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The Crown

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by Robert Lacey


  378Beinart, The Icarus Syndrome, p. 161.

  379Dallek, Flawed Giant, p. 491.

  380Fredrik Logevall, The New York Times, 24 March 2018.

  381Smith, The Wilson–Johnson Correspondence, p. 5.

  382Paul Montgomery, The New York Times, 20 November 1965.

  383de Courcy, Snowdon, p. 104.

  384The Crown, Episode 302, ‘Margaretology’ by Peter Morgan, Scene 95.

  385Ibid.

  386Ibid., Scene 97.

  387Ibid., Scene 102.

  388Scott, Royal Betrayal, p. 11.

  389David Traynor, Daily Star, 26 February 2016.

  390Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p. 333.

  391Hart-Davis, King’s Counsellor: Abdication and War, p. 417.

  392Mitchell, Daily Life in Victorian England, p. xiii.

  393Rose, King George V, p. 42.

  394Wheeler-Bennett, King George VI, p. 27.

  395The Crown, Episode 302, ‘Margaretology’ by Peter Morgan, Scene 103.

  CHAPTER THIRTEEN

  396Richard Llewellyn’s How Green Was My Valley was first published by Michael Joseph in 1939.

  397Ceri Jackson, ‘The mistake that cost Aberfan its children’, BBC News, 21 October, 2016.

  398Jenny Johnston, ‘Mothers bound by grief’, Daily Mail, 11 October 2016.

  399Ibid.

  400Ibid.

  401Ceri Jackson, ‘The mistake that cost Aberfan its children’, BBC News, 21 October 2016.

  402Ibid.

  403Roy Greenslade, ‘Aberfan: a reporter’s letter home reveals the true horror of the tragedy’, The Guardian, 20 October 2016.

  404Ibid.

  405de Courcy, Snowdon, p. 149.

  406Bedell Smith, Elizabeth the Queen, pp. 198–9.

  407Lacey, Monarch, p. 223.

  408‘The Queen at 90: Memories from people around Wales’, BBC News, 21 April 2016.

  409Austin, Aberfan, p. 230.

  410Ibid., p. 9.

  411Miller, Aberfan, pp. 24–5.

  412‘NC-bloody-B’, National Museum Wales, 25 February 2008.

  413Ceri Jackson, ‘The mistake that cost Aberfan its children’, BBC News, 21 October 2016.

  414Dominic Midgely, ‘EXPOSED: The full scale of the negligence that led to Aberfan disaster’, Daily Express, 20 June 2016.

  415Gwilym, ‘Today We Mourn As a Nation’, Ein Gwlad News, 21 October 2018.

  416Dominic Midgely, ‘EXPOSED: The full scale of the negligence that led to Aberfan disaster’, Daily Express, 20 June 2016.

  417Ian McLean, ‘Aberfan: no end of a lesson’, History & Policy, 5 February 2007.

  418Aberfan: The Untold Story by Jonathan Jones, BBC, 2006, 00:43.

  419Ian McLean, ‘Aberfan: no end of a lesson’, History & Policy, 5 February 2007.

  420‘The Coal Industry Act 1994’, UK National Archives, 2019.

  421Thomas, Coal in Our Veins, pp. 15–16.

  CHAPTER FOURTEEN

  422Paterson, A Brief History of the Private Life of Elizabeth II, p. 97.

  423Pimlott, The Queen, p. 377.

  424John Parker, ‘Prince Harming’, Chicago Tribune, 25 August 1991.

  425Pimlott, The Queen, p. 378.

  426Pimlott, Harold Wilson, p. 350.

  427Healey, The Time of My Life, p. 333.

  428Pimlott, Harold Wilson, pp. 483–4.

  429Ibid.

  430Lacey, Monarch, p. 239

  431‘Civil List’, House of Commons Debate, 14 December 1971.

  432Duncan, The Queen’s Year, pp. 171–3.

