1940 big freeze, 51–4; news of Winter War, 62; news of Altmark Incident, 55; fined for chopping down tree, 55; garden turned over for vegetable growing, 56; basement let out to tenants, 56; news of German invasion of Netherlands, 75; Empire Day, 81; Laurie accepted into Royal Corps of Signals, 87–8; Italy declares war on UK, 92; news of fall of Paris, 92; news of Compiègne Armistice, 93; welcomes Australian troops, 96–7, 111; Blitz, 111, 115; Christmas, 124, 128
1941 bombs hit Sydenham, 131–2
1942 struggles with maintenance of Beechgrove, 147; helps troops at Australia House, 156–7; slaughters animals at Beechgrove, 157; holiday in Torquay, 160
1943 German terror raid, 164; Antony comes to visit, 164–5; raises animals at Beechgrove, 165; wedding of Valentine and Anne, 179
1944 Antony writes from Anzio, 188–9, 190; stays with Bettinson in Worcester, 207–8; Antony writes from Italy, 208, 211–13
1945 Laurie returns home, 230; VE Day, 223, 226; death, 231–2
Logue, Robert, 137, 187, 258
Logue, Rupert, 146
Logue, Valentine, ix, 257
1924 arrival in London, 10
1936 qualifies as doctor, 26
1939 outbreak of war, 26; shoots rabbits in Epping Forest, 33; visits Antony in Leeds, 36; Hillman comes for dinner, 38; Christmas break, 50
1940 buys saloon car, 51–2; Empire Day, 81; Laurie’s farewell dinner, 88
1941 begins training at Leavesden Hospital, 137, 146
1942 transferred to Atkinson-Morley, 156; holiday in Torquay, 160
1943 visits parents at Beechgrove daily, 165; marries Anne, 179, 188
1944 Antony writes from Anzio, 189
1945 joins Royal Medical Corps, 231; death of mother, 231; posted to India, 231; performs first brain operation in Burma, 235
1946 father’s séances with Bailey, 240–42
1952 Christmas, 258
1953 father’s funeral, 260
2000 death, viii
Logue, Victoria, 258
London, England
1939 blackout regulations introduced, 24–5; cinemas re-opened, 34
1940 big freeze, 49–54; Blitz, 104–29, 130–31
1941 Blitz, 131–2, 135–6
1943 Terrorangriff, 162–4
1944 Operation Steinbock, 194–5; V-1 attacks, 205–7; V-2 attacks, 209
1945 VE Day, 220–26; State Opening of Parliament, 232–4
1952 funeral of George VI, 1–3, 6–7
London School of Economics, 47
London Underground, 106, 121, 131
London University, 235
Long Parliament (1640–60), 70
Long Room, Windsor Castle, 116, 125, 126–7
Lordship Lane, Dulwich, 206–7
Liibeck, Germany, 144
Lucas, John, 185, 186, 189
Luftwaffe, 29, 102, 103, 119, 121, 135, 164
Lusitania, RMS, 31
Luxembourg, 70
Lyceum club, Piccadilly, 50
Lyons, 35, 208, 235
MacDonald, James, 4
MacDonald, Ramsay, 44
Macmillan, Harold, 169–70, 172
Madden, Cecil, 151
Madrid, Spain, 99, 100
Maginot Line, 75
Maida Vale, London, 10–11, 179
Maidstone, Kent, 104
Malaya, 141
Mall, Westminster, 6, 220, 233
Mallin, Tom, 178
Malta, 140, 170
Manchester, England, 106, 123
Mandalay, Burma, 235
Marble Arch, London, 6
Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, 1, 9, 13, 57, 89, 119, 181–2, 215, 221, 225
Marina, Duchess of Kent, 126, 148, 182
Marlborough College, Oxford, 44
Marlborough House, Pall Mall, 5, 6
Marquis, Frederick, 1st Earl of Woolton, 107, 108
Marshal, Earl, see Fitzalan-Howard, Bernard
Mary of Teck, Queen consort of the United Kingdom, 4, 5, 6, 64, 65, 99, 110, 148, 149, 169, 206
Mary, Princess Royal, Countess of Harewood, 63
Marylebone, London, 95
Mason, Herbert, 131
Mass Observation, 112, 113
Maud of Wales, Queen consort of Norway, 88
McCormack, John, 151
