Counting One’s Blessings: The Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, edited by William Shawcross, 2012
Daily Telegraph interview with Sonia Berry by Cassandra Jardine, 2002
The Duke: A Portrait of Prince Philip by Tim Heald, 1991
Elizabeth by Sarah Bradford, 1996
Elizabeth R by Elizabeth Longford, 1983
Footprints in Time by John Colville, 1976
The Fringes of Power: Downing Street Diaries 1939–1955 by John Colville, 1985
Harold Nicolson: Diaries and Letters 1930–39, edited by Nigel Nicolson, 1966
HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: A Portrait by John Dean, 1954
King George VI by Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, 1958
Kings, Queens and Courtiers by Kenneth Rose, 1986
The Little Princesses by Marion Crawford, 1950
The Macmillan Diaries: The Cabinet Years 1950–57, edited by Peter Catterall, 2004
Mountbatten by Philip Ziegler, 1985
The Noël Coward Diaries, edited by Graham Payn and Sheridan Morley, 1982
Philip: An Informal Biography by Basil Boothroyd, 1971
Prince Philip: A Family Portrait by Queen Alexandra of Yugoslavia, 1959
The Queen by Ann Morrow, 1983
The Queen by Ben Pimlott, 1996
Royal: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II by Robert Lacey, 2002
Royal Secrets by Stephen Barry, 1985
Time and Chance by Peter Townsend, 1978
To Be a King: A Biography of HRH Prince Charles by Dermot Morrah, 1989
Chapters 11 and 12
Conversations with Prince Philip, the Duchess of Abercorn, Katie Boyle, Lord Brabourne, Sarah Bradford, Archbishop Lord Carey, Geordie, 8th Earl of Carnarvon, Lord Charteris of Amisfield, Robin Dalton, Andrew, 11th Duke of Devonshire, Sir Miles Hunt-Davis, Lord Jenkins of Hillhead, Lady Kennard, Pat Kirkwood, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, Martin Palmer, Commander Mike Parker, the Hon. Margaret Rhodes, Baroness Thatcher, Sarah, Duchess of York
Alice: Princess Andrew of Greece by Hugo Vickers, 2000
Baron by Baron, with a foreword by Peter Ustinov, 1957
Born Bewildered by Hélène Cordet, 1961
Charles: Prince of Wales by Anthony Holden, 1979
Charles: A Biography by Anthony Holden, 1998
Counting One’s Blessings: The Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, edited by William Shawcross, 2012
Daily Mirror interview with Norman Barson, 1996
Daily Telegraph interview with Sonia Berry by Cassandra Jardine, 2002
The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan, edited by John Lahr, 2001
The Duke: A Portrait of Prince Philip by Tim Heald, 1991
Elizabeth by Sarah Bradford, 1996
Elizabeth: The Woman and The Queen by Graham Turner, 2002
Feather from the Firebird by Sacha Abercorn, 2003
George V by Kenneth Rose, 1984
George VI by Sarah Bradford, 1989
The Heart Has Its Reasons by the Duchess of Windsor, 1956
An Incidental Memoir by Robin Dalton, 1998
Kings, Queens and Courtiers by Kenneth Rose, 1986
Khrushchev Remembers, edited by Edward Crankshaw, 1971
Mountbatten by Philip Ziegler, 1985
Niv: The Authorised Biography of David Niven by Graham Lord, 2003
Philip: The Man behind the Monarchy by Unity Hall, 1987
The Prince of Wales by Jonathan Dimbleby, 1995
The Queen by Ben Pimlott, 1996
The Queen: 50 Years – A Celebration by Ronald Allison, 2001
Reagan: A Life in Letters by Ronald Reagan, edited by Kiron K. Skinner, Annelise Anderson, and Martin Anderson, 2003
A Royal Duty by Paul Burrell, 2003
Royal: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II by Robert Lacey, 2002
Royal Orders: The Honours and the Honoured by Hugo Vickers, 1994
Royal Yacht Britannia: The Official History by Richard Johnstone-Bryden, 2003
Step Aside for Royalty by Eileen Parker, 1982
Picture Credits
Section one
ILN/Camera Press London, Photography by Spice/Camera Press London, Private Collection, Private Collection, Private Collection, Private Collection, Private Collection, Private Collection, Private Collection, Private Collection, Private Collection, Getty Images-Hulton, Getty Images-Hulton, Private Collection, Topham Picturepoint, Sir William Peek, ILN/Camera Press London, Getty Images-Hulton, ©Bettman/Corbis, Private Collection, Topham Picturepoint, Topham Picturepoint.
Section two
Getty Images-Hulton, Private Collection, Private Collection, Royal Archives ©2004 HM Queen Elizabeth II, Getty Images-Hulton, Photography by Bassano/Camera Press London, Getty Images-Hulton, Private Collection, Private Collection, B/S/Camera Press London, Photograph by Baron/Camera Press London, Private Collection, The Royal Archives ©2004 HM Queen Elizabeth II, Getty Images-Hulton, ©Bettman/Corbis, The Times/Camera Press London, Getty Images-Hulton, Getty Images-Hulton.
