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A Ahlden, Castle (Schloss), 101 Abbeville, 63 Duchess of (see Dorothea, Sophia, Abbey of the Visitation See Chaillot, wife of George I) Abbey of the Visitation, at Alam, Shah, 77, 83 abdication, 54, 68, 133 , Stuart, John, of, 19 Act (1936), 60n8 Albemarle, 3rd Earl of, 154, 155 Aberdeen, Lord, 170, 173 Albert, Prince, 53, 75, 127–9, 159, Accession Council, 56 164, 178 Act of Settlement (1701), 50, 113 Albrecht V, Duke of Bavaria, 64 Adelaide, City of, 107–9 Alcalde (Ohadu, Muhammad), 95 Adelaide, Elizabeth Georgina, Alderley, 6 Princess, 108 Aldermen, 38 Adelaide, Queen, 6, 15, 83, 108, 110, Alexander, Duke of Ross (posthumous 149, 152 son of James IV), 19 Admiralty, 94, 145, 164–6 Alexander III, Tsar, 159 Admiralty, Court of, 94 Alexandra, Queen, 7, 130–3, 155, First Lord of, 145, 164, 165 159, 162, 186 Adolphus, , 80, Alexandre, 103 147, 151–3, 159, 174 Alfred, 46n9 Advocate, King’s, 117 Alfred, Prince, 130 Aethelburt, 46n9 Al-Thani (dynasty of Dubai), 84 Aethelred I, 46n9 Amelia, Princess, 58 agnate, 26 American colonies, 77

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Amsterdam, 102 Aribert of Anhalt, Prince, 162 Ancien Regime, 28 Arthur, Tudor, , Anglican Church (Church of 14, 130 England), 24 Arundel, Countess of Anglo-Irish aristocracy, 156 Earl of, 89 Anglo-Saxon England, 26 Henry, Earl of, 89 Angus, Earl of (old) Asquith, Prime Minister, 165 Earl of (15th century Regent of Assent, Royal, 73 See also Scotland), 66 parliamentary, 31 Earl of (young) Archibald Douglas, Astle, Thomas (writer & publisher), 19, 20 4, 22n4, 186 Anna, Danish, 93 Attorney-General, 22n1, 106, Anne of Cleves, Queen, 88, 89, 93 115, 118–20, 122, 124, 177, Anne of Denmark, Queen, 6, 75, 179–83, 185 92, 93 Attorney-General’s Office, 179 Anne of England, Queen, 51, 71 Aughton, Nicholas (Squire of Anne, Queen of England, 51, 71 Margaret Beaufort), 12 annulment proceedings, 20 Augustan Age, 15 , Caroline of, Queen, Augusta of Coburg, Princess 54, 78, 103 of Wales, 104 Antoinette, Marie, Queen, 108 August, Ernst of Hanover, 71, 73, 74, Antrim, Lady Louisa, 155, 175n21 79, 100, 101 Appeal, Court of, 9, 22n1, 177, 179, Augustus, Duke of Cambridge, 180, 182, 185, 187n1 See also 77, 80, 148 court of Chancery Aumales, Duc & Duchesse de, 146 Aragon, Catherine of See Catherine of Austin, William Aragon, Queen Austin, Samuel, 105, 106 Arbuthnot, Dr., 96 Austin, Sophia, 105, 106 , 2, 3, 5, 10, Austria 12, 14, 37, 52, 56, 90, 93, 110 Anne of, Queen of France, 99 archdeaconries, 52 Archduchess of, 90, 146 Arches, Dean of the, 110 Eleanor of, Queen of France, 61, 62 archives (of France), 94 Avis, House of (Portugal), 28 Arcot diamonds, 79–84 Nawab of, 77, 78 Arden, Lord, 79 B Arenber, Count (equerry), 94 Bacon, Francis, 18 Argyll, Duchess of See also Louise, Bagehot, Walter, 180 Princess Bailey, M. (undertaker), 107 Argyll collection, 136 Baldock, Edward Holmes, MP, 154 Dowager Duchess of, 134, 136 Balfour, Lady Frances Marquis of Lorne (later Duke of Captain, 145 Argyll), 163 Balmoral, 68, 129 INDEX 195

Baring, Rose, 148 Bennett-Goldney, Francis, 169, 170 Barnard, Sir Andrew Francis, 109, 110 Bentley Priory, 108 Bartlett, Ashmead, 141 Bernhardt, Sarah, 155 Basker, J., 38 Bernsdorff (Hanoverian minister), 49 Baskerville, Clarice Vera, 175n25 Bill of Rights (1689), 23 bastardy , 12 bastards, 14, 27, 28, 37 Blackheath, 106 bastards, royal, 28 Blaize, St. (patron of Brunswick), 107 Bath & Wells, bishop of, 3 Blenheim, 123 battle of Blood royal Barnet (1461), 4 Princess of the, 118 Carberry Hill (1567), 67 relationships, 118 Culloden (1745), 76 right, 28 Dettingen (1742), 26 Blum, Maitre Suzanne, 133 Flodden (1513), 18 Boer war (South African war), Jena, 107 151, 163 St. Albans (1455), 4 Bohemia, Crown of, 92 Solway Moss (1542), 33 Bohmer (Hanoverian minister), 49 Towton (1461), 4 Boleyn, Anne, Queen, 35, 87, 89 Waterloo (1815), 110 Bolingbroke, Henry of Bavaria, Duke of, 64, 113, 116 (Henry IV), 16 Beaton, Cecil, 131, 150 Bombay, 95, 153 Beatrice, Mary, of Modena, Queen, 97 Bond of Association, 45 Beatrice, Princess, 130 “Bond of ”, 67 Beauchamp, John, Knight, 3 Boniface IX, Pope, 31 Lord (Lord Beauchamp of Powis), 3 Boulogne, 33 Beaufort, Lady Margaret, Duchess of Bowes-Lyon, Lady Elizabeth (later Somerset Queen and Queen Mother), 131 Beaufort, Lady Margaret, Countess Bowes, R., 38 of Richmond & Derby, 11 Bradshaw, Judge, 38 castle, 31 Brandon, Lady Frances, Duchess of Henry, Cardinal, 14 Suffolk See also Suffolk, Duchess Lady Jane, Queen of Scots, 20, 36, of (Brandon, Frances) 39, 40, 42 Charles, , 63 Beaumont, John Viscount, 3 Lady Eleanor, Countess of Beckendorff, Madame (Queen , 36, 45 Charlotte’s dresser), 80 Lady Katherine (Willoughby), , Earl & Duke of, 38 Duchess of Suffolk, 36, 40, Belfast, 157 42–4, 109 Belgian monarchy, 7 Brighton, 108, 125n7 Benn, Anthony Wedgwood (Lord British Museum, 5, 58 Stansgate), 187n5 “Britishness”, 51 196 INDEX

