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Grant, Mrs, 34, 34n, 38, 41, 52, 53, 54, 57, 67, 76, 78, 91, 96, 168, 260

  Green, C. P. ‘Paddy’, 21, 21n, 26, 34, 37, 105

  Greene, Elena (née Lindeman), 174, 174n

  Greene, Felix, 173, 173n

  Greene, Graham, xxiii, 108n, 116n, 225n, 260; A Burnt-Out Case, 277, 277n

  Grenfell, Alice, xix, 21, 21n, 76n, 102, 229n

  Grimond, Jo, 210, 244

  Grimond, Laura (née Bonham-Carter), 211

  Grisewood, Harman, 213, 213n

  Grundgens, Gustav, 137, 137n

  Hahn, Kurt, 176n, 178, 257

  Haley, Sir William, 230, 230n, 265

  Hambourg, Michal, 66, 67

  Hamburg, Germany, 136, 173

  Hamilton, Adam, 115

  Hamilton, Joan, 113, 114

  Hanbury-Williams, John, 88, 92

  Handley, Sir Michael, 171, 171n

  Harcourt-Smith, Simon, 33, 232

  Harris, Frank, My Life and Loves (1922), 288, 288n

  Harris, Rolf, 206n

  Hastings, Maurice, 125

  Haw Haw, Lord see Joyce, William

  Heber-Percy, Jennifer (née Fry), 76, 76n

  Helman, Adrian, 17

  Hepburn, Olive, 207, 209

  Hess, Myra, 120 Hibbert, Susan, 205

  Hill, Paul, 8, 8n, 96, 96n, 97, 126, 207n, 228n

  Hitler, Adolf, 61n, 62

  Hong Kong, 170–171, 172

  Houseman, Jack, 12, 12n, 15, 237, 238

  Howes, Ted, 135

  Hughes, Alwyn, 206, 206n

  Hughes, Glyn, 159, 205, 206, 209, 210, 217

  Hume, Benita, xxiii, 47

  Huxley, Aldous, 45, 52

  Ingrams, Leonard, 87, 87n, 88

  Ismay, Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron, 153n

  ‘Jacko case’, 197, 211

  James, Elizabeth, 124, 125

  Jardine Matheson (company), 174

  Joffre, Joseph (‘Papa’), Marshall of France, xxii

  John, Betty, 35, 35n

  John, Edwin, 37, 75n

  John, Gwen, 35, 35n, 37

  John, Otto, 178, 178n, 197

  John Augustus, 35, 35n

  Jones, Phyllis, 276, 281, 282n, 289

  Joyce, William (‘Lord Haw Haw’), 74, 74n

  Kavanagh, Ted, 212, 212n

  Kempson, Rachel, 147n

  Keswick, Lady Clare (née Elwes), 175, 175n

  Keswick, Sir John, 175, 175n

  Keynes, John Maynard, xxii, 53n

  Kingsmill Lunn, Hugh, 101–102, 105

  Kinross, Patrick Balfour, 3rd Baron, 123

  Kirkpatrick, Sir Ivone, 181, 181n, 271, 271n

  Knight, Laura, xix

  Knox, Ronald, 263, 263n, 265

  Korda, Alexander, xxiii

  Krauss, Clemens, 183

  Kung, Hans, 284, 284n

  Lawrence, Geoffrey, 161n

  Le Clerc, Nina, 107

  League of Nations, 68

  Lee, Raymond, xxi, 37n

  Lindsay-Hogg, Sir Anthony, 40, 40n

  Livingstone, Richard, 202, 202n

  Lloyd George, Frances, Countess (née Stevenson), 166

  London Dockers’ strike (1945), 95n

  Londonderry, Alistair Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 9th Marquess, 255

