personal characteristics and tastes: attitude to marriage and adultery 92–94; characterized in Émile Zola’s Nana 112, 114–117; eating habits 268, 335–336; health problems 267, 279, 336–338, 339–341; influence on French society 209–213; libido 259; linguistic abilities 287–288; sense of humour 69; smoking 46, 87, 207, 268, 336, 344; style and mode of dress 202–208; superstitions 342; taste in theatre 127–128
Edwardian England 362
Eiffel, Gustave, Tower builder 299
Eiffel Tower, Paris 299–300
Entente cordiale, Bertie’s role in 233, 301, 306, 316–17, 326, 327, 353, 361
Escola, Edouard d’, poet 62
Eugénie, Empress of France, wife of Napoléon III: visit to England (1855) 10; makes impression on Bertie 15–16, 36; and British royal family visit (1855) 22, 29–30; portrait by Winterhalter 24–5; at the Château de Fontainebleau 57–8, 63, 67–9; status in French society 61–2; disapproval of Napoléon’s womanizing 69–70; at Paris Exposition Universelle (1867) 98; salons 145–6; flees Paris after French defeat at Sedan 156; in exile in Britain 166, 192; death of son, Louis-Napoléon 241–2
Fallières, Armand, French politician 348
Fashoda, Anglo–French diplomatic incident over 301–6
Figaro, Le (newspaper) 299, 304, 310–13, 314–15
Filmer, Sir Edward, friend 93
First World War 329, 334, 361
Flaubert, Gustave, novelist 66, 148; Madame Bovary 107
Flourens, Émile, French Foreign Minister 267
Folies Bergère, Parisian cabaret 253
Fontainebleau, Château de 54–9, 60, 63, 65, 72, 89
Franco-Prussian war (1870) 155–69
Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of the Austro–Hungarian Empire 354–6
Franz Joseph, Emperor of Austria 3n, 51, 329
Frederick IX, King of Denmark 3n
Friedrich, Crown Prince of Prussia (later German Emperor), Vicky’s husband 43, 98
Gallifet, Gaston de, friend and bloodthirsty general 98n, 165, 175, 234–5
Gallifet, Marquise Georgina de, mistress 98–9
Gambetta, Léon, French politician 231–7, 244
Garnier, Charles, architect of Paris Opéra 126, 269
Gautier, Théophile, poet 148
George, Duke of Cambridge, Bertie’s uncle 187
George III, King of England, Mad 14
George IV, King of England, dissolute 14, 48, 188
George V, King, Bertie’s son 91, 348, 357–8
Germany: Bertie’s visit to Königswinter 41; increase in size of navy 322, 328; Schleswig-Holstein Question 84
Gibbs, Frederick Waymouth, tutor to young Bertie 13
Giraud, Sébastien Charles, painter 148
Gladstone, William, British Prime Minister 167, 188, 192–3, 195
Gladstone, William, son of the politician 41–2
Goncourt, Edmond de, French writer 215–16
Goulue, La, can-can dancer; Louise Weber 250–2
Graham, Sir James, First Lord of the Admiralty 9n
Gramont, Agénor, philandering duke 121-2
Granier, Jeanne, actress/mistress 246, 275, 313
Great Exhibition, Britain (1851) 10
Greffuhle, Comtesse de, friend 340–1
Guilbert, Yvette, cabaret singer 275–6, 339
Gustav Adolf VI, King of Sweden 3n
Haakon VII, King of Norway (earlier Prince Charles of Denmark) 3n, 320n
Hale, W. B., journalist 331
Hardinge, Charles, British diplomat 308, 312, 329, 340
Haussmann, Georges-Eugène, builder of boulevards 104, 107, 153, 257
Helena, Princess, Victoria’s daughter 283, 289
Helleu, Paul, painter 209
Henry VI, King of England 18
Hibbert, Christopher, biographer 120, 301, 323, 335
Howard, Harriet, mistress of Napoléon III 7–8
Hugo, Victor, writer 244, 265
Ireland, Bertie’s posting with the Grenadier Guards 46–7
Isabella, Queen of Spain 155
Izvolsky, Alexander, Russian Foreign Minister 321
