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25 The Macmillan Diaries: The Cabinet Years 1950–1957, ed. Peter Catterall, Macmillan, 2003, p. 150
26 Lord Airlie to Queen Elizabeth, 8 May [1952], RA QEQM/PRIV/HH
27 Queen Elizabeth to Arthur Penn, 1 April 1952, Penn Papers
28 Queen Elizabeth to the Hon. David Bowes Lyon, 20 March 1952, Bowes Lyon Papers, SPW
29 Queen Elizabeth to Sir Alan Lascelles, 25 February 1952, RA PS/PSO/AL/Box B
30 Queen Elizabeth to Lord Salisbury, 14 March 1952, Hatfield House, Papers of fifth Marquess of Salisbury
31 Owen Morshead, notes of conversation with Sir Richard Molyneux, 30 March 1953, RA AEC/GG/12/OS/2
32 D’Arcy Osborne to Queen Elizabeth, 11 March 1952, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Osborne
33 Betty Bowes Lyon to Queen Elizabeth, 7 March 1952, RA QEQM/PRIV/BL
34 Queen Elizabeth to the Hon. David Bowes Lyon, 20 March 1952, Bowes Lyon Papers, SPW
35 Lady Katherine Seymour to Countess Spencer, 26 March 1952, Althorp Archives
36 Queen Elizabeth to Lady Delia Peel, 22 April 1952, Althorp Archives
37 Queen Elizabeth to Osbert Sitwell, 3 May 1952, Sitwell Papers
38 Lord Davidson to Queen Elizabeth, 26 February 1952, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
39 Queen Elizabeth to Lord Davidson, 31 March 1952, RA GVI/ADD/MISC/COPY
40 Queen Elizabeth to Arthur Penn, 1 April 1952, Penn Papers
41 Queen Elizabeth to Lady Salisbury, 28 April 1952, Hatfield House, Papers of Elizabeth, Marchioness of Salisbury
42 Queen Elizabeth to Cecil Boyd-Rochfort, 14 May 1952, RA QEQM/OUT/BOYD-ROCHFORT
43 Osbert Sitwell to Queen Elizabeth, 7 May 1952, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Sitwell
44 Queen Elizabeth to Osbert Sitwell, 3 May 1952, Sitwell Papers
45 Oliver Dawnay to Major General R. K. Arbuthnott, 28 April 1952, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/Black Watch
46 Laird, pp. 315–16
47 Sir Miles Thomas, Out on a Wing, Michael Joseph, 1964, p. 313
48 Hugh Massingberd, ‘She derived much pleasure from all that she did’, Daily Telegraph,1 April 2002; Squadron Leader J. P. Meadows to Oliver Dawnay, 24 May 1952, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/600 City of London Squadron RAAF
49 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 22 June 1952, RA QM/PRIV/CC14/55
50 The Queen Mother Remembered, ed. James Hogg and Michael Mortimer, BBC Worldwide, 2002, p. 161
51 Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RA QEQM/ADD/MISC
52 Lady Doris Vyner to Queen Elizabeth, n.d. [20 August 1952], RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
53 Commander Clare Vyner to Queen Elizabeth, 23 August 1952, RA QEQM/PRIV/RES
54 Lady Doris Vyner to Queen Elizabeth, n.d. [3 December 1952], n.d. [December 1952], RA QEQM/PRIV/RES
55 Lady Doris Vyner to Queen Elizabeth, n.d. [21 July 1952], RA QEQM/PRIV/RES
56 Queen Elizabeth to Sir Arthur Penn, n.d. [6 August 1952], Penn Papers
57 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 31 August 1952, RA QM/PRIV/CC14/59
58 Queen Mary to Queen Elizabeth, 9 September 1952, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
59 May Elphinstone to Queen Elizabeth, 5 September 1952, RA QEQM/PRIV/BL
60 Queen Mary to Queen Elizabeth, 25 June 1952, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
61 Lady Doris Vyner to Queen Elizabeth, n.d. [21 July 1952], RA QEQM/PRIV/RES
62 Edward Seago to Queen Elizabeth, 27 July 1952, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Seago; Countess Spencer to Earl Spencer, 26 July 1952, Althorp Archives
63 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 28 July 1952, RA QM/PRIV/CC14/57
64 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 21 July 1952, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
65 Queen Elizabeth II to Queen Elizabeth, 23 July 1952, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
66 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 22 August 1952, RA QM/PRIV/CC14/58
67 Queen Elizabeth to May Elphinstone, 2 September 1952, RA QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE
68 D’Arcy Osborne to Queen Elizabeth, 9 September 1952, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Osborne
69 Queen Elizabeth to D’Arcy Osborne, 29 November 1952, RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE
70 Queen Elizabeth to Sir Alan Lascelles, 29 November 1952, CAC LASL 2/3/5
71 Victoria Glendinning, Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn among Lions, 1981, p. 299, quoted in Longford, Elizabeth R, pp. 147–8
