by Siân Evans
Barrie, J.M.
Barrington, Emilie
Battenburg, Prince Louis of
Battenburg, Prince George of
Bayreuth
Beaton, Cecil
Beaton, Nancy
Benn, Anthony Wedgwood
Benzedrine
Beaufort, Duke of
Beaverbrook, Lord
Beecham, Sir Thomas
Beecham, Sir Joseph
Beecham, Utica Celestia Welles
‘Beerage, the’
Beerbohm, Max
Bedaux, Charles
Beit, Alfred Sir
Beit, Sir Otto
Bell, Clive
Bell, Vanessa
Benckendorff, Count Constantin
Benson, E.F.
Berchtesgaden
Berenson, Bernard
Berkeley, Busby
Berlin, Isaiah
Berners, Lord Gerald
Bernhardt, Sarah
Bienvenue au Soldat
Bigot, Mademoiselle
Bismarck, Prince Otto von
‘Black Book’, The German (Sonderfahndungsliste GB)
‘Black Bottom, the’
Black Man and White Ladyship
‘Blackshirts’ see British Union of Fascists
Blenheim
Blickling Hall
Blitz, The
Bloomsbury Set
Blunt, Alfred, Bishop of Bradford
‘Blunt Instrument’, The’
Bole the Butler
Bonar Law, Andrew
Book of Beauty, by Cecil Beaton
Bonynge, Virginia Daniel
Bonynge, William
Boothby, Lord Robert (‘Bob)
Borden, Mary
Bottomley MP, Horatio
Bowes Lyon, Elizabeth
Bowra, Maurice
Brecknock, Lord and Lady
Bridgewater House
‘Bright Young Things’
British Union of Fascists (BUF)
Brittain, Vera
Brittain-Jones, Rosemary
Bryanston Court
Buccleuch, Duchess of
Buckingham Palace
Burke, Maud see Cunard, Lady Maud and Cunard Lady Emerald
Burke, Judge Stevenson
Burke’s Peerage
Bushell, Arthur
Burne-Jones, Edward
Burne-Jones, Margaret
Cadogan, Alec
Campbell, Mrs Patrick
Canadian House of Commons
Canadian Red Cross Hospital at Cliveden
Canova, Antonio
Canterbury, Archbishop of see Lang, Cosmo Gordon
Carpentier, Horace
Carrington, Dora
Cartland, Barbara
Cartier
Cassel, Sir Ernest
Castlereagh, Viscount Robert
Castlereagh MP, Captain Charles see also Londonderry, Lord Charles
Castlerosse, Viscount Valentine
Castlerosse, Lady
Cavalcade magazine
Cazalet, Victor
Chamberlain, Austen
Chamberlain, Ivy
Chamberlain, Neville
Channon, Sir Henry (‘Chips’)
Chaplin, Charlie
Chaplin, Edith
Charteris, Evan
Charles, Prince of Wales
Charleston, The
Civil Air Guard
Chequers
Clarence, Duke of (‘Eddy’)
Claridge’s
Clark, Kenneth
Clingendael
Cold War, the
Communism
Connolly, Cyril
Conscientious objectors
Cooper, Gladys
Coward, Noel
Coronation of King Edward VII
Coronation of King George V and Queen Mary
Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth
Corrupt Coterie, The
Channel Tunnel, the
Chateau d’Asnières, near Paris
Chateau de Cande
Chetwynd-Talbot, Theresa, Sixth Marchioness of Londonderry
Chicago Sun-Times
Christian Science
Churchill, Randolph
Churchill, Sir Winston
Churchill, Lady Clementine (‘Clemmie’)
Cleveland Fund
Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland Zoo
Cliveden
Acquisition of estate by William Waldorf Astor
Wedding present for Nancy and Waldorf
Servants at Cliveden
House parties
War cemetery
‘Cliveden Set, The’
Cockburn, Claud
Coldstream Guards
Colefax & Fowler (see also Sibyl Colefax Ltd)
‘Colefaxiana’
‘Colefaxismus’
Colefax, Lady Sibyl (née Halsey)
unhappy childhood
marriage to Arthur Colefax
travel
interior design by
financial worries
relationship with Virginia Woolf
and the cultural elite
as hostess
mocked by contemporaries
illegible handwriting
friendship with Wallis Simpson
rivalry with Emerald Cunard
and Nazi Germany
and Prince of Wales
widowhood
sale of Argyll House
during World War II
‘ordinaries’
Later years
Death
Colefax, Michael
Colefax, Peter
Colefax, Sir Arthur
Colgate, Samuel J.
