• Kaffir War, iii. 201
• Kainardji, Treaty of, ii. 431, 452, 464
• Kalampaka, engagement at, iii. 37
• Karak, island of, iii. 4
• Kars, fortress of, iii. 64, 159, 178, 179, 208
• Keane, Sir John (afterwards Lord), Cabul, i. 142
• Kellerman, General, and Convention of Cintra, iii. 175
• Kellersberg, Baron, iii. 328
• Kennedy, Mr, removed from Crown Office, iii. 61
• Kennington Common, Chartist meeting, ii. 169
• Kensington Palace, Queen's birth-place, i. 8;
  • Queen's early recollections of, i. 10;
  • proposal to build National Gallery on site of, ii. 315
• Kent, Duchess of (Queen's mother), biography of, i. 3, 4, 8, 9;
  • character and disposition, i. 9;
  • Parliamentary Grant, i. 9;
  • education of Princess Victoria, i. 14-17;
  • Parliamentary Grant increased, i. 19;
  • estrangement with William IV., i. 19;
  • visit to Belgium, i. 287;
  • ii. 177;
  • illness of, iii. 335;
  • Frogmore, iii. 399;
  • Edinburgh, iii. 405;
  • present at Volunteer Review, iii. 406;
  • death, iii. 420, 435-439
• —— Duke of (Queen's father), politics and philanthropic views, i. 5;
  • biography, i. 8;
  • sudden death, i. 9
• Kertsch, successful attack on, iii. 64, 126
• Khalsad army, surrender of, ii. 216
• Khyber Pass, i. 370, 402
• Kinburn, citadel of, iii. 64
• King, Mr Locke, ii. 288, 295
• —— Rev. Bryan, iii. 417
• Kinglake, Mr, Invasion of the Crimea, iii. 31, 36, 111
• Kingstown (Ireland), Queen Victoria's visit to, ii. 225
• Kinsky regiment, loss of twenty-four officers, ii. 219
• Kirkpatrick, William, ii. 435
• Kisseleff, General, Russian Ambassador, iii. 393
• Klebelsberg, Countess, marriage, i. 13
• Knatchbull, Sir Edward, Paymaster-General, i. 279, 309
• Knightley, Rainald (afterwards Sir), M.P., iii. 76
• Knollys, Sir William, K.C.B., iii. 39
• Koh-i-noor diamond, ii. 208;
  • history of, ii. 242
• Kokan, Khan of, iii. 45
• Koller, Baron, Austrian Ambassador, ii. 267-269
• Königsberg, crowning of King and Queen of Prussia, iii. 420
• Kossuth, Louis, champion of Hungarian freedom, flight of, ii. 208;
  • visit to England, ii. 283;
  • reception by Lord Palmerston, ii. 324-331, 440, 441; iii. 432

• Lablache, Luigi (Queen's singing master), i. 50, 62, 89
• Labouchere, Mr (afterwards Lord Taunton), President of the Board of Trade, i. 262, 281, 308;
  • Government of 1855, iii. 91, 150, 190, 272
• Labour Bill, Mines, i. 370;
  • Factories, ii. 1
• Laeken, Royal Palace in Belgium, i. 34
• Lagos, capture of, ii. 366
• Lahore, ii. 217
• Lamartine, M., ii. 173, 174
• Lambeth Palace, i. 388
• Landgravine, Princess Elisabeth, i. 212
• Landseer, Sir Edwin Henry (1802-1873),
  • artist, i. 396, 397
• Langdale, Lord, Master of the Rolls, i. 335
• Lansdowne, Marquess of, Lord President of the Council, i. 74, 281; ii. 83, 86, 236, 237;
  • Government crisis, ii. 290, 308, 310, 413-417;
  • in the Cabinet, ii. 424;
  • Reform Bill, ii. 468;
