Counting One's Blessings

by William Shawcross

  Bowes Lyon, Elizabeth (née Cator): visits QE, 110, 118, 476; as bridesmaid at QE’s wedding, 114

  BOWES LYON, FENELLA (née Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis; Jock’s wife; ‘Neva’), 12; marriage, 12n; and Henry Ainley, 24; accompanies QE to theatre, 65; dancing, 106; QE tells of engagement, 107; and Jock’s death, 175

  Bowes Lyon, Fergus (QE’s brother): birth, 3; serves in Great War, 6, 28n; killed at Loos, 7, 26n; at St Paul’s Walden Bury, 11–12; on leave, 26; marriage and child, 26n

  Bowes Lyon, Fergus (QE’s nephew; ‘Fergie’) see

  Strathmore and Kinghorne, 17th Earl of

  BOWES LYON, JOHN (Jock; QE’s brother), 89; birth, 3; serves in Great War, 6; at St Paul’s Walden Bury, 11; marriage, 12n; writes in QE’s diary, 18n; unwell, 105; and QE’s engagement, 108; daughters in special care, 172n; death, 172–5, 567

  Bowes Lyon, John (Master of Glamis; Patrick’s son), 5, 46n; killed in action, 317n

  Bowes Lyon, Katherine (Jock’s daughter), 172n

  Bowes Lyon, Lady Maud Agnes, 108 & n

  Bowes Lyon, May (QE’s sister) see Elphinstone, Mary Frances, Lady

  BOWES LYON, MICHAEL (QE’s brother), 22; birth, 3; serves in Great War, 6, 22–3; as prisoner of war, 7, 47; at St Paul’s Walden Bury, 15; writes in QE’s diary, 18n; writes to QE, 22; praises Henry Ainley’s voice, 35; leaves for France, 39; missing in France, 45–6; returns from war, 62–3; accompanies QE to theatre, 65; leaves for Hertford, 90; marriage, 110n; at QE’s wedding, 119; illness, 378; kidney removed, 432

  Bowes Lyon, Nerissa (Jock’s daughter), 172n

  Bowes Lyon, Patricia (Jock’s eldest daughter): death, 172n

  Bowes Lyon, Patrick (QE’s brother) see Strathmore and Kinghorne, 15th Earl of

  BOWES LYON, RACHEL (née Spender-Clay; David’s wife), 490, 521, 548, 592; in Washington, 323; widowhood at St Paul’s Walden, 518n, 521, 546, 592; funeral, 611–12

  Bowes Lyon, Lady Rose (QE’s sister) see Granville, Countess of

  Bowes Lyon, Rosemary (Fergus–Christian’s daughter) see Joicey-Cecil, Rosemary

  BOWES LYON, SIMON (David–Rachel’s son), 611; 518n, 548

  Bowes Lyon, Violet Cynthia (QE’s sister): birth and death, 3

  Bowlby, Captain Geoffrey, 248n

  Bowlby, Lettice (née Annesley), 248

  BOYD-ROCHFORT, SIR CECIL, 500, 504, 508, 518, 537, 556; trains horses for royals, 434 & n, 478, 480, 492, 506, 516, 537, 556; trains horses for Elizabeth Arden, 492

  Boyd-Rochfort, Rohays, 478

  Braemar Gathering, 180

  Brassey, Gerard, 56 & n

  Britain: post-Great War hardships, 63; inter-war economic problems, 75, 97, 109n, 195; industrial unrest (early 1920s), 90 & n; National Government (1931), 185n; post-war political situation, 245, 436, 441; military conscription introduced (1939), 261n; bombed in Second World War, 292, 340; post-war rationing, 386, 391n; citizenship, 407 & n; price rises after war, 436; social revolution in 1960s and ‘70s, 452; application to join EEC rejected (1963), 504n Britain Can Make It exhibition (1946), 391n

  Britannia (George V’s racing yacht), 197 & n, 204, 207

  Britannia HMY (Royal Yacht), 527, 532, 537, 543n British Empire Exhibition, Wembley (1925), 142–4

  BRITTEN, BENJAMIN, BARON, 536, 542, 552, 558, 560; gives concert at Sandringham, 542; QE attends concert at Snape, 544 & n; ill health, 552; QE agrees to be Patron of Festival, 552; composes piece for QE’s 75th

  birthday, 559–60 & n; A Birthday Hansel, 559n, 560; Curlew River, 536; Let’s Make an Opera, 419 & n

