by Robert Lacey
Bush, George H. W., 249
Butler, R. A., 15, 38, 122–3, 124, 125
C
Callaghan, James, 204
Cameo (magazine), 83
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (née Shand, formerly Parker-Bowles), 217–26, 221, 227–30
capital punishment, abolition, 64–6
Capper, Sir Derrick, 236
Carnarvon, Jean, Countess of (née Wallop), 190
Carrington, Virginia, 228
Castle, Barbara, 186, 196, 251
Cavendish, Elizabeth, Lady, 51, 54, 87
Cawston, Richard, 174
Cecil, Robert see Salisbury, Robert Cecil, 5th Marquess
Cécile, Princess of Greece, 114, 205
Chamberlain, Neville, 14
Chan, Jacqui, 88, 90
Channon, Sir Henry ‘Chips’, 45
Charity Commission, 164
Charles, Prince, 194, 221; at Aberystwyth University, 197–201; at Cambridge University, 193–4; confirmation service, 208–9; at Gordonstoun, 110–11, 113; investiture as Prince of Wales, 146, 173, 196, 201–4; relationship with Camilla Shand/Parker-Bowles, 217–26, 227–30; relationship with Lady Jane Wellesley, 241
Charteris, Martin, 62, 96, 232, 238
Chataway, Chris, 29
Chatto, Lady Sarah (née Armstrong-Jones), 144
Cheam School, 207
Checketts, David, 202
Cheke, Marcus, 73
Chichester, Sir Francis, 170
Christie, John, 64–5
Christie, Stuart, 245
Churchill, Winston: and the Suez Crisis, 13–14; succession of Harold Macmillan as Prime Minister, 38, 39; and the Duke of Windsor, 70, 74, 76; death, 134
CIA, 245, 246, 248
Civil List, 171–2, 240
Cliveden House, 118
Cockerell, Michael, 238
Cohen, Rachel, 177
Cold War, 95, 135, 136, 149, 248
Collins, Michael, 212–13
Colman, Olivia (as the Queen), 129
Colony Club, 54
Colville, Jock, 76
Colville, Richard, 25, 26, 170
Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), 232–3
Connor, Bill, 60
Constantine I, King of Greece, 104
Cook, Peter, 42, 115
Cordet, Hélène, 10
Count Basie, 54
Courcy, Anne de, 81, 86, 88, 147
Cousins, James, 146
Coward, Noël, 46, 75–6, 82
Cranko, John, 86
Crawford, Marion, 57
Crosland, Tony, 247
Crossman, Richard, 196
Cudlipp, Hubert ‘Hugh’, 181, 186
D
Daily Mirror, 182, 183, 236
Dalkeith, Johnny see Buccleuch, John Scott, 9th Duke of
Dankworth, John, 144
Dartmouth Naval College, 208
Davies, Edmund, 162, 165
Davis, Sammy, 100
Day, Robin, 59
Dayan, Moshe, 17
De Manio, Jack, 194
debutante parties, 60–2
Dempster, Nigel, 50
devaluation of sterling (1967), 170–1
Dietrich, Marlene, 82–3, 84–6
Dior, Christian, 86
Disraeli, Benjamin, 13
Donoughue, Bernard, 247, 248
Douglas-Home, Sir Alec (formerly 14th Earl of Home), 117, 124–5, 127–8, 130, 139
Dower, Dai, 29
Drake, Sir Francis, 170
Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, 30–1
E
Eden, Anthony, 13–20, 36–7
Edgecombe, Johnny, 119
Education Act (1944), 38, 122
Edward, Prince, 128, 174, 213
Edward I, King, 195
Edward II, King, 195
Edward VII, King, 152, 220
Edwards, Jeff, 156–8
Egypt, Suez Crisis (1956), 12–14
Eisenhower, President, 36, 41
Elizabeth, Queen (the Queen Mother), 12, 91, 147, 183–4, 230, 231
Elizabeth I, Queen, 170
Elizabeth II, Queen, 99; speculation over marriage, 7–11, 25–6; State Visit to Portugal, 8, 27; and the Suez Crisis, 18–20; succession of Harold Macmillan as Prime Minister, 37–40; criticised by Lord Altrincham, 57–9; and African independence, 94–5; visit to Ghana (1961), 96–100; relationship with Harold Macmillan, 120–1; succession of Douglas-Home as Prime Minister, 121–2, 126–8; relationship with Harold Wilson, 132–4, 148; and Anthony Blunt, 138–9; and Princess Margaret, 150–3; response to Aberfan disaster (1966), 160–2, 167, 169; Silver Jubilee (1977), 243–4, 254–6; attitude to race, 52–3, 101–2; Christian faith, 101; Christmas broadcasts, 52, 61, 77, 238; defence of democracy, 184–5; fascination with space travel, 212; image on postage stamps, 129–30; passion for horse breeding and racing, 187–91; and royal expenditure, 171–2; weekly audience with prime ministers, 19, 42, 121, 132–3, 231
