Haakon VII, King of Norway (‘Uncle Charles’), 293 & n
Hackett, James K., 101
Haddington, George Baillie-Hamilton, 12th Earl of (‘Geordie’), 82
Haig, Major Andrew, 610 & n
Haig, Field Marshal Douglas, 1st Earl, 209 & n
Halifax, Charles Lindley Wood, 2nd Viscount, 52 & n
Halifax, Dorothy, Countess of, 52 & n, 285, 303, 366, 367
HALIFAX, EDWARD FREDERICK LINDLEY WOOD, 1st EARL OF (earlier Viscount), 285, 287, 290, 310; entertains QE, 52 & n; visits QE, 275 & n, 367; tells QE of D’Arcy Osborne in Rome, 287; and QE’s broadast to American YWCA, 290; as wartime ambassador to USA, 303n, 310–11, 327
HALL, MRS LEONE POIGNAND, 529; returns Beryl’s letters to QE, 23n; informs QE of Beryl’s death, 529
Hallam, Basil, 25 & n, 26
Halliday, Edward Irvine, 417 & n
Ham, Surrey, 9–10
Hambleden, Esther, Viscountess (née Gore), 82n
Hambleden, Frederick Smith, 2nd Viscount, 82 & n
Hambleden, Patricia, Viscountess (née Herbert), 82n
Hamilton, Lord Frederick, 55, 59
Hamilton, William, 546n
Hancock, Tony, 594
HARBOTTLE, REV. ANTHONY, 543, 615; annual letter to QE on anniversary of GVI’s death, 543 & n, 615
Harcourt family, 56–7
HARDINGE, ALEXANDER, 2nd BARON
HARDINGE OF PENSHURST, 289, 343; 79 n, 227n, 270
Hardinge, Charles, 1st Baron, 91 & n
Hardinge, Diamond see Abercromby, Diamond
HARDINGE, HELEN, LADY (née Cecil), 226; 79 & n
Harewood, Henry George Charles Lascelles, 6th Earl of: marriage, 36n; and QE’s engagement, 107; takes tea with QE, 118
Harewood, Mary, Countess of (Princess Royal; daughter of George V): Lavinia Spencer invites QE to meet, 33, 37; at Airlie, 85; and QE’s engagement, 107; takes tea with QE, 118; visits QE in war, 293–4
Harlech, Beatrice Mildred Edith, Lady (née Gascoyne-Cecil; ‘Mima’), 397 & n
Harriman, W. Averell, 391 & n
Hartnell, Norman, 257n
Harvey, Oliver, 486
Harvey, Major Thomas, 405 & n
Hastings, Marguerite, Lady, 12, 55
Hatfield House, Hertfordshire, 79, 390, 552
Hay (detective), 121
Heath, (Sir) Edward, 546n
Henson, Leslie, 125
Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis, Fenella see Bowes Lyon, Fenella
Herbert, George, 463 & n
Hern, Dick, 591
Herriot, Edouard, 214 & n
Hess, Dame Myra, 402
Hesse and by Rhine, Princess Ludwig of (née Margaret Geddes;’ Peg’), 558 & n, 597
Hewett, Mr (tutor), 21
Hiroshima, 385
Hitler, Adolf: Mrs Greville meets, 214n; Windsors meet, 243; Chamberlain meets for peace talks, 257; as threat, 261n, 276, 596; enters Paris (1940), 292; and conduct of war, 316; and proposed invasion of England, 319; orders shackling of Canadian prisoners, 328n; Mein Kampf, 263, 285, 320
Hoare, Sir Samuel: Pact with Laval (1936), 213–4 & n
Hobbs, Bruce, 480
Holwick Hall, Teesdale, 613n
Home Guard: disbanded, 372 & n homeopathy, 184 & n, 603n
Howard de Walden, John Scott-Ellis, 9th Baron, 564 & n
Howerd, Frankie, 421 & n
Hughes, Leonora, 92
Hughes, Richard: A High Wind in Jamaica, 171
HUGHES, TED, 600, 602, 604, 607, 609, 610, 611, 614; friendship with QE, 453, 599 & n; picnic poem, 604 & n; visits Birkhall, 604–5; Miss Dimsdale and Rev. Cedric Potter imaginary figures, 607, 609–11; receives annual butt of sack, 609 & n; A Masque of Three Voices, 600n; The Prince and his Granny, 614; Rain-Charm for the Duchy, 602 & n
Hunloke, Sir Philip, 204 & n
Hyde Park, New York State, 596 & n
Ibn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia, 355
