61 “said to me at Homburg”: ibid., 276

  62 “Mr. Chamberlain...”: ibid., 275

  63 “Impossible!”: ibid.

  64 “I quite agree with you”: ibid., 279

  65 “Since the Crimean War”: ibid., 282

  Chapter 13

  Fashoda

  1 “His temperature was high”: A. L. Kennedy, Salisbury, 276

  2 “Africa was created”: Garvin, III, 203

  3 “Up to ten years ago”: Gwendolyn Cecil, IV, 225

  4 “The question of going forward”: Queen Victoria, III, 85

  5 “My father was much impressed”: A. L. Kennedy, Salisbury, 280

  6 “the French Embassy in London”: Newton, 283

  7 “The advance of a French expedition”: A. L. Kennedy, Salisbury, 278

  8 “an emissary of civilization”: BD, I, 163

  9 “I note your intention”: Gooch, History of Modern Europe, 289

  10 “I have come to resume”: A. L. Kennedy, Salisbury, 286

  11 “We are the stronger”: ibid., 287

  12 “Here is Marchand”: Queen Victoria, III, 287

  13 “no title of occupation”: A. L. Kennedy, Salisbury, 290

  14 “so long as the French flag flew”: Queen Victoria, III, 299

  15 “Great Britain has been treated”: A. L. Kennedy, Old Diplomacy, 82

  16 “Fashoda is the last straw”: Marder, Anatomy, 331

  17 “It seems a deadlock”: Queen Victoria, III, 289

  18 “I deeply sympathize”: ibid., 290

  19 “Received your cypher”: ibid.

  20 “We have only arguments”: Gooch, Before the War, I, 96

  21 “Not a stone”: Queen Victoria, III, 298

  22 “there would be no humiliation”: ibid., 304

  23 “a French explorer”: BD, I, 170

  24 “I think a war”: Queen Victoria, III, 305

  25 “very agreeable”: ibid., 308

  26 “I have received from the French ambassador”: A. L. Kennedy, Old Diplomacy, 83

  27 “keeps the French entirely out”: Queen Victoria, III, 351

  28 “I have received news”: DGP, XIV, ii, 383

  29 “had no knowledge”: ibid., 385

  30 “Poor France”: ibid., 409

  Chapter 14

  Samoa and William’s Visit to Windsor

  1 “You ask me”: Garvin, III, 246

  2 “Last year we offered”: E.T.S. Dugdale, III, 62; DGP, XIV, ii, 612

  3 “Instead of compliance”: Spender, Fifty Years, 184

  4 “I suspect”: Queen Victoria, III, 359

  5 “said that it was not”: ibid.

  6 “Dearest Grandmama”: ibid., 376

  7 “He entirely agrees”: ibid., 379

  8 “Dear William”: ibid., 381

  9 “wouldn’t be dictated to”: Eckardstein, 106

  10 “I am waiting daily”: ibid.

  11 “a document of frothy flummery”: ibid., III

  12 “whether Samoa was the name”: ibid., 112

  13 “What has happened in Samoa”: E.T.S. Dugdale, III, 57; DGP, XIV, 592

  14 “What I have preached”: ibid. 61

  15 “stood alone”: Garvin, III, 282

  16 “Your government in England”: ibid., 341

  17 “abolishes every colonial antagonism”: ibid., 342

  18 “I AM EQUALLY PLEASED”: Queen Victoria, III, 416

  19 “BRAVO!”: Bülow, I, 331

  20 “Yes, the last few years”: Eckardstein, 117

  21 “Let him come”: ibid.

  22 “I AM DÉSOLÉ”: Queen Victoria, III, 389

  23 “YOUR HANDICAPS”: Eckardstein, 120

  24 “It really is enough”: ibid.

  25 “I don’t envy”: ibid.

  26 “the Kaiser could not”: ibid., 121

  27 “If I go”: ibid., 122

  28 “I should be awfully glad”: ibid., 123

  29 “It was not until”: ibid., 124

  30 “I hoped”: Bülow, I, 355

  31 “Beyond any question”: ibid., 364

  32 “The entire service”: Garvin, III, 500

  33 “ruler of the world empire”: Bülow, I, 361

  34 “From this Tower”: ibid., 360

  35 “William came to me after tea”: Queen Victoria, III, 421

  36 “Lord Salisbury has heard”: ibid., 399

  37 “but if he was blamed too much”: Bülow, I, 377

  38 “the immense harm”: Queen Victoria, III, 423

  39 “Joseph Chamberlain was”: Bülow, I, 367

  40 “an able, energetic, shrewd businessman”: ibid., 368

  41 “I am the sole master”: ibid., 370

  42 “with its magnificent park”: ibid., 395

  43 “One had only to appear”: ibid.