Jockey Club 130–1, 144, 173, 191, 218, 247
Jollivet, Gaston, memoirist and playboy 103–4, 105–6, 107, 110–11, 128, 142–3
Joséphine, wife of Napoléon Bonaparte 7
Jouy, Étienne, playwright 127
Jullian, Philippe, biographer 36–7, 44, 59–60, 65, 90, 202, 211, 305
Karim, Abdul (the ‘Munshi’), Victoria’s Indian servant 6, 280–2, 292
Kelly, Madame, brother keeper 260
Keppel, Alice, mistress 294, 296, 327, 337, 341, 342, 345, 348
Kitchener, General Horatio, British general 303
Knollys, Francis, Bertie’s private secretary 308
Knollys, Sir William, Bertie’s treasurer 78, 195–6
Königswinter, Germany 41
Laking, Sir Francis, Bertie’s doctor 294
Lalande, Caron de, photographer 29
Lami, Eugène, painter 31
Langtry, Lillie, mistress 222–3, 244
Lansdowne, Lord, British politician 307, 309, 316
Laurent, Méry, cocotte 118
Lear, Edward, writer 44
Leighton, Frederic, painter 43
Leopold, King of Belgium 14, 39–40, 50, 76
Londesborough Lodge, Scarbrough, house where Bertie caught typhoid fever 186
London, sexual hypocrisy 59–60
Loubet, Émile, President of France 307, 309–11, 315, 327
Louis XIV, King of France 63
Louis XVI, King of France 55
Louise, Princess 281
Louis-Napoléon, Prince Imperial, son of Napoléon III 241–2
Louis-Philippe, King of France 7–8, 176
Lourdes, France 342
Luxembourg Crisis 152
Lyons, Lord, British ambassador in Paris 233
Lytton, Robert, Secretary of British Embassy in Paris 190
MacMahon, Patrice de, French politician 196–7, 220–1, 232
Maison d’Or, Paris, chic Parisian café 140–3
Manet, Edouard, painter 170n
Marchand, Jean-Baptiste, French soldier 302–3
Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France 55
Marienbad spa 338
Marlborough House, London, Bertie’s London residence 86–7, 91, 178, 245
Martin, Sir Theodore, friend of Queen Victoria 11
Marx, Adrien, Les Souverains à Paris 100, 101
Mathilde, Princess, cousin and fiancée of Napoléon III 22, 65–6, 148
Maud, Princess (later Queen of Norway) 320n
Maugny, Comte de, memoirist and writer Souvenirs du Second Empire 64–5, 107, 121, 130, 144, 204
Maurois, André, biographer Edouard VII et son Temps 131, 197
McCarthy, Justin, journalist 127
Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Anastasia, Grand Duchess of, mistress 274
Menton, France 269
Mérimée, Prosper, writer 16, 64, 173
Méténier, Oscar, writer 255–6
Metternich, Pauline von, sexy niece/wife of Richard (below) 147, 254
Metternich, Richard von, Austrian Ambassador to Paris 64, 147
Mexico, Franco-Austrian régime 151–2
Monaco, France 269
Monson, Sir Edmund, British Ambassador to Paris 303, 308–9, 315–16
Monticelli, Adolphe, Une Soirée chez la Païva 149
Mordaunt, Sir Charles and Lady Harriet, scandalous divorce of 158–9, 183–4
Moulin Rouge, Parisian cabaret 253
Müller, Charles, painter 22–3
Murat, Anna, great-niece of Bonaparte 65
Napoléon Bonaparte, Emperor of France and Napoléon’s uncle 7, 26–8, 55
Napoléon III, Emperor of France and Bertie’s mentor: appearance and personal characteristics 4–5; background and political rise 7–9; relationship with Queen Victoria 4–5, 38–40; visit to England (1855) 10; and British royal family visit (18
55) 17–18, 21–2, 27, 29–35; relationship with Bertie 34–5, 60; and French society 61; relationships with women 64–5, 66–7, 69–72; at Paris Exposition Universelle (1867) 98–9; renovation of the Château de Fontainebleau 55–6; renovation of Paris 21, 102–8, 126–7; decline of 151–4; defeat and capture at Battle of Sedan 155–6; exile in England 174; death 191–3
