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48. Southgate,The Passing of the Whigs, 284.


49. Palmer,The Banner of Battle, 178–80; Anderson,A Liberal State at War, 62–3.


50. Conacher,Britain, 15, 80–2.


51. Anderson,A Liberal State at War, 53–4.


52. Albert’s refusal was based on the fact that the Army was often used to quell civil unrest,
    and that it would be detrimental to the Queen’s public reputation if her husband was
    the commander of the forces coercing her subjects. Strachan,Politics, 61–2; Williams,
    The Contentious Crown, 95; See also the Crown reaction to the McNeill and Tulloch report
    in Spiers,Army and Society, 113–14.


53. Conacher,Aberdeen, 403–4.


54. Giles St Aubyn,Queen Victoria: A Portrait(New York: Atheneum, 1967), 220.


55. Giles St Aubyn,The Royal George(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964), 117. See also
    Strachan,Politics, 64, for the Queen’s desire to maintain a personal link to Army
    command.


56. Prest,Lord John Russell, 204–5; Sweetman,War and Administration, 91–2.


57. Sweetman,War and Administration, 91–2. Further evidence that the Queen was primarily
    concerned with maintaining Crown influence can be seen in that she did not raise a
    similar objection to the appointment of her cousin George, Duke of Cambridge to the
    position of Commander-in Chief two years later.


58. Ibid., p. 92.


59. Anderson,A Liberal State at War, 66–7; Sweetman,War and Administration, 95.


60. Erickson,Her Little Majesty, 129; Munsell,The Unfortunate Duke, 206; Palmer,The Banner of
    Battle, 246; Weintraub,Uncrowned King, 298–300, 325.


61. Letter from ‘J. C.’ to the editor,Times, 3 December 1854, 8.


62. ‘Parliamentary Intelligence, Tuesday 19 December: Order of Merit,’Times, 20 December
    1854, 3.


63. ‘Military and Naval Intelligence,’Times, 3 November 1855, 10; Clarke,Gallantry Medals,
    85–6.


64. Unsigned letter to the editor,Times, 8 January 1855, 5.


65. Letter from ‘A Civilian’ to the editor,Times, 27 December 1854, 5.


66. Royal archives, Windsor Castle: RA VIC /E5/16. Letter from the Duke of Newcastle to
    the Prince Consort, 20 January 1855.


67. Royal archives, Windsor Castle: RA VIC /E5/18. Letter from the Prince Consort to the
    Duke of Newcastle, 22 January 1855.


68. Ibid.


69. Ibid.


70. Ibid.


71. Royal Archives, Windsor Castle: RA VIC/E5/30. Letter from the Duke of Newcastle to
    Queen Victoria, 27 January 1855; RA VIC/E5/31. Letter from Queen Victoria to the
    Duke of Newcastle, 28 January 1855. Request and approval of a public announcement
    of the intent to create a ‘Cross of Military Merit.’


72. Daphne Bennett,King Without a Crown: Albert, Prince Consort of England, 1819–1861(New
    York: J. B. Lippincott, 1977), 259. Bennett does not give an exact date for Albert’s
    inspiration.


73. Sarah A. Tooley,The Personal Life of Queen Victoria(London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1896),
    3–4.


74. Erickson,Her Little Majesty, 130–2.