The Unquiet Englishman
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Viking 103, 124, 125, 225, 291, 370–1, 404
Virago Press 498
Vitoria (Basque region) 432
Vivian, Valentine 138
Vodou religion 253–4
Voznesensky, Andrei 490
Vukovic, Pedro 411
Vukulov, Oleg 491
Walker, Alice Marion ’Molly’ (sister) 5, 7, 16, 24, 324, 352
Walker, John (nephew) 324
Walker, Lionel 24, 324
Walker, Martin 491
Walker, Peter 324
Walpole, Horace 344
Walston, Catherine: Oliver Walston’s memoir xiv–xv, 167, 168; and The End of the Affair xv, 170, 198, 211; background of 167–8; and Catholicism 168–9, 192, 194, 223, 227; parentage of children of 168; private pilot’s licence 168, 170; first meetings with GG (1945/6) 169, 170; affair with GG begins 170–1; John Hayward’s love for 174–5; in Capri with GG 183, 197, 227, 231, 252, 369; 5 St James’s Street residence 187–8, 231; intensity of GG’s love for 191–2, 193, 194, 196, 201, 213, 231; affair with GG as public knowledge 192, 211; refuses to leave children/Harry 192, 195, 212–13; and psychoanalysis 195; in France with GG 197, 208; travel with GG 210, 247, 278–9, 284; reconciliations and break-ups with GG (1950s) 212, 260, 267–8, 284, 295–6; and opium 223; Thomas Gilby’s affair with 230–1; GG’s slow break with 266, 268, 325–6, 369, 458–9; and GG’s relationship with Anita Björk 267–8, 284, 285, 295–6, 458; Gillian Sutro on 275; ill health in later life 326, 369, 458–9; death of (1978) 459
Walston, David 168
Walston, Harry 167–8, 187–8, 191, 192, 195, 197, 284, 458, 459; and The End of the Affair 198, 211
Walston, James 168
Walston, Oliver xiv–xv, 167, 168
Waugh, Auberon 191, 353
Waugh, Evelyn 22, 31, 34, 75, 80, 93, 102, 114, 231; friendship with GG 24, 190, 211–12, 248, 336–7, 342, 371; on The Heart of the Matter 177; and Catholicism 190–1, 248, 336–7, 372; Brideshead Revisited 190; on A Burnt-Out Case 336, 337; and politics 342; declining health and death of (1966) 371–2; Sykes’s biography of 417; Amory’s edition of the letters of 467
Wayne, John 445
Weaver, John 127, 163
Weaver, Stella 47, 51, 127, 163
Wee Willie Winkie (John Ford film, 1937) 102–3
Weidenfeld & Nicolson 416
Weldon, Fay 491
Welles, Orson 185–6
West, Nigel 151, 154
Westminster Gazette 18, 24, 26, 41, 108
Westminster Hospital 48
Wheeler, Augustus 14–15, 17, 21, 202, 301
White, Antonia 91–2
White, Sir Dick (‘C’) 297
Whitehead, Alfred 408
Whyatt, John 238
Wijnants, Pierre 314
Wilde, Oscar 3, 422
Wilder, Gene 305
Wilhelm, Prince (of Sweden) 266
Willichs, Father (Belgian priest) xi–xii, 257, 260
Wilson, Colonel 15
Wilson, Margaret 70–1, 127
Wilson, Dr McNair 50
Wilson, Trevor 149, 205–6, 207–8, 214–15, 217, 221, 241–2, 260, 288; GG tainted by association with 216, 219, 220; Laotian posting 391, 392
Winkelstein, Dr Warren 218
Withers, Googie 305
Wolfe, Charles 432
Wolfe, Humbert 47
Wood, Peter 361, 362
Woolf, Virginia 198–9
World Health Organization 308
World Wildlife Fund 420
Wormald, Brian 291
Wormwood Scrubs 71
Wright, Peter, Spycatcher 494–5
Wright, Ralph 337–8
Wyszyński, Cardinal Stefan 265–6
Yakovlev, Alexander 489, 492
Yapp, Mr (FO’s man in Monrovia) 83, 87
Yeltsin, Boris 495
Yonge, Charlotte M., The Little Duke 8
Young, Doris 197, 231, 264
Young, Francis Brett 182
Yugoslavia 63, 229, 233–4
Zaharoff, Sir Basil 64
Zhou Enlai 286
Zola, Emile 474
Zorillo, Américo 411
Zweig, Arnold 348
Also by Richard Greene
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