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Creech Jones, Arthur, 74 & n5
Creech Jones, Violet (née Tidman), 74 & n5
Crete: PLF in, x, xv, 3n; Communists oppose wartime memorial plaque, 175; battle anniversaries celebrated, 192, 208, 273, 276; PLF revisits with Joan, 202; PLF returns to for funeral, 235
Cribbins, Bernard, 93n1
Crichel, Dorset, 286
Cryssovelóni, Nicky, 82
Csáky, Count Alex, 279 & n2, 287, 297n1
Cuban crisis (1962), 93n1, 332
Daily Mail: interview with PLF, 249 & n1 Daily Telegraph: PLF writes for, 261 & n1, 267, 276
Dartmoor, 24–5
de Courcy, Anne, 335 & n2
de Guingand, Major-General Sir Francis (‘Freddie’), 72 & n9
Delamere, Diana, Lady (née Caldwell), 280 & n3
De La Warr, Herbrand Sackville, 9th Earl, 283 & n4
Delves Broughton, Sir John (‘Jock’), 281n3
d’Erlanger, Zoë, 320 & n6
Desmond, Michael, 47 & n1, 50, 53
de Vesci of Abbeyleix, Ivo Richard Vesey, 5th Viscount, 11n7
Devlin, Bernadette (later McAliskey), 131 & n4
Devon, 23–5
Devonshire, Amanda, Duchess of (née Heywood-Lonsdale), 250 & n2
Devonshire, Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of: engagement and marriage to DD, ix, xix; succeeds to dukedom and inherits Chatsworth, x, xx, 11n2; war service in Coldstream Guards, xix, 112 & n1; PLF’s appreciation of, xx; at Lismore, 9 & n2, 216; invents brain-sharpener, 15n1; maiden speech in Lords, 29 & n1; friendship with Cyril Connolly, 41n1; appears on Brains Trust, 48; love of walking, 49–50; friendship with Tom Egerton, 59n1; lost in Greece, 70n4; as Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Commonwealth Relations, 71 & n1; attends President Kennedy’s inauguration, 77–9; visits USA, 93; attends Kennedy’s funeral, 98; visits Kenya, 98; in Fishmongers Company, 106 & n1; loses government post, 106; complains of taxes, 111; accompanies PLF on trip to Peru, 117 & n1, 119; in hospital for alcohol cure, 119 & n1, 211; on expedition to Pindus Mountains (Greece) with PLF, 122, 124–6, 129–30, 132, 134–5, 140; colour-blindness, 132; affection for Harold Acton, 143; security guard in Ireland, 145 & n1; proposes Persia trip to PLF, 159; travels in Pyrenees with PLF, 160–9; proposes walk through southern France into Spain, 170 & n3; illness at Lismore, 188; insists on leaving Prince of Wales’s wedding, 197; PLF dedicates book to, 207, 276 & n3; recovers from alcoholism, 211; fishing in Ireland, 224; visits Constantinople with Anne Tree, 243; recovers from hip replacement, 299 & n2; at Daphne Fielding’s 90th birthday, 301; at Pratt’s Club, 313; ageing, 338, 340; final illness and death, 342 & n1, 343; funeral and service, 343–5; commemorative exhibition at Chatsworth, 362; Accidents of Fortune, 78n1
Devonshire, Deborah, Duchess of (née Mitford): upbringing, ix; PLF first meets, ix, xv, xix; apolitical stance, xi; letter-writing, xi–xiii; article on PLF’s 85th birthday, xv–xviii, 330n2; PLF’s article on 80th birthday, xix–xxiii; opens shops at Chatsworth, xxiii, 271 & n9; writing, xxiii, 16, 176, 178, 197, 238, 248, 252, 351; in nursing home after operations, 3n, 91; supposed non-reading, 3n, 60–1, 146, 243, 266; PLF’s attachment to, 9, 14; and birth of daughter Sophia, 27; visits PLF in Paris, 37; shooting, 49, 52, 78, 80, 109, 110, 211; thumb, 57 & n7; visits PLF in Italy, 58–9; at official dinners, 73–4; attends President Kennedy’s inauguration, 77–9; portrayed in Nancy’s Don’t Tell Alfred, 88n2; attends Kennedy’s funeral, 98; breeds and shows Shetland ponies, 112; as