Oman, Carola. An Oxford Childhood. Hodder and Stoughton, 1976.
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Birth | Carola Oman | CO
was born in Oxford, the middle child in a family of three, during a visit to Oxford by the Prince of Wales
. Oman, Carola. An Oxford Childhood. Hodder and Stoughton, 1976. 51 |
Cultural formation | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Born Scottish, with some Irish forebears, the young Conan Doyle (later SACD
) was somewhat precariously placed in the British middle class, living in comparative poverty but supported through a privileged education by richer relations... |
Dedications | Florence Dixie | The journey was undertaken with the intention of writing about it. The book appeared with a dedication, by permission, to the Prince of Wales
. Roberts, Brian. The Mad Bad Line. Hamish Hamilton, 1981. 83 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Alice Meynell | AM
's sister Elizabeth
, later Lady Butler, became a well-known painter. She earned high praise for her depiction of a battle scene in The Roll Call, exhibited at the Royal Academy
in 1874... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elma Napier | The game in question occurred at Wilson's home in September 1890. The Prince of Wales
had been in attendance, and was called to testify against EN
's father. The guilty verdict is often attributed to... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Pam Gems | PG
's mother, Elsie (Annetts) Price
, and her two widowed grandmothers brought her up. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Queen Victoria | QV
gave birth to her second child, the heir to the throne, Albert Edward, Prince of Wales
. Munich, Adrienne. Queen Victoria’s Secrets. Columbia University Press, 1996. xiv |
Family and Intimate relationships | Queen Victoria | The Prince of Wales, and heir to the throne of Britain, Edward Albert
, married Princess Alexandra of Denmark
. Munich, Adrienne. Queen Victoria’s Secrets. Columbia University Press, 1996. xvi |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Brett | DB
's father, Reginald Baliol Brett
, became the second Viscount Esher after his father
's death in 1899. In his capacity as a peer and courtier, Reginald Regy Brett wore distinguished hats after being... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Queen Victoria | Commonly referred to as Bertie, he became in due course King Edward VII
. Prince Albert purposely broke with the tradition of inviting the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Lord President of the Council... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Queen Victoria | The Prince of Wales
was in this year seriously ill with typhoid. Munich, Adrienne. Queen Victoria’s Secrets. Columbia University Press, 1996. xvii |
Family and Intimate relationships | Violet Trefusis | VT
's mother, Alice Frederica (Edmonstone) Keppel
, was born in 1869 to Mary Elizabeth (Parsons)
and William Edmonstone
at Duntreath Castle near Loch Lomond, Scotland. Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo, 1997. 15-17 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Violet Trefusis | Later in life especially, Trefusis liked to whisper to friends that she was really the daughter of Edward VII
, whom she and her sister called Grandpapa and Kingy Gateau as children. Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo, 1997. 15, 62 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Violet Trefusis | Mrs Keppel was a wealthy woman, both as Edward VII
's former mistress and because by 1918 her own speculations yielded more than £20,000 a year. This gave her an advantage in her goal of... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Florence Dixie | FD
's second son, Albert Edward Wolston Beaumont Dixie
, was born: the future King Edward VII
, still Prince of Wales, stood godfather to him. Roberts, Brian. The Mad Bad Line. Hamish Hamilton, 1981. 79 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
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