Castlerosse, Valentine, 105, no-16, 123, 124, 150, 227, 228–9, 230
Catholic Church, 112, 129*, 280–1, 2,87, 352, 356, 357, 366
Chamberlain, Neville, 100, 175, 178, 179, 209
Chanel, Coco, 83–5, 180, 327, 389
Channon, Chips, 121
Chaplin, Charlie, 69, 83, 165
Charles, Prince, 391
Charlotte, Princess (of Monaco), 231
Charteris, Laura, 368
Chartwell, 101, 102, 122, 188, 255, 282, 346, 353
Chasseurs Alpins, 199, 203, 205
Château de la Garoupe, Cap d’Antibes, 167, 279, 351–2, 353
Château de l’Horizon: Maxine Elliott buys land for, 1–2; building of, 2, 91–3, 94; swimming pool, 2, 92, 95,148, 236, 379; Churchill at, 4, 99,103–4,120,122–5, i27“35> 137–42,144–5,149–51.158–66, 180–4; Windsors dine at, 4,15962,181–2; Dierks commissioned to build, 88, 92; lay-out and design of, 92, 95–6; terrace, 92, 95, 98, 148, 268, 376; furnishings, 94–5; staff of retainers, 96; house-guests, 96–7, 98; non-resident guests, 97; personae gratae, 97–8; evening entertainment, 133; Edward VIII cancels holiday at, 147–8; Coward visits Maxine at (September 1939), 195–6; soldiers billeted at, 199, 236; items removed and hidden (1940), 215; German and Italian officers in, 218, 223; condition of at end of war, 221, 223–4, 235–7; as Resistance rendezvous, 224; Rosita Winston rents, 224–5, 2,30–3; Aly Khan buys, 233, 235–7; Aly Khan’s refurbishment, 236–7; and Pamela Churchill, 255, 257–8, 259, 268, 270, 278–9; and Rita Hayworth, 268, 269–70, 276–7, 293–6, 297; Aly Khan-Rita Hayworth wedding, 283–4, 287–90; Debo Devonshire at, 295–6, 315–17, 340; and Gene Tierney, 324; Juliette Gréco at, 339–40; Bettina at, 341–2, 369–70; John and Jackie Kennedy at, 367; as temporary burial site of Aly Khan, 374–5; owned by Saudi royal family, 375, 378, 379–80; Mary S. Lovells search for (2013), 377–80
Château de St Georges Motel, Dreux, 151, 190, 192–3
Château Eilenroc, Cap dAntibes, 167
Chatsworth House, 256, 259, 316
Cherkley Court, 217
Chevalier, Maurice, 214, 226, 290
Chinese super-entrepreneurs, 3
Cholmondeley, Marquess and Marchioness of, 141
Christie, Agatha, The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side, 325
Christina O (yacht), 313–14, 329, 333–4, 346, 367–8, 388
Chulalongkorn, King of Siam, 29*
Churchill, Clementine, 101,117,135, 137*, 143,145,151,158,168*; and Hartsbourne, 48–9, 51, 52; and tennis, 49, 51, 52, 82,120; death of daughter Marigold, 71–2; dislike of gambling, 82,133,164,184, 186, 299, 329; dislike of Riviera set, 82,120,122,144–5, 298, 328–9, 332, 344–6; at Château de l’Horizon, 99,120,122–3,164; dislike of Doris Castlerosse, 104, 120,144–5; and separate holidays, 127,142,158,180, 346; dislike of Wallis Simpson, 141–2, 298, 347;
shipboard romance’ on Rosaura, 142; Winston’s love for, 143,144, 145, 3335 and Pamela Churchill, 255; fortieth wedding anniversary, 298; dislike of Onassis, 329, 359; and Wendy Russell, 329, 345–8, 350; golden wedding anniversary, 368; dislike of Daisy Fellowes, 384
Churchill, Diana, 102, 132, 135
Churchill, Jennie (later Mrs George Cornwallis-West), 4, 21, 29, 31*, 37–8, 52, 240; at Hartsbourne, 49, 51, 54; death of, 71
Churchill, Lord Randolph, 21, 31*, 240
Churchill, Mary (Lady Soames), 127, 144*, 158, 347, 391