President of Royal Smithfield Show, 112n2, 147; stock-breeding interests, 117, 120; sheepdog handling, 156 & n1, 158; sends puzzles to PLF, 171–2; attends charity opera performance, 177–8; whistling, 177; book launched, 203–4; PLF dedicates book to, 207, 276 & n3; stays at Sandringham, 211–12; on board of Tarmac, 224–5; visits USA, 225, 228, 249, 251; bequest from Marion Buckland, 250 & n1; speaks at literary lunch, 266; book reviewing, 275, 309; speaking voice, 275; visits France with Prince of Wales, 289; lists ‘pin-ups’ for The Oldie, 310 & n1; sends photographs of corn circles to PLF, 316 & n1; opens farm shop in London (Elizabeth Street), 318 & n1; on foot and mouth outbreak (2001), 328; stays with Prince of Wales at Birkhall, 348–9; reads extract from PLF’s A Time of Gifts at carol service, 351–2; in hospital for brain scan, 355–7; trip with Emma, 355; moves to Edensor, 358 & n1, 361, 365n2; eye trouble, 362; French TV programme on, 362–3; Counting My Chickens, 229n3, 275n, 310n1, 329, 362 & n3; The Estate: A View from Chatsworth, 238 & n1, 248, 253n1, 259, 264, 266, 267 & n1; Farm Animals, 266 & n2; The House, x, 53n2, 176 & n1, 197, 199, 203; Round About Chatsworth, 351 & n1
Devonshire, Evelyn, Duchess of (Andrew’s grandmother), 307n1
Devonshire, Peregrine Cavendish, 12th Duke of (DD’s son) see Hartington, Marquess of Devonshire, William George Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of, 244 & n1
Diana, Princess of Wales (née Spencer): wedding, 197 & n1; visits Chatsworth, 249; Morton’s book on, 290 & n1; character, 291; tiara, 307 & n1
Dixon, Sir Pierson, 104 & n3
Donaldson, Frances, Lady: life of P. G. Wodehouse, 266 & n1
Donici, Constantin, 200n2
Doundoulakis, George J., 208 & n2
Downing, Ben: ‘Philhellene’s Progress’, 328n2
Drogheda, Garrett Moore, 11th Earl and
Joan, Countess of (née Carr), 119 & n5, 259
Dublin, 159
Dudley Ward, Penelope, 145 & n3
Duff, Juliet, Lady (née Lady Juliet Lowther), 53 & n3
Duff, Sir Robert, 54n3
Dufresnoy, Jacqueline-Charlotte (earlier Jacques-Charles; ‘Coccinelle’), 36 & n2
Dumbleton Hall, Worcestershire, 31
Dunn, John, 204
Dunn, Mary, Lady (née Lady Mary St Clair-Erskine), 22 & n7, 90
Dunn, Sir Philip, 23n7
Dunphy, Jack, 47n4
Durante, Jimmy, 79
Durrell, Lawrence, 86 & n1
Easton Neston, Northamptonshire, 95
Eden, Anthony (later 1st Earl of Avon):` and Suez crisis, 29n1
Edensor: DD moves to and writes from, 358, 361, 362, 364–5, 370
Edensor House, Bakewell, Derbyshire, 8 & n1, 17–18, 35n1, 41n1, 47, 56, 97n1, 342
Edward VII, King, 88n3
Egerton, Lady Anne, 318
Egerton, Anne (née Cobbold), 59n1
Egerton, Thomas, 58 & n1
Egremont, John Wyndham, 1st Baron, 52 & n2
Egremont, Pamela, Lady (née WyndhamQuin), 53n2
Eisenhower, Mamie, 79 & n4
Elizabeth II, Queen, 197, 213, 245, 339–40
Elizabeth, Empress of Austria-Hungary, 349
Elizabeth the Queen Mother (‘Cake’): at Tate Gallery, 57 & n4; at film première with DD, 155; attends charity performance of opera, 177; Ashton imitates, 198n2; at Houghton Hall, 213; at Royal Smithfield Show, 278; funeral, 332
Elpida (PLF’s helper), 339
Epstein, Sir Jacob, 57 & n2
Eros II (boat), 23n10
Erroll, Josslyn Victor Hay, 22nd Earl of, 280 & n5
Esher, Reginald Baliol Brett, 2nd Viscount, 207 & n3
Esterházy, Christine, 201
Evans, Sir Harold, 98 & n5
Eyres Monsell, Joan see Fermor, Joan Leigh Eythimíou, Tásso, 123–4, 126
Fairweather, Eileen, 250
Faringdon House, Oxfordshire, 231
Farquhar, Elizabeth, 228 & n2