McKissock, Wylie, 136, 156, 160
Medjaz-el-bab, Tunisia, 166
Medjerda river, 166
Mereworth Castle, Kent, 104
Mersey river, 49
Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, 238
Messerschmitt fighters, 105, 121, 163
Met Office, 51
Meuse river, 75
Middlesex Hospital, 179
Midlothian, Scotland, 113
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (Shakespeare), 162
Miéville, Eric, 19, 81, 125, 175–7, 223, 230
Military Training Act (1939), 36
Millar, John, 230
Millichamp, Ivy, 210
Minsk, Belarus, 138
Mitford, Nancy, 63
Mittelwerk plant, Leipzig, 209
Mogadishu, Somalia, 190, 230
Molotov Bread Baskets, 120, 121–2
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (1939), 27, 30, 61
Molotov, Vyacheslav, 27
Montevideo, Uruguay, 44
Montgomery, Bernard, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, 152–3, 169, 180, 198, 204, 213, 222
Moody, Gerald Tattersall, 35, 87
Moorehead, Alan, 180
Morocco, 154
Morrison, Herbert, 28
Morrison shelters, 132
Moscow, Russia, 138
Moscow Peace Treaty (1940), 62
Mosley, Nicholas, 134–5
Mosley, Oswald, 94, 134
Mountbatten, Louis, 41, 112, 243
Mulberry artificial harbours, 204
Munich, Germany, 195
Munich Agreement (1938), 16, 18, 26
Murdoch, Keith, 10
Murmansk, Russia, 138
Mussolini, Benito, 85, 92, 98, 168–9, 180, 210, 211
My Little Chickadee, 81
Nagasaki atomic bombing (1945), 228
Nairobi, Kenya, 156, 165, 230
Napoleonic Wars (1803–15), 49, 82, 139
Narvik, Norway, 69
National Health Service, 233
National Services of Thanksgiving, 226
National Trust, 233
nationalization, 233
Native Americans, 241
Neech, William, 241
Nelson, Horatio, 1st Viscount Nelson, 211
Netherlands, 70, 74–5, 84, 208, 209, 213, 222
Nettuno, Italy, 184, 189
New Cross, London, 209–10, 226
New Palace Yard, Westminster, 2
New York Times, 192
New Zealand, xii, 4, 12, 76, 127, 150, 246, 247
Nicolas I, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias, 17
Nicolson, Harold, 64, 86, 91, 104, 111, 226
NKVD (Narodnyy Komissariat Vnutrennikh Del), 61
Normandy landings (1944), 196–204
Northcliffe House, Kensington, 131
Northern Ireland, 31, 237, 255, 262
Northolt, London, 169, 171
Norway, 54, 69, 71, 88, 94, 101, 180, 222
Norwich, Norfolk, 144
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, 87, 235, 257
O Mimì, tu più non torni (Puccini), 151
Oberon, Merle, 240
Observer, 230
Odeon Panton Street, Westminster, viii
Oerton, Richard, 258–9, 265–6
Ogilvie, Frederick, 21, 77, 80
Olav V, King of Norway, 88
Old Moore’s Almanack, 18
On My Selection, 150–52, 231
Operation Barbarossa (1941), 137–9
Operation Dynamo (1940), 82–7
Operation Eagle Attack (1940), 102
Operation Fischfang (1944), 188
Operation Neptune (1944), 201
Operation Overlord (1944),
196–204
Operation Sealion (1940), 101, 119–20
Operation Shingle (1944), 184–91
Operation Source (1943), 180
Operation Steinbock (1944), 194–5
Operation Torch (1942), 154–5, 165
Operation Uranus (1942), 155
Operation Weserübung (1940), 69
Operation Willi (1940), 100
Oran, Algeria, 154
Order of the Garter, 1
Orkney Islands, 38
Orpington, Kent, 210
Oscars, vii, ix-x
Oundle School, Northamptonshire, 238, 266
Outspan Hotel, Kenya, 5
Oxford and Cambridge Club, Pall Mall, 256
Oxford College of Technology, 239
Oxford University, 4, 44
Packard, Reynolds, 188
Paddington Station, London, 6
Pantellaria, 168–9
parachute mines, 121–2, 131–2
Parker, Michael, 5–6
Pas-de-Calais, France, 105, 197
Patterson, William, 18
Patton, George, 180
