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Hildyard, Miss (assistant governess), 6

Hill, Octavia (1838–1912), 284

Hirsch auf Gereuth, Baron Maurice von (1831–96), 96, 97, 175

Hoepfner (footman), 236

Holland, Sir Henry (1788–1873), 63

Hollande, Mlle (French governess), 5

Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809–94), 34

Holstein, Baron von, 274

Hopetoun, Sir John Adrian Hope, 7th Earl of (1860–1908), 150

Hopwood, Francis John Stephens, later cr Baron Southborough (1860–1947), 294

Houghton, Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron (1809–85), 73

Humbert, A.J., 69–70

Hunt, William Holman (1827–1910), 198

Imperial, Prince, see Eugène, Prince Imperial India, Prince of Wales’s tour of: Bombay, 133, 134; Baroda, 134;

Kandy, 134; Delhi, 135; Madras, 135; Calcutta, 137; big-game hunting, 137; success of tour, 138

Ireland: P of W at Curragh military camp, 39–40; Irish revolutionaries in England, 75; Marlborough as Viceroy, 143; P of W’s official visit to, 261;

P of W threatened by Fenians, 299

Irving, Sir Henry (1838–1905), 273

Islington, Lady, 304

Islington, Lord, see Poynder, Sir John Poynder Dickson

Isvolsky, Alexander Petrovich, 263

Iveagh, Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of (1847–1927), 231

James, Mrs Arthur, 242, 247, 305

James, Henry (1843–1916), 177, 191

James, Sir Henry, later cr Baron James (1828–1911), 143, 238

Jameson, Leander Starr, later Sir Leander (1853–1917), 152, 283

Japan, Emperor of, see Mutsuhito

Jaraczewski, Count Miecislas, 174

Jeckell, Thomas, 70

Jews: Lady Warwick on, 174; P of W’s Jewish friends, 175–76; KE and Russian persecution of, 263; Wilhelm II and anti-Semitism, 275; KE and Jewish blood, 303

John, King of Saxony (r 1854–73), 60

Johnstone, Sir Frederick: P of W makes a friend of, 29; displeases P of W, 100; Lady Mordaunt and, 107; P of W forgives, 178

Kaimamura, Admiral, 250

Kalakaua, King of Hawaii, 147

Kean, Charles John (1809 or 1811–68), 17

Kemble, Frances Anne (Fanny) (1809–93), 33

Kendal, William Hunter (1843–1917), 177

Kent, Victoria, Duchess of (1786–1861), 3, 45

Keppel, Alice: Osbert Sitwell on, 171; personality, 171; and P of W, 171–72; Pss of W and, 172; Harold Acton on, 173; and Soveral, 175; and KE, 202, 216, 292, 293; QA sends for, 295–96;

and death of KE, 304

Keppel, Colin, 216

Keppel, Hon. George, 171, 172, 173, 304

Keppel, Sir Henry (1809–1904), 95, 181

Keppel, Sonia, 220, 305

Keyser, Agnes, 171, 293

Kingsley, Charles (1819–75), 38, 64, 73, 117

Kingsley, Mrs Charles, 64

Kingsley, Rose, 64

Kipling, Rudyard (1865–1936), 177

Kitchener, Horatio Herbert, later cr Earl Kitchener (1850–1916), 256

Knollys, Charlotte, 263

Knollys, Francis Knollys, 1st Viscount (1837–1924), 303; Secretary to P of W, 123; on P of W, 123–24; and P of W’s ‘actress friends’, 127; and Indian tour, 129; on Disraeli and P of W, 149; and the Tranby Croft affair, 160; and Cassel, 175–76; Secretary to KE, 192; on government’s treatment of KE, 209; on KE and Campbell-Bannerman, 210–11; dislikes Winston Churchill, 210; writes to Treasury, 211; and Order of Garter for Shah, 214; on KE, 215, 285; on KE making Tsar an admiral, 264; and P of W’s attitude to Prussia, 265; and relations between P of W and Wilhelm II, 267; on Wilhelm II, 271; and decoration for Florence Nightingale, 284; and death of KE, 297; cannot get KE to return from France, 303

Knollys, Sir William Thomas (1797–1883), 59, 83; P of W and, 57, 79, 88; on the engaged couple, 59; QV and, 79; defends Pss of W, 85; concerned about P of W’s neglect of Pss of W, 89; and Pss of W, 90, 92, 141; on P of W, 92; and P of W’s gambling, 98, 126; at Sandringham during P of W’s illness, 114; on Paris, 126; and KE’s proposed visit to Pope, 251

