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The Queen Mother

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by William Shawcross


  69 Queen Elizabeth to Princess Margaret, 21 February 1959, Linley Papers

  70 Ibid.

  71 Sir Frederick Crawford to Alan Lennox-Boyd (copy dispatch), 6 March 1959, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1959/KENUG/II/7

  72 Ibid.

  73 Ibid.

  74 George Thomas MP to Leiutenant Colonel Martin Gilliat, 7 April 1959, RA QEQM/PS/VIS/1959/KENUG/II/8

  75 Queen Elizabeth to D’Arcy Osborne, 30 January 1959, RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE

  76 Ibid.

  77 Ashley Clarke to Selwyn Lloyd, 30 April 1959, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1959/ITAL/3

  78 Lady Jebb to Queen Elizabeth, 25 January 1959, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

  79 Diaries of Cynthia Gladwyn, pp. 235–8

  80 Major General Sir John Kennedy to Queen Elizabeth, 2 January 1961, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

  81 Sir R. P. Armitage to Iain Macleod (copy report), 25 June 1960, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1960/RHONY/III/4

  82 Major General Sir John Kennedy to Queen Elizabeth, 2 January 1961, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

  83 Queen Elizabeth to Princess Margaret, 22 May 1960, Linley Papers

  84 Sir R. P. Armitage, to Iain Macleod (copy report), 25 June 1960, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1960/RHONY/III/4

  85 Lieutenant Colonel Martin Gilliat to Sir R. P. Armitage, 1 June 1960, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1960/RHONY/III/3a

  86 Princess Margaret to Antony Armstrong Jones, 27 October 1958, Snowdon Papers

  87 Princess Margaret to Antony Armstrong Jones, 31 October 1958, Snowdon Papers

  88 Princess Margaret to Antony Armstrong Jones, 19 April 1959, Snowdon Papers

  89 Princess Margaret to Antony Armstrong Jones, 14 August 1959, Snowdon Papers

  90 Princess Margaret to Antony Armstrong Jones, 22 August 1959, Snowdon Papers

  91 Princess Margaret to Antony Armstrong Jones, 29 August 1959, Snowdon Papers

  92 Ibid.

  93 Princess Margaret to Antony Armstrong Jones, 9 October 1959, Snowdon Papers

  94 Princess Margaret to Antony Armstrong Jones, 6 December [1959], Snowdon Papers

  95 Duchess of Gloucester to Queen Elizabeth, n.d. [28 February 1960], RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  96 Queen Elizabeth to Most Rev. Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, 2 March 1960, RA QEQM/OUT/MISC

  97 Lady in waiting’s diary, 5 April 1960, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW

  98 Longford, Elizabeth R, p. 202

  99 Queen Elizabeth to Princess Margaret, 22 May 1960, Linley Papers

  100 Lord Snowdon to Queen Elizabeth, 19 May 1960, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  101 Princess Margaret to Queen Elizabeth, 16 May 1960, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  NINETEEN: THE HEART OF THE MATTER

  1 Asa Briggs, A Social History of England, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1994, p. 319

  2 Ibid., pp. 317–19

  3 Ibid., p. 324

  4 William Shawcross, Queen and Country, BBC Worldwide, 2002, p. 77

  5 Queen Elizabeth to Rachel Bowes Lyon, 1 October 1961, Bowes Lyon Papers, SPW

  6 Richard Crossman, ‘The Role of the Volunteer in the Modern Social Service’, in Traditions of Social Policy, ed. A. H. Halsey, 1976, p. 283, quoted in Prochaska, Royal Bounty, pp. 249–50

  7 Sir Arthur Penn to Dr Percy Dunsheath, 18 February 1954, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/University of London/Box I/MAIN/I

  8 Queen Elizabeth’s speech, 24 November 1955, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/University of London/Box I/University of London Gazette

  9 Longford, Queen Mother, p. 143

  10 Note by Queen Elizabeth on first report of University Consultative Committee on Murray Report, February 1974, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/University of London/Box II

