Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch

by Sally Bedell Smith

  2. To replace the gutted private chapel: Ibid., pp. 231–40.

  3. Philip’s sketches inspired: Ibid, pp. 264–65.

  4. When Philip disagreed: Ibid., p. 240.

  5. “modern reinterpretation”: BBC News, Nov. 17, 1997.

  6. “Your Majesty, Your Majesty”: Confidential interview.

  7. “tolerance is the one essential”: BBC News, Nov. 19, 1997.

  8. “throat-catching moment”: Carey, p. 412.

  9. “people’s banquet”: Associated Press, Nov. 20, 1997.

  10. Dining with the Queen: BBC News, Nov. 19, 1997.

  11. “the terrible test”: Shawcross, Q and C, p. 216.

  12. In her speech: Golden Wedding Speech, Nov. 20, 1997, Official Website of the British Monarchy.

  13. “Philip’s obvious flirtations and his affairs”: Bradford, p. 401.

  14. “I simply don’t know of anyone”: Daily Mail, Nov. 11, 1997.

  15. “Philip’s great friend”: Patricia Brabourne interview.

  16. “absolutely certain”: Ibid.

  17. “He would never behave badly”: Ibid.

  18. “riveting conversations”: Brandreth, p. 281.

  19. “doesn’t mind when he flirts”: Pamela Hicks interview.

  20. “quite honestly, what real evidence”: The Times, April 18, 2009.

  21. “It was awful and she cried”: Confidential interview.

  22. “It had not just been for work”: Confidential interview.

  23. “represented freedom to her”: Confidential interview.

  24. After support for a republic peaked: Robert Worcester interview.

  25. Now Janvrin told Worcester: Ibid.

  26. “too myopic and inward looking”: Confidential interview.

  27. In general, the research: Robert Worcester interview.

  28. “People start thinking about the future”: Ibid.

  29. “My abiding impression”: Simon Lewis interview.

  30. “It is not heart on the sleeve”: Confidential interview.

  31. “imperceptible evolution … the Marmite theory”: Simon Walker interview.

  32. “She has incredibly good instincts”: Simon Lewis interview.

  33. “Time is not my dictator”: Shawcross, QEQM, p. 903.

  34. At age ninety-seven, she made another: Ibid., p. 912.

  35. She had suffered: BBC News, Feb. 9, 2002.

  36. she would call the Queen first thing: Josephine Louis interview.

  37. “was almost like a poor relation”: Confidential interview.

  38. “Sometimes Margaret was a very lonely”: Jane Rayne interview.

  39. “After Tony, then Roddy, no one else”: Confidential interview.

  40. Since the early 1980s: Annabel Whitehead to Nancy Reagan, Aug. 24, 1999, Reagan Library.

  41. As late as May 1999: Queen Elizabeth II to Nancy Reagan, May 6, 1999, Reagan Library.

  42. “How I’d love to be able to go out”: News of the World, April 1, 2001.

  43. they organized as much as possible: Ibid.

  44. “They picked up right away”: Gay Charteris interview.

  45. “I know if Martin had lived”: Ibid.

  46. “the greatest show on earth”: New York Times, Dec. 31, 1999.

  47. “looked very pissed off”: Alastair Campbell, p. 513.

  48. “It was pretty clear”: Ibid.

  49. “ghastly”: Tony Blair, p. 261.

  50. “The Queen had a central role”: Simon Lewis interview.

  51. “the kingdom can still enjoy”: Queen Elizabeth II Christmas Broadcast, Dec. 25, 1997, Official Website of the British Monarchy.

  52. “Now Blair, no more of this”: The Guardian, Jan. 16, 2011, excerpt from Campbell Diaries, Vol. 2.

  53. “high regard for her street smarts”: Jonathan Powell interview.

  54. “steadily on the national pulse”: The Times, May 22, 2002.

  55. “It’s not just a question of knowing”: Marr, The Queen at 80 documentary.

  56. “He was always working flat-out”: Confidential interview.

  57. “very to the point … very direct”: The Times, May 22, 2002.

  58. Cherie was impressed by: Cherie Blair, p. 304.

  59. “I think he’s in the wrong party”: Confidential interview.

  60. “not for the sake of buggering about”: Brandreth, p. 225.

  61. “the first thing they talked about”: Gay Charteris interview.

  62. “felt part of this rugged”: Queen Elizabeth II Sydney Opera House speech, March 30, 2000, Official Website of the British Monarchy.

  63. “The Queen was always wondering”: Pamela Hicks interview.

