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Elizabeth- the Queen and the Crown

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by Sarah Gristwood


  early life 88, 88, 89, 90

  investiture 90–1, 91

  and Lord Mountbatten 104, 105, 143

  and Princess Diana 72, 105–6, 107, 115, 119, 120–2, 125, 128, 133, 142

  Queen’s Coronation 9, 13, 14

  Charlotte, Princess 147, 147

  Churchill, Winston 24, 40, 42, 50, 62, 66–7, 86, 134, 153

  Clinton, Bill 123

  Commonwealth of Nations 49, 92, 104

  Diamond Jubilee 144, 146

  future of 154

  tours of 61, 66, 80, 98–9, 102, 106

  Coronation (1953) 6, 8–17, 63, 65, 69

  Crawford, Marion ‘Crawfie’ 27, 28, 30, 34, 43, 45, 52

  Crossman, Richard 92

  The Crown 152, 152, 153

  Diamond Jubilee (2012) 143–4, 145

  Diana, Princess 97

  death 128–30, 129, 132, 138

  and Prince Charles 72, 105–7, 115, 119, 120–2, 125, 128, 133, 142

  Dimbleby, Jonathan 106, 124

  Dior, Christian 70

  Douglas-Home, Alec 67, 86

  Eden, Anthony 67, 86

  Edward, Prince 90, 83, 85, 118, 120, 133

  Edward VII, King 110

  Edward VIII, King 24, 25, 28, 30, 32, 34, 65

  Elizabeth, the Queen Mother 16, 18, 126, 133

  100th birthday 135

  George VI 30, 63

  horses and dogs 96, 97

  ill health and death 116, 123, 136–8

  marriage 21–2, 21, 23

  Elizabeth I, Queen 10, 22, 34, 43, 45, 63, 155

  engagements 75–7, 132

  Eugenie, Princess 119

  European Economic Community 92, 154

  Fagan, Michael 92, 150

  Ferguson, Sarah (Duchess of York) 107, 119, 120, 125, 133

  Fisher, Geoffrey 9, 12–13

  Foy, Claire 152, 152, 153

  Freud, Lucian 68

  George, Prince 116, 146, 147, 147, 155

  George IV, King 108

  George V, King 20, 24–5, 27–8, 55, 110, 155

  George VI, King 32, 33, 34

  Coronation 8–9, 10, 16, 18, 28, 29, 30–1

  death 60–3

  Elizabeth II’s marriage 46, 50, 52, 53, 57

  marriage to Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 20, 21–2, 23

  WWII 34, 35, 36, 42, 108

  Gilbey, James 107, 120

  Golden Jubilee (2002) 138, 138, 139

  Grenadier Guards 37, 38, 39, 61

  Grigg, John (Baron Altrincham) 76–7

  Harry, Prince 106, 128, 143

  Hartnell, Norman 10, 11, 52, 54, 56–7, 66, 70, 86

  Heath, Edward 92

  Hewitt, James 107, 125

  Hitler, Adolf 34, 35

  Kelly, Angela 70, 71

  Khalid, King 100

  Knight, Clara ‘Alah’ 22

  Kufuor, John Agyekum 112, 113

  Laurence, Timothy 119, 123, 139

  Leibovitz, Annie 69

  Levine, Chris 69

  Lichfield, Patrick 69

  MacDonald, Margaret ‘Bobo’ 25, 70

  Macmillan, Harold 67, 85, 86

  Major, John 115, 121, 122

  Malta 60, 60

  Mandela, Nelson 126, 127

  Margaret, Princess 13, 18, 35, 63, 70, 97

  early life 24, 25, 26, 30, 47

  ill health and death 108, 133–4, 136, 137, 138

  and Peter Townsend 64–6, 86

  and Tony Armstrong-Jones 86, 92, 103

  WWII 35, 36, 36, 37, 37, 42

  Mary, Queen 18, 31, 52, 55

  death 64

  and Elizabeth 22, 27, 47, 61, 67, 155

  George VI’s death 62, 63

  Mary II, Queen 10–11

  Mary Tudor 10

  Middleton, Catherine (Duchess of Cambridge) 142–3, 145, 146

  Mirren, Helen 141, 151–2, 151

  Monroe, Marilyn 75, 75

  Morgan, Peter 151, 152–3

  Morton, Andrew 105, 119, 120

  Mountbatten, Lord 45, 46, 60, 104

  Muggeridge, Malcolm 77

  Obama, Barack and Michelle 113

  Order of the Garter 78–9, 78

  Palace of Holyroodhouse 78, 109

  Parker Bowles, Camilla (Duchess of Cornwall) 107, 116, 123, 124, 125, 138–40, 145

  Philip, Prince 79, 109

  career 58, 59, 60

  children 58–9, 72

  Elizabeth’s coronation 9, 14, 15, 62, 63–4

  Golden Jubilee 138, 138

  Golden Wedding anniversary 130–2

  horses 97, 114

  marriage to Elizabeth 18, 44–61, 80–1, 121

  public engagements 81, 83, 145–6

  Royal Family 88–9, 89, 90

  tours 99, 102

  Phillips, Mark 96–7, 119

  Phillips, Peter 103, 146

  Phillips, Savannah 146

  The Queen 141, 151–2, 151

  Reagan, Ronald 101, 113–14, 114

  Rhodes, Margaret 45, 94

  Rhys-Jones, Sophie 133

  Roberts, Monty 97

  Royal Family 88–90, 89, 90

  Royal Variety Performance 77

  Sandringham House 110, 115

  Sapphire Jubilee (2017) 148

  Second World War (1939–45) 34–42, 47

  Silver Jubilee (1977) 98, 102–3, 102, 103

  Simpson, Wallis 28, 30, 65

  South Africa 46–9

  State Banquets and Visits 111–15

  State Opening of Parliament 79, 80, 118

  Thatcher, Margaret 104, 115

  Townsend, Peter 64–6, 86

  Trooping the Colour 77, 78, 92, 95

  VE Day 124–5, 124

  Victoria, Queen 10, 44

  and Prince Albert 45, 84, 118

  reign 10, 11–12, 20, 30, 62, 63, 143, 147, 154, 155

  royal residences 108, 109, 110

  Warhol, Andy 68

  Wilding, Dorothy 69

  William, Prince 116, 145, 147, 155

  and Catherine Middleton 142–3

  early life 106, 128

  Prince Philip 83

  Wilson, Harold 86–7, 92

  Windsor Castle 108, 111, 114–15, 121–2, 130

  Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations

  Author’s Note

  ‘The English’ – said one of Elizabeth II’s female ancestors – ‘like queens.’ She might have added that the Scots, the Welsh and a good many others do, too. This queen, Elizabeth II, has been an important part of the backdrop to so many lives across the British Isles and beyond. As a child, I was taken to watch the Silver Jubilee procession from a balcony above the Mall. As a young woman, I went to a Buckingham Palace garden party. As an adult, I’ve toured Windsor, Sandringham, Holyroodhouse, and dined aboard Britannia, I’ve commented on royal affairs for numerous TV news programmes and documentary series, and perched high in Broadcasting House while the 2011 royal wedding unfolded, as one of the team providing live coverage for BBC Radio 4.

  I have also written books about Elizabeth II’s famous predecessor Elizabeth I, and newspaper articles comparing her to her fellow Diamond Queen Victoria. (A comparison, I may say, out of which our present queen emerges very favourably!) Of course, a queen regnant in the sixteenth or even the nineteenth century occupied a very different position to her twenty-first-century successor. But all the same, what strikes me is how many of the problems – and the patterns – continue down to the present day.

  When Elizabeth I died in 1603, after what was then a notably long reign, a contemporary wrote that the shock of the news ‘took away hearts from millions.’ A whole nation had been ‘brought up under her wing’ – had ‘never shouted any ave but for her name.’ You don’t need to be an ardent monarchist to derive the same sense of continuity from Elizabeth II. When she acceded to the throne in the spring of 1952, Winston Churchill declared that ‘Famous have been the reigns of our queens.’ The reign of Queen Elizabeth II will be famous above all for the change
s it has seen. But as in the spring of 2017 it reached an extraordinary tally of sixty-five years, she herself remains an iconic figure of reassuring stability.

  First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by

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  Copyright © Pavilion Books Company Ltd 2017

  Text copyright © Sarah Gristwood 2017

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  ISBN 978-1-911595-84-7

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