  11 Longford, Queen Mother, p. 147

  12 Noel Annan in The Queen Mother Remembered, p. 125

  13 Ibid., pp. 126, 128

  14 Times Literary Supplement, 23 January 2004, pp. 11–13

  15 Duchess of York, diary, 2 September 1924, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/4

  16 Lady Katharine Seymour to Miss May McKinlay, 16 September 1939, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Girls Brigade

  17 Duchess of York’s speech, 24 April 1934, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/British Legion (Women’s Section)

  18 Information from Lucy Murphy

  19 Queen Elizabeth’s message, 18 October 1947, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Church of England Children’s Society

  20 L. R. Shapley to A. S. Greenacre, 29 July 1939, letter forwarded to Queen Elizabeth by Rev. P. B. Clayton, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Toc H

  21 Sir Martin Gilliat to Sir Alexander Giles, 20 December 1972, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Toc H

  22 Sir Arthur Penn to Colonel Parkes, 18 March 1948, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/St Mary’s Hospital Paddington

  23 RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/St Mary’s Hospital Paddington

  24 Keeper of the Privy Purse to Comptrollers and Ladies-in-Waiting to members of the Royal Family, 29 October 1948, RA QEQMH/PS/CSP/Hospitals

  25 RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/PS/St Mary’s Hospital Paddington

  26 Duchess of York’s speech, 27 June 1935, RA QEQMH/PS/ENGT/1935/23

  27 RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Queen Elizabeth’s Foundation for the Disabled

  28 Queen Elizabeth’s speech, 1943, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Sandringham WI

  29 Queen Elizabeth’s speech, 1945, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Sandringham WI

  30 Queen Elizabeth’s speech, 1951, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Sandringham WI

  31 Queen Elizabeth’s speech, 1954, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Sandringham WI

  32 Queen Elizabeth’s speech, 1976, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Sandringham WI

  33 Queen Elizabeth’s speech, 1987, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Sandringham WI

  34 Dr William Beaver to Nicholas Assheton, 27 June 2002, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/British Red Cross

  35 RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/SSAFA

  36 W. M. Morgan to Sir Ralph Anstruther, 19 May 1993, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Royal College of Music

  37 RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Middle Temple

  38 RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/King’s Lynn Festival

  39 RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Friends of St Paul’s Cathedral

  40 Sir Ralph Anstruther to Angus Critchley-Waring, 1 August 1972, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Queen Mary’s Clothing Guild

  41 Statement of accounts, 11 January, 2002, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Queen Mary’s Clothing Guild

  42 Note by Queen Elizabeth on letter from Angus Stirling to Sir Martin Gilliat, 29 October 1987, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/National Trust

  43 Queen Elizabeth’s speech, 19 October 1967, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/University of Dundee

  44 Peter Ustinov in The Queen Mother Remembered, pp. 212–15

  45 RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Injured Jockeys Fund; RA QEQMH/PS/ENGT/2001: 6 December

  46 Peter Pears to Queen Elizabeth, 7 April 1974, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Aldeburgh Festival

  47 Peter Pears to Lady Fermoy, 27 September 1974, RA QEQMH/PS/ENGT/13 June 1975

  48 Régis Cochefert to Sir Alastair Aird, 6 June 2002, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Aldeburgh Festival

  49 Queen Elizabeth, note to Sir Ralph Anstruther, n.d. [January 1977], RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Sandringham Fur & Feather

  50 Queen Elizabeth to Sir Ralph Anstruther, n.d. [21 May 1980], RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Sandringham Fur & Feather

  51 Poultry World, January 1999, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Poultry Club

  52 RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Victoria Cross and George Cross Association

  53 Queen Elizabeth, message sent with letter from Hon. Nicholas Assheton to Earl of Caithness, 21 March 2000, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Clan Sinclair Trust

  54 Hon. Nicholas Assheton to Bernard Evans, 18 September 2001, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Longhope Lifeboat Museum Trust

  55 RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Sir Peter O Sullevan Charitable Trust

  56 Dr Walter James, article in Times Higher Education Supplement, 12 September 1980, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/St Catharine’s

