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Halsey, Admiral, 90
Hardinge, Sir Alex, 236
Harewood, Lord, 250
Harriman, Averell, 344
Hart, Basil Liddell, 337
Hartley, L. P., 363
Henderson, Arthur, 138
Henderson, Nevile, 199, 200, 201, 206–207, 252, 271, 291, 292, 294, 318; at Cliveden, 273–74; and the Munich crisis, 284, 286; and the outbreak of the Second World War, 299; meeting with the Windsors, 310
Henry, Prince, 75, 88, 114
Hess, Rudolf, 271, 291
Hillary, Richard, 363
Himmler, Heinrich, 271, 291
Hitchins, Mrs. Lionel, 273
Hitler, Adolf, 177, 269–70, 276, 286, 291; and the Mitford sisters, 221–22; at the Nuremberg Congress, 231–32; invasion of Czechoslovakia, 276, 283–84, 285, 292; and the Munich Agreement, 283, 284, 285, 286; and the outbreak of war, 294, 295, 296, 298, 299; invasion of Norway, Denmark and the Low Countries, 322–23; invasion of Russia, 349; death, 384
Hobhouse, Christopher, 166
Holt, Harold, 303
Hordern, Bill, 178, 179
Hordern, Mary, 178, 179–82
Hordern, Peter, 178, 180, 181
Hore-Belisha, Leslie, 282, 297, 314, 316, 353
Howard, Peter, 153
Howard-Vyse, Sir Richard, 310
Howe, Captain Cecil, 243
Hutchinson, Leslie, 335
Hyslop, Nanny, 106, 184, 185, 198, 201, 206, 213, 289–90, 321, 335, 350
India: Curzon as Viceroy of 7–8, 10–13; Baba’s charity work in, 398
Irwin, Lord see Halifax, Edward Wood, 1st Earl of
James, Admiral, 305
James, Zita, 195, 198, 287
Jardine, Rev. Robert Anderson, 260, 262, 263, 264
Jean-Louis de Faucigny-Lucinge, Prince, 158
Jebb, Gladwyn, 352, 363
Joad, Cyril, 147, 152, 153
Johnston, Tom, 137, 138
Jones, Jack, 149–50, 151, 162
Jones, Sir Roderick and Lady, 352
Jones, Tom, 273–74, 276, 278, 337
Jowett, William, 351
Joyce, William (Lord Haw Haw), 321, 353
Jungman, Baby and Zita, 157
Kaye, Danny, 385
Kedleston estate (Derbyshire), 2, 40, 59
Kellett, “Flash,” 121, 123, 127
Kennington Day Nursery, 215, 217–18, 313, 314, 325
Keynes, John Maynard, 137
Kitchener, Horatio Herbert, 1st Earl, 13, 33
Labour Party, and the Mosleys, 106–108, 113, 114, 123–24, 129–33, 136–39, 145–49, 150–51, 166
Lambe, Charles, 246, 248
Lancaster, Nancy, 155
Lansbury, George, 137, 138
Lascelles, Alan (“Tommy”), 91–92, 216
Law, Andrew Bonar, 61, 66
League of Nations, 196
Lee, General Cliff H., 365, 368, 377
Legh, Piers (“Joey”), 243
Leiter, Levi Zeigler, 4, 6, 8
Leiter, Mary (later Lady Curzon), 4–8, 26, 103; appearance, 4–5; character, 5–6; marriage to George Curzon, 6–7; in India, 8, 11–13; illness and death, 12, 13; Curzon’s memories of, 16, 20, 97
Leith, Gordon, 109, 111, 113, 114, 115, 119, 120, 121, 127–29, 143, 157–58, 168, 188
Letellier, Yola, 251
Lewis, Kid, 153, 161
Lillie, Beatrice, 121
Lindsay, Professor Thomas, 29
Lloyd George, David, 40, 46, 61, 76, 79–80, 153, 278, 282, 342
Lodge, Oliver, 26
Loos, Anita, 121
Losch, Tilly, 295
Lothian, Lord, 154, 276, 279, 338–39, 342, 349
Loughborough, Lady, 216
Lubbock, Michael, 279, 320, 335, 396
Lyttelton, Oliver (later Lord Chandos), 49, 332
McCormack, John, 121, 127, 133
MacDonald, Malcolm, 381
