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| adam_text | Contents
Illustrations
ix
Acknowledgements
xi
Note
on Dates and Spellings
xiii
Family Tree
xiv
Introduction
I
r. Willys Bad Start
5
2.
Georgie,
the Second Son
23
3.
Nicky, the Third Cousin
41
4.
The Education of Three Royal Cousins
59
5.
Family Dramas
77
6.
Family Strife
94
7.
I Bide My Time
109
8.
Willy, the Kaiser
128
9.
A Wedding and a Betrothal
148
10.
Nicky and Willy
167
11.
Turn of the Century
185
12.
Uncle Bertie and his Two Nephews
205
13.
Willy and Nicky in Trouble
225
14.
Dangerous Disagreements
244
15.
Scandals and Rivalries
263
16.
George Inherits the Throne at Last
283
17.
Three Cousins Go to War
ЗОЗ
18.
The End
324
Epilogue
352
Notes
Збі
Bibliography
388
Index
395
VII
Index
note: In the index sub-headings, Alicky
=
Alexandra Feodorovna, Tsarina;
Alix
=
Alexandra, Queen of Edward
VII
Abdul
Hamid
II, Ottoman Sultan,
189
Achmet, Ali, 36
Adalbert, Prince of Germany,
113
Agadir
crisis
(1911), 288
Alapaevsk, Russia,
354—5
Albania: as potential German ally,
298
Albert, King of the Belgians,
284, 314
Albert, Prince Consort,
6-8, 11, 13,
24-5, 30, 135
Albert Victor, Prince ( Eddy ): birth,
23,
28;
name,
29, 165;
visits Queen
Victoria with mother,
31;
visits
Denmark,
35, 95;
tutored by
Dalton,
38-9, 65-6, 70;
backwardness,
70-3,
76, 92;
qualities and character,
70;
naval training with George,
71-2;
close relations with George,
73;
round-world cruise on
HMS
Bacchante,
74, 91—2;
in Lausanne,
92—3;
at Cambridge University,
93;
as
personal ADC for Queen Victoria at
Golden Jubilee,
107;
in Berlin for
Fritz s funeral,
124;
meets Willy at
Spithead,
133;
in Athens,
134;
commissioned into army,
136;
marriage prospects,
140, 148, 160;
engagement to May of
Teck,
148-9;
death,
149
Alekseev, Admiral E.L.,
231
Alekseev, General Mikhail Vasilievich,
322
Alexander II, Tsar of Russia,
44, 47-8,
57, 65;
assassinated,
83-5, 89-90, 159
Alexander III, Tsar of Russia (earlier
Tsarevich; Sasha ): courtship and
marriage to
Dagmar,
42—6;
marriage
relations,
47, 54;
qualities and
character,
47, 91;
hostility to Prussia,
49, 100,
Г74,
358;
visits
Alix
and
Edward in England,
54-5;
relations
with children,
67, 95;
accedes on
assassination of father,
84—8;
tears up
fathers reform proposals,
89;
publishes
Manifesto proclaiming absolutism,
90,
155;
appoints
Witte, 91;
coronation,
94;
visits Denmark with
Dagmar,
94-5, 140;
appearance,
95;
Tuzen
paints,
97;
at Nicky s coming-of-age
ceremony,
100;
letters from Willy,
114-15; Willy visits
(1886),
115-16;
negotiates for Franco-Russian alliance,
!38,
175,
23°.
З58;
dislikes Willy,
146,
358;
assassination attempts on,
158;
disapproves of Nicky s courtship of
Alicky,
158;
reactionary views,
158-9;
congratulates Nicky on marriage,
163;
illness and death,
166, 169;
funeral,
167—70;
and revolutionary activity,
173
Alexander of Battenberg, Prince of
Bulgaria
(toer
King),
115;
courts
Princess Victoria,
98-100, 123;
supports Bulgarians against Russia,
98,
100
Alexander Mikhailovitch, Grand Duke
( Sandro ):
marriage to Xenia,
101;
and Nicky s accession on father s
death,
166;
on demands of Nicky s
uncles,
174;
and festivities following
Khodinka meadow tragedy,
186;
and
Russian aims in Far East,
200;
on
assassination of Grand Duke Sergei,
234;
accompanies
Dagmar
to Mogilev,
355;
in Paris,
356
Alexandra Feodorovna, Tsarina
(Nicholas s wife;
Alix ; Alicky ):
influence over Nicky,
3, 215, 220,
330-1;
meets Nicky at Ella s wedding,
юг,
155;
as potential bride for Eddy,
395
KING, KAISER, TSAR
Alexandra Feodorovna, Tsarina
(cont.)
136, 160;
declines invitation to
George-May wedding,
155;
meets
Nicky in St Petersburg,
156—7;
Nicky
courts,
157—8, 160;
betrothal and
marriage,
162-3,
l65.
169-70;
initially
declines marriage to Nicky on
religious grounds,
161;
stays at
Windsor,
163, 165;
learns Russian,
164;
appearance,
167;
Edwards
relations with,
168;
married home,
171-2; marriage relations,
172, 215,
226, 266;
moves to Alexander Palace,
Tsarskoe
Selo,
177-8;
daughters,
178,
ifP1
.
!99. 2ii; immersion in family
life,
178;
coronation,
185—6;
travels
with Nicky,
187-90;
ill-health, 191-2,
225-6, 289, 292, 329;
attends funeral
service for Queen Victoria in St
Petersburg,
211;
under influence of
M. Philippe, 211-12,
215-16;
religious-mystical beliefs,
212, 226;
birth of son Alexei,
220—1;
anxiety
over
Alexeis
haemophilia,
225,
289—91, 329;
Rasputin influences,
263-4, 266, 290, 323, 332;
Edward
and
Alix
meet at
Reval,
269;
and
assassination of Stolypin,
289;
reads
Willy s telegram to Nicky at outbreak
of war,
311-і 2;
wartime letters to
Dagmar, 316;
and conduct of war,
318, 321—2;
authority during Nicky s
absence,
322-3;
resists reforms,
329-31;
wartime activities,
329;
loyalty
questioned in Russia,
332;
and murder
of Rasputin,
332-3;
and Nicky s
abdication,
335;
under house arrest at
Tsarskoe
Selo,
338;
proposed asylum
in Britain,
340;
at Ekaterinburg,
343-4;
Yakovlev on,
343;
shot,
344-5
Alexandra, Queen of Edward
VII
(earlier
Princess of Wales;
Alix ):
marriage,
13-14, 18, 24-7, 42;
hatred of and
boycotting of Prussians,
18-19,
ЗО,
33,
82, 136, 326;
and birth of George,
23;
and Prussian defeat of Denmark,
23;
popularity,
24, 26;
finances,
25;
as
leader of fashion,
27;
and birth of
Albert Victor,
28;
relations with
■
Queen Victoria,
28, 30-1;
visits
Stockholm and Copenhagen,
28-9;
deafness,
32-3;
limp,
32;
rheumatic
fever,
32;
convalesces in Wiesbaden,
33;
devotion to children,
33, 35, 72,
81;
relations with George,
33, 81, 226;
tour of Europe and Near East
(1868),
34—6;
and children s education,
38—9,
89;
dances with King of Sandwich
Islands,
40;
writes with advice to
Dagmar, 41; Dagmar
visits in London,
46;
visits to Denmark,
49, 75, 95-6,
105;
Nicky and
Dagmar
visit in
England,
54—6;
charity and social
work,
56;
attends Willy s
confirmation,
59;
attends Prince
Alfred s wedding,
65;
in Paris with
Edward,
72;
correspondence with
George,
73-5, 93, 140;
and sons
three-year cruise on Bacchante,
74;
attends Alexander Us funeral,
84—6;
and George s supposed nose tattoo,
92;
forbids George s marriage to
Juhe
Stonor,
108;
weekly letters to
Dagmar,
115;
silver wedding celebrations,
121—2;
in Berlin for Fritzs funeral,
124;
and George s typhoid,
141;
and
George s dukedom,
149;
and George s
engagement and marriage to May of
Teck,
151;
beauty,
167;
visits
Dagmar
on death of Alexander III,
167;
attends Alexander Ill s funeral,
168,
171;
attitude to Edward s infidelities,
198, 244;
on Willy s state visit to
England,
198;
accepts Alice
Képpel,
206;
at Vicky s funeral,
209;
builds
Hvidore (villa), Denmark, with sister
Dagmar, 227;
informs Esher of
Nicky-Willy complicity,
233;
and
Russo-Japanese war,
247;
friendship
with Fisher,
254;
accompanies Edward
to Paris,
263 ;
on Mediterranean cruise
with Edward,
264;
meets Nicky and
Alicky at
Reval
with Edward
(1908),
269, 271;
and Edward s illness and
death,
281-2;
at Edwards funeral,
284;
on death of Rasputin,
333;
begs
Dagmar
to escape from Russia,
356
Alexei Alexandrovich, Grand Duke,
47,
176, 190
Alexei Nicolaevich, Tsarevich (Nicky-
Alix s son): birth,
220;
haemophilia,
225, 289-91, 329;
and Rasputin,
290;
and fathers abdication,
334;
under
house arrest at Tsarskoe
Selo,
338;
at
Ekaterinburg,
344;
shot,
344
Alfonso
XIII,
King of Spain,
255, 264
Alfred, Prince, Duke of Edinburgh, then
Duke of Coburg ( Affie ): upbringing,
З96
INDEX
7;
on date of George s birth,
23;
visits
sick Edward,
37;
marriage,
65;
at
George-May wedding,
153;
inherits
Coburg dukedom,
165;
stamp
collecting,
165;
death,
202, 216
Algeciras Conference
(1906), 257-8, 261,
316
Alice, Princess of Battenberg,
98
Alice, Princess, Grand Duchess of Hesse-
Darmstadt: Bertie s childhood
relations with,
7, 20;
and reduction of
Hesse by Prussians
(1866), 19-20;
marriage,
21;
visits sick Edward,
37;
death,
79;
religious piety,
161
Alsace-Lorraine: France loses to
Germany,
22, 336;
restitution in
Wilson s Fourteen Points,
346
Amama see Louise, Queen of Christian
IX
Amerongen, Holland,
352-3
Amphitrite (Royal Yacht),
134
Anastasia,
Grand Duchess of Russia
(Nicky-
Alix s
daughter): birth,
211;
at
Ekaterinburg,
343;
shot,
344
Antrim, Jane Emma, Countess of,
54
Apapa see Christian IX, ICing of Denmark
Archer, Miss (Willys tutor),
15
Armistice (1918),
352
Arthur, Prince, Duke of Connaught: and
Willys visits to England,
53, 197;
marriage,
78;
attends Nicky s
coronation,
185;
welcomes Nicky s
family to England,
280;
visits George
in war,
334
Asquith, Herbert Henry (later
ist
Earl): in
Campbell-Bannerman s government,
246;
George on,
255-6;
appoints
Lloyd George Chancellor of
Exchequer,
269;
and Edward s
appointing Nicky Admiral of the
Fleet,
271;
and Nicky s
1909
visit to
England,
280;
and Lords in
constitutional crisis,
285;
attends
unveiling of Victoria memorial,
287;
and Irish Home Rule,
295, 305;
attends Haldane s defence meeting,
296;
and outbreak of war,
309;
wavers
over war with Germany,
313
Asquith, Raymond,
327
Asquith, (Lady) Violet (later Bonham
Carter),
305
August
Wilhelm,
Prince of Germany:
birth,
113;
divorce,
353
Augusta of
Saxe-
Weimar, Empress of
Germany (earlier Queen of Prussia;
Willy s grandmother),
33
Augusta Victoria of
Schleswig-Holstein,
Empress of Germany (Willy s first
wife; Dona ): courtship and marriage,
81-2, 98,
111-12; children,
83, 113;
at
Queen Victoria s Jubilee,
107;
marriage relations,
113-14;
arrogance,
139;
at opening of Kiel Canal,
176;
accompanies Willy on state visit to
Russia,
191;
on state visits to Britain,
197—8, 267-8;
Anne Topham meets,
213;
in London for unveiling of
Victoria memorial,
287;
reactionary
nature,
299;
comforts Willy in war,
320;
heart attack,
347;
joins Willy in
exile in Holland,
352;
death and
burial,
354
Australia: first Commonwealth
Parliament,
192
Austria: and Prussian war with Denmark,
18, 23;
Prussian Seven Weeks War
with
(1866), 19;
controls Bosnia and
Herzegovina,
68;
in Triple Affiance,
146;
annexes Bosnia-Herzegovina,
279;
confronts Russia (1912),
296;
role
in impending war,
298;
and
assassination of Franz Ferdinand,
304-5;
ultimatum to Serbia,
305;
declares war on and attacks Serbia,
306-7, 312;
Russia mobilises against,
307, 309;
declares war on Russia,
315;
war casualties,
318;
signs armistice
(1918),
348
Aymé, François,
56-7, 62-3, 77, 120;
Kaiser
Wilhelm
Π
and his Education,
62
Bacchante,
HMS,
74, 92, 134, 281
Bagehot,
Walter: The English Constitution,
150
Baghdad Railway,
286
Balfour, Arthur James: relations with
Edward,
205;
on Edward s unifying
power in Empire,
210;
resigns,
246;
and Edward s meeting Nicky at
Reval,
270;
and Nicky s proposed asylum in
Britain,
339-41
Balkan Wars (1912-13),
300
Balkans: unrest in,
279, 296
Ballin, Albert,
275, 296
Balmoral: Willy visits,
78
Bariatinsky, Princess Maria V,
202
Bariatinsky, Prince N.D. ( Kotia ),
159
Bark, Peter,
306, 330
397
KING, KAISER, TSAR
Beatrice, Princess ( Baby ),
53, 98
Belgium: German ultimatum to (1914),
314;
Germans in,
315—16
Benckendorff, Count Alexander
von,
219. 259, 303, 305, 317.
