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
Manning, Henry Edward, Cardinal (1808–92), 303
Maple, Sir John Blundell (1845–1903), 174
Margaret, Princess of Prussia, 185
Maria Henrietta, Queen of the Belgians (1836–1902), 78
Marie, Empress of Russia, see Dagmar, Princess
Marie, Princess of Altenburg, 41
Marie, Princess of Hohenzollem-Sigmaringen, 41
Marie Alexandrovna, Grand Duchess (1853–1920), 128
Marienbad, KE in, 242–48
Marlborough, Duchess of (d 1964), 97, 195
Marlborough, John Churchill, 1st Duke of (1650–1722), 67
Marlborough, John Winston Spencer Churchill, 7th Duke of (d 1883), 74
Marlborough Club, 99, 174
Marlborough House: history, 67; P and Pss of W pleased with, 69; Pss of W has rheumatic fever at, 88; informal evenings at, 93; servants at, 99; P of W’s sitting room, 99; fancy-dress ball at, 127; Tsarevich and family at, 128; Bernhardt at, 156; Lady Brooke at, 158, 164; celebratory dinners at, 177, 178; KE at work in, 205; Wilhelm II at, 271