  57 Author’s interview with Eric Anderson

  58 Message from Queen Elizabeth to Lieutenant Colonel John H. Christie, accompanying a bowl of violets sent to the Officers’ Mess, 27 April 1941, illustrated in ‘Proud to be Your Colonel-in-Chief’, 1937–2002, Toronto Scottish Regiment, Toronto, 2003

  59 Queen Elizabeth, annotations on Light Infantry annual reports, 1997, 1998; annotation on letter from Major General Peter Bush to Sir Martin Giliat,
30 December 1981, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/Light Infantry

  60 Arthur Penn to General Sir Archibald Cameron, 5 July 1940, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/Black Watch

  61 Queen Elizabeth’s speech, 20 November 1941, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/Black Watch

  62 General Sir Arthur Wauchope to Arthur Penn, 22 November 1941, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/Black Watch

  63 RA QEQMH/PS/ENGT/1998: 20 September

  64 Lieutenant Colonel Evelyn Fanshawe to Captain R.J. Streatfeild, n.d. [26 July 1937], RA QEQMH/PS/ENGT/1937: 24 July

  65 Arthur Penn to Lieutenant Colonel Tom Draffen, 30 April 1942, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/Queen’s Bays

  66 Arthur Penn to Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Barclay, 31 December 1943, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/Queen’s Bays

  67 Lieutenant Colonel Martin Gilliat to Colonel G. W. Draffen, 23 July 1957, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/Queen’s Bays

  68 Note by Queen Elizabeth on regimental annual report, January 2001, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/Queen’s Dragoon Guards

  69 Note by Queen Elizabeth on a letter from Lieutenant Colonel R. M. Carnegie to Sir Martin Gilliat, 11 October 1968, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/Queen’s Own Hussars

  70 Queen Elizabeth’s speech, 13 June 1997, RA QEQMH/PS/ENGT/1997: 13 June

  71 Brigadier R. N. M. Jones to Lieutenant Colonel Martin Gilliat, 4 March 1958, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/The King’s (Manchester and Liverpool) Regiment

  72 Queen Elizabeth to Lieutenant Colonel Malcolm Grant-Howarth, 24 October 1990, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/The King’s (Manchester and Liverpool) Regiment

  73 Queen Elizabeth’s speech, 2 July 1993, RA QEQMH/PS/ENGT/1993: 2 July

  74 Note by Queen Elizabeth on report by Brigadier J. J. Gaskell, 21 August 1998, RA QEQMH/ARMFOR/The King’s (Manchester and Liverpool) Regiment

  75 Note by Queen Elizabeth on letter from Brigadier J. A. Longmore to Lieutenant Colonel Martin Gilliat, 26 July 1960, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/Hertfordshire Regiment

  76 Note by Queen Elizabeth attached to letter from Lieutenant General Sir Reginald Denning to Lieutenant Colonel Martin Gilliat, 2 January [1961], RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/Hertfordshire Regiment

  77 Duchess of York to King George V, 18 March 1935, RA GV/PRIV/AA62/215

  78 Lieutenant Colonel Martin Gilliat to Lieutenant Colonel R. C. P. Wheeler, 28 November 1956, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders)

  79 Note by Queen Elizabeth to Lieutenant Colonel Martin Gilliat, 29 August 1960, re letter from Lieutenant Colonel G. D. Thompson, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/Inns of Court Regiment; Lieutenant Colonel Martin Gilliat to Colonel Sir James Waterlow, 21 October 1960, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders)

  80 Hon. Mrs Geoffrey Bowlby to Lady Maud Bailey, 29 October 1941, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/WRAC

  81 Note by Queen Elizabeth on memorandum from Defence Services Secretary to Sir Martin Gilliat, 15 August 1991, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/WRNS

  82 Sir Martin Gilliat to Air Commandant Dame Felicity Hill, 7 March 1968, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/WRAF

  83 Note by Queen Elizabeth on letter from Brigadier G. K. Ramsay to Sir Alastair Aird, 8 March 1990, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/WRAC; note by Queen Elizabeth on memorandum from Sir Alastair Aird, 13 January 1994, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/WRAF