  Lopton, Langton, 221

  Luchaire, Corinne, 116, 116n

  Mabane, Sir William, 163, 163n

  Macartney, ‘Trix’, 75n

  Macdonald, Iverach, 220

  Mangan, Fr Richard, 193, 196, 197, 199, 201, 205, 207, 235, 265, 268

  Manila, Philippines, 171

  Mann, Erika, 137

  Manstein, Erich von, 178, 178n

  Masaryk, Jan, 107, 107n, 124

  Maxwell Fyfe, Sir David, 255n

  McDougall, Jack, 120

  Melikoff, Boris, 37, 37n, 166

  Mental Deficiency Act (1927), 211

  Menuhin, Yehudi, 107

  Meunier, Philippe, 247–248, 249, 253, 253n

  Micklem, Nat, 194, 194n, 200, 210–211, 212, 217, 244, 270, 271

  Millerick, Father, 218, 242, 257, 273

  Mirsky, Vera T., The Cup of Astonishment, 22

  Mitchell, Miss, 113, 154

  Mitford, Nancy, 40, 82–83; The Pursuit of Love, 40n

  Monck, Henry, 6th Viscount Monck, 153n, 168

  Montagu, Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron, 255, 255n

  Montagu-Pollock, John, 75, 75n

  Moorehead, Alan, 136, 141

  Morris, Claud, 7, 7n, 8, 28, 51–52, 79

  Morse, Sir Arthur, 170

  Mosaddeq, Mohammad, 180, 180n, 181

  Mosbacher, Eric, 225, 225n

  Moscow Nights (film,1935), xxiii

  Muggeridge, Kitty, 130

  Muggeridge, Malcolm, 16, 16n, 88, 101, 102, 105, 130, 224, 239, 266, 266n

  Munnings, Alfred, xix

  Murray, Basil, xxiii

  Mussolini, Benito, 61n

  Myers, John, 100

  Mynors, Humphrey, 100, 100n

  Mynors, Roger, 100n

  Naguib, Mohamed, 188–189, 188n

  Nasser, Colonel Gamal Abdel, 188n

  Newton, Ann (née Maclean), 5, 28, 68

  Newton, Robert, xxi–xxii, 4n, 11–12, 28, 227n

  Nichols, Beverley, 126

  Nicolson, Harold, 181

  Niemoller, Martin, 198, 198n

  Norman, Montagu, 53n, 181, 181n

  Obemer, Nesta, 173–174

  Observer (newspaper), 146

  Oliver, Nora, 86

  Olivier, Laurence, xxiii, 147, 147n, 213

  Orwell, George, 148, 148n

  Owen, Frank, 244

  Paris, France, 11, 36

  Parker, Michael, 176, 177, 182

  Parkinson’s disease, 286

  Paul VI, Pope, 285

  Paynter, Betty, xix, xxi, 5n, 14, 21, 28, 29, 83, 83n, 91, 96, 207n, 225, 227n, 228n; and daughter Sonya, xix, 218, 219–220, 221, 224, 226, 228

  Paynter, Colonel Camborne, xix, 6, 22, 34, 46, 53, 54, 59, 62, 66, 68, 80, 102, 104

