INTRODUCTION
1 Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette, 15 June 1934.
2 Observer, 24 December 2017.
3 Daily Telegraph, 13 September 2019.
4 Reading Evening Post, 19 February 1991.
5 Daily Mirror, 5 February 1982.
6 Ferrier, Neil, The Queen Elizabeth Coronation Book (Robinson, London, 1953), p. 37.
7 Elizabeth II, Christmas message, 1970.
8 Mary Smith to Elizabeth II, undated (April 1960), quoted in Coventry Evening Telegraph, 13 April 1960.
9 Philip Moore to Miss M G E Giles, Buckingham Palace, 23 November 1982, quoted in the Guardian, 8 February 2021.
10 Hello, 19 September 2018; Manser, Jose, Hugh Casson: A Biography (Viking, London, 2000), p. 302.
CHAPTER I
1 Duchess of York to Queen Mary, 12 April 1926, in Shawcross, William, ed., Counting One’s Blessings: The Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (Macmillan, London, 2012), p. 146.
2 Scotsman, 28 April 1926.
3 Quoted Bradford, Sarah, George VI (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1989), p. 113.
4 Shawcross, William, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: The Official Biography (Macmillan, London, 2009), p. 248.
5 Duchess of York to Dr Varley, 17 December 1930, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 184.
6 Mortimer Penelope, Queen Elizabeth: A Life of the Queen Mother (Viking, London, 1986), p. 101.
7 Pimlott, Ben, The Queen (HarperCollins, London, 1996), p. 4.
8 Ziegler, Philip, King Edward VIII: The Official Biography (HarperCollins, London, 1991), p. 173.
9 Mortimer, op. cit., p. 86; Coventry Evening Telegraph, 21 April 1926.
10 Morrah, Dermot, Princess Elizabeth (Oldhams, London, 1947), p. 23.
11 Woolf, Virginia, 4 June 1926, in Bell, Anne Oliver, ed., The Diary of Virginia Woolf, vol. 3 (Penguin, London, 1983), p. 78.
12 Shawcross, William, Official Biography, p. 252.
13 Morning Post, 21 April 1926.
14 Cathcart, Helen, The Queen in Her Circle (W. H. Allen, London, 1977), p. 36.
15 Bradford, op. cit., p. 116.
16 Harewood, George, The Tongs and the Bones: The Memoirs of Lord Harewood (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1981), p. 2.
17 Shawcross, Official Biography, p. 252.
18 Ibid.
19 Spectator, 24 April 1926.
20 Bradford, op. cit., p. 116.
21 Dennison, Matthew, Queen Victoria: A Life of Contradictions (William Collins, London, 2013), p. 13.
22 Sunderland Daily Echo & Shipping Gazette, 14 May 1926; Brechin Advertiser, 25 May 1926; Belfast Telegraph, 22 April 1926.
23 Wells Journal, 21 May 1926.
24 Queen Mary to Kate Rube, 24 April 1926, private collection.
25 Ziegler, op. cit., p. 172.
26 Rose, Kenneth, George V (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1983), p. 390.
27 Coventry Evening Telegraph, 22 August 1930.
28 Owens, Ed, The Family Firm: Monarchy, Mass Media and the British Public, 1932–53 (University of London Press, 2019, published online), p. 127.
29 Nicolson, Harold, King George V (Constable, London, 1952), p. 420.
30 Greece, HRH Prince Christopher of, Memoirs (Hurst & Blackett, London, 1938), p. 161.
31 Windsor, HRH Duke of, A King’s Story (Cassell, London, 1951), p. 183; Duff, David, Queen Mary (HarperCollins, London, 1985), p. 175.
32 Mortimer, op. cit., p. 164.
33 Morning Post, 24 April 1926.
34 Asquith, Lady Cynthia, The Family Life of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth (Hutchinson, London, 1937), p. 7.
35 Yorkshire Post, 22 August 1930.
36 Graphic, 27 October 1928.
37 Airlie, Countess of (Mabell), Thatched with Gold (Hutchinson, London, 1962), p. 177.
38 The Diaries of Beatrice Webb, abr. Lynn Knight (Virago, London, 2002), p. 447.
39 Windsor, HRH Duke of, op. cit., p. 218.
40 Ring, Anne, The Story of Princess Elizabeth (John Murray, London, 1930), p. 13.
41 Airlie, op. cit., p. 179.
42 Ziegler, op. cit., p. 195.
43 Quoted Shawcross, Official Biography, p. 257.
44 See, for example, Sketch, 15 June 1927.
45 Birmingham Daily Gazette, 31 May 1926.
46 Quoted Bradford, op. cit., p. 5.
47 Sketch, 2 June 1926.
48 Birmingham Daily Gazette, 31 May 1926.
49 Ring, op. cit., pp. 11–12.
50 Shawcross, Official Biography, p. 258.
51 Airlie, op. cit., p. 179.
52 The Times, 23 April 1926.
53 Asquith, Lady Cynthia, The King’s Daughters (Hutchinson, London, 1938), p. 10.
54 Ring, op. cit., pp. 9–10.
55 Airlie, op. cit., p. 180.
56 Speaight, Richard, Memoirs of a Court Photographer (Hurst & Blackett, London, 1926), p. 244.
57 Spectator, 15 April 1943.
58 See Duchess of York to Queen Mary, 28 October 1925, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 144.
59 Lancashire Evening Post, 31 August 1932.
60 Ibid.
61 Mortimer, op. cit., p. 103.
62 Quoted in Seward, Ingrid, The Last Great Edwardian Lady (Century, London, 1999), p. 82.
63 Mortimer, op. cit., p. 83.
64 Ring, op. cit., p. 21.
65 Shawcross, Official Biography, p. 263.
66 Ring, op. cit., p. 21.
67 Bradford, Sarah, Elizabeth: A Biography of Her Majesty the Queen (Heinemann, London, 1996), p. 216.
68 Aberdeen Press & Journal, 21 April 1932.
69 Asquith, The King’s Daughters, p. 14.
70 Ibid.
71 Duchess of York to Queen Mary, 9 February 1927, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 154.
72 Ibid.
73 Ring, op. cit., p. 23.
74 Tatler, 13 April 1927.
75 Sketch, 13 April 1927.
76 Heighway, Lisa, Marcus Adams Royal Photographer (Royal Collection Trust, London, 2010), p. 35.
77 Shawcross, Official Biography, p. 274.
78 Ibid., p. 286.
79 Westminster Gazette, 7 February 1927.
80 Duchess of York to George V, 12 June 1927, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 161.
81 Sketch, 23 March 1927.
82 Asquith, The King’s Daughters, p. 15.
83 Bradford, George VI, p. 132.
84 Illustrated London News, 2 July 1927.
85 Ibid.
86 Morrah, op. cit., p. 23.
87 Shawcross, Official Biography, p. 296.
88 Ibid.
89 See Royal Collection, RCIN 2108345.
90 Tatler, 27 July 1927.
91 Crawford, Marion, The Little Princesses (Orion, London, 2002), p. 9.
92 Asquith, The Family Life of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, p. 42.
93 Asquith, The King’s Daughters, p. 16.
94 Maclean, Veronica, Past Forgetting (Headline, London, 2002), p. 53.
95 Asquith, The Family Life of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, p. 36
96 Asquith, Lady Cynthia, The Duchess of York (John Murray, London, 1926), p. 217.
97 Ibid.
98 Shawcross, Official Biography, p. 298.
99 Duchess of York to Queen Mary, 22 September 1927, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 162.
100 Shawcross, Official Biography, p. 300.
101 Airlie, op. cit., p. 180.
102 Bradford, George VI, p. 132.
103 Sketch, 14 December 1927.
104 Aberdeen Press & Journal, 23 April 1928.
105 Illustrated London News, 27 October 1928.
106 Sketch, 28 August 1928.
107 Asquith, The King’s Daughters, p. 18.
108 Ibid., p. 20.
109 Ibid., p. 24.
110 Shawcross, Official Biography, p. 302.
111 Ibid.
112 Rose, op. cit., p. 389.
113 Ziegler, op. cit., p. 243.
114 Rose, op. cit., pp. 355–6.
115 Duchess of York to Lady (Mary) Elphinstone, 24 December 1928, in Shawcross, Official Biography, p. 165.
116 Quoted in Williams, Kate, Young Elizabeth: The Making of Our Queen (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2013), p. 46.
117 Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 18 March 1929.
118 Dundee Courier, 16 March 1929.
119 Portsmouth Evening News, 15 March 1929.
120 Williams, op. cit., p. 46.
121 Portsmouth Evening News, 27 March 1929.
122 Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 18 March 1929.
123 Sketch, 28 April 1926.
124 Shawcross, Official Biography, p. 307.
125 Quoted in Hartlepool Daily Mail, 28 August 1931.
126 Portsmouth Evening News, 7 June 1929.
127 Quoted in Heald, Tim, Princess Margaret: A Life Unravelled (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2007), p. 7.
128 Ring, op. cit., p. 100.
129 Ibid., p. 104.
130 Windsor, op. cit., p. 34.
131 Tatler, 11 May 1932.
132 Hartlepool Daily Mail, 28 August 1931.
133 Time, 24 April 1929.
134 Yorkshire Post, 3 May 1932.
135 Lancashire Evening Post, 17 February 1930.
136 Asquith, The King’s Daughters, p. 19.
137 Asquith, The Family Life of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, p. 49.
138 Yorkshire Post, 19 May 1930.
139 Forfar Herald, 18 July 1930.
140 Nottingham Journal, 19 July 1930.
141 Yorkshire Post, February 1931.
142 Shawcross, Official Biography, p. 307.
143 Aberdeen Press & Journal, 21 April, 1932.
144 Ring, op. cit., pp. 97–8.
145 Shawcross, Official Biography, p. 311.
146 Ibid., p. 317.
147 Asquith, The King’s Daughters, p. 51.
148 Daily Mirror, 11 August 1930.
149 Western Gazette, 8 August 1930.
CHAPTER II
1 Western Morning News, 22 August 1930.
2 Shawcross, Official Biography, p. 314.
3 Ibid., p. 317.
4 Ibid., p. 308.
5 Morning Post, 22 August 1930.
6 Lancashire Evening Post, 22 August 1930.
7 Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 9 September 1930.
8 Shawcross, Official Biography, p. 316; Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 4 March 1931.
9 Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 18 September 1930.
10 Asquith, The King’s Daughters, p. 24.
11 Shawcross, Official Biography, p. 316.
12 Ibid., p. 318.
13 Ibid., p. 319.
14 Lincolnshire Echo, 23 September 1930.
15 Dismore, Jane, Princess: The Early Life of Queen Elizabeth II (The Lyons Press, Guilford, Conn., 2018), p. 72.
16 Forfar Herald, 21 October 1932.
17 Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 18 September 1930.
18 See Royal Collection RCIN2943711.
19 Duchess of York to Lady Helen Grahame, 1 October 1930, in Shawcross, Official Biography, p. 183.
20 Duchess of York to Duke of York, undated memo (1930–6), in ibid., p. 200.
21 Duchess of York to Duke of York, 9 September 1930, in ibid, p. 181.
22 Quoted in Thompson, Laura, Take Six Girls (Head of Zeus, London, 2018), p. 117.
23 Rugby Advertiser, 27 February 1931.
24 Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 13 March 1931.
