1. Cecil Woodham-Smith Queen Victoria; Her Life and Times [Book Club Associates 1973], p.52 (back)

2. ibid, p.147 (back)

3. Mrs Hugh Wyndham (ed.) The Correspondence of Sarah Spencer, Lady Lyttelton [John Murray 1912], p.293 (back)

4.&5. Both lines quoted in Stanley Weintraub Albert, Uncrowned King [John Murray 1997], p.116 (back 4) (back 5)

6. Harold Albert Queen Victoria's Sister [Robert Hale 1967], p.108 (back)

7. Mrs Steuart Erskine (ed.) Twenty Years at Court; from the correspondence of the Hon. Eleanor Stanley [Nisbet 1916], p.86 (back)

8. ibid, p.94; the French phrase means 'a bit boring' (back)

9. Both lines quoted in Weintraub, p.164 (back)

10. Erskine, p.94; 'it's this little monster that you hear crying fit to burst that will inherit' (back)

11. Roger Fulford (ed.) Dearest Child [Evans 1964], p.169; (back)

12. ibid, p.177 (back)

13. Kurt Jagow Letters of the Prince Consort [John Murray 1938], p.365 (misquoted in Weintraub, p.481 (back)

14. Dearest Child, p.347; (back)

15. ibid, p.354 (back)

16. Roger Fulford (ed.) Dearest Mama [Evans 1968], p.27 (back)

17. Dearest Mama, p.52; (back)

18. ibid, p.62; (back)

19. ibid, p.168 (back)

20. Roger Fulford (ed.) Your Dear Letter [Evans 1971], p.75; (back)

21. ibid, p.116 (back)

22. Roger Fulford (ed.) Darling Child [Evans 1976], pp.111, 112; (back)

23. ibid, p.154; (back)

24. ibid, pp231-2 (back)

25. Roger Fulford (ed.) Beloved Mama [Evans 1981] p.129; (back)

26. ibid, pp.140, 141; (back)

27. ibid, p.148 (back)

28. ibid, p.149; (back)

29. Agatha Ramm (ed.) Beloved and Darling Child [Alan Sutton 1990], p.36 (back)

30. Victor Mallet (ed.) Life with Queen Victoria [John Murray 1968], pp.52-3 (back)

31. Marie, Queen of Romania The Story of My Life vol I [Cassell 1934], p.166 (back)

32. Ernst Ludwig Erinnertes [Eduard Roether Verlag 1983], p.110 (back)

33. Richard Hough (ed.) Advice to a Grand-daughter [Heinemann 1975], p.120 (back)

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