72 Sir Arthur Penn to Countess Spencer, 29 August 1952, Althorp Archives
73 Ibid.
74 Queen Elizabeth to Lady Salisbury, 6 August 1952, Hatfield House, Papers of Elizabeth, Marchioness of Salisbury
75 Queen Elizabeth to Lord Salisbury, 3 October 1952, Hatfield House, Papers of fifth Marquess of Salisbury
76 The Queen Mother Remembered, p. 161
77 Queen Elizabeth to Sir Alan Lascelles, 29 November 1952, CAC LASL 2/3/5
78 Sir Alan Lascelles to Queen Elizabeth, 29 November 1952, RA QEQM/PRIV/TEXTS
79 Rose, Kings, Queens and Courtiers, pp. 279–80
80 Queen Elizabeth to Sir Alan Lascelles, 15 February 1953, CAC LASL 2/3/6
81 John Wheeler-Bennett to Queen Elizabeth, 27 September 1953, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
82 Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart, Diaries 1939–1965, ed. Kenneth Young, Macmillan, 1980, p. 755
83 Queen Elizabeth to Helen Hardinge, 2 May 1951, RA QEQM/PRIV/TEXTS
84 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
85 Pope-Hennessy, p. 619
86 Ibid., p. 622
87 Queen Elizabeth to Lady Doris Vyner, 13 April 1953, Vyner Papers
88 Sir Arthur Penn to Queen Elizabeth, 7 January 1953 [misdated 1952], RA QEQM/PRIV/RES
89 Queen Elizabeth to Sir Arthur Penn, 12 April 1953, Penn Papers
90 The Times obituary notice by James Stuart, 7 May 1953
91 William Shawcross, Queen and Country, BBC Worldwide, 2002, p. 49
92 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 2 March 1953, RA QM/PRIV/CC14/62
93 Hartnell, p. 128
94 Longford, Queen Mother, p. 125
95 Cecil Beaton, The Strenuous Years, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1973, p. 147
96 Longford, Elizabeth R, p. 148
97 Queen Elizabeth to D Arcy Osborne, 5 March 1949, RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE
98 Rose, Kings, Queens and Courtiers, p. 271
99 Longford, Elizabeth R, p. 148
100 Wing Commander Peter Townsend, report on Princess Margaret’s visit to Amsterdam, 26 October 1948, RA PS/PSO/GVI/PS/MAIN/09087
101 Rose, Kings, Queens and Courtiers, p. 185
102 Ibid., p. 186
103 Queen Elizabeth to D Arcy Osborne, 5 March 1949, RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE
104 Duff Cooper to Queen Elizabeth, 26 November 1951, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
105 Queen Elizabeth to Duff Cooper, 9 December 1951, RA QEQM/OUT/MISC
106 Quoted by Rose, Kings, Queens, and Courtiers, p. 273
107 Princess Margaret to the Hon. David Bowes Lyon, 21 February 1952, Bowes Lyon Papers, SPW
108 Princess Margaret to Lady Diana Cooper, Diana Cooper Papers, Eton College Library
109 John Wheeler-Bennett, interview with Princess Margaret, 15 April 1954, RA AEC/GG/20
110 Sir Alan Lascelles, undated note, CAC LASL 2/3/14
111 Peter Townsend, Time and Chance, Collins, 1978, p. 198
112 Sir Alan Lascelles, undated note, CAC LASL 2/3/14
113 Longford, Queen Mother, p. 123
114 Queen Elizabeth to Sir Alan Lascelles, 12 June 1953, CAC LASL 2/3/7
115 Longford, Elizabeth R, p. 152
116 Queen Elizabeth to Sir Alan Lascelles, 12 June 1953, CAC LASL 2/3/7
117 Ibid.
118 Longford, Elizabeth R, p. 151
119 Sir Alan Lascelles to Queen Elizabeth, 11 June 1953, RA QEQM/PRIV/CHILD
120 Ibid.
121 Ibid.
122 Sir John Colville to Sir Alan Lascelles, n.d. [1955], CAC LASL 8/7/6, and Longford, Elizabeth R, p. 152
123 Sir Alan Lascelles to Queen Elizabeth, 13 June 1953, RA QEQM/PRIV/CHILD
124 Ibid.
125 Sir John Colville to Sir Alan Lascelles, n.d. [1955], CAC LASL 8/7/6
126 Sir Arthur Penn to Queen Elizabeth, 17 June 1953, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Penn
127 Peter Townsend to Queen Elizabeth, 17 June 1953, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
128 Queen Elizabeth to Lord Salisbury, 3 October 1952, Hatfield House, Papers of fifth Marquess of Salisbury
129 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 7 July 1953, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
130 Sir John Kennedy to Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations (copy), 28 July 1953, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1953/SR
131 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 7 July 1953, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