Pearl Harbor attack (1941), 141, 143
Peenemünde, Germany, 209
Perry, Colin, 104–5
Perth, Western Australia, 17, 146
Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, 2, 5–6, 181–2, 242–4, 254
Philippines, 141, 143, 144
phoney war, 37
Piazza del Campidoglio, Rome, 191–2
Piccadilly, London, 6, 11, 56, 151, 194, 223
Pickford, Mary, 240
Pillbox Affair (1939–40), 57
Pirbright, Surrey, 136
Pitt, William, 135
Poland, 14–15, 17, 27, 29, 61, 227, 259
Poplar, London, 105
Portland, Earl of, see Bentinck, Henry Portsmouth, Hampshire, 112, 123, 199, 203, 204
Portugal, 99, 100–101
Potsdam Conference (1945), 227, 232, 233
Pownall, Henry, 58
Price Thomas, Clement, 252, 253, 261–2
Prien, Günther, 38
Primrose Hill, London, 35
Prince Alfred College, Adelaide, 256
Prince of Wales, HMS, 141
Princes Court, Knightsbridge, 237
Privy Purse, 20, 133, 223
Queen Charlotte hospital, White City, 35
Queen’s College, Cambridge, 235, 239
Queen’s Tower, Windsor Castle, 89
Quisling, Vikdun, 88, 94, 101
Radcliffe, David, 238, 266–7
Ramsay, Bertram, 82–3, 85
Rankine, Andrew, 95
rationing, 34, 55–6, 234–5
Reith, John, 21, 41
Renown, HMS, 227
Republic of Salò (1943–5), 210
Repulse, HMS, 141
Revenge-class battleships, 38
Reynaud, Paul, 75, 86
Reynolds, Quentin, 74
Rheims, France, 221
von Ribbentrop, Joachim, 27
right lumbar sympathectomy, 247–8
Ritz Hotel, Piccadilly, 225–6
Roche, Edmund Maurice, 4th Baron Fermoy, 4
Rodgers and Hammerstein, 254
Romania, 155
Rome, Italy, 191–3
Rommel, Erwin, 145, 152–3
Roosevelt, Franklin, 60, 130, 143, 145, 152, 197, 227
Round the Empire, 47
Royal Air Force, 2, 24, 47, 65, 84, 103, 144,147–8, 163, 200, 207
Royal Armoured Corps, 137
Royal Artillery, 96
Royal College of Surgeons, 18
Royal Corps of Signals, 87, 137
Royal Engineers, 115
Royal Ensign, 224
Royal Hussars, 97
Royal Lodge, Windsor Great Park, 57, 89
Royal Marines, 2
Royal Medical Corps, 231
Royal Naval College, 63, 181
Royal Navy, 38, 43, 47
Royal Oak, HMS, 38
Royal Standard, 1, 2, 203
Royal Train, 59, 141
Royal Victorian Order, 171, 204–5
von Rundstedt, Karl Rudolf Gerd, 119
Runnymede, Surrey, 125
Rush, Geoffrey, vii, viii, ix
Russian Empire, 17
Saar region, 33
Sackville-West, Vita, 64, 104, 233
Sagana Lodge, Kenya, 5–6
Salò Republic (1943–5), 210
Samaria, SS, 166
Samson, William, 136
sandbags, 25, 26
Sandhurst, Berkshire, 97, 136, 137
Sandhurst Road School, Catford, 162–4
Sandringham, Norfolk, x, 2, 4, 45–8, 128, 247, 254, 257
Savage Club, 147
Sayers, Dorothy Leigh, 93
Scapa Flow, Orkney, 38–9
Scharnhorst, 180
Schleswig-Holstein, 29
Schumann, Heinz, 162–3
Scotland, 9, 45, 49, 54, 57, 97, 164, 165, 166, 215
Balmoral Castle, 9, 27, 148–9, 175, 176–7, 213
Invergordon, 39, 148
Scapa Flow, 38–9
Scots Guards, 1, 7, 136, 146, 166, 184, 186, 187, 188–91
Scott, Harold, 107
séances, 240–42
Second Imperial Australian Force, 96–7
Second World War, see World War II
Seidler, David, vii, viii
Serpentine, Hyde Park, 49
Severn rivėr, 49
Shakespeare, William, ix, 162
Shaw, George Bernard, 34
Sherman tanks, 153
Shoreditch, London, 105
Short Sunderland flying boats, 148
Sicily, 170, 180
Silver Birch, 241
Silvertown, London, 107
Simon, John, 35
Simonds, Gavin, 1st Viscount Simonds, 3–4,252
Simpson, Wallis, xi, 2, 14, 29, 64–7, 98, 99–101, 149
Sinclair, Archibald, 73, 148
Singapore, 143
Singapore House, Sydenham, 18
Sissinghurst, Kent, 104
Sitzkrieg, 37
Slough, Berkshire, 116
Smith, Duncan, 263–4
smoking, 244
