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Life of Her Majesty Queen Victoria

Chapter 23: INDEX.
By Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett
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This concise biography traces the formative influences of a long-reigning queen's early years, her accession, and intimate domestic life, examining how personal relationships shaped her political outlook. It highlights key political episodes and advisers that illustrate her conception of royal duty and the evolving role of the Crown in a constitutional system. The narrative balances accounts of public crises and foreign affairs with descriptions of family life, household routines, and private bereavement. A chronological table and references support the account, and the author emphasizes the monarch's persistent devotion to duty as central to understanding her reign.

INDEX.

  • Aberdeen, Earl of, 85, 145, 175, 182.
  • Aberdeen, unveiling of Prince Consort’s statue at, 221.
  • Addresses of the French colonels, 1858, 198.
  • Adelaide, Princess, of Hohenlohe, asked in marriage by Napoleon III., 168.
  • Adelaide, Queen, 12, 13, 27, 28.
  • Albany, Duke of. See Leopold.
  • Albert, Prince, birth of, 14;
  • childhood of, 25, 65;
  • education of, 65;
  • first visit to England of, 62;
  • character of, 64, 81, 86, 89, 255;
  • projected marriage, 25, 65;
  • tour in Italy, 65;
  • second visit to England, betrothal to the Queen, 66, 70;
  • rumored to be a Roman Catholic, 71;
  • allowance cut down in House of Commons, 74;
  • precedence disallowed in House of Lords, 75, 76;
  • marriage of, 79;
  • favorable impression produced by, 80, 90, 91;
  • difficulties of position of, 80;
  • growing political influence of, 85;
  • Queen’s devotion to, 67, 69, 85;
  • political opinions of, 86, 178;
  • religious views of, 87;
  • accomplishments and tastes of, 91, 92;
  • McLeod, Dr., on, 89;
  • Stockmar’s influence on, 112, 118;
  • title of Prince Consort conferred on, 115;
  • devotion of, to his children and home, 120, 143;
  • on the strength of Constitutionalism, 153;
  • consults Lord Shaftesbury, 154;
  • and Lord Palmerston, 156, 171, 209;
  • outbreak of unpopularity against, 157, 182, 183;
  • and the Great Exhibition, 173;
  • on betrothal of his eldest daughter, 188;
  • at Cherbourg, 196-7;
  • despatch of, on Trent affair, 208;
  • death of, 201-12;
  • unveiling of statue of, 221.
  • Alexandra, Princess of Wales, 206, 217, 228, 239.
  • Alfred, Prince, Duke of Edinburgh and Duke of Coburg, 124, 131, 137, 232, 233.
  • Alice, Princess, Grand Duchess of Hesse, 119, 123, 130, 201, 212, 215, 216, 220, 230, 231, 233, 234, 235.
  • Alix, Princess of Hesse Darmstadt, 136.
  • Anti-Corn Law agitation, 58, 99, 101.
  • Arthur, Prince, Duke of Connaught, 127.
  • Ashley, Lord. See Shaftesbury.
  • Assassination, attempted, of Prince Alfred in Australia, 232.
  • Attempts on the Queen’s life, 89, 90, 119, 139, 140, 141.
  • Balmoral, 135, 136, 137, 138.
  • Beatrice, Princess Henry of Battenberg, 127, 128.
  • Bedchamber question, 60, 72.
  • Belgians, King of the. See Leopold.
  • Bloomfield, Lady, 91 n., 142;
  • on betrothal of Prince Frederick William and Princess Royal, 187;
  • on Princess Alice, 233.
  • Bright, the Rt. Hon. John, 29, 101, 177, 207, 222.
  • Brocket, Greville at, 95 n.
  • Brougham, Lord, 57, 62.
  • Brown, Mr. John, 223.
  • Bunsen, Baron, letter from Stockmar to, 116.
  • Bunsen, Baroness, 33.
  • Cambridge, marriage of Duke of, 12.
  • Cambridge, Princess Mary of, 169, 234.
  • Cambridge, Prince of Wales at, 210.
  • Canada, insurrection in, 56.
  • Canning, Lady, 97, 127, 135.
  • Canning, Lord, in India, 192, 194.
  • Carlyle, Mr. Thomas, on the Queen, 33, 224-6.
  • Caroline, Queen, 19, 23.
  • Cart, death of, the Prince’s valet, 35.
  • Castlereagh, Viscount, 107.
  • Catholic Emancipation, 41.
  • Charlotte, Princess, 12, 16, 17, 107-110.
  • Charlotte, Princess of Prussia, 127.
  • Charlotte, Queen, 107.
  • Chartism, 58-74 n., 126.
  • Cholera, 170.
  • Christmas-trees, 120.
  • Civil War in the United States, Trent affair, 208.
  • Claremont, 109, 166.
  • Clarence, Duke of. See William IV.
