Princesses (84 page)

‘drawing room'.
RA VIC/Add A 8/330, Mary to Mary Adelaide, 6 August [1850]

‘nonsense'.
RA VIC/Add A 8/331, Mary to Mary Adelaide, 14 September [1850]

‘over'.
RA VIC/Add A 8/330, Mary to Mary Adelaide, 6 August [1850]

‘come'.
RA GEO/Add 12/407, Mary to Duchess of Cambridge, 26 April 1851

‘year'.
RA VIC/Add A 8/329, Mary to Duchess of Cambridge, 3 July [1850]

‘comfortably'.
RA VIC/Z 480/116, Mary to Queen Victoria, 11 May 1851

‘bed'.
RA VIC/Add A 8/332, Mary to Mary Adelaide, 23 May [1851]

‘everybody'.
RA VIC/Add A 7/208, Mary to Duchess of Cambridge, 22 August [?1854]

‘as the Exhibition'.
RA VIC/Add A 8/340, Mary to Mary Adelaide, 10 September [1851]

‘in the Exhibition'.
RA VIC/Add A 8/338, Mary to Gussy, ?15 June 1851

‘have!'.
Burghclere,
Great Man's Friendship,
143

‘family'.
RA VIC/QVJ, 12 November 1851

‘shudder'.
RA VIC/QVJ, 20 November 1851

‘kept up'.
RA VIC/Z 480/117, Mary to Queen Victoria, 21 November 1851

‘princes'.
RA VIC/Z 480/119, Queen Victoria to Mary, 29 November 1851

‘days'.
RA VIC/Add A 8/349, Mary to Duchess of Cambridge, 11 January [1852]

‘general'.
RA VIC/Add A 8/353, Mary to Duchess of Cambridge, 8 May 1852

‘Cheveley'.
RA VIC/Add A 8/335, Mary to Mary Adelaide, 5 June 1851

‘old lady'.
RA VIC/Add C 2/1, Mary to Sarah, Lady Abinger, 4 May [1850s]

‘wonders'.
Argyll,
Passages from the Past,
1, 200

‘us all'.
Ibid

‘chloroform'.
Longford,
Victoria RI,
234

‘child'.
St Aubyn,
Royal George,
91

troops.
RA VIC/Add A 8/199-200, George to Mary and to Duchess of Cambridge, 3 October 1854

‘moment'.
RA VIC/Add A 8/357, Mary to Duchess of Cambridge, 3 November [1854]

out to him.
RA VIC/Add A 8/358, Mary to Duchess of Cambridge, 11 December 1854

‘shaken'.
RA VIC/Z 480/133, Mary to Queen Victoria, 1 January 1855

‘there'.
RA VIC/Add A 8/365, Mary to Duchess of Cambridge, 23 March 1855

victims.
Roberts,
Royal Artists,
71

dress.
RPC, RCIN 54306, Queen Victoria, with Edward, Prince of Wales, Princess Alice and Mary, Duchess of Gloucester, by Antoine Claudet

shawl.
RPC, RPC.01/0170/18b, Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester, by Augustus Liddell

‘place'.
RA VIC/Z 61/19, Mary to Queen Victoria, 3 October [1855]

‘yesterday'.
Ibid

‘disagreeable'.
RA VIC/Add U 142/26, Mary to Frances Paget, 23 February [no year]

‘one'.
RA VIC/Z 480/137, Mary to Queen Victoria, 30 March 1856

‘skin'.
RA VIC/QVJ, 4 May 1857

‘arranged'.
RA VIC/QVJ, 27 August 1856

‘steadily'.
RA VIC/Z 480/144, Mary to Queen Victoria, 7 September 1856

‘by and by'.
RA VIC/T 1/10, Mary to Bertie, 11 November [?1850]

‘stairs'.
RA VIC/Z 480/144, Mary to Queen Victoria, 7 September 1856

‘bed'.
Ibid

‘for her'.
RA VIC/Z 480/148, Mary to Queen Victoria, 18 March 1857, marked by latter ‘the last letter to me. She was taken ill on the night after 15 April and died April 30, 1857'

‘smart'.
RA VIC/Add U 142/28, Mary to Frances Paget, nd

‘convenience'.
RA PP/VIC/Add 751, Augustus Liddell to Sir Thomas Biddulph, 15 April 1857

‘April the 15th,
GH' RA VIC/M 54/22, Mary to Prince Albert, 15 April 1857

‘night'.
RA VIC/Add A 8/3441/222, Mary Adelaide's Diary, 16 April 1857

‘work'.
RA VIC/Add A 8/3441/222-3, Mary Adelaide's Diary, 16 April 1857

‘brain'.
RA VIC/Add A 8/3441/224, Mary Adelaide's Diary, 18 April 1857

‘come'.
RA VIC/Add A 8/3441/233, Mary Adelaide's Diary, 27 April 1857

‘face', ‘sadly'.
RA VIC/Add A 8/3441/237-8, Mary Adelaide's Diary, 28-30 April 1857

‘family'.
RA VIC/QVJ, 30 April 1857

¹
The Queen's House is today part of Buckingham Palace, as the royal residence was rechristened when enlarged in the 1820s.

²
The King's agonizing abdominal pain and his mania were almost certainly both symptoms of an acute attack of porphyria, a hereditary metabolic disorder which was then unknown to medical science.

³
On New Year's Day 1806 the Elector of Württemberg was proclaimed King, and later that year the Holy Roman Empire was abolished, being replaced by Napoleon's Confederation of the Rhine. The Holy Roman Emperor renounced his ancient title and became known as emperor of Austria.

⁴
The precarious peace established between Britain and France by the treaties of Lunéville and Amiens in 1801-2 soon broke down, and Napoleon – after failing to invade Britain – tried to wage economic war by means of his Continental System, which was designed to squeeze British trade. France's attempt to enforce that policy in the Baltic led to British military activity in Denmark.

⁵
France's declaration of war on Portugal in 1807 in support of her Continental System and her invasion of Spain the following year started the Peninsular War, with the British backing nationalist risings against the French invaders, who were in turn backed by Russia.

⁶
This was Mr Caesar Henry Hawkins, grandson of Sir Caesar and one of Queen Victoria's surgeons. He was a great-nephew of Mr Pennell Hawkins, who inoculated Princess Mary against smallpox in 1779 and a nephew of Mr Charles Hawkins, who treated her arm in 1788.

Flora Fraser is the author of the bestselling biographies of Emma Hamilton,
Beloved Emma,
and Queen Caroline,
The Unruly Queen.
She lives in London with her husband and three children.

Beloved Emma
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