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'''''The Queen's Knight: The Extraordinary Life of Queen Victoria's Most Trusted Confidant''''' is a book by Martyn Downer published in 2007.  It describes the life of Sir [[Howard Craufurd Elphinstone|Howard Elphinstone]] who, following the award of the [[Victoria Cross]] as a hero of the [[Crimean War]], was handpicked by [[Queen Victoria]] and [[Albert, Prince Consort|Prince Albert]] to be governor to their third son [[Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught|Prince Arthur]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Dennison |first=Matthew |title=Probity, discipline and Victorian values |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3665488/Probity-discipline-and-Victorian-values.html |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=31 May 2007 |accessdate=14 January 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Foot |first=M. R. D. |authorlink=M. R. D. Foot |title=Gallant and trustworthy |url=http://www.spectator.co.uk/books/31319/gallant-and-trustworthy.thtml |work=[[The Spectator]] |date=2 June 2007 |accessdate=14 January 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100213054709/http://www.spectator.co.uk/books/31319/gallant-and-trustworthy.thtml |archivedate=13 February 2010 }}</ref>
According to the author, "Elphinstone made an uncertain beginning at court, settling uncomfortably within its aristocratic cliques and clashing frequently with the impassioned queen. But after Albert's death in 1861, Elphinstone became not only a surrogate father to Arthur, but also Victoria's most trusted confidant."
Martyn Downer's extensive research and access to Elphinstone's diaries and prolific correspondence, including many hundreds of unpublished letters, shed remarkable new light on the Queen's personality and life inside her court.
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