  Broadlands (house), Hampshire, 403, 432

  Broadsheet (Royal Navy annual review), 613

  Brocklehurst, Captain Courtney, 52, 138 & n, 139–40, 149

  Bronington, HMS, 565 Brown, Robert Urquhart, 535, 540, 547

  BRUCE, CLARENCE (later 3rd Baron Aberdare), 14

  Bruce, Jean, 437

  Bruce, Stanley Melbourne (later 1st Viscount), 150 & n, 161

  Bruton Street, Mayfair, 91, 149, 150n

  Buccleuch, Vreda Esther Mary, Duchess of (née Lascelles; then Dalkeith; ‘Molly’), 92

  Buccleuch, Walter Douglas-Scott, 8th Duke of (earlier Earl of Dalkeith, 79 & n, 92

  Buchanan, Hugh, 617 Buckingham Palace: QE and GVI move into, 237; bombed in war, 244, 295–6, 311, 344; occupation in war, 293, 298; damaged by VI flying bomb, 365n; paintings, 365 & n, 402; Queen’s Gallery opened (1962), 393n; Elizabeth II moves into, 456; QE leaves, 456

  Buller, Amy, 375

  Bulteel, Sir John Crocker, 431

  Bunin, Ivan: The Gentleman from San Francisco, 356

  Burleigh, Very Rev. Dr John (Moderator), 512

  Burns, Robert, 559–60 Bury, Judith, Lady see Albemarle, Countess of

  Butcher, Mabel, 302

  Buthlay, Major George, 262n

  Butler, Richard Austen, Baron, 536 & n

  Cable, Mildred and Francesca French: The Gobi Desert, 342

  Caithness see Mey, Castle of

  Caldwell, Captain Keith, 137

  Camargo Society for the Production of Ballet, 203

  Cambridge, Adolphus, Marquess of, 113 Cameron, Anne, 113 & n

  Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), 514n

  Campbell, Robin, 523n

  Campbell-Preston, Dame Frances (née Grenfell), 534 & n

  Canada: GVI and QE visit (1939), 243, 261n, 265–70, 273–4; Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip tour (1951), 440–1; QE tours (1954), 485, 487–8; QE praises, 505; Elizabeth II and Prince Philip visit (1973), 551; Elizabeth II visits (1983 and 1984), 583n, 587

  Canvey Island: QE visits, 467

  Capstan (racehorse), 537

  Carberry, 10n, 288

  Carey, George, Archbishop of Canterbury, 621 Carnarvon, Henry George Molyneux-Herbert, 7th Earl of (earlier Lord Porchester; ‘Porchy’), 556 & n

  Carnegie, Mrs Lindsay, 118

  Carnegy of Lour, Violet, 388

  Carrington, Peter Carington, 6th Baron and Iona, Lady, 578 & n

  Catani-Chiti, Alessandro, 33n

  Catherine see Maclean, Catherine

  Cator, Betty see Bowes Lyon, Elizabeth

  Cavan, Field Marshal Frederick Rudolph Lambart, 10th Earl of, 151–2

  Cavan, Joan, Countess of, 151n, 152

  Cavendish, Mary, see Crawford, Mary, Countess of (née Cavendish)

  Cavendish, Lady Maud, 33 & n

  Cavendish-Bentinck, Revd Charles (QE’s maternal grandfather), 5n

  Cavendish-Bentinck, Violet (‘Aunt Vava’), 9 & n, 19, 91

  CAZALET, CAMILLA, LADY, 593

  CAZALET, SIR EDWARD, 550, 581

  CAZALET, PETER, 425, 428, 430, 455, 493, 509, 532; trains horses for QE, 425–6 & n, 434, 475, 509, 514, 550n, 556n; and Devon Loch’s collapse at Grand National, 493 & n; deceived by member of dope gang, 520; Coward stays with in Sussex, 530n; and unsound horses, 532; cancer and death, 550 & n

  Cazalet, Zara, 426n, 431, 530n Cazalet-Keir, Thelma, 34 & n

  Cecil, Lord David, 80 & n

  Cecil, Helen, see Hardinge, Helen, Lady (née Cecil)

  Cecil, Lady Mary Alice (Moucher) see Devonshire, Duchess of

  Cecil, Rear Admiral Sir Oswald, 587

  Challoner, Major, 335

  CHAMBERLAIN, ANNE, 258

  Chamberlain, Sir Austen, 214 & n

  CHAMBERLAIN, NEVILLE, 257, 290; peacemaking attempts with Hitler, 243, 257; condolences on death of QE’s mother, 257; introduces military conscription, 261n; declares war on Germany, 275–6; resigns as Prime Minister, 290–1

