The Queen Mother
Page 137
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