Hore-Belisha, Leslie, 139
Houssay, Henry, 132
Howard-Vyse, Major-General Sir Richard, 213
de Hoz, Madame Martinez, 295Ф
Hughes, Howard, 324
Hutton, Barbara, 226, 303
îles de Lérins, 194–5
Inches (Churchill’s butler), 127, 135
India, 125, 136, 239, 240, 253, 257
Irving, Sir Henry, 17, 22, 27, 29
Ismaili Muslims, 238–9, 241, 253, 286, 290, 317, 322–3, 339, 340, 362, 392; Aly Khan’s travels, 251–2, 296–7, 371–2, 374; and Salamiyah (Syrian village), 251–2, 374–5; Aly bypassed for succession, 343–4, 363–4, 371–2
Italy, 201, 204; declares war on France and Britain, 214–15; Zone of Occupation in France, 215, 218–19; occupied zone in France as refuge for Jews, 219
Ivy (Sam Wood film, 1947), 390
Iznaga, Consuelo, 29
Jackwood (country house at Shooters Hill), 26–7, 30–1, 40
James, Edward, 121
James, Mrs Arthur, 42–3
de Janzé, Phyllis, 109
jazz music, 79, 80
Jersey, Lady, 38
Jerusalem, 136
Joan, Princess (née the Hon Joan Yarde-Buller), 237, 245, 254, 270–1
Joy (perfume), 81
Juan-les-Pins, 98, 225, 376
Jules (Maxine’s chauffeur), 181, 206, 215, 223, 224, 235, 236
Julia (barge), 63–8
Jungman, Theresa ‘Baby’, 93
Jungman, Zita, 93
Kama Sutra, 257
Kamenev, Lev, 166
Karim, Prince (now Aga Khan IV), 237†, 254, 286, 321, 343–4, 363, 371–2, 375, 392–3
HMS Kelly, 211
Kelly, Grace (Princess Grace of Monaco), 278, 329–30, 388
Kennedy, Bobby, 177–8
Kennedy, Jackie, 365–8
Kennedy, John F., 303, 325, 365–8
Kennedy, Joseph, 177–8, 258, 366–7
Kennedy, Kathleen ‘Kick’, 256, 257, 258–9, 295*, 367
Kent, Prince George, Duke of, 198
Keppel, Alice, 31, 32, 33, 37, 47, 48, 78, 160, 204
Keppel, Honourable George, 31–2, 48, 204
Kiki (lemur), 128
Kitchener, Lord, 64
Kraus, Alfred, 312
La Candé, near Tours, 155, 156
La Capponcina (villa at Cap d’Ail), 298–9, 312, 326, 344, 346, 350, 368
La Croë, Château de, Cap d’Antibes, 155, 182–3, 262, 284, 293, 298, 299, 378; secluded situation of, 154, 167; Windsors sign two-year lease on, 167; design and lay-out of, 168–9; Wallis decorates and refurbishes, 168–70; Windsors purchase, 176; and Second World War, 193–4, 2,11, 2H> 301–2; sold by Windsors, 309, 31E 359, 391
La Dragonnière, Monte Carlo (Rothermere’s villa), 184, 186 La Léopolda (villa at Villefranche), 280, 353–4, 357
La Mauresque (Maugham’s house
at Cap Ferrât), 86–7, 88, 154, 176–7
La Pausa (villa built for Coco
Chanel), 84, 180, 326–35, 344–6
Labour government, 301
Labrousse, Yvette (Begum, wife of Aga Khan), 243–5, 252_3> 283–4, 316–17, 318, 342> З75; dislike of Aly, 245, 252, 254–5, 317, 343; guest at Aly-Rita Hayworth wedding, 286, 287, 288; as Karims mentor, 343–4
Ladbrooke (Windsors’ chauffeur), 213, 215
Lamarr, Hedy, 383
Lancaster, John, 251, 259, 374
Lansdowne House, London, 35
Laura (Otto Preminger film, 1944), 317
Lausanne, Switzerland, 290–1
Lavery, Sir John, 104–5
Lawrence, Gertrude, 105–7, 115
Le Trident, Villa (Dierks’ house at Theoule-sur-Mer), 87–8
League of Nations, 144, 240, 363–4
Leave Her to Heaven (John M. Stahl film, 1945), 317
Lee, W. Howard, 383