  Paynter, Sonya, xix, 68, 83, 84, 212, 220–224, 226–228, 228n, 230

  Paynter, Tom, 78, 227, 233

  Peakswater, Cornwall, 119, 129

  Pebble (MW’s dog), 114, 115, 127, 160, 233

  Petacci, Clara, 61n, 62

  Pétain, Marshall, 31, 65, 66

  Philby, Kim, 171n

  Phillipson, Lydia, 67

  Pius XII, Pope, 277n

  Platts-Mills, John, 204, 204n, 211

  Portal, Sir Francis, 153, 153n, 162

  Portals (company), 151, 152, 152n

  Potsdam Conference (1945), 121

  Prittie, Terence, 142

  Purvis, Chester, 89

  Quarr Abbey, 83n, 250, 261, 265

  Quennell, Peter, 22, 83, 86, 88, 114, 168, 168n

  Razmara, Ali, 169, 169n

  Rickatson-Hatt, Bernard, 88, 88n, 92, 147, 151, 162

  Rigg, Diana, 287, 287n

  Ritz Hotel, London, xv, xxvi Robbins, Harold, The Adventurers (1966), 288, 288n

  Roberts, Bechhofer, Verlaine, 106, 108

  Robertson, Sir Malcolm, 33, 33n, 35

  Robeson, Paul, 12, 15

  Rodd, Peter, xxiii, 40n, 155n, 260

  Roosevelt, Franklin D., 53

  Roussin, André, Une Grande Fille Tout Simple, 36

  Ruegg, Ann, 200, 241

  Russell, Victor, 48

  Rutherford, Edwin, 131, 131n, 161, 209

  Ryan, Desmond, 86

  Sandberg, Christina, 96, 96n, 98

  Sandberg, Penelope, 158

  Schacht, Biene, 204, 204n, 219, 221, 222, 224, 226, 228, 230, 231, 233, 236–243, 246–250, 252, 260, 263, 264

  Schacht, Dr Hjalmar, 173, 173n, 176, 178, 180–184, 204n, 208, 236, 261, 264, 266, 271, 273–275

  Schumacher, Kurt, 177, 177n

  Sellon, Hugh, 66

  Shackleton, Edith, 61–62, 61n, 66, 67, 70, 98

  Sharp, Margery, The Loving Eye, 212

  Sheffield, J. V., 153n

  Shishakli, Adib, 188n
/>   Siepmann, Charles, 65, 65n, 182, 184, 235, 235n

  Siepmann, Dietelinde, 137, 173, 184

  Siepmann, Eric: background and education, xxi–xxiii; car accident, 285; conversion to Catholicism, 193, 196; death, 290; divorce from Phyllis Morris, 30, 44, 48, 118, 140, 159–165, 168–170; finances, 30, 44, 46, 47, 58, 59–60, 75–76, 94–95, 98, 163, 243; job as Berlin correspondent for Sunday Times, 130; job with British European Airways, 117; job with Kemsley Press news agency, 140; job with Portals, 151–155; job with The Times, 193, 234, 236; literary career, xxiii–xxiv, 19, 40, 46, 70, 151, 162, 193, 202, 203, 208, 214; loses job with MOI, 72; loses job with Portals, 190; marries MW, 170; meets MW, xv, xxv, xxvi– xxvii; takes overdose, 278; wartime career, xxii; Confessions of a Nihilist, 193

  Siepmann, Harry, 53, 53n, 63, 71, 77, 82, 88, 100, 104, 116, 131, 146, 147, 151, 155–156, 155n, 181, 215, 283

  Siepmann, Ingeborg, 177, 182

  Siepmann, Janey, 235

  Siepmann, Otto, xxii–xxiii, 118, 286–287

  Siepmann, Phyllis (née Morris), xxiv, 5n, 44n, 84, 90n, 161, 165; campaign against ES and MW, 113, 116–118, 116n, 129, 144, 144n, 146

  Siepmann, Ricardo, 137–139, 137n, 182, 184

  Siepmann, William (‘Bill’), 188, 196, 229, 229n, 251, 261, 284, 288

  Spark, Muriel, 281

  Spencer, Raine, Countess, 37n

  St Aubyn, Violet, 174

  St Levan, Sam, 104

  Stalin, Josef, 121

  Stanley, Edward, 83, 83n

  Stanley, Sylvia, 83n

  Stauffenberg, Colonel Claus von, 272, 272n

  Stoeckle, Gert, 248–249, 250

  Stopford, Richmond, xv, 131, 131n, 171, 172

  Strauss, Dr Eric, 116n, 197, 200

  Stucley, Betty, 218, 219, 246

  Sunday Times (newspaper), 130, 140, 142, 146

  Sutherland, Claire, Duchess of (née O’Brien), 37, 37n, 45, 46n, 50

  Sutherland, George (‘Geordie’) Sutherland, 5th Duke of, 37–38, 39, 42, 45, 50, 64

  Sweeney, Charles, 83, 83n

  Sweeney, Margaret, 83n

  Swinfen, Averil, Lady (née Knowles), 254, 254n, 257, 257n, 267

  Swinfen, Carol Swinfen Eady, 2nd Baron, xvi, 13n, 14, 23, 42, 104, 113, 116, 117, 118, 167, 210; divorce from MW, 48, 51, 53, 55n; financial support for MW, 120, 120n, 145, 145n; and Toby Eady, xxi, 4n, 128, 254, 257n, 267–268

  Swinfen, Roger Swinfen Eady, 3rd Baron: childhood at Boskenna, 9–10, 21, 35, 56, 68, 92, 102; education, 157, 166–167; joins Royal Scots regiment, 257, 257n; at Sandhurst, 196, 227; at Thornworthy, 252, 253, 259, 264–265, 266–267, 271–272

  Tennant, David, 86

  The Prince and the Showgirl (film, 1957), 213, 213n, 214

  Thomas, Michael, 177–178, 177n

  Thornworthy (house in Dartmoor), 193, 204n, 276

  Tito, Josip Broz, 163, 164

  Toynbee, Philip, 22

  Triolet, Elsa, 31, 31n

  Trott, Adam, 185

  True (MW’s dog), 22, 22n, 55, 104, 109, 114, 281, 285

  Trundle, Guy, 48, 48n, 51

  United Nations (UN), 68n

  Varwell, Miss, 196, 202

  Victoria, Queen, xvii–xviii

  Victory celebrations, May 1945, 64–68

  Virgil, Georgics, 16, 35

  Waller, Lady, 200, 222, 233, 241, 245

  Warburg, Eric, 177, 177n, 178

  Warburg, George, 265

  Warburg’s (bank), 254, 259, 259n, 260

  Wates, Erik, 174–175

  Waugh, Alec, 125

  Waugh, Evelyn, xxiii, 198n, 276n; The Loved One, 125

  Webb, Norman, 157, 209, 212

  Week, The (political newsletter), 225, 225n

  Wesley, Mary: abortion, 91, 93;

  background and family, xvi, xvii– xvix; ‘black market scandal’, xx; changes her name to Siepmann, 104n; conversion to Catholicism, 193, 196; divorce from Carol Swinfen, xxi, 4, 4n, 14, 33, 51, 53–56, 64; and her children, 9, 10, 14, 21, 49, 76, 79, 92, 96, 97, 100, 102, 262, 267, 272; initiates ‘Jacko case,’ 197, 211; introduced to Boskenna, xix–xx; marries Eric Siepmann, 170; meets Eric Siepmann, xv, xxv, xxvi–xxvii; plans to start cheese making business, 151; relationship with Heinz Ziegler, xvi–xvii, xx; takes in language students, 214; war work, xvi; The Camomile Lawn (1984), 20n, 66n, 292; A Dubious Legacy (1992), 20n, 25n; The Fruits of My Follies, 269n; The Glass Bugle (unpublished), 32n, 115n, 117; Jumping the Queue (1983), 292; Part of the Furniture (1997), 292; The Sixth Seal, 290; Speaking Terms (1969), 156n, 290

  West, Morris, The Shoes of the Fisherman, 283n

  Whitcombe, Dr, 146, 165

  White, Antonia, xxiii, 90, 92, 193, 225, 239, 260, 274

  Williams, Vicky, 66

  Wodehouse, P. G., 16n

  Wonnacott, Mrs, 195, 195n, 215, 216, 265

  Woodruff, Douglas, 198, 198n, 214, 217, 260, 265

  Wyszynski, Cardinal Stefan, 217, 217n

  Yeats, W. B., 61n, 62, 70

  Young, Courtney, 171, 171n

  Ziegler, Heinz, xiv, xviii, 4n, 107n, 268n, 278

  Ziegler, Paul, 83, 83n, 84, 95, 177, 254, 257, 261n, 265, 268

  Zilliacus, Konni, 163, 163n, 164

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  Introduction

  fn1 Evelyn Waugh made Peter Rodd and Basil Murray the models for the character of Basil Seal in Black Mischief.

  fn2 Maurice Bowra was later warden of Wadham College, Oxford.

  fn3 Ronald Colman, athletic British heart-throb and Oscar-winning movie star of the 1930s and 40s.

  fn4 Richard Crossman, a millionaire farmer and socialist, later a prominent minister in the 1960s Labour government.