Brittany, Anne of, Queen Cambridge, Adolphus, Duke of, of France, 42 80, 147, 151–3, 159, 173 Francis II, Duke of, 62 Cambridge, Augustus, Duke of, Brooke, Sir James 77, 80, 148 (Rajah of Sarawak), 143 Cambridge, Duke of (George), 77, HH The Hon. Sylvia, 7 147, 148, 152, 155, 158, 159, Brougham, Lord 161, 162, 172, 178 James, 105 , 106 Browne, Sir Anthony, 34 Cambridgeshire, 97 Brown, H., 38 Cambridge, St. John’s College Brown, Mrs., 114 Christ’s College, 12 Brown, Robert (solicitor), 22n1, 115, Campbell-Bannerman, 177, 180, 187n6 Sir Henry, PM, 166 Brunswick, dynastic house of Canada, 162 August-Frederick of, 100 canon law, 24 Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel, duke of, Canterbury, Archbishop of, 2, 3, 56, 100 5, 10, 12, 14, 37, 52, 56, Duke of (brother of Queen 90, 93, 110 Caroline), 105 Prerogative Court of, 4, 94, Buckingham, Duke of, 42 108, 110 , 160 Canterbury, Archbishop of (Cardinal Bull, the Golden (1356), 52 Pole), 14, 90 Burcot, Dr. (German physician), 41 Canterbury, Archbishop Burdett-Coutts, Angela, Baroness, of (Cranmer), 37 7, 142, 145, 164 Canterbury, Archbishop of (Wake, Burdett, Sir Francis, MP, 141 William), 52, 56 Burma Cardinal, 2, 14, 22n4, 31, 42, 56, Coronation regalia of, 136 66, 90, 97 great throne of, 136 Caroline, Queen (consort of George Burmese crown jewels, 134, 136 IV), 72, 83, 104, 110, 117 Burrell, Paul (butler), 137 Carolingians, fall of, 27 Burtschaell, George, 172 Cartier, Louis (jeweller), 131, 132 Park, 107 cases Butler, Joseph, Bishop & Clerk of the Ashford v Thornton (1818), 72 Closet, 104 Brown v Executors of the estates of Butler, Lady Eleanor, 116 Queen Elizabeth the Queen Byzantine law See Law, Byzantine Mother & others (2008), 177 Earl of Devonshire’s case (1607), 67 in the Goods of George III C (1822), 119 Calais, 33 in the Goods of George III (1862), Calcutta, Lord Chief Justice of, 74 119, 128, 178 Calvinists, 99 Hastings v Douglas (1634), 68 INDEX 197

Castletown, 172 Christ’s College, Cambridge, , Queen, 11, 186 Cambridge, St. John’s College, 12 Catherine of Braganza, Queen, 95, 96 Churchill, Lady Fanny, 164 cause (for canonization), 38, 98 , 10, 93, 121, 163 Cavendish, Lady Elizabeth, 44 , 129 Cecil, William (Lord Burghley), 38, Clarence, Duke of (Prince Eddy), 43, 107 42, 43, 131 Clarence, of Dukedom, 43 Celle (Zell), 94, 98–102, 107 Clarencieux (English herald), 22 Chaillot, Abbey of the Visitation, at, 94 Clayton, Sir Oscar, 148 Chantry chapels, 10, 14, 15 Cleves, William Duke of, 88 Charles, Archduke, 42 Clifford, Lady Margaret, 36, 40 Charles II, 75, 94, 95, 116 Clifford, Thomas, Lord, 4 Charles IV, , 52 Cockburn, Lord Chief Justice, 114 Charles VIII of France, 62 Coke, Sir Edward, 93 Charles, Prince of Castile (afterwards Colchester, 107 Emperor Charles V), 12 collaterals (relations), 26, 28 Charles, Prince of Wales (Charles I), Commission (1561), 41, 66 68, 93, 94, 97, 99, 113 Common Law See Law, Byzantine Charles, Prince of Wales (present Common Pleas, Court of, 72 prince), 12, 20, 28, 39, 41, 42, Commons, House of, 31, 110, 44, 46n10, 52, 56, 62, 63, 65, 116–18, 145, 165 66, 68, 73–5, 91, 93–5, 97, 99, Constantine, King, 139 113, 116, 125n5, 153, 188n20 Constitutional Monarchy, 25 Charlotte Augusta Louise, Princess, lawyers, 30 107 Conyngham, Lady, 82 Charlotte, Princess, 79, 83, 105, 107, Cooper, W.A., 108 129, 144 Copley, John Singleton See Lyndhurst, Charlotte, , Queen of Lord Wurttemberg, 79, 80, 83, 105, Cornwall See Duchy 107, 129, 144 Charlotte, Queen, 69–72, 74, 76–84, Charles IX of France (1561), 65 131, 148, 152 Elizabeth II (1953), 84 Chaucer, Geoffrey, 31 Edward VII (1902), 155, 188n19 Chelsea, 106, 110 French, 65, 97 Hospital, 110 George IV, (1821), 104, 110 Cheyne, Sir R., 38 Queen Caroline (1728), 78 Chindwin village (Burma), 135 Queen Charlotte (1761), 69, 70, 76 Cholmely, Sir R., 38 Tudor, Mary (1553), 88 choses in action, 138 William IV (1831), 83, 147 Christian of Hanover, 98, 100 corporation sole Christies (auctioneers), 76 (crown of Hanover), 72 198 INDEX

Cosgrave, William, 170 D Cottenham, Lord, 73 “Daily Post” (1727), 103 The Council, 9, 19, 21, 34, 36, 41, Danes 74, 90, 166 Danish prisoners, 11, 22n4 The Great, 45 Denmark, King of, 92 Privy, 43, 44 Darlington, Countess of, 58 Council of Whitby, 9 Darmouth Royal Naval College, 166 Countess of Dudley, 131 Darnley, Henry Lord, 37, 43, 66 County Down, 157 d’ Aubigne, Francoise See de Courtenay, Thomas, , 3 Maintenon, Mme Edward, 43 d’ Aubigny, Theodore-Agrippa court of Chancery (poet), 99 appeal, 9, 177, 179, 180, 182, 185 Dauphin (Francis II), 42, 62 consistory, 25 Dauphin, the (French), 17 decree of, 12, 13 Dauphin, the (French) (Francis II), 17 ecclesiastical, 24, 25, 30, 125 Davis, Sir D., 109 prerogative, 4, 94, 108, 110 de Bracton, Henry, 29 probate, divorce and matrimony, 5 de Cordilhac, Jeanne, 99 Coutts’ Bank, 141, 142, 166 de Desmiers, Marquis See d’ Olbreuse, Coutts, Thomas (banker), 7, 142, 166 Eleonore Coutts, Thomas (his fortune), 7, 142, Defender of the Faith, 90 143, 145 de Gayemont, Prevost, 103 Cranmer, Thomas, Archbishop of de Gotha, Almanac, 109 Canterbury, 37 de Harburg, (Harbourg) Mme See d’ , Lord, 75 Olbreuse, Eleonore creeping custom, 178, 179 de Hurault, Sieur (French Cresswell, Sir Creswell (Judge of the ambassador), 46 Probate Division), 5, 119 “Delicate Investigation, The” Crown, Estates of the (1806), 105 matrimonial, 39 de Ligne, Prince, 123 Officers of the, 71, 72 Deliz, Grafin, 58 crown jewels, 65–8, 76, 83, 92, 93, de los Navas, Marquis, 91 102, 134, 136, 158, 169–71, 173 de Maintenon, Mme, 99 Cumberland, August, Ernst, Duke of, de Marigny, Sieur, 62 King of Hanover de Medici, Catherine, Queen of Henry, Duke of, 110, 114, 115, France, 65 120, 124, 125 de Mursay, Comte See de Villette, Lodge, 162 Madame Cuxhaven, 107 Denbigh, Lord, 109 Cyprus, 95 de Neuillant, Mme, 99 INDEX 199 de Poitiers, Diane, 65 Drummond, Lord (Chief Justiciary of “Deptford Boy, The.” See Austin, Scotland), 19 William Drury Lane, 116 De Quadra (ambassador), 43 “dry-stamp” (facsimile signature), 32 Derby, Lord (Ferninando) Dubai, 84 his daughters, 11, 45, 46 Dublin de Reuss, Comte, 100 Castle, 171, 172 de Reya, Mishcon (solicitors), 137–9 Herald, 168, 169, 172 de Saint Hermine, Mesdemoiselles, 99 Records Office, 168 Dettingen See battle of Duchy of Cornwall, 68, 138, de Villette, Madame, 99 186, 188n20 Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Duchy of Lancaster, 16, 68 Fund, 137, 138, 140 Dudley, Countess of, 131 Disraeli, Benjamin, PM, 118 Dudley, Lord Guildford Divorce law, 145 councillor of Henry VII, 13 D.N.A., 124, 178 family, 36 Doctors of Civil Law, 110, 117 John (), Doctors of Law, College of, 110 35 Dodd, Justice, 168 Dufferin & Ava, Lord, 135 Dodson, Dr. Sir John, 110, 117 Dujardin, Francois (jeweller), 62 d’ Olbreuse, Eleonore Durbar, Delhi (1912), 134, 158, 161 Countship of, 103 Dyer, James (King’s Serjeant), 38 d’ Alexander II, Sieur, 98 Dyson, Lord Justice, 22n1, 177, d’ Angelique, 100 182, 184, 187n1 dies, 102 estate of, 102 her will (1705), 102 E Doleman, R. (writer), 44, 46 , 46n9 Dormburg, Countess of See Gordon- Earl of Devon, 3, 67 Lennox, Lady Augusta Eaton Hall, 155 Dormer, Lady Jane, 92 Ebalus the Bastard, of Aquitaine, 28 Dorothea, Sophia, wife of George I, , Duke of (First duke of first 94, 98–101, 103, 163 creation) (divorce, 1694), 102 , 69, 97, 130 Doubleday, Justice, 93 Edmonstone, Alice (Mrs. Keppel), 154 Douglas, Archibald, Earl of Angus , 46n9 Lady Margaret, 34, 43 Edmund, Prince (son of Henry VII), Sir Archibald, 68, 85n9 13, 17 Douglas, Margaret, Lady, 20, 21, Ednam Lodge, 132 34, 43 Edward I, 30 Dover, 97 Edward II, 30 Dowager Princess of Wales, 88 Edward III, 28, 41 200 INDEX

