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INDEX
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Abacha, Sani, 415
abdications, 80, 234–5, 238, 287, 531
Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, King of Saudi Arabia, 489
Abel Smith, Conolly, 351, 352, 353, 355–6
Aberconway, Lord, see McLaren, Henry
Aberdare National Park, Kenya, 12, 126, 128
Aboriginal Australians, 196, 201
Acland, Antony, 44, 48–9, 79–80, 251, 253–4, 271
Acland, John, 479
Adams, Gerry, 256, 460, 462
Adams, William, 61
Adamson, Colin, 101
Adeane, Helen, 73
Adeane, Michael, 28, 29, 73, 199, 282, 427, 431
Aden, 441
‘Advance Australia Fair’, 207
Afghanistan, 11–12, 528–9, 533
African tours
1947 11, 19, 108–20, 137, 189–90, 273, 342, 346, 374, 403, 410, 411, 412
1961 15, 18–19, 55, 135, 137, 142, 221, 307, 362
1979 26, 30, 36, 57, 64, 307–40
1997 498
African National Congress (ANC), 378, 379, 386–7, 400, 401, 402, 406, 408, 416
Ahidjo, Ahmadou, 21
AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome), 498, 516, 528
Airlie, Countess of, 271
AK-47 rifles, 311
Akihito, Emperor of Japan, 79
al-Akiti, Afifi, 470
Alexander III, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias, 445, 450
Alexander, Harold, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, 220
Alexandra of Denmark, Queen consort of the United Kingdom, 100
Alexandra Feodorovna, Empress consort of All the Russias, 450
Algeria, 25, 166
Alice of Battenberg, Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark, 426, 446
All Saints Church, Poplar, 177
Alleyne, Jonathan, 184
Allinson, Len, 313, 317, 321, 326, 332, 333, 334, 335
Altrincham, Lord, see Grigg, John
American Revolutionary War (1775–83), 120, 242, 243, 247, 264, 266, 268
Amery, Julian, 89, 98, 331
Amies, Hardy, 41, 291, 428
Amin, Idi, 23, 81–5, 86, 147, 329
Amnesty International, 401
Amos, Valerie Ann, 162
Amritsar massacre (1919), 158
Ananda Mahidol, King of Thailand, 39
Andamooka Opal, 21
Andover, see Hawker Siddeley Andover
Andrei, Stefan, 89
Andrew, Prince, see York, Duke of
Andrew of Greece, Princess, see Alice of Battenberg
Andrews, Julie, 248
Anglican church, 151–4, 340, 449, 484, 531
Anglo-Romanian Bank, 96
Angola, 483, 521
Anguilla, 20, 64, 170, 230–31
Anne, Princess, see Princess Royal
Annenberg, Walter, 241
annus horribilis (1992), 46, 75, 210, 250, 497
Anson, Charles, 406
Antarctica, 22, 183, 355–6, 529
Anthony, Douglas, 206
Anti-Apartheid Movement, 379
Antigua & Barbuda, 232, 532
Anyaoku, Emeka
and Britannia, 370, 371
and debt-relief strategies, 155
gold mace gift (1992), 162
and Edinburgh CHOGM (1997), 162–3
on Francophonie, 168
and Harare CHOGM (1991), 406, 407
and Lusaka CHOGM (1979), 330, 338
and Mandela, 402
and Marlborough House CHOGM (1986), 400
and Palestine, 166
and racial inequality, 144
and Singapore CHOGM (1971) 147
and South Africa, 386–7, 390, 408, 409
apartheid (1948–94), 17, 119, 136, 146, 150, 172–3, 312, 316, 378–407, 413
Apprentice, The, 181
Arafat, Yasser, 166
Arctic convoys (1941–5), 451
Ardern, Jacinda, 217–18
Argentina
Princess of Wales’s visit (1995), 518–19
Falklands War (1982), 155, 173, 245, 247, 377–8, 518, 519, 529
Prince Philip’s visit (1962), 508
Queen’s proposed visit (1968), 27–9
Argonaut, BOAC, 193
Argyll, Duke of, see Campbell, Ian
Armstrong, Robert, 242, 284
Armstrong-Jones, Antony, 1st Earl of Snowdon, 366
