by Robert Lacey
spy scandal (1960s), 134–9
SS Mabel Ryan, 25
St George’s House, Windsor, 209–11, 213
Stevens, Jocelyn, 50, 83, 84, 89
Stohrer, Eberhard von, 73, 74
Straight, Michael, 136–7
strikes (1970s), 235–6, 251
Suez Crisis (1956), 9, 12–14, 16–20, 36–7, 95
‘Swinging Sixties’, 44, 169
T
Talbot, Gerald, 105
Taylor, E. P., 50
Taylor, Louise, 50
Teddy Boys, 28–30, 43
Tennant, Colin (later Baron Glenconner), 48, 54 That Was the Week That Was (TV programme), 42, 116
Thatcher, Margaret, 138–9
Theodora, Princess of Greece, 105, 106, 108, 205
Thomas, George, 203
Thorpe, David, 15, 40
Thorpe, Jeremy, 239
Three-Day week (1973), 238–9
Thursday Club, 10, 23–5, 119
Toms, Carl, 86
Townsend, Peter, 46
Trollope, Anthony, 42
Trudeau, Pierre, 233
Tynan, Kenneth, 34–5
Tyson, Frank ‘Typhoon’, 29
U
Ulanova, Galina, 9–10, 11, 11
United Nations, 17, 237
V
Vesey, Susan, Viscountess de Vesci (née Armstrong-Jones), 80, 83
Victoria, Princess of Hesse and by Rhine, 205
Victoria, Queen, 104, 152, 153
Vietnam War, 149
W
Wales: Aberfan disaster (1966), 155–67; Charles’ investiture as Prince of Wales, 197–204; devolution, 204; Welsh Nationalism, 195–6, 199–204
Wallace, William Euan (‘Billy’), 49–51
Walton, William, 232
Ward, Gina, 88, 90
Ward, Stephen, 118–20, 121
Warwick, Christopher, 49, 87, 90
Watson, Marvin, 148
Wellesley, Lady Jane, 241
Welsh language, 199–200
Wheeler’s Restaurant, 24, 25
Williams, Jim, 161
Williams, Marcia, 160, 184, 247
Williams, Nansi, 157
Wilmanns, Professor Karl, 205–6
Wilson, Christopher, 222
Wilson, Harold: on Rab Butler, 38; as Prime Minister, 130–1, 148–9, 170–1; suspicions of spying for the Soviet Union, 139–42, 245–6; relationship with the Queen, 132–4, 148; and the Aberfan disaster, 159, 162; Cecil King’s attack on, 180–6; and the investiture of the Prince of Wales, 196; resumption of power (1974), 239, 244–5; burglaries of personal papers, 246–7; mental decline, 248–51; resignation (1976), 251–3, 254
Windrush (ship) see Empire Windrush (ship)
Windsor, Duchess of (formerly Wallis Simpson), 26, 67–72, 71–2
Windsor, Edward, Duke of (formerly Edward VIII): investiture as Prince of Wales, 197–8; Nazi sympathies, 67–77; Prince Charles’ correspondence with, 224–5
Windsor Castle, 45
Woods, Robin, Dean of Windsor, 209, 211, 213
Wright, Peter, 245–6, 253
Wyatt, Woodrow, 236
Wyndham, Francis, 81, 89
Y
Yad Vashem (Holocaust Memorial, Jerusalem), 177
Yom Kippur War (1973), 237
Young, B. A., 57
Z
Ziegler, Philip, 186
Zuckerman, Sir Solomon ‘Solly’, 182, 183, 186
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