Imbert-Terry, Captain Frederic Bouhier (owner of Castle of Mey), 462
Imperial Institute, 492
Inch Arran (racehorse), 550n
India: Churchill thanks troops for support in wars, 349; independence, 395 & n; under Nehru, 434; Queen Elizabeth II tours (1961), 512, 514; Snowdon photographs, 533
Injured Jockeys Fund, 620
Invercauld Castle, near Balmoral, 494
IRA (Irish Republican Army): terrorist acts, 579n
Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Shah of, 508, 557
Iran (Persia), 557 & n
Isle of Man, 587
Isle of Man (racehorse), 570
Italy: QE visits as girl, 5, 9, 19–20; GVI visits in wartime, 369–70; post-war situation, 370; Princess Margaret visits, 416
Jackson, Philip, 473n
Jacques, Hattie, 525
Jamaica, 529, 530n
James, Clive, 582
James, Venetia (née Cavendish-Bentinck), 164
Japan: attacks Pearl Harbor, 315; surrenders after atom bomb attacks, 385
JAQUES, NIGEL, 604
Jarrow: QE visits, 218
Jefferson, Mrs, 19
Jellicoe, Florence Gwendoline, Countess, 26
Jellicoe, John, 1st Earl, 26, 39
Jepson, Lance Corporal Norman, 111
Jews: Nazi persecution of, 261n, 332n
John XXIII, Pope, 506 & n
John, Augustus, 286, 402, 523
Johnson, Martin and Osa, 136 & n
JOHNSTON, SIR CHARLES, 582
JOHNSTON, SIR CHARLES AND NATASHA, LADY, 569
JOHNSTON, HON. LADY (ELIZABETH), 597
Joicey-Cecil, Edward, 26n
Joicey-Cecil, Rosemary (née Bowes Lyon; Fergus–Christian’s daughter), 26n
Juliana, Queen of the Netherlands, 407 & n
Jutland, Battle of (1916), 71
Karsavina, Tamara, 203 & n
Keenan, Captain, 65
Kelly, Sir Gerald, 323, 381
Kennedy, Major General Sir John and Catherine, Lady, 398 & n
Kennedy, Robert: assassinated, 538 & n
KENNEDY, ROSE, 538
Kensington Palace: bombed in war, 297
Kent, Prince Edward, Duke of, 324n, 371, 477
KENT, PRINCE GEORGE, DUKE OF, 303, 342; schooling, 17; dines with QE, 125; and GVI’s Wembley speech, 143; sees QE and GVI off on tour of Australasia, 151; at Buckingham Palace, 293; at Windsor, 303; QE thanks for gift, 303; at Princess Elizabeth’s confirmation, 321; killed in war, 323 & n, 332
Kent, Princess Marina, Duchess of, 293, 303, 304, 324n, 335, 371, 477
Kent, Prince Michael of, 324n, 477
Kent, Prince Edward, Duke of, 324n
Kenya: Princess Elizabeth and Philip leave for (1951), 442–3; QE’s official tour (1959), 506–7; Elizabeth II visits (1983), 585; see also East Africa
Khan, Liaquat Ali, 434
King Edward VII’s Hospital for Officers, London (‘Sister Agnes’), 525n, 526–7, 536, 619
King, Sir Truby, 155
King, William Lyon Mackenzie, 596
King’s Speech, The (film), 142
Kinnaird, Mary Alma Victoria, Lady, 15
Kitchener, Field Marshal Horatio Herbert, 1st Earl, 28 & n
Knight, Clara Cooper (‘Alah’), 147 & n, 151, 162, 185, 262–3, 264, 267, 377
KNIGHT, HENRIETTA, 588
Koestler, Arthur: trilogy, 357 & n
Kübler, Käthe, 6, 20 & n, 21–2
Labour party: QE dislikes, 127–8; establishes National Health Service, 452; election victories (1945), 275; (1950), 424n; (1966), 531n; attacks monarchy, 546n
Lachaise, Lydie, 26 & n, 37
Laffy (racehorse), 520
Lamb, Dr John, 373 & n
Lambourne, Berkshire, 550n
Lamington, Victor Cochrane Baillie, 3rd Baron, see Baillie, Victor Cochrane
LANG, COSMO, Archbishop of Canterbury, 181, 200, 231, 235, 239, 255, 261, 277, 281; gives address at QE–GVI wedding, 73; QE describes baby Princess Margaret to, 76–7; and QE’s attitude to GV