З19,
ЗЗ8
Benckendorff, Count Paul
von, 32,
219-20, 323, 332
Benckendorff, Countess
von, 191
Bentinck
von
Altenburg,
Count
Godard,
352
Berchtold, Count Leopold
von, 305—6
Beresford, Admiral Lord Charles,
140,
256-7
Berlin: Congress (and Treaty) of
(1878),
68, 75, 279;
population increase,
125
Bernsdorff, Count
Johann Heinrich, 30,
50
Bertie see Edward
VII,
King of Great
Britain
Bethmann-HoËweg,
Theobald
von:
as
German Chancellor,
287—8;
Haldane
meets,
297;
and German war
preparations,
299, 310;
and Austrian
ultimatum to Serbia,
306;
opposes
unrestricted U-boat warfare,
336-7;
and Willy s reaction to Russian
revolution,
336;
loses office,
345
Bigge, John (Stamfordham s son),
327
Birilev, Admiral
A.A., 251
Bismarck, Count Herbert
von:
and
Biilow,
80;
Willys relations with,
100,
105, 114;
on Willy s visit to Russia,
109—10;
on Willy s
bisexuality,
112,
117;
on Willy s coldness,
113;
on
Willy s anti-British views,
115;
friendship with
Eulenburg, 117—19;
on official training for Willy,
120;
Edward raises question of Denmark
with,
125;
anti-British stance,
131;
on
Willy s attachment to
Eulenburg, 131;
Victoria dislikes,
133;
on Willy s
conversion to Anglophilia,
134;
resigns
as Secretary of State,
141
Bismarck, Prince
Otto von:
relations with
Vicky,
9, 12;
promotes Prussian
interests,
12;
Hinzpeter admires,
17;
as
Willy s hero,
17;
aggression,
18—19,
21, 41—2, 49;
aims for united
Germany,
18—20, 49;
antipathy to
Fritz,
19;
and Willy s militarism,
21;
anti-liberal influence on Willy,
51—2,
69, 109;
and Vicky s relief works in
Franco-Prussian war,
51 ;
forms
Dreikaiserbund
(Three Emperors
League),
56-7;
Anti-Socialist Laws,
57, 138;
military agreement with
Russia,
57;
and Three Emperors
Conference
(1874), 65;
iron and
blood policy,
79;
spies in
Neues
Palais,
79;
Edward meets,
83;
on Willy s
liking for long-limbed young men,
112;
and Fritz s death,
124—5;
draws
up German constitution,
125, 130;
and Willy s autocracy,
130-1;
Willy
dismisses,
137—9;
and Harden s
Apostata
articles,
239;
questions
Willy s mental state,
240—1;
effect on
events,
357
co,
251-2, 265
Black Sea: Russian navy denied access
through Dardanelles,
279
Blackburn, Mrs (royal nurse),
33
Boers: unrest,
178—80;
Willy supports,
178-9;
war with Britain (1899-1902),
194-7, 201-2, 204, 210
Bolsheviks: split from Mensheviks,
218;
revolution (1917),
341—2
Bonn: Willy attends university,
77—8, 112
Bosnia-Herzegovina: Austria controls,
68;
Austria annexes
(1908), 279
Botkin,
Dr
Yevgeny,
343-4
Brand, Adolf,
273
Brest-Litovsk, Treaty of (1918),
342
Brett, Maurice,
247, 293
Britain (England): German naval rivalry
with,
53, 133, 180, 192, 194, 248, 257,
269, 276-7, 288, 297;
Willys hostility
to,
115, 121,
131-2,
147;
and Boer
War,
194-6, 201-2, 204, 210;
Entente
Cordiale
with France,
228-30, 232,
244;
and Russo-Japanese war,
232—3;
army reforms,
256, 262;
secret pact
with France against Germany,
258;
Convention with Russia
(1907),
266-7;
alliance with Russia reaffirmed
(1914),
303;
popular support for war,
313-14;
declares war on Germany,
314-15;
war casualties,
318, 327-8,
347;
wartime anti-German feelings,
326;
anti-monarchist sentiments in,
340;
German surnames changed,
346
Britannia (training ship),
71-2, 75
Bronsart
von Schellendorf,
General
Walter,
181-2
Brooke, Lady see Warwick, Frances,
Countess of
Brown, John,
78
Buchanan, Sir Andrew,
45
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INDEX
Buchanan, Sir George,
172, 303, 309,
311-13,
320-1,334,339-40
Bucharest, Treaty of
(1913), 300
Bulgaria: as potential German ally,
298;
loses territory under Treaty of
Bucharest,
300;
peace settlement
(1918),
347
Biilow, Captain Adolf
von:
as Willy
s
ADC,
80, 110, 115
Biilow, Alfred
von:
and
Eulenburg,
117-18, 143;
in
Liebenberg
Circle,
237
Biilow,
Bernhard,
Count
von:
accompanies Willy to Russia,
110;
marriage to Countess
von Dönhoff,
112, 182;
appointed Secretary of State,
180, 182, 192; Eulenburg
confides in,
181-3;
as Chancellor,
184, 211, 242;
accompanies Willy on state visit to
Britain,
198;
George meets in Berlin,
210—11;
and Russian war with Japan,
231;
and Russo-Japanese peace
settlement,
235;
and
Liebenberg
Circle,
237;
and Eulenburg s criticism
of Willy,
241-2;
attempts to control
Willy,
243;
and German move to
right,
247—8;
seeks defensive treaty
with Russia,
249-51;
and German
interest in Morocco,
252—3, 257;
and
Algeciras Pact,
257—8;
disenchantment
with Willy,
258; Eulenburg
advises to
resign as Chancellor,
259-60;
attends
Willy s meeting with Nicky at
Swinemiinde,
265;
and Willy s
cancelled state visit to Britain
(1907),
267;
and German threat to Britain,
269;
assured of British desire for
peace,
271;
and Hardens attacks on
Liebenberg
Circle,
272-3, 275-6, 357;
accused of homosexuality,
273;
and
Willy s interview in Daily Telegraph,
277-8;
dismissed,
279;
on Willy s
manner,
306;
writes memoirs,
353,
357
Bunge,
Nicholas,
155, 199
Burnham, Edward
Levy-Lawson, ist
Baron,
276
Buxhoeveden, Baroness S.K.
( Isa ),
178
Callwell, General Sir Charles Edward,
324
Cambridge, Prince George William
Frederick Charles, Duke of,
136
Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry,
246
Canada, HMS,
93
Caprivi, General
Leo von:
succeeds
Bismarck as Chancellor,
139, 141, 145;
resigns,
180-1; Witte
on,
242
Carlos, King of Portugal,
265
Carrington, Charles Robert Carington,
3rd
Baron (later Earl),
169-71, 246
Cassei:
Willy s schooling in,
60-1, 63, 68
Cassei,
Sir Ernest,
60, 206-7, 244, 282,
296
Charles XV, King of Sweden,
29
Charlotte, Princess (Willys sister),
11, 20
Chemodurvo, Terenty Ivanovich,
343
Chérissey,
Count,
253
China: Russian desire for ports in,
200
Christian IX, King of Demnark
( Apapa ): and Prussian annexation of
Schleswig-Holstein, 18;
pays
reparations to Prussia,
23;
and Alix s
wedding settlement,
25;
describes
daughters,
41;
silver wedding,
46;
visits Russia
(1868), 47;
Nicky visits,
50, 165;
Alexander III and
Dagmar
visit,
95;
attends George-May
wedding,
152—3;
at Alexander Ill s
funeral,
168, 170;
birthday
celebrations,
217, 227;
death,
263
Christian, Prince of Schleswig-Holstein-
Sonderburg-
Augustenburg, 30
Christian, Princess of
Schleswig-Holstein
( Lenchen ) see Helena, Princess
Churchill, (Sir) Winston,
255-6, 296, 314
Clarendon, George Villiers, 4th Earl of,
8
Clark, Sir James,
5-6
Clarke, Colonel,
153
Coburg,
30
Congo: France brokers deal with
Germany over,
288
Connaught, Duke of see Arthur, Prince,
Duke of Connaught
Constantine,
King of the Hellenes
( Tino ), 134
Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets,
Russia),
223
Cowes: Willy visits, 144-S,
168-9, 35»
Cust, Lieutenant Charles,
149, 287
Dagmar
(Marie Feodorovna), Empress of
Alexander HI of Russia ( Minny ):
courted by Grand Duke Nicholas,
28,
42;
marriage,
30-1, 42-6;
visits
Alix
in
Wiesbaden,
33;
visits to Denmark,
36,
49-50, 53-4, 75, 95-6.
Ho; cleverness,
41, 47;
and Nicky s birth,
41, 46;
in St
399
KING, KAISER, TSAR
Dagmar
(Marie Feodorovna)
(cont.)
