73. “the whistle & scream”: Shawcross, QEQM, p. 527.
74. “looking different”: Ibid., p. 531.
75. “Though they are so good”: Ibid., p. 586.
76. “pink cheeks and good appetites”: Ibid., p. 542.
77. “All seemed to breathe”: Christopher Hibbert, Queen Victoria: A Personal History, p. 177.
78. shot her first stag: Margaret Rhodes interview. 19 caught her first salmon: Lascelles, p. 257.
79. Tommy Lascelles imitating a St. Bernard: Ibid., p. 54. 19 “young men and maidens”: Ibid., p. 184.
80. “the best waltzer in the world”: Frances Campbell-Preston, The Rich Spoils of Time, edited by Hugo Vickers, p. 221.
81. “confidence and vigour”: Horace Smith, A Horseman Through Six Reigns: Reminiscences of a Royal Riding Master, p. 150.
82. “What a beastly time”: Shawcross, QEQM, p. 576.
83. “and give her a little picture”: Crawford, p. 142.
84. “all the happiest memories”: Bradford, p. 86.
85. The girls earned their cooking badges: Crawford, p. 148.
86. With their Cockney accents: Ibid., pp. 117–18.
87. “I think I’ve broken the prop-shaft”: Peter Morgan, The Queen screenplay, p. 65.
88. She told Labour politician: Barbara Castle, The Castle Diaries, 1964–1976, p. 213.
89. “I’ve never worked so hard”: Bradford, p. 108.
90. That night, she and Margaret Rose: Margaret Rhodes, The Final Curtsey, pp. 66–67; Longford, Elizabeth R, p. 124, recounting Toni de Bellaigue’s memories.
91. “provided us with sandwiches”: Longford, Elizabeth R, p. 124.
92. “Out in crowd again”: Rhodes, p. 69.
93. “It was a unique burst of personal freedom”: Ibid., p. 68.
94. “walked miles … Ran through Ritz”: Ibid., p. 69.
95. “the princesses wished to be treated”: The Times, Aug. 8, 1945.
TWO: Love Match
1. “There was a whole battalion”: Lady Anne Glenconner interview.
2. “boulevardier”: Hugo Vickers, Alice Princess Andrew of Greece, p. 210.
3. “The family broke up”: Brandreth, pp. 33–34.
4. “He was one of those boys”: Sir Trevor McDonald, The Duke: A Portrait of Prince Philip, Indigo Television for ITV, May 13, 2008.
5. “born leader”: Wheeler-Bennett, p. 748.
6. “intelligence and spirit”: Brandreth, p. 39.
7. “Prince Philip is a more sensitive”: Patricia Brabourne interview.
8. “never took her eyes off him”: Crawford, p. 101.
9. “been in love for the past eighteen”: Bradford, p. 105.
10. “intelligent, has a good sense of humour”: Shawcross, QEQM, p. 579.
11. “the simple enjoyment”: Ibid., p. 578.
12. All he left: Vickers, Alice, p. 321.
13. “descants and ditties”: Shawcross, QEQM, p. 598. 29 “pink and fawn”: Longford, Elizabeth R, p. 126.
14. She invited Mrs. Vicary Gibbs: Mabel, Countess of Airlie, Thatched with Gold: The Memoir of Mabel, Countess of Airlie, edited by Jennifer Ellis, pp. 223–24.
15. “absolutely natural”: Campbell-Preston, p. 217.
16. “danced every dance”: Ibid., p. 219.
17. He was a frequent visitor: Crawford, pp. 175–77.
18. “all the good things which have happened”: Shawcross, QEQM, p. 625.
19. “Philip had a capacity for love”: Turner, p. 34.
20. “would not have been a difficult person”: Patricia Brabourne interview.
21. “pin-up”: Michael Dewar, editor, All the Queen’s Horses: A Golden Jubilee Tribute to Her Majesty the Queen, p. 11.
22. “sugar pink”: Cecil Beaton, The Strenuous Years: Diaries, 1948–1955, p. 143.
23. “She sort of expands”: Margaret Rhodes interview.
24. “was always trying to catch up”: Anne Glenconner interview.
25. “one of the most becoming frocks”: Crawford, p. 165.
26. “I think people thought ‘Aha!’ ”: Patricia Brabourne interview.
27. “Royal Firm”: Longford, Elizabeth R, pp. 15, 140.
28. “a practical little man”: Shawcross, QEQM, p. 602.
29. The first several days: Gaumont British Newsreel (Reuters), “Royal Family on Board the HMS Vanguard.”
30. Elizabeth carried a photograph: Crawford, p. 185.
31. The princesses were enchanted: Gaumont British Newsreel (Reuters), “Royal Welcome to Capetown”; “Royal Family Visits Ostrich Farm”; “Royal Visit to Durban and Zululand”; “Royal Family Tour the Kruger National Park.”
