The Queen Mother
Page 138
71 The Castle & Gardens of Mey, The Queen Elizabeth Castle of Mey Trust, 2008, pp. 65–71
72 Author’s interview with Martin Leslie; The Queen Mother Remembered, p. 221
73 Rose, Kings, Queens and Courtiers, p. 105
74 The Queen Mother Remembered, p. 231
75 Ibid., p. 232
76 Author’s interview with Christine Shearer
77 Rev. Alex Muir in The Queen Mother Remembered, pp. 234–5
78 Information from Martin Leslie
79 Castle of Mey Visitors Book
80 Author’s interview with Lady Penn
81 Interview with Lady Bacon on behalf of the author
82 Author’s interview with Ashe Windham
83 Elizabeth Leeming interview with Dr Michael Briggs
84 Author’s interview with Charlie Wright
85 Laird, pp. 373–4
86 Campbell-Preston, p. 306
87 Sir Pierson Dixon to Queen Elizabeth, 2 September 1963, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
TWENTY-ONE: QUEEN VOYAGER 1961–1967
1 Foreign Office note, ‘Proposal that HM The Queen Mother should visit Tunisia’, 16 January 1961 (copy), RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1961/TUN
2 Brigadier Bernard Fergusson to Laura Fergusson, 19 April 1961, Ballantrae Papers, NLS Acc 9259/87
3 Brigadier Bernard Fergusson to Laura Fergusson, 22 April 1961, Ballantrae Papers, NLS Acc 9259/87
4 Brigadier Bernard Fergusson to Laura Fergusson, 24 April 1961, Ballantrae Papers, NLS Acc 9259/87
5 Anthony Lambert to Lord Home, 4 May 1961 (copy), RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1961/TUN
6 Brigadier Bernard Fergusson to Laura Fergusson, 24 April 1961, Ballantrae Papers, NLS Acc 9259/87
7 Anthony Lambert to Lord Home, 4 May 1961 (copy), RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1961/TUN
8 Queen Elizabeth to D’Arcy Osborne, 20 June 1961, RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE
9 Lady in waiting’s diary, 6 April 1962, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW
10 John Diefenbaker to Major General Georges Vanier, 16 January 1962, LAC/BAC Acc 1988–89/081, Vol. 144, File 3185-K 1962
11 Acting British High Commissioner in Canada to Duncan Sandys, 25 June 1962 (copy), RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1962/CAN
12 Lady in waiting’s diary, 14 June 1962, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW
13 Major General Georges Vanier to Queen Elizabeth, 16 June 1962, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1962/CAN
14 Major General Georges Vanier to Queen Elizabeth, 16 June 1962, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
15 Lady in waiting’s diary, 8–13 May 1963, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW
16 Lady in waiting’s diary, 30 October 1963, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW
17 Longford, Queen Mother, p. 141
18 Prince Philip to Queen Elizabeth, 16 February [1964], RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
19 Prince Charles to Queen Elizabeth, 7 February 1964 [misdated 1963], RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
20 Queen Elizabeth II to Queen Elizabeth, 25 March 1964, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
21 Queen Elizabeth to Princess Margaret, 24 March 1964, Linley Papers
22 Allen Brown to Sir Martin Gilliat, 5 February 1964, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1964/AUSNZ (cancelled)
23 Sir Martin Gilliat to Sir Bernard Fergusson, Governor General of New Zealand, 20 February 1964, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1964/AUSNZ (cancelled)
24 Queen Elizabeth to Sir Bernard Fergusson, 9 April 1964, Ballantrae Papers, NLS Acc 9259/109
25 Andrew Roberts, History of the English-Speaking Peoples since 1900, pp. 467–9
26 Lady in waiting’s diary, 18 February 1965, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW
27 Ibid., 21 February 1965
28 Queen Elizabeth to Princess Margaret, 28 March 1965, Linley Papers
29 Noël Coward to Queen Elizabeth, 9 July [1965], RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
30 Lady in waiting’s diary, 26 February 1965, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW
31 Sir Alexander Morley, British High Commissioner, Kingston, to Rt Hon. Arthur Bottomley, Commonwealth Secretary (copy), 1 March 1965, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1965/JAM
32 Correspondence between Sir Martin Gilliat, the Private Secretary to the Governor General and the Chief of Protocol, External Affairs, 31 December 1964–3 May 1965, LAC/BAC Acc 1988–89/081, Vol. 144, File 3185-K 1965