132 Sir John Kennedy to Queen Elizabeth, 30 July 1953, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
133 Queen Elizabeth to Osbert Sitwell, 9 July 1953, RA QEQM/OUT/SITWELL
134 Ibid.
135 Lady Kennedy to Queen Elizabeth, 16 August 1953, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
136 Letter from Mrs Palmer of Swindon, 8 December 1953, quoting her brother-in-law’s letter from Salisbury, RA QEQMH/GEN/1953/Palmer
137 Lady Kennedy to Queen Elizabeth, 16 August 1953, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
138 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, 23 August 1953, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
139 Queen Elizabeth to Lord Salisbury, 26 May 1953, Hatfield House, Papers of fifth Marquess of Salisbury
140 Lady Salisbury to Queen Elizabeth, 13 September 1953, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Salisbury
141 Lord Salisbury to Queen Elizabeth, 17 September 1953, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
142 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 28 March 1954, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
143 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 14 December 1953, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
144 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 28 December 1953, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
145 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 10 January 1954, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
146 Ibid.
147 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 10 March 1954, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
148 Queen Elizabeth II to Queen Elizabeth, n.d. [early 1954], RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
149 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 28 March 1954, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
150 Queen Elizabeth II to Queen Elizabeth, 2 March 1954, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
151 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 28 March 1954, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
152 Queen Elizabeth II to Queen Elizabeth, 5 May 1954, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
153 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 5 November 1954, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
154 Ibid.
155 Queen Elizabeth, note with memo from Oliver Dawnay, 1 October 1954, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1954/USA
156 John Russell to Oliver Dawnay, 22 November 1953, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1954/USA
157 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 5 November 1954, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
158 Queen Elizabeth to Osbert Sitwell, 8 February 1955, Sitwell Papers
159 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 5 November 1954, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
160 Laird, p. 326
161 Queen Elizabeth to Osbert Sitwell, 8 February 1955, Sitwell Papers
162 Queen Elizabeth to May Elphinstone, 13 December 1954, RA QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE
163 Sir Roger Makins to Sir Anthony Eden, 30 November 1954 (copy), RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1954/USA
164 Alice Makins to Queen Elizabeth, 22 November 1954, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
165 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 5 November 1954, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
166 Queen Elizabeth to Princess Margaret, 13 November 1954, Linley Papers
167 Queen Elizabeth to May Elphinstone, 13 December 1954, RA QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE
168 Archibald Nye, British High Commissioner, to Viscount Swinton, 29 December 1954, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1954/CAN
169 Ibid.
170 Sir Roger Makins to Sir Anthony Eden, 30 November 1954 (copy), RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1954/USA
171 Ibid.
172 Enclosure with letter from Bill Ormerod, British Information Services, New York, to Oliver Dawnay, 24 November 1954, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1954/USA
173 Winston Churchill to Queen Elizabeth, 25 November 1954, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1954/USA
174 William Wallace to Queen Elizabeth, 24 May [1955], RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
175 Nassau Daily Tribune, 4 March 1955, RA QEQM/PRIV/CHILD
176 Queen Elizabeth to Princess Margaret, 9 September 1955, Linley Papers
177 Princess Margaret to Queen Elizabeth, 10 September [1955], RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
178 Queen Elizabeth to Princess Margaret, 11 October 1955, Linley Papers
179 Longford, Elizabeth R, p. 176; The Royal Encyclopedia, Macmillan, 1991, p. 332
180 The Times, 24 October 1955
181 Longford, Elizabeth R, p. 177. Longford states that her source for this was Princess Margaret
182 Queen Elizabeth II to Queen Elizabeth, 31 October 1955, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF, and Princess Margaret, draft announcement, 31 October 1955, QEQM/PRIV/CHILD