  433Lacey, Monarch, p. 236.

  434Sandbrook, Seasons in the Sun, p. 625.

  435Lacey, Monarch, p. 236.

  436Pimlott, The Queen, p. 380.

  437BBC Television and Independent Television, Royal Family, p. ROYAL FAMILY.

  438Rosenthal, The New Documentary in Action, p. 208.

  439David Wilsworth, ‘Behind the Pomp with the Royal Family’, The Times, 20 June 1969.

  440Kelly, The Royals, p. 211.

  441BBC Television and Independent Television, Royal Family, p. SPRING.

  442‘Royal Family: An intimate look at the monarchy’, Annapolis Capital, 23 August 1969.

  443Marr, Diamond Queen, p. 198.

  444Ibid.

  445‘Sir Antony Jay, co-author of Yes Minister – obituary’, The Daily Telegraph, 23 August 2016.

  446Alexandra, Prince Philip, p. 16.

  447Vickers, Alice, p. 205.

  448Ibid., pp. 57–8.

  449Ibid., p. 205.

  450Commander Michael Parker CVO interview with author, Australia, 2000.

  451‘Righteous Among the Nations’, Yad Vashem, 2019.

  452‘Britons Honoured for Holocaust Heroism’, The Daily Telegraph, 9 March 2010.

  453Vickers, Alice, p. 360.

  454Cathcart, Anne and the Princesses Royal, p. 143.

  CHAPTER FIFTEEN

  455Barratt and Ritchie, With the Greatest Respect, p. 146.

  456Zuckerman’s diary cited in Ziegler, Mountbatten, p. 660.

  457Sandbrook, White Heat, p. 650.

  458Edwards, Newspapermen, p. 340.

  459John Beavan, ‘Obituary: Lord Cudlipp’, The Independent, 18 May 1998.

  460Bruce Lambert, ‘Lord Zuckerman, 88, a Scientist of Scope Who Guided Churchill’, The New York Times, 2 April 1993.

  461‘Enough is Enough’, Daily Mirror, 10 May 1968, p. 1.

  462Ziegler, Mountbatten, p. 659.

  463The Crown, Episode 305, ‘Coup’ by Peter Morgan, Scene 42.

  464Ibid.

  465Lownie, The Mountbattens, pp. 317–24.

  466The Crown, Episode 305, ‘Coup’ by Peter Morgan, Scene 75.

  467‘Cecil King, 86, dies in Dublin’, The New York Times, 19 April 1987.

  468Ziegler, Mountbatten, p. 659.

  469Ibid.

  470Ibid., p. 660.

  471Ziegler, author interview with Lord Cudlipp, Mountbatten, p. 660.

  472Ziegler, Mountbatten, p. 660.

  473Murray, All the King’s Horses, p. 217.

  474Ibid.

  475André Laguerre, ‘The Queen who loves the sport of kings’, Sports Illustrated, 18 October 1954.

  476Lacey, The Crown, pp. 317.

  477Murray, All the King’s Horses, p. 258.

  478Ibid., p. 166.

  479Lacey, The Crown, Volume 1, pp. 314, 315.

  480Muscat, Her Majesty’s Pleasure, pp. 23–4.

  481Ibid., p. 74.

  CHAPTER SIXTEEN

  482Dimbleby, The Prince of Wales, p. 118.

  483Fisher, Princes of Wales, p. vii.

  484Bedell Smith, Elizabeth the Queen, p. 222.

  485Menkes, The Windsor Style, p. 16.

  486Philip, The Welsh Question, p. 112.

  487Holden, Charles, Prince of Wales, p. 184.

  488Edward Millward, interviewed in The Real Prince Charles TV documentary (2001).

  489Ellis, Investiture, p. 197.

  490Hannah Booth, ‘Dr Tedi Millward, at the first Welsh language protest, 2 Feb 1963’, The Guardian, 30 October 2015.