Kruger, Stephanus Johannes Paulus (1825–1904), 152

Lace, Mrs Dale, 247

Laking, Sir Francis Henry (1847–1914), 281–82

La Marmora, Alfonso Ferrero, Marquis de (1804–78), 60

Lane, Harriet, 33

Lang, Cosmo Gordon, Archbishop of York, later of Canterbury (1864–1945): and Keppel affair, 173; and death of KE, 297; in archiepiscopal robes, 302

Langtry, Edward (d 1897), 154

Langtry, Emily Charlotte (Lillie) (1852–1929), 177; Pss of W and, 154; P of W and, 154–57; Churchill on, 155; on her popularity, 155; Gladstone and, 156; goes on the stage, 157; in Marienbad, 242

Lansdowne, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of (1845–1927): KE and, 210, 252; and Garter for Shah, 213, 214; and KE’s proposed visit to Pope Leo, 255; and KE’s proposed visit to France, 260; and entente with France, 274; and KE’s visit to Germany, 271;

on KE’s dislike of Wilhelm II, 271

Lawson-Johnston, John, 270

Lear, Edward (1812–88), 28

Le Breton, William Corbet, Dean of Jersey, 155

Lee, Sir Sidney (1859–1926), 177, 218

Leicester, Thomas William Coke, 2nd Earl of (1822–1909), 71, 99

Leighton, Frederic, later cr Baron Leighton (1830–96), 27, 127

Leo XIII, Pope (r 1878–1903), 185, 251–53, 255

Leopold, Prince, Duke of Albany (1853–84): bitten by his nephew, 64; and his mother, 76; and P of W’s illness, 112; at Sandringham, 113, 114; has key to Cabinet boxes, 146;

death, 148; and Daisy Brooke, 157

Leopold I, King of the Belgians (1790–1865), 59; royal guests at Laeken, 17, 26, 58; on P of W’s Canadian and American tour, 36; uses his influence with QV, 59; Marlborough House, 67; Count d’Orsay and, 73; and P of W, 79, 86; QV appeals to, 84

Leopold II, King of the Belgians (1835–1909), 188, 261

Lesseps, Ferdinand, Vicomte de (1805–94), 105

Leveson-Gower, Lady Florence Sutherland (d 1881), 72

Lewis, George, 158–59, 203

Lewis, Sir George Cornewall (1806–63), 48

Liddell, Henry George (1811–98), 179

Lincoln, Abraham (1809–65), 33

Lincolnshire, Marquess of, see WynnCarrington, Charles Robert

Lind, Jenny (1820–87), 64

Lindencrone, Mme de Hegermann, 302

Lindsay, Robert, later Robert LloydLindsay, cr Baron Wantage, 20, 21

Lipton, Sir Thomas Johnstone (1850–1931), 172, 174

Lloyd George, David, 1st Earl LloydGeorge (1863–1945), 210, 285, 286

Londesborough, Countess of (d 1915), 202

Londesborough, William Henry Forester Denison, 2nd Baron, later cr Earl of (1834–1900), 112

Londonderry, Marchioness of, 233, 235

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807–82), 34

Loubet, Mme, 301

Loubet, Emile (1838–1929), 256, 257, 260, 274

Louis, Prince of Battenberg, later Marquess of Milford Haven (1854–1921), 130, 148, 156, 266

Louis IV, Prince, later Grand Duke of Hesse (1837–92), 84

Louis Philippe, King of France (1773–1850), 23, 285

Louise, Princess (1848–1939), 90, 102

Louise, Princess, see Princess Christian

Louise, Princess Royal, Duchess of Fife (1867–1931), 89, 90, 180, 181

Luynes, Duchesse de, 126

Lyons, Richard Bickerton Pemell, Viscount, later cr Earl (1817–87), 35

Lyttelton, Lady (d 1870), 5, 6, 8, 11

Lytton, Lady (d 1949), 150

Macclesfield, Countess of, 81; on Sandringham, 69; and birth of Prince Eddy, 82; and Pss of W’s illness, 89–90; and P of W, 90; and P of W’s illness, 112; on QV, 114; on Royal Family, 114

McKenna, Reginald (1863–1943), 264

McLeod, Norman (1812–72), 64

Mahan, Alfred Thayer (1840–1914), 209

Malet, Sir Edward Baldwin (1837–1908), 150

Manchester, Duchess of, later Duchess of Devonshire (d 1911), 73, 93, 108–9, 128, 165

Manchester, George Victor Drogo Montagu, 8th Duke of (1853–92), 194

Manchester, William Drogo Montagu, 7th Duke of (1823–90), 99