert Maxwell, II, 261–2. ↩
Queen Victoria as I Knew Her by Sir Theodore Martin, 155. ↩
The Life and Letters of the Fourth Earl of Clarendon by Sir Herbert Maxwell, II, 261; Queen Victoria: A Biography by Sidney Lee, 327; Queen Victoria as I Knew Her by Sir Theodore Martin, 30. ↩
Grant Bismarck by C. Grant Robertson, Bismarck, 156. ↩
The Life of William Ewart Gladstone by John Morley, II, 102; Memoirs of Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, IV, 133: “I know that our dear angel Albert, always regarded a strong Prussia as a necessity, for which, therefore, it is a sacred duty for me to work.”—Queen Victoria to the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, . ↩
The Life of Earl Granville by Lord Fitzmaurice, I, 459, 460. ↩
The Life of Earl Granville by Lord Fitzmaurice, I, 472–3. ↩
The Life and Letters of the Fourth Earl of Clarendon by Sir Herbert Maxwell, II, 310–1. ↩
The Times, ; The Life and Letters of the Fourth Earl of Clarendon by Sir Herbert Maxwell, II, 290. ↩
The Life and Letters of the Fourth Earl of Clarendon by Sir Herbert Maxwell, II, 292–3. ↩
The Life of Earl Granville by Lord Fitzmaurice, I, 466, 469. ↩
Queen Victoria as I Knew Her by Sir Theodore Martin, 28–9. ↩
Queen Victoria as I Knew Her by Sir Theodore Martin, 97–106. ↩
The National Memorial to H.R.H. the Prince Consort. ↩
Personal and Professional Recollections by Sir George Gilbert Scott, 177–201, 271. ↩
Personal and Professional Recollections by Sir George Gilbert Scott, 225. ↩
The National Memorial to H.R.H. the Prince Consort; The Albert Memorial: Its History and Description by J. Dafforne, 43–4. ↩
The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography, 135. ↩
The Life and Letters of the Fourth Earl of Clarendon by Sir Herbert Maxwell, II, 342. ↩
The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield by W. F. Monypenny and G. E. Buckle, IV, 385. ↩
The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield by W. F. Monypenny and G. E. Buckle, IV, 382–95. ↩
The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield by W. F. Monypenny and G. E. Buckle, IV, 592. ↩
The Life and Letters of the Fourth Earl of Clarendon by Sir Herbert Maxwell, II, 346. ↩
The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield by W. F. Monypenny and G. E. Buckle, V, 49. ↩
The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield by W. F. Monypenny and G. E. Buckle, V, 48. ↩
The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield by W. F. Monypenny and G. E. Buckle, V, 28. ↩
The Life of William Ewart Gladstone by John Morley, II, 252, 256. ↩
Queen Victoria as I Knew Her by Sir Theodore Martin, 50–1. ↩
The Life of Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury, II, chapter i. ↩
The Life and Correspondence of the Rt. Hon. Hugh C. E. Childers, I, 175–7. ↩
The Life of William Ewart Gladstone by John Morley, II, 360–5. ↩
The Life of William Ewart Gladstone by John Morley, II, 423–8; Victoria, Queen and Ruler by Emily Crawford, 356, 370–1. ↩
Private information. ↩
In it was officially stated that the Queen’s total savings from the Civil List amounted to £824,025, but that out of this sum much had been spent on special entertainments to foreign visitors. Taking into consideration the proceeds from the Duchy of Lancaster, which were more than £60,000 a year, the savings of the Prince Consort, and Mr. Neild’s legacy, it seems probable that, at the time of her death, Victoria’s private fortune approached two million pounds. ↩
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Queen Victoria as I Knew Her by Sir Theodore Martin, 41–2. ↩
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The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield by W. F.