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[11] Creevey, I, 297–8.

[12] Jerrold, Early Court, 15–17.

[13] Letters, I, 10.

[14] Ibid., I, 14; Girlhood, I, 280.

[15] Crawford, 6.

[16] Smith, 21–2.

[17] Cornhill Magazine, LXXV, 730.

[18] Hunt, II, 257–8.

[19] Letters, I, 10, 18.

[20] Letters, I, 11–12; Lee, 26.

[21] Letters, I, 14–17.

[22] Ibid., I, 16.

[23] Martin, I, 13.

[24] Letters, I, 11.

[25] Girlhood, I, 42.

[26] Crawford, 87.

[27] Martineau, II, 118–9.

[28] Girlhood, I, 66–7.

[29] Ibid., I, 129.

[30] Girlhood, I, 124–5.

[31] Girlhood, I, 78, 82.

[32] Ibid., I, 150–3.

[33] Girlhood, I, 157–61.

[34] Greville, II, 195–6

[35] Greville, III, 321, 324.

[36] Letters, I, 47–8.

[37] Girlhood, I, 168.

[38] Greville, III, 377.

[39] Greville, III, 374–6.

[40] Ibid., IV, 21; and August 15, 1839 (unpublished). 'The cause of the Queen's alienation from the Duchess and hatred of Conroy, the Duke [of Wellington] said, was unquestionably owing to her having witnessed some familiarities between them. What she had seen she repeated to Baroness Spaeth, and Spaeth not only did not hold her tongue, but (he thinks) remonstrated with the Duchess herself on the subject. The consequence was that they got rid of Spaeth, and they would have got rid of Lehzen, too, if they had been able, but Lehzen, who knew very well what was going on, was prudent enough not to commit herself, and she was, besides, powerfully protected by George IV and William IV, so that they did not dare to attempt to expel her.'

[41] Greville, IV, 21; Crawford, 128–9.

[42] Girlhood, I, 192–3.

[43] Ibid., I, 191.

[44] Ibid., I, 194.

[45] Greville, III, 407–8.

[46] Creevey, II, 262.

[47] Letters, I, 53.

[48] Letters, I, 61.

[49] Girlhood, I, 175.

[50] Letters, I, 70–1.

[51] Torrens, 419.

[52] Huish, 686.

[53] Wynn, 281.

[54] Girlhood, I, 195–6.

[55] Ibid., I, 196–7.

[56] Greville, III, 414–6.

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