  Channon, Sir Henry (‘Chips’), 104

  Chard, Norah, 12, 119

  CHARLES, PRINCE OF WALES, 525, 530, 534, 536, 537, 539, 542, 544, 545, 547, 551, 557, 562, 565, 568, 574, 579, 584, 587, 593, 594, 598, 618; and parents’ absence abroad, 42, 419–20, 426, 432, 435, 441, 482; birth, 245, 410; babyhood, 414–16, 419–20, 426, 429–30, 433, 435–7; character, 433, 560; QE’s fondness for, 451, 466, 520, 546; at QE’s hundredth birthday ceremonies, 453, 619; marriage with Diana breaks
down, 453; on statues of GVI and QE, 473n; at Royal Lodge as child, 475; at Windsor as child, 475; at Sandringham, 476–7; tutored by Miss Peebles, 479, 482; affectionate nature, 482; measles, 512; schooling, 516 & n; created Prince of Wales, 525n; sends flowers to QE in hospital, 525–6; at school in Australia, 530, 535; attends Trinity College, Cambridge, 536; sends 67th birthday present to QE, 537; investiture as Prince of Wales, 539n; press comments on, 539; studies at Aberystwyth University, 539 & n; gives 70th birthday present to QE, 543; attends Dartmouth Royal Naval College, 544; naval career, 545, 551n, 565; receives Japanese Order of the Chrysanthemum, 545n; gives trays to QE, 568; tribute to QE, 568 & n; criticizes management, 571; marries Camilla Parker Bowles, 579n; birth of sons, 580n; official visit to Australia, 583–4; lunches with QE on 84th birthday, 587; office in St James’s Palace, 591; musical 90th birthday present to QE, 598–9; separation from Diana, 605n; visits New Guinea, 610; visits Sandringham Flower Show with QE, 614n; Susan Crawford triptych portrait of, 616–17; speech at QE’s funeral, 621

  Charteris, Martin (later Baron), 440n, 555n

  Chatto, Lady Sarah (née Armstrong-Jones; Princess Margaret’s daughter): christening, 528; in Eleuthera, 584; at QE’s deathbed, 620

  Christian, Princess (Queen Victoria’s daughter; Helena), 46 & n

  Christina, Princess of Hesse (‘Christa’), 513 & n

  CHURCHILL, SIR WINSTON, 312, 344, 348, 377, 412, 448; suggests QE and GVI tour East Africa, 131; calls for rearmament, 214n; welcomes US entry into Second World War, 244; celebrates victory, 245, 382; prays for recovery of GVI, 245, 438; succeeds Chamberlain as Prime Minister (1940), 290n; relations with GVI and QE, 312; takes Americans to see war damage, 312; on Operation Tiger (sending tanks to Egypt), 313; helps draft QE’s broadcast speeches, 315n, 344, 345n, 348; and shackling of prisoners of war, 328n; sends congratulations to Indian troops, 349; thanks Indian troops for support, 349; sends condolences on death of QE’s father, 377; visits liberated Paris (1944), 377; victory speech to Commons (15 May 1945), 382; loses 1945 election, 385 & n; paintings, 412n; election victory (1951), 441n; meets Elizabeth II on return from Kenya, 444; sends condolences to QE on death of GVI, 448; compliments GVI after death, 462; visits QE at Birkhall, 464 & n; and Princess Margaret–Townsend romance, 470n; on importance of relations with USA, 485; praises QE for promoting relations with USA, 485; Centenary Exhibition (1974), 553–4; Painting as a Pastime, 412

  Cinque Ports: QE appointed Warden, 568n

  Civil List, 185n, 546n

  Clarence House, London: Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip move to, 405; QE and Princess Margaret move into, 468 CLARK, ELIZABETH, LADY, 497

  CLARK, SIR KENNETH, BARON, 237, 254, 259, 260, 336, 358, 364, 553; as art adviser to QE, 237n, 254; wishes to resign as Surveyor of King’s Pictures, 259; wartime activities, 286; QE visits at Saltwood Castle, 497 & n; and Churchill Centenary Exhibition, 554–5; One Hundred Details in the National Gallery, 260 & n