  64. The list of more than eight hundred guests: Program: Reception and Dance to Mark the Decade of Birthdays of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, the Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, the Princess Royal, the Duke of York, State Apartments, Windsor Castle, Wednesday, 21st June 2000.

  65. There had been grumbling: Shawcross, QEQM, pp. 907–8.

  66. the £643,000 allocated: Civil List Annual Report 2009, p. 60. 426 a cast of thousands: Shawcross, QEQM, pp. 1–2, 922.

  67. “It was three years after”: Simon Lewis interview.

  68. “Only one person can decide”: Confidential interview.

  69. As they talked, one of the Queen’s corgis: Simon Walker interview. 427 “There was definitely a subtlety”: Ibid.

  70. “Under-promise and over delivery”: Simon Walker, speech to PR Week Conference, March 2002.

  71. emphasizing instead inclusiveness: Simon Walker interview.

  72. The idea for the painting had come: BBC News, Dec. 20, 2001.

  73. “the interior life or ‘inner likeness’ ”: Jane Roberts, Royal Treasures: A Golden Jubilee Celebration, catalogue entry 36, p. 110.

  74. “a polar expedition”: Ibid.

  75. he painted her in fifteen sittings: Oliver Everett interview.

  76. a source of frustration for the artist: Richard Salmon interview; Jan. 25, 2011, email from Sarah Howgate, curator of Lucian Freud exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery.

  77. She told the artist: Lucian Freud and Nicholas Haslam interview.

  78. “I consider we got to know each other”: Ibid.

  79. He had been fascinated: Daily Telegraph, March 13, 2004.

  80. “Lucian had a whale of a time”: Clarissa Eden interview.

  81. She said none of those things: News of the World, April 8, 2001.

  82. “President Blair because”: Ibid.

  83. “I have been reduced to tears”: Ibid., April 1, 2001.

  84. “Sophie first of all respects her as the Queen”: Elizabeth Anson interview.

  85. As the forty-third president and the Duke: The Times, July 20, 2001. 430 “natural connection”: George W. Bush interview. 430 “growing disbelief and total shock”: The Guardian, Aug. 18, 2002. 430 Malcolm Ross called Balmoral: Malcolm Ross interview.

  86. the Queen had authorized the same gesture: Simon Walker interview.

  87. Ross also made the novel suggestion: Malcolm Ross interview.

  88. “Would you call the Queen?”: Jean Carnarvon interview.

  89. “The Queen was devastated”: Ibid.

  90. “When our National Anthem was played”: Jackie Davis interview.

  91. “stunning sentence”: Shawcross, Q and C, p. 233.

  92. “Grief is the price we pay for love”: Christopher Meyer, DC Confidential: The Controversial Memoirs of Britain’s Ambassador to the U.S. at the Time of 9/11 and the Iraq War, p. 199.

  93. they were carved in stone: Ibid., p. 201.

  94. “Obviously there was a huge focus”: The Times, May 22, 2002.

  95. “extremely unflattering … a travesty”: BBC News, Dec. 21, 2001.

  96. “You gaze at it for half a minute”: Clarissa Eden interview.

  97. “This is a painting of experience”: BBC News, Dec. 21, 2001.

  98. “It could not have been painted ten years earlier”
: Sandy Nairne interview.

  99. Freud said the Queen looked: Lucian Freud interview.

  100. “remarkable work”: The Scotsman, Dec. 21, 2001.

  101. “feels real and earthy”: Jennifer Scott, The Royal Portrait: Image and Impact, p. 185.

  102. “What a good idea!”: Anne Glenconner interview.

  103. “Her quality of life was not good”: BBC News, Feb. 9, 2002.

  104. “carried out the family tradition”: Shawcross, QEQM, p. 929.

  105. But to mark the fiftieth anniversary: BBC News, Feb. 6, 2002.

  106. “had probably been a merciful release”: Shawcross, QEQM, p. 930.

  107. “depart without a fuss”: Carey, p. 415.

  108. “rooted and firm”: Ibid., p. 413.

  109. “It was the saddest I have ever seen”: Reinaldo Herrera interview.

  110. she had regained her composure: Confidential interview.

  111. “She went as scheduled”: Confidential interview.

  112. “Missis Queen … The Queen Lady”: BBC News, Feb. 19, 2002.

  113. “Most people much prefer to have a Queen”: Reuters, Feb. 26, 2002.

  114. “Oh, my mother is only 101!”: Daily Telegraph, March 4, 2002.