Ashanti, 11
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), 146
Association of Commonwealth Universities, 141
Attenborough, David, 16
Attlee, Clement, 123, 124, 191–2, 346
Auckland British Empire Games (1950), 173
‘Auld Lang Syne’, 173, 341
Auriol, Vincent, 274
Australia, 4, 25, 30, 46, 59, 184, 188–218, 426
1915 Gallipoli Campaign, 174
1948 Ashes series, 45; Nationality and Citizenship Act, 190; Royal tour cancelled, 190–91
1949 London Declaration, 124
1953 Coronation, 193–4
1954 Coronation tour, 11, 21, 40, 62, 127, 186, 188–9, 196–8, 350
1956 Melbourne Olympics, 355
1962 Perth Commonwealth Games, 173
1963 Royal visit, 47, 49, 200–203
1966 Lyndon Johnson’s visit, 203; Prince Charles studies at Geelong Grammar, 224, 473
1967 Harold Holt’s funeral, 473
1970 withdrawal from Vietnam, 204; Royal visit, 34, 47, 56, 203–4, 345, 473, 510–11
1972 UK joins EEC, 205–6; Whitlam elected PM, 206–7
1973 Royal visit, 203
1974 Royal visit, 149
1975 constitutional crisis, 207; Papua New Guinea’s independence, 233
1977 Royal visit, 207–9
1979 Zambia CHOGM, 337, 339
1981 Melbourne CHOGM, 161
1982 Brisbane Commonwealth Games, 173
1983 Royal visit, 209, 483
1985 Bahamas CHOGM, 384
1986 Australia Act, 209; Marlborough House CHOGM, 397
1991 Keating elected PM, 210
1993 awarded Olympic Games, 210
1994 Prince of Wales’s visit, 211, 491
1996 Princess of Wales’s visit, 519–21
1998 constitutional convention, 211
1999 republic referendum, 187, 211–12, 232, 498–9
2000 Royal visit, 47, 212–13; Sydney Olympics, 210, 213
2002 Royal visit 213
2011 Prince William’s visit, 524; Perth CHOGM, 213–14
2015 Turnbull elected PM, 217
2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, 174, 186; London CHOGM, 217–18; Invictus Games, 530
Australian Republic Movement, 215
Avram, Ion, 85
Ayub Khan, Mohammad, 40, 133
Azores, 366
Aztec civilisation, 470
Babangida, Ibrahim, 74
BAC 1-11 passenger jets, 90–91, 98, 102
Bader, Douglas, 309, 325
Bagehot, Walter, 44, 409
Bahamas, 55, 184–5, 232, 344, 383–7, 397
B
alfour Declaration (1926), 121
Balmain, Pierre, 300
Balmoral Castle, Aberdeenshire, 30, 47, 60, 136, 210, 240, 258, 271, 336, 344, 376–7, 388, 451
Balogh, Tamás, 96
Banana, Canaan, 482
Band of the Royal Marines, 341, 345, 361, 368–9, 452
Banda, Hastings, 57–8, 143, 319, 320, 322, 329–30, 331, 337, 503
Bangladesh, 20, 106–7, 177–8, 381, 514
Bannister, Roger, 173
banquets, 72–8
Barbados, 232
barbecues, 47, 51, 354
Barber, Anthony, 386, 387
Barcant, Jonathan, 504
Barltrop, Roger, 313
Barotseland, 116
Barzun, Matthew, 4, 13, 261, 265, 268, 530
Bastawrous, Andrew, 152
Bathurst, Gambia, 19, 55
Battersby, John, 414
Battle of Britain (1940), 176, 320
Battle of Cape Matapan (1941), 31
Battle of El Alamein (1942), 298
Battle of Spion Kop (1900), 109, 115
Battle of Vimy Ridge (1917), 174, 175, 176
Battle of Waterloo (1815), 292, 430
Batwa Pygmies, 141
Bayeux Tapestry, 284
Beating Retreat, 361, 386, 452
Beaton, Cecil, 428
Beckett, Margaret, 7, 39, 77, 262
Bedell Smith, Sally, 50, 249, 399, 400, 419
beekeeping, 141
Behan, Brendan, 159
Beith, John, 27
Belgium, 45, 71, 93, 166, 273, 455
Belize, 47, 185, 232, 522
de Bellaigue, Marie-Antoinette ‘Toni’, 277
Benedict XVI, Pope, 66, 80
Benn, Anthony ‘Tony’, 208
Bennett, Ernest, 337
Bentley, 342
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, 433