Naval review, Diamond Jubilee, 1897 283–6
Nice, France 269, 271
Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia 3n, 318–21
Northcliffe, Lord, newspaper owner 306
Offenbach, Jacques, composer of operettas 118, 136–7, 138, 211–12
Oller, Joseph, cabaret owner 254
Ollivier, Émile, French politician 153
Orléans, Hélène, d’, prospective bride for Prince Eddy 177–8
Orléans, Henri d’, alias Duc d’Aumale, friend of Bertie 198–9, 246
Orléans, Marie-Isabelle d’, wife of Comte de Paris 177
Orléans, Philippe, Comte de Paris 176–7
Orléans, Pierre, nephew of Henri 347
Osborne, Isle of Wight 84, 288–91, 292
Otero, Caroline, cocotte 275
Oxford University 44
Païva, La, cocotte 148–9
Paoli, Xavier, bodyguard 149, 205–6, 231, 271–2, 336
Paris: British royal visit to (1855) 19–37; Café Anglais 68, 136–8, 211, 233; Café des Ambassadeurs 132–3; café-concerts 132–3; Château de Fontainebleau 54–9, 63, 65, 72; Château de Saint-Cloud 21–2, 161; Château de Versailles 29; Eiffel Tower 299–300; Exposition Universelle (1855) 9, 20, 24–6, 213; (1867) 97–8, 100–2; (1878) 220–1, 224–30; (1889) 298–9; (1900) 261, 305; fashion 203–9, 213–15; funeral service for Bertie 348; Hôtel Bristol 125; Le Chabanais (brothel) 260–6; Masion d’Or (café) 140–3; Montmartre and cabaret 247–50; Palais des Tuileries 34, 173–4; and prositution under the Second Empire 108–12; Prussian siege, 1870-1871; 60–4, 167–9; renovation under Napoléon III 102–8, 126–7; Sacré-Coeur Cathedral 176; salons 145–9; slums 256–7; theatres 126–31; tomb of Napoléon Bonaparte 26–8
Pasteur, Louis, scientist 146
Pearl, Cora (Emma Crouch), cocotte 138–40, 164, 214
Père Lunette, Le, squalid café/brothel 255–7
Philippe d’Orléans, Comte de Paris 176–7
Picard, Ernest, French politician 169
Pichon, Stéphen, French politician 347
Pissarro, Camille, painter 168
Poincaré, Raymond, French politician 335, 351–4
Ponsonby, Frederick, Bertie’s assistant private secretary 323, 343
Ponsonby, Henry, Victoria’s private secretary 88
Poole, Henry, tailor 205–7
Potter, James Brown, tuxedo wearer 207–8
Pourtalès, Comtesse Edmond de, mistress 65
Proust, Marcel, À la Recherche du Temps Perdu 141
Prussia: Franco-Prussian war (1870) 155–69; Luxembourg Crisis 152; Schleswig-Holstein Question 75, 84
Reboux, Paul, French writer 264n; Le Guide Galant 261–2
Reid, John, Victoria’s and Bertie’s doctor 289–91, 333, 341, 343–4
Renault, Georges, French writer Montmartre 247–9
Renoir, Auguste, painter 172; Danse à la Ville 251
Reymond, William, theatre critic 150
Reynolds’s Newspaper 184, 188
Ridley, Jane, biographer Bertie: A Life of Edward VII 326
Rochefoucauld-Bisaccia, Duc de La, friend of Bertie 194–5, 197, 210
Rome, Italy, Bertie’s visit (1859) 43–4
Rostand, Edmond, Chantecler 340
Rothschild, Baron Alphonse de, banker 65
Rothschild, Léonora de, glamorous wife of Alphonse 65
Rothschild, Lionel and Charlotte de, friends of Bertie 90
Royal Commission on the Housing of the Working Class 240, 258
Royal Naval Review, 1853 8, 15
Russia: Anglo-Russian relations 318–21; Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) 319
Sacré-Coeur Cathedral, Paris 176
Sadi Carnot, Marie François, President of France 300
Sagan, Anne-Alexandrine-Jeanne-Marguerite Seillière de, mistress 79, 199–200, 218, 274
Saint-Beuve, Charles-Augustin, literary critic 64
Salis, Rodolphe, cabaret owner 249
Sandringham, Norfolk, Bertie’s country house 87–8, 187
Sardou, Victorien, writer 131
