Staal, Madame de, 236, 241, 323; described, 243 Staal, Thekla, 226, 323 Stainer, Dr., 348 Stanhope, Lady, 18; entertains the Waddingtons and others, 218, 219 Stanhope, Lord, 219 Stanhope, Mr. and Mrs. Edward, 218 Stanhope, Philip, 361 Stanley, Dowager Lady, 181, 182 Stanleys, 355 Struve, M. and Mdme. de, 120 Stewart, Lady Helen, 317 Stuart, Miss, 348 Sudely, Lord, 297 Suffield, Lady, 363 Suffield, Lord, 363 Sullivan, Sir Arthur, 271, 272 Sutherland, Duchess of, 236 Sweden, Crown Prince of, 93, 253 Sweden, King of, 142, 143 Sweden, Prince Royal of, 145 Sydney, Lord, 359 Tadema, Alma, 379 Talleyrand, Bessie, 391 Tavistock, Lord, 281 Teck, Duke of, 236 Teesdale, 369 Tennyson, 183 Thenard, 284, 285; assists producing the children's comedy, 315 _et seq._ Thomson, Mr., 339 Thornton, Lady, 37, 80, 88, 104; at the Court ball, 74; aboard the Lancaster, 121, 122 Thornton, Mary, 126 Thornton, Sir Edward, 40, 83, 89 Thornycroft, 278, 279 Toll, Count and Countess, 153 Tornielli, 352, 361, 377 Tosti, 272, 275, 306 Trebelli, 276 Tremouille, Charlotte de la, 230 Trevelyans, 355 Troubetzkoi, Princess Lise, 49, 115 Tweeddale, Lady, 201 Tweedmouth, Lord, 354 Val Prinsep, 388, 390 Vannutelli, Mgr., 96, 98, 118; visits the Lancaster, 122, 123 Victoria, Princess, 320, 397 Victoria, Queen, receives Mme. Waddington, 176, 177; described, 177; at Windsor Castle, 192, 193, 238, 239; Drawing-room, 206; holds long Drawing-room, 213, 214; opens Parliament, 235-238; at the Jubilee ceremonies in Westminster Abbey, 249, 250; in the procession after the service, 250, 251; receives at the Palace, 252, 253; at the children's fete in Hyde Park, 254, 255; reviews the Volunteers, 257, 258; at the Naval Review, 260-264; with the Empress Frederick at Windsor, 310, 311; bids farewell to the Waddingtons, 368, 370-372; receives Mme. Waddington at Osborne, 397-401; death, 402 Villiers, 226 Villestreux, Mdme. de la, 364, 365, 373 Vinci, Comte, 350 Vivian, Lady, 210 Vivian, Lord, 151, 153 Waddington, Francis, 10 _et passim_; as an actor, 285, 315 _et seq_; placed in a French school, 332