by Siân Evans
Kipling, Trix
Kirkpatrick, Ivonne
Knickerbocker, Cholly see Paul, Maury
‘Knickerbocker Crowd’
Kokoschka, Oskar
Korda, Alexander
Koster, Roland
Kristallnacht
L’Age d’Or
Labbette, Dora (‘Lisa Perli’)
Labour Party
Lady Chatterley’s Lover, by D.H. Lawrence
Lake View Cemetery
Lamont, Tom
Lancaster, Nancy
Lancaster, Duke of (a title held by the Prince of Wales)
Landed gentry
Landsdowne, Lady
‘La Favorita’ see Alice Keppel
La Légende de Joseph, by Rimsky-Korsakov
Lancaster House
Lang, Cosmo Gordon, Archbishop of Canterbury
Langhorne, Chiswell Dabney
Langhorne, Phyllis
Lascelles, Sir Alan (‘Tommy’)
Laura Ashley Ltd
Lavery, Lady
Lawrence, D. H.
Lawrence, T.E. (‘Lawrence of Arabia’)
League of Nations
Le Coq d’Or, by Rimsky-Korsakov
Lee, Edwin (Skipper’ or ‘Skip’)
Lees-Milne, James
Légion d’Honneur
Leigh, Vivien
Leoni, Giacomo
Leighton, Lord
Lewis, Wyndham
Liberal Party
Life Guards
Lindbergh, Charles
Lindemann, Professor Frederick
Liron, Mademoiselle Adeline (‘Mam’selle’)
‘Lisa Perli’ see Dora Labbette
Lloyd, George
Lockhart, Bruce Robert
Lohengrin, by Wagner
London Gazette, The
Londonderry House, Mayfair
Londonderry, Lady Edith (née Chaplin)
loss of mother
and Women’s Suffrage
international travel
maternal and infant mortality
Midwives Act, the
and Women’s Legion
appearance and personality
Circe and ‘The Ark’
Marriage to Charley
Attitude to husband’s infidelities
Children
Political hostess
Friendship with Lady Cunard
Hospital during WW
Relationship with Nancy Astor
Creation of Mount Stewart Gardens
Friendship with Laura Mae Corrigan
Friendship with Ramsay MacDonald
Physical fitness
Financial problems
And servants
And Prince of Wales
And von Ribbentrop
And Nazi Germany
Retrospect
And Wallis Simpson
On Abdication
Tattoo
And Queen Elizabeth
During World War II
Later years
Death
Londonderry, Frances Anne
Londonderry, Lord Charles (‘Charley’) (see also Viscount Castlereagh)
Londonderry, Lady Theresa (née Chetwynd-Talbot)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Longden, Major
Losch, Tilly
Lothian, Lord see Kerr, Philip
Louvre, the
Low, David
Luftwaffe, the
Lunt, Alfred
Lusitania, RMS
Lygon, Lady Lettice
Macbeth, by William Shakespeare
MacDonald, Ramsay
Origins
Political career
Relationship with Lady Londonderry
Death
Macmillan, Harold Sir
Macmillan, Sir Frederick
‘Madam’, Nancy Astor’s corgi
‘Mad Dogs and Englishmen’, by Noel Coward
Maharajah of Cooch Behar, the
‘Majesty Divine’
Manners, Lady Diana (later Lady Diana Cooper)
Margaret, Princess
Marconi, Senator Marchese
Marienbad
Marina, Princess of Greece (Duchess of Kent)
Marlborough, Duke of
Marlborough House Set
Marshal Pétain
McCarthy, Senator Joseph R.
McMartin, Duncan R.
Man Ray
Markievicz, Countess
Mary, Queen, Queen Consort
Appearance
Friendship with Mrs Greville
Marriage
Culture
Coronation
During the Great War
Attempts to advance Prince Albert’s courtship
Widowed
and Wallis Simpson
Reaction to Abdication
Ostracism of Lady Cunard
As a guest
During World War II
Matisse, Henri
Maugham, W. Somerset
Maugham, Syrie
Maxwell, Elsa
McEwan MP, William8
McKay, John
McKinney, Price
Mencken, H.L.