  Clarke, Sir Ashley (Ambassador to Italy), 506

  Clary and Aldringen, Prince Alfons and Princess Ludwine, 562 & n

  Clayton, Lady Mary, 172n

  Clayton, Revd Philip (‘Tubby’), 196n

  Clynes, John Robert, 177 & n

  Coates, Eric, 373 & n Collingwood, HMS, 71

  COLLINS, ELA, 13

  Columbia University, 486

  Colville, Sir John (‘Jock’), 405 & n, 553–4

  Commons, House of: damaged in war, 312

  Commonwealth, British: and independence movement, 506–7; African members, 507

  Commonwealth Conference, Isle of Man (1984), 587

  Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference (1951), 434

  Coningham, Air Marshal Sir Arthur, 368 & n

  Connaught, Prince Arthur, Duke of, 118, 294

  COOPER, ALFRED DUFF (later 1st Viscount Norwich), 186, 201, 205, 207, 209, 217; marriage, 38n; by-election victory (1931), 186 & n; sends books to QE, 201, 205–9; biography of Haig, 209 & n; Paris speech (1936), 217; and army recruits’ fitness, 217–18

  COOPER, LADY DIANA (née Manners), 541, 577; at theatre, 34; and Duff’s 1931 election victory, 186; entertains QE, 577

  corgis, 210, 212–13, 268, 541

  Cornwall, Camilla, Duchess of (earlier Parker Bowles), 579n

  Couper, Agnes Macdonald, 437

  COWARD, (SIR) NOËL, 529; film-making, 352; death and memorial, 520n; QE visits in Jamaica, 529; QE meets at Lady Diana Cooper’s, 541; Cavalcade (play), 192 & n, 530n

  Cowes, Isle of Wight, 193, 198, 203–4

  Craigowan Lodge, 574

  Cranborne, Dorset, 458

  Cranborne, Elizabeth, Viscountess see Salisbury, Elizabeth, Marchioness of

  Crawford, Francis Marion, 333

  Crawford, Marion, 262 & n, 267 Crawford, Mary, Countess of (née Cavendish), 118 & n

  CRAWFORD, SUSAN, 609, 616; portrait of Charles, 616

  ‘Crazy Gang, The’ (entertainers), 408 & n

  Cripps, Sir Stafford, 350 & n, 391, 421 Crisp, Jack, 421

  Cross, Sir Ronald, 502 Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, 375n

  Cunard, Maud Alice, Lady (‘Emerald’), 286 & n

  Cunard, Nancy, 34

  Curzon, George Nathaniel, Marquess of Kedleston, 37

  Curzon House, London, 144

  Cutsem, Hugh van, 573

  Czechoslovakia, 258n

  D’Albiac, Air Marshal Sir John, 443

  Dalkeith, Walter Douglas-Scott, Earl of see Buccleuch, 8th Duke of

  Dalrymple Hamilton, Admiral Sir Frederick, 35 & n,55

  Dalrymple Hamilton, Lady Marjorie (née Coke), 34 & n

  Dalrymple Hamilton, North, 35n

  Dalyell, Sir Thomas (‘Tam’), 615

  Dangerous Game (racehorse), 588

  Dardanelles campaign (1915), 29

  Dartmouth: Royal Naval College, 544

  DAVIDSON, JOHN CAMPBELL, 1st VISCOUNT, 457; encourages GVI to persist in Courting, 457n

  Davies, Dr Anita, 184n

  Davies, Sir Ernest, 498, 500, 518

  Day, Edith, 161

  Derry, Major Sam, 380n

  Devon Loch (steeplechaser), 478, 493 & n

  Devonshire, Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke and Deborah, Duchess of, 618

  Devonshire, Mary Alice, Duchess of (née Cecil; ‘Moucher’), 33 & n Devonshire, Victor Christian Cavendish, 9th Duke of (1944), 129

  DIANA, PRINCESS OF WALES, 594; marriage breakdown, 453; official visit to Australia (1983), 583–4; cooperates with Morton on Diana: Her True Story, 605n; separation, 605n

