A Brief History of the House of Windsor

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by Michael Paterson


  Fluck, Peter 181

  Forsyte Sage (John Galsworthy) 80

  France 10, 37, 48, 49, 50, 53, 64, 85, 104, 130, 132, 134, 141, 147, 186, 225, 246

  Franco-Prussian War 49, 50, 246

  Franz Ferdinand, Archduke 48

  Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria-Hungary 57, 63, 231

  Frederick the Great, King of Prussia 226–7

  Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark 233

  Frederik IX, King of Denmark 233

  Frogmore burial ground 105

  funeral, Queen Elizabeth’s (Queen Mother) 243

  funeral, Queen Victoria’s 230

  Furness, Lady Thelma 90

  Gailey, Andrew 219

  Gandhi, Mahatma 67, 144

  garden parties 169

  Geelong Grammar School 194

  General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 256

  General Strike (1926) 67, 70–1, 78

  Gentlemen at Arms 231

  George Cross medal 140–1

  George I, King 13

  George II, King 13

  George III, King 13, 227–8

  George IV, King 13, 58, 228

  George, Prince, Duke of Kent 95, 142

  George V, King 8–9, 10, 12, 14–15, 26–7, 28, 30–1, 75–9, 93, 230

  changes family name 17–19, 22–5, 54

  Christmas speeches 67–8

  coronation 46

  created Duke of York 38

  death of Edward VII (father) 45

  death of Prince John (son) 66

  dress codes 77

  fatherhood 43, 111

  First World War 49, 50–2, 54–6, 57, 58, 79

  hobbies 36, 41

  ill-health and death 51, 73–4, 124

  independence of Dominions 72, 73–4

  Ireland 47, 49, 69–70

  lifestyle 40–1, 62

  marries Princess Victoria Mary of Teck 39

  monument in Windsor 17

  peacemaking approach to rule 46–7, 67

  and Princess Elizabeth (grand-daughter) 121, 122, 153

  Ramsay MacDonald as Prime Minister 70, 71, 76

  relationship with ‘Bertie’ (George VI) 111, 122

  relationship with ‘David’ (Edward VIII) 75, 88, 91

  Royal Maundy 62–3

  royals allowed to wed British citizens 27

  Russian monarchy 55–6

  Senior Service and naval career 31–3, 34–5

  Silver Jubilee 79–80, 124

  tours of the Empire 43–4

  George VI, King 15, 26, 28, 68, 199–200, 246

  accession to the throne 124–5

  allowance cut 122

  appeasement of Germany 131, 135

  Battle of Jutland 114, 250

  Cambridge University 115

  childhood 110–11

  coronation 127, 157

  courtiers 124–5

  death of 150

  and Edward VIII ‘David’ after abdication 101, 104, 130

  end of British Empire 145

  as family man 110, 123, 154

  First World War 108, 113–14

  formation of the Commonwealth 147

  George Cross medal 140–1

  health 111, 113, 114, 148, 149–50, 163

  industrial Britain 115–16

  naval career 107–8, 111–14

  and Princess Elizabeth (daughter) 108, 121, 137, 156, 157, 161, 163–4

  and Princess Margaret (daughter) 121, 156

  radio broadcasts 125, 136, 137

  rejected as Governor-General for Canada 121–2

  relationship with George V (father) 111, 122

  relationship with Queen Mary (mother) 119, 126

  Republic of Ireland 146–7

  Royal Lodge, Windsor 121, 122

  Royal Navy Air Service and Royal Air Force 114–15

  Second World War 125, 133, 134–7, 138–43

  speech therapist 123

  sports and hobbies 115, 116, 121, 122, 123

  stammer 107, 111

  summer camps 116–18

  tour of Australia 121

  Trooping of the Colour 149

  visits allies 132–3

  visits East End during the Blitz 139–40

  visits South Africa 148

  visits war zones 142

  wedding 120

  wife’s wardrobe 129

  and Winston Churchill 134–6, 143

  see also Elizabeth, Queen (Queen Mother)