32. “guilty that we had got away”: Shawcross, QEQM, p. 612.
33. “quite sucked dry sometimes”: Ibid., p. 619.
34. her mother’s ability to still his “gnashes”: Ibid., pp. 618–19.
35. “terrible and glorious years”: “21st birthday speech,” April 21, 1947, Official Website of the British Monarchy.
36. The address was written: Brandreth, p. 153.
37. “the trumpet-ring”: Ibid.
38. Reading the text for the first time: Helen Cathcart, Her Majesty the Queen: The Story of Elizabeth II, p. 80.
39. “200 million other people cry”: Ibid.
40. “a lump into millions”: S. Evelyn Thomas, Princess Elizabeth: Wife and Mother: A Souvenir of the Birth of Prince Charles of Edinburgh, p. 47.
41. “Of course I wept”: Shawcross, QEQM, p. 621.
42. “solid and endearing”: May 13, 1947, LASL 4/4/17, Sir Alan Lascelles Papers, Churchill College, Cambridge University.
43. “an astonishing solicitude”: Sir Alan Lascelles to Lady Lascelles, April 30, 1947, LASL 4/4/2/17, Lascelles Papers.
44. They had made a great effort: Gaumont British Newsreel (Reuters), “Royal Tour Reaches Pretoria and Johannesburg”; “Tribesmen Gather for Royal Visit.”
45. the princesses sometimes in their dressing gowns: Shawcross, QEQM, p. 615.
46. After boarding the Vanguard: Gaumont British Newsreel (Reuters), “Capetown Bids Farewell to Royal Family.”
47. “real”: Pimlott, p. 110.
48. “There was luxury, sunshine and gaiety”: Pimlott, p. 124, citing Jock Colville unpublished diary, end of Aug. 1947, Sept. 21 and 29, 1947.
49. In 1947 the Crown Estate provided: Zaki Cooper, assistant press secretary to the Queen, email, June 17, 2010.
50. “sensational evening”: Noel Coward, The Noel Coward Diaries, p. 96.
51. “he dealt them out like playing cards”: Lady Elizabeth Longman interview.
52. “busy refilling the cigarette boxes”: Dean, p. 46.
53. “suddenly and apparently without difficulty”: Ibid.
54. “very brave or very foolish”: Patricia Brabourne interview.
55. “Nothing was going to change for her”: Ibid.
56. “a flash of colour”: Gilbert, p. 359.
57. “patience, a ready sympathy”: British Pathé Newsreel, “The Princess Weds,” Nov. 20, 1947.
58. “tumultuous expression of good will”: Ibid.
59. “the bride snugly ensconced”: Cathcart, p. 92.
60. As they alighted: Ibid.
61. “like a female Russian commando”: Rhodes, p. 35.
62. “I only hope that I can bring up”: Shawcross, QEQM, p. 630.
63. “Cherish Lilibet?”: Ibid., p 631.
THREE: Destiny Calls
1. “serious questions”: Eleanor Roosevelt, This I Remember, p. 209.
2. “social problems”: Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt, p. 230.
3. “brimming with tears”: Horbury, “A Princess in Paris,” Royalty Digest, Sept. 1996, p. 88.
4. “published good photographs”: Ibid.
5. “in black lace, with a large comb”: Henry Channon, Chips: The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon, edited by Robert Rhodes James, p. 425.
6. “I never realized”: Patr
icia Brabourne interview.
7. a hospital suite had been prepared: Alfred Wright, Jr., “A Royal Birth,” Life, Nov. 8, 1948.
8. Around 9 P.M. senior members: Major Thomas Harvey, private secretary to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, “Notes on the birth of Prince Charles,” Nov. 14, 1948.
9. “I knew she’d do it!’: Ibid.
10. “any spare pages”: Ibid.
11. “Glad it’s all over”: Ibid.
12. “never been so pleased”: Ibid.
13. “just a plasticene head”: Ibid.
14. “I had no idea that one”: Daily Telegraph, March 31, 2011.
15. “fine, long fingers”: Anthony Holden, Charles Prince of Wales, p. 67.
16. “when someone complained”: Bradford, p. 145.
17. “Philip is terribly independent”: Shawcross, QEQM, pp. 630–31.
18. “suspended from a crown”: Dean, p. 113.
19. “In England the upper class”: Pamela Hicks interview.
20. “some of the darkest evils in our society today”: Pimlott, p. 160.
21. “were advised that conditions”: Dean, p. 121.