Schneider, Hortense, actress/cocotte 112–13, 115, 118–20
Serbia 329, 354, 357
Sloane-Stanley, Mrs, mistress 193
Soubrier, Louis, maker of erotic furniture 263
Spencer, John, 5th Earl, snobbery of 89-90
Stamper, Charles, chauffeur 338
Standish, Hélène, mistress 197–8, 200, 218
Standish, Henry, father of Hélène 197
Stanley, Canon Arthur, Dean of Westminster 218
Stevenson, Robert Louis, writer 270
Stockholm, Sweden 94–5
Strauss, Johann, composer 30
Sykes, Christopher, victim of Bertie’s jokes 69
Taisey-Chantenoy, Marquise Irène de, lover of Napoléon III 66–72
Taylor, John, estate agent in Cannes 271
Temple, Frederick, Archbishop of Canterbury 296
theatres, Paris 126–31
‘Thérésa’ (stage name of Emma Valladon), singer 133–45, 143
Thiers, Adolphe, French politician 170–1, 173, 190–1
Thompson, Henry, surgeon 192
Times, The (newspaper) 14, 80, 238–9, 293, 338
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de, artist 250, 252–3, 261
Trémoille, Duc de la, friend of Bertie 210
Treves, Sir Frederick, surgeon 295
Turbinia, first steam turbine-powered ship 285
Turgenev, Ivan, writer 148
Turkey 227–8, 233
Umberto, King of Italy 280–1
Valladon, Emma see ‘Thérésa’
Vane-Tempest, Susan, mistress 182–3
vaudeville theatre 127–8
venereal disease 182, 257, 265, 281
Victor Emmanuel, King of Italy 307
Victoria, Princess Royal (Vicky; later Crown Princess Friedrich, then German Empress), Bertie’s sister 15, 23, 32, 44, 49, 75, 77, 92, 156, 165
Victoria, Queen: relationship with Napoléon III 4–5, 6–7, 9, 10–12, 39; takes Bertie to Royal Naval Review, (1853) 8; and Bertie’s education and upbringing 12, 14, 44, 72–73; and death of Prince Albert 50; state visit to France (1855) 17–18, 22–23, 26–28, 30–32, 37; and marriage of Bertie to Princess Alexandra 50, 74–79, 84–85; support for Germany 84; exclusion of Bertie from matters of state 85, 242–243; attempts to control Bertie’s visits abroad 95–96; attitude to France 9–10, 96, 156, 165, 281; and Franco-Prussian war 165–167; visits Bertie at Sandringham 187; unpopularity 188; and Louis-Napoléon, son of Napoléon III 241–242; visits to south of France 271–272, 280–281; relationships with male servants 5–6, 280; Diamond Jubilee 282–283; opinion of Bertie’s suitability as monarch 288; death, 288–291
Victoria Eugenie, Princess (later Queen of Spain), niece of Bertie 320n
Viel-Castel, Horace, friend of Napoléon III 9
Voisin, Docteur, Bertie’s French teacher 12–14
Wallace, Mackenzie, journalist 319
Walters, Catherine, alias Skittles, mistress 194, 214
Waterloo, Battle of 8
Wellington, Duke of, enemy of France and British ambassador to it 15
Wilde, Oscar, description of Alexandra by 92
Wilhelm I, Kaiser of Germany 155
Wilhelm II, Kaiser of Germany: at Bertie’s wedding 83–4; not invited to Diamond Jubilee celebrations 284–5; and death of Queen Victoria 289–91; and Anglo-Russian relations 319–20; personality and relationship with Bertie 322–9, 331–4; warlike ambitions 330–2; and Bertie’s funeral 345–6
Windsor Castle: visit of Napoléon III and Eugénie (1855) 10; Bertie’s
wedding 81–2; Bertie’s modernization of 292; Bertie’s funeral 348
Winterhalter, Franz Xaver, portrait painter 24–5, 63, 86, 147
Wodehouse, John, concerned friend 94
Worth, Charles, dressmaker 213–15
Wynn-Carrington, Charles, cabaret owner 125, 157, 218, 346
Zidler, Charles, cabaret owner 254
Zola, Émile, novelist Nana 108–9, 112–18, 153–4
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