Leigh, Vivien, 166
Leith, George Esslemont Gordon, 82*
Lenin, V.I., 165–6
Leopold II, King of Belgium, 280, 353
Les Zoraides (Daisy Fellowes’s villa at Cap Martin), 119, 155, 162, 163–4, 186, 312, 330
Leyte (US aircraft carrier), 231
Lillie, Beatrice, 172, 177
Lindemann, Professor Frederick, 132, 135, 180–1
Littoral Méditerranée (Coastal Footpath), 380
Lloyd George, David, 70, 125, 160, 161, 162, 164
Lloyd George, Megan, 162
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 222, 246, 362, 364
Lollobrigida, Gina, 314
London, 20–2, 26, 27–8, 37–8, 41, 351; Lansdowne House, 35; Abbey Road, Maida Vale, 73, 80; Doris’s Park Lane apartment, 108; during phoney-war period, 200; 16 Wilton Place, 212; the Blitz, 216; Dorchester Hotel, Park Lane, 216–17, 228, 230, 255; society during Second World War, 216–17; Ritz hotel, 240
‘The Londoner’s Log’ {Sunday Express), 1l2
Long, 2nd Viscount, 368*
Losch, Tilly, 121
The Loves of Carmen (King Vidor film), 284
Lutyens, Sir Edwin, 188
Lytton, Lord, 33
MacDonald, Ramsay, 173
Macmillan, Harold, 295
Madresfield Court, Worcestershire, 109
Maginot Line, 150, 190
Maisons-Laffitte, Château, 237
Manners, Lady Diana see Cooper, Lady Diana
Marbury, Elisabeth ‘Bessy’, 75–6,131*
Marconi, Guglielmo, 165
Margaret, Princess, 315
Margaret, Princess, of Sweden, 166
Marie of Romania, 165
Marienbad, 41–3
Marlborough, Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of (‘Sunny’), 80, 143, 282, 313 Marlborough, Consuelo, Duchess of, 77, 82, 117, 151, 190, 313
Marlborough, John Churchill, ist Duke of, 99
Marshall Plan, 225*
Mary, Queen, 38, 48, 204, 212
The Mating Season (Mitchell Leisen film, 1951), 317
Maugham, W. Somerset, 80, 188, 194, 307, 313, 332; La Mauresque (house at Cap Ferrât), 86–7, 88, 154, 176–7; and Second World War, 201, 202, 215, 216; post-war return to Riviera, 227
Maxine Elliott’s Theatre, New York, 40–1, 134, 205
Maxwell, Elsa, 2, 74, 171, 172, 326, 337, 365; as pianist and singer, 73–4, 75, 104, 133, 262; friendship with Dickie, 74–5, 261, 389; as party organiser, 75, 77–80, 261, 262–3, 264, 265, 305; in post-WWi Paris, 75, 76–80, 81, 82; at Château de l’Horizon, 97–8, 103–4, H3> 231, 268, 270; at Auribeau, 261–2; and the Windsors, 262, 305; and Rita Hayworth, 263, 264, 265, 266, 268, 289; later life (after i960), 387–9
Maze, Paul, 136, 192–3
McCorquodale, Raine, 198*
McDermott, George, 11–12, 14, 55
Melba, Nellie, 27, 40
Mendl, Sir Charles, 77*, 131–2, 181, 231, 300*, 390
Meneghini, Giovanni, 387, 388
Mentmore (country house in Buckinghamshire), 35
Messel, Oliver, 121
Metcalfe, Alexandra ‘Baba’, 156–7, 193–4, 210, 211
Metcalfe, Edward Dudley ‘Fruity’, 156–7, 193–4, 210, 212, 214
Milbanke, Ralph (Toby), 131
Miles, Blossom (niece of Maxine Elliott), 30–1, 72, 176, 204–6, 215
Miles, Frederick G., 176, 204–5
Minterne Magna, 281
Mirza, Major General Iskandar, 361
Mistinguett (Folies Bergère star), 315
Mitford, Clementine, 115*
Mitford, Jack, 151
Mitford, Nancy, 150†, 210, 252–3, 311, 333