  84 Lord Alexander of Tunis to Sir Martin Gilliat, 16 July 1965, and reply, 21 July 1965, RA QEQMH/PS/MISCOFF/Irish Guards

  85 Lieutenant Colonel James Baker to Queen Elizabeth, 19 March [1979]; Lieutenant Colonel John Clavering to Queen Elizabeth, 18 March 1981, RA QEQMH/PS/MISCOFF/Irish Guards

  86 Queen Elizabeth to Commanding Officer, Toronto Scottish, 20 October 1945, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/Toronto Scottish

  87 RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/Black Watch of Canada

  88 Note by Queen Elizabeth on note from Sir Martin Gilliat, 21 January 1991, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/RNZAMC

  89 Lieutenant Colonel Martin Gilliat to Commandant Denzil M. Loveland, 14 April 1961, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/South Africa

  90 Lieutenant Colonel Martin Gilliat to Commandant C. St L. Hone, 27 October 1961, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/South Africa

  91 Telegram from Queen Elizabeth to Acting Commissioner, BSAP, [12 February 1954], QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/South Africa

  92 Note by Queen Elizabeth on letter from John Graham, FCO, to Sir Martin Gilliat, 6 March 1970, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/South Africa

  93 Pimlott, p. 565

  94 Geoffrey Finlayson, Citizen State and Social Welfare in Britain, 1830–1990, 1994, p. 352, quoted in Prochaska, Royal Bounty, p. 256

  95 Ibid., pp. 259–60

  96 Ibid., p. 272

  97 For my Grandchildren: Some Reminiscences of Her Royal Highness Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, 1996, p. 7, quoted in Prochaska, Royal Bounty, pp. 261–2

  98 Vernon Bogdanor, The Monarchy and the Constitution, Oxford University Press, 1995, p. 308

  99 In Tearing Haste: Letters between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor, ed. Charlotte Mosley, John Murray, 2008, letter from Deborah Devonshire, 18 January 1980, p. 177

  100 Prochaska, Royal Bounty, p. 279

  101 Bogdanor, pp. 305–9

  102 Queen Elizabeth’s speech, January 1993, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Sandringham WI

  TWENTY: AT HOME

  1 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 17 February 1961, RA QEII/PRIV/RF

  2 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 26 November 1961, RA QEII/PRIV/RF

  3 Longford, Queen Mother, p. 135

  4 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 23 May 1961, RA QEII/PRIV/RF

  5 Queen Elizabeth to John Elphinstone, 6 June 1962, RA QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE

  6 Queen Elizabeth to Prince Charles, 5 January 1967, Clarence House Archives

  7 Prince Charles to Queen Elizabeth, 21 May 1962, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  8 Queen Elizabeth to John Elphinstone, 6 June 1962, RA QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE

  9 Queen Elizabeth to Prince Charles, 15 December 1966, Clarence House Archives

  10 The Times, 21 May 1960

  11 Martin Gilliat to Richard Colville, 22 May 1960, RA QEQMH/PRS/CSP/1/2

  12 Sir Arthur Penn to Richard Colville, 21 May 1960, RA QEQMH/PRS/CSP/1/2

  13 Sir Arthur Penn to Queen Elizabeth, 20 November [1960], RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Penn

  14 Queen Elizabeth to Marjorie Penn, 7 April 1961, Penn Papers

  15 Elizabeth Leeming interview with Margaret Rhodes

  16 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 19 September 1961, RA QEII/PRIV/RF

  17 Queen Elizabeth to Rachel Bowes Lyon, 1 August 1962, Bowes Lyon Papers, SPW

  18 Queen Elizabeth to Rachel Bowes Lyon, 29 July 1965, Bowes Lyon Papers, SPW

  19 Elizabeth Leeming interview with Lady Stair

  20 Queen Elizabeth to D’Arcy Osborne, 13 February 1962, RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE

  21 D’Arcy Osborne to Queen Elizabeth, 17 October 1962, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Osborne

  22 Queen Elizabeth to D’Arcy Osborne, 7 February 1963, RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE

  23 D’Arcy Osborne to Queen Elizabeth, 19 February 1963, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Osborne

  24 Mrs Milton (Judy) Gendel to Queen Elizabeth, n.d. [April 1964], RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