Ellis, John, 199
Ellis, Ruth, 65
Empire Windrush (ship), 52, 53
Estaing, Giscard d’, 250
Eton Photographic Society, 83
European Common Market, 251
European Economic Community, 42, 233
Evans, Edith, 86
Evans, Gwynfor, 196
Evans, Harold, 98
Evans, Timothy, 64–6
F
Fairbairn, Sir Nicholas, 243
Farouk, King, 13
Fisher, Geoffrey, Archbishop of Canterbury, 42–3
Fleming, Ian, 37
Fletcher, Alistair, 71, 76
Foy, Claire (as the Queen), 129
Freud, Lucian, 51
Freud, Sigmund, 176
Frost, David, 116
Fry, Camilla, 87–8, 90
Fry, Jeremy, 87–8
Fry, Polly, 90–1
G
Gaitskell, Hugh, 140–1, 180
Gallup opinion polls, 15
Garnett, Andy, 89
Garrard, Dr Peter, 249–50
Gaulle, Charles de, 42, 94, 123, 183
George I, King of Greece, 104
George II, King of Greece, 104
George V, King, 105, 153, 187
George VI, King, 69, 70, 76, 101, 153, 187
Ghana, 95–9
Gilmour, Ian, 65
Girl Can’t Help It, The (film, 1956), 47
Glenn, John, 212
Goldberg, Arthur, 149
Goldsmith, Lady Annabel, 221
Golitsyn, Anatoliy, 141
Goodman, Geoffrey, 247
Goodman, Lord, 247
Goon Show, The, 144, 193, 222
Gordon, Aloysius ‘Lucky’, 119
Gordonstoun School, 30, 108–14, 207, 207–8
Graham, Billy, 77–8, 78, 101
Graham, Caroline, 220
Graham, James, 193–4
Graham, Joan, 25
Greece, 104–6
Grigg, John (formerly Lord Altrincham): critical article on the Queen, 56–60; disclaims title under the Peerage Act, 62; campaigns for abolition of capital punishment, 64–6
H
Hahn, Kurt, 30, 108–14, 207–8
Hailsham, Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham, 123–4
Haines, Joe, 248, 252, 254
Halls, Michael, 247
Hambro, Rupert, 222
Hamilton, Willie, 172
Hardinge, Alec, 71
Harry, Prince, 53
Haslam, Nicky, 87, 143
Heald, Tim, 200
Healey, Denis, 251
Heap, Anthony, 47
Heath, Edward, 239; and Harold Macmillan’s succession as Prime Minister, 38–40; European sympathies, 41, 231–3; fails to succeed Macmillan, 123–4; on royal finances, 171–2; premiership of, 227, 231–9
Heinemann, William, 75
Heseltine, William ‘Bill’, 170, 173
Hicks, Lady Pamela, 175
Highclere Castle, 189
Hitler, Adolf
, 71, 72, 75, 137
HMS Calypso, 104–5
HMS Minerva, 227–8, 229
Hobson, Harold, 34
Hoggart, Simon, 244
Homicide Act (1957), 65
Hood, Stuart, 174
Horne, Alistair, 125
Hoyningen-Huene, Oswald von, 72
Humphrey, Hubert, 249
Hungary, Soviet invasion (1956), 36
Hunt, Brigadier Sir John, 30
Hutchinson, Leslie (‘Hutch’), 54
I
Illustrated London News, 119
International Publishing Corporation (IPC), 180, 181, 185
Ireland, The Troubles, 234, 251
Irish Republican Army (IRA), 234
Israel, 14, 17–18, 237
ITV, 173
Ivanov, Yevgeny, 117–18
Iveagh, Lord, 211
J
James, Oliver, 112
Jay, Antony, 174–5
Jenkins, Roy, 65, 66
Johnson, Lyndon Baines, 148–9
K
Kagan, Joseph, 247
Kaunda, Kenneth, 101
Keeler, Christine, 117–20, 117
Kennedy, Jackie (née Bouvier), 9, 94
Kennedy, John F., 9, 41, 94, 100
Kensington Palace, 144
Keppel, Alice, 220
Khrushchev, Nikita, 97, 140
King, Cecil Harmsworth, 180–6
King, Helen, 28
Kington, Miles, 23–4
Kinnock, Neil, 64
Kirby, Vanessa (as Princess Margaret), 54
kitchen sink drama, 35
Knatchbull, Amanda, 224, 225, 229
Knatchbull, Patricia (née Mountbatten), 225, 228
L
Labour Party, 130
Laine, Cleo, 144
Lascelles, Sir Alan (‘Tommy’), 76, 77, 91, 151–3
League of Empire Loyalists, 59
Lesseps, Ferdinand de, 13, 16