Mitford, Tom, 107, 120, 121
Moir, Phyllis, 130–1
Moles worth, Lady, 38
Molyneux, Edward, 332, 333
Mombasa, 297
Monaco, 231, 329–30
Monckton, Sir Walter, 210–11
Monroe, Marilyn, 264
Montagu, William, 28–9
Montague Browne, Anthony, 328, 329, 331, 332–3, 347, 348, 349
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Montand, Yves, 288
Monte Carlo, 184, 186–7, 316, 327; Sporting Club, 182, 185, 269; Hôtel de Paris, 349, 350
Moran, Lord, 328, 334
Morgan, J.P., 37, 38, 40, 50, 56
Mosley, Cynthia (‘Cimmie’), 70, 71, 93–4, 120, 121
Mosley, Diana (née Mitford, Diana Guinness), 120, 122, 295Ф, 333, 391; affair with Mosley, 93, 121, 123; marries Mosley, 180; arrest of (June 1940), 210
Mosley, Oswald (Tom), 70–1, 77, 93, 120, 121, 123, 180, 210
Moulin Rouge (John Huston film, 315
Mountbatten, Lady Edwina, 108, 166
Mountbatten, Lord, 166, 211
Moyne, Lord, 142, 210
Muller, Robert, 248
Munich Agreement (1938), 178–9
Murphy, Charles J.V., 226–7, 307*
Murphy, Gerald and Sara, 2, 80, 82–3
Murrow, Ed, 255
Mussolini, Benito, 136, 140, 175, 178, 191, 201, 219, 279*
Nahlin (yacht), 150
Napier, Lord Alington, 137
Napoleon Bonaparte, 132
Nazi Germany, 100,129,140,151, 155*, 161,172–3,180; treatment of Jews, 151,153,175,184, 214*, 219; Anschluss (1938), 175; military manoeuvres (August 1938), 175–6; invasion of Czechoslovakia, 191; Hitler-Stalin pact (August 1939), 193; invasion of Poland, 193
Nelson, Violet, 83
Neuilly, 340
New York, 11–12, 15–16, 22, 36–7, 40–1, 101, 134, 227; the Four Hundred, 31–2; Colony Club, 76, 77; Pakistan House, 364; Aly Khan in, 364–6, 367, 368–9, 370, 371; April in Paris charity ball, 388
newspapers, 151, 184–5, 276–7, 286–7, 2,89
newsreels, 145, 250–1, 253, 288–9
Niarchos, Stavros, 309, 359, 372
Nice, 192, 201, 215, 319
Nicolson, Harold, 170, 176–7
Niven, David, 264
Norman, Sir Henry Sir Henry, 167
Northcliffe, Alfred Harmsworth, ist Viscount, 184–5
Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock film, 1946), 390
Novak, Kim, 342
Oakland, California, 13, 22
Oberon, Merle, 192
Oliver, Vic, 189
Onassis, Aristotle, 266, 313–14, 329, 333–4, 349, З50, 359, 367–8; and Maria Callas, 314*, 387, 388; and Caribbean cruise with Churchills, 346–7, 348
Onassis, Athina (Tina), 313, 314*, 387, 388
Ottoboni, Princess Julia, 189
Oxford Union King and Country debate (1933), 123
Paget sisters, 38
Paine, Isabella ‘Belle’, 13
Pakistan, 239, 322–3, 361–5, 367, 368–9, 370, 371–2
Palewski, Gaston, 253, 309
Palffy, Countess (Louise ‘Loulou’ Lévêque de Vilmorin), 232*
Palmer, Albert Marshman, 16
Papas, Irene, 314
Paravicini, Liza, 176
Paris, 41, 76–9, 80–1, 108, 158–9, 168, 181–2; Ritz hotel, 75, 77, 78, 116, 117, 124, 127, 142, 181, 388; flat in Avenue Saint-Honoré-d’Eylau, 81, 205t; Hôtel Meurice, 158–9, 179–80; Churchill in (January 1939), 180–1; Windsors dine at German embassy (June 1939), 192; Windsors return to (September 1939), 212–13; Trianon Palace Hotel, 213; fall of (June 1941), 214; Nazi occupation of, 247; Aly Khan’s annual summer ball, 256–7, 370; Festival of Stars at the Tuileries, 290; Windsors’ house on Bois de Boulogne, 299–300; post-war shortages, 300; Aly Khan’s house in Bois de Boulogne, 341; and Pamela Churchill, 351, 358; Windsors’ later life in, 391–2
Parker, Dorothy, 2
Parsons, Louella, 289
Parsons, Michael, Earl of Rosse, 122
Patou, Jean, 80, 81
Pearman, Violet (Churchill’s secretary), 127, 130, 135
Pearson, John, Citadel of the Heart, 142
Penman, Mary (Churchill’s secretary), 181, 183, 187
Peron, Eva, 226
Persia, Queen Soraya of, 339, 367
Persia, Shah of, 266
Personal Affair (Anthony Pelissier film, 1953), 323
Pétain, Marshal, 214, 215
Phipps, Sir Eric, 181
Picasso, Pablo, 2, 80, 83, 85, 285
Pierre, Prince (Count Pierre de Polignac), 231–2
Plowden, Pamela, 32–3
Poland, 193
de Polignac, Prince Edmond, 78*, 232
de Polignac, Princess Edmond (‘Winnie’ Singer), 78
Poltimore, Lord, 43
de Portago, Marquis Alfonso, 279
Portarlington, Winnifreda Yuill, Countess of, 72, 167, 187, 198
Porter, Cole, 2, 74, 77–8, 77*, 80, 171, 352*
Portland (ship), 13
Post, Gunilla von, 366 Power, Tyrone, 192, 230, 262
Queen Mary (liner), 304
Radziwill, Prince Stanislaus, 368
Rahim, Prince (son of Karim), 392
Ranier, Prince, 278, 329–30
Ratendone, Viscount, 122–3
Raya, Nita, 214
Rehan, Ada, 20–1
Reves, Emery, 326–8, 331–2, 334, 345, 347–51
Reynolds, Debbie, 369
Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 151, 178, 248
Rio de Janeiro, 340–1
Ritaly cocktail, 288*
Ritchie, Josiah, 51*
Riviera, French see Côte d’Azur
Robeson, Paul, 2
Rockland, Maine, 7–9, 10–11, 12–13
Rogers, Herman and Katherine, 152, 155, 156, 158
Romilly, Esmond, 102–3, 136
Romilly, Nellie, 102
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 228
Rootes, William, 150
Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, 84, 180, 326–35
Rosaura (yacht), 142,180
Rosebery, Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of, 32, 34–5, 40, 50, 137*
Rothermere, Lord (Harold Harmsworth), 151, 162, 184–6
de Rothschild, Alfred, 38, 40
de Rothschild, Baron and Baroness Guy, 372
de Rothschild, Baron Eugene, 129*, 153
de Rothschild, Baron Maurice, 79
de Rothschild, Élie, 357–8, 372
de Rothschild, Hannah, 35
de Rothschild, Kitty, 128–9, 153, 179
de Rothschild, Liliane, 358 de Rothschild, Madame Marie-Anne Goldsmith, 151
Route Napoléon, 132, 134, 135
Royal Dublin Horse Show, 246
Royal Navy, 176
Royat (town in Puy-de-Dôme), 191, 192
Rubdiydt of Omar Khayyam, 241
Rubirosa, Porfirio ‘Baby’, 279, 372
Russell, Wendy, 326–7, 328, 331–3, 334–5, 345’ 347–51
Russian oligarchs, 3, 352*
Rutland, Henry Manners, 8th Duke of (formerly Marquess of Granby), 38, 49
Sadruddin (Sadri, son of Aga Khan), 238, 242, 244, 245, 286, 318, 321
Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, 149, 188–9
Saint-Paul-de-Vence, 139
Salamiyah (Syrian village), 251–2, 374–5
Salimah Aga Khan, Princess (Sally Croker-Poole), 392
San Francisco, California, 23, 38–9
San Remo, Hotel Royal, 318–22
Sandwich, Lord, 38
Sanford, Stephen ‘Laddie’, 108
Sarfatti, Margherita, 219
Sarkozy, Nicolas, 392
Sassoon, Sir Philip, 127, 141
Sawyer, Colonel Eric, 87, 93
Schiaparelli, Elsa, 118, 231, 389
Schloss Enzesfeld (near Vienna), 153
Scotland, 47 Seagrim, Anne, 308*
Searle, Allan, 87*
Second World War: Charles Bedaux’s collaboration, 155*; approach of, 171, 172–3, 175–6, 1:78–9, 182–3, 191–3; outbreak of, 193–4, 200; French general mobilisation, 199, 201; French Communist Party banned, 199–200; German advance of Spring 1940 period, 209, 210,
Second World War – continued 213; Dunkirk evacuations, 210; the Windsors during, 210–14; fall of Paris (June 1941), 214; Battle of Britain, 216; Luftwaffe attacks on British cities, 216; London society during, 216–17; Ope
ration Torch (1942), 218; United States joins, 218, 227; and Aly Khan, 219–22, 245–6, 247–50; post-war rationing, 254, 301; French Resistance, 312, 327; Jewish refugees, 327
Seville, 273–4
Shaw, George Bernard, 21, 71*, 76
Sheean, Diana (niece of Maxine Elliott), 136, 137, 148–9, 159, 160, 161, 162–3, 182
Sheean, Vincent, 136–8, 140, 144, 148–9, 159, 161–2, 182
Sheridan, Clare, 164–7
Sherman, Admiral, 262–3
Simon, John, 173
Simpson, Wallis see Windsor, Duchess of (Wallis Simpson)
Sinatra, Frank, 330
Sinclair, Archibald, 65, 67
Sister Anne (yacht), 119
Smirke, Charlie, 256†
Smith, F.E. (later Earl of Birkenhead), 49, 54, 57, 70, 101, 165
Snow, C.P., 308*
South Hartfield House, Ashdown Forest, 211–12
Soviet Union, 193
Spanish Civil War, 136–7,148,182–3
Spanish Flu epidemic (1918–19), 80
Spears, Edward Louis, 67–8
Spry, Constance, 389
St Moritz, 81,158, 238
Steibel, Victor, 105
Storrs, Sir Ronald, 78
Strathair (ocean liner), 150
Streitz, Robert, 327
Sudeley, Elizabeth, Lady, 270
Sudeten Germans, 175, 178
Sutherland, ‘Geordie’, 5th Duke of, 65, 158, 198*
Sutherland, Joan, 388
Sutherland, Millicent, Duchess of, 61, 72, 122–3, 143, 158*, 198, 204
Swanson, Gloria, 366
Sykes, Sir Richard/Philip, 121–2
Syria, 219
Taylor, Elizabeth, 342, 369–70
tennis, 49, 51–3, 54–5, 56, 57, 58, 82, 120,163, 324
Terry, Ellen, 22
Theoule-sur-Mer, 87–8
Tierney, Gene, 317–18, 323–6, 337–9, 34E 383
Todd, Mike, 342, 369
Toledo, Spain, 273
Trianon, Villa, Versailles, 76, 77, 131*, 167, 300*, 389, 390
Trotsky, Leon, 166
Trundle, Guy, 306
Tunney, Gene, 81
unemployment, 129
Vallauris, 199–200, 285–6, 380; Ramie pottery, 237
Venice, 120–2, 387; Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, 170, 227, 229
Versailles Peace Conference (1918–19), 70, 75, 117
Vichy France, 214, 218, 262; Italian Zone of Occupation, 215; German and Italian occupation of, 218–19
Vickers, Hugo, 74*
Victor Emmanuel, King of Italy, 193
Victoria, Queen, 239–40
Vidor, King, 284, 286
Villa Jane-Andrée, Cap d Antibes, 221–2
Villa le Roc, 140–1
Villa Lou Viei, 152, 153, 154, 156, 158–9
Villefranche, 266*, 268, 269, 353
Wall Street Crash (1929), 85, 100, 129
Wallace, Mrs Euan, 182 Walpole, Sir Robert, 141*
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