‘Colour Bar’, the
‘Come Into the Garden, Maud’, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Concentration camps
Cooper, Alfred Duff
Cooper, Gary
Cooper, Lady Diana (née Manners)
Corbett, Leonora
Corrnwall, Camilla, Duchess of
Cornwallis-West, Jennie
Corrigan, Laura Mae, née Whitrock
poverty of family
arrival in London 1922
marriage to James Corrigan (‘Jimmy’)
as party-giver
headstands
malapropisms
snubs Mrs Margaret Greville
and opera
wigs
widowhood
travel
and royalty
and Wallis Simpson
gifts
charity
meets Mussolini
and von Ribbentrop
in Paris
in Occupied France
World War II
Awards for bravery
Death
Corrigan, James (‘Jimmy’)
Corrigan, Captain James C. Corrigan
Corrigan-McKinney Steel Company
Covent Garden
Covent Garden Opera Syndicate Ltd
Country House Scheme, the
Country house weekends
Country Life
Crocker, Mrs Harry
Croix du Combattant
Croix de Guerre
Crome Yellow, by Aldous Huxley
Crowder, Henry
Cubitt, the Hon Roland (‘Rollie’)
Cubitt, Sonia see Sonia Keppel
Cubitt, Thomas
Cunard, Edith
Cunard, Lady Maud (‘Emerald’)
loss of father
early years
marriage to Sir Bache
views on motherhood
with Edward VII
affair with Thomas Beecham
passion for music
as society hostess
relationship with George Moore
relationship with Nancy
name-change to Emerald
financial worries
unpunctuality
rivalry with other hostesses
appearance
Friendship with Prince of Wales, Edward VIII
Friendship with Wallis Simpson
and von Ribbentrop
Ostracism
During World War II
Desertion by Thomas Beecham
Later years
Death
Cunard, Nancy
Cunard, Victor
Cunard, Sir Bache
Cunningham-Reid, Mary (née Ashley)
Cust, the Hon Henry
Curzon, Lord
Curzon, Alexandra (‘Baba’} later Metcalfe
Curzon, Irene
Czechoslovakia
Dachau concentration camp
Daily Express
Daily Mail
Daily Mirror
Daily News
Daily Sketch
Daily Star
Daily Worker
Davies, Marion
Dawson, Geoffrey
Dawson of Penn, Lord
Dean, Charles
Debrett’s
Debutantes
De Gaulle
de Grey, Countess Gladys
de Laszlo, Philip
de Polignac, Princesse
de Pompadour, Madame
Derby, Lady
Devonshire, Duke of
Devonshire House
de Walden, Lord Howard
de Wolfe, Elsie (Lady Mendl)
Delius, Frederick
Depression (1929)
Der Rosenkavalier
Desborough, Lady Ettie
Devonshire, Duke of
Diaghilev, Serge
Dickens, Charles
Dickens KC, Henry
Divorce, attitudes to
‘Dollar Queen, the’ see also Laura Mae Corrigan
Donegall, Marquess of
Dorchester Hotel (‘The Dorch’)
‘Dorm, the’ (at Dorchester Hotel)
Drogheda, Lord
Dufferin and Ava, Marquess of
Duggan, Mrs Grace
Duke, Doris
Dunkirk
Duncan, Isadore
Dunrobin Castle
Duveen, Joseph
Eddy, Mary Baker
Eden, Sir Anthony
Edinburgh
Edward VII, King
Edward VIII, King, formerly Prince of Wales. See also Duke of Windsor
Tour of India
Friendship with Lady Cunard
Views on Mrs Greville
And America
Popular opinion
Friendship with Sibyl Colefax
Ostracises Laura Mae Corrigan and Mrs Margaret Greville
‘Kinging’
Relationship with Wallis Simpson
And Nazi Germany
Accession 1936
Decision to abdicate
Ehrengäste ‘honoured guests’
Eiffel Tower Restaurant, the
Elcho, Lady
Eliot, T.S.
Elizabeth, Princess, Duchess of York, née Bowes Lyon. Later Queen Elizabeth, then Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
Appearance
Friendship with ‘Mrs Ronnie’ Greville
Marriage to Prince Albert
Honeymoon at Polesden Lacey
Relationship with Wallis Simpson
Reaction to Abdication
Relationship with Emerald Cunard
Relationship with Osbert Sitwell
During World War II
Reaction to inheritance from Mrs Greville
Elizabeth, Princess, later Queen Elizabeth II
Ellesmere, Lady Violet
Ely, Gertrude
Embassy Club, London
Ena, Queen of Spain
Esher, Lord
Eton
Euclid Avenue, Cleveland
Evacuees
Eve of Parliament balls (see also Parliamentary balls)
Evening News
Evening Standard
Fairbairn, Sydney
Fairbanks Jnr, Douglas
Faringdon
Fascism, growth of (See also British Union of Fascists)
Fawcett, Millicent
Faud, King of Egypt
Faustino, Princess Jane
Fellowes, Daisy
Fellowes-Gordon, Dorothy (‘Dickie’)
First World War
outbreak of
effects of
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Florence
Foster, Maud
Fort Belvedere, Windsor Great Park
Fountain of Love, the
‘Four Hundred, the’
Fowler, John
Fox-hunting
Franco, General Francisco
Franz Ferdinand, Archduke
Fraser, Sir John Foster
Freaks of Mayfair, by E.F. Benson
Freud, Clement
Freud, Sigmund
Frick, Miss
Fry, Roger
Furness, Thelma, Lady
Furness, Viscount Marmaduke (The Fiery Furness)
Furtwangler, Wilhelm
Furies, The Lord Berners
Fury, HMS
Gallipoli
Gandarillas, Tony
Garsington
Garvin, J.L.