Berlin Olympics (1936), 173
Berlin University of Technology, 18
Berlin Wall, 246–7, 405, 424, 430–32
Bermuda, 194, 231, 242, 495
Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, Prince consort of the Netherlands, 256
Berryman, Frank, 193
Beston, Eric, 441
Bethell, Nicholas, 4th Baron, 104
Bethell Brothers, 435
Bhumibol Adulyadej, King of Thailand, 26, 38, 48, 63, 70
Bhutan, 492
Biggar, Nigel, 140
binnacle, 352
Birch, John, xxii, 64, 104, 486
Black Watch, 472, 496
Blair, Anthony ‘Tony’, 29, 86, 155–60, 237, 258, 370, 495, 500
Blair, Cherie, 495
Blenheim bombers, 472
Blitz (1940–41), 247
Bloch, Michael, 288
Bloody Sunday (1920), 457
von Blücher, Gebhard Leberecht, 430
Blue Peter, 512
Bluebottle, 348
Blues and Royals, 523, 528
Boer War (1899–1902), 11, 109, 111, 112, 113, 115, 225
Bolger, James ‘Jim’, 215
Bolsheviks, 445–6, 449–50
Bolt, Usain, 6, 171
Bomber Command, 176
Bongo, Omar, 168
Bonham-Carter, Christopher, 134
Bonner, Yelena, 448
Boothroyd, Betty, 77
Borel, Calvin, 263
Bosnia, 256, 521
Botha, Pieter Willem, 386, 387
Botswana, 105, 308, 319–20, 324, 331–2, 333, 387
du Boulay, Roger
African tour (1979), 64, 336
and Princess Anne, 512
Ceausescu’s visit (1978), 90, 92, 93, 94, 100
on Prince of Wales, 506
on Foreign Office, 154
France visit (1972), 285, 293, 300–301
New Hebrides, Resident Commissioner of (1973–5), 345, 363
on Royal Visits Committee, 24
Bounty, HMS, 361
Bourgeois, John, 251
Bowen, Ivan and Ken, 196
Boys’ Welfare Society, 509
Bradford, Sarah, 303
Bradford University, 91
Brandreth, Gyles, 198
Brazil, 21, 27, 59, 65, 278, 286, 364, 424, 478, 485
Brexit (2016–), 3, 6, 10–11, 16, 69, 167, 216–17, 269–72, 298, 462, 526
Brezhnev, Leonid, 24, 281, 293
Brighton hotel bombing (1984), 250, 376
Brind, Harry, 82
Brisbane Commonwealth Games (1982), 173
Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, 346
Britannia, HMY, 7, 20, 32, 39, 57, 341–73
1953 launch, 348–9, 369
1954 Libya visit, 350–51, Coronation tour homecoming, 127, 351–3; Canada visit, 353
1955 Norway visit, 358; Caribbean cruise, 353; Scotland cruise, 353–4
1956 Sweden visit, 358–9; Melbourne Olympics and Antarctica visit, 355–7
1957 Portugal visit, 357; Denmark visit, 358
1958 Netherlands visit, 358
1959 Hong Kong visit, 345–6; North American tour, 221
1961 West African tour, 19, 55–6, 362
1963 Fiji visit, 235
1964 Canada tour, 222
1965 Germany visit, 431
1968 South American tour, 28, 364
1969 review of the Western Fleet, 368; Norway visit, 31
1970 Australia tour, 203, 204, 345
1971 Canada tour, 224; Pitcairn visit, 361
1972 South East Asia tour, 38, 284; France visit, 35, 284, 304
1973 Honeymoon of Princess Anne and Capt. Mark Phillips, 366
1974 New Hebrides visit, 345, 363
1975 Mexico visit, 365
1976 Finland visit, 55; United States visit, 242, 243–4, 253, 365
1977 Australia and New Zealand tour, 208
1979 Middle East tour, 51, 53, 315, 363
1981 Honeymoon of Prince and Princess of Wales, 366, 372; press reception, 56; Australia visit, 161
1982 Tuvalu visit, 234, 370
1983 United States visit, 247, 248, 249, 253
1985 Nassau CHOGM, 384, 385, 386
1986 Honeymoon of Duke and Duchess of York, 366; China visit, 365–6, 434–5, 437–8
1990 Cameroon visit, 504
1991 United States visit, 253, 254
1992 France visit, 368
1993 India visit, 366; Cyprus CHOGM, 54, 162
