Free Princesses by Flora Fraser Page B

Norman Blackburn, Elizabeth Fairman, Charlotte Gere, Bryony Kelly, Martin Royalton Kisch, Stephen Lloyd, Amy Meyers, Lucy Peltz, Marcia Pointon, Aileen Ribeiro, Nancy Richards, Jacob Simon, Kim Sloan, Kay Staniland, Arthur Tilley and Lord Ullswater. In addition I thank Matthew Bailey and Tom Morgan of the National Portrait Gallery Picture Library for their help in providing images.
    For sharing with me their knowledge of places important in the princesses’ story here and in Europe I thank among others: Gotthard Brandler, Kathleen A. Burgess, Dr Fritz Fischer, Kurt Hoffmann, Dr Heinz Krämer, Julian Litten, Sister Manda, Dr Klaus Merten and Christopher Woodward.
    Others I owe thanks to are: Maureen Attwooll, Clarissa Campbell Orr, Kate Chisholm, Leo Cooper, Amanda Foreman, Michael Holroyd, Giles Hunt, Rana Kabbani, Linda Kelly, Mark Le Fanu, Lowell Libson, Sacha Llewellyn, Giles MacDonogh, Philip Mansel, David Michaelis, Sir Oliver Millar, Diane Nash, Michael Nash, Mimi Pakenham, Robin Piguet, Andrew Roberts, John Rogister, Francis Russell, Carlos Salinas, Stephen Simpson, Paul and Daisy Soros, Gina Thomas, John Wardroper and Edmund White.
    For professional aid during the researching and writing of
Princesses
I am, as ever, grateful to Leonora Clarke for typing my work. I owe thanks also for research or help at different times to: Georgie Castle, Georgina Gooding, Linda Peskin, Carole Taylor and Otto Wilkinson. I thank Katarina Ardagh for translation from the German, and Barbara Peters for checking printed sources at the British Library. And I am most grateful to Lesley Robertson Allen, to Rowan Yapp of John Murray and to Diana Tejerina of Knopf for their professional help with the production of the manuscript and illustrations. I thank Reginald Piggott for providing the family tree, and it gives me great pleasure to thank Douglas Matthews for compiling the index.
    I am fortunate beyond words in my agent, editors and publishers here and in America, and they are all too distinguished to need my praise. Nevertheless I wish to thank Jonathan Lloyd, my literary agent, for his rock-solid encouragement of this project. I thank Peter James for his steely editorial work. I am grateful to Bob Gottlieb for, among much else, crucialadvice during narrative crises. I thank Sonny Mehta of Knopf in the US for his steady support. And I am delighted to be publishing once more with Roland Philipps and with John Murray (Publishers) in England.
    I am grateful for good conversation and stimulating professional advice from my mother Antonia Fraser and, until recently, from my grandmother, the late Elizabeth Longford. I thank Sheila de Bellaigue, Christopher Hibbert and Jane Roberts for reading the manuscript at different stages and for their valuable comments. I thank also Jane Birkett for reading the proofs with such care. Finally, I have, throughout the writing of this book, had the unflinching support of my husband Peter Soros, to whom, with my children, I dedicate it.
    June 2004
    Note to Paperback Edition
    I am grateful to John Murray for the opportunity to make some small corrections here. I am also delighted by the news that a ‘baby house’ or dolls’ house belonging to the Princesses has been acquired by Historic Royal Palaces. It will form part of a new Georgian display at Kew Palace in Kew Gardens, I am told, when that odd and atmospheric Royal house re-opens to the public in 2006 after many years of closure.
    November 2004

Select Bibliography
DOCUMENTARY
    Additional and Egerton Mss, British Library, London
    Anson Mss, private collection
    Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection, New York Public Library, New York
    Clement Collection, Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, Farmington, Connecticut
    Ephemera Collection, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
    Finch Mss, DG7, Leicestershire Record Office, Wigston Magna
    Georgian and Additional Georgian, Victorian and Additional Victorian, and George V Papers, Royal Archives,