33 Lady in waiting’s diary, 25 March 1966, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW
34 Queen Elizabeth’s speech, 25 March 1966, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1966/AUSNZ/I/3
35 Lady in waiting’s diary, 25 March 1966, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW
36 Queen Elizabeth’s speech, 26 March 1966, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1966/AUSNZ/I/2
37 Campbell-Preston, p. 280
38 Lady in waiting’s diary, 31 March, 1 April 1966, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW
39 Princess Margaret to Queen Elizabeth, 8 April 1966, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
40 Lady in waiting’s diary, 4 April 1966, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW
41 Ibid., 7 April 1966
42 Campbell-Preston, p. 280
43 Ibid., p. 283
44 Ibid.
45 Lady in waiting’s diary, 4 May 1966, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW
46 Queen Elizabeth to Sir Bernard Fergusson, 9 May 1966, Ballantrae Papers, NLS Acc 9259/109
47 Ibid.
48 Queen Elizabeth to Lord Snowdon, 21 April 1966, Snowdon Papers
49 Queen Elizabeth to Sir Bernard Fergusson, 24 May 1966, Ballantrae Papers, NLS Acc 9259/109
50 Queen Elizabeth to Lord Salisbury, 24 December 1966, Hatfield House, Papers of fifth Marquess of Salisbury
51 Lady in waiting’s diary, 20 September 1966, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW
52 Author’s interview with Sir Richard Thompson
53 Prince of Wales to Queen Elizabeth, 10 December 1966, Clarence House Archives
54 Sir Richard Bayliss to the Hon. Mrs John Mulholland, 18 September 1979, RA QEQMH/PS/GEN/1979/Searle Medical
55 RA QEQMH/PS/GEN/1967/Women’s Services
56 Correspondence with Government House, Ottawa, May-July 1966, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1967/CAN
57 Lady in waiting’s diary, 11 July 1967, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW
58 Queen Elizabeth to Rear Admiral P. J. Morgan, 22 July 1967, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1967/CAN
59 Lady in waiting’s diary, 26 June 1974, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW
60 Ibid., 28 June 1974
61 Pauline McGibbon to Governor General of Canada, 8 August 1978, LAC/BAC Acc 90–91/016, Vol. 156, File 896–7901
62 Thomas Brimelow to Sir Martin Gilliat, 17 May 1974, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1975/IRAN
63 Lady in waiting’s diary, 15 April 1975, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW
64 Ibid., 16 April 1975
65 Lady Parsons to Queen Elizabeth, n.d. [December 1975], RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
66 Lady in waiting’s diary, 18 April 1975, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW
67 Sir Anthony Parsons to Rt Hon. James Callaghan, 30 April 1975 (copy), RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1975/IRAN
68 Queen Elizabeth to Sir Alan Lascelles, 17 January 1955, CAC LASL 2/2/20
69 Queen Elizabeth to D Arcy Osborne, 7 February 1963, RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE
70 Oliver Wright to Sir Martin Gilliat, 7, 18 March 1963, Sir Martin Gilliat to Oliver Wright, 12 March 1963, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1963/FRA
71 Details of this and subsequent trips are taken from the account of her travels written by Sir Ralph Anstruther, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS
72 Queen Elizabeth to Madame Georgina Reinhold, 16 February 1965, RA QEII/OUT/GUÉRIN/09
73 Lord Euston to Queen Elizabeth, 26 April 1963, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
74 RCIN 1164183; copy in Royal Archives, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS
75 Paris Match, 17 April 1965
76 Lord Euston to Queen Elizabeth, 13 April 1965, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
77 Anstruther account, 5 April 1965, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS
78 Ibid., 1–7 May 1967, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS
79 Prince Jean-Louis de Faucigny-Lucinge in The Queen Mother Remembered, pp. 110–13
80 Ibid.
81 Ibid.
82 Anstruther account, 27–28 April 1976, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS
83 Ibid., 28 April 1976, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS
84 Longford, Queen Mother, pp.
154–5; author’s interview with Duke and Duchess of Grafton
85 Anstruther account, 25–28 April 1977, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS
86 Ibid., 1–2 May 1978
87 Interview with Laure, Princesse de Beauvau-Craon on behalf of the author
88 Ibid.
89 Ibid.; Le Figaro, 28 June 1979
90 Interview with Laure, Princesse de Beauvau-Craon on behalf of the author
91 Anstruther account, 6–9 May 1980, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS
92 Ibid., 14 May 1981
93 Queen Elizabeth to Sir Ralph Anstruther, 17 May 1981, RA QEQM/OUT/ANSTRUTHER
94 Anstruther account, 6 May 1983, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS
95 Interview with Madame Servagnat on behalf of the author
96 Anstruther account, 12–25 June 1984, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS
97 Comte et Comtesse René de Nicolay in The Queen Mother Remembered, pp. 114–15
98 Anstruther account, 25–27 June 1985, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS
99 James Lees-Milne, Holy Dread: Diaries 1982–1984, ed. Michael Bloch, John Murray, 2001, 3 August 1983
100 Interview with Marquise de Ravenel on behalf of the author
101 Sir Hugh Casson to Sir Alastair Aird, 9 July 1984, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1984/ITA
102 Author’s interview with the Duke and Duchess of Grafton
103 Laird, p. 376
104 Lady in waiting’s diary, 27 October 1984, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW
105 Queen Elizabeth to Sir Hugh Casson, 27 December 1984, RA AEC/GG/21
106 Anstruther account, 23–27 June 1986, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS
107 Queen Elizabeth to Prince Jean-Louis de Faucigny-Lucinge, July 1986, private collection
108 Anstruther account, 25–29 May 1987, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS
109 Ibid., 23 June 1988
110 Ibid., 20–25 June 1988
111 Sir Hugh Casson in The Queen Mother Remembered, pp. 116–22
112 Sir Derek Thomas to Sir Patrick Wright, 1 July 1988 (copy), RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1988/ITA
113 Prince Jean-Louis de Faucigny-Lucinge in The Queen Mother Remembered, pp. 110–13
114 Interview with Bertrand du Vignaud on behalf of the author
115 Ibid.
116 Anstruther account, 30 May-2 June 1990, RAQEQMH/PS/VIS
117 Ibid., 27–30 May 1991
118 Ibid., 26–29 May 1992
TWENTY-TWO: UNDER SCRUTINY 1968–1981
1 Briggs, Social History of England, pp. 324–6
2 Clarke, p. 286
3 David Burnside, MP for South Antrim, House of Commons Tribute to Queen Elizabeth, Hansard, 3 April 2002, column 821
4 Queen Elizabeth to Sir Bernard Fergusson, 19 September 1970, Ballantrae Papers, NLS Acc 9259/109
5 Shawcross, p. 104
6 Sarah Bradford, Elizabeth, Heinemann, 1996, pp. 359–60
7 Pimlott, pp. 378–88
8 Ibid., p. 390
9 Noël Coward Diaries, 27 July 1969, quoted in ibid., p. 391
10 Jonathan Dimbleby, The Prince of Wales, Little, Brown, 1994, p. 163
11 Queen Elizabeth to Lord Snowdon, 8 July 1969, Snowdon Papers
12 Prochaska, Royal Bounty, pp. 255–6
13 Prince Philip interview with NBC Television, 10 November 1969, quoted in Pimlott, p. 394
14 Pimlott, p. 402
15 Ibid., pp. 402–6
16 Hansard, Civil List debate, 14 December 1971, columns 278–400
17 Queen Elizabeth to Lord Snowdon, 16 December 1971, Snowdon Papers
18 Pimlott, pp. 409–10
19 Campbell-Preston, pp. 307–8
20 Terence Rattigan to Queen Elizabeth, 5 December 1971, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
21 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 24 February 1979, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
22 Private letter from the Prince of Wales, 11/12 March 1970, quoted in Dimbleby, p. 215
23 Dimbleby, p. 215
24 Author’s interview with Lord Fellowes
25 The Times, 29 May 1972, quoted in Pimlott, p. 408
26 Longford, Queen Mother, pp. 162–4
27 Author’s interview with Dame Frances Campbell-Preston
28 Queen Elizabeth to Lady Salisbury, 27 June 1972, Hatfield House, Papers of Elizabeth, Marchioness of Salisbury
29 Information from Lucy Murphy
30 Mrs Barnard to Queen Elizabeth, 16 May 1986, RA QEQMH/PS/GEN/1986/Barnard; Longford, Queen Mother, pp. 162–4
31 Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RA QEQM/ADD/MISC
32 Rose, Kings, Queens and Courtiers, p. 191
33 Author’s interview with Lady Penn
34 Author’s interview with Viscount Linley
35 Ibid.
36 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 29 August 1978, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
37 Author’s interview with Viscount Linley
38 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 6 February 1981, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
39 Ibid.
40 Sir Nicholas Henderson to Anthony Crosland (copy), 3 November 1976, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1976/FRA
41 Author’s interview with Lord Charteris, quoted in Shawcross, p. 117
42 Author’s interview with Lady Susan Hussey, quoted in ibid.
43 Lady in waiting’s diary, 7 June 1977, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW
44 Author’s interview with Lady Thurso
45 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 24 February 1979, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