Churchill, Pamela (Pamela Digby, later Harriman): marriage to Randolph Churchill, 197, 217, 255, 280, 282, 352, 356; son of (‘little Winston’), 217, 255, 259, 278, 280*, 351, 353–4; and Aly Khan, 255, 256–8, 259, 268, 270, 278, 282, 314, 353–4; and Château de l’Horizon, 255, 257–8, 259, 268, 270, 278–9; and Winston (father-in-law), 255, 282, 352, 358–9; journalism of, 255–6; and ‘Kick’ Kennedy’s fatal flight, 258–9; and Gianni Agnelli, 278–82, 351–7, 358; and Wendy Russell rumours, 333, 347–8; and Élie de Rothschild, 357–8; moves to United States, 359, 384–5; later life (after i960), 384–7; and US Democratic Party, 385–6, 387; as United States ambassador in Paris, 386, 387
Churchill, Randolph (son of Winston), 127–8, 133, 135, 157, 180, 333, 347, 368*; birth of (1911), 51; arrogance and bumptiousness, 101–2,123; estrangement from parents, 102; and Doris Castlerosse, 105, 116, 123, 145, 227; Venice beach incident (1933), 120–2; row in print with Valentine Castlerosse, 123; marriage to Pamela Digby, 197, 217, 255, 280, 282, 352, 356; Second World War service, 211, 217
Churchill, Sarah, 99, 102, 120, 127, 188–9, ЗЗ2, 347
Churchill, Winston: beginning of political career, 32; love life as young man, 32–3; with Maxine in England, 38; at Hartsbourne, 48–9, 51, 54, 70; and aviation, 50; First Lord of the Admiralty, 56, 57, 58, 63; views on status of women, 61,164–5; and Dardanelles campaign, 67, 99, 143; First World War service, 67–8,143; death of daughter Marigold, 71–2; at Cote d’Azur in 1920S, 82; and gambling, 82,133, 138–9,164,183–4,186–7, 299, 329; as Chancellor of the Exchequer, 99; at Chateau de l’Horizon, 4, 99,103–4,120,122–5,127–35,13742,144–5,149–5E 158–66,180–4; concerns over Nazi Germany, 100,129,140,151,172–3,178–9, 180,182–3, DE 192–3; losses in 1929 financial crash, 100; as painter, 100,104–5, HE H4> 139- 40,149,151,163,186,192–3; as writer, 100,104,130–1,132–3, 135–6,149–50,159,180,183, 298, 326, 328; ill health in early 1930s, 101; estrangement from Randolph, 102; and the Aga Khan, 103–4, 124–5, 240–1; rumoured sexual liaison with Doris Castlerosse, 104,142–3,144–5; Daisy Fellowes’ attempted seduction, 117,142; on Oxford Union King and Country debate, 123; and the Windsors, 140- 2,151–3,157,158,159–63, 182–3,186, 211, 298, 299, 330, 347; rumoured sexual liaison with Maxine Elliott, 143–4; friendship with Daisy Fellowes, 157,163–4, 186–7, 312, 330, 334–5, 384; at Les Zoraides, 163–4, 312; as well regarded in France, 168*; and Munich Agreement, 178–9; and Rothermere, 184,186; returns to Cabinet (September 1939), 193; and death of Maxine Elliott, 203–4; becomes Prime Minister, 209; ‘blood, toil, tears and sweat’ speech, 209; and Pamela Churchill, 255, 282, 352, 358–9; fortieth wedding anniversary, 298; at La Capponcina, 298–9, 312, 326; suffers strokes, 299, 312; Margate speech (1953), 313; at La Pausa, 326, 328–35, 344–6; and Onassis, 329, 333–4, 346–7, 348, 349, 350; Wendy Russell rumours, 331, 332–3, 345, 346, 347–8; split with the Reveses, 347–51; unimpressed with John F. Kennedy, 368; History of the English-Speaking Peoples, i80, 326; ; The Second World War (six volumes), 298, 328; Step by Step, 191
Churchill Club, Westminster, 255
Ciano, Galeazzo, 178
Clinton, Bill, 386
Cocteau, Jean, 2
Cohn, Harry, 276, 381
Colebrooke, Lady Alex, 32, 74*, 78
Colefax, Sybil, 154–5, 170, 216–17
Collier, Constance, 39, 68–9