Edward IV, 116 European Convention on Human Edward VI, 23, 25, 27, 29–31, 34–7, Rights, 182, 184 39, 42, 53, 54, 89 Euston station, 144 Devise of, 36, 37, 39, 42 Edward VII, 7, 130, 141, 145, 154, 155, 159, 162, 164, 167–9, F 171–3, 175n15, 176n44, 186 Fairbrother, Louisa, 148 Edward VIII, (), 54, Family Division of the High Court 59, 68, 130, 132, 173 (Principal Registry), 134, 179 (St. Edward) Farnese, Ranuccio, 44, 45, 57 his tomb, 98 Elizabeth, Queen of Spain, 57 Egypt Fens, James, Lord of Say, 3 Egyptian army, 153 Feodorovna, Maria, Empress Elbe, 98 of Russia, 159 elective principle of succession, 28 Feria, Count of (ambassador), elector(s) 42, 91, 92 electoral cap, 51 Field of Cloth of Gold (1520), 64 electoral title, 53 first-born, rights of the, 27, 28 Electors of the Holy Roman Fisher, Admiral Sir John (“Jackie”), Empire, 50 165 of Hanover, 50, 51, 75 Fisher, John (Bishop), 12 Elisabeth-Charlotte (Liselotte) Fitzherbert, Anthony (judge), Duchess of Orleans, 100 29, 46n15 , Queen, 6, 17, 39, 44, 64, Fleet prison, 44 67, 80 Fleury, Cardinal, Regent of France, 56 Elizabeth II, Queen, 108, 153, Flodden, battle of See battle of 156, 173 Florence, 144 , Queen, 162 “fons et origo” (of the law), 29 Elizabeth, Princess of Hesse- Foreign Office, 164, 166, 167 Homburg, 80, 88, 89, 91 Fortescue, Hon. John, 161, 176n39 Ely, Bishop of, 12 “Fount of Honour”, 137 Emely, Princess of Cleves, 88 France Empson (councillor of Henry VII), Court of, 100 11, 16 French Revolution, 97 “English Constitution, The” Kings of, 97 (Bagehot), 180 Francis I, King of France “Englishness”, 51 his decree (1530), 61–3, 70, 94 escheat (of property to ), 72 Francis Xavier, St See Xavier, St. Francis Esterhazy, Prince, 81 Frankfurt, 147 Eton (school), 2 Frank (Francis of Teck) Prince, 134, Eugenia, Infanta Isabella Clara, 45 137, 141–76, 178, 181 INDEX 201

Franz Joseph (Francis Joseph) in the Goods of (Cases 1822, Emperor of Austria, 1862), 8n4, 119, 125n9, 149, 159, 164 128, 178 Frederick, Crown Prince of Prussia, 76 George IV (Prince Regent) (King), Frederick, King of Denmark, 107 72, 81–3, 97, 104, 106, 108, Frederick, Prince of Wales, 110, 111n30, 111n37, 114, 117, 59, 59n5, 116 119, 154 Frederick V of the Rhenish George of Denmark (consort of Palatinate, 69 Queen Anne) Prince, 71, 101 freehold, 24 , 68, 76, 82, 116, 134, Friars Observant, Church of the 162, 173 (Greenwich), 87 George V of Hanover, 74 Fust, Sir Herbert Jenner, 108 George VI, 139, 179 Germanic states German empire, 165 G German Protestant princes, 89 Galbraith, Major-General, 153 German titles withdrawn (1917), Gallop, John Archer, 134 76, 100, 167 Gardiner, Stephen, Bishop of law of, 27, 28, 130 Winchester, 33 Gibralta, 95 Garrards (Crown jewellers, 1843), 84 Gladstone, William Ewart, PM, 135, Garter, Order of the, 161 144, 145, 157 Ladies of the, 162, 186 Herbert (and wife), 144, 145 Gaunt (Ghent) John of, 31, 41, 45 Glanvil (legal writer), 29 Gemsamthaus, 51 Glass Palace (of Burma), 135 Geneva, 132, 133 Gloucester, Mary, Princess, Gentleman’s Magazine, 4, 123, 125n7 Duchess of, 152 George, Duke of Cambridge, 77, 147, , 6 148, 152, 155, 158, 159, 161, Gloucester, William, Duke of, 114 162, 173, 178 Goddard, Theodore (lawyer), 132 George I (will of), 4, 23, 25, 27, Gordon-Lennox, Lady Augusta, 109 49–60, 69–71, 74, 94, 97, 102, Gorges, Captain Richard, 171 103, 111n23, 113 Gosnold, J. (Solicitor-General), 38 Hausgesetz of, 27 “Governess”, 36, 99 George II (will of) (otherwise Gowar, Martyn (solicitor), 139 mentioned), 4, 26, 49, 54–9, 71, Gower, Lord Ronald, 169 76, 103, 114, 120 Graham, Lawrence (solicitors), 139 George III, 4–6, 8n4, 11, 22n2, 52, Grantley, Lord, 76 58, 69, 71, 74, 76–8, 81–3, 107, Great Seal of England, 31 110, 114, 115, 117–20, 122, of Scotland, 20 124, 125n9, 128, 147, 152, 178 Greenwich, Treaty of (1544), 33 202 INDEX

Greville, Charles Cavendish Fulke King of, 71, 73, 74, 76, 79 (Clerk to the Council), 74, 82, ministers of, 49, 53, 55, 57 83, 85n18 succession, 50, 69, 96 Greville, Mrs. Ronnie, 155 Treasury of, 69 Grey (family) united with Celle (Zell), 101 Lady Jane, 20, 36, 39, 40, 42, 92 Viceroy of, 77, 147 Lady Katherine, 36, 40, 42–4, 109 Harbin, Reverend George (Chaplain Lady Mary, 36, 43, 44, 139, 153 to Lord Weymouth), 6 Grosvenor, Margaret See also Teck, Hardinge (King’s confidant), 166 Margaret Hardwick, Bess of (Elizabeth, Grosvenor family, 155 Countess of ), 44 Lady Edwina, 139 Harington, Sir John, 44, 45, 47n35 Guise (family) See also Lorraine, “A Tract on the Succession” Cardinal of (1602), 45 Duchess of, 66 Harleian ms, 6 Mary of, Queen of Scots, 33, 41, Harry (Henry) Prince, 137, 138 44, 45, 65, 92 Hartmann, Mrs., 155 Gyorgy, Erdo Szent (Hungary), 156 Harwich, 107 Hastings, Lord, 68, 85n9 Hastings, Norah Frances, Lady, 174 H Hastings, Warren, 81 Habsburgs, 27, 62, 90 Hatherley, Lord See Wood, Page, Haddo, Lord, 170 Vice-Chancellor haemophilia, 127 Hatton Garden, 62 Hague, The, 75, 102 Hatton, Ragnhild, 50, 51, 57, 58, Hales, Mr., 6 60n11, 111n23 half-blood, relatives of the, 31 Hausgesetz, 27, 31, 49, 71, 78, Halford, Sir Henry (physician), 79 130, 162, 164 Hamburg, 98 Heald, Dr., 171, 176n53 Hamilton, Lady Anne, 107, 139 Heath, Nicholas, Archbishop Hammersmith, 107 of York, 89 Hampton, Barnard, 6 heirlooms, Imperial, 147, 161 Hanover, House of of Hanover, 76, 78, 79 August, Ernst of, Elector (husband “Henrician”, 10, 33, 37 of Electress Sophia), 73, 74, Henrietta Maria, Queen, 64, 68, 94–6 79, 101 Henry, , 3, 4 Court of, 76, 99 (Beauclerk), 54 Crown jewels of, 76 Henry II, bastards of, 14 crown of, 70, 72, 79 Henry II, King of France, 41 end of kingdom of (1866), 77 Henry IV, 2, 8n3, 16, 30, 31, 38, 62 heirlooms of (inalienable), 61, 64, Henry IV of France, 62 81, 84 Henry V, 2 INDEX 203

Henry VII, 1, 2, 4, 9–22, 31, 162 House of Lords (Peers), 71, 73, Henry VIII (will of) (otherwise 113, 166 mentioned), 5, 10, 15, 22n4, 27, Howard, Catherine, Queen, 35 31, 36, 40, 42–4, 54 Lord Thomas, 43 minority of, 26 Huguenots, 98, 99 hereditary right, 26–8 Hungary, 26, 102, 146, 179 principle of, 28, 30 King of, 52 Herend (animal figures), 140 Queen of, 52 Herrick (jeweller) Huntingdon, Earl of, 41, 42, 174 Robert (poet), 93 Hertford, Seymour, Edward, Earl of (Seymour, Edward, son), 34, 35, I 40–4 Imperial Order () Hervey, Lord (Court gossip), 57, 59, authorities, 54 59n5, 103, 104, 111n28 Constitution, 52 Hinks, Mr., 183, 184 permission, 50, 52 Hinks, Mr. QC, 183 sanction, 52 Hofburg, The, 52, 56 India Hofton Boys’ Club, 158 Governor-General of, 135, 136 Hohenstein, Countess See also Rhedey Indian empire, 135, 160 family individual wills Claudine (daughter), 109, 149, Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, Queen 153, 155 (1849), 6, 15, 22n5, 83, 107–9 Holdsworth (legal historian), 53 Albert, Prince (1861), Holly Lodge, Highgate, 146 127, 129, 178 Holyhead, 105 Anne of Cleves (1557), 88, 89, 93 Holy Roman Empire of the German Anne of Denmark (1619), nation, 50 6, 75, 92, 93 Home, Lord, 21 Beatrice, Mary of Modena Home Rule bill (1893), 156, 157 (1718), 97 Honours List, 135 Beaufort, Lady Margaret, “” (Scottish 4, 9–22, 162 Crown jewels), 66, 67 Brooke, Sir James, “The White Hood, Lord and Lady, 107 Rajah of Sarawak”, 7, 143 Horton, Lady Anne, 120 Caroline of Ansbach, Queen Horton-Ryes, Lavinia See Ryves, (1737), 104 Anthony Thomas , Queen Hospital of St. John See St. John, (1821), 104, 106, 107 Hospital of, later St. John’s Catherine of Aragon, 11, 186 College, Cambridge Catherine of Braganza (1705), House of Commons, 31, 110, 95, 96 116–18, 125n8, 145, 165, Chesterfield, Dowager Countess of 176n46 (1778), 58 204 INDEX

Diana, Princess of Wales (1993), James IV, King of Scots, 17–19 137, 138 John, King, 4, 28 d’Olbreuse, Eleanore, 98 Mary, Queen of Scots (1566), Dorothea, Sophia, wife of George I, 65, 66 94, 98–103, 163 Mary Tudor (Mary I), 5, 6, 15, 36, Edward VI, 23, 25, 27, 29–31, 42, 62, 65, 68, 87, 88, 91 34–7, 39, 42, 53, 54, 89 Parr, Katherine (1548), 35, 39 Edward VII (1910), 130–1, 145, Princess Alberta, Louise Caroline 155, 159, 167, 170 (1939), 133, 134 Edward VIII (1972), 133–4 Princess Augusta, Grand Duchess of Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia, 6, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, 77, 79, 12, 22n1, 39, 41, 43, 44, 64, 80, 83, 115, 147, 159 67, 92, 153, 156, 173, 177 Princess Margaret (2002), 139, 183 Francis (Frank) of Teck, Prince Queen Charlotte, 69–72, 74, draft copy, 160 76–84, 131, 148, 152 sealed, 1911, 178 Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother will, 1902, 141, 155, 157, 158, (2002), 6, 12, 22n1, 39, 41, 162, 186 43, 44, 64, 67, 92, 153, 156, Frederick, Prince of Wales (political 173, 177 testament, 1748/9), 59n5 Queen Mary, wife of George V George, Wilhelm, Duke of (1953), 133 Brunswick, (1705), 102 Queen Victoria (1897), 109, 130 George I (1716), 50, 52, 53, 55–7 Richard II, 1–3, 8n2, 8n3, 17, 20, George I (1719), 51, 52 26, 28, 31, 35, 38, 47n29, George I (1720), 50, 54, 56 47n33, 89, 116, 119, 125n4, codicil, 5, 50, 54, 56, 102, 108, 171, 174 155, 159 Richard III, 1, 20, 26, 31, 35, 38, comment on, 82, 99, 129 116, 125n4 political testament, 59n5 Rupert of the Rhine, Prince, George II, 4, 26, 49, 54–9, 71, 76, 75, 85n20, 101 103, 114, 120 Vicars, Sir Arthur (1920), 168 George III, 4–6, 8n4, 11, 22n2, 52, Wensleydale, Lord 58, 69, 71, 74, 76–8, 81–3, (Baron Parke), 73 107, 110, 114, 115, 117–20, William I, The Conqueror, 122, 124, 128, 147, 152, 178 1, 28, 30, 88 Henry IV, 2, 16, 30, 31, 38, 62 William IV, 6, 71, 72, 83, 84, 107, Henry V, 2 108, 110, 128, 147, 152, 154 Henry VI, 2–4, 6, 26, 29, 35 Wilmot, Dr. James, 114, 115, Henry VII, 1, 2, 4, 9–22, 31, 162 119–22, 124 Henry VIII, 4–6, 8n5, 9–12, intellectual property, 138, 139 14–18, 21, 22n4, 23, 25, 27, interregnum, 53, 54 29–36, 40, 42–5, 47n24, 54, intestacy, 24 62, 63, 87–9, 91, 116, 117 inventories, of jewels, French INDEX 205

Arcot jewels, 77–84 Jesuits, 95 Hanoverian & English, 50, 71, 74 Jesus College, Oxford, 94 Indian Crown jewels, 68 jewels Scottish, 21, 22, 65, 66 Alam, Shah’s jewels (1765), 77, 83 Ireland the Arcot diamonds, 77–84 Free State, 170 Brazilian diamonds (1723), 83 Government of, 173 Brittany, pearl and diamond Head of State in, 173 pendant of, 62 National Museum of, 173 the Burmese Crown jewels and the President of Council of (McDunphy, ruby bracelet, 134, 136, 137 Michael), 170 the cabochon ruby of Queen Viceroy of, 170, 172 Victoria, 136 (The Jewels of the the Cambridge emeralds, Order of St. Patrick), 83, 167, 147–9, 152, 155, 158–62, 169, 171, 173 167, 172, 178 Grand Master of the Order of St. circular diamond used in the Crown Patrick, 83, 170 of George IV, 83 Irish Republican Army (I.R.A.), 168, the cross of gold set with diamonds 170, 171 and rubies of Mary Queen of Isabella of Castile, Queen, 90 Scots, 66 Ismail, Muley See Morocco, Emperor of Crown jewels, 65–8, 76, 83, 92, Italian states, 57 93, 102, 134, 136, 158, 169, Italy, 62, 96, 105 171, 173 Ivan V, Tsar of Russia, 11 the Crown of India, 161 the Crown of King Thibaw, 137 the Crown of Queen Adelaide, J 83, 149, 152 Jacobite Rebellion (1715), 50 the Cumberland and jewels of the Jacobites, 53 , James I, King of Scots, 20, 44–6 58, 76, 119 James II, King of England (VII of the diamond of Tudor, Mary, Scots), 20, 26, 54, 70, 96, 97 62, 63, 66, 88 James IV, King of Scots, 17–19 the diamonds of Queen Caroline of James V, King of Scots, 18, 32, 33 Brunswick, 106 James VI of Scots (I of England), 20, the emerald sent by Tudor, Mary to 44–6, 65, 68, 75 Charles V, 91 Decree of (1605), 68, 69 the George, 81 James the Old Pretender (Stuart, the Grand Seigneur, 81 James Francis Edward), 96 the Great cat jewels, 132 Jane, Grey, Lady See Grey the Great Harry, 65, 67 Jena, Battle of See battle of the great pearl necklace, belonging Jenkins, Elizabeth (writer), 40, 47n32 to Prince Rupert, 75 Jenkin, Sir Leoline, 94, 98 the Hanoverian pearls, 75, 78 206 INDEX jewels (cont.) the Maclean diamond, 132 the Hastings diamond, 81, 82 the Mahoney family diamonds, her coronation ring, 97 169, 170 Indian jewels given to the Crown by the Mirror of Naples (di Napoli, Queen Mary, 68, 160 Stella), 62–4 the inventory of the jewels of Maria, the Mirror of Portugal, 68 Henrietta, 64, 68, 94 the Naples egg (ruby), 66 Irish Crown jewels, the Nassack diamond, 82 83, 169–71, 173 the nuptial crown of Hanover, 70 the Irish Crown jewels (1783) or the Padamya Ngamauk, 134 the Jewels of St. Patrick (1830), of Parr, Katherine, 35, 39 83, 167, 169–71, 173 the pearl necklace the jewel given to Prince Frank by of Queen Anne, 75 Emperor Joseph, Franz, pearl necklace of Queen Caroline of 149, 159, 164 Ansbach, 78 jewellery sent to by the pearl necklace of Sophia, Queen Mary, 91 Electress of Hanover, 74 jewels left to the Crown by Queen of Queen Charlotte, 70–2, 74, Victoria, 70, 72, 136 76–8, 82, 83 the jewels of Anne of Denmark, Queen Charlotte’s and Queen 6, 75 Alexandra’s emeralds, the jewels of Catherine of Aragon, 70, 77, 78, 83, 132 11, 186 Queen Charlotte’s garnets, the jewels of Princess Adelaide, 70, 78, 148 Mary, Duchess of Teck, the Ropes of Catherine, 78 142, 144–50, 152 the ropes of Orient pearls (gift of the jewels of Queen Beatrice, Mary the to Princess of Modena, 97 Elizabeth, later Queen of the jewels of Queen Caroline of Bohemia), 75 Brunswick, 83, 140 the Sancy Diamond, 68 the jewels of Simpson, Wallis, schedule of Hanoverian, 71, 73–6, Duchess of Windsor, 78, 149, 178 131, 132, 137 the schedule of her jewels, 76–7, 93 the Koh-i-Noor, 134 the schedule of jewels returned to Lady Kilmorey’s jewels, 153, 174 Hanover (1858), 76 La Peregrina (pearl), 92 second Rhedey jewel 43 large pearls belonging to the (earrings), 153 Duchess of Cambridge, 152 of Seymour, Jane, 42, 88, 89 the large square of emeralds etc. the small crown of Queen (Indian gifts to Queen Mary as Alexandra, 132, 159 Empress of India), 160 the , 83 the Luck of the Rhedeys, the theft of the Windsor jewels, 173 153, 175n14 the Three Brethren, 68 INDEX 207

of Tudor, Mary, Queen, 62, 65, 66, “kleinod” (objets de vertu and 68, 87, 88, 91 jewellery), 64 the turquoise and amethyst necklace Knatchbull, Hon. Alexandra, 139 of the , 132 Knighton, William, 108 the Westminster tiara, 82, 84 Knight service, 24 “Jewels of the Crown”, 61, 67 Knollys, Sir Francis, 153 Jinquin, Dr., 94 Kydd, Frances Shand, 137 John I, Bastard of Portugal, 28 John, King, will of, 4, 28 John of Gaunt (Ghent) See Lancaster, L Duchy of Lacloche (Paris jeweller), 84 Jordan, Dorothy (Mrs.) actress, 108 Lancaster, Duchy of, 16, 68 Joseph II of Austria, 11 House of, 37 judges, 29, 37, 38, 72–4, 114, 122, John of Gaunt (Ghent) Duke of, 178, 182 31, 41, 45 Jumna, India, 161 Langton, John Junius, letters of, 121, 126n11 (Bishop of St. David’s), 3 Lansdowne, 6 Latin, 2, 88 K Laura, Duchess of Marlborough, Kempthorne, Mr. (Master at 140n9 Wellington College), 143 Law, Byzantine , 134, 150 ancient (of Edward III), 41 Kent, Sheriff of canon, 2, 9, 24, 25, 38 Edward, Duke of, 38 civil, 110, 117 Keppel, Sir George and Lady, 154 common, 24, 25, 31, 68, 163 Kern, Fritz (legal historian), divine, 28, 29 25, 46n8, 46n17 ecclesiastical, 38 Keyes, Thomas (Sergeant Porter), 44 feudal, 33 Kielmansegge, Count (Hanoverian of France, 94, 103 ambassador), 76 Germanic, 27, 28 Countess, 77 natural, 29 Kilkeel, 157 private, 28 Kilmorey, Ellen, Countess of, public, 27 149, 150, 153, 156, 158, 160, reports, 38 174, 178 Salic, 69 Needham, Francis, Earl of, 154 sumptuary laws, 11, 61, 66 king’s attorney, 29 Lawson, Domenica, 139 King’s College, Cambridge, 2 “left-handed ”, 98, 99, 149 Kingship, Germanic, 25 legal status (of sovereign), 68 kin-right, 27, 28 Declaration Act, 114 Kitchener, Lord, 174 legitimism, hereditary, 29 208 INDEX

Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, 99 Madden, Sir Frederick (Ass. Keeper of letters patent, 3, 13, 31, 32, 37, the mss, British Museum), 5, 8n6 60n8, 61, 68, 74, 99, 167 Mahomet (Turkish servant Lincoln, Bishop of, 88 of George I), 103 Lionel, Lord of Welles, 4 Mahomet (valet de chamber), 103 Lionel of Antwerp Mahoney, Pierce, 169, 170 (son of Edward III), 41 Maitland, Frederick William (legal Lisbon, 95 historian), 23, 24 lithograph, 83 “majorat”, 26, 35 Littleton, Thomas, 29, 46n14 majority, age of, 34 Loades, David (historian), 6, 8n7 Major, Sir John, PM, 138, 179 Lochleven, 67 Malet, Sir Alexander, Bart, 6 London, Bishop of, 3, 93 Malta, 95, 116 London Gazette, 103 Manfred, King of Naples & Sicily, 28 London, Tower of Margaret, Princess (sister of Queen Beauchamp Tower, 43 Elizabeth II), 22n1, 177, Museum of, 70, 84 180, 181, 183 Lord Mayor (of London), 38, 116 Margrethe I, Queen Lord President of the Council, 166 of Denmark, 11 of the Realm Marjoribanks See also Tweedmouth, (Richard III), 31 Lord (Marjoribanks, Edward) Seymour, 34 Edward, 145, 166 Lords, House of, 71, 73, 113, 166 George, 142, 145 Lorne, Sir James Stuart, Marlborough, Duke of, 123, 164 the Knight of, 20 , 148 Lorraine, Cardinal of, 66 among equals, 27 Louise, Marie, Empress, 146 Marshall, William (Regent & Louise, Marie, Princess, 162, 163 Protector), 34 Louise, Princess, 97, 133, 134, 136, Martel, Charles, 28 137, 162, 163, 169, 176n40, Mary II, Queen, 96 187n4 Marylebone, 167 Louis Pasteur Institute, 133 Mary, Princess, daughter Louis-Philippe, King of the French, of George II, 58 84, 146 Mary, Queen of Scots, 33, 41, 44, Louis V of France, The Sluggard, 27 45, 65, 92 Louis XII, 19, 62, 63 Mary, Queen, wife of George V, Louis XIV, 1, 94, 97–9 68, 77, 78, 173 Lyndhurst, Lord, 72, 74, 85n18 Masham, Lady, 96 masses to be said, 15 Matilda, Caroline, Queen of Denmark, M 56–9, 70, 72, 74, 78, 83, 103, Macauley, Lord (historian), 37 107, 110 Macclesfield, Lord (Parker, Thomas), 53 maxims, legal, 299 committee, 54 Mayfair, 155 INDEX 209

Mecklenburg-Strelitz (Princess Augusta Neapolitan Prince (Salerno), 146 of Cambridge) Grand Duchess, of Needham, Lady Eleanor Noreen Augusta of Hesse-Cassel, 147 Richard, 174 George, Grand Duke of, 77, 115 Netherlands, 64, 68, 98, 170 Grand Duchy of, 80 Governor of, 44 Grand Duke Frederick, 148 Newcastle, Lord, PM, 56 Mellon, Harriet See St. Albans, , 30 Duchess of, Harriet Mellon New York, 82, 84, 140 Melusine, daughter of George I, 57, 58 Nicholl, Sir John (Judge of Prerogative Melusine, Duchess of Kendal, 58 Court of Canterbury), 4, 5, 110, Melville-Brown, Amber (solicitor), 180 117, 119, 186 mésalliance, 27, 39, 41, 43, 98, 120 Nichols, John (county historian), Middle ages, The, 25–8 1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 14 hospital, 158 Nicols, Beverley, 150 Middlesex, Sheriff of, 38 Nield, John Camden, 129 , Sarah (actress), 175n25 Noel, Sir Gerard, 118 military and political leadership, 28 Non-Contentious Probate Rules Millman, Sir Francis, 79 (1987), 180 minors, succession of, 27, 28 Normandy, Duchy of, 30 Mogul Emperor (Alam, Shah), 77, 83 Norroy & Ulster , 173 monarchy, constitutional, 25 , 137 monasteries, 16, 95 Northumberland, Henry, Earl of Monckton, Rosa, 139 Duke of, Dudley, John, 35 Monmouth, Duke of, James, 116 Lady Northumberland, 70 Montagu, E., 38 Norwich, 3 Montague, Edward (Chief Justice) Norwich, Bishop of, 3 Abbe, 94 Lord, 42 Mordaunt (divorce case), 145 O Morocco, Emperor of (Ismail, Muley), 95 oaths, sanctity of, 28 Mountbatten, Countess, of Burma, 139 of allegiance, 29 Lord, 136 O’Grady, Guillamaore, Captain, 172 Mourne Park, Northern Ireland, 154, 157 Ohadu, Muhammed, 95 Murray, Regent of Scotland, 67 “Old Pretender, The”, 96 Mylius, 116 Order of St. Caroline of Jerusalem of St. Patrick, 170 of St. Patrick (Investiture of), 173 N orders of the Garter, 161 Nantes, Edict of, Revocation of, 98 Ordinary of the Realm, 2, 10, 12 Naples, King of, 28, 57 Osnabruck, 56, 99 Napoleon, 146 Bishop of (August, Ernst), 100 Navy, British, 165 Oxford, MP, 94, 114, 120, 121, 123 210 INDEX

P Perreal, Jean (painter), 62 Paget, Dorothy Mary, (Mrs Gladstone, personal property, 24, 64, 65, 72, 78, Herbert), 145 79, 89, 92–4, 147 Palace Order, 186 personal union: with Scotland, 54 Palmer, Sir Roundell (Attorney- with Hanover, 49, 51, 59n3, 69 General), 118, 122 Perth, 19 Palmerston, Lord, 73 Peterborough, cathedral, 88, 90 Paris, 63, 84, 98, 132, 133, 137 Peterborough, Lord, 96 Parke, Baron (Lord Wensleydale), Peter I of Russia (Peter the Great), 11 73, 74 Petition to House of Commons, 117 parliament Philip II, King of Spain, 42, 45, 90 Act of (1601), 44 Philippos, Prince, 139 English, 18, 19, 33, 59, 104 Physicians, Royal College of, 186 High Court of, 32 Picardy, knight of, 31 Scottish, 18, 19, 31, 65, 66 Pierrot (French attendant), 93 parliamentary assent, 31 Pirrie, Lord, 171 Parma, Duke of, 45 Plantagenets, 4, 14, 28, 41–3, 94 Parr, Katherine, 35, 39 Poitou, 98, 99, 101, 102 Parr, Katherine, Queen, 35, 39, 89, 91 Poland, 1, 26, 114, 118, Pasqualigo, Lorenzo, 62 119, 121, 123 patent, letters See letters Poland, King of, 1, 114, 119, Patiala, Maharani of, 160 121, 123 patrimonial duchy, 30 Pole, Reginald, Cardinal pawnbroker, Dutch, 171 Arthur, 43 Payne, Captain Catherine, 42 Mrs., 121 Polish dynasty, 51 , Edmond, 6, 89 Pollock, Baron, Peculiars, 25 Lord Chief Justice, 114 Pedro, Dom, 95 Poniatowski, Prince Peel, Sir Laurence, 73, 74 Count, 120, 123 Peel, Sir Robert, PM, 74, 118 Princess, 121, 123 peerages: life, 53, 74 Ponsonby, Sir Henry (Queen hereditary, 73 Victoria’s secretary), 127–9 Life Peerages Act (1958), 73 : Papacy Pemberton, Leigh (solicitor), 71, 72 Boniface IX, 31 Pembroke, 13 Leo X, 19 Pembroke, Earl of, 172 porphyrogenitus Court of, 12 (born in the purple), 26 Pepys, Earl of Cottenham See Portugal, 28, 95, 96, 123 Cottenham, Lord Portugal, King of See Pedro, Dom Pergami (companion of Queen Potter, Sir Mark, 22n1, 182, 184 Caroline), 106 practice direction, special, 180 INDEX 211

Pragmatic Sanction, 52, 56 R Prendergast, General, 135 Rafe, Lord of Sudeley, 3 Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Rajah of Sarawak See Brooke, Sir James 4, 94, 108, 110 Ramsay, Allan (painter), 70 of York, 25, 117 Ranee of Sarawak, designate See prerogative, The, 16, 31, 73 Burdett-Coutts, Angela, Baroness royal, 18, 24, 29, 129, 162, Rangoon, 135 179, 186 Ransdon Hall, Dorset, 125 President of the Family Division of the Ratnagiri (India), 134 High Court, 22n1, 179, 180, 182 Rawle, Johnstone & Co. (solicitors), Preston, Sir Richard, 89 155 presumptive right, to the throne, 27 , 91 Pretender, Jacobite, 50, 53, 55 Real Property, the Crown devolves as, , 23–2, 45, 52, 55 24, 29 Prince Regent See George IV Reform Act (1832), 108 “Princes in the Tower”, 20 Reformation, the, 5, 10, 15, 24, 91 “Prince,” title of, 28 Reformation Parliament, 9 Privileges, Committee of, 73 regalia, the Irish, 64, 136, 171 Privy Councillors, 56 Reginald, Bishop of St. Asaph, 3 Privy Purse Expenses of the Princess Reid, Sir Edward James, 134 Mary (1536–1544), 8n6 Reimer, Hans (goldsmith), 64 Privy Seal, The, 91 Remnant, Francis (Frank), 175n25 probate, 4–6, 10, 12, 25, 118 Reports, English (Law), 125n9 protestants, 51, 52, 54, 89, 99 Republican Brotherhood, 171 opinions, 35 Revocation of the Edict of Nantes Prussia (1685) See Nantes, Edict of, Prussians, 77, 105 Revocation of Queen of (Sophia), 51, 103 Rhedey family royal family of, 55 Agnes, Countess Hohenstein, 149 Punjab, 146 Claudine, Countess Hohenstein, purple, born in the See 149, 153, 155 porphyrogenitus (born in the Rhenish Palatinate, 69, 75 purple) Richard III, 1, 20, 26, 31, 35, 36, Pyay, King of, 135 116, 125n4 Rich, Richard (), 88 right, hereditary, 26–8, 30 Q Robert, , 30 Queen of Spain, 57 Robertet (treasurer of Louis XII), 63 of France, 57 , King of Scots, 67 Queens regnant, 128 Rolls of Parliament, 2 Quetta (India), 153 Roman Catholics, 21–2 212 INDEX

Rome, 9, 10, 24, 37, 148 St. John, Hospital of, later St. John’s Roscoff (Brittany), 65 College, Cambridge, 12 Roses, War of the, 4, 14 St. Leger (Doncaster), 156 Ross, Alexander, Duke of, 19 St. Raphael, France, 144 Rostrevor, 154 Salerno, Prince of, 146 Rothschild, Lord, 166 Salic law (Lex Salica), 69 Royal Assent, 73 , Bishop of Royal blood Earl of, 3 Royal Archives, 59n5, 186 sanctity of the family, 27 Royal College of Physicians (see Sandhurst, Lord (Governor of Physicians, Royal College of) Bombay), 153 Royal Highness ( and rank), Sandringham, 68, 130 124, 133, 134, 137, 138, 143, Sarawak, Rajah of See also Brooke, Sir 149, 159, 178, 179 James Royal Marriages Act (1772), 114, Sarawak, rajahdom, 7, 8 118, 120 Saxe-Meiningen, Ida, Princess, 109 royal Stock, 27, 30, 49, 69 Saxe-Weimar-Eisenbach, Prince royal surname, 60n8 Bernard of, 109 royal yacht, 105 Saxe-Weimar, Prince Edward of “royal lives” clause, 139 Grand Duke of, 109 Rundell & Bridge (Crown jewellers), schismatics, 37 70, 78, 83, 84 Schleswig-Holstein, John Bridge, 81 Prince Christian of, 162 Ruperta, Howe (illegitimate daughter Schulenburg (mistress of George I), 57, 58 of Prince Rupert), 75 Scotland Rupert, Prince, 75, 101 Mary Queen of (see Mary) Rutter, Owen (writer & editor), 7, 8n8 Scots prisoners, 33 Ryves, Anthony Thomas, 124 Scottish council, 19 Captain Thomas, 125 Scottish pearls, 66 The Sealing up of wills, 187n2 Seal, the Great, 20, 31, 73, 96 S Sebright, Captain Edward, 143 St. Albans, battle of See battle of secretary of state, 94 St. Albans, Duchess of, Harriet Mellon “seniorat”, 26, 35 Duchess of, 142, 145 Serbia, 26 St. Asaph, Bishop of, 3 serjeants-at-law, 29 St. David’s, Bishop of, 3 serjeant-porter, 43 Cathedral of, 13 Serres, Olivia See also Wilmot, Olive Stewart, Sir James, the Knight of Lavinia, Horton Ryves, 110, 113, Lorne, 20 114, 116, 118, 120, 122, 124, St. Germain, church of, 97, 98 125, 125n7 St. James’s Palace Mrs., 119, 120, 123 court of, 149 Serres, J.T., 118, 119 INDEX 213

Settlement, Act of (1701), 50, 113 Nursing Corps, 157 Seymour, Edward, 40 Southern Ireland, High Court of Seymour, Jane Justice, 168 brothers, 34, 35, 90 Spain, 57, 68, 87, 90–2 Edward, 40, 45 speaker of the House of Commons, Lady Jane, 42 31, 145 Mary, 89 , Lady Diana, Princess of Thomas, 35, 89 Wales, 137, 138, 140 William, 44, 45 Stafford, John, Archbishop of Shackleton, Francis, 171 Canterbury, 3 Ernest, 168, 169, 176n53 Stanley, Lady Anne, 46 Shaftesbury, Lord, 173 Statutes Shakespeare, William, 118 in Latin & in English (1544), Shavington, 154 31–3, 45 Sheldon, Captain, 97 Wills, 1552, 38 Shelley (ambassador designate to Stockmar, Baron, 129 Charles V), 39 Stokes, Adrian, 39, 43 Shrewsbury, Earl of, 4, 116 Storey, R. L. (historian), 13, 14, MP for, 154 22n3, 22n5 Silesia, 52 Strangford, Lord, 71 Simpson, Wallis, Duchess of Windsor, Strickland, Agnes (biographer), 21, 130–2, 137 22n6, 47n27, 97, 110n1, 111n7, Singh, Duleep, Maharajah, 146 111n9, 111n11, 111n14, 125n4 Sladen, Colonel, 135, 136 Stuart, Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia, Smith, W., 115 75, 99 Sobieski, John, King of Poland, 1 Stuart, John, , 19 socage tenure, 24 Arbella, Lady, 44, 46 socialists, 157 Charles, Earl of Lennox, 44 solicitors, royal (Farrers), 128, 179, 180, 183 exiled, 14, 22n4, 39, 51 Solway Moss, battle of See battle of Stuart line, 33, 41, 44 , 93, 128 Stuart, Louisa, Princess, 96 Somerset, protector See Seymour, Sturt, Feo, 155 Edward succession, rules of Sophia (Princess of the Rhenish Act of (2013), 60n8 Palatinate & Electress of law of, 28, 59, 104 Hanover), 75 methods of, 23 Sophia, Regent of Russia, 11 separate succession Sotheby’s (auctioneers), 82, 84, 132, 133 (secundogeniture), South Africa, Governor-General of, 145 50, 57, 59 South Down Women’s Unionist statute of (1544), 32, 33 Association Sudan, 150, 151, 153, 155 214 INDEX

Suffolk, Duchess of (Brandon, Prince Francis the elder, Duke of Frances) Teck, 146, 149, 152 Brandon, Charles, Duke of, 41, 63 Princess, Adelaide, Mary, Duchess Duke of (Grey, Henry), 39, 41 of, 142, 144, 145, line, 39, 44 147–50, 152 Sultanas (of Morocco), 95 Princess May of (see Mary, Queen) Sultan of Turkey, 81, 83 Teck family, 146, 150, 153, 158 sumptuary laws, 11, 61, 66 Tennant, Mrs. H. J., 145 Sunningdale, 132 tenures, Littleton on, 29 Supreme Court Act (1925), 168 testamentary schedule, 5, 118 Supreme Court Act (1981), 180, 184 Theodoric the Great, 28 Supreme Head, Church Theresa, Maria, Empress, 56 of England, 10 Thibaw, King of Burma, 134–7 surname, royal, 60n8 Thomas, 3, 4, 6, 7, 22n4, 29, 35, 37, , Sheriff of, 38 43, 46n14, 53, 89, 106, 119, Sussex, Duke of, 152 123, 125, 141, 142, 186 swans, 11, 12 Thomas, Lord Clifford, 4 Swift, Jonathan, Mr., 183 Thomow, Dionysisus (Thomas, Swiss reformer, 43 Tomeo) (priest), 89 Swynford, Katherine (third wife of Thorpe, Lord Justice, 177 John of Gaunt), 31 Throne Room, 172 Swynford, Katherine, Duchess of “throne-worthiness”, 25, 27, 45 Lancaster, 31 Tindal, Chief Justice, 72, 73 Torrigiano (Italian sculptor), 13 Torrington, Lord, 97 T Toussaint, Jeanne (of Cartiers), Talagi, Tsumeo (Japanese dealer), 132 131, 132 Tangier, 96 , 39 twelve Governors of, 95 Townton, battle of See battle of tanistry or seniorat, 26, 35 Transylvania, 155 Tasmania, Governor of, 127 , 37, 44, 67 taxes, 179 treasure trove, 67 Taylor, Elizabeth (film actress), 132 Treaty of Greenwich (1544), 33 Taylor, General, 79, 80 Trevelyan, George Otto, MP, 129 Teck, Margaret Treves, Sir Frederick (physician), 186 George, Alexander, brother of trial by battle, 72 Frank, 152, 159, 161 Tring, 166 George, nephew of Frank, 174 Trinity College, Cambridge, 120 Margaret (nee Grosvenor) Duchess Tsarevitch, 159 of Teck, 151, 158 Tudor, Edmund, Earl Prince Adolphus, elder brother of of Pembroke, 13 Frank, Duke of Teck, 143 Tudor family & dynasty, 36, 45 INDEX 215

Tudor, Margaret, Queen of Scots, Vienna 14, 17, 19, 21, 22 Treaty of, 56 “testamentary tutrix”, 18, 20 Villa Magali, 144 Tudor, Mary (the younger) Princess & Villa Vicosa, 95 Queen, 14, 15, 39, 89, 90 Vladimir, Grand Duchess, 161 Tudor, Mary (the elder) Queen of von Angel, Heinrich (painter), 148 France & Duchess of Suffolk, von Kielmansegge, Baroness (mistress 5, 36, 40, 41, 62–8, 88, 92 of George I), 58 Tunstall, Bishop, 5, 35 von Konigsmarck, Philip, 101 Turkey, Sultan of See Sultan of Turkey von Walmoden See Yarmouth, Lady Tuscany, Grand Duke of, 57 (Amelia) Tweedmouth, Lord (Marjoribanks, Edward), 164–7, 170 W Wainfleet, William, Bishop of U Winchester, 3 Ulster Archives Wake, William See Canterbury, herald, 168, 172 Archbishop of (Wake, William) King of Arms, 173 Wales, Prince of (title), 54, 55, 59, Movement, 157 59n5, 68, 93, 103, 116, 120, Museum, 173 130, 131, 137, 145, 154, 155, ultimogeniture, 23 163 unsealing of wills, 180, 181 Walpole, Robert, PM, 57, 60n9, 104 Urbino, 97 Walsingham usurpation, 26 Sir Francis, 79, 141, 153 William, 44 Walters, Lucy, 116 V War Office, 153, 165 Vandal kingdom, 26 Reconstruction Committee, 165 Van der Weyer, Sylvain, 7 “”, 14 Vasali, Count, 107 , 5, 118, 119 Vicars, Sir Arthur, 168–73, 185 Lord, 114, 115, 122 Viceroy of Hanover, 77, 147 Welbeck Street (Marylebone), 167 Victoria & Albert Museum Welles, Lionel, Lord, 4 (V & A), 84 Wellington, Duke of (1998) Victoria, Empress of Germany Duke and Duchess of (1998), 119, (“Vicky”), 76 139, 143 Victoria, Queen and empress, 2, 7, First Duke, 144 46n10, 51, 70, 72, 73, 76, 81, Wendye, Thomas, 6 85n17, 91, 106, 109, 127–30, Wensleydale, Lord (Vice-Chancellor), 134, 136, 142, 143, 147, 149, 73 152, 154, 159, 162–4, 169, 178 West (envoy of Henry VIII), 63 Victorine (daughter of Pergami), 106 Westbury (Judge), 73 216 INDEX

West & Co. of Dublin, 173 Willis, John, 6 , 11, 13, 89–91, Willis’s Rooms (Auctioneers), 81 104, 105, 107 Wills See Individual wills Parliament at, 104 Wills Act (1837), 73 Westminster, 2nd Duke of Wills, closed Anne, Duchess of (4th wife of satute of, 38 second Duke), 62 sealed, 8, 131, 137, 178, Marquess of, 84, 152 180, 181 Wexford, County, 157 Wilmot, Olive Weymouth, Dorset, 6, 124 Maria, Anna, 119 Whig Law Officers of the Crown, 71 Reverend James, 114, 115, Whitby jet, 9, 80 120, 122 council of (Synod), 9 Robert, 115, 119, 122, 124 White, Harvey, 172 Wilson, Lady Sarah, 155 White Lodge, Richmond, Wiltshire, 101 150, 175n25 Wimborne, 12 Whitley, Lady Mary, 153 Winchester, Lord, 3, 38 Wienhausen, estate of, 102 Windsor Wilde, Mr. (executor), 107 Duke and Duchess of (see Edward Wilde, Sir James VIII, (Duke of Windsor); (Judge Ordinary), 114 Simpson, Wallis, Duchess of Wilhelm, George, Prince of Hanover, Windsor) Duke of Brunswick, 56, 99, 100, military knights of, 91 105, 107 poor knights of, 91 Wilhelm II, Kaiser, 165 Royal archives, of, 59n5, 186 Wilhelm II of Germany See Wilhelm St. George’s Chapel, 109 II, Kaiser Winston, Harry (jeweller), 82, 84 Wilhelmsburg, Countess See also d’ Wittelbach, 64 Olbreuse, Eleonore Wolfenbuttel, 50–2, 100 Counts & Countesses of, 100 Anthony Ulrich, Duke of, 100 Wilkinson, Captain, Nevile, 172 Wolseley, Lord and Lady, 142, 144 William Augustus, Prince, 51, 55, 56, Frances, 144 58, 59 Wolsey, 63 William, , 114 Women, succession of, 27 William, , 3 Wood, Alderman, 105 William I, The Conqueror & The Wood, Page, Vice-Chancellor, 73 Bastard, 1, 28, 30 Woodville, Elizabeth, Queen, 116 William II, Rufus, 30 Worcester, Bishops of, 3, 4 William III, 26, 97 Cathedral, 4 William IV, 6, 71, 72, 83, 84, 107, World War I, 109, 157, 164 108, 110, 128, 147, 152, 154 Worthing, 105 William, Prince, 138 Wriothesley (lawyer), 32 INDEX 217

Wurttemberg, Alexander, Duke of, 149, 155 Duke of (uncle of George III), Wykeham, William of, 91 22n4, 83, 117 Duke of Buckingham, 42 of (Henry Stuart, Cardinal), X 97 Xavier, St. Francis, 95 James, Duke of (James II & VII), 96, 97 Province of, 25 Y Yarmouth, Lady (Amelia), 58 Year Books, 38 Z York, Archbishops of () Zell (Celle), 98 (John Kempe, Cardinal) Zelland, 78 Duke of (1460), 37 Zita, Empress of Austria, 102