References to Documents Quoted from the Royal Archives
chapter one
RA Y 71/65 (King Leopold to Queen Victoria, 21 May 1845)
RA M 45 (Documents relating to Prince Leopold and Princess Charlotte)
chapter two
RA Z 272/6 (Florschütz to Queen Victoria, 7 January 1863)
RA Z 272/3 (Prince Ernest to Queen Victoria, 19 December 1839)
RA Z 276/6 (Memorandum by Florschütz, undated)
RA Y 153/131 (Stockmar to Prince Albert)
RA M 7/67 and Addendum VII (Prince Leiningen’s account of ‘The Kensington System’)
Princess Victoria’s Journal, 29 September 1835
Ibid, 18 May 1836
Ibid for May 19, 21, 23, 25 and 26; for June 1, 2, 4, 5 and 9
RA Z 272/23 (Prince Albert to Duchess of Saxe-Coburg)
RA M 4/57 (Memorandum by Prince Leiningen, 1841; note by Prince Albert)
Princess Victoria’s Journal for 10 July 1836
RA Z 272/10 (Report by Francis Seymour to the Queen)
RA Z 272/7 (Arthur Mensdorff to the Queen, 16 March 1863)
chapter three
The Queen’s Journal, 21 and 28 September 1838
Ibid 12 July 1839
Ibid 10 October 1839, 4 June 1836, and 11 October 1839
Ibid 15 October 1839
RA Z 272/3 (Duke Ernest to the Queen, 19 December 1839)
chapter four
The Queen’s Journal, 1st January 1840
Ibid
RA Z 273/3 (Prince Albert to Lord Melbourne, 20 December 1839)
RA Z 273/4 (Lord Melbourne to King Leopold, 23 December 1839)
RA Z 273/8 (The Queen to Prince Albert, December 1839)
RA Z 273/9 (King Leopold to Lord Melbourne, December 1839)
RA Z 273/11 (Lord Melbourne to Prince Albert, 29 December 1839)
RA Z 273/12 (Prince Albert to Lord Melbourne)
The Queen’s Journal, 10 February 1840
RA Z 272/32 (Prince Albert to Duchess of Coburg)
RA Y 54/1 (Anson’s Memorandum, 19 February 1841)
RA Y 54/2 (Anson’s Memoranda, February and March 1840)
RA Y 54/3 (Anson’s Memorandum, 15 April 1840)
RA Y 54/16 (Anson’s Memoranda, 17 February 1841 and July 24 1840)
RA Z 272/33 (Prince Albert to Duke Ernest, 21 June 1840)
RA Y 153/6 (Stockmar to Prince Albert)
The Queen’s Journal, 23 November 1840
chapter five
RA Y 54/23–46 (Anson’s Memoranda, May 1841) The Queen’s Journal 17th May 1841
RA Y 54 (Anson’s Memorandum, 14 June 1841)
RA Y 54/51 (Anson’s Memorandum, 12 June 1841)
RA Y 54/96 & 98 (Anson’s Memoranda, 12 October, 19 November, 5 December 1841)
RA Y 54/100 (Anson’s Memorandum, 26 December 1841)
RA Add U/2/4 (Prince Albert to the Queen, 16 January 1842)
RA Add U2/2 (Prince Albert to Stockmar, 16 January 1842)
RA Add U2/1 (The Queen to Stockmar, 17 January 1842)
RA Add U2/4 (The Prince to Stockmar, 18 January 1842)
RA Add U2/6 (Stockmar to the Queen, 19 January 1842)
RA Add U2/7,8 (The Queen to Stockmar, 19 and 20 January 1842)
RA Y 54/20 (Anson’s Memorandum, April 26 1841)
RA M 22/72 and 73 (Prince Albert to Duchess of Kent, Duchess to the Prince, 12 January 1843)
RA M 22/74 (Prince Albert to Duchess of Kent, January 1843)
RA M 22/75 and 71 (Duchess of Kent to Prince Albert, 23 March 1843 and 10 January 1843)
The Queen’s Journal, December 1841
Ibid 15 September 1842
RA A 13/12, 13, 18, 82, 83; B6/48, 50