MacDonald, Ramsay, 99, 106–107, 129, 130, 131, 133; and Mosley’s resignation from the Labour Party, 137, 138, 139; and Cimmie’s resignation from the Labour Party, 146–47; and the National Government, 158–59; on Wallis Simpson, 233
Macmillan, Harold, 143, 145, 352
Macmillan, Lady Dorothy, 143
Maginot Line, 254, 316
Maisky, M. and Mme, 333
Makins, Roger, 363
Malet, Mr. (Ambassador to Denmark), 333
Margesson, David, 166, 276, 352
Marriott, Maud, 368
Marsh, Edward, 37
Mary, Princess, 69, 243, 250
Mary, Queen, 33, 57, 68, 69, 72, 74, 79, 223, 243; and the wedding of the Duke of Windsor, 262, 263, 264, 265
Masaryk, Jan, 140, 290
Massey, Vincent, 325
Maugham, Somerset, 121, 157, 281
Maugham, Syrie, 121
Maurier, Gerald du, 121
Maury, Bobby Casa, 134
Maury, Paula Casa, 134
Meade, Lady Katharine, 215
Melton Mowbray, 85–87; Irene at, 76, 84, 111–13, 139–40; and the Prince of Wales, 84, 85–87, 112, 114, 117, 125
Mendl, Charles, 158, 201, 293
Mendl, Elsie, 121, 157, 280
Mercier, Charles, 262
Messel, Oliver, 121
Metcalfe, David, 119, 140, 193–94, 253, 254, 280, 297, 334, 357, 387, 395
Metcalfe, Davina, 144
Metcalfe, Edward Dudley (“Fruity”), 72–75, 84; and Duke of Windsor (as Prince of Wales), 72–73, 74, 75, 79–81, 88–90, 95, 102–103, 110–11, 117, 133–34, 142, 202; appearance, 73, 232; character, 73, 101; in India, 72–74; courtship of Baba, 87–88, 90–93, 94–95, 100–103; riding accident, 88–89; and Lord Curzon’s death, 97–98, 99; marriage to Baba, 103–104; married life, 123, 133–34, 141–43, 168, 174, 188, 201–202, 215–16, 232, 234–35, 275, 279, 283, 382; as Father Christmas, 174; and Cimmie’s illness and death, 184; and Baba’s relationship with Tom Mosley, 186, 191, 193, 194, 197–98, 212–13, 214, 217, 218, 317; and Baba’s relationship with Grandi, 197; illness, 205; and the Abdication crisis, 239; and the Duchess of Windsor, 246, 282, 310–12, 315, 321; at Schloss Enzesfeld with the Duke of Windsor, 246–51, 252, 253; and the wedding of the Duke of Windsor, 256–57, 258, 260, 263, 264; at the Villa La Croë, 279–80, 296–97; hernia operation, 293, 296–97; and the Duke of Windsor on the outbreak of war, 300–302; wartime letters to Baba, 300–302, 325–27, 347–48; and the Duke of Windsor at the Military Mission in Paris, 306–307, 310–13, 315–17, 321, 322–23; abandoned by the Duke of Windsor in Paris, 326–28, 360–61; and Baba’s relationship with Lord Halifax, 330; at Little Compton in wartime, 334, 367, 368–69; war service in Cairo, 357, 363, 364–65, 367–68; meeting with the Duke of Windsor (1946), 392; divorce from Baba, 395, 396, 397; illness and death, 397–98
Metcalfe, Lady Alexanda see Curzon, Lady Alexandra (“Baba”)
Metcalfe, Linda, 144
Milner, Alfred, Lord 22, 23
Mitford, Debo, 296
Mitford, Diana see Guinness, Diana
Mitford, Nancy, 164, 336
Mitford, Tom, 158, 221, 295
Mitford, Unity, 169, 221–22
Molyneux, Captain Edward, 157
Monckton, Walter, 224, 229, 230, 248, 321, 344, 392; and the Abdication crisis, 236, 237, 239–41, 242, 243; and the wedding of the Duke of Windsor, 260, 261, 262–63; and the Windsors on the outbreak of war, 297–98, 300, 304–306; relations with Baba, 320, 322, 336; and the Second World War, 323; at the Dorchester Hotel in wartime, 332, 341
Montacute House, Somerset, 36–37, 38, 59, 67, 82
Montagu, Edwin, 337
Montgomery, Robert, 352
Morris, Sir William, 148
Morrison, Herbert, 271–72, 330–31, 335, 358, 376
Morrow, Ed, 364
Mosley, Alexander, 286–87, 289, 292, 321, 329, 377
Mosley, Lady Cynthia see Curzon, Lady Cynthia (“Cimmie”)
Mosley, Lady (Maud), 168, 173, 205, 213, 295; and Cimmie’s illn
ess and death, 182, 183–84, 185; and Baba’s relations with Tom Mosley, 189, 192; and Baba’s relations with Diana Guinness, 190, 231; and Tom Mosley’s children, 211, 226–27, 245, 266–67, 275, 278–79, 309; and Tom Mosley’s marriage to Diana Guinness, 289; and Tom Mosley’s imprisonment, 371
Mosley, Max, 329, 377
Mosley, Micky, 168, 192, 195, 199, 201, 204, 206, 210, 211, 212, 213, 217, 303, 309, 353–54, 371, 373, 379, 389; and the Abdication crisis, 242; and Diana Mosley, 254; and Tom Mosley’s marriage to Diana Guinness, 289–90; and the Second World War, 321, 335, 363; Irene’s travels with, 390
Mosley, Nicholas, 103, 106, 140, 195, 208, 210, 226, 245, 252, 275; and Tom Mosley’s marriage to Diana Guinness, 288, 289; and Tom Mosley’s politics, 295; and the Second World War, 298–99, 303, 309, 310, 320, 321, 370, 374; and Tom Mosley’s imprisonment, 340, 377; and Irene’s public speaking, 389
Mosley, Sir Oswald Ernald (“Tom”): meets Cimmie, 45–47; appearance, 46; as Coalition MP for Harrow, 46–47, 49, 62; and the First World War, 46; love affairs, 46, 105–106, 119, 122, 155, 158, 159, 163, 172; courtship of Cimmie, 49–50, 53, 54–56, 84; marriage to Cimmie, 56–57; and Cimmie’s settlement income, 62, 64; and Baba’s marriage, 103; married life with Cimmie, 105–108, 122, 140–41, 158, 159; and the Labour Party, 106–108, 113, 114, 123–24, 129–33, 136–39, 145–49, 150–51, 166; family home at Savehay Farm, 114, 205, 206, 211–12, 266; and hunting 117; relations with Irene, 119, 123, 129, 171, 194, 195–96, 205, 206, 208, 227–28; relations with Baba, 123, 176–77, 186, 189–93, 194, 197–98, 200, 201, 202, 203, 208, 212–14, 215, 217, 218–20, 222, 225–26, 227, 234, 317; Memorandum, 137–38; and the New Party, 145–53, 155–56, 159–63; and fascism, 160–61, 166–67, 171, 173–74, 177–78, 194, 195, 200–201, 203–205, 207–208, 220–21, 233–34, 266, 294–96, 323–25; meets Diana Guinness, 164–65; affair with Diana Guinness, 167–68, 169, 171–72, 173, 174, 175, 200; The Greater Britain, 168, 173; and Irene’s engagement to Miles Graham, 181; and Cimmie’s death, 182–85; relations with his children, 192, 208, 210–12, 226–27, 252, 254, 266–68, 288–90, 308, 309, 310, 353–54; effect of Cimmie’s death on, 194–95; health problems, 194, 195–96; character, 226; operation for appendicitis, 230–31; marriage to Diana Guinness, 233–34, 282, 286–87, 288–90; and Christmases at Denham, 244–45; loss of libel case, 270–71; birth of son Alexander, 286–87; and Nazi Germany, 291; Lord Halifax compared with, 318; imprisonment, 324–25, 328, 329, 330–31, 335, 340, 350, 352, 358–59, 370, 371; release from prison, 375–77; at Crowood House after the war, 385–86; Baba’s hatred of, 399
Mosley, Vivien, 103, 105, 106, 192, 194, 195, 205, 208, 210–11, 218, 226, 245, 254; and Diana Mosley, 266; visit to Germany, 269–70; in Paris, 278; coming-out, 288, 290–91, 292, 293–94; and Tom Mosley’s marriage to Diana Guinness, 288, 289; and Tom Mosley’s politics, 295; and the Second World War, 298–99, 308, 314, 353, 359; and Tom Mosley’s imprisonment, 324, 325, 340, 377; and Irene’s drinking bouts, 362; and Baba’s relations with Irene, 377
Mountbatten, Lady Edwina, 74, 75, 101, 103, 104, 112, 134, 251, 335; and the Abdication crisis, 237, 240, 241
Mountbatten, Lord Louis (“Dickie”), 73–74, 75, 103, 104, 216, 230, 251; and Brook House, 100–101; and the Abdication crisis, 239, 241; and the Windsors on the outbreak of war, 305
Munich crisis, 276–77, 283–86
Mussolini, Benito, 160, 178, 196, 214, 215, 220–21, 274, 284, 291–92; and Hitler, 269–70, 296; death, 384
National Government, 159, 161
Nazi Germany, 152; and Diana Guinness, 221–22, 291; Nuremberg Congress, 231–32; visit of the Duke of Windsor to, 268–69, 271–72; Irene and Vivien Mosley in, 269–70; and Lord Halifax, 274–75; and the Munich crisis, 276–77, 283–86; and Tom Mosley, 291, see also Hitler, Adolf; Second World War
Negri, Pola, 110
New Party, 145–53, 155–56, 159–63, 166
Nichols, Philip, 273
Nicolson, Harold, 99, 130, 131, 166, 167, 223–24, 227, 363, 397; and the New Party, 145, 152, 153, 156, 159, 160–63; and the Munich Agreement, 285–86
Nicolson, Nigel, 398–99
Norton, Mrs. Richard, 120
Novello, Ivor, 121
O’Connor, Terence, 265
Onslow, Lady Dorothy, 110
Otto, Archduke of Austria, 334
Owen, Frank, 277
Pakenham, Mrs. (later Lady Longford), 197
Palewski, Gaston, 336
Paul, Prince of Greece, 195
Peake, Charles (later Sir Charles), 319, 341–42, 369, 371–72, 374, 376, 395, 396
Phillips, Gray, 312, 355
Portal, Lord, 332
Portarlington, Winnie, 178, 179–80, 182, 187
Potts, Miss Jane, 19
Pratt, Sir John, 150
Price, Ward, 266
Ramsay, Captain Maule, 324
Ravensdale, Lady see Curzon, Lady Irene (later Lady Ravensdale)
Reading, Stella, Marchioness of, 390
Redesdale, Lady, 289, 296
Rennell, Lady, 217
Rice, Edward, 117–18
Robeson, Paul, 121, 133
Rochfort, Cecil Boyd, 224
Roehm, Ernst, 206
Rogers, Herman, 255, 259, 260, 263
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 284, 349
Roosevelt, Theodore, 112
Rothschild, Baron Eugene de, 243, 262
Rothschild, Kitty, 244, 246, 248, 249–50, 262
Rothschild, Mrs. Leo, 334
Rubinstein, Arthur, 34–35, 111, 118, 127, 133, 140, 168–70
Russell, Mrs. Gilbert, 352
Russell, Muriel, 92, 213
Salisbury, Lady, 55, 83–84
Sanford, Laddie, 112
Sargent, Malcolm, 128
Scarsdale, Lord (father of Lord Curzon), 2, 6, 40
Second World War, 303–17; outbreak, 297–99; and the Duke of Windsor, 299–302, 304–307, 310–13; and upper-class social life, 313–14; and Strasbourg, 315–16; invasion of Norway, Denmark and the Low Countries, 322–23; fall of France, 325–26, 329; bombing raids, 331, 333–34, 347–48, 381–82; and the Dorchester Hotel, 331, 332–34, 335, 340–41, 351, 352; bombing of Pearl Harbor, 357–58; conscription of women 359; and Cairo, 367–68; Allied gains, 380–81, 382, 383
Sefton, Lord, 257, 280
Selby, Lady, 262, 264
Selby, Sir Wolford, 243
Senhouse, Roger, 352
Seymour, Sir Horace, 333
Shaw, Bernard, 154
Shaw, Bobbie, 23, 78–79, 117, 153–55
Shilling Theatre Company, 195
Sibley, Lena, 140, 141, 144, 151, 152
Sibley, Nanny, 17
Sieff, Israel, 171, 172–74
Sikorski, General, 343, 372
Simpson, Wallis (later Duchess of Windsor), 202, 216–17, 224; and Edward VIII as King, 224, 228–30, 232–33, 234; and the Abdication crisis, 236–38, 240; telephone calls to the Duke at the Schloss Enzesfeld, 244, 247, 249–50; and Fruity Metcalfe, 246, 282, 310–12, 315, 321; marriage to the Duke of Windsor, 255–65; appearance, 259; and the HRH question, 260–61, 264, 265; and the Second World War, 300, 301, 323; stays with the Metcalfes during the war, 304–307; Red Cross work during the war, 310, 315, 316; and Baba, 322, 360–61, 383, 392–93; visit to Washington in wartime, 355–57; and Fruity’s death, 397–98
Sinclair, Sir Archibald, 106, 177, 364, 365
Sitwell, Georgia, 121, 122, 133, 137, 174, 191; and Fruity Metcalfe, 142, 163, 290, 334; on Mosley and politics, 151, 155, 161, 162; and Baba, 163, 290, 291, 323, 335; on Diana Guinness, 164, 173, 174; as Tom Mosley’s mistress, 168; on Cimmie’s death, 185, 186; on Baba’s relations with Tom Mosley, 203; on the British Union of Fascists, 204; on the Duke of Windsor’s wedding, 267
Sitwell, Osbert, 156
Sitwell, Sacheverell, 121, 122, 161, 163, 174, 185
Smith, F. E., 46
Smith, Lady Eleanor, 133
Snowden, Philip, 137
Somervi
lle, Donald, 325
Souls, the, 3, 26, 30, 35, 39, 41, 77
Stanley, Lady Maureen, 143
Stanley, Oliver, 143, 145, 332
Stanley, Venetia, 320
Stevenson, Frances (later Lady Lloyd George), 72
Steward, Campbell, 303
Storrs, Ronald, 70–71
Strachey, John, 107, 108, 111, 121, 131, 133, 137, 145, 146, 208, 226; and the New Party, 152–53
Strasbourg, 254, 315–16
Sweeney, Bobby, 234
Tattershall Castle, Lincolnshire, 35, 59, 100
Thomas, J. H., 136, 137, 139, 223–24
Thompson, Edith, 16
Tiarks, Henry, 372
Tree, Nancy, 251
Tree, Ronnie, 117, 251, 276
Trotter, Brigadier Gerald (“G”), 90, 91
unemployment, and Mosley’s politics, 136, 137, 156, 162
Valentino, Rudolf, 110
Vanderbilt, Gloria, 126
Vaughan, General John, 86
Verdura, Fulco di, 225
Walpole, Hugh, 227
Walton, William, 133
Ward, Colonel, 129, 131–32
Ward, Mrs. Freda Dudley, 71, 73, 75, 112, 125, 163, 202, 229
Wardell, Captain Michael, 85–86, 89, 282, 295
Webb, Beatrice, 107, 123–24, 136, 138, 139, 145–46, 161
Webb, Sidney, 123–24
Weidenfeld, George (now Lord), 390
Weizmann, Chaim, 344, 352, 372
Westminster, Loelia, Duchess of, 335
Whitney, Adrienne, 352
Whitney, Helen Hay, 112
Whitney, Jock, 112, 218, 220, 224–25, 230, 251, 351, 365
Wilder, Thornton, 293, 352
Williams-Ellis, Annabel, 114
Williams-Ellis, Clough, 111, 114
Willingdon, Lord, 228
Wilson, Lady, 276, 278
Wilson, “Scatters,” 99, 113, 120, 122, 134–35, 337
Windsor, Duchess of see Simpson, Wallis (later Duchess of Windsor)
Windsor, Duke of see Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII, later the Duke of Windsor)
Winn, Alice, 273, 276
Winn, Reggie, 44, 273, 276
Wolfe, Elsie de, 228