  • Clarence, Duke of, Prince Albert Victor of Wales, 239.
  • Clarendon, Earl of, 170, 171, 177.
  • Cobden, Richard, 101, 147, 148, 177, 207.
  • Coburg, Duchess of, 13, 25.
  • Coburg, death of Duke of, 143.
  • Coburg, Duke Alfred of. See Alfred.
  • Connaught, Duke of. See Arthur.
  • Corn Laws, repeal of, 99-101.
  • Coronation of George IV., 19.
  • Coronation of William IV., 16.
  • Coronation of Queen Victoria, 39.
  • Coronation service, 39.
  • Coup d’état, 106, 162, 163.
  • Crimean War, 157, 169, 170, 171, 175-187.
  • Cumberland, Ernest, Duke of, 11, 18, 41, 45, 47, 76, 107, 122, 123.
  • “Early Years of Prince Consort,” 63.
  • East India Company extinguished, 193.
  • Edinburgh, Duke of. See Alfred.
  • Empress Eugénie, 184, 197, 237.
  • Empress Frederick, 117, 120, 131, 133, 185, 186, 187, 189, 190, 221.
  • Eôs, the Prince’s greyhound, 82.
  • Exhibition of 1851, 173.
  • Financial Reforms of Sir Robert Peel, 103.
  • Fortifications of south coast, 207.
  • France, death of Prince Imperial of, 237.
  • Franco-German War, 232.
  • Frederick William I., King of Prussia, 122, 178.
  • Frederick William II., King of Prussia and Emperor of Germany, 187, 228, 239.
  • Garibaldi, 206.
  • General Election, 1837, 51.
  •    “           “           1841, 95.
  •    “           “           1857, 198.
  •    “           “           1859, 247.
  • George III., 12.
  • George IV., 11, 16, 18.
  • German Unity, 86, 105, 107, 117, 178, 239.
  • Gladstone, the Right Hon. W. E., 103, 182, 207, 248, 249.
  • Gordon, death of General, 238.
  • Graham, Sir James, Home Secretary, 96.
  • Granville, Earl, 164, 169, 218.
  • Greville’s account of Queen’s accession, 47;
  • description of Queen’s announcement of her betrothal, 69;
  • on Royal Family at Balmoral, 138.
  • Grey, Earl, 101.
  • Guizot and the Spanish marriages, 145.
  • Hanover, Ernest, King of. See Cumberland.
  • Hartley Colliery explosion, 218.
  • Hastings, Lady Flora, 59, 72.
  • Haynau, General, 159-161.
  • Helen, Princess of Waldeck, Duchess of Albany, 238.
  • Helena, Princess (Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein), 125, 230.
  • Herbert, the Hon. Sidney, 180.
  • Hesse, Prince Louis of, 202, 217, 225, 228.
  • Hesse, Princess Louis of. See Alice, Princess.
  • Hohenlohe, Princess Adelaide of, 168.
  • Hohenlohe, Princess Feodore of, 138, 139, 218.
  • Holland, Lady, 71.
  • Holloway College opened by the Queen, 236.
  • Hume, Mr. Joseph, 41, 74.
  • Imperial, death of Prince, 237.
  • India, Empress of, 194.
  • India, medical women for, 236.
  • India, Queen’s proclamation after Mutiny, 192.
  • Indian Mutiny, 187, 193.
  • Ireland, Queen’s visits to, 124, 125, 205.
  • Irish Church Disestablishment Bill, 248-51.
  • Irish famine, 100, 149.
  • Italy, Victor Emmanuel, King of, 206.
  • Jameson, Mrs., on the Queen, 38.
  • Jordan, Mrs., 17.
  • Juarez, 237.
  • Jubilee, the Queen’s, 236, 239, 244.
  • Malmesbury, Earl of, 91, 165, 169, 193, 229, 253.
  • Marie, Archduchess of Russia, Duchess of Coburg, 136, 232.
  • Martineau, Miss Harriet, on Queen’s early training, 31;
  • on Queen’s accession, 49.
  • McLeod, Dr., 89, 220.
  • Medical women in India, 236.
  • Melbourne, Viscount, 52, 60, 78, 94, 95 n., 99 n., 111, 121.
  • Mendelssohn on the Queen’s singing, 36.
  • Mexico, Emperor Maximilian and Empress Charlotte, 237.
  • Mill, Mr. J. S., 56.
  • Mitchel, Mr. John, 150.
  • “More Leaves from a Journal of our Life in the Highlands,” 34, 223.
  • Napoleon III., 162, 166, 167, 168, 184, 185, 195-8.
  • Neale’s, Mr., legacy to the Queen, 139.
  • Neapolitan insurrection and Lord Palmerston, 159.
  • Newcastle, Duke of, 183.
  • New Poor Law of 1834, 58.
  • Nicholas I., Emperor of Russia, 108, 134, 176, 181.