Petersburg,
43-4, 47-8, 66-7;
converts
to Orthodox faith,
44—5;
popularity,
45, 226, 289;
pregnancy,
46;
visits
Alix
in England,
46, 54—6;
and social-
political conditions in Russia,
48-9;
hostility to Prussia and Germany,
49,
100, 227, 318, 326, 358;
and Nicky s
upbringing,
49;
and birth of Xenia,
66;
relations with children,
67—8;
correspondence with Nicky,
73;
and
assassination of Alexander II,
84-6;
life
as Tsarina,
87;
weekly letters to
Alix,
115;
and Georges typhoid,
141;
dislikes Willy,
146;
meets
Alix
in St
Petersburg,
156;
and Nicky s courtship
of Alicky,
158;
congratulates Nicky on
marriage to Alicky,
163;
at husband s
funeral,
169, 171;
at Nicky-Alicky
wedding,
170;
adopts Russian ways,
178;
at Nicky s coronation,
185;
at
Georgei s funeral,
199;
and Alix s
mystical beliefs,
212;
influence on
Nicky,
219;
Nicky s relations with,
226;
builds Hvidore (villa), Denmark,
with sister
Alix,
227;
on impending
war with Japan,
231;
informs
Alix
of
Nicky-Willy complicity,
233;
visits
England,
263;
at
Reval
meeting of
Edward and Nicky,
270-1;
Edward
and
Alix
meet on Mediterranean
cruise,
279;
at Edward s funeral,
284;
dislikes Rasputin,
290;
attends George
V s coronation,
292;
wartime letters
from
Alix,
316;
in England at outbreak
of war,
317;
returns to Russia in war,
317-18;
joins Nicky on abdication,
335;
escapes to England,
355
Daily Telegraph: publishes interview with
Willy,
276-7, 279, 316, 357
Dalton, Revd
John Neale: as tutor to
royal children,
38-9, 66, 70-4, 92-3;
with George and Eddy on Britannia,
70-3;
accompanies George and Eddy
on Bacchante cruise,
74, 76, 91;
accompanies George and May to
Australia and Canada,
210;
George
dines with,
268
Danilovich, General
G.G., 72
Darcourt, Miss
(later Hinzpeter; French
tutor),
15
Dardanelles: powers wish to control,
177,
189;
closed to warships,
279
Darmstadt, no-
11
Delcassé, Théophile,
252—4
Denmark: Prussian war with
(1864),
18—19, 23—4;
Edward and
Alix
visit,
35;
Alix
and
Dagmar
visit,
36, 49—50;
hatred of Prussia,
41—2;
see also
Christian IX, King; Louise, Queen
Derby, Edward George Stanley, 14th Earl
of,
30, 34, 194
Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield:
and Bertie s finances,
30, 32;
and
decline of Turkey,
68;
and Edward s
pro-Russian views,
76;
government
falls
(1880), 81;
death,
91;
Derby on,
194
Dmitri Konstantinovich, Grand Duke,
311
Dogger Bank incident
(1904), 232, 249
Dohna-Schlobitten, Count
Eberhard von,
116-18,
143, 237
Dohna-Schlobitten, Richard
von, 116,
118
Dona see Augusta Victoria of
Schleswig-
Holstein,
Empress of Germany
Dönhoff,
Countess Marie
von
(later
Biilow),
78,
8o,
112, 182
Doom, Holland,
112, 353, 357
Dornberg, Karl
von ( Chacha ),
117—18,
143, 237
Dreadnought,
HMS,
254
Dreikaiserbund
see Three Emperors
League
Drews,
Wilhelm, 349
Ducky see Victoria Melita, Grand
Duchess of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
Dufferin and
Ava,
Frederick
Blackwood,
ist
Marquess of,
90
Durnovo, Peter,
303, 319, 329
Eastern Question ,
177
Eddy see Albert Victor, Prince
Edward
VII,
King of Great Britain
( Bertie ): on Trade Union of Kings ,
4;
character and qualities,
7, 24, 32;
marriage,
13, 18, 24-7;
anti-Prussian
views,
18—19;
and birth of George,
23;
finances and debts,
25, 27, 32, 34,
59-60, 103, 137, 206-7, 244;
with
Alix
in Stockholm and Copenhagen,
28—9;
name,
29;
visits Russia for
Dagmars
wedding,
30—1;
mother s
disapproving attitude to,
31;
marriage
relations,
32;
defends Alix s anti-
Prussian feelings,
34;
in Paris,
34—5,
39, 72, 75;
tour of Europe and Near
400
INDEX
East
(1868), 34-6;
and Mordaunt
divorce case,
36, 49;
popular attitude
to,
36—7, 280, 282;
on upbringing and
education of children,
36, 38-9, 70-1;
appoints Knollys private secretary,
37-8;
typhoid fever,
37;
private travels,
39;
lacks class- and race-consciousness,
40;
official duties,
40;
attends
Dagmar-
Alexander
wedding in St Petersburg,
45-6;
visits to Denmark,
50, 75, 105;
Nicky and
Dagmar
visit,
54;
fondness
for Nicky,
55;
and Shah of Persia,
56;
attends Willy s confirmation,
59;
attends brother Alfred s wedding,
65;
state visit to India
(1875), 66;
romances and infidelities,
72, 75, 198;
at Alexander II s funeral,
84—5, 91;
and
sons language learning,
92;
Bismarck
warns against Battenberg marriage,
99;
continental trips,
103-5;
relations with
sons,
103, 244;
differences with Willy,
104;
encourages George s naval career,
104;
and mother s Golden Jubilee,
106;
attends Nicky s coming-of-age in
St Petersburg, no; silver wedding
anniversary,
121;
in Berlin for Fritz s
funeral,
124;
raises question of
Denmark with Herbert
von
Bismarck,
125;
relations with Willy,
125, 129,
132-3, 261, 265, 358;
state visit to
Berlin
(1890), 136-7;
scandals,
140;
fiftieth birthday celebrations,
141;
grief at death of Eddy,
149;
and
George-May wedding,
153;
visits
Dagmar
on death of husband,
167;
attends Alexander Ill s funeral,
168;
at
Nicky-Alicky wedding,
171;
on
Nicky s weak character,
173;
horse-
racing,
179, 189, 280;
and Willy s
Kruger telegram,
179;
and Nicky s
post-coronation visit to Scotland,
188;
with Nicky in Balmoral,
189;
and
Willy s state visit to Britain,
197;
accession,
203-5;
at Queen Victoria s
death,
203;
reign and power,
205;
advisers and circle,
206—7,
245~6;
routines and activities as King,
207-8;
attends Vicky s funeral,
209;
Willy
warns Nicky against,
217, 228;
forms
Entente
Cordiale
with France,
228-30, 244, 248, 358;
and Dogger
Bank incident in Russo-Japanese war,
232-3;
on unrest in Russia,
235-6;
accepts Liberal government
(1905),
246;
denounces Willy s visit to
Morocco,
253;
improves relations with
Russia,
254;
dress,
261;
in
Marienbad,
261;
on outcome of Algeciras
Conference,
261;
visits Paris with
Alix,
263;
on Mediterranean cruise
with
Alix,
264;
entertains Isvolsky to
lunch,
266;
invites Willy to state visit
(1907), 267;
and Esher s letter to
Fisher on German hostility,
269;
meets
Nicky at
Reval
(1908), 269-71;
visits
Russia
(1908), 269;
on Willy s
newspaper interviews,
277—8;
state
visit to Germany
(1909), 278;
and
Lords constitutional crisis
(1909), 281;
health decline and death,
281-2;
funeral,
283-4
Egypt: Edward and
Alix
visit,
35-6;
Salisbury s policy on,
195
Eitel Friedrich,
Prince of Germany,
113
Ekaterinburg,
343
Elizabeth Feodorovna, Grand Duchess
( Ella ): marriage to Sergei,
101,
no;
Willy s interest in, 110-11; Alicky
stays with in St Petersburg,
156-7;
encourages Nicky s courtship of
Alicky,
157, 161;
Felix Yusupov likes,
174;
stays with Alicky,
216;
husband
assassinated,
233-4;
lunches with
Nicky on outbreak of war,
315;
opposes Rasputin s influence on
Alicky,
332;
takes veil and stays in
Russia,
354-5;
death,
355
Ena,
Queen of Alfonso
XIII
of Spain,
255
England see Britain
Entente
Cordiale
(France-Britain),
229-30, 232, 244, 248, 252, 358
Erichsen,
Dr
John,
129
Ernest, Grand Duke of Hesse ( Ernie ):
and brother Frirtie s death,
111;
accompanies Alicky to St Petersburg,
156;
marriage to Ducky,
161;
fights
for Germans in war,
318
Ernst, Jacob,
275
Esebeck, Walter, Baron
von, 237
Esher, Reginald Baliol Brett,
2nd
Viscount: role and offices,
206-^7, 233;
on German-Russian understanding,
233;
on George s immaturity,
245-6,
255;
concern for defence security,
246-7, 269;
anti-German views,
247;
and army reforms,
256, 262;
praises
George s memo on policing the seas,
401
KING, KAISER, TSAR
Esher, Reginald Baliol Brett
(cont.)
264;
compares Edward to Willy,
268;
on German hostility to Fisher,
268-9;
on Edward s meeting Nicky at
Reval,
270-1;
and constitutional crisis
(1909),
281;
on George s anxieties at
accession,
285;
and unveiling of
Victoria memorial,
287;
on court
under George,
293;
disapproves of
Haldane
s
defence meeting,
296—7;
on
impending war,
313
Eulenburg,
Count August
zu:
appointed
Marshal of Court,
141, 183;
supports
brother Botho,
181 ;
homosexuality,
237;
meets
Witte
at Rominten,
259;
in London for unveiling of Victoria
memorial,
287;
arranges Victoria
Louise s wedding dinner,
302;
urges
Willy not to abdicate,
349;
returns to
Berlin after war,
353
Eulenburg,
Botho
zu, 141, 180
Eulenburg, Friedrich zu, 236, 241
Eulenburg, Philipp zu:
and Willy s love of
military,
80,
1
14;
and Willy s
homosexual leanings,
112;
Willy
meets,
116-20;
life-style and circle,
117-19;
Bismarck bars appointment as
Ambassador to Munich,
131;
Willy s
attachment to,
131, 142-3;
involvement in dismissal of
Bismarck,
!37.
139. 141;
manages changes in
administration,
142, 180-4,
l92> as
Prussian Ambassador to Vienna,
142—3, 145;
and Caprivi s resignation,
145;
influence over Willy,
145—6,
180-1,
207, 215, 240, 241, 259, 274;
proposes pre-emptive war against
Russia,
177;
attacked by press,
180;
complicity with Bernard
von Bülow,
182—3;
accompanies Willy on state
visit to Britain,
198;
on Willy at
Osborne,
204;
and brother
Friedrich
s
divorce proceedings,
236;
homosexuality,
237-8, 275;
in
Liebenberg
Circle,
237;
Harden
attacks,
238-42, 267, 271—2, 274-6,
357;
criticises Willy,
241-2;
resigns,
242;
and German move to right,
247-8;
returns to favour and office,
258-60; Holstein
rebukes on
resignation,
260;
and Moltke
s
lawsuit
against Harden,
273;
exile and death,
276;
isolation in
Liebenberg, 353
Excellent,
HMS,
105
Falkenhayn, General Erich
von, 320
Ferdinand, King of the Bulgarians,
284
Fez,
288
First World War: royal cousins influence
on,
2-4, 316;
preparations and
outbreak,
303-16;
casualties,
318,
327-8, 347;
campaigns and conduct
of,
319-20, 326-7, 347;
German
setbacks in,
345;
ends,
352
Fisher, Sir John Arbuthnot (later
ist
Baron): as adviser to Edward,
206—7,
246;
advocates war with Germany,
254;
modernises Royal Navy,
254,
256-7, 262;
and George s memo on
policing the seas,
264;
Esher defends
against German hostility,
268-9;
present at Edward s
Reval
meeting
with Nicky
(1908), 270;
and death of
Edward,
285
Foch,
Marshal Ferdinand,
348, 352
Fortescue, Captain the Hon. Seymour,
270
France: defeated in Prussian war
(1870),
21—2, 49—52, 57, 62;
and Bismarck s
Dreikaiserbund, 57;
forms alliance with
Russia,
146, 175, 230, 358;
Nicky and
Alicky s state visit to,
189-90;
in dual
control of Egypt,
195;
neutrality in
Boer War,
197;
Edward visits and
forms Entente
Cordiale
(1903),
228-30, 232, 244, 248, 225;
and
proposed German treaty with Russia,
249;
dominant interests in Morocco,
252, 257, 288;
Lansdowne s secret pact
with Britain against Germany,
258;
in
Triple Entente (with Britain and
Russia),
266;
cedes part of Congo to
Germany,
288;
German war threat to,
310-11, 314;
mobilises,
311, 314;
Germany declares war on,
314;
German attack on,
319—20;
rejects US
peace proposals,
336;
see
aho
Paris
Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austro-
Hungary: stays with Nicky,
217;
assassinated,
304
Franz-Joseph, Emperor of Austro-
Hungary: in
Dreikaiserbund, 57;
Edward meets,
265;