RA M 67 (‘Attempts on the Queen by Francis and Bean 1842, their trial and consequent alteration of the law’; memorandum and papers by Prince Albert)
RA PP Osborne
RA M 22 (Miscellaneous Family Papers; documents relating to Duke of Cambridge and correspondence with Peel)
Princess Victoria’s Journal, 21 September 1835
RA Y 55/10 (Anson’s Memorandum, April 30 1843)
RA C 44/16 (Memorandum by Prince Albert, 7 December 1845)
RA C 44/29 (Prince Albert to King Leopold, 30 January 1846)
RA Y 92/36 (The Queen to King Leopold, 23 December 1845)
RA C 23/14 (The Queen to Peel, 23 January 1846)
RA C 23/27 (Memorandum by Prince Albert, 30 January 1846)
RA C 23/81 (Memorandum by Prince Albert, 18 February 1846)
RA C 23/92 (Memorandum by Prince Albert, 25 February 1846)
RA C 23/102 (Prince Albert to Peel, 1 March 1846)
The Queen’s Journal, 8th June 1846
chapter six
RA C 17/55 (Prince Albert to Russell)
RA F 32–35a (Papers relating to Cambridge University Chancellorship)
RA Y 197/27 (Stockmar to Prince Albert, 1 August 1847)
RA C 16/52 (Prince Albert to Russell, 29 April 1848)
RA L 23/1 (Prince Albert to Russell, 30 December 1849)
RA F 24–28 (Prince Albert’s papers relating to The Great Exhibition)
chapter seven
RA C 17/67 (Prince Albert to Russell, 18 May 1850)
RA A 79/32 (Prince Albert to Russell, 15 May 1850)
RA Y 54/99 (Queen Victoria to Russell)
The Queen’s Journal, 26 December 1851
RA A 81/32 (Memorandum by Prince Albert, 14 July 1852)
RA 149/87 (Prince Albert to Stockmar, 24 January 1854)
chapter eight
RA Y 148/1 (Prince Albert to Stockmar, January 1846)
RA Y 153/9 (Stockmar to Prince Albert, 1 October 1840)
RA Y 153/11 (Stockmar to Prince Albert, 21 November 1840)
RA Y 153/46 (Ibid to the same, 18 September 1843)
RA Y 153/48 (Ibid to the same, 27 November 1843)
RA M 12/20 (Ibid to the same, 8 April 1842)
RA M 12/14 (Memorandum by Stockmar, 6 March 1842)
RA M 12/42 (Stockmar to Prince Albert, 1846)
RA M 12/40 (Stockmar Memorandum, undated)
RA M 12/43 (Stockmar Memorandum, 28 July 1846)
RA M 12/55 (Joint Memorandum by the Queen and the Prince)
RA M 12/66 (Miss Hildyard’s Programme)
RA M 14/3 (Birch to Sir James Clark, 30 May 1848)
RA M 14/56 (Stockmar to Prince Albert)
RA M 14/37 (Prince Albert to Birch, 12 April 1849)
RA M 14/55 (Birch to Prince Albert, undated)
RA M 14/56 (Birch to Stockmar, 13 December 1849)
RA M 14/61 (Memorandum to Queen Victoria)
RA A5/23 (Birch papers, April 1849)
RA M 14/116 (Birch to Prince Albert, 1846, undated)
RA M 14/107 and 113 (Dr Combe’s Reports)
RA Y 153/101 (Stockmar to Prince Albert, 4 August 1849)
RA Z 461 (Prince of Wales to Prince Albert, 25 August 1859)
The Queen’s Journal, 27 August 1856
RA Z 461/35 (Ibid to the same, 10 May 1857)
RA Z 461/86 (Ibid to the same, 15 January 1859)
chapter nine
RA Z 141/94 (Prince Albert to the Prince of Wales, 16 November 1861)
RA Z 141/95 (Prince Albert to the Prince of Wales, 21 November 1861)
RA Z 142 (Memorandum by the Queen, entitled ‘Account of my beloved Albert’s fatal illness from November 9 to December 14 1861, written from my journal.’)