Lewis, Edward, 211
Lillie, Beatrice, 82
Linden, Anna, 86
Lindsay-Hogg, Lucy, 253
Lisbon, Portugal, 7, 27, 69–72
Llewellyn, Richard, How Green Was My Valley (1939), 155, 167
Llewellyn, Roderic ‘Roddy’, 253–4
Lloyd George, David, 197, 198
Lloyd George, Gwilym, 65
Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, 195
Loesch, Carl von, 68, 69
Luther King, Martin, 101
M
Machin, Arnold, 129, 130
Maclean, Donald, 135, 136
Macleod, Iain, 122, 123–4
Macmillan, Dorothy, 116–18
Macmillan, Harold: in Anthony Eden’s Cabinet, 37, 39; as Prime Minister, 40–4; ‘You’ve never had it so good’ speech, 41, 121; “wind of change” speech, 93, 94; and the Queen’s visit to Ghana (1961), 95, 97–8; and the Profumo affair, 116–17; resigns as Prime Minister, 120–3, 125; masterminds Douglas-Home’s succession, 125–8
Mandela, Nelson, 101
Mansfield, Jayne, 47
Mantel, Hilary, 5–6
Marburg File, 69, 76
Margaret, Princess: ‘Chips’ Channon on, 45–6; relationship with Peter Townsend, 46; and the ‘Margaret Set,’ 47–9, 54; engagement to Billy Wallace, 49–51; friendships with jazz musicians, 53–4; meets Anthony Armstrong-Jones, 54, 87, 88–90; portrait by Stephen Ward, 119; marriage to Armstrong-Jones, 143–7; visit to New York (1965), 147, 150; ‘problem of,’ 150–3; separation from Lord Snowdon, 253–4
Marina, Princess of Kent, 119
Markle, Meghan, 53
Marlborough, John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke (‘Sunny’ Blandford), 48
Marsh, Richard, 165
Marten, Sir Henry, 57
Mary, Queen, 70
Mass Observation Project, 47
Matthews, Stanley, 29
Maudling, Reginald, 123–4, 234
Meet the Press (US TV programme), 172
Melly, George, 51
Merthyr Vale Colliery, 162–3
Messel, Oliver, 81, 82, 86
MI5, 135, 135n, 138–9, 246
MI6, 135, 135n
Mikoyan, Anastas, 140
Milford Haven, George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess, 106
Miller, Jonathan, 115
Milligan, Spike, 144, 222
Millward, Edward ‘Tedi,’ 199–202
Millward, Llio, 200
Milton Keynes, 133
Molotov, Vyacheslav, 69, 140
Monckton, Walter, 76, 123
Montagu, Judy, 147
Moon landing (1969), 212–15
Moore, Dudley, 51, 115, 144
Mossad, 246
Moulichon, Jeanne-Marguerite, 72
Mountbatten, Edwina, Countess
Mountbatten of Burma, 54
Mountbatten, Louis (‘Dickie’), 1st Earl Mountbatten, 181; on the Suez Crisis, 18; and the Thursday Club, 23–4; and Prince Philip, 106, 114, 206; involvement with ‘Kinnerton Street conspirators,’ 179–86; and Charles’ relationship with Camilla Shand, 224, 226, 228–9
Mountbatten-Windsor, Archie, 53
Moynihan, John, 90
Muggeridge, Malcolm, 55–6, 169
Munich Agreement, 14
Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965, 65
N
Nahum, Stirling Henry ‘Baron,’ 24, 25–6, 84, 119
Napier, Lord, 254
NASA, 214
Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 9, 13–14, 16–17, 95, 97
National and English Review, 56, 66
National Campaign for the Abolition of Capital Punishment (NCACP), 65
National Coal Board (NCB), 163–6
National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), 235, 236
Nazi-Soviet Pact, 69
Nechells, Birmingham, 236
New Republic, The (magazine), 137
New Statesman, 56, 174
News of the World, 254
Nicolson, Harold, 91
Niven, David, 23
Nixon, Richard, 36, 174, 247
Nkrumah, Fathia, 95, 99
Nkrumah, Kwame, 52, 95–9, 99
Norfolk, Duke of, 196
Norway, 73
Notting Hill riots (1958), 51–2
Nutting, Anthony, 17
Nyerere, Julius, 101
O
OAPEC (Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries), 237, 251
O’Hair, Madalyn Murray, 214
oil crisis (1973), 237, 251
Olivier, Laurence, 86
Olympic Games, Melbourne, 7, 12, 22