22. At the outset she fulfilled: Gaumont British Newsreel (Reuters), “Princess Elizabeth Leaving for Malta”; “Princess Joins Duke in Malta”; “Princess Elizabeth Visits Mdina Cathedral in Malta”; “Princess Elizabeth Unveils War Memorial and Visits Maternity Hospital.”
23. “I think her happiest time”: Margaret Rhodes interview.
24. “noticed that she was slow”: Longford, Elizabeth R, p. 160.
25. The royal couple lived: Pamela Hicks interview.
26. Elizabeth dispensed: Dean, pp. 121–22.
27. They cheered: Pamela Hicks interview; Gaumont British Newsreel (Reuters), “Lady Pamela Mountbatten Wins Ladies Race”; “Princess Goes Dancing and Views U.S. Warship.”
28. “loathed”: Pamela Hicks interview.
29. “a very fast, very dangerous”: Ibid.
30. “Don’t say anything”: McDonald, The Duke documentary.
31. who was enraptured: Gay Charteris interview.
32. “vulgar”: Pimlott, p. 138.
33. “giving himself an ecstatic hug”: Shawcross, QEQM, pp. 644–45.
34. he helped his wife: Time, Feb. 18, 1952.
35. for the first time she took the salute: Gaumont British Newsreel (Reuters), June 1951, “The Royal Family Watches Trooping the Colour Parade.”
36. “the happiest of my sailor life”: Dean, p. 130.
37. “I thought I was going to have a career”: Brandreth, p. 178.
38. The double-decker plane: Gaumont British Newsreel (Reuters), Oct. 1951, “The Royal Stratocruiser and Crew.”
39. “one of the largest military parades”: Ibid., “Royal Tour Reaches Quebec,” October 1951.
40. in Toronto: Ibid., “Royal Tour Continues to Toronto and Niagara Falls.”
41. “comfort, softness, and discretion”: Confidential interview.
42. “My face is aching”: Pimlott, p. 171.
43. When the royal couple watched: Gaumont British Newsreel (Reuters), “Royal Tourists in the Cowboy Country.”
44. “a good investment”: Longford, Elizabeth R, p. 165.
45. “much refreshed and strengthened”: Shawcross, QEQM, p. 650.
46. “He was impatient”: Brandreth, p. 208.
47. “This will ruin my hair!”: Gaumont British Newsreel (Reuters), “Royal Tour Continues to Toronto and Niagara Falls.”
48. when she saw the skyline: Ibid., “Royal Tour Continues in Windsor and Winnipeg.”
49. “recovered so promptly”: Ibid., “Washington Hails the Princess.”
50. “tells me when everyone”: Ibid. 58 “fairy princess”: Pimlott, p. 172.
51. “free men everywhere”: Gaumont British Newsreel (Reuters), “Washington Hails the Princess.”
52. She later told Martin: Betty Beale, Power at Play: A Memoir of Parties, Politicians and the Presidents in My Bedroom, p. 34.
53. a reception at the Statler Hotel: Gaumont British Newsreel (Reuters), “Washington Hails the Princess.”
54. “welcome ornament”: Ibid., “Busy Days in Washington.”
55. Only Elizabeth managed: Dean, p. 140.
56. “Where is your sword?”: Gaumont British Newsreel (Reuters), “The Royal Couple Return to Buckingham Palace After Their Trip to Canada.”
57. “Britain’s heiress presumptive puts her duty first”: Ibid.
58. When the City of London: Ibid., “City Welcomes Princess and Duke.”
59. The red-brick facade: Country Life, May 28, 2008.
60. “sturdily philistine”: Elizabeth Longford, The Queen Mother: A Biography, p. 157.
61. “HEAD & FACE ONLY”: Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor, In Tearing Haste: Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor, edited by Charlotte Mosley, p. 212.
62. The King felt well enough: Shawcross, QEQM, p. 651. 61 Dressed in khaki trousers: Dean, p. 147.
63. “Look, Philip, they’re pink!”: Time, Feb. 18, 1952.
64. After a pleasant day shooting hares: Shawcross, QEQM, pp. 652–53. 62 “the most appalling shock”: Shawcross, Q and C, p. 16.
65. “pale and worried”: Dean, p. 148.
66. “Oh, thank you”: Pamela Hicks interview.
67. “seized her destiny with both hands”: Shawcross, Q and C, p. 17.
FOUR: “Ready, Girls?”
1. “What are you going to call yourself?”: Longford, Elizabeth R, p. 176.
2. “It was all very sudden”: E II R documentary.
3. “she looked as if she might”: Dean, p. 149.
4. “was like the Rock of Gibraltar”: Turner, p. 41.