  Dickson, Sam, 59n

  Dieppe raid (1942), 328 & n

  Dillinger, John, 202

  Dinka (people), 140

  Dixon, Sir Pierson, 485

  Doctor McCluskie (racehorse), 589

  Dollfuss, Engelbert, 203

  Douglas, Lewis and Margaret (née Zinsser; ‘Peggy’), 487 & n

  Doyle, Patrick: The Thistle and the Rose (song cycle), 599 & n

  Duff, Arthur, 20

  Dulac, Edmund, 34

  Dunbar, Dame Maureen (‘Daisy’), Baronetess, 555

  Duncan, Alice, Lady, 396 & n

  Dunkirk: QE unveils memorial, 497 & n

  Dunn (photographer), 41, 43

  East Africa, QE and GVI tour (1924–5), 74, 130–41

  Ebbisham, George Rowland Blades, 1st Baron, 198

  Eden, Anthony (later 1st Earl of Avon), 308 & n, 332n, 490n, 495

  Edinburgh, Duke of see Philip, Prince

  Edward VII, King: death, 6

  Edward VIII, King see Windsor, Edward, Duke of

  Edward, Prince see Wessex, Earl of

  Edward, Prince of Wales see Windsor, Edward, Duke of

  Edwards, Jimmy, 421 & n

  Egerton, Lady Margaret (later Colville), 307n

  Ehrenburg, Ilya: The Fall of Paris, 338

  Eisenhower, Dwight D., 341, 495n

  Eisenhower, Mamie, 487

  Eldon, Magdalen, Countess of (née Fraser), 187n, 205, 459n

  Eliot, T. S., 338n
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br />   ELIZABETH II, QUEEN (earlier Princess), 210, 212, 251, 261, 264, 265, 266, 269, 272, 306, 365, 403, 404, 418, 420, 426, 432, 433, 435, 436, 440, 443, 456, 460, 461, 467, 469, 471, 472, 473, 474, 476, 479, 481, 482, 483, 485, 491, 494, 496, 498, 499, 502, 506, 512, 516, 518, 519, 559, 560, 563, 566, 569, 571, 574, 575, 576, 580, 583, 585, 587, 588, 589, 590, 597, 603, 605, 606, 613, 614; birth and babyhood, 75, 147–8, 149; and parents’ absence on overseas tours, 150, 152, 154–5, 161, 261, 272; honeymoon at Broadlands and Birkhall, 168n, 403–4; sent to visit Queen Mary and George V as child, 179–80; stays with Queen Mary, 179–81; catches cold as child, 199; visits Sandringham as child, 210; engagement and marriage, 245, 400–1, 403; accession on death of father, 246, 444; tutored by Marten, 265, 379; QE’s concern for in war, 277; safekeeping in war, 277; weeps at Chamberlain’s resignation speech, 291; as Colonel of Grenadier Guards, 294n; at Windsor in war, 302; flu at Christmas 1940, 303; confirmed, 320–3; attends poetry reading, 338 & n; QE sends photographs to Queen Mary, 341; wartime social life, 354; visits grandmother at Badminton, 355; plays in wartime pantomimes, 356, 357 & n; QE gives diamond tiara for 18th birthday, 361; mother writes to on inheritance in event of wartime accident, 365–6; signs official papers, 369; proposed hospital visiting, 379; serves in ATS, 379, 381; mumps, 381; celebrates VE Day, 382; injured in riding accident, 386–7; visits John Elphinstone at Glenmazeran, 393; tour of South Africa (1947), 394; pregnancies and children, 409–10, 430, 510 & n, 526n; measles, 414; Halliday portrait of, 417n; in Malta with Prince Philip, 418–20, 435; gives plates to QE, 424, 476; interest in horse-racing, 425n, 452, 479n, 514n, 606; at Balmoral with baby Charles, 430; visits Greece, 432; sends stockings to QE, 433; tour of Canada (1951), 440; trip to Kenya (1952), 442; returns from Kenya and accedes as Queen on death of father, 444; moves into Buckingham Palace, 456; Coronation, 468–9; Commonwealth tour (1953–4), 474n, 478, 480–2; QE gives Fabergé clock to, 474; Christmas broadcast (1953), 477; official tour of Nigeria (1956), 492n; QE suggests having more children, 494; offical tour of India (1961), 512, 514; visits Rome, 517; visits Ghana, 520 & n; in

  Caribbean (1966), 530; annual summer cruise of Western Isles, 543n; chicken pox, 545; visit to Canada (1973), 551; presents for QE’s 75th birthday, 559; Silver Jubilee (1977), 566n; Middle East tour (1979), 571 & n; writes to QE while on official tours abroad, 573 & n; 80th birthday gifts for QE, 575; tour of Tunisia, 576 & n; official tour of Australia and Pacific Islands (1982), 580n; visit to USA and Canada (1983), 583, 587; urges QE to take care, 603n; family troubles, 605; at mother’s deathbed, 620; Diamond Jubilee, 620; Golden Jubilee, 621