25 Lancashire Evening Post, 13 March 1931.
26 Ibid.
27 Ibid.
28 Ibid.
29 Dismore, op. cit., p. 71.
30 Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 13 March 1931.
31 Crawford, op. cit., pp. 31, 87.
32 Dundee Courier, 25 July 1932.
33 Asquith, The Family Life of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, p. 54.
34 Ring, op. cit., p. 124.
35 See photograph published in Western Morning News, 21 April 1933.
36 Ring, op. cit., p. 124.
37 Burnley News, 21 February 1931.
38 Western Mail, 17 March 1932.
39 Asquith, The Family Life of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, p. 66.
40 Western Mail, 17 March 1932.
41 Illustrated London News, 16 April 1932.
42 Falkirk Herald, 7 March 1931.
43 Western Mail, 3 June 1932; Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 17 February 1931.
44 Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 4 May 1932.
45 Portsmouth Evening News, 20 April 1932.
46 Ibid.
47 Yorkshire Post, 18 April 1932.
48 Spencer Shew, Betty, Royal Wedding (Macdonald & Company, London, 1947), p. 32.
49 Dismore, op. cit., p. 70.
50 Dundee Courier, 21 April 1934.
51 Dismore, op. cit., p. 70.
52 Dundee Courier, 25 March 1932.
53 Windsor, Duke of, A King’s Story, p. 278.
54 Ziegler, Philip, Mountbatten: The Official Biography (HarperCollins, London, 1985), p. 108.
55 Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 4 May 1932.
56 Bradford, George VI, p. 133.
57 Crawford, op. cit., p. 18; Pimlott, op. cit., p. 25.
58 Asquith, The Family Life of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, p. 51.
59 Belfast News Letter, 4 June 1932.
60 Dundee Courier, 26 July 1932.
61 Belfast Newsletter, 4 June 1932.
62 Morecombe Guardian, 27 May 1932.
63 Fitzalan Howard, Alathea, The Windsor Diaries (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2020), p. 18.
64 Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 15 July 1932.
65 Scotsman, 11 July 1932.
66 Asquith, The King’s Daughters, p. 55.
67 Asquith, The Family Life of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, p. 50.
68 Nottingham Journal, 6 April 1932.
69 Thanet Advertiser, 17 June 1932.
70 Gloucester Echo, 18 July 1932.
71 Shawcross, Official Biography, pp. 326–7.
72 Ibid., p. 327.
73 Lincolnshire Echo, 14 December 1933.
74 Strong, Roy, Scenes and Apparitions: The Roy Strong Diaries 1988–2003 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2016), p. 35.
75 Gloucester Citizen, 10 January 1933.
76 Dundee Courier, 1 September 1932.
77 Asquith, The King’s Daughters, p. 52.
78 Belfast Newsletter, 29 September 1933.
79 Crawford, op. cit., p. 3.
80 Quoted in Bradford, Elizabeth, p. 41.
81 Daily Mail, 12 September 1932.
82 Ibid.
83 Crawford, op. cit., pp. 11–12.
84 Ibid., p. 20.
85 Asquith, The King’s Daughters, p. 53.
86 Hart-Davis, Duff, Philip de László: His Life and Art (Yale University Press, London, 2010), p. 245.
87 Brechin Advertiser, 5 December 1933.
88 Dundee Courier, 21 April 1934; Betty Vacani, Happy Birthday, Dear Ma’am, BBC television, 1986.
89 Portsmouth Evening News, 6 March 1935.
90 Dundee Courier, 21 April 1934.
91 Crawford, op. cit., pp. 25, 24.
92 Shepton Mallet Journal, 15 February 1935.
93 Crawford, op. cit., p. 28.
94 Daily Telegraph, 8 November 1934.
95 Hull Daily Mail, 12 September 32; Brechin Advertiser, 5 December 1933.
96 Crawford, op. cit., p. 19.
97 Ibid., p. 23.
98 Airlie, op. cit., p. 205.
99 Ibid., p. 206.
100 Ibid., p. 205.
101 Crawford, op. cit., p. 19.
102 Cathcart, op. cit., pp. 53-4.
103 Crawford, op. cit., p. 43.
104 Princess Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 16 February 1934, Royal Archives.
105 Crawford, op. cit., p. 23.
106 Asquith, The King’s Daughters, p. 46.
107 Scotsman, 27 January 1933.
108 Sitwell, Osbert, Queen Mary and Others (Michael Joseph, London, 1974), p. 38.
109 Hull Daily Mail, 21 April 1933.
110 Dundee Evening Telegraph, 20 April 1933.
CHAPTER III
1 Gloucester Citizen, 17 September 1934.
2 Ziegler, Edward VIII, p. 175.
3 Ibid., p. 202.
4 Ibid., p. 229; Chips Channon, The Diaries of Chips Channon (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1967), pp. 29–30.
5 Illustrated London News, 22 October 1932.
6 Western Mail, 30 November 1934.
7 Nottingham Evening Post, 29 November 1934.
8 Pick, Michael, Norman Hartnell: The Biography (Zuleika, London, 2019), p. 169.
9 Essex Newsman, 26 January 1935.
10 Pimlott, op. cit., p. 30; Moran, Aprons and Silver Spoons (Penguin, London, 2013).
11 George V, Christmas broadcast 1935.
12 Western Mail, 16 January 1935.
13 Gloucester Citizen, 9 February 1935.
14 Dundee Evening Telegraph, 1 March 1935.
15 Ibid.
16 Belfast Newsletter, 7 May 1935; Channon, op. cit., p. 32.
17 Ibid.
18 Scotsman, 13 May 1935.
19 Leeds Mercury, 29 January 1936.
20 Nicolson, op. cit., p. 516.
21 Airlie, op. cit., p. 197.
22 Aberdeen Press & Journal, 25 September 1935.
23 Crawford, op. cit., p. 39.
24 Duchess of York to Princess Elizabeth, 29 December 1935, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 210.
25 Pimlott, op. cit., p. 32.
26 Airlie, op. cit., p. 197.
27 Lacey, Robert, Royal: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (Little, Brown, London, 2002), p. 91.
28 Western Mail, 20 January 1936.
29 Ibid.
30 Hon. Lettice Bowlby to Kinara Kestyn, undated (February 1936), quoted in Derby Daily Telegraph, 12 February 1936.
31 Duchess of York to Queen Mary, 18 January 1936, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 215.
32 Aberdeen Press & Journal, 19 September 1932.
33 Asquith, The King’s Daughters, p. 95.
34 Crawford, op. cit., p. 49.
35 Ibid.
36 Ibid.
37 Yorkshire Post, 28 January 1936.
38 Crawford, op. cit., p. 50.
39 Ibid., p. 51.
40 Tatler, 29 January 1936.
41 Sphere, 22 February 1936.
42 Dundee Courier, 17 February 1936.
43 Leeds Mercury, 27 March 1936.
44 Dundee Evening Telegraph, 10 February 1936.
45 Eastbourne Gazette, 11 March 1936.
46 Duchess of York to Queen Mary, 11 March 1936, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings , p. 216.
47 Eastbourne Gazette, 11 March 1936.
48 Moran, op. cit.
49 Grenfell, Joyce, Darling Ma: Letters to Her Mother 1932–44 (Coronet, London, 1989), pp. 47–8.
50 Duchess of York to Queen Mary, 11 March 1936, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 216.
51 Vickers, Hugo, Elizabeth the Queen Mother (Hutchinson, London, 2005), p. 136.
52 Western Morning News, 26 May 1936.
53 Sheffield Independent, 26 May 1936.
54 Crawford, op. cit., p. 52.
55 See Antiques Trade Gazette, 19 April 2005.
56 Quoted in van der Kiste, John, George V’s Children (Alan Sutton, Stroud, 1991), p. 83.
57 Owens, Edward, op. cit., p. 128.
58 Woolf, Virginia, in Bell, Anne Oliver, ed., The Diary of Virginia Woolf, vol. 5: 1936–41 (Penguin, London, 1985), p. 41.
59 Beaken, Robert, Cosmo Lang: Archbishop in War and Crisis (I. B. Tauris, London, 2012), p. 244.
60 Woolf, op. cit., vol. 5, p. 38.
61 Sitwell, op. cit., p. 22.
62 Yorkshire Evening Post, 15 February 1936.
63 Duchess of York to Queen Mary, 19 September 1936, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 220.
64 Bradford, George VI, p. 152.
65 Crawford, op. cit., p. 58.
66 Warwick, Christopher, Princess Margaret (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1983), p. 18.
67 Quoted in Williams, op. cit., p. 90.
68 Channon, op. cit., p. 60.
69 Crawford, op. cit., p. 61.
70 Pimlott, op. cit., p. 33.
71 Channon, op. cit., p. 100.
72 Crawford, op. cit., pp. 26, 22.
73 Aberdeen Press & Journal, 8 May 1936.
74 Asquith, The King’s Daughters, p. 91.
75 Rhodes, Margaret, The Final Curtsey: A Royal Memoir by the Queen’s Cousin (Birlinn, Edinburgh, 2012), p. 46.
76 Ibid., p. 176.
77 Western Morning News, 5 November 1936.
78 Pimlott, op. cit., p. 35.
79 Duchess of York to Queen Mary, 20 November 1936, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 225.
80 Crawford, op. cit., pp. 58–61.
81 Longford, Elizabeth, Elizabeth R (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1983), p. 68.
82 Campbell-Preston, Frances, The Rich Spoils of Time (The Dovecote Press, Wimborne Minster, 2006), p. 62.
83 Shepton Mallet Journal, 27 November 1936.
84 Crawford, op. cit., p. 59.
85 Longford, op. cit., p. 66.
CHAPTER IV
1 Gloucester Citizen, 10 December 1936.
2 Bradford, Elizabeth, p. 57.
3 Shawcross, Official Biography, p. 445.
4 Daily Mirror, 11 December 1936.
5 Duchess of York to Queen Mary, 21 October 1936, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 222.
6 Ziegler, Mountbatten, p. 95.
7 Owens, op. cit., p. 100.
8 Aberdeen Press & Journal, 16 January 1937.
9 Ring, op. cit., pp. 58, 125.
10 Owens, op. cit., p. 143.
11 Sunderland Daily Echo, 30 January 1937.
12 Ibid.
13 Dundee Courier, 13 January 1937.
14 Woolf, op. cit., vol. 5, p. 39.
15 Birmingham Daily Gazette, 11 December 1936.
16 Crawford, op. cit., p. 62.
17 Airlie, op. cit., p. 205.
18 Margaret Rhodes, quoted in Dismore, op. cit., p. 105.
19 See Owens, op. cit., p. 140.
20 Shawcross, Official Biography, p. 389.
21 Dundee Courier, 27 February 1937.
22 Cathcart, op. cit., p. 49.
23 Shawcross, Official Biography, p. 389.
24 Scotsman, 17 March 1937.
25 Windsor, op. cit., p. 279.
26 Mortimer, op. cit., p. 153.
27 Owens, op. cit., p. 131.
28 Bradford, George VI, p. 260.
29 Beckles, Gordon, Coronation Souvenir Book (Daily Express Books, London, 1937), p. 22.
30 Shawcross, Official Biography, p. 397.
31 Western Mail, 11 May 1937.
32 Crawford, op. cit., p. 65.
33 Ibid.
34 Shawcross, Official Biography, p. 396.
35 Crawford, op. cit., p. 67; Airlie, op. cit., p. 203.
36 Asquith, The Family Life of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, p. 96.
37 Yorkshire Post, 12 March 1937.
38 Ibid.
39 Hassall, Christopher, Devil’s Dyke (Heinemann, London, 1936).
40 Fitzalan Howard, op. cit., p. 83.
41 Buckinghamshire Examiner, 30 April 1937.
42 Crawford, op. cit., p. 70.
43 Lacey, op. cit., p. 105.
44 Aberdeen Press & Journal, 7 April 1937.
45 Derby Daily Telegraph, 21 April 1937.
46 Western Mail, 11 May 1937.
47 Grenfell, op. cit., p. 47.
48 ‘The Coronation, 12 May 1937, To Mummy and Papa, In Memory of Their Coronation, From Lillibet, By Herself’, Royal Archives RA QEII/PRIV/PERS.