Smolensk, Russia, 138
Smuts, Jan, 198, 244
Snagge, John, 5, 201
Somalia, 190, 230
South Africa, 127, 198, 244–5
South Pacific, 254
Southampton, Hampshire, 123
Sovereign's Standard, 2
Soviet Union
1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, 27, 30, 61, 137; invasion of Poland, 61; invasion of Finland, 61–2
1940 Finland defeats 44th division, 62; Moscow Peace Treaty, 62
1941 German invasion, 137–9
1942 German offensive in Caucasus, 144; summer offensive, 152; German attack on Stalingrad, 155
1943 Casablanca Conference, 197; German surrender at Stalingrad, 155; Battle of the Dnieper, 181
1944 reservations expressed over Anzio landings, 184
1945 Yalta Conference, 227; Battle of Berlin, 222; Potsdam Conference, 227, 232, 233
Spain, 98–9, 100
Sparrow, Charlie, 242
Spectator, 235
spiritualism, 240–42
Spitfires, 101, 121
St Albans, Hertfordshire, 136, 146
St Andrew's Hospital, Dollis Hill, 230–31
St George's Chapel, Windsor, 7, 48, 149
St George's Hospital, Tooting, 25–6, 137, 146, 156
St Giles Hospital, Camberwell, 122
St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh, 226
St Paul's Cathedral, City of London, 115, 131, 220, 226, 251
St Paul's School, Barnes, 197–8
Stagg, James, 200
Stalin, Joseph, 61, 62, 137, 222, 227, 232
Stalingrad, battle of (1942–3), 155
stammering, xii, 237–9, 261–7
Archer, 177–8
Druce, 265
Elliot, 2
37–8, 255, 262–3
Fennell, 238–9
George VI, vii, 3, 8–13, 20, 46, 63, 150, 170, 174, 214, 216, 226–7, 254–5, 259, 261–2
Graham, 265
Mosley, 134–5
Oerton, 258–9, 265–6
Radcliffe, 238, 266–7
Smith, 263–4
Wimbusch, 259
Stanborough Hospital, Watford, 129
Standard Coverer, 2
State Opening of Parliament
1939 41–2
1940 123–4
1941 139–40
1942 153
1943 177
1944 213–14
1945 232–4
1951 252
Staveley Road, Chiswick, 209
Stepney, London, 105, 136, 210
Streatham, London, 226
Stuka dive-bombers, 166
Sunday Express, 54, 80, 180, 217, 254–5
Sunday Pictorial, 255
Sunday Times, x, 238
Supermarine Spitfires, 101, 121
Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force (SCAEF), 197
Surgeon Apothecary, 4
Sussex Gardens, London, 6
Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, 178
Swaffer, Hannen, 241
Sweden, 102
Sydenham, London, 17, 23, 35, 122, 131–2
Sydney Morning Herald, 97
Tennyson, Alfred, 1st Baron Tennyson, 122
Thames river, 49, 131
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, 95, 254
theatres, 34, 37, 95, 124, 151, 254
Thornaby, North Yorkshire, 54
Time, 244
Times, The, 34, 96, 163, 164, 173, 179, 191, 220, 234, 259, 260
Times Literary Supplement, 93
Tirpitz, 180
Tobruk, siege of (1942),145
Tomb of the Unknown Warrior, 2
Torquay, Devon, 146, 160
Tov, 36
Tower Bridge, London, 120, 136, 206
Townsend, Peter, 13, 226
Trafalgar Square, Westminster, 241
Treetops Hotel, Kenya, 5
Trinity College, Oxford, 44
Tripoli, Libya, 170
Tromsø, Norway, 88
Truman, Harry, 222, 227–8, 232
Truscott, Lucian, 189–90
Tudor Street, City of London, 131
Tunisia, 153, 165–70, 181
Turkey, 140, 197
Twickenham, London, 34
U-boats, 31, 38, 166
Uganda, 6
Ukraine, 139
Ultra, 40
United Nations, 168
United States
1915 sinking of Lusitania, 31
1939 Germany torpedoes Athenia, 31–2; George VI’s visit, 59–60; Kennedy meets with George VI, 60; Welles visits Europe, 61
1940 re-election of Roosevelt, 130
1941 Japan attacks Pearl Harbor and Philippines, 141, 143; Germany declares war, 141; Churchill’s visit, 143
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