46 Lady Jay, speech, Hansard, 13 July 2000
47 Ron Todd to Queen Elizabeth, 3 April 1986, RA QEQMH/PS/GEN/1986/Todd
48 Queen Elizabeth to Sir Martin Gilliat, n.d. [April 1986], RA QEQMH/PS/GEN/1986/Todd
49 Interview with Colonel Bruce Bolton, former Commanding Officer, Black Watch of Canada, on behalf of the author
50 Lady in waiting’s diary, 30 June 1979, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW
51 Interview with David Willmot on behalf of the author
52 Lady in waiting’s diary, 2 July 1979, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW
53 Kenneth Rose to Queen Elizabeth, 17 July 1995, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
54 Lady in waiting’s diary, 27 August 1979, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW
55 Dimbleby, p. 324
56 Margaret Thatcher to Queen Elizabeth, 10 September 1979, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
57 Ibid.
58 Prochaska, Royal Bounty, p. 256
59 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 25 June 1979, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
60 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 3 February 1980, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
61 Queen Elizabeth to Cecil Boyd-Rochfort, 11 July 1980, RA QEQM/OUT/BOYD-ROCHFORT
62 Author’s interview with Margaret Vyner
63 Author’s interview with Lady Strathmore
64 Queen Elizabeth to Sir Alan Lascelles, 18 October 1980, CAC LASL 2/2/24
65 Author’s interview with Ashe Windham
66 Sir Martin Gilliat to the Dean of St Albans, 14 May 1980, RA QEQMH/PS/GEN/1980/St Albans
67 Frances Campbell-Preston to J. D. Marston, 28 July 1980, RA QEQMH/PS/GEN/1980/Gladiolus
68 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 23 June 1980, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
69 Sir John Betjeman to Sir Martin Gilliat, 14, 15 and 22 July 1980, and Sir Martin Gilliat to Sir John Betjeman, 21 July 1980, RA QEQMH/PS/GEN/1980/Betjeman
70 Prince of Wales to Queen Elizabeth, 16 July 1980, Clarence House Archives
71 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 22 October 1980, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
72 Information from Lucy Murphy
73 Prince of Wales to Queen Elizabeth, 6 August 1980, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
74 Ibid.
75 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 5 August 1980, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
76 Queen Elizabeth II to Queen Elizabeth, 7 August 1980, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
77 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 3 September 1982, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
78 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 29 August 1977, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
79 Prince of Wales to Queen Elizabeth, 30 March 1980, Clarence House Archives
80 Lady Diana Sp
encer to Queen Elizabeth, 3 March 1981, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
81 Dimbleby, p. 343
82 Prince of Wales to Queen Elizabeth, 18 March 1981, Clarence House Archives
83 Prince of Wales to Queen Elizabeth, 18 May 1981, Clarence House Archives
84 Prince of Wales to Queen Elizabeth, 18 April 1981, Clarence House Archives
85 Author’s interview with Lieutenant Colonel Sir John Johnston
86 Dame Frances Campbell-Preston, private diary
87 Ibid.
88 Princess of Wales to Queen Elizabeth, 30 July 1981, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
TWENTY-THREE: POETRY AND PAIN 1981–1999
1 ‘A Masque for Three Voices’ was first published in the Weekend Telegraph, 4 August 1990. The holograph presentation copy is in the Royal Library (RCIN 1165090)
2 Ted Hughes, Collected Poems, Faber & Faber, 2003, Appendix One, pp. 1219–22
3 Queen Elizabeth to Ted Hughes, 18 August 1990, RA QEII/OUT/HUGHES
4 Dame Frances Campbell-Preston, The Times, 27 February 2008
5 Queen Elizabeth to Lady Diana Cooper, 28 March 1981, Diana Cooper Papers, Eton College Library
6 James Lees-Milne, Deep Romantic Chasm: Diaries 1979–1981, ed. Michael Bloch, John Murray, 2000, p. 132
7 Lees-Milne, Holy Dread 1982–1984, 3 August 1983
8 Ibid., 15 July 1984
9 Penelope Mortimer, Queen Elizabeth: A Life of the Queen Mother, Viking, 1986, pp. 259, 267
10 Rev. Professor Owen Chadwick to Queen Elizabeth, 23 October 1986, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
11 Ted Hughes to Queen Elizabeth, 6 March 1988, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Hughes
12 Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RA QEQM/ADD/MISC
13 Ted Hughes to Gerald Hughes, 18 May 1991, Ted Hughes Papers, Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library, Emory University
14 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 4 May 1982, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
15 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 18 October 1982, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
16 Margaret Thatcher to Queen Elizabeth, 23 November 1982, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL; Queen Elizabeth to Lord Snowdon, 10 December 1982, Snowdon Papers
17 Lady in waiting’s diary, 17 March 1983, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW
18 Courtney A. Laws to Sir Martin Gilliat, 6 May 1983, RA QEQMH/PS/ENGT/1983: 20 April
19 Lieutenant General Sir Robert Richardson to Sir Martin Gilliat, 24 June 1983, RA QEQMH/PS/ENGT/1983: 20 June
20 Lady in waiting’s diary, 2 August 1984, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW