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Divorce Bill, iii. 231, 232

Wilkie, Sir David, i. 313

William I., King of Prussia, _see_ Prussia

---- King of the Netherlands, _see_ Holland

---- IV. of England (formerly Duke of Clarence), politics, i. 5; marriage, i. 8, 14, 24; succession to the Throne, i. 19; estrangement with Duchess of Kent, i. 19, _27_, 68; death and review of his reign, i. 19, 20, _56_; illness, i. 71, 72, 73; death, i. 74; his children, i. _258_

Williams, General Fenwick, gallant defence of Kars, iii. _64_

---- Mr, i. 374

Willis's Rooms, iii. _341_

Willoughby, Lord, receptions at Court, iii. 385

Wilson, James, Financial Secretary to Treasury, afterwards Privy Councillor, ii. 190

Wimpole, i. 504

Winchester, Marquess of, ii. 393

Windsor, Queen's opinion of, i. 85; beauty of, i. 372

Wiseman, Cardinal, made Archbishop of Westminster, ii. _232_, _273_, 278

Woburn Abbey, Queen's visit to, i. 295

Wodehouse, Lady, iii. 205

---- Lord (afterwards Earl of Kimberley), iii. 377

Women and Politics, Queen Victoria's view of, ii. 362

Wood, Sir Charles (afterwards Viscount Halifax), Chancellor of the Exchequer, ii. 84, 86, 109, 130, _132_, 139, 312, 324, 359; Seals of Office given up, ii. 375; Board of Control, ii. 421; and Disraeli, ii, _428_; India Bill, ii. 447; and Lord John Russell, iii. 59; Government of, 1855, iii. 93, 97, 98; India Board, iii. 104; first Lord of Admiralty, 1855, iii. _109_, 149, 253; position of Naval Force, iii. 191; financial crisis, iii. 256; Secretary for India, iii. 349; Italian Policy, iii. 366; Indian titles, iii. 394; Indian Civil Service, iii. 398; artillery in India, iii. 473; letter on death of Prince Consort, iii. 474

Woods, Sir William, i. 204

Woolwich Arsenal, ii. _22_

Worcester, Deanery of, ii. 40; See of, iii. 416

Wordsworth, Rev. Dr Christopher, Headmaster of Harrow, i. 348

Woronzow, Prince Michael, i. 494

Worsley, Lord, i. 287

Woulfe, Stephen, afterwards Chief Baron for Ireland, i. 62

Wrangel, General von, iii. 454

Würtemberg, Alexander, Duke of, marriage, i. 4

---- Crown Prince of, iii. 458

---- King of, marriage, i. 1; visit to the Queen, i. 90

---- Prince Alexander, of, i. 89, 144, 145, 199

Würtemberg, Princess Alexander of, death, i. 144, 150

---- Queen of, i. 11; visit to Frogmore, i. 13

Wyse, Mr, British Envoy at Athens, ii. 229, 234, 235, _243_

Yang-tze River, i. _442_

Yeh, Chinese Governor, and Sir John Bowring, iii. _223_; ultimatum, iii. _223_

York, Duke of, character, i. 5, 10

---- Prince Consort's visit to, ii. 184

Yorke, Sir Joseph, death, i. _384_

Young, Sir John, High Commissioner, iii. _309_

"Young England" party, ii. _1_, 16

Zichy, Count Eugène, i. 115

Zollverein, i. 289

Zouaves, iii. 136

Zurich, Treaty of Peace at, iii. _308_, _374_

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Transcriber's note:

ERRATA

Page 20: extraneous "the" removed. (...what they are--the the Queen...)

Page 111: _so-fond_: hyphen removed

Page 142: 'as replaced with 'at'. (The great event has at length taken place...)

Page 171: 'Fiday' corrected to 'Friday' (Lord Clarendon starts for Paris on Friday.)

Page 209: (indistinct) 'a s' corrected to 'pas', to conform with wording of earlier draft (...ces dangers seront écartés à l'instant que la France s'unira à nous pour tenir un langage ferme à la Russie qui tâche de nous désunir et il ne faut pas qu'elle y réussisse.)

Page 261: 'eighy' corrected to 'eighty' (...joined with eighty-four Liberals and four Peelites...)

Page 281, Footnote 28: 'wote' corrected to 'wrote'.

Page 325: 'sentimens' [sic; instead of 'sentiments'] (Lord Cowley a été auprès de moi le digne interprète des sentiments de votre Majesté, ....)

Page 325: 'indépendans' [sic; instead of 'indépendants'] États indépendans.

Page 325: 'sentimens' [sic; instead of 'sentiments'] C'est dans ces sentimens que je renouvelle à votre Majesté....

[The omission of 't' in the above words may have been a personal idiom. They have been left as such.]

Page 390: Date corrected from 7th March 1863 to 7th March 1860.

Page 432: 'preseved' corrected to 'preserved' (...by which the peace of Europe may be preserved.)

Page 444: '1831' corrected to '1851' (...your Majesty's sanction to that was obtained in 1851-52,...)

Page 503: 'annxation' corrected to 'annexation'