5. “Lilibet, your skirts are much too short”: Dean, p. 149.
6. “by the sudden death”: BBC, “On This Day,” Feb. 8, 1952, news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday.
7. by several accounts she was in tears: Morrow, p. 73; Bradford, p. 168.
8. “protection and love”: Longford, Elizabeth R, p. 180.
9. “I cannot bear to think of Lilibet”: Shawcross, QEQM, pp. 654–55.
10. “I tried to cheer him up”: Gilbert, p. 697.
11. “my father realized very quickly”: Mary Soames interview.
12. “He was impressed by her”: Brandreth, p. 217.
13. “Extraordinary thing”: Longford, Elizabeth R, p. 196.
14. “a fair and youthful figure”: Gilbert, p. 700.
15. “if, as many earnestly pray”: Shawcross, Q and C, p. 121.
16. “People need pats on the back”: E II R documentary.
17. “gallantry and utter contempt”: “Investiture at Buckingham Palace” on Wednesday, 27th February 1952, at 11 o’clock a.m.: To be Decorated: Private William Speakman, The King’s Own Scottish Borderers. Buckingham Palace Press Office.
18. “my little lady”: Dean, p. 60.
19. “I like my rooms to look really lived in”: Morrow, p. 65.
20. “a bureaucrat’s dream”: Turner, p. 46.
21. “rather personal to oneself”: E II R documentary.
22. “a piece of 300 to 900 words”: Government chief whip to Mr. R. T. Armstrong, Feb. 22, 1975, National Archives, Kew.
23. “low wattage”: Mr. Bernard Weatherill, His Humble Duty [to HMTQ], Parliamentary Proceedings from Monday 14th February to Friday 18th February, 1972, National Archives, Kew.
24. “as well informed”: Morrow, p. 158.
25. Michael Adeane estimated: Pimlott, p. 401. 72 “If I missed one once”: Confidential interview.
26. “my way of meeting people”: E II R documentary.
27. she reverted to her nursery ways: Morrow, p. 92.
28. “She is not particular”: Confidential interview.
29. In her first gesture of modernity: Jonathan Dimbleby, The Prince of Wales: A Biography, p. 22.
30. “a final romp”: Dean, p. 172.
31. “Why isn’t Mummy”: Ibid., p. 173.
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32. “For a real action man”: McDonald, The Duke documentary.
33. “wielded over the Sovereign”: G. Lytton Strachey, Queen Victoria, p. 93.
34. “The Monarchy changed”: Brandreth, p. 215.
35. “Refugee husband”: Ibid., p. 147.
36. “Philip was constantly being squashed”: Ibid., p. 218.
37. “My father was considered pink”: Patricia Brabourne interview.
38. “the House of Mountbatten now reigned”: Hugo Vickers, Elizabeth the Queen Mother, p. 311.
39. “She was very young”: Patricia Brabourne interview.
40. “I am the only man”: Pimlott, p. 185.
41. “I’m nothing but a bloody amoeba”: Hugh Massingberd, Daydream Believer: Confessions of a Hero-Worshipper, p. 148.
42. “that old drunk Churchill”: Ibid.
43. “Churchill never forgave my father”: Patricia Brabourne interview.
44. “save her a lot of time”: McDonald, The Duke documentary.
45. “would submit entirely”: Dimbleby, p. 59.
46. “she was not indifferent so much as detached”: Ibid.
47. “her struggle to be a worthy head of state”: William Deedes interview (Jan. 20, 1998).
48. “In the first five years she was more formal”: Confidential interview.
49. she once attended a ball: New York Times, Feb. 8, 1996.
50. “How much nicer”: Nancy Mitford, Love from Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford, edited by Charlotte Mosley, p. 291.
51. “must seem very blank”: Bradford, p. 169.
52. “engulfed by great black clouds”: Victoria Glendinning, Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions, p. 299.
53. a small run-down castle: Author’s observations and tour by Nancy McCarthy.
54. “How sad it looks”: Aberdeen Press and Journal, Jan. 9, 2009.
55. “escape there occasionally”: Shawcross, QEQM, p. 670.
56. “The point of human life”: Ibid., p. 769.
57. “the great mother figure”: Beaton, Strenuous Years, p. 147.
58. “like a great musical comedy actress”: Roy Strong interview.
59. “pink cushiony cloud”: Cecil Beaton, The Unexpurgated Beaton: The Cecil Beaton Diaries as He Wrote Them, introduction by Hugo Vickers, p. 52.
60. “They were great confidantes”: Dame Frances Campbell-Preston interview.
61. “an Edwardian lady”: Ibid.
62. “A lot of the importance”: Confidential interview.
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