  • and Lord John Russell, iii. 58;
  • formation of the Government of 1855, iii. 85-89, 90, 93, 94, 97, 98, 102;
  • Cabinet, iii. 103, 104;
  • his ministerial life, iii. 104;
  • iii. 190;
  • declines a dukedom, iii. 246
• Laporte, i. 220
• La Susse, French Admiral, ii. 26
• Lavradio, M., Portuguese statesman, i. 58
• Law, administration of, ii. 67
• —— Lords, want of, iii. 145
• Lawrence, Sir Henry, Military Administrator at Oudh, death at Lucknow, iii. 224, 242
• Lawrence, Mrs George, courage of, ii. 217
• —— Sir J., Oudh Proclamation, iii. 286
• Layard, Mr, Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, iii. 76, 98, 376, 443-447
• Lee, Dr James Prince (afterwards Bishop of Manchester), ii. 131
• Leeke, Admiral Sir Henry, capture of Bushire, iii. 159
• Lefevre, Mr Shaw (afterwards Viscount Eversley), Speaker, i. 141, 176; iii. 223, 230
• Lefroy, John Henry, Inspector-General of Army Schools, iii. 220
• Lehzen, Baroness (Queen's governess), i. 12, 14, 25, 122, 224
• Leicester, Earl of, i. 350
• Leigh, Mr Pemberton (afterwards Lord Kingsdown), ii. 284; iii. 145;
  • declines Lord Chancellorship, iii. 271
• Leiningen, House of, history of, i. 9
• —— Prince of, marriage, i. 3;
  • death, i. 9
• —— Prince Charles of (son of above), i. 13, 120, 125, 126; ii. 188;
  • death, iii. 216, 217
• —— Princess Feodore, see Feodore
• Leith, proposed dockyard at, iii. 151
• Le Marchant, Sir John Gaspard, Lieut. Gov. of Nova Scotia, iii. 189
• Lennox, Lady Caroline, i. 121
• Leopold, Prince (afterwards Duke of Albany), birth, ii. 444
• —— Duke of Brabant (afterwards 2nd King of the Belgians), i. 59; ii. 6
• —— 1st King of the Belgians, birth and parentage, i. 4, 22;
  • Queen's reminiscences of, i. 10, 11, 13, 22;
  • kindness to Duchess of Kent, i. 11;
  • influence on, and kindness to the Queen, i. 19, 22, 23;
  • in the Russian army, refusal of throne of Greece, i. 22;
  • accepts Belgian throne, gallantry in war, a model ruler, i. 23;
  • nature of correspondence with the Queen, i. 27;
  • Queen Victoria's first letter to, i. 32;
  • valuable advice to Queen Victoria, i. 37;
  • newspaper abuse of, i. 53;
  • birth of second son, i. 63;
  • visit to the Queen, i. 91;
  • Belgian interests, i. 134, 151, 152, 153;
  • England and France, i. 227-251;
  • views on dissolution, i. 282-289;
  • Queen's visit to, i. 492, 493;
  • friendship with Queen Victoria, ii. 10;
  • views on Czar's visit to England, ii. 19;
  • letters on King Louis Philippe's visit to England, ii. 23, 25;
  • birthday letter to the Queen, ii. 39;
  • on state of Germany, ii. 167;
  • failure of insurrection, ii. 172;
  • Louis Bonaparte, ii. 213;
  • state of France, ii. 238, 342;
  • on death of Sir Robert Peel, ii. 255;
  • illness of Queen Louise, ii. 266;
  • the Sovereign "People," ii. 379;
  • on Victor Hugo, ii. 391;
  • on death of Duke of Wellington, ii. 395;
  • the Empress of the French, ii. 436;
  • Eastern Question, ii. 441, 443;
  • Press attacks on Prince Consort, iii. 5;
  • visits the Queen, iii. 133;
  • on the conclusion of the war, iii. 172, 185;
  • iii. 195;
  • review of Crimean troops at Aldershot, iii. 198;
  • as to decorating Duke of Westmorland, iii. 202;
  • Princess Charlotte's proposed marriage, iii. 207;
  • on death of Prince Charles of Leiningen, iii. 216;
  • marriage of Princess Charlotte, iii. 234, 240;
  • on the Queen's visit to Napoleon, iii. 295;
  • Napoleon's desire for war, iii. 315;
  • Napoleon and the Pope, iii. 382;
  • Italian Question, iii. 386;
  • Prince of Wales's visit to Canada, iii. 404;
  • Volunteer Review in Hyde Park, iii. 406;
  • letter to the Queen, iii. 414;
  • death of Duchess of Kent, iii. 435-439, 451;
  • sympathy for Prince Consort's illness, iii. 471, 472
• Leopold, Prince of Saxe-Coburg, ii. 89, 97, 98
• Letters, Sunday delivery, ii. 244
• Lévis, Duc de, i. 507
• Lewis, Sir George Cornewall, Chancellor of Exchequer, iii. 109;
  • Stamp Duties Bill, iii. 116;
  • Budget, iii. 224;
  • Income Tax, iii. 226;
  • financial crisis, iii. 255;
  • Home Secretary, iii. 348;
  • St Juan dispute, iii. 373
• Lhuys, M. Drouyn de, French Foreign Minister, ii. 262;
  • and Russian loan, iii. 35;
  • Austria's proposed terms of Crimean settlement and resignation, iii. 120
• Liberals (see Whigs), small majority, i. 176;
  • gains at election, 1839, ii. 126, 458;
  • Lord Palmerston's followers, the Liberal Party, iii. 110;
  • Oudh Proclamation debate, iii. 291, 292;
  • new Reform Bill, iii. 307;
  • Lord Palmerston forms a Government, iii. 307, 344-349
• Liddell, Mr, iii. 239
• Liechtenstein, Prince and Princess of, i. 433
• Liège, iii. 453
• Lieven, Princess de, i. 85, 88
• Ligne, Prince de, i. 109
• Lincoln, Abraham, President, United States, iii. 421
• —— Bishop of (John Kaye), report as to Queen's education, i. 14-16
• —— Earl of (afterwards fifth Duke of Newcastle), Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests, i. 466; ii. 84;
  • ii. 294, 300, 346, 350, 354, 360, 420, 448-449, 455, 468, 471;
  • Secretary of State for War, iii. 1;
  • Marshal St Arnaud, iii. 30;
  • hospital at Scutari, iii. 61;
  • Lord J. Russell's resignation, iii. 73, 75, 80, 91, 97;
  • Knight of the Garter, iii. 145, 154, 156;
  • refuses to join Government of 1858, iii. 271;
  • Colonial Secretary, iii. 349;
  • tour with Prince of Wales, iii. 380, 405, 414
• Lind, Jenny, ii. 123
• Lindley, Dr, Irish Commissioner on potato disease, ii. 48
• Lindsay, Lady Charlotte, i. 358
• Lisbon, revolution, i. 54;
  • run on the bank of, ii. 90
• Liverpool, bank failures, ii. 131
• —— third Earl of, biography of, i. 50, 165;
  • Lord Steward, i. 169, 310; ii. 85, 89;
  • death of, ii. 323
• Llanover, Baron, see Hall, Sir B.