Gate-crashing
Geissmar, Dr Berta
General Strike
George, David Lloyd
George, Prince, Duke of Kent
George V, King
Relationship with his children
Personality
During the Great War
Attitude to Mrs Greville
Approval of Elizabeth, Duchess of York
Concerns about Prince of Wales
Death
George VI, King and Queen Elizabeth
During World War II
George, King of Greece
Gestapo, the
Gibbons, Nanny
Gibson, Dana
Gibson, Irene
Gielgud, John
Gladstone, William
Glamis Castle
Glass Menagerie, The, by Tennessee Williams
Glyn, Elinor
Gold Standard
Gosse, Sir Edmund
Gotterdämmerung, by Wagner
Grandi, Count Dino
Grant, Duncan
‘Great Mayfair War’, the (see also Gate-crashing)
Grenfell, Joyce
Greville, Margaret Helen, née Anderson (aka ‘Mrs Ronnie’)
Stigma of illegitimacy
First able to vote aged
International travel
Charitable giving
Marriage to Ronald Greville
Friendship with Prince of Wales, later Edward VII
Widowed
Relationship with King George V and Queen Mary
Friendship with Prince Albert, (‘Bertie’)56
And Prince of Wales, later Edward VIII
Outbreak of Great War
Formidable reputation
Wealth
As matchmaker
Marriage proposal from Sir John Simon
and her servants
and Laura Mae Corrigan
as society hostess
relationship with Emerald Cunard
jewellery
and von Ribbentrop
meets Hitler
and Mussolini
and Nazi Germany
and the Duke and Duchess of York
close friendship with Elizabeth, Duchess of York, later Queen Elizabeth
and Winston Churchill
and political influence
health
views on Jews
during World War II
Death
Greville, the Hon Ronald Henry Fulke (‘Ronnie’)
Political career
Friendship with Prince of Wales, later Edward VII
Death in 1908
Greville, Lord
Greville Lady Violet
Greville, Sir Sidney
Grey, Sir Edward
George V,
King
George VI, King
Goering, Hermann
Gold Standard
Gordon, Mary
Grimmett, Gordon
Grimsthorpe Castle
Great War see First World War
Grosvenor House
Guinness, Brian
Guinness, Diana (see also Mosley, Lady Diana)
Guinness, Honor (later Channon)
Gustav of Sweden, Crown Prince
Hailsham, Viscount
Halifax, Lord
Halsey, Sophie
Halsey, William
Halsey, Willie
Halsey, Ethel
Halsey, Sibyl see Colefax, Lady Sibyl
Harding, President
Harlem
Harris, Lady
Harrow
Hart-Davis, Sybil
Hartnell, Norman
Harmsworth, Molly see Northcliffe, Lady
Harmsworth, Geoffrey
Harrison, Rosina (‘Rose’)
Harvey, Mrs George
Hearst, William Randolph
‘Heil Hitler’. See also ‘Hitlergrüss’
Heloise and Abelard, by George Moore
Heinemann, William
Hemingway, Ernest
Henderson, Sir Nevile
‘Herr Brickendrop’ (von Ribbentrop)
Hess, Rudolf
Hever Castle, Kent
Hidcote
Hindus, Maurice
Hitler, Adolf
Hitlergrüss
Hollywood
Home Rule for Ireland
Homosexuality, (see also Shaw, Bobbie)
Hoare, Samuel
Hoesch, Leopold von
Horne, Herbert
Horne, Sir Robert
Horner, Edward
Horner, Robert
Houghton, Allanson B.
Household Cavalry
House of Commons
House of Lords
Hudson, Edward
Hulton, Gertie
Humby, Betty
Hunt, Holman
Hurricane
Hutton, Barbara
Huxley, Aldous
Ilchester, Lord and Lady
Imperial League of Opera
India
Inskip, Sir Thomas
Isaacs, Rufus see Reading, Lord
Italian Old Masters exhibition
Italy, King and Queen of
‘I’ve Been to a Marvellous Party’, by Noel Coward
James, Mrs Arthur
John, Augustus
John Bull magazine
Johnson, Amy
Johnstone, Lawrence
Joint Council of Midwifery
Jones, Sir Roderick
Jones, Thomas
Jordan, Mary
Juliana, Princess of the Netherlands
Jura, Island of
Jutland, Battle of
Kahn, Mr and Mrs Otto
Keeler, Christine
Keene, Nancy Witcher
Kelmsley, Lord
Kennedy, Bobby
Kennedy, Joseph
Kennedy, Teddy
Keppel, Alice (‘La Favorita’)
Keppel, George
Rosalind Cubitt
Keppel, Sonia (later Cubitt)
Keppel, Violet
Kerr, Archie Clark
Kerr, Philip (Lord Lothian)
Kerr-Smiley, Mrs Maud
Keynes, John Maynard
Khan, Aly
Khan, Aga
King Edward VII’s Hospital for Officers
King, Viva
Kinross, Lord see Balfour, Patrick
Kipling, Alice
Kipling, Lockwood
Kipling, Rudyard