  491The Crown research team interviews with Llio, Tedi Millward’s daughter, 13 August and 28 September 2018.

  492Adam Aspinall, ‘Time it takes to become fluent in another language revealed’, Daily Mirror, 20 November 2016.

  493Millward, Taith Rhyw Gymro. From the chapter ‘Royal Student’.

  494Heald and Mohs, HRH: The Man Who Will Be King, p. 91.

  495Ellis, Investiture, p. 269.

  496The Crown research team interviews with Llio, Tedi Millward’s daughter, 13 August and 28 September 2018.

  497Ibid.

  498‘Wales backs Charles for King’, BBC News, 25 June 1999.

  499Zara Whelan, North Wales Live, 18 November 2018.

  500George Thomas to Harold Wilson, 22 July 1969, PREM 13/2907, cited in Ellis, Investiture, p. 269.

  501Ibid.

  CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

  502Seward, My Husband
and I, p. 50.

  503Vickers, Alice, pp. 207–8.

  504Interview, Dr John Stephens, August 2019.

  505Ibid., pp. 209–10.

  506Fiammetta Rocco, ‘A Strange Life: Profile of Prince Philip’, The Independent, 13 December 1992.

  507Alexandra, Prince Philip, p. 37.

  508Vickers, Alice, p. 210.

  509A History of Cheam School, Cheam School website, 2019.

  510Brandreth, Philip and Elizabeth, p. 72.

  511Eade, Young Prince Philip, p. 67.

  512Fiammetta Rocco, ‘A Strange Life: Profile of Prince Philip’, The Independent, 13 December 1992.

  513Ibid.

  514‘Kurt Hahn and the Pursuit of Genius’. Lecture by Jocelin Winthrop-Young, 28 September 2001, at the Round Square Conference at St Philip’s College, Alice Springs, Australia. Quelle: Outward Bound International, Volume 10, Number 2, December 2003.

  515Ziegler, Mountbatten, p. 102.

  516Oliver James interview cited in Eade, Young Prince Philip, p. 68.

  517Stephen Bates, ‘Prince Philip at 90: still sees no need to apologise, or explain, or emote’, The Guardian, 9 June 2011.

  518Bradford, Elizabeth, p. 333.

  519Woods, Robin Woods, pp. 172–3.

  520Ibid., p. 168.

  521Ibid., pp. 167–8.

  522A Question of Balance, 1982, Royal Collection Trust, 2019.

  523Interview with Prince Philip, Alliance of Religions and Conservation, July 2003.

  524‘Macmillan talk with Queen upset by Glenn flight’, 23 February 1962, St Louis Post Dispatch.

  525The Spiritual Side of Apollo 11, St Peter’s Episcopal Church, 2017.

  526Matthew Cresswell, ‘How Buzz Aldrin’s communion on the moon was hushed up’, The Guardian, 13 September 2012.

  527The Spiritual Side of Apollo 11, St Peter’s Episcopal Church, 2017.

  528Ibid.

  529Hansen, First Man, p. 33.

  530Holmes, The Faiths of the Founding Fathers, pp. 39–52.

  531Feldstein, Jonathan. www.townhall.com, 17 July 2018.

  CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

  532The Crown Episode 308, Scene 40, ‘Dangling Man’ by David Hancock and Peter Morgan. Left Bank Pictures 2019.

  533Ibid.

  534Bedell Smith, Prince Charles, p. 68.

  535Graham, Camilla and Charles, p. 26.

  536Brandreth, Charles & Camilla, p. 178.

  537Graham, Camilla and Charles, p. 26.

  538Wilson, A Greater Love, p. 59.

  539Bedell Smith, Prince Charles, p. 67.

  540Ibid.

  541http://www.thegoonshow.net/tributes/terry_gilliam.asp.

  542Bradford, Elizabeth, p. 425.

  543Wilson, A Greater Love, p. 59.

  544Ibid., p.62.

  545Bedell Smith, Prince Charles, p. 74.