Fedden, Renée (née Catzeflis), 23n6, 122–3, 126–9, 134–6, 140, 150, 162
Fedden, Robin, 21 & n6, 111, 118, 122–3, 125, 128–30, 134, 136, 140, 150; The Enchanted Mountains, 162 & n5
Fellowes, Marguerite (née Decazes; ‘Daisy’), 22 & n9, 37
Fenton, Jack, 154n6
Fenton, Vanessa (née Leigh Fermor; PLF’s sister), 151 & n6, 157
Fermor, Joan Leigh (née Eyres Monsell; then Rayner): PLF’s devotion to, ix; settles in Greece, x, 92, 105n, 159, 184, 256; PLF’s correspondence with, xi; courtship and marriage with PLF, 11 & n9, 14; motor cars and driving, 18, 65; in France with PLF, 19; in Paros, 46; on Hydra,
50–1; in Castello di Passerano, 55; in Epirus, 81, 128; visits to England, 107–9; and Mani cats, 116; trip to Malaysia, 148; joins PLF in India, 153–4; gives up Sunday newspapers, 154; proposed trip to Petra, 171; imitates owl’s call, 177; in Spain with PLF, 181; visits Crete with PLF, 202; photographs in The Cretan Runner, 209 & n4, 235; in Turkey with PLF, 219–23; hip operation, 244 & n1; and PLF’s television interview, 254; stays with Hildyard, 277; declines invitation to Sandringham, 285; heart irregularity, 300; cracks rib, 312; hobbling, 330; death and funeral service, 334 & n1; Bowra gives poems to, 366; photograph of cat, 369
Fermor, Sir Lewis Leigh (PLF’s father), 30, 149n2
Fermor, Muriel Eileen (née Ambler; PLF’s mother), 149 & n2; death, 157
Fermor, Sir Patrick Leigh: first meets DD, ix, xv, xix; visit to DD at Lismore, ix, 3–6, 8, 216; settles in Greece, x, 92, 105 & n1; travels and travel-writing, x–xii; war record, x; apolitical stance, xi; letter-writing, xi–xiii; depicted in film Ill Met by Moonlight, xv, 19–20, 27; DD’s article on 85th birthday, xv–xviii, 330n2; qualities, xvi, xviii; schooling and career, xvi; article on DD’s 80th birthday, xix–xxiii; hurt in fight at hunt ball, 6 & n2; courtship and marriage, 11, 14; visits Pitt-Rivers in France, 19; visits Somerset Maugham, 20–2; riding and hunting, 24, 26–9, 39–41; ear trouble, 31; works on screenplay of The Roots of Heaven, 33n1, 34, 41; in Cameroon, 42–3; as non-shooter, 49; DD visits in Italy, 58–9; overland tour from France to Greece, 65–8; motoring, 88n4; acquires land in Mani, 92; breaks wrist in hunting fall, 92n2; gives up and resumes smoking, 95 & n2; nickname (‘Whack’), 97n1; provides mock book-titles, 101–3, 106–7, 256, 328 & n1; tattoo, 106; pet dog, 116; trip to Peru, 117 & n1; account of expedition to Pindus Mountains, 122–40; trip to India and Himalayas, 148–54; account of travel in Pyrenees, 160–9; answers DD’s puzzle about gooseberry and vegetable names, 172–3; travels in Spain and Portugal with Fieldings, 179–83; writing, 179; in Syria, 187; address at 40th anniversary of Crete battle, 192–3; travels to Hungary, 199–200; profile in Observer, 203; translates Strachwitz’s The Heart of Douglas, 215 & n1; travels in Turkey, 218–22; swims Hellespont, 219–23; travels in Germany and central Europe, 232–5; invited to stay at Windsor Castle, 245; interviewed by Daily Mail, 249–50; in Provence, 253; TV interview on South Bank Show, 254 & n1; in Yemen, 255; composes alliterative verse, 256–8; Daily Telegraph articles, 261 & n1; letters from Nancy Mitford, 261–2; reviews DD’s The Estate, 267 & n1; Xan Fielding prepares obituary of, 267; awarded honorary D.Litt by University of Kent, 273–4; stays with Hildyard, 277; as guest at Sandringham, 284–5, 287; wins French literary prize for A Time of Gifts, 291; on enigmatic sign in Mayfair, 293–6; in hospital for back operation, 