Osborne, John: The Entertainer, 35–6, 86; Look Back in Anger, 29, 33–5
Oswald, Michael, 191
Otto, King of Greece, 104
Outward Bound scheme, 30
Owen, David, 101
P
Palmer, Alix, 158
Pangalos, General, 105
Pantglas Junior School, 155–8
Parker, Eileen, 10, 25
Parker, Michael, Commander, 10–11, 12, 23, 24, 112, 176, 206
Parker Bowles, Andrew, 222–3, 225–6, 228–30
Parr, Tom, 86, 89
Payne, David, My Life with Princess Margaret (1961), 46, 47–8
Pearson, Lester, 248
Peerage Act (1963), 62, 63–4, 124
Percy, Lady Caroline, 222
Perez, Shimon, 17
Philby, Kim, 135–7, 138
Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, 109; background and family, 103–8; childhood, 205–7; relationship with his mother, 176–8; and the Thursday Club, 24; speculation over marriage, 7–11, 25–6; tour of the British Commonwealth (1957), 7–8, 22–3; given title of Prince of the United Kingdom, 27–8; appeal for London’s boys’ clubs, 29–30; Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, 30–1; on Queen’s visit to Ghana (1961), 99; and the Profumo affair, 119–20; on Princess Margaret, 150–3; visits Aberfan (1966), 160; on royal expenditure, 172; attitude to religion, 208–12; car accident (2019), 21
Phillips, Captain Mark, 223, 229, 240
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Pimlott, Ben, 96, 127–8, 231
Pincher, Chapman, 245
Pirie, Gordon, 29
Plaid Cymru, 196, 199, 203
Poetry Society, 243
Pompidou, Georges, 232, 233
Porchester, Henry Herbert, Lord (later 17th Earl of Carnarvon), 189–91
Portugal, 8, 27
Powell, Enoch, 52
Premium Bonds, 38
‘Princess Margaret Set’, 47–9, 54
Private Eye (magazine), 103, 116, 141, 247, 255
Profumo, John, 117–18, 121, 231
Profumo affair (1963), 117–20
Punch, 23, 56
Q
Quaglino’s (restaurant), 54
Queen, The (film, 2006), 3–4, 9
Quisling, Vidkun, 73
R
Rachman, Peter, 119
Racing Post, 189
Raft, George, 54
Ramsay, Michael, Archbishop of Canterbury, 42–3, 209
Rayne, Max, 211
Reynolds News, 60
Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 69, 71–2
Rice-Davies, Mandy, 118
Richardson, Sir John, 126
Riordan, Jim, 136
Robens, Lord Alfred, 163–5
rock’n’roll, 28
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 137
Rosse, Anne (formerly Armstrong-Jones, formerly Messel), 80–1, 82
Rosse, Michael Parsons, 6th Earl of, 81
Rowse, A. L., 47
Royal Court Theatre, 33–5
Royal Family (TV documentary), 173–5
royal finances, 171–2, 240
Royal Lodge, Windsor, 147
Russell, Ken, 51
S
Salisbury, Robert Cecil, 5th Marquess, 38, 39–40, 122
Sandringham, Norfolk, 36, 37, 77, 240–1
Sandys, Duncan, 97
Santa Cruz, Lucia, 219–20
Schloss Salem, Bavaria, 108, 207
Schmidt, Paul, 69
Secombe, Harry, 222
Sellers, Peter, 144, 222
Sèvres Protocol, 17, 20
Shand, Major Bruce, 220, 224, 228
Sherrin, Ned, 116
Short, Edward, 247
Silver Jubilee (1977), 243–4, 253, 254–6
Silverman, Sydney, 65
Skinner, Dennis, 235
Smith, Ian, 134, 247, 251
Snowdon, Anthony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of, 85; background and childhood, 79–83; meets Princess Margaret, 51, 54; photography, 83–6; sexuality, 86–8; marriage to Princess Margaret, 143–4, 146–7; successful career, 145–6; ennobled by the Queen, 146; visit to New York (1965), 147, 150; response to Aberfan disaster, 159–60; designs outfit for Prince Charles’ investiture as Prince of Wales, 198; relationship with Lucy Lindsay-Hogg, 253; separation from Princess Margaret, 253–4; campaigning work for the disabled, 82
Snowdon, David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl, 144
South Africa, 93, 100, 101, 232, 246, 251
Soviet Union, 17, 36, 95, 97, 135, 139