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1905

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 December 2009

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The Goschens spent the early months of 1905 in Copenhagen. At the end of March, following his appointment as Ambassador, Goschen went to Vienna for a few days. In May he and Hosta returned to England. From 17 to 19 June they were guests at Windsor Castle. On 22 June they left for Vienna. They spent most of July and the first half of August at Tentschach, but Goschen went up to Vienna in mid-week. On 13 August they went to Marienbad for the ‘season’. Goschen spent two nights in Vienna before returning to Tentschach on 10 September. He left Tentschach for Vienna on 25 October. Apart from two hunting expeditions he was in Vienna for the remainder of the year.

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The Diary of Edward Goschen 1900–1914
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1980

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page 88 note 1 She had had influenza.

page 88 note 2 Wife of British Minister, Stockholm.

page 89 note 1 Born 1891.

page 89 note 2 Czech violinist.

page 89 note 3 Ysaÿe; Belgian violinist.

page 89 note 4 Governor-General of Moscow; Nicholas II's uncle and brother-in-law.

page 89 note 5 The Danish news-agency.

page 89 note 6 Grand Duchess Elizabeth; Serge's wife.

page 90 note 1 Her sister, the Tsarina Alexandra.

page 90 note 2 Secretary.

page 90 note 3 Ambassador, Constantinople; Goschen had served under him in St Petersburg, 1896–8.

page 90 note 4 O'Conor.

page 90 note 5 Lady O'Conor.

page 90 note 6 Procurator, Holy Synod; name also spelt ‘Pobedinostsev’.

page 90 note 7 He was 2nd Secretary, French Legation.

page 91 note 1 Barrington.

page 91 note 2 Emily von Metzsch; Goschen's sister; widow of Gustav von Metzsch; resident near Dresden; sometimes referred to as ‘Emie’.

page 91 note 3 Her daughter.

page 91 note 4 Saxon spa.

page 91 note 5 Ambassadress.

page 91 note 6 Richter.

page 91 note 7 He was now secretary, Vienna Embassy.

page 91 note 8 He was the eldest brother of the Princess of Wales; she a daughter of the 1st Duke of Westminster.

page 91 note 9 The Foreign Office List gives him as military attaché.

page 91 note 10 Consul-General, Hungary; ‘Twinkle’ was a nickname.

page 91 note 11 The Thurn und Taxis were a well-known mediatized family; the Prince and Princess were friends of Clarke.

page 92 note 1 Foreign Minister; Goschen had met him in St Petersburg; see Introduction.

page 92 note 2 Russian Foreign Minister, 1895–6; see Diary, 1895–6.

page 92 note 3 Russian Foreign Minister, 1897–1900; see Diary, 1897–8.

page 92 note 4 The Plunketts' daughter.

page 92 note 5 Wife of commercial attaché.

page 92 note 6 Hechler, Embassy chaplain.

page 92 note 7 2nd secretary.

page 92 note 8 3rd secretary.

page 92 note 9 He was 3rd secretary.

page 92 note 10 The new Danish Foreign Minister and his wife.

page 93 note 1 Concerning ‘Ted’ and Mary.

page 93 note 2 He was the 4th Duke.

page 93 note 3 Former adjutant-general.

page 93 note 4 Dorothy Vivian; maid of honour; married Major-General Douglas Haig.

page 93 note 5 Edward VII's youngest daughter.

page 94 note 1 Blank in MS.: Stratfield Saye.

page 94 note 2 Then breaking away from Sweden.

page 94 note 3 Keeper of the Privy Purse.

page 94 note 4 The Prince (later Earl of Athlone) was the youngest brother of the Princess of Wales and of the Duke of Teck; the Princess (now Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone) is the daughter of the Duke of Albany.

page 94 note 5 He was Edward VII's private secretary.

page 94 note 6 2nd secretary.

page 94 note 7 He was commercial attaché.

page 94 note 8 Naval attaché.

page 94 note 9 Goschen probably means Schoeller, the honorary Consul-General.

page 95 note 1 In the Metternichgasse.

page 95 note 2 The Madrid Convention of 1880.

page 95 note 3 Secretary, Russian Embassy; previously secretary, Russian Legation, Copenhagen; Goschen had also known him before that.

page 96 note 1 Choloniewski.

page 96 note 2 Grand Chamberlain.

page 96 note 3 Fashionable hotel.

page 96 note 4 In the Prater; a pseudo-Venetian place of entertainment.

page 96 note 5 Councillor, Belgian Legation.

page 96 note 6 Vienna correspondent of The Times.

page 96 note 7 Leading member, Hungarian Party of Independence.

page 96 note 8 Times, 1 07 1905.Google Scholar

page 97 note 1 Mérey; Chief of Section, Foreign Ministry.

page 97 note 2 Danish Minister.

page 97 note 3 Lower-Austrian landowner.

page 97 note 4 Councillor, Foreign Ministry.

page 97 note 5 In Carinthia, near Tentschach.

page 97 note 6 Üsküb (Skoplje).

page 97 note 7 That is, a 3% increase in customs duties, for which the consent of the Powers was necessary. The British Government desired further control of Ottoman finances, in order to ensure that the extra revenue should be used on Macedonia itself. See Bridge, F. R., From Sadowa to Sarajevo (1972), p. 275.Google Scholar

page 97 note 8 Makino Naboaki.

page 97 note 9 Isvolsky had been Russian Minister in Tokyo, 1900–3.

page 98 note 1 Goschen presumably means that he held a service, attended by his wife, in the Schloss chapel.

page 98 note 2 He had been commuting since mid-July.

page 98 note 3 Fashionable physician.

page 98 note 4 Kreuzbrunnen; famous mineral-spring.

page 98 note 5 Probably a relative of Gerard Lowther, Minister, Tangier.

page 99 note 1 The abbey owned much of Marienbad, including the Kreuzbrunnen.

page 99 note 2 Fashionable restaurant on hill overlooking Marienbad.

page 99 note 3 Alfred Fürst zu Windisch-Graetz; President, Herrenhaus.

page 99 note 4 Henry Stonor and his wife; he was a gentleman usher and groom-in-waiting.

page 99 note 5 Equerry, assistant-keeper of the privy purse and assistant private secretary to the King.

page 99 note 6 McDonnell; secretary, Office of Works.

page 100 note 1 Windisch-Graetz's aunt.

page 100 note 2 Lord high steward.

page 100 note 3 Former military attaché, Berlin.

page 100 note 4 Colonel; Conservative M.P.

page 100 note 5 Novelist.

page 100 note 6 He was the second son of Prince Nicholas of Montenegro; she was née Constantinovic and was related to the Obrenović dynasty.

page 100 note 7 Restaurant.

page 100 note 8 Marienbad habituée.

page 100 note 9 Peter I.

page 100 note 10 Prince George.

page 100 note 11 Goschen to Lansdowne, 1 Sept. 1905, Lan. P., F.O. 800/117.

page 100 note 12 Another Marienbad habituée.

page 100 note 13 1st Sea Lord.

page 101 note 1 and secretary.

page 101 note 2 Wife of Edward Stonor, Henry's brother; clerk to House of Lords.

page 101 note 3 Architect and Surveyor, Board of Works.

page 101 note 4 Controller of Stores.

page 101 note 5 Councillor.

page 101 note 6 ‘Twinkle’ Clarke.

page 101 note 7 Austro-Hungarian Ambassador, London.

page 101 note 8 His elder brother. Their paternal grandmother had been Sophia, eldest sister of the Duchess of Kent.

page 102 note 1 Colonel Fairholme; staff officer with the Macedonian Gendarmerie; former military attaché, Vienna.

page 102 note 2 A ‘real’ tennis court.

page 102 note 3 There are several versions of the Ambassador's name. When writing in French he signed his name ‘Ouroussoff’. See his letter to Cartwright, 23 July, no year given (Cartwright Papers). He was a recluse owing to poor health. See Goschen to Grey, 13 May 1907, F.O. 371/195.

page 102 note 4 Italian Ambassador.

page 103 note 1 He had the rank of Councillor.

page 103 note 2 Weede van Berencamp.

page 103 note 3 He had been Austro-Hungarian military attaché in Belgrade when Goschen was there as Minister.

page 103 note 4 Another Belgrade acquaintance; Goschen had briefly taken lessons from him in German composition (Diary, 29 and 31 March 1900).

page 103 note 5 Fejérváry; Hungarian Minister-President.

page 104 note 1 United States Ambassador and his wife.

page 104 note 2 Duke of Bailén.

page 104 note 3 Goschen wrote later that Wedel was of ‘the regular type of the German soldier-diplomat’, and referred to his ‘rather rough and overbearing manner’ (Goschen to Grey, 17 May 1907, F.O. 371/195).

page 104 note 4 Neue Freie Presse, 18, 20 and 21 10 1905.Google Scholar

page 104 note 5 Times, 21 10 1905Google Scholar; see also 23 Oct. 1905.

page 104 note 6 Councillor, Austro-Hungarian Embassy, London.

page 104 note 7 There were several princely members of this family.

page 104 note 8 Younger brother of Prince Karl Kinsky.

page 105 note 1 Goschen, to Lansdowne, , 3 11 1905Google Scholar, F.O. 7/1363.

page 105 note 2 Goschen, to Lansdowne, , 3 11 1905Google Scholar, Lan. P., F.O. 800/117.

page 105 note 3 Attaché; 3rd secretary from 1906.

page 105 note 4 At the Local Government Board, 6 Nov. 1905, in reply to a deputation composed largely of wives of unemployed men.

page 105 note 5 Romanian Minister.

page 105 note 6 Councillor, French Embassy.

page 106 note 1 Alfonso XIII.

page 106 note 2 Alfonso was a second counsin twice removed of Franz Joseph, to whom he was related through his mother, Queen Maria Cristina, daughter of the Archduke Karl Ferdinand.

page 106 note 3 In Moravia; Czech, Hodonín.

page 106 note 4 That is, two Habsburg archdukes, each of whom bore the name Salvator.

page 106 note 5 Head of Hungarian branch of Coburg family.

page 106 note 6 Grand Huntsman.

page 107 note 1 Consul-General (honorary), Vienna.

page 107 note 2 In Moravia.

page 107 note 3 Councillor, Foreign Ministry.

page 107 note 4 Freiherr von Isbary; textile manufacturer.

page 107 note 5 Probably a business acquaintance of Schoeller.

page 107 note 6 Probably another.

page 108 note 1 Anton Count Magnis.

page 108 note 2 Shuba; fur coat.

page 108 note 3 Councillor, German Embassy.

page 109 note 1 Grand Master of the Court.

page 109 note 2 Grand Mistress of the Court.

page 109 note 3 Assassinated, 1898.