297–8 & n1; childhood in Northamptonshire, 302; awarded French honours, 308 & n2; spends Christmases at Chatsworth, 309, 311, 326; uses hearing aid, 312; takes balloon trip, 315; damages heel, 330; and Joan’s death, 334, 351; knighthood, 338 & n1; investiture, 339–40; writes account of Andrew Devonshire’s funeral, 344 & n6; loses walking stick, 353; eye trouble, 361, 363n1, 367; devises Kit-e-Kat advertisement, 363–4; spends New Year 2006 at Edensor, 365n2; Between the Woods and the Water, xi, xvi, 157 & n3, 190 & n1, 200, 232n5, 237n9, 241n1, 242n1, 252 & n1, 262; ‘A Cave on the Black Sea’, 107n1; Mani, xi, 81, 359; ‘Observations on a Marine Vulture’, 88n1; ‘Paradox in the Himalayas’, 150 & n1; Roumeli, xi, 108 & n1, 133; Three Letters from the Andes, xii, 119n, 121, 207 & n1, 276 & n3, 362; A Time of Gifts, xi, xvi, 146 & n1, 156, 158n2, 177 & n1, 240, 250, 291, 351; A Time to Keep Silence, xii, 17n1; The Traveller’s Tree, 17n1; Words of Mercury, xiin, 107n1, 154n, 338 & n2
ffytche, Timothy (ophthalmologist), 361, 365
Fielding, Agnes (née Magruder; then Phillips; ‘Magouche’), 3n4, 90 & n2, 110, 168–9, 179, 187, 218, 221, 231–2, 255, 265–6, 273, 293, 306, 353
Fielding, Alexander (Xan): marriage to Daphne, xi; wartime exploits in Crete, xv, 3n, 128; travels with PLF, xx, 179–81, 187, 218, 221, 232, 255–6; friendship with PLF, 3 & n3; stays with DD in London, 3; stays with PLF in France, 6, 8; letter from PLF, 9, 14; in Tangiers, 12–13; letter to DD, 18; and film Ill Met by Moonlight, 19–20; stays at Chatsworth, 62; DD misses, 76; DD’s devotion to, 89; joins PLF for Pyrenees trip, 162, 168–9; misses 1981 anniversary of Crete battle, 192; visits PLF in Mani, 231; cancer, 265–7; death and obituaries of, 267, 275 & n1, 276; attends 50th anniversary of battle of Crete, 273, 276; ashes buried in Crete, 306; sings ‘The Holly and the Ivy’, 327; Aeolus Displayed: A Book of the Winds (first published as Das Buch der Winde), 169 & n7; Hide and Seek, 18
Fielding, Daphne (née Vivian; then Marchioness of Bath): marriage to Xan, xi; stays with DD in London and Ireland, 3–4; stays with PLF in France, 6, 8; letter from PLF, 9, 14; qualities and character, 12; in Tangiers, 12; stays at Chatsworth, 62; DD misses, 76; DD meets, 89; sends Cranach postcard to PLF, 171 & n1; moves to England after divorce from Xan, 216 & n3; and PLF’s visit to England, 216; in Conrad Russell’s letters, 247–8; marriage to Henry Bath, 276 & n2; 90th birthday celebrations, 301; remembers racy youth, 312; The Duchess of Jermyn Street, 3n; Mercury Presides, 23n7
Fischer, Dagmar, 234
Fischer, Rudolf, 234 & n9, 240
Fitzgerald, Ella, 79
Fitzroy House, London, 3, 91
Flanders, Michael, 48 & n9
Flecker, James Elroy: ‘Hassan’, 187 & n, 189
Fleming, Ann (née Charteris): PLF’s correspondence with, xi; visits PLF in France, 7 & n4; stays with Somerset Maugham, 20–1; PLF visits, 31, 176; friendship with DD, 47–8, 57–8; in Switzerland, 76; and Nicky Cryssovelóni, 83; relations with Ian, 101n1; financial difficulties after Ian’s death, 106 & n5; sells Ian’s library, 115 & n3; at cinema with PLF, 118; gives party for PLF’s A Time of Gifts, 158n2; dislikes John Pearson, 173; PLF stays with at Sevenhampton, 176; cancer and death, 187–8 & n2, 191–2, 194 & n1; The Letters (ed. Mark Amory), 23, 203 & n1, 204, 232 & n1
Fleming, Caspar, 118 & n3
Fleming, Ian, 7n4, 101n1, 106 & n5, 115, 173, 232
Flemming, Bridget and Andrew, 371 & n1
Flintham (house), Nottinghamshire, 277