Congo Free State, 353*
Connaught, Duke of, 352*
Coombe Cottage, 40, 43
Cooper, Duff, 119, 150, 216, 282; serial philandering of, 117–18, 119–20, 232; resigns over Munich Agreement, 179; as British ambassador to France, 232, 300, 311; Old Men Forget (autobiography), 311
Cooper, Gary, 192
Cooper, Gladys, 165
Cooper, Lady Diana, 49, 72, 104, 119, 150, 166, 216, 217, 232*, 300*; and Daisy Fellowes, 117–18, 119–20; curtsies to Duchess of Windsor, 181–2, 300; at British Embassy in Paris, 300, 311
Cornwallis-West, George, 31*, 49, 52, 71*, 198
Cornwallis-West, Shelagh, 83
Corrigan, Laura, 149, 216
Costa Smeralda, 375
Cote d’Azur: main Cannes-Antibes road, 1–2, 86, 91; railway services, 1–2, 86, 91–2; becomes summer holiday location, 2–3, 96; American residents in post-war years, 3, 225–6; house prices, 3; suntans as new fashion, 84–5; during phoney-war period, 197–201; Italian air force sorties over, 214–15; wartime food shortages, 217–18, 219; German and Italian occupation of, 218–19; Allied landing at St Tropez (1944), 220; post-war rich set, 224–7, 230–2; post-war poverty in, 225, 331; post-war absence of
British aristocracy, 226; and Russian oligarchs, 352*; today’s smart set, 376; see also entries for individual houses and places
Cover Girl (Charles Vidor film, 1944), 264
Coward, Noël, 74, 80, 81, 87, 133, 188, 300, 306, 347–8; on Gertrude Lawrence, 106–7; Private Lives, 106–7, 115; ‘I Went to a Marvellous Party’ (song), 172; in Cannes (September 1939), 194–6; at La Pausa, 332–3
Cox, Ethyl, 82*
Creole (yacht), 359
Crewe, Peggy, Marchioness of, 137
Cripps, Violet, 132
Cunard, Emerald, 120–1, 216, 255
Curzon, Cynthia see Mosley, Cynthia (‘Cimmie’)
Curzon, Irene, 93
Curzon, Lord, 50, 70, 125, 157
Cust, Harry, 119
Czechoslovakia, 175, 178, 191
Daladier, Edouard, 178
Daly, Augustin, 20
Daly’s Theatre, Leicester Square, 20–1, 22
Dauvray, Helen, 14 Davis Cup tennis tournament, 52, 53, 57, 58
Delavigne, Edward ‘Dudley’, 171*
Delevingne, Cara, 109
Delevingne, Dudley (brother of Doris), 158
Dengler, Dr, 142 Derby, Lord, 164
Dermot, Adelaide, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, 14
Dermot, Gertrude see Forbes-Robertson, Gertrude (sister of Maxine Elliott)
Dermot, Jessica (Dettie) see Elliott, Maxine
Dermot, Tom, 7, 8–10, 11, 13–14, 15, 39
Devonshire, Debo, Duchess of, 170, 258§, 295–6, 315–17, 318, 340–1, 374
Devonshire, Duke of, 256, 259, 295†
Diana, Princess of Wales, 198*
Dierks, Barry, 2, 86–8, 92–3, 94–5, 98, 141, 152, 188, 194, 306; and death of Maxine Elliott, 203; in French Resistance, 224
Dietrich, Marlene, 214*
Digby, Jane, 354
Dillingham, Charles B., In Her Own Way, 33*, 36–7
Disraeli, Benjamin (Earl of Beaconsfield), 35
Dodero, Alberto, 266
Donahue, Jessie, 302–3, 309
Donahue, Jimmy, 303–6, 307–9
Dorchester Hotel, Park Lane, 216–17, 228, 230, 255
Douglas, Lord Cecil, 149
Douglas-Home, William, 367, 368
Dragonwyck (Joseph L. Mankiewicz film, 1946), 325
Drew, John, 24
Drogheda, 10th Earl of, 49–50, 57
Drogheda, Kathleen, 49–50, 63–4, 68*, 72, 198
du Maurier, Daphne, 107†
du Maurier, Gerald, 52, 107†
Dudley, William Ward, 3rd Earl of, 368*
Duke, Doris, 121–2, 226
Duncan, Isadora, 80
Dzerzhinsky, Felix, 166
Eden, Anthony, 140,162,175, 209–10
Eden Roc, Antibes, 93, 177–8, 226, 230, 351, 368