183 Lady Jean Rankin to Toni Untermyer (Toni de Bellaigue), 2 November 1955, Bellaigue Papers
184 Princess Margaret to Toni Untermyer, 23 November 1955, Bellaigue Papers
185 Queen Elizabeth to Rachel Bowes Lyon, 31 October 1955, Bowes Lyon Papers, SPW
186 Queen Elizabeth to Lady Salisbury, 22 November 1955, Hatfield House, Papers of Elizabeth, Marchioness of Salisbury
187 Peter Townsend to Queen Elizabeth, 19 November 1955, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
188 Princess Margaret to Queen Elizabeth, 3, 5, 18 October 1956, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
189 Princess Margaret to Toni Untermyer, 26 August 1957, Bellaigue Papers
EIGHTEEN: FAVOURITES 1956–1960
1 Sean Smith, Royal Racing, BBC Books, 2001, pp. 57–61
2 Ibid., p. 59
3 Ibid.
4 Nicolson, Diaries and Letters 1945–1962, p. 299
5 Dick Francis in The Queen Mother Remembered, p. 194; Longford, Queen Mother, p. 149
6 Queen Elizabeth to Princess Elizabeth, 12 December 1950, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
7 Author’s interview with Lady Penn
8 Queen Elizabeth to Princess Elizabeth, 29 December 1950, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
9 Princess Margaret to the Hon. David Bowes Lyon, 27 December 1950, Bowes Lyon Papers, SPW
10 Queen Elizabeth to Princess Elizabeth, 29 December 1950, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
11 Smith, pp. 53–4
12 Dick Francis in The Queen Mother Remembered, p. 193
13 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 10 January 1954, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
14 Laird, p. 348
15 Sir Arthur Penn to Queen Elizabeth, 29 September 1952, RA QEQM/PRIV/HH
16 Queen Elizabeth to Sir Arthur Penn, 13 September 1954, Penn Papers
17 Unpublished memoirs of Dame Frances Campbell-Preston, quoted in Vickers, p. 401
18 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 10 January 1954, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
19 Queen Elizabeth to Sir Arthur Penn, 13 September 1954, Penn Papers
20 Queen Elizabeth to Sir Arthur Penn, 14 January 1956, Penn Papers
21 Queen Elizabeth to Sir Arthur Penn, n.d., Penn Papers
22 Sir Arthur Penn to Queen Elizabeth (draft), 23 September 1958, Penn Papers
23 Queen Elizabeth to Sir Arthur Penn, 25 September 1958, Penn Papers
24 Rose, Kings, Queens and Courtiers, pp. 129–30
25 Ibid.
26 Sir Gladwyn Jebb to Selwyn Lloyd, 20 March 1956 (copy dispatch), RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1956/FRA
27 Report by Private Secretary to British Ambassador, attached to telegram of 20 March 1956, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1956/FRA
28 Lady Salisbury to Queen Elizabeth, n.d. [March 1956], RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Salisbury
29 The Diaries of Cynthia Gladwyn 1946–71, ed. Miles Jebb, Constable, 1995, p. 168
30 Lady Jebb to Queen Elizabeth, 24 March 1956, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
31 Sir Gladwyn Jebb to Selwyn Lloyd (copy dispatch), 20 March 1956, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1956/FRA
32 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 12 April 1956, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
33 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 10 April 1957, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
34 Lady in waiting’s diary, 8 July 1957, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW
35 Ibid., 9 July 1957
36 Ibid., 10–11 July 1957
37 Ibid., 13–15 July 1957
38 Ibid., 16 July 1957
39 E. L. Sykes, Acting UK High Commissioner, to Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, 23 July 1957, National Archives, Treaty Royal Matters, FO 372 7449 1957
40 Author’s interview with Sir James Scholtens
41 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 9 February 1958, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
42 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 18 February 1958, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
43 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 1 March 1958, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
44 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 13 February 1958, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
45 Queen Elizabeth II to Queen Elizabeth, 20 February 1958; Princess Margaret to Queen Elizabeth, 25 February [1958], RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
46 Queen Elizabeth to Princess Margaret, 22 February 1958, Linley Papers
47 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 1 March 1958, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
48 Ibid.
49 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 9 February 1958, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
50 Queen Elizabeth to Cecil Boyd-Rochfort, 18 February 1958, RA QEQM/OUT/BOYD-ROCHFORT
51 Allen Brown to Queen Elizabeth, n.d. [March 1958], RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
52 Sir Robert Scott, Governor of Mauritius, to the Secretary of State for the Colonies (copy dispatch), 14 March 1958, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1958/AUSNZ
53 Laird, p. 336
54 Ibid., p. 337
55 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 1 March 1958, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
56 Queen Elizabeth II, speech to City of London, 7 June 1977
57 Dr Kiano to Queen Elizabeth, telegram, 30 January 1959, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1959/KENUG/I/I
58 Acting Governor of Kenya to the Secretary of State for the Colonies (copy dispatch), 21 January 1959, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1959/KENUG
59 Lady in waiting’s diary, 9 February 1959, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW
60 Princess Margaret to Queen Elizabeth, 11 February 1959, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
61 Laird, p. 339
62 Sir Evelyn Baring to Alan Lennox-Boyd (copy dispatch), 30 May 1959, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1959/KENUG/II/7
63 Valentine card sent to Queen Elizabeth, RA QEQM/PRIV/GEN
64 Sir Evelyn Baring to Alan Lennox-Boyd (copy dispatch), 30 May 1959, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1959/KENUG/II/7
65 Ibid.
66 Ibid.
67 Ibid.
68 Lady Mary Baring to Queen Elizabeth, 5 March 1959, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL