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In Tearing Haste

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by Patrick Leigh Fermor


  Hartington, William Cavendish, Marquess of (‘Billy’), 11n2, 78n1, 322 & n1, 343 & n4

  Hartwell, Pamela, Lady (earlier Lady Pamela Berry), 366 & n1

  Hastings, Sir Max, 262n1

  Hastings, Lady Selina: Nancy Mitford, 232 & n2

  Hayworth, Rita, 18n1

  Head, Antony, 1st Viscount, 361 & n3

  Heber-Percy, Robert, 51n5, 216 & n1, 231 & n1, 250

  Hedly, Priscilla B., 302

  Hellespont: PLF swims, 219–23

  Henderson, Mary, Lady (née Cawadias), 225n4, 319

  Henderson, Sir Nicholas (‘Nicko’), 224–5 & n4, 228, 248, 251, 318, 343, 358, 365n2

  Henry IV (the Pious), Duke of Saxony, 171 & n1

  Herbert, David, 13 & n1

  Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, 322 & n3

  Hesketh, Christian, Lady (‘Kisty’), 95n1

  Hesse, Margaret (‘Peg’), Princess of (née Geddes), 232 & n4

  Hildyard, Myles, 150 & n4, 277–8

  Hill, Derek, 347 & n1

  Hill, Heywood (bookshop owner), 63 & n5; literary prize, 344 & n1; correspondence with Nancy Mitford, 346 & n2, 347, 350

  Hillary, Richard, 303 & n1, 306

  Himalayas: PLF visits, 148, 150–4

  ‘Hinterwälder, Franz Xaver’, 241

  Historic Houses (magazine), 275 & n2

  Hitler, Adolf: Diana Mosley’s friendship with, 13n

  Hoare, Lucy, Lady (née Cavendish-Bentinck), 277 & n3

  Hoare, Sir Reginald, 278n3

  Hockney, David, 193 & n5

  Holkham Hall, Norfolk, 285 & n3, 305

  Holroyd, Michael: The Pursuit of Power, 266 & n1

  Home, Alexander Douglas-Home, 14th Earl of (later Baron Home of the Hirsel), 74 & n1, 98 & n1

  Home, Elizabeth, Countess (née Alington), 74 & n1, 98

  Honorius, Roman Emperor, 81

  Hopkins, Rev. John Henry, Jr, 327n1

  Hore-Belisha, Leslie (later Baron), 342 & n1

  Hornby, Lesley (‘Twiggy’), 155 & n1

  Horner, Katherine, 218n1

  Horton, Robert, 374 & n1

  Houghton Hall, Norfolk, 205 & n1, 212–13, 259

  Howard, Henry, xix

  Howard, Michael, 356 & n9

  Howard, Trevor, 42 & n2, 44

  Howell, Brocas, 152

  Hozier, Lady Blanche, 346n3

  Hughes, Robert, 344 & n5

  Hungary, 199–202

  Huston, Anjelica, 108n3

  Huston, Enrica (née Soma; ‘Ricki’), 108 & n3

  Huston, John, 42 & n1, 43, 56, 108n3

  Hutchinson, Jeremy, Baron, 283 & n8

  Hydra (island), Greece, 4, 49, 53, 65, 69

  Ill Met by Moonlight (film), x, xv, 19–20, 27, 284n6

  Inch Kenneth (island), Hebrides, 60 & n1, 95 Indecent Proposal (film), 298 & n2

  India: PLF visits, 149–54

  Ioannidis (mayor of Papigo), 128

  Irish Times, 160

  Istanbul (Constantinople), 219, 243

  Iveagh, Benjamin Guinness, 3rd Earl of, 356n2

  Iveagh, Miranda, Countess of (née Smiley), 355–6 & n2

  Jackson, Derek: marriage to Pamela Mitford, 73n7, 185n1; marriage to Janetta Woolley, 91n1; unidentified at conference, 185–6 & n1, 231

  Jackson, Pamela (née Mitford; ‘Woman’): correspondence with DD, xi; at unveiling of memorial to father, 72 & n7; marriage to Derek, 73n7, 185n1; visits Chatsworth, 75; with dying mother at Inch Kenneth, 96–7; in TV film on Nancy, 183 & n2; reads PLF’s Between the Woods and the Water and A Time of Gifts, 243, 252; advice on cutting pigmeat, 319; birth at Wilbury, 355

  Jarvis, Ralph and Coney, 333

  Jebb, Julian, 110 & n1, 170, 183

  Jellicoe, George, 2nd Earl, 273 & n2, 298, 370

  Jenkins, Dame Jennifer, 251 & n2

  Jenkins, Roy, Baron, 251 & n2

  Joannovitch, Prince Vsevolode, 120n7

  John, Augustus, 48, 119n3, 320

  John, Sir Caspar, 119n3

  John, King of England, xx

  Johnson, Lady Bird (née Claudia Taylor), 148 & n1

  Johnson, Lynda, 148 & n1

  Johnson, Lyndon Baines, 148n1

  Jones, Harry, 52 & n1

  Jones, Inigo, 263

  Jones, Tom, 344

  Jousselin, Bertrand de La Haye, 64n1

  Jousselin, Laure de La Haye (née Noailles), 64n1

  Juan Carlos I, King of Spain, 332

  Judah, Cynthia, 48n3

  Kahn, Otto, 321n7

  Kalamata: earthquake (1986), 241

  Kantorowicz, Ernst, 47n3

  Karaïskákis, Georgios, 138

  Karvoúnis, Chrístos, 132–3

  Katounia, Limni, Greece, 97, 99, 101

  Keats, John: ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’, 139 & n7

  Kee, Kate (née Trevelyan), 48n3

  Kee, Robert: at Lismore, xxii; at Chatsworth, 48 & n5, 224, 263, 322, 358; PLF invites to Hydra, 50; DD’s devotion to, 76, 80, 198; and Nicky Cryssovelóni, 83; marriage to Janetta Woolley, 91n1; and Ann Fleming’s death, 194–6; and Oonagh Guinness, 301 & n2; ageing, 348; plans biography of Mitterrand, 348 & n1; war service and imprisonment, 358 & n2; A Crowd Is Not Company, 359n2; The Green Flag, 121 & n2, 133; Ireland: A History, 199 & n3

  Keith, Penelope, 210 & n1

  Kennedy, Edward (‘Teddy’), 224 & n3

  Kennedy, John F.: inaugurated as President, 77 & n1, 79; DD admires, 78–9; DD visits in USA, 89; sends message to DD, 94n2; unveils Mona Lisa in Washington, 94; assassination and funeral, 97–9; visits Ireland, 97 & n; and Cuban crisis, 332

  Kennedy, Joseph P., 78n1

  Kennedy, Sir Ludovic: In Bed with an Elephant, 289 & n1

  Kent, Katharine, Duchess of (née Worsley), 213

  Kent, Marina, Duchess of, 274

  Kent, University of: awards honorary doctorate to PLF, 273–4

  Kenward, Betty: Jennifer’s Diary, 216 & n2

  Kenya: DD visits, 98

  Kenyatta, Jomo, 98 & n7

  Kerr, Rosemary, 320 & n2

  Khan, Dr Aijaz, 356

  Khan, Prince Aly, xxii, 18 & n1, 225n2

  King Edward VII’s Hospital, London, 298n1

  King’s School, Canterbury, xvi, 273 & n5

  Kinross, Angela, Lady (née Culme-Seymour), 305 & n1

  Kinross, Patrick Balfour, 3rd Baron, 304–5 & n1

  Kipling, John Lockwood, 369–70

  Kipling, Rudyard: Kim, 369

  Klobusiçky, Caroline von (née Princess Caroline Murat), 235 & n10

  Klobusiçky, Elemér von, 202 & n4, 233–4, 240, 349

  Klobusiçky, Juliana von, 202n4

  Klobusiçky, Miklos von, 235 & n10

  Knight, Guy and Hester (‘Heck’), 171n1

  Knollys, Eardley, 323 & n2

  Korn, Eric, 256

  Kreipe, Major-General Heinrich, x, xv, 22n1, 121 & n1, 123, 138, 209n1, 236

  Lady, The (magazine), 349n2

  Lambert, Tony, 50

  Lambton, Antony, Viscount: Elizabeth and Alexandra, 232 & n5

  Lambton, Lady Lucinda, 108 & n2

  Lansdowne, Charles Petty-Fitzmaurice, 9th Marquess and Fiona, Marchioness of (née Merritt), 356 & n1

  La Rochelle, 86

  Lascelles, Sir Alan, 291

  Lasnet, David, 368n1

  Lear, Edward, 124

  Ledebur, Count Friedrich, 60n2, 61 & n1, 146

  Lee-Potter, Lynda, 250n1

  Lees-Milne, Alvilde ( formerly Chaplin), 208n3, 217

  Lees-Milne, James, 73n3, 207 & n3, 217, 259, 301, 311, 335; The Bachelor Duke, 244 & n1; Fourteen Friends, 309 & n1

  Lehmann, John, 282 & n2

  Leiris, Michel, 37 & n4

  Leon, Sonia (later Quennell; ‘Spider’), 14 & n4

  Lewis, Jeremy: Cyril Connolly: A Life, 283n2

  Liaut, Jean-Noël, 363n3

  Lismore Castle, Co. Waterford, ix, xix–xxii, 4 & n2

  Lloyd, Peter, 150 & n2

  London, Jack: White Fang, 229 & n2

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bsp; Londonderry, Alexander Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 9th Marquess and Doreen, Marchioness of (née Wells), 355 & n3

  Long Crichel House, Wimborne, Dorset, 59n2, 297, 322–3, 325

  Longford, Elizabeth, Countess of: biography of Wellington, 314

  Longleat estate, Wiltshire, 60n1, 301

  Loraine, Sir Percy and Louise, Lady (née Stuart-Wortley), 320 & n1

  Lord, Tom, 49 & n1

  Lubbock, Adelaide (later Lady Avebury; née Stanley), 14 & n3

  Lubbock, Maurice (later 1st Baron Avebury), 15n3

  Lubow, Arthur, 292n1

  Lygon, Lady Dorothy (later Heber-Percy; ‘Coote’): on Hydra, 50–1 & n5, 53; with PLF in Greece, 82, 128; car stolen, 157; PLF visits in England, 216; marriage to Heber-Percy, 217n1, 231 & n1; at Chatsworth ball, 263; in Prague with PLF, 293; at Daphne Fielding’s 90th birthday, 301; celebrates 85th birthday, 312 & n1; in Julian Jebb’s film, 319

  Lygon, Lady Mary (sometime Joannovitch), 120 & n7

  Macaulay, (Dame) Rose, 8n8, 53, 303–4, 305

  McCabe, Charles, 23n7

  McCall, Peter, 122 & n2, 133–4, 140

  McConnell, Primrose: edits The Agricultural Notebook, 247n1

  Mackenzie, Anne, 306

  Macmillan, Adam, 184 & n3

  Macmillan, Lady Dorothy (née Cavendish), 51n2, 244

  Macmillan, Harold (later 1st Earl of Stockton; ‘Uncle Harold’): government, xx; shooting, 50 & n2, 57; conversations with DD, 52; appoints Harlech ambassador to Washington, 89n1; President Kennedy meets, 97n1; resigns premiership, 107n1; as chairman of Macmillan Publishers, 173 & n2; awarded Onassis International Prize, 184 & n1; and DD’s book (The House), 197; 90th birthday party, 214; at Chatsworth, 225; death, 243; on introduction of pheasants to Britain, 244–5

  Macmillan (publishers), 173n2, 264

  Magruder, Agnes (‘Magouche’) see

  Fielding, Agnes Magruder, Essie, 169

  Major, Sir John, 280 & n7

  Major, Norma, Lady (née Johnson), 280 & n7

  Mani: PLF settles in, 29, 92; house constructed, 109; floods, 299; PLF bequeathes house to Benaki Museum, 309; thunderbolt, 310

  Marchant, Helen, 362 & n2

  Margadale, Alastair Morrison, 3rd Baron, 286n1, 311

  Margaret, Princess: death, 331

  Marlborough, Sarah, Duchess of (née Jennings), 318 & n1

  Maroua (Cameroon), 45

  Maroua, Lamido of, 43

  Marriott, Sir John, 321n7

  Marriott, Maud (née Kahn; ‘Momo’), 321 & n7

  Marshall, Arthur, 224 & n6

  Marshall, Ray (later Garnett), 190n1

  Marten, Lieut-Commander George (‘Toby’) and Mary Anna (née Sturt), 286n2, 320 & n6

  Martin, Margaret, 302

  Mary, Queen of George V, 307n1

  Massigli, Odette (née Boissier), 282 & n3

  Massigli, René, 284n3

  Matsas, Aleko, 282–3

  Maugham, Syrie, 22n4

  Maugham, William Somerset, 20–2, 25, 142, 329

  Maxwell, Sir Aymer, 99 & n1, 116

  Mayall, Sir (Alexander) Lees, 224 & n2

  Mayfair, London, 293–4

  Melba, Dame Nellie, 33n4

  Mellors, Keith and Stella, 356 & n8

  Meran, Count Johann (‘Hansi’), 200–1 & n2

  Mersey, Edward Bigham, 3rd Viscount, 11n5

  Mersey, Katherine, Viscountess (née Petty-Fitzmaurice; then Lady Nairne; ‘Kitty’; ‘Wife’): correspondence with DD, xi; death, xii; at Lismore, 9 & n5; dress, 17; bereaved, 26; sees Evelyn Waugh’s blank book for DD, 61; DD sends book to, 76; unwell, 89; DD reads book openings while staying with, 178; at preview of The Mitford Girls at Chichester, 192; DD stays with, 214, 266; trees damaged by gale, 251; finds error in DD’s The Estate, 264; ageing, 296; at Bowood, 355

  Metsovo, Epirus, 80

  Metternich-Winneburg, Princess Tatiana (née Vassiltchikov), 232 & n3

  Meyers, Jeffrey: Somerset Maugham: A Life, 329 & n4

  Middleton, William (‘Bay’), 346 & n3, 348–9

  Mill Cottage, Swinbrook, 150 & n1, 266

  Mitchell, Leslie, 365 & n1

  Mitford, Clement (DD’s uncle), 120n2

  Mitford, Dorothy (DD’s aunt), 251n1

  Mitford, Jessica see Treuhaft, Jessica Mitford, Mary Russell: Our Village, 170 & n1

  Mitford, Nancy: on Mitford upbringing, ix; correspondence with DD, xi; reproaches DD at Lismore, xxii; teases DD, 3 & n2, 15n6, 58n7; PLF visits in France, 6, 14, 25, 33, 38, 105; on ‘Hons’ Cupboard’, 8n2; infatuation with Hamish St Clair-Erskine, 23n8; DD meets in London, 29; correspondence with Mark Ogilvie-Grant, 53; in Venice, 56; and Gaston Palewski, 57 & n6; in England, 72; with dying mother at Inch Kenneth, 95–6; DD visits in Paris, 104; sixty-first birthday, 110; moves to Versailles, 111 & n1; illnesses and death, 117 & n3, 141, 142 & n1, 191, 345; letters, 142–3; TV documentaries on, 170, 183, 319 & n2; correspondence with Evelyn Waugh, 173, 300 & n1, 303; Selina Hastings’ biography of, 232 & n2; letters published, 261; letters to DD, 262; winter walk with PLF, 311; wit, 336; correspondence with Heywood Hill, 346 & n2, 347, 350; adopts foreign accent for childhood game, 352n3; letters to Robert Byron, 358; letters from Bowra, 365; Don’t Tell Alfred, 72 & n6, 86 & n2; Frederick the Great, 215 & n2; Highland Fling, 170 & n2; Love in a Cold Climate, 183n2, 189 & n5; Love from Nancy (letters; ed. Charlotte Mosley), 261 & n1; The Pursuit of Love, 189n5

  Mitford, Thomas, 85n2, 119 & n3

  Mitford, Unity (‘Bobo’), 145 & n2

  Mitterrand, François, 348 & n1

  Mlinaric, David and Martha (née Laycock), 224 & n5, 261, 358

  Moffat, Curtis, 60n2

  Moffat, Ivan, 85 & n1

  Moncreiffe, Diana, Lady (née Hay), 284n6

  Moncreiffe, Sir Iain of that Ilk, 283 & n6

  Monsell, Bolton Eyres Monsell, 1st Viscount ( Joan’s father), 31n1

  Monsell, Graham Eyres Monsell, 2nd Viscount ( Joan’s brother), 64 & n2, 118, 144, 148, 217, 235; death, 300

  Monsell, John S. B., Canon of Worcester, 300 & n3

  Montagu, Judy (later Gendel), 8 & n5, 14, 48, 331

  Montague, Hermione, 152

  Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh, 276 & n1

  Moore, Demi, 298n2

  More O’Ferrall, Angela, 281n4

  More O’Ferrall, Frank, 280 & n4

  Morrison, Declan (DD’s grandson), 311n1

  Morrison, Nancy (DD’s granddaughter), 311n1

  Mortimer, Raymond, 323 & n1

  Morton, Andrew: Diana: Her True Story, 290 & n1

  Mosley, Alexander: portrayed in Don’t Tell Alfred, 88n2

  Mosley, Charlotte (ed.): The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh, 300n1, 303; Love from Nancy, 261 & n1; The Mitfords: Letters between Six Sisters, 226n7, 345 & n1

  Mosley, Diana, Lady (née Mitford; then Guinness): correspondence with DD, xi; David Herbert disparages, 13; at unveiling of memorial to father, 72; with dying mother at Inch Kenneth, 95–6; sixty-first birthday, 117; appearance, 120; and Nancy’s illness, 141; and biography of Unity Mitford, 145; and husband’s death, 188; recovers from brain tumour operation, 204 & n1; first marriage to Bryan Guinness, 205 & n1; at Biddesden, 210; visits Chatsworth, 280; visits Sophy in Wiltshire with DD, 286; death and obituaries, 335–6 & n1; Anne de Courcy biography of, 336n2; letter from DD on visit to La Pietra, 346n1, 347; on Kee’s proposed biography of Mitterrand, 348; A Life of Contrasts, 154–5 & n1; Loved Ones: Pen Portraits, 208n2, 231

  Mosley, Sir Oswald: marriage to Diana, 13n2; death, 188

  Moss, William Stanley: helps kidnap Kreipe in Crete, xv; Ill Met by Moonlight, x, xv, 22n1

  Moumaza, Boudjemma, 110n2

  Moumaza, Da’ad, 110

  Mountbatten of Burma, Admiral Louis, 1st Earl, 74 & n2, 146n1

  Murray, Diana, 274

  Murray, John (‘Jock’), 146 & n2, 207, 230, 239, 242n1, 274

  Nancy Mitford: A Portrait by her Sisters (TV film), 170, 183n2

  Napier, Phyllis: I Have Sind, 273n1
; Raven Castle, 272 & n1

  Napoleon I (Bonaparte), Emperor of the French: portrait bust at Chatsworth, 363 & n4

  Natar, Carl, 122 & n1, 124–6, 128–9, 134, 140, 150

  National Gallery, London: Sainsbury wing, 280 & n6

  National Trust Manual of Housekeeping, 275

  Navarino Bay, battle of (1827), 326

  Neidpath, Catherine, Lady (née Guinness), 210 & n2

  Neidpath, James, Lord, 210 & n2

  Nevile, Henry, 277 & n2

  New York: PLF visits, 208–9

  New Yorker (magazine): aborted article on Jessica, 292

  Newmarket, 113

  Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire, 288

  Niarchos, Athina ( formerly Onassis; née Livanos), 69–70 & n7

  Niarchos, Eugenia (née Livanos), 69 & n7

  Niarchos, Stavros, 23n10, 69

  Nicolaïdis (Yanina mountaineer), 123

  Nicolson, Sir Harold, 48 & n3; Good Behaviour, 354

  Nightingale, Florence, 279

  Nîmes, France, 85

  Nimr, Fares, 7n1

  Noailles, Viscount Charles de, 63 & n1, 65, 92n1, 319

  Noailles, Viscountess Marie-Laure (née Bischoffsheim), 64n1

  Normandy, 7

  Norwich, John Julius Cooper, 2nd Viscount, 231 & n3, 256, 362n2

  Norwich, Mollie, Viscountess (née Makins; then Philipps), 231 & n3

  Obolensky, Chloë (née Georgakis), 241 & n2

  Obolensky, Prince Dimitri, 241 & n3

  Obolensky, Leonid, 242n2 Observer (newspaper): profile of PLF, 203

  Ogilvie-Grant, Mark, 32 & n4, 46, 50–1, 53, 67–8, 70n4, 82, 143, 240, 367

  Oldie, The (magazine), 310 & n1

  Olsen, Stanley, 259 & n1

  Onassis, Aristotle, 70n7

  Onassis, Jacqueline (earlier Kennedy), 93, 224, 227

  Onassis Prize, 185n1, 199 & n1

  O’Neill, Shane Edward Robert, 3rd Baron, 83n4

  Oranmore and Browne, Oonagh, Lady (née Guinness), 301 & n2

  Ormsby Gore, Mary (Lady Mayall), 224 & n2

  Osmond, Donny, 344

  Ovindoli, Italy, 56

  Paget sisters (Lady Caroline, Lady Elizabeth, Lady Rose), 119–20 & n4

  Pakenham, Michael, 153 & n9

  Palewski, Gaston (‘Colonel’), 57 & n6, 347

  Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi, 74 & n3

  Paris: PLF in, 6, 14, 25, 32–3, 35–9; DD visits, 37, 104

  Parker Bowles, Andrew, 356 & n7

 

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