49 Channon, op. cit., p. 124.
50 The Times, 12 May 1937.
51 Western Mail, 10 July 1947.
52 Bradley, Ian, God Save the Queen: The Spiritual Dimension of Monarchy (Dartman, Longman & Todd, 2002), p. 132.
53 Lacey, op. cit., p. 107.
54 Cathcart, op. cit., p. 71.
55 Bradford, Elizabeth, p. 75.
56 Cathcart, op. cit., p. 71.
57 Duchess of York to Queen Mary, 26 October 1937, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 249.
58 Longford, op. cit., p. 75.
59 See Kavanagh, Julie, Secret Muses: The Life of Frederick Ashton (Faber & Faber, London, 1998), p. 595.
60 Dundee Evening Telegraph, 29 March 1938.
61 Crawford, op. cit., p. 91.
62 Ibid., p. 74.
63 Williams, op. cit., p. 57.
64 Quoted in Bradford, Elizabeth, p. 62.
65 Crawford, op. cit., p. 89.
66 Duchess of York to Princess Elizabeth, 27 May 1939, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 268.
67 Worthing Gazette, 18 December 1940.
68 Turner, Graham, Elizabeth: The Woman and the Queen (Macmillan, London, 2002), p. 2.
69 See, for example, Belfast Telegraph, 23 March 1937.
70 Ibid.
71 Alan Lascelles to Geoffrey Dawson, 13 December 1936, quoted in Owens, op. cit., p. 146.
72 Hon. Mary Macdonald, quoted in Western Mail, 17 December 1937.
73 Daily Telegraph, 22 December 1937.
74 Dundee Courier, 25 September 1937.
75 West Sussex Gazette, 6 January 1938.
76 Duchess of York to Princess Elizabeth, 27 May 1939, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 267.
77 Crawford, op. cit., p. 82.
78 Bradford, Elizabeth, p. 63.
79 Crawford, op. cit., p. 117.
80 Tatler, 27 October 1937.
81 Bradford, Elizabeth, p. 64.
82 Channon, op. cit., p. 162.
83 Duchess of York to Osbert Sitwell, 11 October 1938, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 258.
84 Northern Whig, 28 September 1938.
85 Yorkshire Post, 20 June 1938.
86 Western Mail, 9 December 1938.
87 Daily Mirror, 15 November 1938.
88 Princess Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 15 November 1938, Royal Archives.
CHAPTER V
1 Belfast Telegraph, 10 March 1939.
2 Grenfell, op. cit., p. 47.
3 Duchess of York to Princess Elizabeth, 23 May 1939, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 266; Duchess of York to Princess Elizabeth, 27 May 1939, in ibid, p. 267.
4 Duchess of York to Princess Elizabeth, 27 May 1939, in ibid, p. 267.
5 Duchess of York to Princess Elizabeth, 5 June 1939, in ibid, p. 270.
6 Pimlott, op. cit., p. 53.
7 See Hurd, Douglas, Elizabeth II: The Steadfast (Allen Lane, London, 2015), p. 12; Daily Express, 25 November 1932; Bousfield, Arthur, Fifty Years the Queen: A Tribute to Elizabeth II on Her Golden Jubilee (Dundurn, Toronto, 2001), p. 35.
8 Antoinette de Bellaigue, quoted in Longford, op. cit., p. 94.
9 Duchess of York to Princess Elizabeth, 23 May 1939, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 265.
10 Crawford, op. cit., pp. 96–7.
11 Vickers, op. cit., p. 191.
12 Duchess of York to Princess Elizabeth, 13 May 1939, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 264; Birmingham Daily Post, 23 June 1939.
13 Coventry Evening Telegraph, 20 April 1939.
14 Marr, Andrew, The Diamond Queen: Elizabeth II and Her People (Macmillan, London, 2011), p. 56.
15 Duchess of York to Lady Tweedsmuir, 28 June 1939, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 274.
16 Crawford, op. cit., p. 101.
17 Northern Whig, 30 November 1934.
18 Quoted in Seward, Ingrid, My Husband and I (Simon & Schuster, London, 2017), p. 57.
19 Alexandra, Queen of Yugoslavia, Prince Philip: A Family Portrait (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1960), p. 73.
20 Crawford, op. cit., p. 101.
21 Ibid.
22 Ibid., p. 102.
23 Eade, Philip, Young Prince Philip (HarperPress, London, 2012), p. 153.
24 Torbay Express and South Devon Echo, 24 July 1939.
25 Quoted in West Middlesex Gazette, 26 March 1932.
26 Channon, op. cit., p. 287.
27 Seward, My Husband and I, p. 61.
28 Lacey, op. cit., p. 126.
29 Rhodes, op. cit., p. 87.
30 Ziegler, Mountbatten, p. 687.
31 Eade, op. cit., p. 189.
32 Ziegler, Mountbatten, p. 102.
33 Crawford, op. cit.
34 Marie Louise, Her Highness Princess, My Memories of Six Reigns (Evans Brothers, London, 1957), p. 314.
35 Bedell Smith, Sally, Elizabeth the Queen (Penguin, London, 2012), p. 25.
36 Pimlott, op. cit., p. 586, note 19.
37 Parker, John, Prince Philip: A Critical Biography (Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1990), p. 38.
38 Queen Elizabeth to the Duke of Edinburgh, 1 December 1947, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 406.
CHAPTER VI
1 Aberdeen Weekly Journal, 9 November 1939.
2 Quoted in Noel, Gerald, Ena, Spain’s English Queen (Constable, London, 1999), p. 256.
3 Rhodes, op. cit., pp. 50–51.
4 Ibid., p. 50.
5 Crawford, op. cit., p. 107.
6 Lady Granville to Queen Elizabeth, 6 September 1939, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 277.
7 Crawford, op. cit., pp. 108–9, 111.
8 Shawcross, Official Biography, p. 495.
9 Queen Elizabeth to Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, 2 October 1939, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 279.
10 Crawford, op. cit., p. 106.
11 Bristol Evening Post, 23 September 1939.
12 Airlie, op. cit., p. 227.
13 Liverpool Daily Post, 24 February 1940.
14 Coventry Evening Telegraph, 8 January 1940.
15 Dundee Evening Telegraph, 28 March 1940.
16 Shawcross, Official Biography, p. 503.
17 Ibid.
18 Crawford, op. cit., p. 115.
19 Sunday Mirror, 30 April 1940.
20 Quoted in Williams, op. cit., p. 161.
21 Yorkshire Post, 1 January 1940; Evening Despatch, 6 April 1940; Express and Echo, 14 June 1940.
22 Hull Daily Mail, 18 July 1940; Derby Daily Telegraph, 18 July 1940.
23 Sunday Mirror, 30 April 1940.
24 Crawford, op. cit., p. 133.
25 Ibid.
26 The Times, 12 July 1940.
27 See Lacey, op. cit., p. 133.
28 Brown, Susannah, Queen Elizabeth II: Portraits by Cecil Beaton (V&A Publishing, London, 2011), p. 31.
29 Fitzalan Howard, op. cit., p. 83.
30 Sunday Mirror, 30 June 1940.
31 Aberdeen Press & Journal, 7 November 1940.
32 Dundee Evening Telegraph, 23 April 1940.
33 Yorkshire Post, 18 November 1940.
34 Sunday Mirror, 30 April 1940.
35 Bradford, Elizabeth, p. 91.
36 Belfast Newsletter, 27 August 1942.
37 Rhodes, op. cit., p. 68.
38 Quoted in Pimlott, op. cit., p. 57.
39 Nottingham Evening Post, 7 September 1940.
40 Shawcross, Official Biography, p. 527.
41 Crawford, op. cit., p. 145.
42 Ibid., p. 117.
43 Daily Mirror, 8 July 1940.
44 Daily Herald, 27 December 1940.
45 Grenfell, op. cit., p. 231.
46 Morrah, op. cit., p. 82.
47 International Women’s Suffrage News, 1 November 1940.
48 Grenfell, op. cit., p. 231.
49 Queen Elizabeth to Lady Violet Bonham Carter, 7 March 1944, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 360.
50 Grenfell, op. cit., p. 210.
51 Daily Mirror, 26 June 1941.
52 Tatler, 22 April 1942.
53 Ibid., 26 August 1942.
54 Daily Record, 20 April 1940.
55 Sketch, 5 February 1941.
56 Bradford, Elizabeth, p. 101.
57 Airlie, op. cit., pp. 219–20.
58 Scotsman, 22 April 1942.
59 Daily Mail, 21 April 1942.
60 Bradford, Elizabeth, p. 99.
61 Sunday Post, 17 February 1946.
62 Strong, Roy, Cecil Beaton: The Royal Portraits (Thames & Hudson, London, 1988), p. 88.
63 Evening Despatch, March 1942.
64 Tatler, 4 November 1942.
65 Yorkshire Evening Post, 26 October 1942.
66 Bradford, Elizabeth, p. 98.
67 Shawcross, Official Biography, p. 576.
68 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 7 January 1941, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 302.
69 Crawford, op. cit., p. 135.
70 Queen Elizabeth to Eleanor Roosevelt, 11 June 1940, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 291.
71 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 31 October 1940, in ibid., p. 291.
72 See Pimlott, op. cit., p. 65; Bedell Smith, op. cit., p. 18.
73 Middleboe, Penelope, ed., Edith Olivier: From Her Journals, 1924–48 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1989), p. 272.