and Austrian
ultimatum to Serbia,
306;
death,
347
Frederick II ( the Great ), King of
Prussia,
17
Frederick
VIII,
King of Denmark (earlier
Crown Prince;
Freddi ),
41, 45, 95
Frederick, Prince of Hesse ( Frittie ):
death aged three, in,
191, 220
402
INDEX
Friedberg, Heinrich, 124
Friedrich
HI, Emperor of Germany
(earlier Crown Prince of Prussia;
Fritz ): marriage to Vicky,
6-8;
and
Willy s childhood,
11;
conflict with
Bismarck,
12;
and Willy s upbringing
and education,
14-15, 60, 80;
and
Prussian victory over Denmark,
19;
relations with father,
21;
attends
Edward s wedding,
26;
Edward mocks
for wearing uniform and medals,
29;
Edward and
Alix
visit in Berlin,
35;
race-consciousness,
40;
attends
Dagmar-Alexander s wedding in St
Petersburg,
45;
visits Russia,
49;
and
Franco-Prussian war,
51;
visits Willy
at school,
63;
relations with children,
64;
father s antipathy to,
65;
visits to
England,
65;
anxiety over Willys
arrogance,
77;
Bismarck spies on,
79;
and pure royal blood,
81;
attends
Queen Victoria s Golden Jubilee,
106—7;
and Willy s marriage to Dona,
11
1-12; and Willy s military
pretensions,
114;
supported by Social
Democrats,
119, 121;
throat cancer
and death,
120-3, 357;
funeral,
124
Friedrich,
Prince of Baden,
77
Frittie see Frederick, Prince of Hesse
Fritz see
Friedrich
III, Emperor of
Germany
Frogmore House, Windsor,
207
Fuller, Charles,
74, 93
Gamier, Jeanne,
229
Gatchina (palace), near St Petersburg,
86-7, 96
Gegenwart, Die
(magazine),
238-9
George I, King of the Hellenes (earlier
Willi ,
Prince of Denmark): accedes
to Greek throne,
33, 41;
visits parents
in Denmark,
95;
at Nicky s coming-
of-age in St Petersburg,
101;
in
England,
107;
and George s typhoid,
141;
marriage,
268; Dagmar
and
Alix
visit,
279
George V, King of Great Britain
( Georgie ):
attends Victoria Louise s
wedding,
1-2, 300-2;
birth,
23;
name,
29-30;
visits Queen Victoria with
mother,
31;
relations with mother,
33,
81, 226;
visits Denmark,
35, 14°;
tutored by
Dalton,
38-9, 65-6;
childhood,
39;
temper,
39;
lacks class-
consciousness,
40;
naval training and
career,
70-2, 75, 102-5, 108-9, 133-4,
r39-40,
150;
appearance and character,
71-2, 284-5;
correspondence with
mother,
73-5, 93, 140;
round-world
cruise on
HMS
Bacchante,
73-4, 91-2;
nerviness and lack of confidence,
76;
qualities,
76, 102;
diary,
80, 126, 134,
165;
emotionalism,
81;
at fathers
funeral,
84;
tattoos,
91-2;
language
limitations,
92;
in Lausanne,
92—3;
friendly relations and correspondence
with Nicky,
96,
140-1,
153, 160, 165,
171, 188-9, 217, 268, 302-4, 315, 359;
homesickness,
102-3;
at home for
Queen Victoria s Golden Jubilee,
107;
falls for Julie Stonor,
108;
home leaves,
108, 126;
misunderstands Willy,
129;
meets Willy at Spithead,
133;
on Willy
in Greece,
134;
on state visit to Berlin
(1890), 136;
marriage prospects,
140,
148;
typhoid,
141;
made Duke of
York,
149;
occupies cottage at
Sandringham,
149, 154-5, 207;
status
as heir on death of brother Eddy,
149-50;
speechmaking,
150, 245;
studies in Heidelberg,
150;
engagement and marriage,
151-4, 161;
resemblance to Nicky,
153, 281;
congratulates Nicky on betrothal,
163;
married life and children,
164-5, 169;
stamp collection,
165, 331;
attends
Alexander Hi s funeral,
168-9;
sees
Willy on visit to Cowes,
168-9;
at
Nicky-Alicky wedding,
170;
visits
Vicky and Willy in Berlin, 171-5; at
opening of Kiel Canal,
176;
and
Willy s Kruger telegram,
179;
misses
Nicky s coronation,
185;
and Nicky s
visit to Scotland with Alicky,
188;
shooting and hunting,
188-9, 198,
294;
opens first Parliament of
Commonwealth of Australia,
192-3;
and Willy
s
state visit to Britain,
197-8;
visits Berlin for Crown Prince s
coming-of-age,
201;
on father s
accession as Edward
VII,
204;
allowance as Prince of Wales,
207;
duties as Prince of Wales,
209-11;
tour
of Australasia and Canada,
210;
visits
Willy for birthday celebrations,
210;
reluctance to visit Willy and Berlin,
228;
father s relations with,
244;
tour
of India
(1905). 244-5;
shyness and
40З
KING, KAISER, TSAR
George V, King of Great Britain
(cont.)
talkativeness,
245;
immaturity and
indiscretion,
255;
opposes Fisher s
naval reforms,
257;
memo on policing
the seas,
264;
meets Willy on
1907
state visit to Britain,
267—8;
welcomes
Nicky and family to England
(1909),
280-1;
on father s death,
282-3;
accession and rule,
285;
and unveiling
of Victoria memorial,
286;
relations
with Willy,
287;
commiserates with
Nicky over Alexei s illness,
292;
coronation,
292—3;
official duties,
293;
on Sarajevo assassination,
305;
and outbreak of war,
307—9, 311,
313—14;
urges Willy to restrain
Austria,
308;
and conduct of war,
316, 327—8;
wartime communications
with Nicky,
319-20, 324, 326, 328-9,
331—2, 333;
injured on visit to
Western Front,
324;
wartime personal
economies,
325;
German family
associations,
326, 346;
supports Haig,
327;
and March 1917 revolution in
Russia,
334;
denies Nicky asylum in
Britain,
339-41;
refutes H.G. Wells s
alien accusation,
340;
at memorial
service for Nicky,
344;
adopts
Windsor as royal family name,
346;
and impending peace,
347;
on Willy s
abdication,
350—1;
popularity at war s
end,
352;
helps Russian relations after
war,
354, 356;
effect on events,
357;
on Willy s changing views of Britain,
358
George VI, King of Great Britain (earlier
Prince),
314
George V, King of Hanover,
8, 19
George, Prince of Greece,
159
Georgei Alexandrovich, Grand Duke
(Nicky s brother),
53-5, 66, 84, 87, 89,
159, 170, 187, 192;
death,
199
Georgei Mikhailovich, Grand Duke
(Sandro
s
brother),
355
Gerlach,
General Leopold
von, 9
Germany: united as empire,
22;
annexes
Schleswig-Holstein, 42;
industrial-
economic development,
48, 57, 120;
naval rivalry with Britain,
53, 133,
180, 192, 194, 248, 257, 269, 276-7,
288, 297;
Anti-Socialist Laws,
57—8,
138;
aspires to world power,
57;
military agreement with Russia,
57;
Edward s state visit to
(1909), 78;
constitution gives ultimate power to
Kaiser,
125;
and miners strike
(1889),
138;
Anti-Revolution Bill,
146;
in
Triple Alliance,
146;
anti-British in
Boer War,
197;
lands troops at
Kiaochow Bay, China,
200;
excluded
from North Africa agreement,
230;
support for Russia in
1904
war with
Japan,
233;
Esher sees as prospective
enemy,
247;
move to right,
247-8;
proposed defensive treaty with Russia,
249-52;
interests and ambitions in
Morocco,
252-3, 257-8;
secret Anglo-
French pact against,
258;
supports
Austrian annexation of Bosnia-
Herzegovina,
279;
and
Agadir
crisis
(1911), 288;
fear of encirclement,
288,
308-9;
build-up to war,
297-8, 303;
and Austrian ultimatum to Serbia,
306;
and outbreak of war,
306—8;
declares war on Russia,
311—12;
Britain declares war on,
314—15;
declares war on France,
314;
ultimatum to Belgium,
314;
occupies
Belgium,
315-16;
war casualties,
318;
wartime advances against Russia,
321;
rejects US peace proposals,
336;
U-
boat warfare,
336;
unrest and strikes*
337, 347—9;
separate peace with
Russia
(1918), 342;
demands for
reform,
345;
and Allied peace
proposals,
346;
summer offensive
(1918), 347;
accepts armistice
proposals,
348-9
Gibbes, Sydney,
338, 342-3
Gilliard, Pierre,
290, 312, 318, 332, 336,
342-3
Gladstone, William Ewart: raises Edward s
allowance,
25, 137;
Queen Victoria s
attitude to,
34, 84, 91;
on declining
popularity of royalty,
37;
heads Liberal
governments,
81, 84;
and Willy s
views on foreign policy,
115;
defeated
over Irish Home Rule,
123;
forms
government
(1892), 150;
George
entertains,
164
Goethe,
Johann
Wolfgang
von, 241
Golitsyn, Prince M.M.,
330
Gordon, Canon,
30, 189
Gordon-Cumming, Sir William,
140
Gore, John,
358
Goremykin, Ivan,
330
Görtz zu Schlitz,
Emil,
143-4
Goschen,
Sir Edward,
301
404
INDEX
Granvüle, Granville George Leveson-
Gower,
2nd
Earl,
37
Grey, Sir Edward: in Campbell-
Bannerman s government,
246;
and
secret Anglo-French pact against
Germany,
258;
and Willy s state visit
to Britain,
267-8;
and Edward s
meeting with Nicky at
Reval,
270;
and Nicky s
1909
visit to England,
280;
attends unveiling of Victoria
memorial,
287;
attends Haldane s
defence meeting,
296;
Sazonov meets,
296;
and George
s
visit to Sissy s
wedding,
300;
settles First Balkan War,
300;
and Sarajevo assassinations,
305;
and outbreak of war,
307,
310-11,
313—15;
sends George s 1914 telegram
to Nicky urging peace,
309
Griers, Nicholas,
100, 168
haemophilia, in,
ібі,
191, 220;
in
Tsarevich Alexei,
189-91, 225
Hague Conference on disarmament
(1906), 265
Hahnke,
Wilhelm
von, 129
Haig, General Sir Douglas (later
ist
Earl),
327-8
Haldane, Richard Burdon, Viscount: as
War Minister under Campbell-
Bannerman,
246, 261;
visits to Berlin,
261-2, 297;
and Willy s visit for
unveiling of Victoria memorial,
287;
calls secret defence meeting,
296-7;
declares British support for France in
event of attack by Germany,
298;
wavers over war with Germany,
313
Hale, William,
278
Haller,
Johannes,
116
Hanover, King of see George V, King of
Hanover
Hans, Prince of Denmark (Alix s uncle),
74-5
Harden, Maximilian: journalistic
campaign against
Eulenburg, 238-42,
260-1, 267, 271-2, 274-5;
Moltke s
lawsuits against,
272-3, 357
Hardie, Keir,
270
Hardinge, Sir Charles (later
ist
Baron),
206, 227, 229, 236, 246, 269-^0, 279,
294
Hartington,
Spencer Compton
Cavendish, Marquess of (later 8th
Duke of Devonshire),
32
Harako, Empress of Japan,
160
Hauptmann, Gerhardt, 308
Heath, Charles,
72-3, 88-9, 226
Heinrich,
Prince of Prussia (Kaiser s
brother): education,
15, 60, 62;
and
Willy s riding difficulties,
16;
Vicky s
view of,
20;
in Greece,
134;
attends
Alexander Ill s funeral,
168;
attends
Nicky s coronation,
185;
delivers
Willy s acceptance to be Alexei s
godfather to Nicky,
225;
with Willy at
meeting with Nicky at Swinemiinde,
265;
escorts Edward on passage
through Kiel Canal
(1908), 270;
marriage to Irene,
291;
visits England
(1914),
305;
reports Britain s staying
out of war,
307;
in England at
outbreak of war,
317;
remains in
Germany after Armistice,
353
Helena, Princess (Princess Christian of
Schleswig-Hostein; Lenchen ),
13,
30,
in
Henry, Prince of Battenberg (earlier
Heinrich), 98
Hercules, Jim,
67
Hermine
von Schönaich-Carolath,
Princess (Willy s second wife),
354
Herding, Count
Georg von, 348
Hesse-Darmstadt,
19-20
Himmler, Heinrich, 354
Hindenburg
und von Beneckendorff,
General Paul von, 319, 320, 336, 345.
347-9
Hintze, Paul von, 348
Hinzpeter, Georg, 14-17, 38, 60-2, 68,
138,
ИЗ
Hirsch, Baron Maurice de, 60, 164
Hitler, Adolf, 354
Hobhouse, Sir Charles, 285
Hohenlohe-Schiffingfürst,
Prince
Chlodwig zu, 181-2, 184
Hohenthal,
Countess Walburga
von, 9
Hohenzollern (German
royal
yacht),
13З—
5.
143, 145, 168, 176, 242, 250-1, 265
Holstein,
Friedrich
von:
diary,
105;
as
Head of Intelligence,
110;
knows of
Willy s friendship with
Eulenburg,
119;
and official training for Willy,
120;
and dismissal of Bismarck,
137-9.