1994 D-Day anniversary, 256–7, 368; Russia visit, 441–2, 451–3
1995 South African visit, 409, 410
1997 Hong Kong handover, 495; decommissioning, 261, 341, 369–71
Britannia, BOAC, 129
British Aerospace, 90
BAe 146 plane, 342, 447, 457
British Aircraft Corporation (BAC), 90–91, 116, 102, 104
British Airways, 32, 33, 35, 38, 260, 384, 435, 440
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Antarctica broadcast (1956), 356
Ceausescu’s visit (1978), 96
Commonwealth Day coverage, 152
Princess of Wales’s Panorama interview (1995), 497, 519
Elizabeth R (1992), 253
India visit (1997), 159
Jamaica visit (2012), 229
Royal Family (1969), 46, 223, 241, 512
United States visit (2007), 261
Victoria Falls speech (1947), 117, 118
World Service, 7
British Columbia, 22
British Commonwealth Games, 173, 507
British Diplomatic Oral History Programme, 14, 104, 486
British Empire, 1, 3, 17, 36, 85, 108–26, 141, 166, 183
British Empire and Commonwealth Games, 173, 507
British Empire Games, 173–4
British Invisibles, 365
British Lions, 523
British Museum, 18
British Nationality Act (1981), 230
British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC), 33, 34, 129, 193, 219, 228
British Overseas Trade Board, 365, 4
41
British Petroleum, 331
British Virgin Islands, 230
British West Indies, 227
Bronington, HMS, 477
brooches
Flame Lily, 21, 116
Maple Leaf, 219, 226
Northern Star snowflake, 21, 227
Wattle, 197
Brown, Gordon, 160–61, 264, 265
Brown, John, 348
Browne, Gaston, 532
Browne, Michael, 461
Brunei, 469
Bruni, Carla, 305–6
Brunswick, Duke of, see Ernst August
Buckingham Palace, London, 344
Amin’s visit (1971), 81
banquets, 72–8
Belgian Suite, 71, 87, 88, 97, 103, 417
Blue Drawing Room, 1
Bobo’s residence, 40
Bush’s visit (2003), 259
Ceausescu’s visit (1978), 97–101, 259
Commonwealth Fashion Exchange (2018), 170
Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (1986), 389
Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (2018), 1–3, 464
Dadae’s visit (2017), 233
1844 Room, 1
Fagan incident (1982), 210
Felipe VI’s visit (2017), 72, 74–6
George, birth of (2013), 215
gifts, 20
Gustav VI’s visit (1954), 69
informal luncheons, 299–300
McKenzie’s visit (1975), 172
Mandela’s visit (1996), 416–17, 418, 451
Margrethe II’s visits, 78–9
Mobutu’s visit (1973), 86–7
Olympic reception (2012), 5
Orleans Room, 71
Picture Gallery, 72, 105
Queen’s Commonwealth Trust reception (2018), 8–9
Queen’s Young Leaders Awards, 14, 105–8
Ramaphosa’s visit (2018), 421
Royal Household Hospitality Scholarships, 181–2, 184–5
Royal Library, 67, 268
Schmidt’s visit (1977), 433
terrorist threats, 33
White Drawing Room, 15
Bukhara, Uzbekistan, 490
Bulawayo, Fines, 334
Bulgaria, 79
Bullard, Robin, 349, 369
Bunting, John, 233
Burlin, Terence, 95, 101
Burma, 122, 123, 472
Burmese (horse), 22, 246
Burns, Andrew, 91, 95
Bush, Barbara, 250
Bush, Barbara Pierce, 475
Bush, George Herbert Walker, 49, 250–52, 255
Bush, George Walker, 66, 252, 258–64, 266, 392, 475
Bush, Jenna, 475
Bush, Laura, 258
Buthelezi, Mangosuthu, 407
Butler, Richard ‘Rab’, 427
Butler, Robin, 97, 155, 167, 375, 377, 381, 392, 436, 473
Buxton, M. P., 431
Cable, John Vincent ‘Vince’, 270
Caesar, Julius, 120
Caine, Michael, 260
Callaghan, Leonard James ‘Jim’, 35, 156, 376
Amin’s proposed visit (1977), 83, 84
Ceausescu’s visit (1978), 89, 90, 96, 101–2