74 Pimlott, op. cit., p. 68.
75 Shawcross, Official Biography, p. 578.
76 Portsmouth Evening News, 4 February 1942.
77 Fitzalan Howard, op. cit., p. 71.
78 Bradford, Elizabeth, p. 101.
79 Crawford, op. cit., p. 140.
80 Ibid., p. 160.
81 Sheridan, Lisa, From Cabbages to Kings (Odhams, London, 1955), p. 115.
82 Shawcross, Official Biography, p. 578.
83 Ibid.
84 Eade, op. cit., p. 155.
85 Edward Ford quoted in Lloyd, Ian, The Duke (The History Press, Cheltenham, 2021), p. 80.
86 Airlie, op. cit., p. 227.
87 Middleboe, op. cit., p. 272.
88 Shawcross, Official Biography, p. 577; Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, note, p. 359.
89 Glendinning, Victoria, Rebecca West (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1987), p. 170.
90 Shawcross, Official Biography, p. 579.
91 Aberdeen Press & Journal, 13 January 1944.
92 Morrah, op. cit., pp. 73–4.
93 Longford, op. cit., p. 93.
94 Pimlott, op. cit., p. 68.
95 Aberdeen Press & Journal, 13 January 1944.
96 Manser, op. cit., p. 307.
97 Printed in Lichfield Mercury, 7 April 1944.
98 Tatler, 17 May 1944.
99 Shawcross, Official Biography, p. 581.
100 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 11 April 1944, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 361.
101 Sketch, 31 May 1944.
102 For example, see Mary Gibb, ‘The Girl Who Was Born to Be Queen’, Aberdeen Press & Journal, 13 January 1944.
103 Queen Elizabeth to Princess Elizabeth, 27 June 1944, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 365.
104 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 17 July 1944, in ibid., p. 367.
105 McDowell, Colin, A Hundred Years of Royal Style (Hutchinson, London, 1986), p. 23.
106 See Garfield, Simon, ed., Our Hidden Lives: The Remarkable Diaries of Postwar Britain (Ebury Press, London, 2005), p. 237.
107 Perthshire Advertiser, 18 October 1944.
108 Pimlott, op. cit., p. 110.
109 Crawford, op. cit., pp. 157–8.
110 Ibid., p. 156.
111 Williams, op. cit., p. 189.
112 Elizabeth II, 6 May 1995, reply to address of Houses of Parliament (fiftieth anniversary VE Day).
113 Lacey, op. cit., p. 137.
114 Ibid.
115 Yorkshire Post, 4 March 1950.
116 Clara ‘Alah’ Knight to Ethel Taylor, undated, quoted Daily Express, 21 September 2017.
117 Bradford, Elizabeth, p. 108.
118 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 10 April 1945, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 381.
119 Crawford, op. cit., p. 157.
120 Pimlott, op. cit., p. 79; Morrow, Ann, The Queen (HarperCollins, London, 1983), p. 93.
121 Rhodes, op. cit., p. 84.
122 Ibid., p. 86.
123 Quoted Pimlott, op. cit., p. 81.
124 Rhodes, op. cit., pp. 84–5.
125 Crawford, op. cit., p. 179.
126 Clara ‘Alah’ Knight to Ethel Taylor, undated (see n. 116 above).
CHAPTER VII
1 Alexandra, Queen of Yugoslavia, op. cit., p. 102.
2 Eade, op. cit., p. 178.
3 Garfield, op. cit., p. 320.
4 Ibid., p. 237.
5 Quoted in Vickers, op. cit., p. 251.
6 Quoted in Williams, op. cit., p. 198.
7 Quoted in Roger, Malcolm, Elizabeth II: Portraits of Sixty Years (National Portrait Gallery Publications, London, 1986), p. 50.
8 Shields Daily News, 30 April 1946.
9 Pottle, Mark, ed., Daring to Hope: The Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham Carter, 1946–69 (Orion, London, 2000), p. 16.
10 Morrah, op. cit., p. 100.
11 Parker, op. cit., p. 114.
12 Bradford, Elizabeth, p. 116.
13 Lacey, op. cit., p. 136.
14 Bradford, Elizabeth, p. 116.
15 Quoted in ibid, p. 418.
16 Quoted in Bradford, George VI, p. 18.
17 Jebb, Miles, ed., The Diaries of Cynthia Gladwyn (Constable, London, 1995), p. 92.
18 Viney Graham, The Last Hurrah (Robinson, London, 2019), p. 276.
19 Turner, op. cit., p. 21.
20 Queen Elizabeth to Alan Lascelles, in Shawcross, Official Biography, p. 626; Bradford, Elizabeth, p. 121.
21 Airlie, op. cit., p. 224.
22 Parker, op. cit., p. 110.
23 Shawcross, Official Biography, p. 630.
24 Viney, op. cit., p. 25.
25 Ibid., p. 154.
26 Hull Daily Mail, 6 February 1947; Dundee Courier, 14 February 1947.
27 Coventry Evening Telegraph, 26 February 1947.
28 Viney, op. cit., p. 101.
29 Garfield, op. cit., p. 357.
30 Bedell Smith, op. cit., p. 35.
31 Leicester Chronicle, 1 February 1947.
32 Roberts, Hugh, The Queen’s Diamonds (Royal Collection Trust, London, 2012), p. 272.
33 Ibid.
34 Quoted in Viney, op. cit., p. 285.
35 Quoted in Longford, op. cit., pp. 103–4.
36 Spencer Shew, op. cit., p. 65.
37 Nicolson, Nigel, ed., Vita and Harold: The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, 1919–62 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2007), p. 372.
38 Quoted in Bradford, Elizabeth, p. 109; Pimlott, op. cit., p. 110; Strong, Cecil Beaton: The Royal Portraits, p. 123.
39 Campbell-Preston, op. cit., p. 217.
40 Spencer Shew, op. cit., p. 71.
41 Viney, op. cit., p. 265.
42 Alan Lascelles to Dermot Morrah, 10 March 1947.
43 Viney, op. cit., p. 275.
44 Belfast Telegraph, 22 April 1947.
45 Hardman, Robert, Queen of the World (Pegasus, London, 2019), p. 119.
46 Ibid., p. 120.
47 Ibid.
48 Airlie, op. cit., p. 228; Glendinning, op. cit., p. 170.
49 Wellesley, Lady Jane, Wellington: A Journey Through My Family (Orion, London, 2008).
50 Shawcross, Official Biography, p. 626.
51 Nicholson, Virginia, Millions Like Us: Women’s Lives During the Second World War (Penguin, London, 2012), p. 412.
52 Spectator, 10 July 1947.
53 Quoted in Gloucestershire Echo, 31 October 1947.
54 Garfield, op. cit., p. 408.
55 Princess Elizabeth to Betty Spencer Shew, undated (1947), Balmoral.
56 See Longford, op. cit., p. 114.
57 Scotsman, 10 July 1947.
58 Coventry Evening Telegraph, 10 July 1947.
59 Dismore, op. cit., p. 263.
60 Belfast Telegraph, 20 November 1947.
61 Garfield, op. cit., p. 424.
62 Shawcross, Official Biography, p. 628.
63 Manchester Evening News, 30 October 1947.
64 Morrah, op. cit., p. 126.
65 Pottle, op. cit., p. 31.
66 Daily Mail, 22 July 1947.
67 Cheltenham Chronicle, 18 October 1947.
68 Yorkshire Post, 29 October 1947; Scotsman, 30 October 1947.
69 Liverpool Echo, 17 October 1947; Illustrated London News, 1 April 1950.
70 See Gloucestershire Echo, 31 October 1947.
71 Lees-Milne, James, diary, 18 November 1947, in Lees-Milne, James, Caves of Ice and Midway on the Waves (John Murray, London, 1996), p. 204.
72 Pimlott, op. cit., p. 135.
73 Nancy Mitford to Humphrey Hare, 23 November 1947, in Mosley, Charlotte, ed., Love from Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1993), p. 193.
74 Payn, Graham, and Morley, Sheridan, eds., The Noël Coward Diaries (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1982), p. 96.
75 Bedell Smith, op. cit., p. 39.
76 See Roberts, Margery, A Time Remembered (Royal Pavilion Libraries and Museum, Brighton, 1998).
77 Yorkshire Evening Post, 20 November 1947.
78 Crawford, op. cit., p. 204.
79 Queen Elizabeth to Princess Elizabeth, 24 November 1947, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 404.
80 Morrow, op. cit., p. 36.
81 Belfast Telegraph, 20 November 1947.
82 Payn and Morley, op. cit., p. 96.
83 Queen Elizabeth to Princess Elizabeth, 30 November 1947, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 405.
84 Bradford, Elizabeth, p. 130.
85 Shields Daily News, 20 November 1947.
86 Marie Louise, Her Highness Princess, op. cit., p. 313.
87 Queen Elizabeth to Princess Elizabeth, 24 November 1947, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 404.
88 Longford, op. cit., p. 121.
89 Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 629.
90 Ibid., p. 630.
91 Yorkshire Post, 28 May 1948.
92 Garfield, op. cit., p. 467.
93 For example, see Nottingham Evening Post, 28 February 1948.
94 Shawcross, Official Biography, p. 630.
95 Crawford, op. cit., p. 207.
96 Queen Elizabeth to Princess Elizabeth, 24 November 1947, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, pp. 403–4.
97 Nottingham Journal, 27 November 1947.
98 Manchester Evening News, 23 October 1947.
CHAPTER VIII
1 Coventry Evening Standard, 29 May 1948.
2 Jebb, op. cit., p. 92.
3 Coventry Evening Standard, 29 May 1948.
4 Letter from K. E. Pratt, London NW2, undated, to Sunday Mirror, 7 March 1948.
5 Duke of Edinburgh to Queen Elizabeth, undated (November 1947), quoted in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 403.
6 Bradford, Elizabeth, p. 140.
7 Pimlott, op. cit., p. 121.
8 Morrah, Dermot, The Royal Family (Odhams, London, 1950), p. 86.
9 Western Daily Press, 24 January 1948.
10 See, for example, Aberdeen Press & Journal, 24 January 1948.
11 Liverpool Echo, 17 February 1948.
12 Spectator, 26 December 1947.
13 Ibid., 21 November 1947.
14 Pimlott, op. cit., p. 150.
15 Western Mail, 15 May 1948.
16 Edwards, Anne, Royal Sisters (William Morrow & Co., New York 1990), p. 211.
17 Quoted in Hardman, op. cit., p. 276.
18 Shawcross, Official Biography, p. 631.
19 Channon, op. cit., 30 May 1948, p. 425.
20 Scotsman, 7 January 1948.
21 Western Morning News, 1 March 1949.
22 Turner, op. cit., p. 34.
23 Crawford, op. cit., p. 221.
24 Shawcross, Official Biography, pp. 630–1.
25 George VI, undated (1947), ‘To the bishops and clergy of the province of Canterbury in convocation assembled’ (on the occasion of Princess Elizabeth’s engagement).
26 Eade, op. cit., p. 201.
27 Jebb, op. cit., p. 92.
28 Wells Journal, 17 September 1948.
29 Queen Louise of Sweden to Mountbatten, 14 December 1948, quoted in Vickers, Hugo, Alice: Princess Andrew of Greece (Penguin, London, 2001), p. 332.
30 Eade, op. cit., p. 224.
31 Bedell Smith, op. cit., p. 49.
32 Eade, op. cit., p. 224.
33 Crawford, op. cit., p. 228.
34 Dimbleby, Jonathan, The Prince of Wales (Little, Brown, London, 1994), p. 6.
35 The Times, 15 November 1948.
36 Vickers, Alice, p. 332.
37 Illustrated London News, 8 January 1949.
38 Dismore, op. cit., p. 250.
39 Ibid.
40 Queen Elizabeth to Winston Churchill, 27 December 1948, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 412.
41 Morrah, Royal Family, p. 95.
42 Williams, op. cit., p. 240.
43 Princess Elizabeth to Lady Olivier, Buckingham Palace, 22 April 1949.
44 Scotsman, 22 December 1949.
45 Ibid.
46 Vickers, Elizabeth the Queen Mother, p. 309.
47 Jebb, op. cit., p. 88.
48 Nicolson, Nigel, Long Life: Memoirs (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1997), p. 280.
49 Jebb, op. cit., p. 94.
50 Dimbleby, op. cit., note, p. 16.
51 Princess Elizabeth to ‘Mary’, 24 April 1945.
52 Dismore, op. cit., p. 251.
53 Banbury Gazette, 28 April 1949.
54 Channon, op. cit., pp. 438–9.
55 Brown, op. cit., p. 33.
56 Knight, Laura, The Magic of a Line: The Autobiography of Laura Knight (William Kimber, London, 1965).
57 Morrah, Royal Family, p. 92.
58 Western Morning News, 31 October 1949.
59 Bradford, Elizabeth, p. 151.
60 Dismore, op. cit., p. 256.
61 Illustrated London News, 3 December 1949.
62 Ziegler, Mountbatten, p. 492.
63 Ibid.
64 Queen Elizabeth to Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, 5 January 1949, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 413; Queen Elizabeth to Princess Elizabeth, 21 December 1949, in ibid, p. 420.
65 Quoted in Eade, op. cit., p. 236.
66 Cathcart, op. cit., p. 125.
67 Quoted in Eade, op. cit., p. 235.
68 Quoted in Pimlott, op. cit., p. 162.
69 Illustrated London News, 11 October 1947.
70 Dismore, op. cit., p. 260.
71 Vickers, Elizabeth the Queen Mother, p. 283.
72 Ibid., p. 286.
73 Nottingham Evening Post, 10 March 1950.
74 Scotsman, 16 August 1950.
75 Bradford, Elizabeth, p. 159; Dismore, op. cit., p. 260.
76 Bradford, Elizabeth, p. 159.
77 Dismore, op. cit., p. 260.
78 Nottingham Evening Post, 6 December 1950.
79 Turner, op. cit., p. 37.
80 Queen Elizabeth to Princess Elizabeth, 29 December 1950, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 435.
81 Sunday Mirror, 4 February 1951.
82 Cathcart, op. cit., p. 126.
83 Pathé Films, ‘God Save the Queen’, broadcast 11 February 1952.
84 Western Mail, 8 October 1951.
85 Belfast Telegraph, 29 October 1951.
86 Aberdeen Evening Express, 12 October 1951.
87 Pimlott, op. cit., p. 368.
88 Eader, op. cit., p. 246; Aberdeen Evening Express, 12 October 1951.
89 Queen Elizabeth to Princess Elizabeth, 15 October 1951, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 441.
90 Belfast Telegraph, 2 November 1951.
91 Pimlott, op. cit., p. 172.
92 Rugby Advertiser, 23 November 1951.
93 Pimlott, op. cit., p. 170.
94 Illustrated London News, 2 February 1952.
95 Seward, My Husband and I, p. 85.
96 Martin Charteris, quoted in Bradford, George VI, p. 460.
97 Lacey, op. cit., p. 166.
98 Daily Telegraph, 2 June 2003.
99 Ferrier, op. cit., p. 133; Shawcross, Official Biography, p. 666; Daily Telegraph, 2 June 2003.
100 Brendon, Piers, and Whitehead, Phillip, The Windsors (Pimlico, London, 2000), p. 130.
101 Bradford, George VI, p. 461.
102 Longford, op. cit., p. 236.
CHAPTER IX
1 Campbell-Preston, op. cit., p. 219.
2 Northern Whig, 18 February 1952.
3 Elizabeth II to Ethel Taylor, 5 April 1952; Elizabeth II to Mrs Tanner, 23 March 1952.
4 Pathé Films, ‘God Save the Queen’, broadcast 11 February 1952.
5 Masefield, John, ‘Our Glorious Sovereign’.
6 Cathcart, op. cit., p. 131.
7 Shawcross, William, Queen and Country (BBC Books, London, 2002), p. 16; Shawcross, Official Biography, p. 665; Pimlott, op. cit., pp. 187, 175.
8 Northern Whig, 18 February 1952.
9 Bedell Smith, op. cit., p. 124.
10 Ibid., p. 67.
11 Daily Telegraph, 5 March 1952.
12 Birmingham Daily Gazette, 11 March 1952.
13 Ibid., 3 April 1952.
14 Manser, op. cit., p. 294.
15 Elizabeth II, in the documentary Elizabeth R (1992).
16 Marie Louise, Her Highness Princess, op. cit., p. 313.
17 Manser, op. cit., p. 293.
18 Quoted in Portsmouth Evening News, 11 October 1950.
19 Fry, Christopher, A Queen is Crowned, The Rank Organisation, 1953.
20 Longford, op. cit., p. 147.
21 Warwick, op. cit., p. 57.
22 Williams, op. cit., p. 268.
23 Seward, My Husband and I, p. 89.
24 Vickers, Alice, p. 344.
25 Alexandra, Queen of Yugoslavia, op. cit., p. 167.
26 Rhodes, op. cit., p. 151.
27 Shawcross, Official Biography, p. 671.
28 Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother to Elizabeth II, 14 December 1953, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 476.
29 Seward, My Husband and I, p. 90.
30 Brandreth, Gyles, Philip and Elizabeth: Portrait of a Marriage (Century, London, 2004), p. 258.
31 Quoted in Longford, Elizabeth, Royal Throne (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1993), p. 155.
32 Countess Mountbatten of Burma: see Seward, My Husband and I, p. 90.
33 Pimlott, op. cit., p. 184.
34 Eade, op. cit., p. 262.
35 Bradford, Elizabeth, p. 285.
36 Quoted in Newcastle Journal, 12 April 1952.
37 Lancet, May 1952.
38 Boothroyd, Basil, Philip: An Informal Biography of HRH the Duke of Edinburgh (Longmans, London, 1971), p. 49.
39 Lancet, May 1952.
40 Longford, Elizabeth R, p. 157.
41 Forster, Margaret, Daphne du Maurier (Chatto & Windus, London, 1993), p. 230.
42 Brandreth, Gyles, Something Sensational to Read in the Train: The Diary of a Lifetime (John Murray, London, 2009), p. 217.
43 Marie Louise, Her Highness Princess, op. cit., p. 315.
44 Turner, op. cit., p. 46.
45 Pimlott, op. cit., p. 181.
46 Nicolson, Nigel, ed., Harold Nicolson Diaries and Letters 1945–62 (Collins, London, 1968), p. 220.
47 Turner, op. cit., p. 46.
48 Dismore, op. cit., p. 264.
49 Dundee Courier, 5 November 1952.
50 Birmingham Daily Gazette, 5 November 1952.
51 Anonymous, ‘The Queen, God Bless Her’, Hastings & St Leonards Observer, 30 May 1953.
52 Queen Mary to Duke of Baena, 18 March 1953, quoted in Pope-Hennessy, James, Queen Mary (George Allen and Unwin, London, 1959), p. 621.
53 Bloch, Michael, ed., James Lees-Milne Diaries 1942–1954 (John Murray, London, 2006), p. 448.
54 Vickers, Hugo, ed., The Quest for Queen Mary (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2018), p. 21.
55 See, for example, Falkirk Herald, 30 May 1953.
56 Daily Express, quoted in Feingold, Ruth P., ‘Marketing the Modern Empire: Elizabeth II and the 1953–1954 World Tour’, Antipodes, vol. 23, no. 2 (December 2009), pp. 147–54.
57 Lloyd, Christopher, Ceremony and Celebration: Coronation Day 1953 (Royal Collection Enterprises, London, 2003), p. 29; Eade, op. cit., p. 265.
58 Yorkshire Post, 9 February 1952.
59 Alice, HRH Princess, For My Grandchildren (Evans, London, 1967), p. 287.
60 Eade, op. cit., p. 278.
61 The Order of Divine Service for Trinity Sunday, 31 May 1953, p. 13.
62 Quoted in Marr, op. cit., p. 159.
63 Channon, op. cit., p. 477.
64 Western Mail, 11 November 1952.
65 Martin Longman of the Worshipful Company of Gardeners, quoted in Coventry Evening Telegraph, 18 April 1953.
66 In fact the final bouquet included flowers garnered from the four countries of the Union: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
67 Elizabeth Taylor to ‘Dear Robert’, 10 June 1953, quoted in Spurling, Hilary, Ivy: The Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett (Knopf, New York, 1984), p. 474.
68 Quoted in Williams, op. cit., p. 283.
69 West Sussex County Times, 5 June 1953.
70 Paul Gallico, quoted in Western Mail, 2 June 1953.
71 Nicolson, Vita and Harold, p. 405.
72 Nottingham Journal, 22 May 1953; Coventry Evening Telegraph, 26 May 1953.
73 Coventry Evening Telegraph, 26 May 1953.
74 Parker, Eileen, Step Aside for Royalty (Bachman & Turner, London, 1983), p. 130.
75 Quoted in Strong, Roy, Coronation: A History of Kingship. and the British Monarchy (HarperCollins, London, 2005), p. 486.
76 Parker, Eileen, op. cit., p. 162.
77 Pottle, op. cit., p. 123.
78 Payn and Morley, op. cit., p. 214.
79 Bloch, op. cit. p. 454.
80 Pick, op. cit., p. 345.
81 Parker, op. cit., p. 129.
82 Healey, Edna, The Queen’s House: A Social History of Buckingham Palace (Pegasus, London, 2012), p. 342; Lady Raine, quoted in Brown, op. cit., p. 92; Duffy, Carol Ann, ‘The Crown’.
83 Alice, HRH Princess, op. cit., p. 287; Campbell-Preston, op. cit., p. 219.
84 Bloch, op. cit., p. 453.
85 Longford, Royal Throne, p. 22.
86 Frances Woodsford to Paul Bigelow, 6 June 1953, in Woodsford, Frances, Dear Mr Bigelow (Chatto & Windus, London, 2009), pp. 136–7.
87 Parker, op. cit., p. 127.
88 Nicolson, Nigel, The Queen and Us: The Second Elizabethan Age (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2003), p. 31.
89 Daily Telegraph, 2 June 2003.
90 Shawcross, Queen and Country, p. 54.
CHAPTER X
1 Shawcross, Official Biography, p. 686.
2 Cynthia Gladwyn, quoted in Heald, op. cit., p. 155.
3 Princess Margaret to Mrs Douglas, 30 October 1950.
4 Lady Anne Glenconner, quoted in Bedell Smith, op. cit., p. 87.
5 Glendinning, op. cit., p. 170.
6 Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother to Alan Lascelles, 12 June 1953, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 470; Bradford, Elizabeth, p. 205.