• Lloyd, Thomas Davies, Baronetage, iii. 477
• Lochnager, Queen's visit to, ii. 322
• Loftus, Lord A., iii. 153
• Login, Sir John, iii. 248;
  • Oudh Proclamation, iii. 286
• Lombardy, ii. 178, 182, 183, 186, 191, 194, 198;
  • ceded to Sardinia, iii. 308
• London, Bishop of (C. J. Blomfield), report on Queen's education, i. 14-16,
  • i. 349;
  • Papal aggression, ii. 281; iii. 416;
  • (A. C. Tait), Divorce Bill, iii. 231
• Londonderry, Marquis of, Ambassador at Vienna, i. 420; ii. 287;
  • Garter, ii. 391, 393
• Longley, Charles Thomas, Bishop of Durham (afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury), iii. 206
• Lonsdale, John (Bishop of Lichfield), ii. 35
• —— Earl of, ii. 392
• Loodiana, ii. 74
• Lords, House of, increase of appellate jurisdiction, iii. 158;
  • powers in Money Bills, iii. 379, 401;
  • throw out Abolition of Paper Duties Bill, iii. 401, 403;
  • privilege resolutions, iii. 404
• —— Justices, question of, ii. 44
• Louis XVIII., character of, i. 53
• Louis Napoleon, see Napoleon
• —— Philippe, King of the French, biography of, i. 4;
  • Belgian throne, i. 22;
  • attempted assassination of, i. 43, 243, 407;
  • letters to the Queen, i. 77; ii. 27, 57, 78, 146, 160;
  • proposed visit to the Queen, i. 181, 182; ii, 21-22;
  • and English Government, ii. 1, 21, 27, 68;
  • letter from the Queen on resignation of Sir R. Peel and reply, ii. 69, 78;
  • ii. 89;
  • the Spanish marriages, ii. 71, 90, 102, 105, 107;
  • ii. 118;
  • abdication, ii. 141, 148;
  • death of his sister, ii. 143-147;
  • flight of, ii. 149, 152, 153-165;
  • gratitude to the Queen, ii. 160;
  • ii. 169;
  • Queen Victoria's view of his policy, ii. 170, 172;
  • position of, ii. 177, 183, 204;
  • illness and death, ii. 231, 238, 265;
  • compared with Napoleon III. in knowledge, iii. 124
• Louis, Prince, of Hesse (afterwards Grand Duke Louis IV.), engagement to Princess Alice, iii. 405, 415, 418, 419
• —— Mrs (Queen's dresser), i. 10, 14, 110;
  • death, i. 111
• Louisa, Princess, of Hesse, ii. 358
• Louise (Queen of the Belgians), marriage and correspondence with the Queen, i. 28;
  • her character, i. 34;
  • letter on the Queen's engagement, i. 192;
  • on death of the Duke of Orleans, i. 413, 414;
  • ii. 7;
  • on her father's visit to England, ii. 21, 22, 23;
  • sorrow at Madame Adélaïde's death, ii. 143-145;
  • French Revolution and her father's flight, ii. 150;
  • illness, ii. 266;
  • death, ii. 266, 267;
  • ii. 271
• —— Princess, of Belgium, birth, iii. 276, 397
• Löwenstein, Prince William of, i. 490
• Loyd, Mr Jones (afterwards Lord Overstone), ii. 130
• Lucan, Lord, censure on, iii. 175
• Lucca, Duke of, i. 148
• Lucknow, iii. 177;
  • mutiny and siege of, iii. 224, 238;
  • relief of, iii. 248, 254, 259, 262, 278
• Luitpold of Bavaria, Prince, iii. 458
• Lushington, Dr Stephen, Admiralty Judge, i. 62, 277;
  • refuses a life peerage, ii. 284; iii. 145;
  • on right to search ships, iii. 466
• Luxemburg, i. 43, 102
• Lyndhurst, Lord, Lord Chancellor, i. 163, 253, 308; ii. 368
  • on Russia's aggressiveness, iii. 35;
  • title of Prince Consort, iii. 196, 197;
  • Divorce Bill, iii. 231, 232
• Lynedoch, Lord, death, i. 512
• Lyons, Richard Bickerton Pemell, K.C.B. (afterwards Earl Lyons), the Pope's appreciation of, iii. 310;
  • United States dispute, iii. 469
• —— Sir Edmund, commands Mediterranean Fleet, iii. 116
• Lyttelton, Lady (governess to the Royal children), i. 390, 394; ii. 3
• —— Lord, iii. 190
• Lytton, see Bulwer Lytton