[237] This is the first indication in the Journals that Princess Victoria realised her future position. It is known that for many years knowledge of her possible accession to the Throne was withheld from her. When it was determined that she should be enlightened, a Family Tree was inserted by her governess between the pages of an English history. The child examined it minutely for some time, and turning to Baroness Lehzen said, “Then I shall be Queen.”
[238] Daughter of Lieut.-General Francis Grant and widow of Lord George Murray, Bishop of St. David’s and second son of the second Duke of Atholl.
[239] The mutiny and riots in Portugal were, it was contended, the outcome of the appointment of Prince Ferdinand as Commander-in-Chief. This appointment had been made on the advice of the Duc de Terceira, the Prime Minister. See ante, p. 144.
[240] See ante, p. 137.
[241] Madame Malibran (1808–36), daughter of Manuel Garcia. She was a distinguished singer and a woman of considerable talent. Her first husband was a French merchant, M. Malibran. At the time of her death she was married to M. de Bériot.
[242] He was translated to Durham in 1856. In 1860 he became Archbishop of York and in 1862 Primate of All England.
[243] Charlotte, daughter of the fifth Duke of Northumberland, widow of the third Earl of Ashburnham.
[244] Afterwards wife of the Rev. Algernon Wodehouse.
[245] Granville George (1786–1857), second Lord Radstock, Vice-Admiral of the Red.
[246] Charles Noel (1781–1866) had succeeded in his father’s lifetime to his mother’s barony of Barham. He was created Earl of Gainsborough in 1841. In 1833 he married his fourth wife, Frances, daughter of the third Earl of Roden, afterwards a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Victoria.