  Germany

  First World War 20–2, 48–9, 50, 51, 52–4, 58–9

  Nazism and Second World War 93, 104, 105, 114, 126–7, 130–2, 133–5, 136, 138, 141, 142

  relationship with British Royal Family 11–14, 21–2, 33–4

  Treaty of Versailles 59, 60, 130

  Gilbey, James 185

  Girl Guides 156–7

  Glasgow riots (1919) 61, 66

  Gloucester, Duchess of 221

  Golden Jubilee, Queen Elizabeth’s 187

  Gordonstoun School 192–4, 195

  government, British

  Edward VIII’s abdication 103

  during reign of Edward VII 45–6

  during reign of George V 47, 49, 60–1, 67, 69, 70, 71

  State Opening of Parliament 174, 230

  subject of monarchical abolition 258

  see also individual Prime Ministers by name

  Great Exhibition 229

  Greek monarchy 56, 160–1, 246

  Grenadier Guards 159

  Grieg, Louis 115

  Grigg, John, Lord Altrincham 168

  Guildhall, Windsor 186, 215

  Haakon VII, King of Norway 138, 231–2

  Habsburg dynasty 48, 246

  Hague, the 48, 138

  Hahn, Kurt 170

  Haig, Sir Douglas 52

  Halifax, Lord 135

  Halsey, Admiral 92

  Hankey, Sir Maurice 59

  Harald V, King of Norway 232

  Haraldsen, Sonja 232

  Hardie, James Kier 81

  Hardy, Oliver 109

  Harry, Prince 188, 217, 218, 220, 224, 235, 250, 251

  Hartnell, Norman 129

  Harvard University 210

  Haskins, Minnie Louise 137

  Hélène, Princess of Orléan 37

  Henry, Prince (Duke of Gloucester) 95

  Henry, Prince (Prince of Wales) 212

  Heseltine, William 172

  Het Loo palace 226

  Hill House Preparatory School 191

  Hitler, Adolf 93, 104, 126–7, 130–2, 133, 135, 141

  Hoares, Sir Leslie 76

  Hodges, Frank 116

  Hohenzollerns 24, 35

  Hollywood 128

  homeopathy 207

  homosexuality 36, 78

  Hong Kong 216

  honours, Royal 64–5, 125–6, 172, 230

  horses 88, 156

  Hungary 57, 61

  Hussars, 10th 36

  income tax 186

  India 44, 46, 64, 125, 144, 147

  Industrial Welfare Society 116

  Instrument of Abdication 100

  Investitures of Prince’s of Wales

  Prince Charles 174, 196, 245

  Prince Edward (David) 83–4

  Ireland 72, 134

  hostilities during reign of George V 47, 49, 60–1, 63, 67, 68–70

  Northern 174

  Republic of Ireland (Eire) 145–7

  Irish Guards 5

  Irish Republican Army (IRA) 174

  Italian monarchy 45, 57, 246

  Italy 85, 142

  It’s a Royal Knockout 180

  Jack the Ripper 36

  James I, King 212

  Japan 143, 144, 232

  Jesus College, Cambridge 179-80

  John, Prince 66

  Johnson, Boris 188

  Jordan 232

  Jutland, Battle of (1916) 53, 114, 250

  Karl I, Emperor (Austria-Hungary) 57

  Kensington Palace 227

  Kent, Duche
ss of (Queen Victoria’s mother) 13

  Kent, Duke of (Prince George) 95, 142

  Kew palace 227

  kidnap attempt 175

  King George’s Jubilee Trust for Youth 89

  King’s Flight 92

  Knatchbull, Amanda 200

  Kut, fall of 19

  Lang, Cosmo Gordon, Archbishop of Canterbury 98

  Lansbury, George 79

  Laurence, Timothy 235

  Law, Roger 181

  Lloyd George, David 26–7, 51, 56, 59, 65, 79, 83, 85, 109

  Logue, Lionel 123

  Louis IV, King of France 59, 225

  Low Countries 134

  Lusitania, RMS 20–1

  Lutyens, Sir Edwin 17, 46

  Luxembourg 138

  MacDonald, Ramsay 67, 70, 76

  Macmillan, Harold 167, 181

  magazines 5, 26, 153, 181, 201, 250

  see also newspapers/press coverage; television coverage

  Magdalen College, Oxford 84, 87

  Magpie, HMS 163

  Malta 35, 141, 148–9, 162–3

  Margaret, Princess 111, 121, 123–4, 147, 148, 154, 155, 156–7, 165–6, 172, 187, 190, 232, 250

  Margarete of Denmark, Queen 233

  Marie Louise, Princess 63

  Marie of Romania, Queen 35, 55–6, 211

  Marina, Princess of Greece 95

  Marlborough, HMS 56

  Marten, Henry 158

  Mary, Princess (Viscountess Lascelles) 152

  Mary, Queen 25, 28, 38–9, 40–3, 47, 49, 63, 68, 76, 98, 105, 119, 126, 129, 135, 139, 145, 152, 155