  Part 1

  fn1 Mary and her husband Carol, Lord Swinfen, had spent the war apart. In 1941 Mary gave birth to Toby, her son by Heinz Ziegler. Carol acknowledged the boy as his own and saw no reason why he and Mary should divorce. But Mary wanted a new life and in 1943 asked Carol to divorce her for desertion, which he reluctantly agreed to do.

  fn2 Pauline Gates, sister of the actor Robert Newton, had introduced Eric and Mary four days earlier, in the Palm Court of the Ritz Hotel. Her husband, Sylvester Gates, a fellow scholar with Eric at Winchester, was now a barrister. He would later become chairman of the British Film Institute.

  fn3 Eric was due to take up the post in France, working with a Psychological Warfare Unit under the control of the wartime Ministry of Information. France was still a war zone, under military control and partly under German occupation. Eric had suggested that Mary should join him as his secretary.

  fn4 Betty Paynter, daughter of Colonel Camborne Paynter, Mary’s wartime host at Boskenna.

  fn5 Ann Newton was the
former Annie Maclean, second wife of Robert Newton.

  fn6 In 1941, just before being posted to North Africa with the Royal Marines, Eric had contracted a wartime marriage with a woman he hardly knew called Phyllis Morris. After meeting Mary he decided to divorce Phyllis, who was still posted abroad on war duties.

  fn7 Nevil Alexander Beechman MC MP, wounded nine times at Passchendaele serving with the King’s Royal Rifle Corps, a friend of Colonel Paynter and National Liberal MP for St Ives, the local constituency.

  fn8 Louis Aragon, the French philosopher poet, a leading intellectual of the day, had become an icon of the post-liberation Resistance. Mary had made a translation of ‘Elsa Before Her Mirror’, which the poet had dedicated to his communist muse and wife, Elsa Triolet.

  fn9 Claud Morris, a farmworker who had become a dashing young man in the district. He was later a successful, radical publisher. No relation to Phyllis.

  fn10 Dennis Bradley was one of Mary’s admirers. On returning from the war in the summer of 1944, and while staying at Boskenna, he had proposed to her – although she was at that time still the undivorced wife of Lord Swinfen.

  fn11 It Depends What You Mean by James Bridie, the play Mary had been to see on 26 October, the evening they first met.

  fn12 Betty Paynter was having an affair with Claud Morris, as well as with a local solicitor Paul Hill. Morris was also involved with a young lady named Joy.

  fn13 Frederick, 2nd Baron Carnock – brother of the author Harold Nicolson.

  fn14 All military correspondence with England was sent by Diplomatic Bag.

  fn15 Her real brother, Robert Newton.

  fn16 Jack Houseman, British-American actor, attended Clifton College with Eric in 1915.

  fn17 Sylvester Gates had begun to suspect that his wife was having an affair.

  fn18 Hugh Farmar married Constantia Rumbold, daughter of Sir Horace, 9th Baronet and anti-Nazi ambassador in Berlin. The ceremony took place in the Grosvenor Chapel. Mary’s sense of isolation was sharpened by her brother’s decision to ask Carol Swinfen to be his best man.

  fn19 Mary’s sister, Susan, was a war widow.

  fn20 Malcolm Muggeridge, later a celebrated journalist and editor of Punch, was a wartime MI6 officer who had been posted to Paris to investigate whether or not P. G. Wodehouse should be charged with treason. As a result of his report Wodehouse was cleared.

  fn21 Duff Cooper, wartime minister of information and confidant of Churchill’s, had taken up a new appointment as British Ambassador in Paris.

  fn22 French socialist and journalist who liaised between General de Gaulle and the BBC during the war.

 

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