Mendl, Lady see de Wolfe, Elsie
Merman, Ethel
Messel, Oliver
Metcalfe, Edward (‘Fruity’)
Metcalfe, Alexandra ‘Baba’ (née Curzon)
Mewès and Davis
Meyrick, Mrs Kate
Mirador
Midwives Act, the
Mistress of the Robes
Mitford, Nancy
Mitford, Unity
Mitford, Diana
Modern Times
Montacute
Moray, Earls of
Morganatic marriage
Morphine addiction
Moore, George
Morrell MP, Philip
Morrell, Lady Ottoline
Morris, May
Morris, William
Morrison, Herbert
Moscow
Mosley, Lady Diana (née Mitford)
Mosley, Sir Oswald
Mountbatten, Lord Louis (‘Dickie’)
Mountbatten, Lady Edwina (née Ashley)
Mountbatten, Lady Louise
Mount Stewart, Northern Ireland
Moyne, Lord
‘Mrs Ronnie’ origins of nickname,. See also Greville, Margaret Helen
Munich agreement
Munnings, Alfred
Munster, Countess of see Ward, Peggy
Murder mystery parties
Murrow, Ed
Mussolini, Benito (‘Il Duce’)
Nagirroc (Corrigan written backwards)
Nahlin, The
‘Nancy Costersnatch’
National Birthday Trust Fund
Nation, The
National Socialism / Nazism
National Trust, The
Negro
Nehru, Jawaharlal
Neurath, Baron von
Nevill Holt, Leicestershire
New York
New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
New York Times
New Yorker, The
News of the World
New Statesman
Nichols, Beverley
Nicolson, Harold
Nicolson, Nigel
Nijinsky
‘Nittie Vandercrump’
Northcliffe, Lady (Molly Harmsworth)
Northcliffe, Lord
Norton, Mr Richard
Novelty parties
Novello, Ivor
Nuremberg rallies
Nuremberg trials
O’Brien, William
O’Casey, Sean
Observer, The
Old Buckhurst
Olivier, Sir Laurence
Olympic Games, Berlin, 1936
Ourselves and Germany, by the Marquess of Londonderry
Outlaws, by Nancy Cunard
Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations, The
Page, Walter
Paget, Mrs Arthur
Palazzo Mocenigo, Venice
Palazzo Brandolini
Pall Mall Gazette
Pan-American Women’s Convention, Baltimore
Paris
Parliamentary balls (see also Eve of Parliament balls)
Paul, Prince, of Yugoslavia
Paul, Maury (‘Cholly Knickerbocker’)
Phipps, Mrs Nora
Phipps, Rt Hon Sir Eric
Picasso, Pablo
Pickford, Mary
Plunket, Dorothe Lady (née Lewis)
Plunket, Lord Terence
‘Poaching’ servants
Point Counter Point, by Aldous Huxley
Polesden Lacey, Surrey
Poniatowski, Prince André
Porter, Cole
Portland, Duke of
Port Lympne
Plas Machynlleth
Plunket, Dorothe
Plymouth
Nancy Astor as MP
Waldorf Astor’s election
During World War II
Portrait of a Society Hostess, by Lord Berners
Presentation at Court see also Debutantes
Preston, Alice ‘Kiki’
Pro-appeasement movement
Profumo, Jack
Profumo Affair, the
Pulcinella, by Stravinsky
Pulteney, General William
Quennell, Peter
Queen Mary, The
RAF
Rasputin
Rationing during World War II
‘Rat Week’
Reading, Lord (Viceroy of India)
Red Cross, the
Representation of the People Act, 1918 (see also Sex Disqualification (Removal) Acts 1919)
Rest Harrow, Kent
Reuters
Ribbentrop, Joachim von
Ribbentrop, Rudolf von
Ribblesdale, Lady
Richardson, Samuel
Richmond, Duke of
Rice-Davies, Mandy
Rimsky-Korsakov
Ritchie, Charles
Ritz Hotel, London
Ritz Hotel, Paris
Rodd, Peter
Rogers, Herman and Katherine
Rolfe, Mr and Mrs
Romania, Queen Marie of
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Mrs Eleanor
Ross, Harold
Rossmore, Lord
Rothermere, Lord
Royal Academy
Royal Aero Club
Royal Horse Guards (‘the Blues’)
Rubinstein, Arthur
Rubinstein, Helena
Russell, Bertrand
Russell, Gerald
Russian Revolution
Rutland, Violet, Duchess of
Rutland, Duke of
Sackville-West, Vita
Sancy diamond, the
Sandars, Mrs Rosemary
Sandringham
San Francisco
San Francisco Alta California
Sarajevo
Sargent, John Singer
Sassoon, Philip
Sassoon, Siegfried
Savoy, the
Scheherazade, by Rimsky-Korsakov
Scott, Kathleen
Schloss Wasserleonburg
Scottsboro Boys, the
Second World War.
Sex Disqualification (Removal) Acts 1919
Shakespeare, William
Sibyl Colefax Ltd (see also Colefax & Fowler)
Sickert, Walter
Simon, Sir John
Simpson, Ernest Aldrich
Simpson, Wallis
Appearance
Relationship with Prince of Wales
And Nazi Germany
Sinn Féin
Sissinghurst
Sir Thomas Beecham’s Opera Company Ltd
Sitherwood, Emma
Sitwell, Georgia
Sitwell, Osbert (see also ‘Rat Week’)
Sitwell, Sacheverell (‘Sachie’)
Shaftesbury, Earl of
Shaftesbury, Lady
Shaw, Charlotte
Shaw, George Bernard
Shaw II, Robert Gould
Shaw, Robert Gould (‘Bobbie’)
‘Shaw, Aircraftman’ see Lawrence, T.E.
Shrewsbury, Earl of
Smith, F.E. (Lord Birkenhead)
Sokolnikoff, Grigori
Somerset, Duke of
Sonderfahndungsliste GB, The German ‘Black Book’
‘Souls, The’
Soviet Union
Spanish flu
Spanish Civil War, the
Special Branch
Spectator, The
Speer, Albert
Spencer, Lady
Spencer, Lieutenant Earl Winfield
Sperry, Beth
Spitfire
Stafford House
Stalin, Josef
Stalinist purges
Stanhope, Lady
Stanley MP, Oliver
Stanley, Maureen
State Opening of Parliament
Stein, Gertrude
Stevenson, Frances
St George’s Chapel, Windsor
St John Gogarty, Oliver
Stirling, Charlie
Stocks, Mary
Stohrer, Baroness von
Story, Thomas Waldo
Strachey, Lytton
Strafford, Lady Cora
Strangford Lough, Northern Ireland
Strathmore, Earl of
Strathmore, Lady
Stravinsky
Stuart, James
Sudetenland, The
Suffragettes, the
Suffragists, the
Sunday Chronicle, The
Sunday Dispatch, the
Surrealists, French
Sutherland, Millicent, Duchess of
Sutherland, Duke of
Sutton Place, Surrey
Swanson, Gloria
Sykes, Richard
Tatler
Taylor, Myron
Tennant, Charles
Tennant, Stephen
Tennyson, Alfred Lord
Tewin Water, Hertfordshire
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Green Hat, by Michael Arlen
Third Reich, The
Thomson, Virgil
Thousand Islands, The
Thynne, Lord Alexander
Tichenor, Charles
Tiffany & Co., New York
Time
Time and Tide
Times, The
Tír-n’an Óg
Toscanini
Toklas, Alice B.
‘To meet Jesus Christ’, by Mary Borden
Tree, Iris Beerbohn
Trefusis, Denys
Trefusis, Violet (see also Keppel, Violet)
Trent Park
Trundle, Guy Marcus
Twain, Mark
Ukrainian famines
V2 rockets
VADs (Voluntary Aid Detachments)
Vanderbilt, Cornelius V
Vanderbilt, Grace
Vanderbilt, Gloria
Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Lady Jane
Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Lady Mairi (Dowager Countess Bury)
Vansittart, Sir Robert
VE Day
Venice
Viceroy of India see Reading, Lord
Vichy
Victoria, Queen
Villa Borghese, Rome
Villa Mauresque
Villa dell’Ombrellino, Florence
Virginia
Viscount Castlereagh, Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, later the 7th Marquess of Londonderry see Londonderry, Lord Charles
Vittel
Vivian, Daphne
VJ Day
Vogue
Waldegrave, Lady
Walker, Stanley
Wall Street Crash
Ward, Fannie (‘the Eternal Flapper’)
Ward, Peggy (later Countess of Munster)
Ward, Mrs Freda Dudley
Ward, Stephe
n
Warrender, Lady Maud
Watts, G. F.
Waugh, Evelyn
Waupaca, Wisconsin
Webb, Beatrice and Sidney
Wedgwood, Eliza
Week, The
Wellington, Duke of
Wells, H.G.
West, Mae
West, Rebecca
Westminster Abbey
Westminster, Loelia, Duchess of
Westmorland, Lady
Weymouth, Lord
Lady Weymouth
Wharton, Edith
Whistler, Rex
Whistler, Laurence
Whitrock, Charles
Who’s Who
Wilde, Oscar
Wilder, Thirnton
Wilkinson MP, Ellen (‘Red Ellen’)
Williams, Tennessee
Wings Club, the
Wilson, President
Williams, Mona Harrison
Willingdon, Lord, Viceroy of India
Wimborne, Lord
Windsor Castle
Windsor, Duke and Duchess of
Wintringham MP, Margaret
Willingdon, Lord
Wodehouse, P. G.
Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence
Women’s Legion
Women’s Suffrage (see also Suffragists and Suffragettes)
Woolf, Virginia née Stephen
Woolf, Leonard
Wyatt brothers
Wynyard Park, County Durham
Yeats, W.B.
York, Duke and Duchess of
Zeppelin raids
About the author
Cultural historian Siân Evans has worked for the National Trust, the V&A and the Design Museum, and is the author of several works of social history including Mrs Ronnie: The Society Hostess Who Collected Kings, The Manor Reborn and Life Below Stairs.
Siân lives in London.
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