Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter by Diana Souhami (recommended books to read TXT) 📕

Princess of Wales, BBC Panorama, November 1995

rampant bulimia

ibid

I have it now

Portrait of a Marriage

Money was freely

G. Cornwallis-West Edwardian Hey-Days (Hogarth Press, 1930)

It was so necessary

Vita Sackville-West, The Edwardians (Hogarth Press 1930)

how to choose her friends

Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan, The Glitter and the Gold (Heinemann, 1953)

Dear Mrs Keppel

Queen Alexandra to Mrs Keppel (undated)

What a pity

quoted in Georgina Battiscombe, Queen Alexandra (Constable 1969)

As a child

Violet Trefusis, Triple Violette, unpublished memoir in French (Beinecke Library)

I adore the unparalleled

Violet to Vita, 27 August 1918

We are not as lovable

Triple Violette

From my earliest childhood

Sonia Keppel, Edwardian Daughter (Hamish Hamilton 1958)

and a certain elusive smell

ibid

My mother began

Violet Trefusis, Don’t Look Round (Hutchinson 1952)

The Prince had wanted

Victoria Sackville, unpublished diaries, July 1898 (Lilly Library, Indiana)

We heard a fine

Margot Asquith, Autobiography (Eyre & Spottiswoode 1962)

excellent influence

quoted in Philip Magnus, King Edward VII (John Murray 1962)

he would never have done

quoted in Christopher Hibbert, Edward VII: A Portrait (Allen Lane 1976)

Dear Mrs Keppel

William II to Mrs Keppel December 1907 (John Phillips)

She was convinced

Frederick Ponsonby, Recollections of Three Reigns (Eyre & Spottiswoode 1951)

I want you to try

quoted in Gordon Brook-Shepherd, Uncle of Europe (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1975)

Oh dear

The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Volume 4 1931–35, ed. Anne Olivier Bell (Hogarth Press 1982) 10 March 1932

How can one make the best

Violet to Vita, 1 May 1920

We love only once

Cyril Connolly (Palinarus), The Unquiet Grave (Horizon, 1944)

TWO

Who was my father?

Violet to Vita, October 1919 (Beinecke Library)

Here I can breathe

ibid, 25 August 1920

The atmosphere

Don’t Look Round

From Ithaca

ibid

At last in 1868

ibid

They seemed to complete

ibid

One could picture

Harold Acton, More Memoirs of an Aesthete (Methuen 1970)

A frightful bounder

ibid

I feel that in entrusting

John Stephenson A Royal Correspondence. Letters of King Edward VII and King George V to Admiral Sir Henry F. Stephenson (Macmillan 1938)

From a really great

Rebecca West, 1900 (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1982)

Throughout her life

Edwardian Daughter

My mother

Don’t Look Round

several lovers

Daisy, Princess of Pless From My Private Diary (John Murray 1931)

rich and influential

Mary Soames, Clementine Churchill (Cassell 1979)

Mrs Favourite Keppel

11 September 1901. Mary Curzon, Lady Curzon’s India: Letters of a Vicereine, ed. John Bradley (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1985)

which rather shocked

Victoria Sackville, unpublished diaries (Lilly Library)

The Alington household

Edwardian Daughter

it was charming

ibid

The parties

Philip Magnus, King Edward VII

At times I was

Recollections of Three Reigns

His angry bellow

Magnus, King Edward VII

THREE

no one can represent

9 July 1864, quoted in Philip Magnus, King Edward VII

I don’t know what

Magnus, King Edward VII

my father, my protector

19 June 1858, quoted in Giles St Aubyn, Queen Victoria (Sinclair Stevenson 1991)

None of you

26 August 1857, Magnus, King Edward VII

peculiarities arise

ibid

A very bad day

Frederick Waymouth Gibbs ‘The Education of a Prince’. Extracts from diaries 1851–6 (Cornhill Magazine 986)

I am in utter despair

4 March 1858, Dearest Child: Letters Between Queen Victoria and the Crown Princess of Prussia 1858–1861, ed. Roger Fulford (Evans Brothers 1964)

His only safety

9 April 1859, ibid

learn the duties

Magnus, King Edward VII

The agony and misery

12 November 1862, Giles St Aubyn, Edward VII Prince and King (Collins 1979)

If you were to try

ibid

for there must be

January 1862, Queen Victoria

future reunion

Victoria to Queen Augusta, Edward VII Prince and King

Why should we go

ibid

too weak to keep

13 January 1862, Dearest Mama: Private Correspondence of Queen Victoria and the Crown Princess of Prussia 1861–1864, ed. Roger Fulford (Evans Brothers 1968)

her walk, manner

4 June 1861, Dearest Child

I don’t think he can be

1 October 1861, ibid

What you say

12 October 1861, ibid

I frankly avow

11 September 1862, Magnus, King Edward VII

far worse than a funeral

4 February 1863

I opened the shrine

7 March 1863, Edward VII Prince and King

I could not remain

Louise Cresswell, The Lady Farmer: Eighteen Years on the Sandringham Estate (Temple Co. 1887)

Alix looked very ill

12 March 1864, Dearest Mama

The princess had another

Queen Alexandra

very forcibly

Magnus, King Edward VII

she will be quite bored

Filmer MSS U120 C77 Kent County Record Office

very unsatisfactory

Edward VII: A Portrait

Then the torrent

1900

FOUR

If ever you become

18 January 1868, Magnus, King Edward VII

a very dissolute

Magnus, King Edward VII

I am sorry

February 1870, quoted in Graham and Heather Fisher, Bertie and Alix: Anatomy of a Royal Marriage (Robert Hale 1974)

I am so looking

Edward VII to Mrs Keppel, New Year’s Day 1910. ADD A5 475 (Royal Archive, Windsor)

the public may suppose

Edward VII, Prince and King (Collins 1979)

The matter appears

ibid

I trust by what

Bertie and Alix: Anatomy of a Royal Marriage

Why should a young

Hibbert, Edward VII

the people of England

ibid

there are not wanting

ibid

The Government really

Royal Victorians

I am over 28

Bertie and Alix: Anatomy of a Royal Marriage

It is the custom

Alfred E. Watson, King Edward VII as a Sportsman (Longmans 1911)

if made public

Magnus, King Edward VII

anticipated the danger

ibid

held the crown

ibid

being aware of peculiar

ibid

Blandford, I always

ibid

arrange his matters

ibid

How can one make

Violet to Vita, 1 May 1920

It would be difficult

Lillie Langtry, The Days I Knew (Hutchinson 1925)

My only purpose

ibid

etiquette demanded

ibid

A petition has been filed

Ernest Dudley, The Gilded Lily (Odhams Press 1958)

a very distinguished

Edward VII: A Portrait

unfortunate lunatic

Royal Victorians

It is one of God’s mercies

Harold to Vita, 17 February 1949 (Lilly Library)

He was more than kind

Countess of Warwick, Life’s Ebb and Flow (Cassell 1920)

you have systematically

Lord Beresford to the Prince of Wales, 12 July 1891 (Salisbury papers, quoted in Hibbert, Edward VII: A Portrait)

His signing

Magnus, King Edward VII

We profoundly regret

The Times, 10 June 1891 (quoted in Hibbert, Edward VII: A Portrait)

Those who revealed

Countess of Warwick, Afterthoughts (Cassel, 1931)

FIVE

Once upon a time

Triple Violette

With one terrifying

Edwardian Daughter

When Mamma

ibid

very ugly

Osbert Sitwell, Laughter in the Next Room (Macmillan 1949)

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