  44 “a fat, malicious tom-cat”: ibid., 399

  45 “British politicians”: ibid., 391

  46 “The visit... has gone off”: ibid., 401

  47 “Any far-seeing English statesman”: Garvin, III, 507

  48 “an incomprehensible blunder”: Eckardstein, 146

  49 “a gaucherie”: Bülow, I, 385

  50 “Count Bülow, whose acquaintance”: Eckardstein, 130

  51 “Without power”: Bülow, I, 415

  52 “I will say no more”: Eckardstein, 151

  53 “the extreme difficulty”: ibid., 144

  54 “Chamberlain and Arthur Balfour”: Bülow, I, 392

  55 “to show a spirit”: ibid., 394

  Chapter 15

  The Boer War and the Boxer Rebellion

  1 “moral and intellectual damages”: Thomas Pakenham, 63

  2 “A war with the Transvaal”: Garvin, III, 141

  3 “Kruger has never”: Spender, Asquith, 132

  4 “the sands are running low”: A. L. Kennedy, Salisbury, 309

  5 “I will tell you one thing”: Gwendolyn Cecil, III, 191

  6 “The vast majority”: Garvin, III, 513

  7 “The South African question”: Eckardstein, 137

  8 “the infamous language”: A. L. Kennedy, Salisbury, 313

  9 “phenomenal”: ibid.

  10 “What days of sad news”: Lee, I, 754

  11 “Last year”: Queen Victoria, III, 484

  12 “I am afraid I am unable”: Lee, I, 759

  13 “My last paragraph”: ibid.

  14 “the Kaiser is considering”: Eckardstein, 153

  15 “Lord Salisbury”: ibid., 152

  16 the Swiss cheese ultimatum: ibid., 157

  17 “Yet whosoever believes”: Garvin, III, 516

  18 “You have no idea”: Lee, I, 770

  19 “My armies have driven”: Asquith. Fifty Years, I, 305

  20 “THE DISTURBANCES IN CHINA”: The Times, June 6, 1900

  21 “As to Su Shun”: Fleming, 57

  22 “Fish in a stewpan”: O’Connor, 142

  23 “awful sights”: Fleming, 94

  24 “Veuillez agréer”: ibid., 118

  25 “The face”: ibid., 114

  26 “Situation desperate”: ibid., 132

  27 “put to the sword”: ibid., 135

  28 “impossible to exaggerate”: ibid., 137

  29 “Lady MacDonald”: O’Connor, 296

  30 “Peking must be stormed”: ibid., 181

  31 “Now it is a pleasure”: Bülow, I, 417

  32 “I never saw him so excited”: ibid.

  33 “unprecedented in its impudence”: ibid.

  34 “no business”: O’Connor, 181

  35 Bülow’s description of the “Hun” speech: Bülow, I, 418

  36 “I cannot possibly answer”: ibid., 419

  37 “You struck out the best parts”: ibid.

  38 “I know you are concerned”: ibid., 420

  39 “not to endure”: DGP, XVI, 76

  40 “The strongest corps”: E.T.S. Dugdale, III, 130; ibid., 82

  41 “I fully agree”: ibid.; ibid., 83

  42 “How wonderfully”: Waldersee, 144

  43 “He is extraordinarily restless”: ibid., 167

  44 “tried to make excuses”: ibid., 168

  45 “traitor”: Bülow, I, 423

  46 “It became obvious to me”: Waldersee, 209

  47 “Naturally, this was”: ibid.

  48 “betrayed him”: Bülow, I, 527

  49 “as big a war indemnity”: Waldersee, 210

  50 “were extraordinarily polite”: ibid., 213

  51 “farcical” and “absurd”: O’Connor, 298

  52 “Different staff officers”: Waldersee, 249

  53 “I rejoice that the French”: ibid., 230

  54 “They say that the Kaiser”: O’Connor, 298

  55 “to shoot all the headmen”: ibid., 299

  56 “exerting a moral influence”: Fleming, 253

  57 “This is no time”: Manchester, The Arms of Krupp, 217

  58 “It was not a proper position”: Eckardstein, 180

  59 “seems to desire”: O’Connor, 325

  60 “At all costs”: Eckardstein, 175

  Chapter 16

  The “Khaki Election” and the Death of Queen Victoria

  1 “the Parliament is in its sixth year”: Queen Victoria, III, 586

  2 “We all know very well”: Asquith, Fifty Years, I, 305

  3 “A vote for the Liberals”: Spender, Campbell-Bannerman, I, 291

  4 “The elections are wonderfully good”: Queen Victoria, III, 603

  5 “while marking their ballots”: Garvin, III, 605

  6 “The stable remains the same”: Asquith, Fifty Years, II, 3

  7 “makes one despair”: Amery, IV, 138

  8 “his doctors had advocated”: Queen Victoria, III, 604

  9 “I do very earnestly”: ibid., 606

  10 “Lord Salisbury thought”: ibid., 611

  11 “At the time”: Churchill, Great Contemporaries, 57

  12 “Double Duchess”: Tuchman, Proud Tower, 39

  13 “Pray come without fail”: Eckardstein, 184

  14 “The Colonial Minister”: ibid., 185

  15 “It is particularly noteworthy”: ibid., 186

  16 “You and I”: Amery, IV, 146

  17 “Better wait”: ibid., 147

  18 “I was wheeled up to the bed”: Queen Victoria, III, 516

  19 “an accomplice of Chamberlain”: Lee, I, 777

  20 “It was entirely my own idea”: Longford, 555

  21 “Again my old birthday”: ibid., 556

  22 “I now rest daily”: ibid., 558

  23 “The malady appears incurable”: Queen Victoria, III, 576

  24 “having been with us,” ibid., 580

  25 “Oh God!”: ibid., 579

  26 “He has now been”: ibid., 588

  27 “The Queen feels”: ibid., 592

  28 “Your Majesty speaks pathetically”: ibid., 594

  29 “In May the Queen”: Askwith, 261

  30 “gloomy and dark”: Longford, 558

  31 “very poorly and wretched”: Queen Victoria, III, 616

  32 Queen Victoria’s diary entries: ibid., 618–34

  33 “She was thinner”: Amery, IV, 7

  34 “I am not anxious,” ibid., 6

  35 “Had a fair night”: Queen Victoria, III, 642

  36 “as mighty an instrument”: Amery, IV, 147

  37 “I have duly informed”: Newton, 197

  38 “prompt recovery”: Longford, 561

  39 “The last moments”: Ponsonby, 82

  40 “She was so little”: Balfour, 231

  41 “William was kindness itself”: Magnus, 272

  42 “William’s touching and simple demeanour”: ibid.

  43 “Let us rather remember”: Lee, II, 526

  44 “She was the greatest”: Amery, IV, 8

  45 “The Queen is dead, Sir”: Lee, II, 8

  46 “see what you can do”: Balfour, 231

  47 “I hope”: Bülow, I, 580

  48 “My aunts”: ibid., 581

  49 “The Kaiser is very tired”: ibid.

  50 “To crown everything else”: ibid., 582

  51 “I am anxious”: ibid., 583

  52 “Accordingly, I told the Kaiser”: Eckardstein, 189

  53 “Baron von Eckardstein tells me”: Amery, IV, 148

  54 “Chamberlain’s threatened understanding”: ibid., 149

  55 “Your Majesty is quite right”: ibid.

  56 “the Russian Emperor”: Newton, 199

  57 “Russian Grand Duke”: ibid.

  58 “It is not the British Fleet”: Eckardstein, 192

  59 “I cannot wobble forever”: Amery, IV, 150; DGP, XVI, 295

  60 “The military ranks”: ibid., 151

  61 “I believe there is a Providence”: Cowles

  62 “completely under the spell”: Bülow, I, 585

  Chapter 17

  The End of Anglo-German Alliance Negotiations

  1 “Everything from London”: Eckardstein, 202

  2 “no desire to burn”: Amery, IV, 153

  3 “The alliance is moving”: Eckardstein, 219

  4 “out of the hands of Eckardstein”: Bülow, I, 591

  5 “that person”: Amery, IV, 156

  6 “unmitigated noodles”: Eckardstein, 217

  7 “There, what do you”: ibid.

  8 “hopeless sloppiness”: ibid., 202

  9 “cleverly managed”: ibid., 220

  10 “since the liability”: BD, II, 68

  11 “Nobody here in England”: Amery, IV, 157

  12 “We ought not”: ibid., 160

  13 “nations who now criticize”: ibid., 167

  14 “the bloodhound of the Transvaal”: Spender, Fifty Years, 187

  15 “butchers”: Amery, IV, 168

  16 “for a speech”: ibid., 169

  17 “there had been no warmer advocate”: ibid.

  18 “The German Army”: Bülow, I, 637

  19 “What I have said”: Amery, IV, 173

  20 “Mr. Chamberlain is”: ibid., 175

  21 “You would be interested”: ibid., 176

  22 “the temper of the two countries”: Newton, 207

  23 “I hear in the strictest confidence”: E.T.S. Dugdale, III, 171; DGP, XVII, 342

  24 “It is not the first time”: Eckardstein, 288

  25 “For a long time at least”: ibid., 230

  Chapter 18

  Arthur Balfour

  1 “One might as well”: A. L. Kennedy, Salisbury, 354

  2 “the King’s face”: Amery, IV, 448

  3 “Joe Chamberlain was”: ibid., 453

  4 “that I was to understand”: ibid., V, 67

  5 “The country is full”: ibid., 71

  6 “Arthur hates difficulties”: ibid., IV, 464

  7 “The difference between Joe and me”: ibid.

  8 “the finest brain”: Chamberlain, 206

  9 “the most extraordinary objet d’art”: Young, xv

  10 “To know her slightly”: Blanche Dugdale, I, 16

  11 “Can you tell me”: ibid.

  12 “a beautiful purity of mind”: ibid., 21

  13 “if he was laughed at”: ibid., 20

  14 “Pretty Fanny”: Young, 13

  15 “In these conditions”: Blanche Dugdale, I, 36

  16 “A very good bill”: ibid., 37

  17 “Ah, when we were young”: Young, 38

  18 “The member for Hertford”: Blanche Dugdale, I, 45

  19 “that very pretty, quaint boy”: Young, 32

  20 “I really delight in him”: ibid.

  21 “with ill-timed punctuality”: ibid.

  22 “I saw with intense thankfulness”: ibid.

  23 “Comatose”: Blanche Dugdale, I, 31

  24 “Nearly all the young men”: Margot Asquith, II, 12

  25 “The fact is, Mr. Balfour”: ibid., I, 259

  26 “You all sit around”: Young, 143

  27 “Oh, dear”: Tuchman, Proud Tower, 46

  28 “exquisite attention”: Margot Asquith, I, 257

  29 “to know intimately”: ibid.

  30 “I think I should mind”: Jenkins, 79

  31 “After an evening”: Chamberlain, 217

  32 “If he had”: Tuchman, Proud Tower, 52

  33 “Who did you say”: Blanche Dugdale, I, 150

  34 “If you think”: ibid., 94

  35 “drifting with lazy grace”: Young, 101

  36 “a silk-skinned sybarite”: ibid.

  37 “accidents have occurred”: Blanche Dugdale, I, 98

  38 “failed because he relied”: Young, 105

  39 “If necessary, do not hesitate”: Blanche Dugdale, I, 101

  40 “best calculated”: ibid.

  41 “It is impossible to say”: ibid., 110

  42 “What I have done”: ibid., 137

  43 “Bloody Balfour”: ibid., 113

  44 “There are those who talk”: ibid., 103

  45 “jaded palate”: ibid., 120

  46 “My object is not to bribe”: ibid., 130

  47 “with rather a wry face”: Young, 125

  48 “formerly as ready”: ibid., 130

  49 “he had never loved”: ibid.

  50 “I am very glad”: ibid.

  51 “I ran up from the station”: Blanche Dugdale, I, 166

  52 “There is a difference”: Margot Asquith, I, 236

  53 “My dear Uncle Robert”: Blanche Dugdale, I, 187

  54 “You ask me about South Africa”: Young, 185

  55 “Every night I go down to the War Office”: Blanche Dugdale, I, 222

  56 “Hotel Cecil”: ibid., 237

  57 “this unhappy and persecuted family”: ibid., 239

  58 “It is better, perhaps”: Young, xvii

  59 “When I’m at work in politics”: ibid., 163

  60 “Quite a good fellow”: Tuchman, Proud Tower, 49

  61 “ridiculous,” “grotesque”: Blanche Dugdale, I, 114

  62 “really believe”: Tuchman, Proud Tower, 51

  63 “Imperishable monuments”: Margot Asquith, I, 265

  64 “having cooked for him a sparrow”: Blanche Dugdale, I, 143

  65 “this damned Scottish croquet”: Tuchman, Proud Tower, 53

  66 “making a raft with his sponge”: Blanche Dugdale, I, 144

  Chapter 19

  Joseph Chamberlain and Imperial Preference

  1 “Colonies are like fruits”: Amery, V, 39

  2 “either by exemption”: Blanche Dugdale, I, 255

  3 “It was suggested”: ibid., 256

  4 “Let us first be quite clear”: Amery, V, 119