  Maundy 62–3, 102

  media see magazines; newspapers/press coverage; radio; television

  Metropolitan police 174–5

  Middle East 19, 61, 85, 207

  Middleton, Catherine ‘Kate’ see Cambridge, Catherine (Kate), Duchess of

  Middleton family 5–6

  Middleton, Pippa 6

  military, British see armed forces; individual forces by name

  Monckton, George 100

  Monckton, Walter 125–6

  monument to George V, Windsor 17

  morganatic marriages 81, 98, 99

  Mori opinion poll (2012) 238

  Morton, Andrew 184, 203–4, 251–2

  Mountbatten, Lord Louis 87, 104, 111–12, 114, 115, 145, 158, 162–3, 173, 199–201

  Mountbatten, Philip see Philip, Prince, Duke of Edinburgh

  Muggeridge, Malcolm 167–8

  Murdoch, Rupert 181

  Murray, Edmund 190

  Nahlin (yacht) 94

  Napoleon Bonaparte 58, 64, 231

  Nation Decides, The 238

  National Gallery, Trafalgar Square 208

  National Health Service 143, 145

  Netherlands 138, 147, 226, 234

  New Guinea 61

  New Zealand 5, 72, 73, 134, 149, 175, 194

  newspapers/press coverage 5, 6, 26, 85, 89

  1990s royal divorces 204

  beginnings of criticism in print 167–8

  birth of Prince Andrew 171

  death of Queen Mother 243

  Duke and Duchess of Cambridge 222–3

  Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson 94

  fire at Windsor Castle 185

  George VI and Queen Elizabeth 110, 120, 127, 129

  Princess Elizabeth (later Elizabeth II) 121, 128

  Rupert Murdoch 181

  Second World War 140

  Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia 12, 48, 49–50, 55–6

  Nicolson, Harold 129

  Norway 134, 138, 231–2

  Ogilvy, James 219

  O’Kelly, Sean T 146–7

  Olaf V, King of Norway 232

  Olympic Games (1948) 144

  Olympic Games (2012) 188, 235, 251

  opera 210

  opinion polls 238, 258

  Order of Merit 230

  Order of the British Empire 65–6

  Order of the Indian Empire 147

  Orders, Royal see honours, Royal

  Osborne House 112, 228

  Oxford Centre of Islamic Art 206–7

  Oxford University 84, 87, 232

  Olympic games, Princess Anne in 196

  Parachute Regiment 199

  Parker Bowles, Camilla see Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

  People’s Budget 45–6

  Philip, Prince, Duke of Edinburgh 28, 56, 148, 149, 158–9, 160–1, 162, 170, 178, 181–2, 190, 192, 235, 249, 250