141;
aids
Philipp zu Eulenburg s
diplomatic appointment,
142-3; та
Eulenburg s proposed pre-emptive war
against Russia,
177;
attacked by press,
180; Eulenburg
proposes dismissal,
180-2;
breach with
Eulenburg, 184,
405
KING, KAISER, TSAR
Holstein, Friedrich von
(cont.)
241;
supports Hardens campaign
against
Eulenburg, 240—1, 260, 275;
resigns,
241, 260;
opposes
development of German navy,
248;
open letter in Die
Zukunft, 260;
supposed complicity with Biilow,
279;
on Willy s attachment to England,
358
Home Rule Bill (1912),
295
homosexuality: Willy and,
112-13, 117,
142;
in
Liebenberg
Circle,
237-8,
241-3, 273;
and charges against
Eulenburg, 274-5
Hopman,
Captain,
266
How Russia and her Ruler Betrayed German
Confidence and Thereby Made the
European War (German White Book),
307-8
Hull, Isabel,
142
Hülsen-Haeseler,
General Dietrich
von,
278, 297
Hülsen-Haeseler, Georg von, 143—4, 237
Hvidore,
Denmark,
227
Ilsemann,
Sigurd
von, 348, 353, 357
India: George and May tour
(1905),
244—5;
George s Coronation Durbar
(1911), 293-4
Innocent, Mrs (midwife),
5—6
Ioann Konstantinovich, Prince,
311
Ireland: Home Rule question,
123, 150,
295- 305
Irene of Hesse, Princess of Germany,
291
Isvolsky, Alexander,
173—4,
223> 227» 235>
255, 265-6, 270, 279-80
Italy, in Triple Alliance,
146;
joins Allies
in war,
320—1
Jagow, Gottlieb
von, 306
Jameson,
Dr
Leander
Starr: raid into
Transvaal,
178-80, 194
Japan: war with Russia
(1904-5), 200,
231-4, 247, 250;
Willy warns Nicky
against,
216—17;
demands Russia
withdraw from Yalu river,
230;
peace
settlement
(1905), 235;
British alliance
with,
249
Jews: Willy s antipathy to,
147, 299, 353
Joachim, Prince of Germany: birth,
113;
quarrels with sister Victoria Louise,
213;
suicide,
353
Justi, Karl,
77
Justice (journal),
128, 339
Jutland, battle of
(1916), 326
Kalakana,
King of the Sandwich Islands,
40
Karl, Emperor of Austria,
347
Kekule, Reinhard, 77
Keller, Countess
Mathilde, 353
Képpel,
Alice,
198, 206, 244, 246, 281-2
Képpel,
Colin,
309
Kerensky, Alexander,
337, 342
Kessel,
Captain
Gustav von, 115
Khodinka meadow, St Petersburg,
186
Kiaochow Bay, China,
200
Kiderlen-Waechter, Alfred von, 180,
288
Kiel: wartime strike (April 1917),
337;
mutiny threat,
347
Kiel Canal: opening,
175—6
Kitchener, General Horatio Herbert,
ist
Earl: in Sudan,
179;
favours
conscription for Territorial Army,
262;
at unveiling of Victoria memorial,
287;
and outbreak of war,
309;
and
condition of Indian troops on Western
Front,
325
Kladderadatsch
(magazine),
180
Knollys, Charlotte, Viscountess,
171
Knollys, Francis,
ist
Viscount: as Bertie s
private secretary,
26, 32, 37-8;
on
Rumpenheim,
41;
on Willy s state
visit to Britain,
132;
and Princess May
as royal marriage prospect,
148;
and
George s
1900
visit to Berlin,
201;
and
Edward s accession and reign,
205—8;
and George s reluctance to visit Berlin,
228;
and Esher,
246;
and Willy s
prospective visit to Britain,
254;
and
Esher s view on conscription,
262;
and
George
s
memo on policing the seas,
264;
and Esher s letter to Fisher on
German hostility,
269;
excuses
Edward s making Nicky Admiral of
the Fleet,
271;
and death of Edward,
282;
as joint Private Secretary to
George on accession,
284-5;
retires,
285
Knollys, Sir William,
26, 33-4, 60
Kobylinsky, Yevgeny,
341
Kokovstev, Vladimir,
289
Konstantin
Konstantinovich, Grand Duke
( Kostia ): dislikes Willy,
191, 193;
on
Nicky s reluctance to act against
revolutionaries,
199;
on birth of
Tsarevich Alexei,
221;
on opening of
first State Duma,
223;
on fall of Port
Arthur,
233;
on naval mutinies,
234;
406
INDEX
lunches with Nicky on outbreak of
war,
315
Korea,
230-1, 233, 235
Kouropatkin, General
A.N., 231
Kronstadt:
mutiny
(1907), 223
Krosigk, Colonel
Gebhard von, 99
Kruger,
Paul,
178-9, 196
Krupp
works, Essen: closed by strike,
138
Kshessinskaya, Matilda,
159-60
Laemmel, Karl,
118
Laking, Sir Francis,
281
Lamsdorff, Count Vladimir,
197, 217,
231,252
Langtry, Lillie,
72, 75
Lanin (Alexander Ill s secretary),
87
Lansdowne, Henry Charles Keith Petty-
Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of,
205,
246, 254, 258
Lanson,
Gustave, 89
Lascelles, Sir Frank,
192—4, 248, 254,
287
Lausanne,
92—3
Lecomte, Raymond,
260
Lenin, Vladimir I.: as educated
revolutionary,
90;
supports Boers,
195;
and outbreak of
1905
revolution,
222;
leaves Switzerland for Russia,
331,
338;
leads Bolshevik party,
341;
told of
shooting of Nicky and family,
344
Leopold, Prince, Duke of Albany:
haemophilia, in,
221
Liberal Party: forms government
(1905),
246;
Budget
(1909), 280;
election
victory (1910),
281, 285
Lichnowsky, Prince Karl Max
von, 298,
307, 310, 314
Liebenau, Major
Wilhelm von, 80, 99,
no,
130, 141
Liebenberg
Circle:
Eulenburg in, 137,
143, 183;
use of code,
142;
racism,
147;
and homosexual scandal,
237,
239, 242-3;
Harden attacks,
239, 242,
261, 272;
Lecomte in,
260
Livadia, Crimea,
166-7
Lloyd George, David: as President of
Board of Trade,
246;
George abuses,
255;
as Chancellor of Exchequer,
269;
People s Budget
(1909), 280;
attends
Haldane s defence meeting,
296;
wavers over war with Germany,
313;
as
wartime Prime Minister,
318;
suggests
Buckingham Palace economies in war,
325;
and conduct of war,
327;
and
Nicky s proposed asylum in Britain,
ЗЗ9-41;
suggests change of British
royal family name,
346;
at war s end,
352
Lockhart,
Sir Robert Bruce,
344
Lords, House of: opposes Lloyd George s
1909
Budget,
280-1;
in constitutional
crisis (1910),
281, 284-6
Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse,
20
Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse: marriage
to Alice,
19-20;
accompanies Alicky
to St Petersburg,
156
Louis, Prince of Battenberg (later
ist
Marquess of Milford Haven):
marriage,
98, 317;
resigns naval post in
war,
326;
visits George in war,
334
Louise, Princess (later Marchioness of
Lome),
53
Louise (Princess of Prussia), Duchess of
Connaught,
78
Louise, Princess Royal (Duchess of Fife):
birth,
32;
childhood,
35;
visits
Denmark,
95
Louise, Queen of Christian IX of
Denmark ( Amama ): background,
24;
describes daughters,
41;
silver
wedding,
46;
visits Russia
(1867), 47;
Alexander III and
Dagmar
visit,
95;
attends George-May wedding,
152-3;
Nicky visits,
165;
at Alexander Ills
funeral,
168;
death,
199
Lowe, Charles,
94, 97, 158
Lucanus, Hermann
von, 141-2, 183
Ludendorff, General Erich,
319-20, 336,
345. 347-8
Lyncker, Baron
Moritz von, 336, 346
Macclesfield, Mary Frances, Countess of,
32
MacDonald, Ramsay,
270
McKenna, Reginald,
296
Mackenzie,
Dr Moreli,
121, 124
Makarov, Admiral
S.O., 233, 289
Maklakov, Nicholas,
330
Malet,
Sir Edward,
124, 139
Manchester, Louise, Duchess of (later
Duchess of Devonshire),
32
Manchuria,
230-1, 233, 235
Manoel
II, King of Portugal,
265
Margaret, Princess (Willy s sister;
Mossy ),
136, 155, 161
Maria Nicolaevna, Grand Duchess
(Nicky-Alix s daughter): birth,
199; »*
Ekaterinburg,
343!
shot,
344
407
KING, KAISER, TSAR
Maria Pavlovna, Grand Duchess of
Russia ( Aunt Michen ),
161—2, 225
Marie, Duchess of Edinburgh (earlier
Grand Duchess of Russia),
65, 153
Marie Feodorovna, Empress of Russia see
Dagmar,
Empress of Alexander III of
Russia
Maria Pavlovna, Grand Duchess ( the
younger ),
355
Marienbad, 261, 265-6
Marlborough,
HMS,
355
Marlborough House, London: Edward
furnishes and occupies,
25, 27;
set,
27,
140;
George and May move to,
207
Marschall von
Bieberstein, Baron Adolf:
succeeds Herbert
von
Bismarck as
Secretary of State,
141, 143;
replaced
by
Bernhard von
Biilow,
180, 182,
192;
differences with Willy,
181
Martin,
Dr
Eduard, 5
Marxism: in Russia,
218
Mary, Princess of Cambridge,
148
Mary, Queen of George V ( May ):
attends Victoria Louise s wedding,
1 ;
engagement to Eddy,
148—9;
engagement and marriage to George,
151—4, 161;
children,
164;
marriage
relations,
169;
in Australia with
George,
192—3;
moves to
Marlborough House,
207;
duties as
Princess of Wales,
209-10;
tour of
Australasia and Canada,
210;
tour of
India
(1905), 244-5;
in India for
Coronation Durbar
(1911), 294;
hospital visiting in war,
324;
popularity at war s end,
352
Masurian Lakes, battle of the (1914),
319
Maud, Queen of Norway (earlier
Princess): birth,
36;
visits Denmark,
95;
and George-May wedding,
153
Maximilian
von
Baden, Prince,
348—50
May of
Teck,
Princess see Mary, Queen
of George V
Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Augusta, Grand
Duchess of,
152
Mecklenburg-Strelitz,
Friedrich Wilhelm
I, Grand Duke of,
152
Melampus,
HMS,
150
Mensheviks: split from Bolsheviks,
218
Meteor (yacht),
169
Metternich
zur Gracht,
Count Paul
von
Wolff,
271, 278, 287
Michen see Maria Pavlovna, Grand
Duchess of Russia
Mikhail Alexandrovich, Grand Duke
( Misha ): at Nicky s wedding,
87;
life
at Gatchina,
87;
at Nicky s coronation,
186;
Nicholas nominates as successor,
199, 221, 334—5;
reliefat
birth of
Alexei,
221;
marriage,
292;
fights in
war,
318;
killed,
354
Mikhail Mikhailovich, Grand Duke
(Sandros
brother; Michel ),
334
Militsa Nicolaevna, Grand Duchess
(formerly Princess of Montenegro),
211-12
Milner, Alfred, Viscount,
333
Milyukov, Pavel,
339
Minny see
Dagmar
(Marie Feodorovna),
Empress
Minto,
Gilbert John Murray Kynynmond
Elliot, 4th Earl of,
244
Minto,
Mary Caroline, Countess of,
244
Moltke,
Helmuth
von, 298, 310, 319-20
Moltke,
Kuno
von:
friendship with
Eulenburg, 117;
marriage,
117, 238;
in
Liebenberg
