The Queen Mother
Page 135
31 Queen Mary to King George VI, 25 September 1945, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11
32 Lascelles, p. 361
33 Frank Prochaska, Royal Bounty, Yale University Press, 1995, p. 206
34 Ibid., p. 218
35 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 19 February 1943, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/39
36 Prochaska, Royal Bounty, p. 229
37 Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RA QEQM/ADD/MISC
38 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 653
39 Ibid., p. 654
40 Laird, p. 272
41 Queen Elizabeth to Hon. Sir Richard Molyneux, 19 December 1945, RA QEQM/OUT/MOLYNEUX/115
42 Hon. David Bowes Lyon to Rachel Bowes Lyon, 1 January 1946, Bowes Lyon Papers, SPW
43 Queen Mary to King George VI, 31 January 1946, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11; Owen Morshead, notes on conversation with Queen Mary, 18 February 1946, RA AEC/GG/12/OS/2
44 Queen Elizabeth to the Hon. David Bowes Lyon, 26 January 1946, Bowes Lyon Papers, SPW
45 Queen Elizabeth to Lady Delia Peel, 27 August 1945, Althorp Archives
46 Queen Elizabeth to Arthur Penn, 29 March 1946, Penn Papers
47 Arthur Penn to Queen Elizabeth, 1 April 1946, RA QEQM/PRIV/HH
48 Jasper Ridley to Queen Elizabeth, 27 January 1946, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Ridley
49 Hon. Sir Richard Molyneux to Queen Elizabeth, 8 January 1946, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Molyneux
50 King George VI, diary, 22–28 April 1946, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY
51 Clementine Churchill to Queen Elizabeth, 26 April 1946, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
52 Laird, p. 274
53 Queen Elizabeth to Lady Cranborne, 25 September 1946, Hatfield House, Papers of Elizabeth, Marchioness of Salisbury
54 Queen Elizabeth to King George VI, 8 October 1946, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/82
55 Osbert Sitwell to Queen Elizabeth, 23 June 1945, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Sitwell
56 Author’s interview with Sir Oliver Millar
57 Queen Mary to King George VI, 22 November 1946, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11
58 Queen Elizabeth to Osbert Sitwell, 12 November 1946, Sitwell Papers
59 Queen Elizabeth to Toronto Scottish, 20 October 1945, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/Toronto Scottish
60 Queen Elizabeth to 5th Battalion, The Black Watch (draft telegram), n.d. [February 1946], RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/Black Watch
61 Queen Elizabeth to Lord Wavell, 9 April 1946 (incomplete draft), RA QEQM/OUT/MISC
62 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 13 November 1944, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/111
63 Helen Hudson, Cumberland Lodge: A House through History, Phillimore, 1989, p. 147
64 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 13 November 1944, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/111
65 Queen Elizabeth to the Hon. Elizabeth Elphinstone, 5 February 1950, RA QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE
66 Afrikaans vocabulary lists, RA QEQM/PRIV/VIS
67 Sir Edmund Grove Papers
68 Arthur Penn to Queen Elizabeth, 5 February 1947, RA QEQM/PRIV/HH
69 Princess Elizabeth to Marion Crawford, 15 February 1947, RA QEII/OUT/BUTHLAY
70 RA F&V/VISOV/SA/1947/Diary of the Royal Visit to South Africa
71 Ibid.
72 Princess Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 16 February 1947, RA QM/PRIV/CC14/148
73 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 687
74 Princess Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 23 February 1947, RA QM/PRIV/CC14/149
75 Sir Edmund Grove Papers
76 Sir Alan Lascelles to Lady Lascelles, 22 February 1947, CAC LASL 4/4/4
77 Princess Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 23 February 1947, RA QM/PRIV/CC14/149
78 Enid Bagnold Letters, Diana Cooper Papers, Box VII, Eton College Library
79 Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RA QEQM/ADD/MISC
80 Sir Edmund Grove Papers
81 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 21 February 1947, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/169
82 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 9 March 1947, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/172
83 Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RA QEQM/ADD/MISC
84 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 9 March 1947, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/172
85 Enid Bagnold Letters, Diana Cooper Papers, Box VII, Eton College Library
86 Sir Alan Lascelles to his son, 10 March 1947, CAC LASL 4/4/9
87 RA F&V/VISOV/SA/1947/Diary of the Royal Visit to South Africa, 12 March 1947
88 Queen Elizabeth to May Elphinstone, 26 April 1947, RA QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE
89 Princess Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 28 March 1947, RA QM/PRIV/CC14/152
90 Bradford, George VI, p. 519
91 Queen Elizabeth to the Hon. Elizabeth Elphinstone, 23 March 1947, RA QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE
92 Princess Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 9 April 1947, RA QM/PRIV/CC14/153
93 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 9 March 1947, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/172
94 Longford, Queen Mother, p. 111
95 Note by Edmund Grove on King George VI and the South Africa Tour, 1947, Sir Edmund Grove Papers
96 King George VI to Queen Mary, 6 April 1947, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/174
97 Bradford, George VI, pp. 519–20
98 Enid Bagnold Letters, Diana Cooper Papers, Box VII, Eton College Library
99 Queen Elizabeth to the Hon. Elizabeth Elphinstone, 23 March 1947, RA QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE
100 Queen Elizabeth to May Elphinstone, 26 April 1947, RA QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE
101 Wheeler-Bennett, notes of interview with Sir Edward Fielden, RA AEC/GG/20
102 Sir John Kennedy to Queen Elizabeth, 14 January 1959, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
103 Longford, Queen Mother, p. 110
104 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 16 April 1947, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/176
105 Duchess of Kent to Queen Elizabeth, 20 April 1947, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
106 Dermot Morrah, The Royal Family in Africa, Hutchinson, 1947, p. 124
107 Queen Mary to Queen Elizabeth, 22 April 1947, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
108 Morrah, Royal Family in Africa, p. 128
109 Queen Elizabeth to May Elphinstone, 26 April 1947, RA QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE
110 Sir Alan Lascelles to Lady Lascelles, 30 April 1947, CAC LASL 4/4/2/17
SIXTEEN: JOY AND SORROW 1947–1952
1 Longford, Queen Mother, p. 102
2 Rose Granville to Queen Elizabeth, 22 March 1946, RA QEQM/PRIV/BL
3 Sir Alan Lascelles to Queen Elizabeth, 12 December 1945, RA QEQM/PRIV/CHILD
4 Longford, Queen Mother, p. 106
5 Prince Philip to Queen Elizabeth, 12 June 46, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
6 Prince Philip to Queen Elizabeth, 14 September 1946, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
7 Ibid.
8 Prince Philip to Queen Elizabeth, 3 December [1946], RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
9 Prince Philip to Queen Elizabeth, 28 January [1947], RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
10 Prince Philip to Queen Elizabeth, 11 June [1947], RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
11 Queen Elizabeth to Sir Alan Lascelles, 7 July 1947, (draft letter, unfinished and possibly not sent; no final version in Lascelles’s papers) RA QEQM/PRIV/HH
12 Queen Elizabeth to May Elphinstone, 7 July 1947, RA QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE
13 Queen Elizabeth to Arthur Penn, 9 July 1947, Penn Papers
14 Arthur Penn to Queen Elizabeth, 13 June 1947, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Penn
15 Arthur Penn to Queen Elizabeth, 9 July 1947, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Penn
16 King George VI to Queen Mary, 14 September 1947, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/183
17 Queen Ingrid of Denmark to Queen Elizabeth, 13 October 1947, RA QEQM/PRIV/FORRF
18 D’Arcy Osborne to the Queen, 20 July 1947, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Osborne
19 Normal Hartnell to King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, 15 October 1947; Commander Richard Colville to Queen Elizabeth, 17 October 1947, RA QEQM/PRIV/CHILD
20 Richard Colville to Queen Elizabeth, 10 November 1947, QEQM/PRIV/MISCOFF
21 King George VI to Queen Mary, 6 November 1947, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/188
22 Duff Cooper, p. 453
23 Princess Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth, 22 November 1947, R
A QEQM/PRIV/RF
24 Wheeler-Bennett, pp. 754–5
25 Princess Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth, 22 November 1947, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
26 Queen Elizabeth to Princess Elizabeth, 24 November 1947, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
27 Princess Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth, 30 November 1947, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
28 Prince Philip to Queen Elizabeth, 3 December [1947], RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
29 Wheeler-Bennett, pp. 760–2
30 ‘Speeches and Replies to Addresses by His Majesty King George VI’, printed for the Private Secretary’s Office, RA
31 Laird, p. 296
32 King George VI to Queen Mary, 3 May 1948, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/198
33 Duff Cooper, p. 463
34 Prochaska, Royal Bounty, p. 234
35 Ibid.
36 Ibid., p. 244
37 Laird, p. 279
38 Prochaska, Royal Bounty, p. 235
39 Ibid.
40 Ibid., p. 236
41 Ibid.
42 Ibid., p. 238
43 Letter to Queen Elizabeth from ‘All in the Gardens’, RA QEQMH/PS/ENGT/1947/31
44 Queen Elizabeth to Sir Alan Lascelles, 5 November 1948, RA PS/PSO/AL/Box B
45 Sir Alan Lascelles to Queen Elizabeth, 6 November 1948, RA QEQM/PRIV/CHILD
46 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 762
47 Queen Elizabeth to Sir Alan Lascelles, 26 October 1948, RA PS/PSO/AL/Box B
48 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 14 November 1948, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/211
49 Princess Elizabeth to May Elphinstone, 18 November 1948, RA QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE
50 Queen Elizabeth to Lady Salisbury, 27 November 1948, Hatfield House, Papers of Elizabeth, Marchioness of Salisbury
51 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 20 November 1948, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/212
52 Queen Mary to Queen Elizabeth, 12 December 1948, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
53 Queen Elizabeth to Winston Churchill, 27 December 1948, RA QEQM/OUT/MISC
54 Lady Salisbury to Queen Elizabeth, 7 December [1948], RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Salisbury
55 Queen Elizabeth to Lady Salisbury, 9 December 1948, Hatfield House, Papers of Elizabeth, Marchioness of Salisbury
56 Isaiah Berlin, Personal Impressions, ed. Henry Hardy, 2nd edn, Pimlico, 1998, p. 257
57 Queen Elizabeth to D’Arcy Osborne, 5 March 1949, RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE
58 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 769
59 Ibid., p. 768
60 Queen Elizabeth to Lady Violet Bonham Carter, 27 March 1949, Bodleian Library, MS BC 169/125–6
61 Laird, p. 301
62 Queen Elizabeth to Marion Crawford, 1 January 1949, RA QEII/OUT/BUTHLAY
63 Marion Crawford to Queen Elizabeth, 28 January 1949, RA QEQM/PRIV/HH
64 Marion Crawford to Queen Elizabeth, 8 March 1949, RA QEQM/PRIV/HH
65 Queen Elizabeth to Marion Crawford, 4 April 1949, from a copy in Princeton University Library, quoted in Vickers, p. 283. This appears to be the only extant copy
66 Marion Crawford to Queen Elizabeth, 15 April 1949, RA QEQM/PRIV/HH
67 Queen Elizabeth to Lady Astor, 19 October 1949, quoted in Vickers, pp. 285–6
68 Major Thomas Harvey to Lady Astor, undated draft, RA PS/PSO/QEII/PS/19/9/00/4
69 Notes by Princess Elizabeth, RA PS/PSO/QEII/PS/19/9/00/4; Lady Astor to Mr and Mrs Gould, quoted in Vickers, p. 286
70 Major Thomas Harvey to Lady Astor, undated draft, RA PS/PSO/QEII/PS/19/9/00/4
71 Bruce Gould to Lady Astor, 24 October 1949, RA PS/PSO/QEII/PS/19/9/00/4
72 Bruce and Beatrice Gould to Lady Astor, 27 October 1949, RA PS/PSO/QEII/PS/19/9/00/4
73 Queen Elizabeth to Major Thomas Harvey, undated memorandum [27 October 1949], RA PS/PSO/QEII/PS/19/9/00/4
74 Vickers, p. 289
75 Correspondence with Woman’s Own and Cassell & Co., January-March 1950, RA PPTO/PP/GVI/MAIN/7606
76 Laird, p. 301
77 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 15 October 1950, RA QM/PRIV/CC14/15
78 Queen Elizabeth to Princess Elizabeth 29 December 1950, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
79 Ibid.
80 Queen Elizabeth to Princess Elizabeth, 7 April 1951, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
81 King George VI to Queen Mary, 26 May 1951, RA QM/PRIV/CC14/26
82 King George VI to Queen Mary, 31 May 1951, RA QM/PRIV/CC14/28
83 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 787
84 Queen Mary to King George VI, 6 June 1951, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11
85 King George VI to Queen Mary, 12 June 1951, RA QM/PRIV/CC14/30
86 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 10 July 1951, RA QM/PRIV/CC14/32
87 RA QEQM/PRIV/POEM
88 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 788
89 King George VI to Queen Mary, 11 September 1951, RA QM/PRIV/CC14/35
90 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 17 September 1951, RA QM/PRIV/CC14/36
91 Bradford, George VI, pp. 600–1
92 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 21 September 1951, RA QM/PRIV/CC14/37
93 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 788
94 Queen Elizabeth to Princess Elizabeth, 22 September 1951, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
95 Sir Alan Lascelles to Queen Elizabeth, 23 September 1951, RA QEQM/PRIV/MISCOFF
96 Queen Elizabeth to Sir Alan Lascelles, 23 September 1951, RA PS/PSO/AL/Box B
97 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 23 September 1951, RA QM/PRIV/CC14/38
98 Queen Elizabeth to Sir Alan Lascelles, 23 September 1951, RA PS/PSO/AL/Box B
99 Owen Morshead, notes of conversation with Sir Richard Molyneux, 30 March 1953, RA AEC/GG/12/OS/2
100 Sir Alan Lascelles to Queen Elizabeth, 23 September 1951, RA QEQM/PRIV/MISCOFF, and Queen Elizabeth to Sir Alan Lascelles, 23 September 1951, RA PS/PSO/AL/Box B
101 Queen Elizabeth to Duke of Windsor, 25 September 1951, RA EDW/PRIV/MAINB/182
102 Queen Mary to King George VI, 17 November 1951, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11
103 Bradford, George VI, p. 601
104 Queen Elizabeth to May Elphinstone, 5 October 1951, RA QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE
105 Princess Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth, 16 October 1951, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
106 Princess Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth, 4 November 1951, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
107 Queen Elizabeth to Princess Elizabeth, 15 October 1951, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
108 Princess Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth, 4 November 1951, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