  • Nicholas II., Emperor of Russia, 136.
  • Nightingale, Miss Florence, 180.
  • Nursery establishment, the Queen’s, 117, 119-131.
  • Oaks Colliery explosion, letter from widows to Queen, 240.
  • O’Connell, Daniel, 44, 149.
  • Orange plot in 1835, 41.
  • Orleans family, the, 126, 166.
  • Orsini plot, the, 198.
  • Osborne, purchase of, 135;
  • gardens of, 92, 136;
  • Swiss cottage at, 135, 136.
  • Oxford’s attempt on the Queen’s life, 90, 119.
  • Reform Bill, Lord Palmerston’s objections to, 171.
  • Regency Bill, 1830, 37.
  • Regency Bill, 1840, 89.
  • Royal Household, reform of, 132-4.
  • Russell, Lord John, 42, 61, 62, 101, 158, 161, 163, 171, 229.
  • Russell Administration defeated, 1852, 169.
  • Russell, Lady William, 171.
  • Russell, Dr. W. H., 180.
  • Schleswig-Holstein War, 228.
  • Schleswig-Holstein, Prince Christian of, 230.
  • Schleswig-Holstein, Princess Christian of. See Helena.
  • Scotland, disturbances in, in 1848, 151.
  • Scotland, Queen’s love of, 137, 219, 223.
  • Scott, Sir Walter, reference to Princess Victoria, 37.
  • Scottish Church, Queen’s reverence for, 220.
  • Sebastopol, 183, 186.
  • Seeley, Sir John, 252.
  • Shaftesbury, Earl of, 59, 83, 99, 154, 155.
  • Spanish marriages, the, 145-8, 166.
  • Stanley, Dean, 35, 174, 233.
  • Stanley, Lady Augusta, 136, 203.
  • Stockmar, Baron, 54, 55, 62, 65, 66, 73, 77, 85, 104-118, 145, 148, 191, 202, 255.
  • Sussex, Duke of, 19, 47, 89, 90.
  • Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury, 248.
  • Teck, Duchess of. See Cambridge.
  • Teck, Princess Victoria Mary of, 234, 240.
  • Tory Party, outbreak of disloyalty in, 73.
  • United Irishman, The, 150.
  • United States, Civil War, Trent affair, 208.
  • Victor Emmanuel, King of Italy, 206.
  • Victoria, Queen, birth of, 13;
  • christening of, 14;
  • education of, 20, 28, 34;
  • great affection of, for her uncle Leopold, 25;
  • appearance of, 32, 33;
  • Carlyle on, 33, 224-6;
  • Baroness Bunsen on, 33;
  • care of, for her household and servants, 34;
  • as a musician, 36;
  • Whig sympathies of, 44, 71;
  • accession of, 46;
  • consideration of, for Queen Adelaide, 49, 50;
  • on the bedchamber question, 62;
  • wishes to defer her marriage, 62, 63;
  • betrothal to Prince Albert, 66;
  • announces her engagement to the Council, 69;
  • unpopularity with the Tories, 72, 77;
  • marriage of, 79;
  • efforts of, to preserve the purity of her Court, 83;
  • religious views of, 88, 130, 131, 219;
  • and Lord Melbourne, 52, 53, 94;
  • and Sir James Graham, 96;
  • and Sir Robert Peel, 61, 72, 94-103;
  • Stockmar’s influence on, 111-118;
  • attempts on life of, 90, 119, 139, 140, 141;
  • birth of children, 119-128;
  • magnanimity of, 123;
  • good health of, 129, 137;
  • as a mother, 129, 130, 131;
  • legacy to, 139;
  • a good sailor, 142, 143;
  • first visit to France, 144;
  • and Viscount Palmerston, 156-172;
  • on the Haynau incident, 161;
  • at the opening of the Great Exhibition, 173, 175;
  • and Emperor Nicholas, 176;
  • disapproves of Day of Humiliation for Crimean War, 178;
  • visits Paris, 185;
  • and Cherbourg, 196, 197;
  • on her daughter’s marriage, 189;
  • Indian Proclamation, 193, 194;
  • reviews the Volunteers, 199, 200;
  • death of mother, 201;
  • death of husband, 201-211;
  • unveiling the Prince’s statue at Aberdeen, 221;
  • children’s marriages, 227;
  • prevents war with Germany, 229;
  • interest in providing medical women for India, 236;
  • letter of, to Miss Gordon, 238;
  • letter of, to the nation, on death of Duke of Clarence, 242;
  • activity of, in preventing disputes between the Houses of Parliament, 246-252;
  • on the secret of happiness, 255.
  • Villiers, the Hon. Charles, 101.
  • Volunteer movement, the, 198.
  • York, Duchess of, 243.
  • York, Duke of, Queen’s uncle, 17.
  • York, Duke of, Prince George of Wales, 243.
  • York, Prince Edward of, 243.