Circle,
143, 237;
appointed ADC to Willy,
145, 176;
Harden lampoons,
240;
lawsuits
against Harden,
272-3, 275
Moltke, Lily
von, 237-8, 273
Montagu-Stuart-Wortley, Colonel
Edward,
268, 276
Monts,
Count Anton,
240
Mordaunt divorce case
(1870), 36, 49
Morier, Sir Robert,
79
Morley, John, Viscount,
268
Morocco: French influence in,
252, 257,
288;
German interests in,
252—3;
and
Algeciras conference,
257
Morshead, Sir Owen,
71
Mossolov,
Count
A.A., 172
Müller,
Admiral
Georg von, 297-8, 306,
ЗЗ6-7,
345-7
Muravev,
Count
N.V.,
200
Nasr el Din, Shah
of Persia,
54—6
Nicholai Alexandrovich, Grand Duke,
28,
42-3, 47-8
Nicholai Nikolaevich, Grand Duke
(Sandra s brother;
Nikolasha ),
311,
319,321-2,355
Nicholas II, Tsar ( Nicky ): attends
Victoria Louise s wedding,
1—2,
300-2;
assassinated,
2, 344—5;
upbringing,
2, 49, 67, 89;
autocracy,
3, 173-4, 215, 219, 224;
visits
Denmark with mother,
36, 49-50, 53,
408
INDEX
95;
birth,
41, 46;
visits England with
parents,
54-5;
appearance,
66, 153;
education,
66, 72-3;
relations with
father,
67;
correspondence with
mother,
73;
and grandfathers
assassination,
84-6;
life at Gatchina
and St Petersburg,
87-8, 97;
diary,
88-9;
falls in love with cousin Toria,
95-6;
friendly relations and
correspondence with George,
96,
140-1,
153, 160, 165, 171, 217, 268,
302, 303-4, 315, 359;
coming-of-age,
99—100;
meets and courts Alicky,
102,
155—8, 160;
in Athens,
135;
George
meets in Copenhagen,
140;
meets
Willy at
Björkö,
151;
attends George-
May wedding,
152-3;
resemblance to
George,
153, 281;
career and
education as heir,
155-6;
injured by
sword in Japan,
159;
relations with
Mile Kshessinskaya,
159-60;
tour of
Far East,
159-60;
public
appointments,
160;
betrothal and
marriage,
162—3,
Iť>5,
169-70;
visits
Alicky in England,
164;
accession on
father s death,
166, 172;
at father s
funeral,
167;
British awards and
honours,
168;
married home,
171—2;
character and style as ruler,
172—4,
186, 192, 218;
marriage relations,
172,
199, 226, 266;
Willy influences,
174-5, 216-17, 228, 249-50, 265;
and
Willy s militancy,
174-6;
Willy sends
engraving to,
176;
moves to Alexander
Palace, Tsarskoe
Selo,
177;
daughters,
178, 191, 199;
coronation,
185—6;
and
Khodinka meadow tragedy
(1896),
186;
post-coronation travels,
187-8;
shooting,
188—9;
discusses Eastern
Question with Salisbury,
189;
dislikes
Willy,
189, 358;
state visit to France,
189-90;
on Willy s state visit to
Russia,
190-1;
favours Boers in war
against Britain,
195-7;
and
revolutionary activity,
199, 223-4;
falls
under influence of M. Philippe,
211;
religious-mystical beliefs,
212;
Alicky s
influence over,
215;
and birth of son
Alexei,
220-1;
issues Imperial
Manifesto guaranteeing reforms,
222;
opens first State Duma
(1906), 223;
and Alexei s haemophilia,
225, 291;
relations with mother,
226;
and
impending war with Japan,
231;
and
Russo-Japanese war,
232-3;
on
assassination of Grand Duke Sergei,
233;
creates new Council of Ministers
under
Witte, 236;
anger at British
alliance with Japan,
249;
and proposed
German alliance,
249-52;
anti-British
sentiments,
255;
Rasputin influences,
263-4;
meets Willy at Swinemiinde,
265;
Edward and
Alix
meet at
Reval,
269-1 ;
Edward inadvertently makes
Admiral of the Fleet,
271;
letter to
Edward on Balkan situation,
279;
visit
to England with family
(1909), 280;
letter of condolence to George on
Edward s death,
283;
private-official
dealings with George after accession,
283, 286;
George writes to on
unveiling of Victoria memorial,
286;
and assassination of Stolypin,
289;
celebrates 300th annniversary of
Romanov dynasty,
299-300;
repressive
regime,
304;
and Austrian ultimatum
to Serbia,
306;
and outbreak of war,
307,
311-13; telegram from George
urging peace,
309;
orders mobilisation
of army and fleet,
310;
influence in
war,
316—17;
wartime
communications with George,
319-20, 324, 326, 328-9,
331-З;
assumes supreme command in war,
321-2;
rejects demands for reforms,
329-30;
health decline,
332;
abdication,
334-6;
and March
1917
St
Petersburg revolution,
334;
moved to
Tsarskoe
Selo
and kept under house
arrest,
335, 338.
З41;
proposed asylum
in England,
337-40;
moved to
Tobolsk,
341-2;
at Ekaterinburg,
343-4;
effect on events,
357
Nicolson, Sir Arthur (later
ist
Baron
Carnock),
261, 266, 270
Nicobon, Sir Harold,
154
Nikolsky,
Aleksandr,
342
North Africa: powers dispute over,
230
North Sea Cruises (Nordlandretse),
143-5,
242, 297
Nutzmer, Major
von, 123
Olga,
Grand Duchess of Russia (Nicky-
Alicky s daughter): birth,
178;
and
Rasputin,
290;
at Ekaterinburg,
344;
shot,
344
Olga,
Grand Duchess of Russia (Nicky s
sister),
67, 87, 186, 311,
318.
З29
409
KING, KAISER, TSAR
Olga,
Queen of George I of the
Hellenes,
42, 101, 107, 268
Ollongren,
Alexandra,
66-7
Ollongren,
Vladimir,
66—7
Onu, M.K.,
159
Ophir,
SS,
210
Orchard, Miss (nurse; Orchie ),
178
Osborne (Royal Yacht),
176
Oskar,
Prince of Germany,
113
Ottoman Empire: decline,
4, 55, 68;
Russia declares war on
(1877), 68;
disintegration and Eastern Question,
177, 189;
and Balkan unrest,
296;
as
potential German ally,
298;
defeat in
First Balkan War,
300;
capitulates
(1918),
348
Paléologue,
Maurice,
311, 315, 330, 333
Pankratov, Vasily,
342
Paris: Edward visits alone,
34—5, 39, 72,
75;
Commune,
51;
Edward visits with
Alix,
263;
see
aho
France
Parliament Bill (1910),
285, 295
Pavel Alexandrovich, Grand Duke,
161
Persimmon (racehorse),
179
Petropavlovsk (Russian flagship),
233
Philippe,
Dr:
influence on Nicky and
Alix,
211—12, 215—16, 220
Plehve, Vyacheslav,
218-19, 230
Pless: German Eastern HQ,
336
Plessen, General Hans
von, 299
Pobedonostsev,
Konstantin:
as tutor to
Alexander II s sons,
47-8;
favours
repressive regime,
48, 89—90;
as Chief
Procurator of Holy Synod,
90;
influence on Nicky,
155, 174;
influence on Alexander III,
158;
on
Nicky s intellect,
218;
and
canonisation of
Serafim,
220
Poklewski-Koziell, S.
von, 255
Polar Star (Russian Imperial Yacht),
164,
270, 280
Polovtsov,
A.A., 218
Ponsonby, Sir Frederick (later
ist
Baron
Sysonby; Fritz ): accompanies George
to Sissy s wedding,
1, 300-1;
duties,
208—9;
arranges return of Vicky s
letters to England,
209;
accompanies
Edward to France
(1903), 228—9;
on
German suspicions of Edward,
264;
at
Edward s
Reval
meeting with Nicky
(1908), 270-1;
praises Stolypin,
289;
on George s personal economies in
war,
325;
on
Dagmars
arrival in
England after war,
356
Ponsonby, Sir Henry,
81, 148, 209
Ponsonby, Mary, Lady
(née Bulteel),
79
Port Arthur,
200-1, 230-1, 233-4
Portugal: unrest and assassinations in,
265
Potemkin (Russian battleship),
234
Potsdam,
Neues
Palais,
64, 79-80
Prokelwitz (estate), Silesia,
116, 118-19,
143-4, 182, 237
Protopopov, Alexander,
330-1, 334
Prussia: Princess Victoria in,
9;
Bismarck
promotes,
12;
army,
16;
wars over
Schleswig
and
Holstein, 18-20, 23;
war with France
(1870), 21, 49-52,
62;
dominates German empire,
22, 42,
59, 345
Quidde, Ludwig, 180
Quinn (of Scotland Yard),
280
Radolin, Prince Hugo,
175
Rasputin, Grigory: influence on Nicky
and Alexandra,
263-4,
2ť>6,
290, 323,
332;
murdered,
300, 332-3;
status,
300;
influence on official
appointments,
330
Rathenau, Walter,
112, 127
Recollections of Three Kaisers (anon. Court
Official),
64, 69, 113, 130
Reform Bill (Britain,
1867), 34
Reinhardt,
Max: signs Manifesto of the
German Intellectuals ,
308
Republicanism: in Britain,
34, 37
Reval
(Tallin),
269-71
Rhodes, Cecil,
178
Roberts, Field Marshal Frederick Sleigh,
Earl,
196, 201-2, 204
Röhl,
John,
357
Rolland, Romain, 308
Romania: as potential German ally,
298;
joins Allies,
320, 336
Rombach,
Dr,
159
Rominten, 143, 145, 258—9
Roosevelt,
Theodore, 235, 284
Rose, Kenneth,
341
Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, 5 th
Earl of,
164, 171
Rosen,
Friedrich, 350
Rothschild family,
60
Rothschild, Leopold
de, 179
Rothschild, Nathan Meyer,
ist
Baron,
and Lady,
122
Royal Navy: Germany s rivalry with,
55,
410
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133. 180, 248, 276, 288;
Fisher
reforms and modernises,
254, 256-7;
estimates,
264, 269
Rumpenheim,
24-5, 41
Russell, Lord
Odo,
68
Russia: Edward favours entente with,
30-1;
conditions,
48;
military
agreement with Germany,
57;
war with
Turkey
(1877), 68;
reforms resisted,
89-90, 155;
Willy visits,
99-101,
109-10, 115;
forms alliance with
France,
146, 175, 230, 358;
Willy
favours war with,
146;
revolutionary
activities,
158, 173, 199, 221; Eulenburg
proposes pre-emptive war against,
177;
defence expenditure,
187;
Willys state
visit to, 190-1
;
opposes Britain in Boer
War,
195;
industrial growth,
199—200;
in Far East,
200—1, 230;
war with Japan
(1904-5), 200, 231-4, 247, 250;
unrest
and demands for reform in,
217-18,
234—5;
revolution of
1905, 222;
first
State Duma opened
(1906), 223, 236;
peace settlement with Japan,
235;
Germany seeks defensive alliance with,
249-52;
opposes Germany over
Morocco,
257;
turns against Germany,
258;
Convention with Britain
(1907),
266-7;
alliance with Britain reaffirmed
(1914),
303;
and German war threat,
303;
mobilises against Austria,
307, 309;
Germany declares war on,
3
ι1-Ι2;
Austria declares war on,
315;
war
casualties,
318;
and conduct of war,
319, 321, 329;
British government
mission to (1917),
328;
wartime
ministerial appointments,
330-1;
March
1917
revolution and mutinies,
331, 333-4;
Provisional Government
(1917).
335.
ЗЗ7-8;
Bolshevik
revolution (October 1917), 341 2;
separate peace with Germany
(1918),
З42
Rysakov, Nikolai,
84
St Petersburg (sometime
Petrograd):
Dagmar in, 43-4, 47-8, 66;
Alexander
Ill s family in,
88-9;
March
1917
revolution,
331, 334;
soviet
established,
335
Salisbury, Robert Arthur
Talbot
Gascoyne-Cecil,
3rd
Marquess of: on
personal influence of ruling
monarchs,
3;
Edward complains to of
British treatment of Indians,
40;
premiership
(1888), 123;
on Willy s
mental state,
129, 241;
and Willy s
anti-British stance and policies,
132,
193;
and Bismarck s treatment of
Willy,
139;
Queen Victoria praises,
146;
Gladstone replaces as Prime
Minister
(1892), 150;
Willy warns
Nicky against,
177;
and Middle East
question,
189;
and Willys sensitivity
to snubs,
192;
Willy resents
patronising manner,
194;
and
conduct of Boer War,
196;
advises
Queen Victoria to take trip abroad,
202;
supports Edward on accession,
205
Sandels, Countess Augusta (Eulenburg s
wife),
117
Sandringham: rebuilt,
35;
George s
apartments at (York Cottage),
149,
154-5, 207
Sarajevo: Franz Ferdinand assassinated in,
304
Sarov monastery,
220
Sazonov, Sergei D.,
296, 303, 305-6,
308
SchafFer-
Voigt, Klara von:
divorce from
Friedrich von Eulenburg, 236
Schleswig-Holstein, 18-19, 23> 4!> I25
Schlieffen, General
Count
Alfred von:
strategic plan,
319
Schoen,
Baron Wilhelm von, 253
Schonburg-Waidenburg,
Prince
Heinrich
von, 16, 320
Second
World War, 354
Sednyov, Ivan, 343
Seiborne, William Waldegrave Palmer,
2nd
Earl of,
230
Serbia: and impending war,
298;
Austrian
ultimatum to,
305-6;
Austria declares
war on and attacks,
306-7, 312
Sergei Alexandrovitch, Grand Duke,
10
1,
156-7, 161, 174, 186,
2i6,
233-4
Sergei Mikhailovich, Grand Duke
(Sandra s brother),
355
Sigismund,
Prince of Prussia: birth and
death,
20, 59, 79
Sissy see Victoria Louise, Princess
Smith, William Henry,
74
Social Democrats (Germany): support
Fritz,
119, 121;
Willy s hostility to,
138, 146, 304;
demand reforms,
146;
Eulenburg
loathes,
183;
and
impending war,
298-9
411
KING, KAISER, TSAR
Socialist Revolutionary Party (Russia),
218
Somme,
battle of the (1916),
327
Sophie, Queen of
Constantine
of Greece,
134
South Africa see Boers
Soveral,
Luis de, 206, 246
Spa, Belgium,
347—8
Spain: secret agreement with England and
France,
264;
see also Algeciras
Conference
Spitzenberg,
Baroness
Hildegarde von,
277
Stamfordham, Arthur Bigge,
ist
Baron:
with George V in Flushing,
1;
appointed George s private secretary,
209;
accompanies George and May on
tour of Australasia and Canada,
210;
and George
s tour
of India,
245;
prepares George for monarchy,
256;
at
Edward
s
funeral,
284;
and
constitutional crisis
(1910), 285;
influence on George,
285—6;
and
Home Rule Bill (1912),
295;
and
George
s
concern for troops in war,
325;
on conduct of war,
328;
and
George s communications with Nicky,
331;
and March 1917 revolution in
Russia,
334;
and Nicky s proposed
asylum in Britain,
339-41;
and anti-
royalist sentiments in Britain,
340;
suggests Windsor as royal family name,
346
Standart
(Russian imperial yacht),
266,
280
Stanley,
Veneţia,
295
Stephenson, Captain Henry,
104
Stolypin, Pyotr Arkadievich,
270, 280,
288-9
Stonor, Julie,
108
Sudan: British advance into,
179
Sullivan, Sir Edward,
179
Sutherland, George Granville William
Sutherland Leveson-Gower,
3rd
Duke
of,
56
Svyatopolk-Mirsky, Prince
P.D., 219
Swinemiinde,
265-6
Tangier,
252—3, 258
Tannenberg,
battle of
(1914), 319
Tanner, J.R.,
150
Tatiana,
Grand Duchess (Nicky-Alix
s
daughter): birth,
191;
and Rasputin,
290;
at Ekaterinburg,
343-4;
shot,
344
Taylor, A.J.P.,
258
Tcherevin, General,
86
Teck, Mary
Adelaide, Duchess of,
154
Temple, Frederick, Archbishop of
Canterbury,
203
Tennyson, Alfred,
ist
Baron,
106
Three Emperors Conference, Berlin
(1874), 65
Three Emperors League
(Dreikaiserbund),
56, 115-16
Thrush,
HMS,
139
Thunderer,
HMS,
104
Thyra, Princess of Denmark,
41, 43
Times, The: on Edwards accession,
205
Tirpitz, Admiral Alfred
von:
appointed
State Secretary of Imperial Naval
Office,
192, 194, 248;
develops
German navy,
257, 269, 288, 297, 307;
-
with Willy at meeting with Nicky at
Swinemiinde,
265;
reads Willys Daily
Telegraph interview,
276;
attends War
Council,
298;
and outbreak of war,
307;
advocates unrestricted U-boat
warfare,
336
Tobolsk: Romanovs moved to,
341—2
Togo Heihachiro, Admiral Koshaku,
234
Tolstoy, Count Lev,
195
Topham, Anne,
212—15
trade unionism: development in Britain,
137
Trans-Siberian Railway: construction,
160,
230;
in Russo-Japanese war,
232, 235
Transvaal: and Boer War,
178, 195
Triple Alliance (Germany-Italy-Austria),
146
Triple Entente (Britain-France-Russia),
266, 279, 288, 358
Troubetskoi, Prince P.N.,
170
Truth (journal),
128
Tsarskoe
Selo:
Nicky born at,
41;
Nicky
moves to Alexander Palace at,
177;
Nicky occupies after abdication,
335,
338;
Imperial family leave,
341
Tsushima, battle of
(1905), 234
Turkey see Ottoman Empire
Tuzen, Laurits,
96-7
Tweedmouth, Edward Marjoribanks,
2nd
Baron,
246, 268-9, 287
Ukhtomsky, Prince E.,
159
Ulyanov, Alexander (Lenin s brother),
90,
158
United States: war casualties,
318;
peace
proposals
(1917), 336;
enters war,
337
412
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Valentini,
Rudolf
von, 336-7, 346
Varnbüler,
Axel von, 117, 143, 145, 180
Vicky see Victoria, Empress of Germany
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain: and
family connections,
2;
told of Willys
birth,
6;
and Vicky s wedding,
8;
correspondence with Vicky,
10, 24,
28, 31;
hopes for united Germany,
11;
at Edward s wedding,
13, 26;
fondness
for Willy,
13-14;
and Vicky s social
work,
17;
and Prussian aggression,
19;
and birth of George,
23;
attitude to
Alix,
28, 30-2;
decides Albert Victors
name,
29;
denies responsibility and
role to Edward,
31, 40;
warns
Alix
against Duchess of Manchester,
32;
and Alix s antipathy to Prussians,
34;
on Reform bill and republicanism,
34;
on upbringing and education of
grandchildren,
36, 38, 70-1;
holidays
on Riviera,
39, 193;
lacks class-
consciousness,
40;
disparages Danish
royal family,
41;
on Franco-Prussian
war and Paris Commune,
50-1 ;
criticises Bismarck,
65;
awards Garter
to Willy,
68;
entertains Willy at
Balmoral,
78;
hostility to Gladstone,
81;
approves Willy s marriage to
Augusta Victoria,
82;
on assassination
of Alexander II,
83;
and Disraeli s
death,
91;
and Battenberg affair,
98;
displeasure with Willy,
104-6, 123;
Golden Jubilee
(1887), 105-7, 121;
on
Willy s behaviour,
116, 126, 132,
178-9, 193;
and Fritz s throat cancer,
121;
visits dying Fritz in Potsdam,
123;
writes to Willy following death
of Fritz,
125;
on Willy s state visits to
England,
133, 197;
and Edward s state
visit to Berlin,
136-7;
and Eddy s
marriage prospects,
148;
and Eddy s
death,
149;
displeasure at Gladstone s
premiership,
150;
approves George s
marriage to May of
Teck,
151;
presents Nicky with Garter,
153;
attends George-May wedding,
154;
and Alicky s prospective marriage to
Nicky,
157;
attends Ernie-Ducky
wedding,
161;
and birth of Edward,
Duke of Windsor,
164;
Nicky and
Alicky visit,
164;
favours cold rooms,
178;
and Nicky s visit to Scotland,
188-9;
Diamond Jubilee
(1897), 192;
warns Nicky against Willy s anti-
Russian propaganda,
193;
and Boer
War,
195-6;
depression in old age,
202;
death and funeral,
203-4;
memorial unveiled,
286-7;
wins
Willy s devotion,
358
Victoria, Empress of Germany (earlier
Crown Princess of Prussia; Vicky ):
and birth of Willy,
5, 10;
marriage to
Friedrich,
6-9;
position in family and
upbringing,
7-8;
assertiveness and
obstinacy in Prussia,
9—10, 12;
mothers correspondence with,
10, 24,
28;
and Willy s crippled arm, 10-1
1;
and birth of daughter Charlotte,
11;
and Willy s upbringing and education,
11-12,
14-15, 51-2, 59-60;
rift with
Bismarck,
12;
visits to England,
13, 31,
65;
charitable and social work,
17;
and
Prussian aggression,
19-20;
loses son
Sigismund,
20;
relations with children,
20;
view of Willy,
20, 79, 101, 116,
120;
criticises Alix s behaviour to
Prussian king,
33;
Edward and
Alix
visit in Berlin,
35;
race-consciousness,
40;
relief work in Franco-Prussian
war,
51;
titles,
51;
attends Willy s
confirmation,
59;
visits Willy at
school,
63;
life at
Neues
Palais,
Potsdam,
64;
Willy s fixation on,
64;
and award of Garter to Willy,
68-9;
anxiety over Willy s arrogance,
77;
and
death of sister Alice,
79;
warned of
Bismarck s spies,
79;
disillusionment
over Willy,
80;
and
Sandro
s
courting
of Princess Victoria,
99;
attends
mother s Golden Jubilee,
106-7;
disapproves of Willy s attachment to
Ella, in; and Fritz s throat cancer,
121;
Willy disparages,
122;
burns and
hides private papers,
124;
widowhood,
125-6, 130;
Willy moves from
Neues
Palais,
125;
Willy s disdainful
treatment of,
130;
on German miners
strike,
138;
on Dona s arrogance,
139;
on May of
Teck,
151;
at mother s
Diamond Jubilee celebrations,
192;
George visits at Cronberg,
201;
cancer,
202, 208;
Edward visits as
King,
208;
sends letters back to
England,
208-9;
death and
fonerai,
209
Victoria, Princess of Battenberg (later
Marchioness of Milford Haven;
Toria ),
98, 157, 317, 334
41З
KING, KAISER, TSAH
Victoria, Princess (daughter of
Alix
and
Edward; Toria ): birth,
35;
brother
Georges devotion to,
71—2, 81;
sees
Nicky on visit to Denmark,
95—6;
remains unmarried,
96, 188;
and
George-May wedding,
153;
welcomes
Nicky and family to England
(1909),
280;
on Mediterranean cruise with
mother,
281; Dagmar
sees in London,
296
Victoria, Princess of Prussia (Vicky s
daughter),
20, 98-9, 122
Victoria Louise, Princess (Willy s
daughter; Sissy ): marriage,
1, 300-2;
tutored by Anne Topham,
212—13;
visits London with father,
287;
and
Willys sense of betrayal in war,
315;
remains in Germany after Armistice,
353
Victoria
Melita,
Grand Duchess of Saxe-
Coburg-Gotha ( Ducky ),
161
Victoria and Albert (Royal Yacht),
1, 8, 24,
153, 247, 280, 300
Vladimir Alexandrovich, Grand Duke,
47,
161-2,
186
Vladivostok,
160
Voeykov, General V.N.,
73
Wahl,
General Victor
von, 219
Waldemar,
Prince of Denmark ( Waldy ),
4L95,
153
Waldemar,
Prince of Prussia: death,
79
Waldersee, General Count Alfred
von:
accompanies Willy to Russia,
99-100,
no; on Nicky s juvenile behaviour,
102;
anti-British views,
115;
militancy,
116;
engineers dismissal of Bismarck,
137;
decline in power,
146
Wallace, Sir Donald Mackenzie,
159
Warwick, Frances, Countess of (Lady
Brooke),
140
Wedel,
Edgard
von, 117, 237
Wegner,
Dr
August, 5
Wells, H.G., 339
Wemyss,
Admiral of the
Fleet Rosslyn
Erskine, Baron, 348, 352
Wendelstadt, Jan, Baron von, 237
White,
General Sir George Stuart, 195
Wilde, Oscar, 237
Wilhelm
I,
Kaiser:
inherits Prussian
crown,
12; Willy
admires,
17;
relations
with Bismarck,
18, 57;
relations with
son Fritz,
21, 65;
and Willy s
militarism,
21;
visits Edward and
Alix
in Wiesbaden,
