The Last Princess by Matthew Dennison

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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Princess Beatrice in a burnous, by Franz Xavier Winterhalter, 1859. (Royal Collection)
Queen Victoria and her family at Osborne, photograph by Caldesi and Montecchi, 1857. (Bridgeman Art Library)
The crossed hands of Princess Beatrice, plaster sculpture by Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm. (Victoria and Albert Museum)
Poster of Beatrice at various stages of her life, 1901. (Print Collector/HIP/Topfoto)
Queen Victoria and Beatrice, photograph by Ghemar Freres, c. 1862. (Illustrated London News Photo Library)
Bust of Albert surrounded by his daughters in mourning, photograph by William Bambridge, March 1862. (Royal Archives)
Beatrice as a teenager, photograph by W & D Downey, 1868. (National Portrait Gallery Picture Library, London)
The Marriage of the Prince of Wales and Princess Alexandra of Denmark in St George's Chapel, Windsor by William Powell Frith, 1863. (Royal Collection)
Portrait of Beatrice as a young woman. (Illustrated London News Photo Library)
The Afternoon Drive, from The Graphic, 11 November 1882. (Illustrated London News Photo Library)
Frontispiece from A Birthday Book, designed by Princess Beatrice, published by Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1881
Prince Henry of Battenberg, c. 1890. (Hulton Archive © Getty Images)
Beatrice, photograph by Valery, c. 1886. (Royal Archives)
Engravings of Prince Henry and Princess Beatrice, from The Graphic, 10 June 1885. (Illustrated London News Photo Library)
The bride and groom surrounded by their attendants, 1885. (Royal Archives)
Osborne House on the wedding day, from the Illustrated London News, I August 1885. (Illustrated London News Photo Library)
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Prince and Princess Henry with Alexander, 1886. (Illustrated London News Photo Library)
The christening of Ena at Balmoral, from The Graphic, 10 December 1887. (Illustrated London News Photo Library)
Beatrice with her children at Windsor, photograph by Mary Steen, from the Illustrated London News, 25 January 1896. (Illustrated London News Photo Library)
Princes Alexander, Leopold and Maurice, photographed at Balmoral, c. 1896. (Illustrated London News Photo Library)
Leopold on a toy horse. (Illustrated London News Photo Library)
Beatrice and Maurice. (Private collection)
Beatrice with Maurice, Ena, Leopold and Alexander. (Illustrated London News Photo Library)
Maurice, Alexander and Leopold in uniform, c. 1914. (Illustrated London News Photo Library)
Princess Beatrice down a Coal Mine, from The Graphic, 14 September 1889. (Illustrated London News Photo Library)
Tableau vivant with the Princess as the Queen of Sheba, 1888. (The Royal Archives 2006)
Queen Victoria at Osborne with her family, 1898. (The Royal Archives 2006)
Princess Beatrice (Private Collection)
Princess Ena, King Alfonso of Spain, Queen Christina of Spain and Princess Beatrice, Biarritz, 1906. (Illustrated London News Photo Library)
Princess Beatrice with her Spanish grandchildren. (Illustrated London News Photo Library)
Princess Beatrice, by Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida, 1908. (National Portrait Gallery Picture Library, London)
Princess Beatrice, by Philip de Laszlo, 1927. (Private collection, reproduced courtesy of the de Laszlo estate)
    Photographs credited to The Royal Collection and The Royal Archives are reproduced © H M Queen Elizabeth II 2007.

AUTHOR'S NOTE
    I gratefully acknowledge the permission of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II to publish material from The Royal Archives, and thank Pamela Clark and Jill Kelsey for their assistance at Windsor Castle. I am grateful to Professor Dr Eckhart G Franz, Grand Ducal Archives, Darmstadt; Virginia Murray, John Murray Archives; Adrian Allen, University Archivist, University of Liverpool; and the staff of the following libraries, records offices and archives: University of Birmingham Library (Special Collections); The British Library; Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge; Glasgow University Archive Services; Leeds University Library