Ednam Lodge, near Sunningdale, 300–1
Edvina, Madame Louise, 189
Edward VII, King, 31, 33–4, 37, 4ï-3, 44–5, 47,148, 160
Edward VIII, King see Windsor, Duke of (formerly Prince of Wales, King Edward VIII)
Egypt, 219–20, 243, 257, 264, 296, 344
Elba, Duke of, 74*
Elizabeth, Queen (wife of George VI), 168, 175, 212
Elizabeth II, Queen, 312
Elliott, Maxine: buys land for l’Horizon, 1–2; sees potential of Riviera, 1–2, 3; and Murphy set, 2; friendship with Jennie Churchill, 4, 2i, 29, 49, 71; spoiling of Churchill, 4,103–4,128,132,158, 159,160,180,183,184, 377; early life (as Jessica Dermot), 7–8, 9, 10–16; physical appearance, 8, 10, h, 14–15, 21, 24, 32, 36, 69, 95; marries George McDermott, 12, 55; acting career, 15–17,19–26, 27–8, 30, 36–7, 38–9, 40–1, 44, 55, 68–9; changes name to Maxine Elliott, 16; divorces McDermott, 22–3, 25; moves to California, 22–3; depression, 26, 70, 73, 80, 166,167; marries Nat Goodwin, 26, 55; return to England, 26–7; marriage problems with Goodwin, 29–30, 31, 33–4; as good with money, 30, 37, 56, 82, 85,184; receives George Keppel, 31–2; meets the King, 33–4; turns down Rosebery, 35; separates from Goodwin, 36; integration into aristocracy, 38,137,138; loses touch with family, 39; Goodwin divorces, 39–40; in Marienbad, 41–3; and Tony Wilding, 51–7, 59, 60*, 62, 63, 64, 66,143; First World War service, 61–8, 69,143; and death of Tony Wilding, 66, 68–9, 71; film career, 69; weight of, 69, 73, 92–3, 98,166,189,197; at Abbey Road, Maida Vale, 73, 80; as bridge player, 73, 81; lives in Paris, 80, 81; moves permanently to Riviera, 85–6; drop in income due to recession, 134–5; rumoured sexual liaison with Churchill, 143–4; view on the abdication, 159–60; Windsors dine at Chateau de PHorizon, 159–62,181; attitude to homosexuality, 187–8; and planned house at Chartwell, 188; ill health in final months of life, 189–91,192,195–6,197–8, 200; Coward visits (September 1939), 195–6; and Second World War, 197–200; death of (5 March 1940), 202–4; funeral of, 204–5; estate and bequests, 205; correspondence destroyed, 205–6
Elliott Theatre Company, New York, 40–1, 134
D’Erlanger, Baroness, 38
Ethiopian crisis, 140
Evans, Henry Arthur, 139
Evans, Violet, 365*
Fairbanks, Douglas, 149
Fanny (Maxine Eliott’s maid), 189, 196, 199, 202–3, 206, 215, 223, 224
Fath, Jacques, 278, 287, 314, 341
Feilding, Lady Dorothie, 65
Fellowes, Daisy, 104, 116–19, 154, 157, 171, 189, 252–3, 312, 330–1; attempted seduction of Churchill, 117, 142; affair with Duff Cooper, 117–18, 119–20; and Les Zoraides, 119, 155, 162, 163–4, ï86, 312, 330; and gambling, 186–7; dislike of Wendy Russell, 334–5, 345; later life (after i960), 384
Fellowes, Reggie, 117, 163, 164, 186, 312, 384
Fellowes-Gordon, Dorothy ‘Dickie’, 74–5, 261, 389
Ferdinand, Archduke Franz, 47*, 56
First World War, 58–60, 61–70, 143, 185; lead up to, 47*, 56–7; outbreak of, 57–8; Dardanelles campaign, 67, 99, 143
Fisher, Eddie, 369–70
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 80, 352*; Tender is the Night, 2, 83
Fitzgerald, Zelda, 2, 80, 83, 352
Fitzwilliam, Peter, 258–9
Flandin, Pierre Etienne, 172
Florida, 302, 303
Flynn, Errol, 279, 330
Fontaine, Joan, 314
Forbes-Robertson, Gertrude (sister of Maxine Elliott), 19–20, 22, 24, 25, 26, 28–9, 64, 73, 82, 96; marries ‘Forbie’, 29; birth of daughter Blossom, 30–1; birth of second daughter, 38