  115. “constantly”: Ibid.

  116. but she had been lucid enough: Shawcross, QEQM, p. 931.

  117. On the morning of March 30, 2002: Ibid., p. 932.

  118. The two women exchanged a few private words: Margaret Rhodes interview.

  119. At 3:15 in the afternoon: Ibid.

  120. “very sad but dignified”: Alastair Campbell, p. 611.

  121. “the original life enhancer”: Shawcross, QEQM, p. 935.

  122. The Queen and her advisers were concerned: Alastair Campbell, p. 610.

  123. “UNCERTAIN FAREWELL REVEALS”: BBC News, April 9, 2002.

  124. “It was very emotional for her”: Confidential interview.

  125. “one of the most touching things”: Shawcross, QEQM, p. 935.

  126. “beloved mother”: BBC News, April 9, 2002.

  127. “the most magical grandmother”: The Guardian, April 2, 2002.

  128. Sophie Wessex, Princess Anne: Ibid., April 9, 2002.

  129. Just before the Queen’s broadcast: BBC News, April 9, 2002.

  130. They described how they had taught: The Observer, April 7, 2002.

  131. “Darling, lunch was marvelous”: Ibid.

  132. Crown Jeweler David Thomas was up: David Thomas interview.

  133. “like the sun”: Carey, p. 417.

  134. “the senior royal lady”: Margaret Rhodes interview.

  135. “a terrible wallop of grief”: Ibid.

  136. “It was a huge thing”: Elizabeth Anson interview.

  NINETEEN: Moving Pictures

  1. “The British have lost the habit”: The Independent, Jan. 27, 2002.

  2. In keeping with its “softly, softly”: Simon Walker interview.

  3. Shipping magnate Jeffrey Sterling: The Times, March 14, 2002; Aug. 5, 2002.

  4. A crucial part of the Palace strategy: Simon Walker interview.

  5. Private polling and focus groups: Robert Worcester interview.

  6. The Palace intentionally launched: Simon Walker interview.

  7. “there was something truly pathetic”: Alastair Campbell, p. 618.

  8. Afterward, Simon Walker suggested: Simon Walker interview.

  9. “What a relief!”: Cherie Blair, p. 270.

  10. “when she had been doing her professional”: Alastair Campbell, p. 619.

  11. “Change has become a constant”: Daily Telegraph, May 1, 2002.

  12. Only days earlier: The Guardian, April 24, 2002.

  13. “an historic opportunity to bring”: Queen Elizabeth II speech during visit to Parliament buildings on Tuesday, May 14, 2002, Northern Ireland Assembly Website.

  14. “It was important to have young support”: Simon Walker interview. 446 When Elizabeth II appeared: The Guardian, June 4, 2002. 446 who wore yellow earplugs: Ibid.

  15. “50 extraordinary years”: The Independent, June 4, 2002.

  16. “Deference may be inherited”: Ibid., June 5, 2002.

  17. Fifty men who had been pages: Confidential interviews.

  18. “The Queen coming to White’s”: Confidential interviews.

  19. “People woke up and realized”: Charles Anson interview.

  20. “have proved conclusively”: BBC News, June 5, 2002.

  21. “The public felt the Queen was paying attention”: Robert Worcester interview.

  22. “at length”: Burrell, p. 321.

  23. He said that Diana’s mother: Ibid.

  24. “he had taken some of the princess’s papers”: Buckingham Palace chronology of the Queen’s involvement in the Paul Burrell Case, Nov. 12, 2002, Official Website of the British Monarchy.

  25. just one topic among many: Burrell, pp. 318–22; Report to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales by Sir Michael Peat and Edmund Lawson QC, March 13, 2002 (Peat Report), p. 75.

  26. Three years later: Burrell, pp 340, 342–43.

  27. the Queen was briefed several times: Buckingham Palace chronology; Peat Report, p. 76.

  28. she didn’t think his passing reference: Peat Report, p. 74.

  29. “private”: Ibid., p. 76.

  30. Philip and Charles were discussing: Buckingham Palace chronology, Peat Report, p. 74.

  31. “on a false premise”: New York Times, Nov. 1, 2002.

  32. “old woman being forgetful”: The Independent, Nov. 3, 2002.

  33. “She was playing patience”: Confidential interview.

  34. “anything improper or remiss”: Peat Report, p. 77.

  35. The previous November: The Times, Nov. 8, 2002.

  36. “She drove her own Range Rover”: Nini Ferguson interview.

  37. which required arthroscopic surgery: Buckingham Palace announcements, Jan. 13, 2003, Jan. 14, 2003, Official Website of the British Monarchy.

  38. “languishing indoors”: Queen Elizabeth II to Monty Roberts, Jan. 19, 2003.

  39. had an identical operation: Buckingham Palace announcements, Dec. 9, 2003, Dec. 12, 2003, Official Website of the British Monarchy.

  40. “They are about 14 hands high”: Michael Oswald interview.

  41. Now she would go instead: Margaret Rhodes interview.

  42. Her cottage in Windsor Great Park: Author’s observations.

  43. “How would you like to live in suburbia?”: Margaret Rhodes interview.

  44. Each Sunday the Queen takes the wheel: Ibid.

  45. “This may sound impertinent”: Robert Salisbury interview.

  46. “more understanding of the wonders”: Monty Roberts interview.

  47. a handsome high-ceilinged room: Author’s observations.

  48. “Oh tell Malcolm not to be so silly”: Malcolm Ross interview.

  49. “Never have I seen anyone”: Annabel Goldsmith interview.

  50. “Oh yes … Robert and I were in a nightclub”: Robert Salisbury interview.

  51. Twenty-five years the Queen’s junior: Daily Mail, April 11, 2006.

  52. “there is lots of jolly laughter”: Anne Glenconner interview.

  53. “She has moved into the vacuum”: Confidential interview.

  54. “Angela understands the Queen needs”: Confidential interview.

  55. “I have heard that Damien Hirst”: Piers Allen interview.

  56. “Angela will come up with something”: Confidential interview.

  57. “As Bush arrives, we reveal Mirrorman”: The Mirror, Nov. 19, 2003.

  58. Inside the paper were fourteen pages: Ibid.

  59. “not nearly haughty enough”: Sunday Times, Nov. 23, 2003.

  60. “our man’s exposé of Windsor”: The Mirror, Nov. 20, 2003.

  61. “a highly objectionable invasion”: Daily Express, Nov. 25, 2003.

  62. he timed publication: The Guardian, Nov. 21, 2003.

  63. all of which had an improv
ised feel: Ibid., Nov. 29, 2003.

  64. “She was unruffled”: George W. Bush interview.

  65. “It was like old friends week”: Catherine Fenton interview.

  66. “Whatever did you do that for, man?”: Tony Blair, p. 305.

  67. Debate over the ban consumed: The Spectator, Sept. 11, 2010.

  68. “absurd”: Tony Blair, p. 306.

  69. “play politics with him”: The Guardian, July 2, 2011, excerpting Power and Responsibility: The Alastair Campbell Diaries, Vol. 3, 1999–2001, by Alastair Campbell.

  70. “Fox hunting is just vermin control”: News of the World, April 8, 2001.

  71. he later acknowledged: Tony Blair, p. 305.

  72. “She is a countrywoman”: Margaret Rhodes interview.

  73. In her own quiet way, the Queen lobbied: Confidential interview.

  74. “one of the domestic legislative measures”: Tony Blair, p. 304.

  75. “allowed a compromise proposal”: The Spectator, Sept. 11, 2010.

  76. Her appearance at the two Golden Jubilee concerts: People, June 17, 2002.

  77. “Camilla never whines”: Confidential interview.

  78. “It’s just two old people”: The Times, April 9, 2005, April 10, 2005.

  79. “Her decision assuredly had nothing”: Ibid., April 8, 2005.

  80. “I have two very important announcements”: Sunday Times, April 10, 2005.

  81. “There was a huge roar of approval”: Ibid.

  82. “my darling Camilla”: The Times, April 11, 2005.

  83. “I’m going on Larry King”: Confidential interview.

  84. Princes William and Harry kissed: Daily Telegraph, April 11, 2005.

  85. “a better understanding”: Clarence House press release, Nov. 26, 2005.

  86. “pushed … quite stubborn”: BBC interview with Prince William, Nov. 19, 2004.

  87. “I want to express my admiration”: Marr, The Queen at 80 documentary.

  88. “There in one of the archways”: Confidential interview.

  89. “Is it all right if I touch her?”: Confidential interview.

  90. “That was unusual for the British”: Charles Powell interview.

  91. “darling mama”: The Times, April 21, 2006.

  92. “I understand you think”: Robert Tuttle interview.

  93. In that spirit, she joined: Daily Express, March 17, 2006. 464 “just smiled back”: Daily Telegraph, March 31, 2006.

  94. “Prince Philip has experience”: Peregrine Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire, interview.