  Philips, Mark 185, 235

  Phoney War 134, 137

  Piper, John 142

  Poland 132, 133, 225

  polo 36, 163, 198, 217

  Pop (Eton prefectorial society) 217, 236

  Portugal 147

  Post Office Archives 182

  Potsdam 211

  Presentation at Court 168–9

  Prince of Wales (Edward VII) 30

  Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII) see Edward VIII, King

  Prince of Wales (Prince Charles) see Charles, Prince

  Prince of Wales (Prince Henry) 212

  Prince of Wales, Investitures 83–4

  Prince’s Charities 209

  Prince’s Foundation for Integrated Health 207

  Prince’s Trust 209–10

  Private Eye 181, 201, 250

  Privy Council 18, 27, 74, 93

  Profumo scandal 171

  Prussia 11–12, 34, 35, 49, 226–7, 246

  Punch 22

  Queen and I, The (Sue Townsend) 182–4

  racism 241

  radio (wireless) 26, 67–8, 92

  Edward VIII’s abdication speech 101

  Elizabeth II’s speeches 159, 161

  George VI’s speeches 125, 136, 137

  Raleigh International 218

  rationing 144

  Reagan, Ronald 210

  Regent, Prince see George IV, King

  Reith, Sir John 67

  republican see alternatives to monarchy; anti-Royalists

  Rhys-Jones, Sophie see Sophie, Countess of Wessex

  Ribbentrop, Joachim Von 93

  Richard, Cliff 180

  river pageant, Diamond Jubilee 239, 240

  Romania 35, 55, 57, 211, 246

  Romanov dynasty 55–6, 246

  Roosevelt, Franklin 132–3, 138

  Royal Air Force 5, 108, 114–15, 140, 142, 198, 211, 215, 220, 221, 258

  Royal Family 173–4

  Royal Horse Guards 249

  Royal Lodge, Windsor 121, 122, 154

  Royal Marines 179–80, 199

  Royal Marriages Act 91, 165

  Royal Maundy 62–3, 102

  Royal Mint 102

  Royal Navy 10, 31, 32–3, 53, 56, 83, 114, 197, 199, 221

  George VI 107–8, 111–14, 140

  Royal Navy Air Service 114–15

  Royal Opera 210

  Royal Palaces of Britain, The 173

  Royal Proclamation (family name change) 18, 54

  Royal Shakespeare Company 210

  Royal Warrants 237

  Runcie, Robert, Archbishop of Canterbury 202

  Russia 11, 12, 19–20, 48, 50, 226, 231, 246

  revolutions 26, 37, 54, 55–6, 61–2

  Soviet 61, 64, 132, 154, 171, 245

  Sandhurst military academy 220

  Sandringham Estate 22, 38, 40–1, 74, 123, 149–50, 154

  satirists 181–2, 201, 228, 250

  Saturday Evening Post (US magazine) 167

  Save the Children 209

  Saxe-Coburg-Gotha name dropped 22, 23, 24–5

  Scotland 61, 66, 256

  Second World War 60, 104, 113–14, 133–43, 159

  security service 1, 93

  Serbia 48, 49, 50

  Shand, Camilla see Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

  Silver Jubilee, Elizabeth II’s 176, 199

  Silver Jubilee, George V’s 79–80, 124

  Silver Stick-in-Waiting 231

  Simpson, Wallis (Duchess of Windsor) 90–1, 93, 94, 96–100, 101, 103–4, 106
, 129–30

  Sinn Féin 68, 69

  Skaggerak, Battle of (1916) 114

  Smuts, General Jan 69, 134, 148

  Snowdon, Lord (Anthony Armstrong-Jones) 172, 174, 196, 232

  Somme, Battle of the (1916) 19, 53

  Sophie, Countess of Wessex 187–8, 221–2

  South Africa 10, 72, 73, 148, 241

  souvenirs 102, 237, 253

  Spain 46

  Spanish monarchy 4, 231

  Spencer, Diana see Diana, Princess of Wales

  Spencer, Lady Sarah 202

  spies, British 171

  Spitting Image 181–2

  ‘Squidgygate’ 185

  St Andrews University 218–20

  St George’s Chapel, Windsor 21–2, 55, 150

  St James Palace 162, 243

  St Paul’s cathedral 176, 187

  Stalin, Joseph 132

  Stamfordham, Lord 24, 65, 77, 88

  stamp collection, George V’s 36, 41

  stamps and currency, Edward VIII’s 92, 102

  Stansgate, Lord 145

  Statute of Westminster (1931) 72

  Storkholm, Katja 233

  Stormont Parliament, opening of (1921) 69–70

  Strutt, Lieutenant Colonel Edward Lisle 57

  Sudetenland 130–1

  suffragettes 45, 46

  summer camps, George VI’s 116–18

  Sweden 226, 231

  Switzerland 256

  Tanner, Lawrence 63

  Tatchell, Peter 240–1

  tattoo, George V’s 33

  television coverage

  Christmas speeches 169–70

  Diamond Jubilee coverage 238, 240

  Elizabeth R documentary 184

  The Nation Decides 238

  Prince Charles interviewed 186, 204

  Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding 1, 2–3, 4, 5

  Princess Charles and Lady Diana Spencer’s wedding 177

  Princess Diana interviewed 186, 204

  Queen Elizabeth II’s 1960s documentaries 173–4

  Queen Elizabeth’s coronation 164

  tennis 115, 123

  terrorism 174, 201

  Thatcher, Margaret 178

  The Times 63, 75

  Time magazine 153

  Titles of Deprivation Act (1919) 54

  Townend, Colonel and Mrs 191

  Townsend, Group Captain Peter 165–6

  Townsend, Sue 182–4

  Travolta, John 180

  Treaty of Versailles 59–60, 130

  Trinity College, Cambridge 193

  Trooping of the Colour 149, 168, 174, 179, 230

  Truman, Harry S. 163

  Tryon, Dale 201

  Tsarskoe Seloe 226

  Tweedsmuir, Lord 134

  Ulster Volunteer Force (UFS) 47

  United States of America 5, 10, 20–1, 54, 57, 58, 86, 90, 91, 104, 130, 132, 144, 163, 209, 235–6

  university Chancellors, royal family as 249

  van der Post, Laurens 206

  VE Day 142–3

  Verdun, Battle of (1916) 53

  Versailles, Palace of 59, 225

  Victoria Mary, Princess of Teck (May) 38–9, 40–3

  see also Mary, Queen

  Victoria Memorial 230

  Victoria, Princess 38

 

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