Cecil, Lord David, 1, 2
Chaliapin, Fedor I., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Chamberlain, Neville, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Channon, Sir Henry (‘Chips’): Diana meets, 1;
and Prince of Wales, 1, 2;
and George VI, 1;
and Nazi Germany, 1;
in Geneva, 1;
and Robert Menzies, 1;
visits Bognor farm, 1;
invited to Paris Embassy, 1;
and Diana’s ducks, 1
Channon, Lady Honor, 1
Chantilly, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Chapel Street (London), 1, 2, 3
Chaplin, Charles, 1, 2, 3, 4
Chaplin, June, 1
Chaplin, Oona, 1
Charteris, Ann, see Fleming, Ann
Charteris, Hugo, 1
Charteris, Hugo Francis (‘Ego’; Lord Elcho), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Charteris, Violet (Lady Elcho; née Manners; ‘Letty’; Diana’s sister): born, 1; childhood, 1, 2, 3;
on Diana’s appearance, 1;
relations with Diana, 1;
and Diana’s illness, 1;
marriage, 1, 2, 3;
wartime nursing, 1;
and husband’s death, 1;
and Duff, 1, 2
Chevalier, Maurice, 1
Chirk (house), 1
Churchill, Clementine, Lady, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Churchill, Mary (Lady Soames), 1
Churchill, Randolph, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Churchill, Sir Winston: on Diana’s beauty, 1; on Diana and Patrick Shaw-Stewart, 1;
at Herstmonceux, 1;
praises Diana, 1;
policies, 1;
and Beaverbrook, 1;
and Duff’s career, 1;
and Edward VIII, 1;
as First Lord of the Admiralty (1940), 1;
pre-war politics, 1;
in 1939 Cabinet, 1;
becomes Prime Minister, 1;
and Far East strategy, 1, 2, 3;
and Duff’s Algiers appointment, 1;
in Marrakesh, 1;
visits Algiers, 1;
in Paris, 1, 2, 3, 4;
loses 1945 Election, 1;
at Aix, 1;
in old age‚ 1‚ 2;
presents first Duff Cooper Memorial Prize, 1
Churchill, Winston (grandson of above), 1
Clary, Alfons, Prince Clary and Aldringen, 1
Cleveland, Ohio, 1
Clifford, Anne, see Norwich, Anne, Viscountess
Clifford, Sir Bede, 1
Coats, Peter, 1
Cochran, C. B., 1, 2, 3, 4
Cockayne Hatley (house), 1
Cocteau, Jean, 1, 2, 3, 4
Codman, Charles, 1
Colbert, Claudette, 1
Colefax, Sibyl, Lady, 1
Connaught, Duke of, 1
Connolly, Cyril, 1, 2
Cooper, Lady Agnes (Duff’s mother), 1
Cooper, Sir Alfred (Duff’s father), 1
Cooper, Alfred Duff, 1st Viscount Norwich: on Diana’s melancholy, 1; and chaperonage, 1;
and Jews, 1, 2, 3;
ancestry, 1;
as Diana’s suitor, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
on Diana’s role-playing, 1;
in Venice, 1;
and Anson’s death, 1, 2;
at home in First War, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
on Diana’s drugtaking, 1, 2;
at Montagus’, 1;
on Asquith, 1;
and Diana’s admirers, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
gambling and wildness, 1, 2‚ 3;
and war deaths, 1, 2, 3;
flirtations and infidelities, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
serves in army in First War, 1, 2, 3;
reads aloud, 1;
Bournemouth holiday, 1;
and money, 1;
post-First War career and prospects, 1, 2;
pre-marriage difficulties with Diana’s family, 1;
temper, 1, 2;
wedding, 1;
marriage relationship, 1, 2;
London homes, 1, 2;
helps Diana with journalism, 1;
and Beaverbrook, 1, 2, 3;
and Diana’s film-making, 1;
in government, 1, 2, 3;
social life and companions, 1, 2;
and Diana’s appearance in The Miracle, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
arrested in Paris, 1;
political career, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
coldness, 1;
elected MP for Oldham, 1;
and birth of son, 1;
and Diana’s social activities, 1;
trips abroad, 1;
writings, 1;
as First Lord of the Admiralty, 1, 2;
and Edward, 1;
and Queen Elizabeth
(Queen Mother), 1;
as Secretary of State for War, 1;
and Nazi Germany, 1;
resigns, 1;
1939 lecture tour in USA, 1, 2;
as Minister of Information, 1, 2, 3;
and Bognor farm, 1;
as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, 1;
wartime mission to Far East and Australasia, 1;
as British Representative in Algiers, 1;
as Ambassador in Paris, 1, 2, 3, 4;
and Louise de Vilmorin, 1;
rebukes Randolph Churchill, 1;
as Paris Ambassador under Labour government, 1, 2;
leaves Paris, 1;
post-ambassadorial return to Paris, 1;
death, 1, 2, 3, 4;
earnings, 1;
anger at Waugh, 1;
and Diana’s discontents, 1;
in retirement, 1, 2;
peerage, 1;
final illness, 1;
memorial service, 1;
library, 1;
memorial prize, 1;
Old Men Forget, 1
Cooper, Artemis (John Julius’ daughter), 1, 2, 3, 4
Cooper, Lady Diana, Viscountess Norwich: birth, 1; childhood, 1;
love of dressing up, 1, 2, 3, 4;
appearance, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10;
education, 1, 2, 3;
and Tree family, 1;
contracts Erb’s disease, 1;
brooding and depression, 1, 2, 3;
early sociability, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
comes out, 1;
unconventional behaviour, 1, 2, 3;
attracts publicity, 1;
learns of parentage, 1;
early travels, 1, 2;
and Jews, 1, 2;
suitors, 1, 2, 3;
and Prince of Wales, 1, 2, 3, 4;
relations with Duff, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
political views, 1, 2, 3;
religious ideas, 1, 2, 3;
and Anson’s death, 1;
on stopping First War, 1;
nursing in First War, 1, 2, 3, 4;
in Arnold Bennett novel, 1;
relations with mother, 1, 2;
drug-taking and drinking, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;
attachment to Raymond Asquith, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
flirtatiousness and admirers, 1, 2, 3;
broken legs, 1, 2, 3;
loss of friends in First War, 1, 2;
and Duff’s army service, 1, 2;
love of stage, 1, 2;
satirized in Butt’s review, 1;
and First War air raids, 1, 2;
Bournemouth holiday, 1;
attitude to money, 1, 2, 3, 4;
family difficulties over Duff, 1;
wedding, 1, 2;
on love and marriage, 1, 2, 3, 4;
romances, 1;
driving, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
hypochondria, 1, 2, 3;
in D. H. Lawrence’s Aaron’s Rod, 1;
London homes, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
business and journalistic interests, 1, 2;
film-making, 1;
in The Miracle, 1, 2, 3, 4;
facial surgery, 1, 2;
and Duff’s political career, 1, 2, 3,
4, 5, 6;
in General Strike, 1;
pregnancy and birth of son, 1;
supposed infidelities, 1;
in Enid Bagnold’s The Loved and the Envied, 1;
travels, 1;
and Windsors, 1;
and mother’s death, 1;
and pre-Second War politics, 1;
1939 trip to USA, 1;
skin trouble, 1;
activities in Second War, 1;
farming, 1, 2;
on Communist Russia, 1;
accompanies Duff on Far East mission, 1;
at age 1, 2;
in Algiers, 1;
and French language, 1;
at Paris Embassy, 1, 2;
and Louise de Vilmorin, 1, 2, 3, 4;
and Duff’s mistresses, 1;
health, 1;
Mauriac describes, 1;
return to France and feud with Harveys, 1;
farm animals at Chantilly, 1;
discontent, 1;
and Duff’s peerage and own title, 1;
and John Julius’ marriage, 1;
at 1953 Coronation, 1;
and Duff’s death, 1, 2;
widowhood, 1;
later travels, 1‚ 2;
and John Julius’ Foreign Office postings, 1;
and grandchildren, 1, 2, 3‚ 4;
writes memoirs, 1‚ 2;
returns to live in London, 1;
in Washington, 1;
house burgled, 1;
keeps dog, 1;