7 Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother to Elizabeth II, 10 January 1954, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 480.
8 Quoted in Warwick, op. cit., p. 61.
9 Bradford, Elizabeth, p. 204.
10 Payn and Morley, op. cit., p. 215.
11 Masefield, John, ‘On Our Queen’s Going to Her Peoples’, The Times, 23 November 1953.
12 Portsmouth Evening News, 23 November 1953.
13 Dundee Courier, 20 November 1953.
14 Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother to Elizabeth II, 23 November 1953, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 474.
15 Shawcross, Official Biography, p. 691.
16 Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother to Princess Margaret, 25 February 1979, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 573.
17 Dimbleby, op. cit., p. 23.
18 Londonderry Sentinel, 9 January 1954.
19 Shields Daily News, 2 March 1954.
20 Shawcross, Official Biography, p. 691.
21 Cathcart, op. cit., p. 143.
22 Quoted in Tomlinson, Richard, Divine Right: The Inglorious Survival of British Royalty (Little, Brown, London, 1994), p. 224.
23 Longford, Elizabeth R, p. 166.
24 Bradford, Elizabeth, p. 216.
25 Feingold, op. cit.
26 Bedell Smith, op. cit., p. 102.
27 Shawcross, Queen and Country, p. 57.
28 Sydney Morning Herald, 18 February 1954.
29 Quoted in Bedell Smith, op. cit., p. 103.
30 Pimlott, op. cit., p. 225.
31 Belfast Newsletter, 13 January 1954; Longford, Elizabeth R, p. 168.
32 Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother to Elizabeth II, 10 March 1954, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 481.
33 Quoted in Nicolson, The Queen and Us, p. 36.
34 Seward, Ingrid, The Queen’s Speech (Simon & Schuster, London, 2016), p. 59.
35 Coventry Evening Telegraph, 11 December 1953.
36 Birmingham Daily Post, 1 January 1954.
37 Quoted in Edwards, op. cit., p. 282.
38 Shawcross, Official Biography, p. 692.
39 Quoted in Bedell Smith, op. cit., p. 107.
40 Mann, A. C., ‘The Queen’s Jewels’, in The Queen, 17 November 1954.
41 Shawcross, Queen and Country, p. 63.
42 Yorkshire Post, 30 April 1955; Tatler, 11 November 1955.
43 Pottle, op. cit., p. 147.
44 Shawcross, Queen and Country, p. 70.
45 Pimlott, op. cit., p. 244.
46 Shawcross, Queen and Country, p. 71; Bradford, Elizabeth, p. 228.
47 Shawcross, Official Biography, p. 697.
48 The Prince of Wales, quoted in Dimbleby, op. cit., p. 138.
49 Warwick, op. cit., p. 76.
50 Quoted in Pimlott, op. cit., p. 235.
51 Shawcross, Official Biography, p. 700.
52 Daily Mirror, 28 October 1955.
53 Shawcross, Official Biography, p. 726.
54 Bradford, Elizabeth, p. 287.
55 Coventry Evening Telegraph, 3 November 1955.
56 Illustrated London News, 28 April 1956.
57 Strong, Cecil Beaton: The Royal Portraits, p. 124.
58 Birmingham Daily Post, 26 January 1956.
59 Longford, Elizabeth R, p. 254.
60 Seward, My Husband and I, p. 93.
CHAPTER XI
1 Tatler, 14 November 1956.
2 Northern Whig, 17 October 1956.
3 Parker, op. cit., p. 174.
4 Ibid., p. 181.
5 Bradford, Elizabeth, p. 268.
6 Ibid., p. 230.
7 Payn and Morley, op. cit., p. 337.
8 Bradford, Elizabeth, p. 234.
9 Ibid., p. 255.
10 Ibid., p. 235.
11 Jebb, op. cit., p. 207.
12 Ibid.
13 Ibid.
14 Brendon and Whitehead, op. cit., p. 152.
15 Bedell Smith, op. cit., p. 130.
16 Daily Mirror, 26 September 1956.
17 Ibid.
18 Manser, op. cit., p. 319.
19 Brendon and Whitehead, op. cit., p. 153.
20 Jebb, op. cit., p. 207.
21 Daily Mirror, 28 September 1956.
22 Harewood, op. cit., p. 138.
23 Jebb, op. cit., p. 207.
24 The Times, 11 January 1957.
25 Daily Herald, 12 January 1957.
26 The Times, 11 January 1957.
27 Pathé, ‘The Queen Leaves for Portugal’, 1957.
28 Lancashire Evening Post, 18 February 1957.
29 Vickers, Elizabeth the Queen Mother, p. 368.
30 Daily Mirror, 22 February 1957.
31 Quoted in Bedell Smith, op. cit., p. 114.
32 Princess Elizabeth to Frederick ‘Boy’ Browning, 26 April 1955.
33 Healey, op. cit., p. 343.
34 Bradford, Elizabeth, p. 284.
35 Daily Mirror, 6 December 1962.
36 Liverpool Echo, 8 August 1957.
37 Birmingham Daily Post, 2 November 1957.
38 Vickers, Quest for Queen Mary, p. 224.
39 Quoted in Daily Herald, 7 August 1957.
40 Quoted in Coventry Evening Telegraph, 7 August 1957.
41 Bradford, Elizabeth, p. 246.
42 Alistair, 9th Marquess of Londonderry, New Statesman, 15 August 1957.
43 Pathé, ‘Peer Raises a Storm’, 1957.
44 Quoted in Lancashire Evening Post, 31 August 1957.
45 Vickers, Quest for Queen Mary, p. 222.
46 Pottle, op. cit., p. 167.
47 MacCarthy, Fiona, The Last Curtsey: The End of the Debutantes (Faber & Faber, London, 2006), p. 17.
48 Bradford, Elizabeth, p. 243.
49 Dennison, Queen Victoria, p. 115; Bedell Smith, op. cit., p. 161.
50 Whitehead & Brendon, The Windsors, p. 154.
51 Quoted in Bradford, Elizabeth, p. 280.
52 Bedell Smith, op. cit. p. 133.
53 Vickers, Quest for Queen Mary, p. 222.
54 Seward, The Queen’s Speech, p. 67.
55 Vickers, Quest for Queen Mary, p. 224.
56 New York Herald Tribune, 26 December 1957.
57 People, 23 March 1958.
58 Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother to Elizabeth II, 18 February 1958, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 499.
59 Sphere, 22 November 1958; Pimlott, op. cit., p. 310.
60 Jebb, op. cit., p. 207.
61 Frances Woodsford to Paul Bigelow, 13 April 1957, in Woodsford, op. cit., p. 245.
62 Bradford, Elizabeth, p. 243.
63 Quoted in Pimlott, op. cit., p. 302.
64 Bedell Smith, op. cit., p. 163.
65 Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother to Elizabeth II, 12 April 1956, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 494.
66 Shawcross, Queen and Country, p. 83.
67 Murphy, Philip, Monarchy and the End of Empire: The House of Windsor, the British Government and the Postwar Commonwealth (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2013), p. 70.
68 Ibid., p. 71.
69 Ibid., p. 74.
70 Newcastle Evening Chronicle, 10 February 1960.
71 Macmillan, see Bedell Smith, op. cit., p. 146.
72 Ibid.
73 Vickers, Quest for Queen Mary, p. 225.
74 Parker, John, op. cit., p. 202.
75 Coventry Evening Telegraph, 27 February 1960.
76 Victoria & Albert Museum, PH.1708-1987.
77 Strong, Cecil Beaton: The Royal Portraits, pp. 166–7.
78 Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother to the Marquess of Salisbury, 23 March 1960, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 509.
79 Princess Margaret to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, 16 May 1960, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, note p. 510.
80 Coventry Evening Telegraph, 5 April 1960.
CHAPTER XII
1 Murphy, op. cit., p. 77.
2 Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother to Elizabeth II, 10 November 1961, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 520.
3 Bradford, Elizabeth, p. 298.
4 Guardian, 26 November 1961.
5 Pimlott, op. cit., p. 308.
6 Turner, op. cit., p. 115.
7 Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother to Elizabeth II, 18 October 1982, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 580.
8 Turner, op. cit., p. 115.
9 Quoted in Bedell Smith, op. cit., p. 210.
10 Cathcart, Helen, The Queen Herself (Star, London, 1983), p. 179.
11 Harewood, op. cit., p. 27.
12 Hibbert, Christopher, The Court at Windsor: A Domestic History (Longmans, London, 1964), p. 140.
13 Peacock, Lady, Their Royal Highnesses Prince Charles and Princess Anne (Hutchinson, London, 1955), pp. 15–20.
14 Elizabeth II, Christmas broadcast, 1979.
15 Turner, op. cit., p. 115; Elizabeth II to Lady Fermoy, 26 December 1952.
16 People, 29 October 1961.
17 Turner, op. cit., p. 117.
18 Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother to Elizabeth II, 17 February 1961, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 513.
19 Elizabeth II, Christmas broadcast 2011.
20 Manser, op. cit., pp. 294, 308.
21 Turner, op. cit., p. 114.
22 Crawford, Marion, Our Queen Visits Australia and New Zealand (Dymock’s, Sydney, 1954), p. 55.
23 Bradford, Elizabeth, p. 327.
24 People, 29 October 1961.
25 Frances Woodsford to Paul Bigelow, 17 November 1952, in Woodsford, op. cit., p. 102.
26 Ibid.
27 Quoted in Bedell Smith, Sally, Charles: The Misunderstood Prince (Penguin, London, 2017), p. 13.
28 Dimbleby, op. cit., p. 36.
29 Strong, Cecil Beaton: The Royal Portraits, p. 167.
30 Sunday Mirror, 6 July 1961.
31 Queen Elizabeth to Princess Elizabeth, 12 December 1950, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 433.
32 Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother to Elizabeth II, 23 May 1961, in ibid, p. 516.
33 Daily Herald, 31 July 1961.
34 See Turner, op. cit., p. 120.
35 Beaton, Cecil, Beaton in the Sixties: More Unexpurgated Diaries (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2003), p. 231.
36 Sheridan, Lisa, A Day with Prince Andrew (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1962), p. 1.
37 Whittle, Peter, Monarchy Matters (Social Affairs Unit, London 2011), p. 19.
38 Sunday Express, 22 October 1961.
39 Quoted in Pimlott, op. cit., p. 282; Dimbleby, op. cit., p. 101.
40 Beaton, op. cit., p. 146.
41 Prochaska, Frank, Royal Bounty: The Making of a Welfare Monarchy (Yale University Press, London, 1995), p. 254.
42 Williams, Marcia, Inside Number 10 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1972), p. 17.
43 Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother to Cecil Beaton, 20 February 1964, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 527.
44 Dimbleby, op. cit., p. 494.
45 Ted Hughes to Frieda Hughes, 23 November 1974, in Reid, Christopher, ed., Letters of Ted Hughes (Faber & Faber, London, 2009), p. 357.
46 Pimlott, op. cit., p. 317.
47 Pathé, ‘Royal Decade’, 1962.
48 Quoted in Birmingham Daily Post, 4 March 1963.
49 Partridge, Frances, Hanging On: Diaries 1960–1963 (William Collins, London, 1990), p. 171.
50 Bedell Smith, Elizabeth, p. 162; Daily Mirror, 10 June 1963.
51 Daily Mirror, 10 June 1963.
52 Ibid., 24 June 1963.
53 Vickers, Hugo, The Crown: Truth and Fiction (Zuleika, London, 2017), p. 49.
54 Daily Mirror, 14 October 1963.
55 Longford, Elizabeth R, p. 240.
56 Turner, op. cit., p. 89.
57 Coventry Evening Telegraph, 18 October 1963.
58 Daily Mirror, 14 October 1963.
59 Bradford, Elizabeth, p. 324.
60 Elizabeth II to Helen Rowe, 5 August 1964.
61 Mayer, Catherine, Charles: The Heart of a King (W. H. Allen, London, 2015), p. 98.
62 Reynelle, Margaret, The 1973 Royal Family Yearbook (Clipper Press, 1973), p. 9.
CHAPTER XIII
1 Beaton, op. cit., p. 270.
2 Sunday Telegraph, 22 January 1967.
3 Illustrated London News, 10 June 1967; Partridge, Frances, Good Company: Diaries 1967–70 (HarperCollins, London, 1994), p. 2.
4 Seward, My Husband and I, p. 154.
5 Pearson, John, The Ultimate Family: The Making of the Royal House of Windsor (Michael Joseph, London, 1986), p. 167.
6 Roy Hattersley, quoted in Shawcross, Queen and Country, p. 113.
7 Winstone, Ruth, ed., The Benn Diaries (Hutchinson, London, 1995), p. 181.
8 Liverpool Echo, 8 September 1966.
9 Daily Express, 19 May 1965.
10 Guardian , 2 February 1965.
11 Daily Mirror, 28 October 1966.
12 People, 30 October 1966.
13 Ibid.
14 Daily Mirror, 20 June 1969.
15 Beaton, op. cit., p. 343.
16 Pimlott, op. cit., p. 379.
17 Beaton, op cit., p. 146.
18 Daily Mirror, 20 June 1969.
19 Beaton, op. cit., p. 342.
20 Payn and Morley, op. cit., p. 634.
21 Whittle, op. cit., p. 18.
22 Tomlinson, op. cit., p. 218.
23 Daily Mirror, 3 January 1967.
24 Pottle, op. cit., pp. 341–2.
25 Birmingham Daily Post, 2 July 1969.
26 Pick, op. cit., p. 435; Jebb, op. cit., p. 346.
27 Payn and Morley, op. cit., p. 678.
28 Jebb, op. cit., p. 346.
29 Clark, Brigadier Stanley, Palace Diary (George G. Harrap & Co., London, 1958), p. 202.
30 Pearson, op. cit., p. 197.
31 Garfield, op. cit., p. 364.
32 Pearson, op. cit., p. 199.
33 Winstone, op. cit., pp. 211–12.
34 Shawcross, Crown and Country, p. 113.
35 Clark, op. cit., p. 5.
36 Grenfell, Joyce, In Pleasant Places (Macmillan, London, 1979), p. 275.
37 Clark, op. cit., p. 174.
38 Partridge, Frances, Other People: Diaries 1963–66 (HarperCollins, London, 1993), p. 100.
39 Hibbert, Christopher, The Court at Windsor (Prentice Hall Press, London 1972), p. 149.
40 Bedell Smith, Elizabeth, p. 175.
41 Healey, op. cit., p. 357.
42 Quoted in Pearson, op. cit., p. 186.
43 Quoted in Pimlott, op. cit., p. 344.
44 Bradford, Elizabeth, p. 321.
45 Quoted in Pimlott, op. cit., p. 358.
46 Quoted in Bradford, Elizabeth, p. 322.
47 Monica Davies, Illustrated London News, 2 March 1968.
48 David Gentleman to Antony Wedgwood Benn, undated (January 1965).
49 Winstone, op. cit., p. 126.
50 Ibid., p. 127.
51 Wilson, A. N., The Queen (Atlantic, London, 2016), p. 144.
52 Winstone, op. cit., p. 142.
53 Ibid., p. 140.
54 Quoted in Liverpool Echo, 6 March 1967.
55 Elizabeth II, Christmas broadcast, 1969.
56 Quoted in Bradford, Elizabeth, p. 409.
57 Fitzalan Howard, The Windsor Diaries, p. 108.
58 See Antiques Trade Gazette, 19 March 2019.
59 See Carpenter, Humphrey, Benjamin Britten: A Biography (Faber & Faber, London, 1992), p. 464.
60 Brandreth, op. cit., p. 161.
61 Heald, op. cit., p. 195.
62 Aberdeen Press & Journal, 2 October 1967.
63 Quoted in Strong, Roy, The Roy Strong Diaries 1967–87 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1997), p. 179.
64 See Design (November 1960), published by the Council of Industrial Design.
65 Cathcart, The Queen Herself, p. 196.
66 Inside Page magazine, quoted in Daily Mirror, 29 September 1969; quoted in Pimlott, op. cit., p. 251.
67 Pearson, op. cit., p. 190.
68 Shawcross, Crown and Country, p. 230.
69 Daily Mirror, 29 September 1969.
70 Ibid., 2 March 1970.
71 Grenfell, In Pleasant Places, p. 213.
72 Winstone, op. cit., p. 423.
CHAPTER XIV
1 Shawcross, Crown and Country, p. 117.
2 Whittle, op. cit., p. 49.
3 British Movietone, 1972.
4 Daily Telegraph, 21 October 1969.
5 Quoted in Heald, op. cit., p. 174.
6 Murphy, op. cit., pp. 107–8.
7 Pimlott, op. cit., p. 425.
8 Quoted in Hardman, op. cit., p. 146.
9 Heath, Edward, The Course of My Life (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1998), p. 391.
10 Guardian, 13 October 1972.
11 Beaton, The Unexpurgated Beaton (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2002), p. 244; Brandreth, op. cit., p. 236.
12 Beaton, The Unexpurgated Beaton, p. 335.
13 Grenfell, In Pleasant Places, p. 277.
14 Ibid.
15 Ted Hughes to Frieda Hughes, 23 November 1974, in Reid, op. cit., p. 356.
16 Grenfell, In Pleasant Places, p. 279.
17 Daily Mirror, 31 July 1975.
18 Ibid.
19 Pimlott, op. cit., p. 454.
20 Quoted in Bedell Smith, Elizabeth, p. 259.
21 Daily Mirror, 8 February 1977.
22 Hamilton, Willie, My Queen and I (Quartet Books, London, 1975), p. 182.
23 Elizabeth II to Hardy Amies, quoted in Pimlott, op. cit., p. 423.
24 Bedell Smith, Elizabeth, p. 258.
25 Liverpool Echo, 6 December 1976.
26 Seward, The Queen’s Speech, p. 107.
27 Amies, Hardy, Still Here: An Autobiography (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1984), p. 109.
28 Pimlott, op. cit., p. 450; Ziegler, Philip, Crown and People (HarperCollins, London, 1978), p. 183.
29 John Masefield, ‘On the Coming Marriage of the Princess Elizabeth’, 1947.
30 Lacey, op. cit., p. 246.
31 Daily Mail, 8 June 1977.
32 Strong, The Roy Strong Diaries 1967–87, p. 194.
33 Ibid.
34 Ibid., p. 193.
35 Quoted in Bedell Smith, Elizabeth, p. 245.
36 Manser, op. cit., p. 315.
37 John Grigg, Sunday Times, quoted in Pimlott, op. cit., p. 452.
38 Ibid.
39 Larkin, Philip, Selected Poems (Faber & Faber, London, 2001), p. 210.
40 Daily Mirror, 5 February 1982.
41 Longford, Elizabeth R, p. 279.
42 Shawcross, Official Biography, p. 805.
43 Seward, My Husband and I, p. 254.
44 William Heseltine, 17 March 1978, quoted in Reading Evening Post, 2 May 1978.
45 Quoted in Heald, op. cit., p. 197.
46 Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother to Elizabeth II, 25 April 1976, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 563.
47 Strong, The Roy Strong Diaries 1967–87, p. 283.
48 Galli Pahlavi, Anna, ed., The Diaries of Auberon Waugh: A Turbulent Decade 1976–85 (Private Eye/Andre Deutsch, London, 1985), p. 49.
49 For example, see Birmingham Daily Post, 10 November 1977.
50 Bedell Smith, Charles, p. 116.
51 Ibid., p. 111.
52 Ziegler, Mountbatten, p. 686.
53 Shawcross, Crown and Country, p. 130.
54 Dimbleby, op. cit., p. 261.
55 Leicester Chronicle, 21 October 1977.
56 Ziegler, Mountbatten, p. 699.
57 Bedell Smith, Charles, p. 119.
58 Marr, op. cit., pp. 277–8.
59 Elizabeth II to Mrs Tanner, 26 April 1972.
CHAPTER XV
1 Zambia Daily Mail, 1 August 1979, quoted in Brendon and Whitehead, op. cit., p. 195.
2 Winstone, op. cit., p. 439.
3 Ibid., p. 473.
4 Michael Gill, quoted in Plumb, J. H., and Weldon, Huw, Royal Heritage (BBC Books, London, 1977), p. 331.
5 Daily Mirror, 14 September 1982.
6 Quoted in Hoey, Brian, Her Majesty: 60 Regal Years (Robson Press, London, 2012), p. 20.
7 Elizabeth II, Elizabeth R, 1992.
8 Thorpe, Richard, ed., Who Loses, Who Wins: The Journals of Kenneth Rose Volume Two 1979–2014 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2019), p. 124.
9 Turner, op. cit., p. 179.
10 Lees-Milne, James, Deep Romantic Chasm, Diaries 1979–81 (John Murray, London, 2000), p. 74.
11 Daily Mirror, 7 July 1979.
12 Newcastle Journal, 30 July 1986.
13 Birmingham Daily Post, 3 August 1979.
14 The Queen and Commonwealth, Thames Television, 1986.
15 Elizabeth II, Christmas broadcast, 1980.
16 Morrow, op. cit., p. 149.
17 Newcastle Journal, 30 July 1986.
18 Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother to the Prince of Wales, 6 August 1984, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 587; Ted Hughes to Frieda Hughes, 23 November 1974, in Reid, op. cit., p. 357.
19 Hardman, op. cit., p. 336.
20 Strong, The Roy Strong Diaries 1967–87, p. 264.
21 Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother to Princess Margaret, 5 August 1980, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, pp. 575–6.
22 Shawcross, Official Biography, p. 862.
23 Barratt, John, With the Greatest Respect: The Private Lives of Earl Mountbatten and Prince and Princess Michael of Kent (Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1979), p. 79.
24 Quoted in Mayer, op. cit., p. 97; Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother to the Prince of Wales, 19 April 1983, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 584.
25 Daily Mirror, 18 November 1980.
26 Seward, My Husband and I, p. 165.
27 Vickers, Elizabeth the Queen Mother, p. 424.
28 Ibid.
29 Thorpe, op. cit., 24 February 1981, p. 34.
30 Quoted in Newcastle Journal, 26 March 1981.
31 Seward, Ingrid, The Queen and Di (HarperCollins, London, 2000), p. 48.
32 Bennett, Alan, Writing Home: Diaries (Faber & Faber, London, 1994), p. 310.
33 Amies, op. cit., p. 112.
34 Ibid., p. 159.
35 Daily Mirror, 15 June 1981.
36 Sunday Mirror, 14 June 1981.
37 Elizabeth at 90: A Family Tribute, BBC, 2016.
38 For example, see Liverpool Echo, 16 June 1981.
39 Reading Evening Post, 16 June 1981.
40 Ruth, Lady Fermoy, quoted in Strong, The Roy Strong Diaries 1967–87, p. 317.
41 Ibid., p. 315.
42 Harold Wilson quoted in Reading Evening Post, 4 February 1982.
43 Winstone, op. cit., p. 532.
44 Elizabeth II, Christmas broadcast, 1982.
45 Quoted in Brendon and Whitehead, op. cit., p. 203.
46 Ibid., p. 204.
47 Harold Wilson quoted in Reading Evening Post, 4 February 1982.
48 Illustrated London News, 1 August 1982.
49 Pimlott, op. cit., p. 488.
50 For example, see Daily Mirror, 21 September 1982.
51 Aberdeen Evening Express, 22 November 1982.
52 Andrew Morton, quoted in Mayer, op. cit., p. 116.
53 Liverpool Echo, 4 October 1982.
54 Adie, Kate, The Autobiography: The Kindness of Strangers (Headline, London, 2003), p. 221.
55 Ibid.
56 Maclean’s magazine, 21 March 1983.
57 Powell, Antony, Journals 1982–6 (Heinemann, London, 1995), p. 210.
58 Illustrated London News, 1 April 1986.
59 Letter, Elizabeth II, undated (April 1986).
60 Kavanagh, op. cit., p. 587.
61 Lees-Milne, James, Holy Dread Diaries 1982–4 (John Murray, London, 2001), p. 16.
62 Ibid.
63 Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother to Elizabeth II, 10 April 1986, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 589.
64 Strong, The Roy Strong Diaries 1967–87, pp. 361–2.
65 New York Times, 5 October 1984.
66 Ibid.
67 Elizabeth II, Christmas broadcast, 1986.
68 Powell, op. cit., p. 254.
69 Sunday Tribune, 27 July 1986.
70 Sunday Times, 20 July 1986.
71 Turner, op. cit., p. 182.
72 Spectator, 3 December 1937.
73 Newcastle Journal, 15 June 1987.
74 Liverpool Echo, 19 June 1987.
75 Barnes, Julian, Letters from London 1990–1995 (Jonathan Cape, London, 1998), p. 159.
76 Hardman, Robert, Our Queen (Random House, London, 2011), p. 83.
77 Pearson, op. cit., p. 295.
78 Seward, Ingrid, Prince Philip Revealed (Simon & Schuster, London, 2020), p. 186.
79 Quoted in ibid, p. 243.
80 Daily Mirror, 13 June 1987.
81 Lady Selina Hastings, quoted in Heald, op. cit., p. 245.
CHAPTER XVI
1 Strong, The Roy Strong Diaries 1967–87, p. 430.
2 Lacey, op. cit., p. 299.
3 Hardman, Our Queen, p. 79.
4 Ibid., p. 81.
5 Irish Independent, 6 January 1989.
6 Bennett, op. cit., p. 233.
7 Guardian, 23 February 1991.
8 Seward, Prince Philip Revealed, p. 333.
9 Liverpool Echo, 12 February 1991.
10 The Times, 26 February 1991.
11 Shawcross, Crown and Country, p. 186.
12 Lees-Milne, James, Milk of Paradise: Diaries 1993–7 (John Murray, London, 2005), p. 47.
13 Vickers, Quest for Queen Mary, p. 224.
14 Lees-Milne, James, Ceaseless Turmoil: Diaries 1988–92 (John Murray, London, 2004), p. 288.
15 See Wilson, Mary, New Poems (Hutchinson, London, 1979).
16 Edward Mirzoeff interview in Christian Science Monitor, 10 September 1992.
17 Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother to Elizabeth II, 3 February 1993, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 605.
18 Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother to Elizabeth II, 5 February 1992, in ibid, p. 603.
19 Hughes, Ted, Rain Charm for the Duchy (Faber & Faber, London, 1992), p. 61.
20 Independent, 13 December 1992.
21 Hoey, op. cit., p. 139.
22 Quoted in Wilson, The Queen, p. 53.
23 Wilson, A. N., Our Times: The Age of Elizabeth II (Hutchinson, London, 2008), p. 321.
24 Turner, Graham, op cit., p. 5.
25 Lees-Milne, Ceaseless Turmoil, p. 296.
26 Elizabeth II to Cyril and Iris Woods, undated (19 December 1992).
27 Thorpe, op. cit., p. 322.
28 Daily Telegraph, 25 November 1992.
29 The Times, 26 November 1992.
30 Brandreth, op. cit., p. 543.
31 Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother to Elizabeth II, 3 February 1993, in Shawcross, Counting One’s Blessings, p. 605.
32 Tony Banks MP, quoted in Washington Post, 10 December 1992.
33 Brendon and Whitehead, op. cit., p. 240.
34 Vickers, Elizabeth the Queen Mother, p. 475.
35 Shawcross, Official Biography, pp. 898–9.
36 Hoey, op. cit., p. 139.
37 Shawcross, Official Biography, p. 896.
38 Seward, Prince Philip Revealed, pp. 294–5.
39 Prince of Wales to Marjorie Dawson, 25 July 1994.
40 For example, see Dimbleby, op. cit., p. 49.
41 Lloyd, op. cit., p. 108.
42 Washington Post, 18 October 1994.
43 Daily Mirror, 9 March 1995.
44 Sunday Tribune, 12 March 1995.
45 Hardman, Queen of the World, p. 409.
46 Sampson, Anthony, Mandela: The Authorised Biography (HarperCollins, London, 1999), p. xxiii.
47 Sir Antony Reeve to Douglas Hurd, 5 April 1995.
48 Thorpe, op. cit., p. 272.
49 Ibid., p. 271.
50 Ibid., p. 283.
51 Pimlott, op. cit., p. 575.
52 Kilroy, BBC1, 21 November 1997.
53 Winstone, Ruth, ed., Free at Last: Tony Benn Diaries 1991–2001 (Hutchinson, London, 2002), p. 341.
54 Quoted in Bedell Smith, Elizabeth, p. 386.
55 Herald, 18 March 1996.
56 Daily Telegraph, ‘Elizabeth: A Life in Pictures’ (April 1996).
57 Whittle, op. cit., p. 21.
58 Witness History, BBC World Service.
59 Liverpool Echo, 12 February 1991.
60 Lees-Milne, The Milk of Paradise, p. 288.
61 Lacey, Robert, Battle of Brothers (Williams Collins, London, 2020), p. 19.
62 Brandreth, op. cit., p. 629.
63 Quoted in Bedell Smith, Elizabeth, p. 401.
64 Lacey, Majesty, p. 379.
65 Elizabeth II to Henriette Abel Smith, 12 September 1997.
66 Quoted in Shawcross, Official Biography, p. 911.
67 Sir Kenneth Scott to Richard Williams, 5 May 1995.
CHAPTER XVII
1 Seward, My Husband and I, p. 283.
2 Strong, Scenes and Apparitions, p. 249.
3 Ted Hughes to Hilda Farrar, 19 October 1998, in Reid, op. cit., p. 738.
4 Bedell Smith, Charles, p. 327.
5 The Gloucestershire estate, near Tetbury, was purchased by the Duchy of Cornwall in 1980.
6 Turner, op. cit., p. 166.
7 Sunday Tribune, 10 January 1999.
8 Illustrated London News, 1 June 1999.
9 Another eighteenth-century house in southern Gloucestershire, six miles from Highgrove.
10 Strong, Scenes and Apparitions, p. 300.
11 Marr, op. cit., p. 348.
12 Seward, The Queen’s Speech, p. 172.
13 Glenconner, Anne, Lady in Waiting (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2019), pp. 281–2.
14 Thorpe, op. cit., p. 377.
15 Tablet, 21 October 2000.
16 Strong, Scenes and Apparitions, p. 377.
17 Shawcross, Official Biography, p. 935.
18 Daily Mail, 1 June 2002.
19 Memoirs of HRH Prince Christopher of Greece (Hurst & Blackett, London, 1938), p. 161.
20 Seward, Prince Philip Revealed, p. 180.
21 See Bedell Smith, Sally, op. cit.Charles, p. 385.
22 Strong, Scenes and Apparitions, p. 418.
23 Daily Telegraph, 1 June 2003.
24 Turner, op. cit., p. 163; Bedell Smith, Charles, p. 360.
25 See Daily Telegraph, 16 August 2001.
26 Quoted in Daily Telegraph, 27 October 2002.
27 Thorpe, op. cit., p. 386.
28 Lady Susan Hussey to Marjorie Dawson, 14 May 2003.
29 Daily Telegraph, 20 April 2006.
30 Winstone, Ruth, ed., More Time for Politics: Tony Benn Diaries 2001–2007 (Hutchinson, London, 2007), p. 336.
31 Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh to Daphne du Maurier, 26 May 1977.
32 Daily Telegraph, 4 February 2007.
33 Ibid.
CHAPTER XVIII
1 Daily Telegraph, 6 October 2010.
2 Monarchy: The Royal Family at Work, BBC, 2007.
3 Quoted in Bedell Smith, Elizabeth, p. 497.
4 Daily Telegraph, 17 January 2010.
5 Daily Express, 12 October 2012.
6 ‘Profile’ (Christopher Geidt), 10 May 2015, Radio 4; Guardian, 23 November 2019.
7 ‘Profile’ (Christopher Geidt).
8 Ibid., Dr Jonathan Eyal.
9 Country Life, 20 April 2011.
10 Seward, Prince Philip Revealed, p. 325.
11 Bedell Smith, Elizabeth, p. 465.
12 Thorpe, op. cit., p. 430; Daily Telegraph, 22 November 2013.
13 Elizabeth II, Christmas broadcast, 2012.
14 Daily Telegraph, 6 June 2012.
15 Carol Ann Duffy quoted in Irish Times, 2 May 2009.
16 Philip, HRH Prince, Duke of Edinburgh, A Question of Balance (Michael Russell, London, 1982), see chapter entitled ‘Satisfaction and Contentment’.
17 Elizabeth II, Christmas broadcast, 2018.
18 Lacey, Battle of Brothers, p. 270.
19 Dunne, E., and Sutcliffe, H., 101 Reasons Why We Love the Queen (Short Books, London, 2020), p. 93.
20 Daily Telegraph, 24 December 2019.
21 Quoted in Bradford, Sarah, Queen Elizabeth II: Her Life in Our Times (Viking, London, 2011).