Forbes-Robertson, Jean (niece of Maxine Elliott), 149
Forbes-Robertson, Johnston (‘Forbie’), 22, 29, 30–1, 38, 64*, 71*, 73> 96
Ford, Glenn, 284, 381
Fort Belvedere, Virginia Water, 168, 183, 210
Forward, Sir Dudley, 300–1
Fowler, John, 154*
Francis of Teck, Prince, 38
French, Sir John, 64
Frogmore House, Windsor Great Park, 168, 391, 392
Furneaux, Margaret, 49 Furness, Enid, 228
Gable, Clark, 262, 330
Gabor, Zsa Zsa, 315
Gandhi, Mahatma, 165
Garbo, Greta, 226, 330
Garland, Judy, 303*
de Gaulle, Charles, 214*
George, Duke of Kent, 365*, 368*
George V, King, 48, 51
George VI, King, 175, 212, 302; state visits to Paris, 168, 175
Ghislaine, Princess, 232–3
The Ghost and Mrs Muir (Joseph L. Mankiewicz film, 1947), 317
Gilbert, Sir Martin, 135
Gilbert, W.S., 27
Gilda (Charles Vidor film, 1946), 263, 264, 284–5, 381
Givenchy, 341
Gloucester, Duke of, 179
Goebbels, Joseph, 180
Goldwyn, Sam, 69
golf, 38, 56, 82, 163
Golfe Juan, 86
Goodwin, Nat, 23–8, 29–30, 31, 33–4, 36, З9–40, 50–1, 55
Gordon-Lennox, Lady, 38
Gorizia (Aly Khan’s house at Deauville), 290, 353–4
Graham, Mrs Lee Eleanor, 41, 42
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p; Grand, Major Gordon, 248–9
Grant, Cary, 351
Great Famine, Irish, 9–10
Gréco, Juliette, 339–40
Greenwood, Angela, 171*
Greville, Mrs Ronnie, 32, 37
Gstaad, Switzerland, 238, 291–2
Guggenheim, Peggy, 171, 229*
Guinness, Beatrice, 93
Guinness, Bryan, 120, 121
Gustav V, King of Sweden, 53
Halifax, Lord, 210
Hall, Arthur, 10–11, 12, 14
Hamilton, Hamish, 149
Hamilton, Sir Ian, 77
Haran, Shifra, 263, 269, 270
Harriman, Averell, 217, 255, 351, 385
Harris, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur ‘Bomber’, 223, 224
Hartington, William ‘Billy’ Cavendish, Marquess of, 256
Hartsbourne (country estate at Bushey), 43–5, 48–50, 53–4, 66, 69–71, 72–3, 74
Haslam, Nicholas, 306
Haxton, Frederick, 87*
Haxton, Gerald, 202
Haymes, Dick, 323*, 381–2
Hayward, Leland, 385
Hayworth, Rita: film career, 263, 264–5, 275–6 284–5, 381, 382; marriage to Orson Welles, 263, 264, 266, 270, 287; character of, 263–4, 271, 276, 293–4; meets Aly Khan, 264–8; relationship with Aly Khan, 265–71, 275–8, 282, 341, 352–3; daughter Rebecca, 266, 271, 275, 276, 288–9, 291, 383; at Chateau de l’Horizon, 268, 269–70, 276–7, 293–6, 297; in Spain with Aly Khan, 271–4, 278, 282, 285; marries Aly Khan (27 May 1949), 283–90; birth of daughter Yasmin, 290- 1; married life with Aly, 291- 2, 293–7, 320; end of marriage to Aly Khan, 297–8, 311, 314, 323, 326; marries Dick
Haymes, 323*, 381–2; later life (after i960), 381–3
Heaven can Wait (Ernst Lubitsch film, 1943), 317
Heber Percy, Robert, 150
Hemingway, Ernest, 80–1, 136
Henie, Sonja, 226
Henry, Prince, 71
Herbert, David, 131
Herbert, Mary, 166–7
Heston, Charlton, 382
Highclere Castle, 38 Hill, James, 382
Hitler, Adolf, 129, 175, 178, 247; at Mosley’s wedding, 180; support for amongst British elites, 180, 185–6; Duke of Windsor cables (28 August 1939), 193
Hoath (chauffeur), 50
Hoffman, Margot Flick, 157–8, 170, 227, 229
Hofmannsthal, Elizabeth von, 295Ф
Hohenlohe, Stephanie von, 185–6
Holiday for Lovers (Henry Levin film, 1959), 383
Hopkins, Harry, 228
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