driving charges, 1;
mishaps and accidents, 1;
on death and prayer, 1
Cooper, Duff, see Cooper, Alfred Duff, 1st Viscount Norwich
Cooper, Gladys, 1, 2, 3
Cooper, Jason (John Julius’ son), 1‚ 2‚ 3
Cooper, John Julius, see Norwich, J. J. Cooper, 2nd Viscount
Cooper, Sybil, see Hart-Davis, Sybil
Corrigan, Laura, 1
‘Corrupt Coterie, The’, 1, 2‚ 3
Cory-Wright, Sir Arthur, 1
Couve de Murville, Maurice Jacques, 1
Corry, Montagu (later Lord Rowton), 1
Coward, Sir Noel, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Coward, Violet, 1
Cowles, Virginia, 1, 2
Cranborne, Viscount, see Salisbury, Robert A. J. Cecil, 5th Marquess of
Crawford, James Lindsay, 24th Earl of, 1
Crewe, Lady Margaret, Marchioness of, 1
Cripps, Frederick, 1
Crosse, Jenny, 1, 2, 3, 4
Crosse, Patrick, 1
Cruger, Bertram, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Cunard, Sir Bache, 1
Cunard, Maud (Emerald), Lady: in Venice, 1; adopts name, 1;
visits Asquith, 1;
and Beecham’s baronetcy, 1;
and The Miracle, 1;
and Mrs Simpson, 1;
supports Edward VIII, 1;
entertains
Ribbentrop, 1;
in Dorchester Hotel during Second War, 1;
visits Bognor, 1;
death, 1
Cunard, Nancy, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5‚ 6
Curzon of Kedleston, George Nathaniel, 1st Marquess, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Curzon, Mary Victoria, Marchioness, 1, 2, 3
Cust, Harry, 1, 2, 3, 4; as Diana’s father, 1, 2
Daily Express, 1, 2
Daily Mail, 1
Daily Mirror, 1
Daintry, Adrian, 1
Daly, Diana, 1
Davies, Marion, 1
Dawson, Geoffrey, 1
De La Warr, Herbrand E. D. B. Sackville, 9th Earl, 1
Delmer, Sefton, 1
de Portalès, Jacqueline, 1
D’Erlanger, Marie, Baroness, 1
Desborough, Ethel (Ettie), Lady, 1‚ 2‚ 3, 4, 5
de Valera, Eamonn, 1
Devonshire, Deborah, Duchess of, 1
Diaghilev, Serge, 1
Dietrich, Marlene, 1
Dirksen, Herbert von, 1
Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, 1, 2
Ditchley (house), 1
Dixon, Sir Pierson, 1
Dorchester Hotel (London), 1
Dortmund, 1, 2
Drian, A., 1
Drogheda, Kathleene Moore, Countess of, 1
Dudley, Rachel, Countess of, 1
Dudley, William Humble Ward, 2nd Earl of, 1, 2, 3
Dudley, William, Viscount Ednam, 1
Duff, Caroline, 1, 2
Duff, Lady Juliet, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Duff, Michael, 1
Dufferin and Ava, Marchioness of, 1
Duncannon, Henry, 1
Durrell, Lawrence, 1
Edelman, Maurice, 1
Eden, Sir Anthony (later 1st Earl of Avon), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Eden, Beatrice Helen (first wife of above), 1
Eden, Clarissa, Lady (later Countess of Avon), 1
Eden, Sir William, 1
Edward VII, King, 1, 2, 3
Edward VIII, King, see Windsor, Edward, Duke of
Eliot, T. S., 1, 2
Elizabeth II, Queen, 1, 2
Elizabeth the Queen Mother, 1, 2‚ 3
Elliott, Maxine, 1
Eluard, Paul, 1
Enchantress (Admiralty yacht), 1, 2
Essex, Mary Eveline, Countess of, 1
Eton College, 1
Eugénie, Empress, 1
Evening Standard, 1, 2, 3, 4 5‚ 6
Ewhurst, 1
Fahie, Nora, 1
Fairbanks, Douglas, Jr., 1
Fane, Frederick, 1
Farrell, Lady Katherine, 1
Fellowes, Daisy, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Femina (magazine), 1
Ferguson, Rachel, 1
Février, Jacques, 1
Fielding, Daphne (earlier Viscountess Weymouth), 1, 2, 3
Figaro, 1
Firbank, Ronald, 1
Fitzroy Street (London), 1
Fleming, Ann (née Charteris; then O’Neill; then Rothermere), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Fleming, Ian, 1
Flynn, Errol, 1
Forbes, Alastair, 1, 2
Fort Belvedere (Prince of Wales’ house), 1
Fouchet, Max, 1
Fox, Edward, 1
Franco, General Don Francisco, 1
French, General Sir John, 1, 2, 3
Freyberg, General Bernard, 1
Furness, Marmaduke, 1st Viscount, 1
Gage, Henry Rainald, 6th Viscount, 1
Gaitskell, Hugh, 1, 2
Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand, 1
Garbo, Greta, 1, 2, 3
Gaulle, Charles de: and Duff’s Algiers appointment, 1; Diana’s relations with, 1, 2;
Randolph Churchill defends, 1;
resentment, 1;
and Churchill in Paris, 1;
state visit to England, 1
Gaulle, Yvonne de, 1
Gellhorn, Martha, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Gendel, Judy (née Montagu), 1
Gendel, Milton, 1
George V, King, 1, 2, 3
George VI, King (Prince Albert, Duke of York), 1, 2
George II, King of Greece, 1
Germany, 1
Gest, Morris, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Gide, André, 1
Gilbert, John, 1
Giles, Frank and Lady Katherine, 1
Giraud, General Henri, 1
Gladwyn see Jebb Glorious Adventure, The (film), 1, 2
Gloucester, Henry, Duke of, 1
Gomez (Portuguese quack), 1
Gower Street (London), 1, 2
Granby, John, Marquess of, see Rutland, John Manners, 9th Duke of
Grandi, Dino, 1
Green, Julien, 1
Greene, Graham, 1, 2
Grenfell, Julian, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Grenfell, William, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Greville, Maynard, 1
Griffith, D. W., 1
Grimsthorpe (house), 1
Grimthorpe, Ralph W. E. Beckett, 3rd Baron, 1
Gub
bay, Hannah, 1
Guinness, Loel, 1, 2, 3
Guy’s Hospital (London), 1, 2, 3
Hackwood (house), 1
Haddon Hall, 1, 2
Hadj, Messali, 1
Halifax, Edward F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of, 1, 2, 3, 4
Hallam, Basil, 1, 2, 3
Hardinge of Penshurst, Charles, 1st Baron, 1
Hare, Augustus, 1
Harriman, Averell, 1
Hart-Davis, Sir Rupert, 1, 2 passim, 1, 2
Hart-Davis, Sybil (née Cooper), 1, 2, 3
Harvey, Maud, Lady, 1, 2
Harvey, Sir Oliver (Lord Harvey of Tasburgh), 1, 2, 3, 4
Hatton (house), 1
Healey, Edna, 1
Hearst, William Randolph, 1, 2
Hemingway, Ernest, 1
Henley, Sylvia, 1
Henry, Sir Edward, 1
Herbert, Auberon, 1, 2
Herbert, Aubrey, 1, 2
Herbert, David, 1
Herbert, Michael, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Herbert, Sidney, 1, 2
Herstmonceux, 1
Hertford Hospital, 1
Hill, Derek, 1
Hitler, Adolf, 1, 2
Hoare, Sir Samuel, 1
Hofmannsthal, Elizabeth von (née Paget), 1, 2
Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 1, 2
Hofmannsthal, Raimund, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Holbrook (butler), 1, 2, 3
Holden, Norman, 1
Hore-Belisha, Leslie, 1
Horner, Edward: relations with Diana, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12; and Anson’s death, 1;
war service, 1, 2, 3;
on Diana’s detachment, 1;
gambling, 1; wounded, 2;
killed, 1;
and Beecham
baronetcy, 1
Horner, Frances, Lady, 1, 2
Horner, Sir John, 1, 2, 3
Howard, Brian, 1
Howard de Walden, Margherita (‘Margot’), Lady, 1, 2
Hozier, Nellie, 1
Hugnet, Georges, 1, 2
Humperdinck, Engelbert, 1
Hutchinson, Barbara, 1
Hutchinson, Mary, 1, 2, 3
Hutchinson, St John, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Hutton, Barbara, 1
Huxley, Aldous, 1
Huxley, Sir Julian, 1
Institut de France, 1
Italy, 1, 2
Janzé, Phyllis de (formerly Boyd), 1, 2
Jebb, Cynthia, Lady, 1
Jebb, Sir Gladwyn (later 1st Baron Gladwyn), 1
Jews, 1, 2, 3
Joel, Solomon Barnato, 1
John, Augustus, 1, 2
Johnson, Lyndon B., 1
Jones, Enid, Lady, see Bagnold, Enid
Jones, Laurence, 1, 2, 3
Jones, Sir Roderick, 1, 2
Jowitt, Sir William (later Earl Jowitt), 1
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