Section three
The Times/Camera Press London, Photograph by James Reid/Camera Press London, Topham Picturepoint, Topham Picturepoint, Camera Press London, Private Collection, Private Collection, Private Collection, Topham Picturepoint, Private Collection, Private Collection, Getty Images-Hulton, Getty Images-Hulton, Topham Picturepoint, Getty Images-Hulton, Rex Features, Photograph by Lichfield/Camera Press London, Photograph by Lichfield/Camera Press London.
Section four
Photograph by Djukanovich/Camera Press London, Tim Graham/Getty Images, Topham Picturepoint/©UPPA Ltd, The Sun/John Frost Historical Newspaper Archive, Getty Images-Hulton, Reuters, Topham Picturepoint/©UPPA Ltd, Reuters/Toby Melville, Rota/Camera Press London, Wiltshire Herald and Gazette, Tim Graham/Getty Images, Andrew Yates/APF/Getty Images, Reuters/Suzanne Plunkett, Bert Hardy/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images, Rex Features, Private Collection, Rex Features, David Hartley/Rupert Hartley/Rex Features, Topham Picturepoint.
Footnotes
Introduction
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
113 At time of the Coronation the phrase was used on radio and television, in newspapers and magazines, all over the world. In January 1953, Jock Colville recorded the American financier Bernard Baruch saying to him that ‘England now had three assets: her Queen, “the world’s sweetheart”, Winston Churchill, and her glorious historical past’.
114 As well as losing the letters HRH before her name (the letters Uncle David had so wanted for his wife all his life), Diana’s departure from the Royal Family also meant that her name was no longer included in the prayers said for the Royal Family in churches throughout the Church of England. I was an MP at the time and, at the House of Commons, at the start of every day’s business, led by the Speaker’s Chaplain, we would pray for the Queen and her family, including, by name, the Princess of Wales. One day she was there, the next she was not. Anthony Holden, in his most recent biography of Prince Charles, says the ‘letters patent’ detailing all this ‘were rather brutally published, on the Queen’s personal instructions, in “the noticeboard of the Establishment”, the London Gazette’. This is unfair. The Queen had no desire to be vindictive. This is how such royal announcements are always published.
115 The Queen understands and accepts that a modern monarchy requires sensitive and effective press and public relations, but having to dance to the tabloid tune sticks in the royal craw. Her Majesty did not like having to break all precedent in the matter of the flagpole. She was initially uncertain about the broadcast, but, once she had agreed to it, did it with a will and in a way that rang true. Her script was drafted by Robert Fellowes, with input from 1
0 Downing Street.
116 The sandwiches included smoked salmon on brown bread, roast venison with Balmoral redcurrant and port jelly on white bread, and egg and cress on granary. There were potted shrimp bridge rolls and mini Cornish pasties; scones with Cornish clotted cream and Duchy strawberry jam; lemon tarts, caramel banana slices, and miniature ice cream cornets.
Chapter Thirteen
117 John Grigg, as he became when he was able to renounce his title in 1963. In the 1950s, others attacked the monarchy – John Osborne spoke of it as ‘a gold filling in a mouth full of decay’, Malcolm Muggeridge called it ‘soap opera … ersatz religion’ – but Altrincham’s strictures caused the real scandal because they were so personal. Grigg (1924–2001) was denounced as a republican and attacked in the street by outraged royalists. By the time I met him, the young firebrand had become a cosy old buffer. He told me he thought the Queen was ‘charming’ and chuckled at the recollection of the furore he caused all those years ago.
118 Browning left the Duke’s service in 1959. In 1957 he had suffered a nervous breakdown. His marriage was under pressure and he drank too much. He died in 1965, aged sixty-nine.
119 Perhaps we should be grateful. Here is Crown Prince Haakon of Norway addressing his bride, Crown Princess Mette-Marit, at their wedding banquet in August 2001: ‘Your soul sparkles with light. Everything we do with love comes alight. Mette-Marit, you are sensitive, easy to please, obsessed with detail, sometimes a bit apathetic, intensely committed, highly strung, courageous, inscrutable. You can be defensive or resolute. You have a good sense of humour and a big warm heart. In other words you are an absolutely fantastic, complex person. I don’t think I have ever been so angry, adrenalin angry, with anyone as with you. I don’t think I have ever been so weak or so strong as when I’ve been together with you … Thank you for your love and for everything you’ve done. Mette-Marit, I am proud to call myself your husband. For now we are here. Now we are together. Mette-Marit, I love you!’
Chapter Fourteen
120 He began the exercise in 2006 when he planted more than 300 saplings of hazel and oak impregnated with truffle spores at £15 apiece. He knew that the royal estate in Norfolk was well suited for the fungi because of its abundance of alkaline soil. He was introduced to the truffle-hunting with dogs by his uncle Earl Mountbatten of Burma on a trip to Italy. His attempts to create a ‘truffière’ in the Royal Fruit Farm at Sandringham, which yields apples, gooseberries and blackcurrants, had become something of a family joke, as year after year truffle-sniffing dogs failed to root out a thing – until 2018.
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