109 King George VI to Queen Mary, 14 October 1951, RA QM/PRIV/CC14/40
110 Queen Elizabeth to Princess Elizabeth 15 October 1951, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
111 Bradford, George VI, p. 605
112 Ibid.
113 King George VI to Queen Mary, 23 January 1952, RA QM/PRIV/CC14/42
114 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 605
115 Queen Elizabeth to Princess Elizabeth, 2 February 1952, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
116 Ibid.
117 King George VI to Sir John Weir (copy, enclosed with letter from Sir John Weir to Queen Elizabeth, 21 February 1952), 3 February 1952, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL; King George VI to Lord Halifax, 4 February 1952, Hickleton Papers, A2/278/26/7
118 John Wheeler-Bennett, interview with James Macdonald, 20 October 1954, RA AEC/GG/20
119 Queen Elizabeth to Lady Delia Peel, 11 February 1952, Althorp Archives
120 Queen Elizabeth to Edward Seago (extract), n.d. [February 1952], RA QEQMH/PS/GEN/1989/Seago
121 John Wheeler-Bennett, interview with James Macdonald, 20 October 1954, RA AEC/GG/20
122 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 6 February 1952, RA QM/PRIV/CC14/44
123 Bradford, George VI, pp. 607–8: author’s interview with Edward Ford
124 Ibid., p. 608
125 Ibid., pp. 607–8: author’s interview with Edward Ford
126 RA QM/PRIV/DIARY/1952: 6 February
127 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 6 February 1952, RA QM/PRIV/CC14/44
128 Queen Mary to Queen Elizabeth, 7 February 1952, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
129 Commander Michael Parker quoted in Bradford, Elizabeth, p. 66
130 Author’s interview with Countess Mountbatten of Burma
131 Pope-Hennessy, p. 619
132 Queen Mary to Queen Elizabeth, 7 February 1952, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
133 Queen Elizabeth II to John Elphinstone, 13 February 1952, RA QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE
134 Queen Elizabeth to Sir Alan Lascelles, 12 February 1953, RA PS/PSO/AL/Box B
135 Sir Alan Lascelles to Queen Elizabeth, 13 February 1952, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
136 Queen Elizabeth to Sir Alan Lascelles, 15 February 1952, RA PS/PSO/AL/Box B
SEVENTEEN: QUEEN MOTHER 1952–1955
1 Notes by Lady Elizabeth Basset, ‘Living Her Faith’, June 1990, RA QEQMH/PS/PRIV
2 Winston Churchill to Queen Elizabeth, 14 February 1952, RA QEQM/PRIV/DEATH/GVI
3 Clementine Churchill to Queen Elizabeth, 12 February 1952, RA QEQM/PRIV/DEATH/GVI
4 General Eisenhower to Queen Elizabeth, 7 February 1952, RA QEQM/PRIV/DEATH/GVI
5 Eleanor Roosevelt to Queen Elizabeth, 7 February 1952, RA QEQM/PRIV/DEATH/GVI
6 Ziegler, Edward VIII, p. 537
7 Ibid.
8 Queen Mary to Queen Elizabeth, 10 February 1952, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
9 Queen Mary to the Earl of Athlone and Princess Alice, 23 February 1952, RA QM/PRIV/CC53/1566
10 Duke of Windsor to Queen Elizabeth, 18 February 1952, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
11 Queen Elizabeth to Sir Alan Lascelles, 19 February 1952, CAC LASL 2/2/8
12 Michael Bloch, The Secret File of The Duke of Windsor, Bantam Press, 1988, pp. 264–5
13 Duke of Windsor to Queen Elizabeth, 18 May 1952, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
14 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 28 June 1953, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
15 Queen Elizabeth’s message, 18 February 1952, RA QEQMH/PS/RF/DEATH/GVI
16 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, undated [1952], RA QEII/PRIV/RF
17 Queen Mary to Queen Elizabeth, 21 February 1952, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
18 Sir John Weir to Queen Elizabeth, 21 February 1952, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
19 Rt Rev. Edward Woods to Queen Elizabeth, 28 February 1952, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Woods
20 Queen Elizabeth to Sir Alan Lascelles, 25 February 1952, RA PS/PSO/AL/Box B
21 Sir Alan Lascelles to Queen Elizabeth, 26 February 1952, RA QEQM/PRIV/MISCOFF
22 Sir Alan Lascelles to Queen Elizabeth, 1 April 1952, RA QEQM/PRIV/MISCOFF
23 Queen Elizabeth to Sir Alan Lascelles, 25 February 1952, RA PS/PSO/AL/Box B; Lascelles to Queen Elizabeth, 26 February 1952, RA QEQM/PRIV/MISCOFF
24 Elizabeth Longford, Elizabeth R, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1983, p. 155; John Colville, The Fringes of Power, Hodder & Stoughton, 1985, p. 641