Florence: La Pietra, 346n1, 347
Flynn, Errol, 42, 44
Forio d’Ischia, Italy, 59, 61
Fort Lamy, French Equatorial Africa, 42
Fort Worth, Texas: Kimbell Art Museum, 185n4
Forward, Anthony, 290
Foulbé people (Cameroon), 43
Fould-Springer, Baron Max, 41n2 400 Club, London, 10
Fourquet, Federico, 343 & n2
Fox, James: White Mischief, 281n1, 282
foxhunting: banned, 314 & n1, 327–8
Franz Joseph, Emperor of Austria-Hungary, 349
Fraser, Lady Antonia, 153 & n9
Frederick II (the Great), King of Prussia, 215n2
Freeman, John, 63 & n1
Frere-Reeves, Alexander and Patricia (née Wallace), 21 & n5
Freud, Lucian: stays at Edensor, 34 & n2; paints Chatsworth bathroom, 62; DD’s devotion to, 80; absent from Ann Fleming’s funeral, 196; aged 80, 330; DD admires, 333; works at Chatsworth, 362; Skewbald Mare (painting), 344
Frink, Dame Elisabeth, 279 & n2, 287–9, 297 & n1
Fry, Jennifer (later Heber-Percy), 217n1
Gadencourt, Pacy-sur-Eure, France, 6, 9, 13, 16
Gage, Henry, 6th Viscount, 7 & n6
Gaitskell, Hugh, 78 & n2
Gallicano nel Lazio, Italy, 54–5
Ganay family, 289n1
Garnett, David, 190 & n1; see also Carrington, Dora: Letters
Garnett, Richard, 178 & n2, 190, 196, 238, 243, 248
Gary, Romain: Les Racines du ciel, 32 & n1
Gaulle, Charles de, 282
Gavarni, Paul, 162
Gavarnie, Hautes Pyrénées, 160, 162
Gendel, Milton, 8n5
Gere, Charlotte (née Douie), 199nn1, 2
Gere, John, 198 & n1, 200
Ghika, Barbara (née Hutchinson; then Rothschild; then Warner), 5n1,
69, 84n1, 110 & n2, 144 & n1, 175, 193, 199, 240
Ghika, Nikos, 4 & n1, 65, 69, 84n1, 110, 144, 175, 193, 199, 240, 257, 298
Giacometti, Alberto, 134 & n5
Gibbs, Christopher, 337 & n1
Gielgud, Sir John, 37 & n2 Gigi (film), 39n1
Gilbert, Brian, 287
Giles, Frank, 22 & n12
Giles, Lady Katherine (née Sackville; ‘Kitty’), 22 & n12
Gladwyn, Gladwyn Jebb, 1st Baron, 37n3
Glenconner, Elizabeth, Lady (née Powell), 143 & n4
Goldsmith, Sir James, 248 & n2
Goldsmith, Oliver: The Deserted Village, 227n2
Goodman, Arnold, Baron, 196 & n3
Gorky, Arshile, 91n2
Goussiónis, Grigóris, 134
Grafton, Hugh Denis Charles Fitzroy, 11th Duke of, 213
Grafton, Jesse, 261
Grant, Duncan, 190n1
Gréco, Juliette, 36 & n1, 42, 44
Greece: PLF and Joan settle in, x, 92, 105 & n1; see also Mani Greenwell, Peter, 189n4
Grimond, Jo, Baron, 98 & n6
Guinness, Bryan (later 2nd Baron Moyne), 13n2, 205n1
Guppy, Shusha, 303 & n2
Hammersley, Violet (née Williams-Freeman; ‘Mrs Ham’), 75 & n7, 89, 100, 337, 347
Hammond, Nicholas, 273 & n4
Hardinge, Elizabeth, 320 & n6
Hardisty, Stanley, 150–2
Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, 9th Earl of, 320 & n5
Hare, Alan, 46 & n1, 50
Hare, Jill (née North), 47n1
Harlech, David Ormsby Gore, 5th Baron, 89 & n1, 98, 224
Harlech, Pamela, Lady (née Colin), 89n1
Harlech, Sylvia, Lady (née Lloyd Thomas; ‘Sissy’), 89 & n1, 98
Harold Godwinsson, King of the English, 359
Harold Haardraada, King of Norway, 359
Harrod, Henry, 108 & n2
Harrod, Wilhelmina, Lady (née Cresswell; ‘Billa’), 263 & n3, 289, 366
Hartington, Amanda, Marchioness of (née
Heywood-Lonsdale; later Duchess of Devonshire), 250n2, 351
Hartington, Kathleen, Marchioness of (née Kennedy; ‘Kick’), 78n1, 97n1, 322 & n1
Hartington, Peregrine Andrew Morny Cavendish, Marquess of (later 12th Duke of Devonshire; DD’s son; ‘Stoker’): at Lismore, 9 & n1; shooting, 50; exchanges Christmas presents with DD, 76; suggests mock book-title, 100; in Paris with DD, 104; marriage, 250n2; and Elisabeth Frink horse sculpture, 287; in Las Vegas, 338