Oaks Colliery explosion, letter from widows to Queen, 240. O’Connell, Daniel, 44, 149. Orange plot in 1835, 41. Orleans family, the, 126, 166. Orsini plot, the, 198. Osborne, purchase of, 135; gardens of, 92, 136; Swiss cottage at, 135, 136. Oxford’s attempt on the Queen’s life, 90, 119. Palmerston Administration, defeat of, in 1858, 198, 199. Palmerston, Viscount, 91, 101, 118, 146 _n._, 156-172, 177, 184, 207-209. Paris, Queen’s visit to, 185. Peel, Sir Robert, 45, 58, 61, 74, 83, 85, 95-103, 134, 142. Peterborough, Bishop of, Queen’s preceptor, 29. Portugal, death of King of, 210. Precedence of Prince Albert disallowed in House of Lords, 77. Press attacks on Prince Albert, 183; on Princess Royal’s betrothal, 188. Prince Consort. _See_ Albert. Prince of Wales. _See_ Wales. Princess Royal. _See_ Empress Frederick. Prussia, Frederick William I., King of. _See_ Frederick William I. Prussia, Prince of. _See_ William I., King of, and Emperor of Germany. Prussia, Frederick William, King of, and Emperor of Germany. _See_ Frederick William II. Queen. _See_ Victoria. Queen’s Titles Act, 195. Queen’s Jubilee, 236, 239, 244. Reform Bill, Lord Palmerston’s objections to, 171. Regency Bill, 1830, 37. Regency Bill, 1840, 89. Royal Household, reform of, 132-4. Russell, Lord John, 42, 61, 62, 101, 158, 161, 163, 171, 229. Russell Administration defeated, 1852, 169. Russell, Lady William, 171. Russell, Dr. W. H., 180. Schleswig-Holstein War, 228. Schleswig-Holstein, Prince Christian of, 230. Schleswig-Holstein, Princess Christian of. _See_ Helena. Scotland, disturbances in, in 1848, 151. Scotland, Queen’s love of, 137, 219, 223. Scott, Sir Walter, reference to Princess Victoria, 37. Scottish Church, Queen’s reverence for, 220. Sebastopol, 183, 186. Seeley, Sir John, 252. Shaftesbury, Earl of, 59, 83, 99, 154, 155. Spanish marriages, the, 145-8, 166. Stanley, Dean, 35, 174, 233. Stanley, Lady Augusta, 136, 203. Stockmar, Baron, 54, 55, 62, 65, 66, 73, 77, 85, 104-118, 145, 148, 191, 202, 255. Sussex, Duke of, 19, 47, 89, 90. Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury, 248. Teck, Duchess of. _See_ Cambridge. Teck, Princess Victoria Mary of, 234, 240. Tory Party, outbreak of disloyalty in, 73. _United Irishman, The_, 150. United States, Civil War, _Trent_ affair, 208. Victor Emmanuel, King of Italy, 206.