33;
in
Dreikaiserbund,
57;
disagrees with Vicky over Willys
education,
59-60;
court life and
etiquette,
65;
and Willy s Prussian
upbringing,
69, 80;
and Willy s
university course,
77;
ninetieth
birthday,
103, 120;
approves Willy s
visit to Victoria s Golden Jubilee,
106;
and Willy s marriage to Dona,
112;
good relations with Willy,
114;
death,
122
Wilhelm
II, Kaiser ( Willy ): at daughter
Victoria Louise s wedding,
1 ;
upbringing and education,
2, 11—12,
14—16, 45, 51—2, 59-63, 68;
autocracy
and megalomania,
3, 130-1, 138, 147,
180, 240, 259-60, 274, 288, 299, 315;
birth,
5-6, 10;
crippled left arm,
10,
16, 52, 62, 109, 214;
ear problems,
10,
16, 119, 129;
childhood memories of
England,
13—14, 53;
Queen Victoria s
fondness for,
13—14;
riding difficulties,
16;
sports,
16;
mothers view of,
20,
79, 101;
and Prussian aggression,
20-2;
dress,
21-2, 78, 114, 133, 145,
190, 194, 214;
enlisted in army,
21-2;
Bismarck s anti-liberal influence on,
51-2, 69;
confirmed,
59;
relations
with parents,
64;
coming-of-age,
68;
orders and awards,
68—9, 190—1;
loses
interest in intellectual matters,
69-70;
Prussian values,
69;
arrogance,
77, 101;
attends Bonn university,
77-8, 112;
taste in art,
77;
views on women,
78,
112;
visits to England and Scotland,
78, 168—9;
on assassination attempts
on grandfather,
80;
household,
80;
military life and career,
80, 82—3, 114;
courtship and marriage to Dona,
81-2,
111-12; children,
83, 113;
objects to Battenberg marriages,
98;
attends Nicky s coming-of-age in St
Petersburg,
99—101, 109—10;
visits
Russia,
99—101, 109-10, 115—16;
differences with Edward,
104;
Queen
Victoria s displeasure with,
104—6,
126;
at Queen Victoria s Golden
Jubilee,
106-7,
I2I < political
conservatism,
109;
divine sense, in;
appearance and manner,
112—13, 126;
bisexuality,
112—13, 117, 142;
anti-
British views,
115, 121, 131—2, 147,
254, 358;
meets
Eulenburg, 116-20;
nervous fits and rages,
119, 129,
414
INDEX
241—2;
given official training,
120;
staff
appointments and changes,
120-30;
accession as Kaiser,
122-3;
and fathers
cancer and death,
122;
Alix s
hatred
of,
124;
ransacks Potsdam rooms for
evidence of plot,
124;
denounces
Edward s remarks on Denmark,
125;
relations with Edward,
125, 129,
132-3, 261, 264-5;
state visits as
Kaiser,
125;
proclamations to army,
navy and people,
128;
attachment to
Eulenburg, 131, 142-3;
state visits to
Britain,
132-3, 197-8, 267-8;
builds
up German navy,
133, 180, 192, 194,
248, 269, 277;
in Greece,
134;
occasional Anglophilia,
134;
plans and
changes to organisation and court,
135;
dismisses Bismarck,
137-8;
hostility to Socialists,
138, 146, 304;
visits Copenhagen,
139-40;
in
Liebenberg
Circle,
142—4;
North Sea
cruises (Nordlandreise),
143—5,
242;
pranks and practical jokes,
143—4;
trips
to country and abroad,
143—5;
Eulenburg s influence over,
145-6,
180-1,
207, 215, 240-1, 259, 274;
lacks objective advice,
146, 241;
reactionary policies,
146;
ancestry,
147;
racism and anti-Semitism,
147,
216, 299, 353;
invests Nicky with
Order of Black Eagle,
161;
encourages
Nicky s marriage with Alicky,
162;
absent from Alexander Ill s funeral,
168;
exuberant behaviour,
173;
attempts to influence Nicky,
174-5,
216-17, 228, 249-50, 265;
and
prospective war on two fronts,
174-5;
at opening of Kiel Canal,
176;
claims
England coveting Dardanelles,
176-7;
warns Nicky against French,
177;
sends congratulatory telegram to
Kruger,
178-9, 196;
resists reform,
182;
welcomes Bulow s appointment
as Chancellor,
184;
absent from
Nicky s coronation,
185;
Nicky
dislikes,
189, 196;
state visit to Russia,
190-1; banned from Victoria s
Diamond Jubilee celebrations,
192;
isolation and exclusion,
193-4. 228,
358-9;
sense of rejection by Britain,
193—4;
Nicky consults over Boer War,
195-7;
view of Nicky,
196;
diverts
Russian interest to Far East,
201;
attends dying Queen Victoria,
203;
stays in England for Victoria
s
funeral,
204;
George visits for birthday
celebrations,
210;
court,
213-15;
Anne
Topham meets,
214;
stands godfather
to Tsarevich Alexei,
225;
state visit to
Denmark,
227;
and Russian war with
Japan,
231-2, 249, 358;
paranoia,
235,
268, 271, 276, 288, 359;
on Russo-
Japanese peace settlement,
235;
and
Friedrich
von Eulenburg
divorce case,
236;
Harden lampoons,
239-40;
erratic behaviour,
240-3; Eulenburg
criticises,
241-2;
and proposed
defensive treaty with Russia,
249-52;
meets Nicky at
Björkö,
251;
visits
Tangier,
252-3, 258;
rejects
rapprochement with France,
259;
meets Nicky at Swinemiinde,
265;
refutes Esher s accusations of German
anti-Fisher feelings,
268-9;
and
Harden s attacks on
Eulenburg, 272-3,
275-6;
Daily Telegraph publishes
interview with,
276-8;
and
Eulenburg s exile and death,
276;
on
Austrian annexation of Bosnia-
Herzegovina,
279;
at Edward s funeral,
284;
favours Baghdad Railway,
286;
invited to unveiling of Victoria
memorial,
286—7;
relations with
Bethmann-Hollweg,
288;
Haldane
meets in Berlin,
297;
and war
preparations,
299;
and daughter Sissy s
wedding,
300-1;
celebrates silver
jubilee of accession,
304;
and outbreak
of war,
306-8;
communications with
George and Nicky attempting to avert
war,
308—11;
fears encirclement of
Germany,
308-9;
Nicky urges to
mediate between Russia and Austria,
309;
sense of betrayal at outbreak of
war,
315-16;
influence and activities
in war,
316, 320;
agrees to unrestricted
U-boat warfare,
336-7;
mood
changes,
336-7;
on Nicky s
abdication,
336;
peace proposals
rejected,
336;
concedes electoral
reforms,
337;
claims dominion over
Baltic,
342;
exile in Holland,
342, 350,
352-4, 357;
offers safe passage to
Nicky,
345;
rejects Allied peace
proposals,
346;
visits to front,
346-7;
collapse at impending defeat,
347;
agrees to negotiate peace,
348;
abdication,
349-50;
death and burial
415
KING, KAISER, TSAR
Wilhelm
II, Kaiser
(cont.)
in Holland,
354;
fondness for EG.
Wodehouse,
354;
remarries,
354;
effect
on events,
357;
disliked by Russian
Tsars,
358; Aus Meinem Leben, 13
Wilhelm, Crown
Prince of Germany:
birth,
113;
coming-of-age,
201;
Edward invites to Windsor,
253;
shows father Harden s articles on
Eulenburg, 272;
and father s
abdication,
349-50;
renounces claim
to throne,
350, 352;
exile on
Wiering
(island),
352-3
Wilhelmina,
Queen of the Netherlands,
346
Willi
see George I, King of the Hellenes
Williams, Sir John Hanbury,
331
Willy see
Wilhelm
II, Kaiser
Wilson, Woodrow: peace proposals,
346,
348
Windsor: adopted as British royal family
name,
346
Windsor, Edward, Duke of (earlier Prince
of Wales and King Edward
VIII):
birth
and name,
164;
and outbreak of war,
314;
at war s end,
352
Winton,
Major-General
Sir Francis,
149
Witte,
Count Sergei Iulevich: on
Alexander III,
90;
background and
career,
90-1;
on Willys reverence for
emperors,
126;
and construction of
Trans-Siberian Railway,
160, 230;
on
Alexander Ill s death,
163;
on Nicky
at father s funeral,
167;
on Nicky s
character,
172;
favours economic amd
social reforms,
187, 199—200, 218;
warns of trouble in Far East,
200,
230—1;
on Willy
s
influencing Nicky,
217;
as Chairman of Council of
Ministers,
222, 236;
Nicky dismisses,
231;
represents Russia at peace
conference with Japan,
235;
Edward
invites to England,
254-5;
meets
Eulenburg
and Willy,
258-9;
on
appointment of Makarov as Interior
Minister,
289;
death,
289;
and Nicky s
antipathy to Willy,
358;
on
Bernhard
von Bülow, 422
Wulfert, Natalia: marriage to Misha,
292
Xenia, Grand Duchess of Russia (Nicky s
sister): birth,
66;
life at Gatchina,
87-8;
marriage to
Sandro,
101, 166,
174;
congratulates Nicky on marriage,
163;
and festivities following
Khodinka meadow tragedy,
186;
on
Nicky s reluctance to act against
revolutionaries,
199;
on Nicky-
Alicky s daughters,
211;
describes
opening of first State Duma,
223;
on
unrest in Russia,
234;
on Rasputin,
290, 300;
Nicky writes to from
Tobolsk,
342;
escapes to England,
355-6
Yakovlev, Vasily,
343
Yanisheff, Father,
164
Yusupov, Prince Felix: on Grand Duke
Sergei,
174;
kills Rasputin,
300, 332;
in Berlin at outbreak of war,
317
Yusupov, Grand Duchess
Irina, 300, 317
Zedlitz-Truetzschler, Count Robert
von,
273-4, 302
Zukunft, Die
(magazine),
239-42, 260,
271-2
416
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| indexdate | 2024-12-20T13:05:28Z |
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| physical | XIII, 416 S. Ill. |
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| spellingShingle | Clay, Catrine 1943- King, Kaiser, Tsar three royal cousins who led the world to war George / V / King of Great Britain / 1865-1936 / Family William / II / German Emperor / 1859-1941 / Family Nicholas / II / Emperor of Russia / 1868-1918 / Family George <V, King of Great Britain, 1865-1936> Family Nicholas <II, Emperor of Russia, 1868-1918> Family William <II, German Emperor, 1859-1941> Family Georg V. Großbritannien, König 1865-1936 (DE-588)118690469 gnd Nikolaj II. Russland, Zar 1868-1918 (DE-588)11873492X gnd Wilhelm II. Deutsches Reich, Kaiser 1859-1941 (DE-588)118632892 gnd Heads of state / Europe / Biography World War, 1914-1918 / Biography Geschichte Weltkrieg (1914-1918) Heads of state Europe Biography World War, 1914-1918 Biography Erster Weltkrieg (DE-588)4079163-4 gnd |
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| title | King, Kaiser, Tsar three royal cousins who led the world to war |
| title_alt | Three royal cousins who led the world to war |
| title_auth | King, Kaiser, Tsar three royal cousins who led the world to war |
| title_exact_search | King, Kaiser, Tsar three royal cousins who led the world to war |
| title_full | King, Kaiser, Tsar three royal cousins who led the world to war Catrine Clay |
| title_fullStr | King, Kaiser, Tsar three royal cousins who led the world to war Catrine Clay |
| title_full_unstemmed | King, Kaiser, Tsar three royal cousins who led the world to war Catrine Clay |
| title_short | King, Kaiser, Tsar |
| title_sort | king kaiser tsar three royal cousins who led the world to war |
| title_sub | three royal cousins who led the world to war |
| topic | George / V / King of Great Britain / 1865-1936 / Family William / II / German Emperor / 1859-1941 / Family Nicholas / II / Emperor of Russia / 1868-1918 / Family George <V, King of Great Britain, 1865-1936> Family Nicholas <II, Emperor of Russia, 1868-1918> Family William <II, German Emperor, 1859-1941> Family Georg V. Großbritannien, König 1865-1936 (DE-588)118690469 gnd Nikolaj II. Russland, Zar 1868-1918 (DE-588)11873492X gnd Wilhelm II. Deutsches Reich, Kaiser 1859-1941 (DE-588)118632892 gnd Heads of state / Europe / Biography World War, 1914-1918 / Biography Geschichte Weltkrieg (1914-1918) Heads of state Europe Biography World War, 1914-1918 Biography Erster Weltkrieg (DE-588)4079163-4 gnd |
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