  25 Note by Lady Jean Rankin, 28 October 1963, RA QEQMH/PS/GEN/1971/Poignand; Queen Elizabeth to Beryl Poignand, 12 October 1963, Glamis Archives (CH)

  26 Queen Elizabeth to Mrs Leone Poignand Hall, 11 January 1965, private collection

  27 Queen Elizabeth to Osbert Sitwell, 26 December 1968, RA QEQM/OUT/SITWELL

  28 Queen Elizabeth to Sacheverell Sitwell, 5 May 1969, RA QEQMH/PS/GEN/1969/Sitwell

  29 Queen Elizabeth to the Hon. Elizabeth Elphinstone, 14 September 1964, RA QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE

  30 Queen Elizabeth to Osbert Sitwell, 26 January 1967, RA QEQM/OUT/SITWELL

  31 Correspondence between Sir Arthur Penn, the Dean of Windsor and others, 11 June 1954–29 June 1960; memorandum by Sir Arthur Penn, 29 March 1960, RA QEQM/PRIV/MEM

  32 Queen Elizabeth to Lord Salisbury, 16 October 1969, Hatfield House, Papers of fifth Marquess of Salisbury

  33 John Cornforth, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother at Clarence House, Michael Joseph, 1996, pp.
64–5

  34 Ibid., pp. 61–5

  35 Ibid., pp. 71–3

  36 Michael Holroyd, Augustus John, vol. 2, p. 473, quoted in Owens, p. 48

  37 Augustus John to Queen Elizabeth, July 1961, RA QEQM/PRIV/PIC

  38 Cornforth, pp. 88–9

  39 Sir Arthur Penn to Brigadier Kingstone, 21 May 1952, RA QEQMH/PS/POR/5

  40 Roger Berthoud, Graham Sutherland, Faber & Faber, 1982, pp. 152, 243–4

  41 Cornforth, pp. 109–10

  42 Pietro Annigoni, An Artist’s Life, W. H. Allen, 1977, pp. 140–3

  43 John Bratby to Captain Alastair Aird, 10 February 1978, John Bratby to Queen Elizabeth, 22 February 1978, RA QEQMH/POR/18; Owens, p. 184; Cornforth, pp. 5, 29–30

  44 Cornforth, p. 38

  45 Frances Campbell-Preston, The Rich Spoils of Time, Dovecote Press, 2006, pp. 273–4

  46 Queen Elizabeth to Princess Margaret, 24 July 1958, Linley Papers

  47 Harold Macmillan to Queen Elizabeth, 18 June 1970, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

  48 Roy Strong, The Roy Strong Diaries 1967–1987, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997, p. 175

  49 Diaries of Cynthia Gladwyn, pp. 285–7

  50 Campbell-Preston, pp. 268–311

  51 Author’s interview with Frances Campbell-Preston, 5 February 2004

  52 Ibid.

  53 Author’s interview with Michael Sealey

  54 Ibid.

  55 Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, QEQM/ADD/MISC; JS Journal, April 1985; author’s interview with Lord Sainsbury

  56 Stephen Spender to Queen Elizabeth, 5 March 1986, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

  57 Sir Charles Johnston’s diary, quoted in Vickers, p. 431

  58 Vickers, pp. 344–5

  59 Author’s interview with Lord Carrington

  60 Author’s interview with Sir Michael Oswald

  61 Author’s interview with Zara Cazalet

  62 Ibid.

  63 Dick Francis in The Queen Mother Remembered, pp. 193–5

  64 Author’s interview with Sir Michael Oswald

  65 Smith, p. 235

  66 Mrs Fulke Walwyn in The Queen Mother Remembered, pp. 196–8

  67 Sunday Times, 29 April 1984, quoted in Laird, p. 372

  68 Queen Elizabeth to Lady Katharine Farrell, 15 August 1979, Farrell Papers

  69 Sir Arthur Penn to Queen Elizabeth, 8 April 1959, RA QEQM/PRIV/RES

  70 Friends of the Castle of Mey Newsletter, April 2005

 

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