I’s accession, 78; and christening of Princess Margaret Rose, 181; visits QE, 208, 231; and GVI–QE accession, 231–2; and Coronation of GVI and QE, 235, 239; gives address at QE’s mother’s memorial service, 255; at outbreak of Second World War, 277–8; helps QE with wartime broadcast, 281–2; retires, 318; confirms Princess Elizabeth, 320; at Maundy ceremony, 361
LASCELLES, SIR ALAN (‘Tommy’), 345, 349, 372, 407, 439, 446, 447, 464, 470, 473, 488; and QE’s broadcast to women of Empire, 345; assisting QE during GVI’s absence, 352; and GVI’s health decline, 439; helps draft message for QE on death of GVI, 447; suggests Wheeler-Bennett as biographer of GVI, 464; and Princess Margaret–Townsend romance, 470 & n; on tour with QE, 471; QE sends GVI’s note books to, 473; succeeded by Adeane, 480
Laszlo, Philip de, 45 & n
Lathom (friend of Michael), 63
Laurence, Vice Admiral Timothy, 566n
League of Nations, 215
Lebrun, Albert, 214n
LEEDS, SIR FRANCIS GODOLPHIN D’ARCY OSBORNE, 12th DUKE OF, 101, 102, 109, 117, 120, 122, 127, 128, 130, 135, 141, 163, 167, 170, 173, 188, 191, 194, 195, 202, 213, 232, 251, 380, 389, 415, 466, 494, 503, 517, 521, 522, 523; asks how to address QE, 72, 120; and QE’s tour of East Africa, 74; career, 101n; friendship with QE, 101n; ill health, 101, 521; QE gives magic stone to, 101–2, 604n; sends books to QE, 117, 122, 141, 213, 251, 494, 523; QE teases over Isabel, 122–3; sends flowers to QE, 128; gives belt to QE, 130; posted to Lisbon, 163n; diplomatic appointment in Rome, 173, 215, 252–3, 287, 380, 415, 503–4, 517; posted to Washington embassy, 188n, 191–2; QE enquires about marriage prospects, 188–9; on working women, 196; and abdication crisis, 232–3; wartime activities in Italy, 380n; QE declares affection for Prince Charles to, 451; financial embarrassment, 466, 522; visits QE at Birkhall, 504, 522–3; QE visits in Rome, 505–6; brother’s death, 506; QE invites to Sandringham, 507; gives picture of Birkhall to QE, 522; succeeds to dukedom and death, 523 & n
Legh, Lieutenant Colonel Sir Piers Walter (‘Joey’), 353 & n, 397, 480
Legh, Sarah, Lady, 597
Leonora and Maurice (dancers), see Hughes, Leonora and Mouvet, Maurice
Leppard, Raymond, 599 & n
Leslie, Desmond, 488n
Leslie, Sir John Randolph (Shane), 488 & n
Leveson-Gower, Rose see Granville, Rose Constance, Countess
Lewes Hunt Ball, 103–4
Libya: wartime campaign, 316
Lightbody, Helen, 437
Linley, David Armstrong-Jones, Viscount, 525 & n, 572, 620
Little, Sergeant, 41
Little-Gilmour, Victoria (née Cadogan; ‘Tortor’), 152–3
Livingstone, Dr David, 511
Livingstone, Sir Richard Winn: Education for a World Adrift, 342
Llewellyn, Colonel, 133
LOGUE, LIONEL, 455; treats GVI for stammer, 75, 150, 160n, 249n; ill health, 455; treats Wheeler-Bennett, 464n
London: bombed in war, 295–8, 303, 340; plans for post-war rebuilding, 300; IRA atrocities in, 579n
London, University of, 519 & n
LONDONDERRY, EDITH HELEN, MARCHIONESS OF, 228; on EVIII’s plans to marry Wallis, 228n
Longleat, Wiltshire, 105
Louise, Princess, Duchess of Argyll, see Argyll, Princess Louise, Duchess of
Lovat, Rosie, Lady, 459n
Lovat, Brigadier Simon Christopher Joseph Fraser, 4th Baron (‘Shimi’), 459n
Lusaka, Northern Rhodesia, 510–11
Lyautey, Marshal Louis Hubert Gonzalve, 189 & n
Lynn-Allen, Esmond and John Elphinstone: The Rough Shoot, 335n
Lyttelton, Oliver (later 1st Viscount Chandos), 341 & n
Lytton, Pamela, Countess of (née Chichele-Plowden), 34
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, Baron: The Lays of Ancient Rome, 538
Macdonald, James, 444
MacDonald, James Ramsay, 89 & n, 129, 185n, 253 & n
McDonald, Margaret (‘Bobo’), 185 & n, 441
McHardy, Colonel George (‘Charlie’), 561
McInnes, Donald and Fanny, 306
Maclagan, Sir Eric, 238 & n
Maclean, Catherine, 27 & n, 44, 124, 147, 262
Maclean, Veronica, Lady (née Fraser), 459n
McLoughlin, Maria, 599
Macmillan, Lady Dorothy, 500
Macmillan, Harold (later 1st Earl of Stockton), 495n, 500, 506
McMillan, William, 473n
Makins, Sir Roger (later Baron Sherbourne), 485
Malmö, Sweden, 167
Malta: GVI visits in war, 350n, 353; Princess
Elizabeth and Prince Philip in, 418–20, 435–6
Manicou (racehorse), 434, 478, 480
Mann, Right Rev. Michael, Dean of Windsor, 586n
Manners, Francis, 4th Baron, 79 & n
Manners, Mary, Lady (née Cecil; ‘Mollie’), 79 & n
Margaret, Crown Princess of Sweden, 46–7 & n
MARGARET ROSE, PRINCESS, 305, 416, 487, 489, 501, 505, 507, 510, 527, 528, 572, 575; birth and babyhood, 76, 178, 183, 186, 193; name, 178–80; christening, 181–2; character and manner, 186, 193, 415; catches cold as child, 199; expresses preference for father, 208; childhood, 263; Queen Mary cares for as child, 263; QE’s concern for in war, 277; safekeeping in war, 277; on bombing in London, 299; at Windsor in war, 302; illness, 305; bequest from Mrs Ronald Greville, 326n; attends poetry reading, 338 & n; QE sends photographs to Queen Mary, 341; helps Sea Rangers cook lunch, 352; plays in wartime pantomimes, 357 & n; on QE’s purchase of Paul Nash picture, 358n; comforts mother in war, 364; mumps, 378; celebrates VE Day, 382; press interest in, 414 & n, 489n; in Italy, 416; romance wth Peter Townsend, 419, 470n, 489n, 490; plays with Prince Charles, 433; visits Elizabeth in Malta, 435; house cleaning, 442; takes Charles and Anne to Brancaster, 443; moves into Clarence House, 468; tour of Rhodesias with QE (1953), 471–2 & n; QE’s concern for future, 489–90; renounces marriage with Townsend, 490n; churchgoing, 492; takes Holy Communion, 492; Epstein sculpture of, 501 & n; accompanies QE to Rome, 506 & n; visits Rome with QE, 506 & n; in Mombasa, 507; engagement and marriage to Armstrong-Jones, 509–10 & n; gives up horseracing, 514; children, 528n; daughter christened, 528; visits Hong Kong, 530; visits Osbert Sitwell in Italy, 538; and Billy Wallace, 542–3; Willie Hamilton disparages, 547n; presents drum horse to regiment, 555; at QE’s 75th birthday party, 559n; divorce from Snowdon, 572n; in Mustique, 572; eightieth birthday treats for QE, 575; urges QE to take care, 603n; health decline and death, 620
Marie, Princess of Romania: marriage to Alexander of Yugoslavia, 100n
Marie, Queen of Romania (‘Missy’), 123 & n, 124
Marland Oil Company, 150 & n
Marlborough House, London, 221–2, 298, 382, 384, 437, 468
Marquesas Isles, 153
Marrington, Robert, 302, 477
Marten, Lieutenant Commander George (‘Toby’) and Mary Anna (née Sturt), 419
Marten, Sir Henry, 265 & n, 379
Märtha, Princess of Sweden, 166, 294
Martin, Lady Christian (née Dawson-Damer; then Bowes Lyon; Fergus’s widow), 107
Martin, Captain William, 107
Mary, Princess Royal see Harewood, Mary, Countess of
MARY, QUEEN OF GEORGE V, 7, 109, 121, 144, 146, 151, 153, 154, 159, 161, 162, 166, 172, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 185, 190, 197, 207, 215, 216, 220, 221, 222, 224, 225, 229, 232, 235, 247, 249, 262, 268, 271, 274, 278, 293, 294, 295, 297, 300, 302, 307, 315, 316, 317, 320, 330, 333, 334, 341, 350, 353, 354, 355, 360, 366, 367, 370, 371, 374, 378, 381, 384, 386, 390, 394, 395, 396, 397, 409, 410, 411, 414, 430, 438, 439, 444, 462, 468; affection for QE, 72; disappointment at QE’s declining GVI’s proposal of marriage, 99; welcomes GVI–QE engagement, 107; visits QE, 113; entertains QE, 117–18; QE stays with at Balmoral, 121; and QE’s journey to Australasia, 153; sends miniature of GVI to QE, 176; gives clocks to QE, 177, 302; gives boxes to QE, 178; sends baby clothes for Princess Margaret, 185; and EVIII’s affair with Wallis, 198; Silver Jubilee, 211n; and death of
husband, 216; sends picture of Birkhall to QE, 220; moves to Marlborough House, 221; on EVIII’s behaviour, 222n; EVIII tells of plan to marry Wallis, 224–5, 229; and DW–Wallis wedding date, 243; and death of GVI, 245–6, 444, 446; in Cambridge, 247; buys presents for servants, 249; injured in road accident, 268; stays at Badminton House in war, 316; gives rug to QE, 317; attends Princess Elizabeth’s confirmation, 320; gives jewel to Princess Elizabeth on confirmation, 321; and death of Duke of Kent, 323; entertains Mrs Roosevelt, 330, 333–4; QE visits at Badminton, 355; as Patron of Royal College of St Katharine 375, 390; QE invites to Windsor, 382; returns to Marlborough House at war’s end, 382, 384; and DW’s post-war visit to Britain, 386;, offers to contribute to purchase of portrait of George III, 410; misses dance, 435; and GVI’s final illness, 439; lends dishes to QE, 462; death, 468; QE wears robe at Elizabeth II’s Coronation, 468; visits to museums with granddaughters, 492; tendency to outstay welcome, 563
M’As Tu Vu (racehorse), 475, 481
Masefield, John, 338 & n
Maud, Queen of Norway, 302n, 304
Mauritius, 503n
Maurois, André: The Silence of Colonel Bramble, 608 & n
May, Charles, 376 & n, 592
Meacci, Ricciardo, 19 & n
Menin Gate, Ypres, 163
Menzies, Sir Robert Gordon, 500 & n
Merson, Billy, 120
Messel, Oliver, 425, 601
Metcalfe, Edward (‘Fruity’) and Lady Alexandra (née Curzon; ‘Baba’), 280 & n
Mey, Castle of, Caithness: QE buys and occupies, 452–3, 460 & n, 462; expenses, 484; life at, 528, 573; Royal Family visit on summer cruises, 543n; QE’s last visit, 619
Middle Temple, 620
Mieville, Sir Eric, 351 & n, 352
Mildmay, Anthony, 2nd Baron, 425n, 428 & n, 431
Miller, Sir John, 555n
Milne, A.A.: Mr Pim Passes By (play), 83
Mitchell, Air Commodore Sir Dennis, 499
Molotov, Vyacheslav M., 401 & n
MOLYNEUX, SIR RICHARD (‘Dick’), 187, 193, 205, 211, 227, 250, 322, 381, 388; and hanging of Royal collection, 238 & n, 322–3; QE invites to Sandringham for Christmas, 250, 388; visits Windsor, 322–3 monarchy: QE’s view of, 248–9, 252, 407; popular view of, 452; and civil list, 546n
Monaveen (steeplechaser), 426, 431–2
MONCKTON, SIR WALTER (later 1st Viscount), 248; acts for DW, 248n
Montgomery, General Sir Bernard Law (later Field
Marshal 1st Viscount), 350n
Moore, Captain Charles, 479 & n, 487, 498, 556
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