  546Graham, Camilla and Charles, p. 31.

  547Ibid., p. 33.

  548Brandreth, Charles & Camilla, p. 184.

  549Ibid.

  CHAPTER NINETEEN

  550Dimbleby, The Prince of Wales, p. 184.

  551Bedell Smith, Prince Charles, p. 78.

  552Dimbleby, The Prince of Wales, p. 230.

  553Brandreth, Charles & Camilla, p. 200.

  554Dimbleby, The Prince of Wales, p. 231.

  555Ibid., p. 232.

  556Confidential letter quoted in ibid., p. 232.

  557Dimbleby, The Prince of Wales, p. 232.

  558Ibid.

  559Ibid., p. 235.

  560Bedell Smith, Prince Charles, p. 147.

  561Pimlott, The Queen, pp. 398–9.

  562Ziegler, Edward Heath, p. 319.

  563Lloyd, Diplomacy with a Difference, p. 231.

  564Lacey, Monarch, p. 260.

  565Shawcross, Queen and Country, p. 107.

  566The Guardian, 4 January 1973, quoted in Beckett, When the Lights Went Out, p. 9.

  567‘Watch for bombers at Tubes, Yard says’, The Times, 28 December 1973.

  568Shawcross, Queen and Country, p. 108.

  569Turner, Crisis, What Crisis?, p. 18.

  570Beckett, When the Lights Went Out, p. 54.

  571Sandbrook, State of Emergency, p. 126.

  572Ibid., p. 115.

  573UK inflation rate in 1973: 9.10 per cent, Official Data Foundation, 2019.

  574Turner, Crisis, What Crisis?, p. 23.

  575Ziegler, Edward Heath, p. 319.

  576Bradford, Queen Elizabeth II, p. 175.

  577Pimlott, The Queen, p. 406.

  578Paterson, A Brief History of the Private Life of Elizabeth II, p. 131.

  579Follain, Jackal: The Complete Story of the Legendary Terrorist, p. xvii.

  CHAPTER TWENTY

  580Fred Hauptfuhrer, ‘Much of Britain is NOT Amused by Poet John Betjeman’s Tribute to the Queen’, PEOPLE, 21 February 1977.

  581Simon Hoggart, ‘Tories set sail for early poll’, Guardian, 22 June 1974.

  582Christie, Granny Made Me an Anarchist, p. 404.

  583Pincher, Inside Story, p. 30.

  584Ibid., p. 30.

  585Dorril and Ramsay, Smear!, p. 292.

  586Ibid.

  587Ibid., p. 293.

  588Harold Jackson, ‘David Blee: CIA chief who rescued the agency from paranoia’, The Guardian, 21 August 2000.

  589Hennessy, The Prime Minister, pp. 372, 373.

  590Donoughue, Downing Street Diary, p. 656.

  591Andrew, The Defence of the Realm, p. 637.

  592Ibid.

  593Ibid., p. 639.

  594Off-the-record interview.

  595‘Wilson “had Alzheimer’s when PM”’, BBC News Channel, 10 November 2008.

  596Donoughue, Downing Street Diary, p. 260.

  597Hennessy, The Prime Minister, p. 372.

  598Pimlott, Harold Wilson, p. 341.

  599Davidson, Downing Street Blues, p. 157.

  600Off-the-record interview.

  601Ziegler, Wilson, pp. 467, 468.

  602Hennessy, The Prime Minister, p. 360.

  603Smith, Bitter Harvest, p. 146.

  604Pimlott, Harold Wilson, pp. 674–5.

  605Hennessy, Cabinet, p. 149.

  606Castle, The Castle Diaries, 1964–76, pp. 671–2.

  607Peter Hennessy, Muddling Through, p. 265.

  608Author interview with Robert Armstrong, July 2019.

  609Heald, Princess Margaret, p. 197.

  610Author interview with Joe Haines, January 2001.

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