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21 Author’s interview with Dame Frances Campbell-Preston, 5 February 2004; Lady in waiting’s diary, 16 July 1985, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW
22 Prince of Wales to Queen Elizabeth, 8 August 1985, Clarence House Archives
23 Lady in waiting’s diary, 16 August 1986, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW
24 Prince of Wales to Queen Elizabeth, 19 August 1986, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
25 Queen Elizabeth to Lady Katharine Farrell, 15 November 1986, Farrell Papers
26 Lady in waiting’s diary, 5 June 1987, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW
27 Interview with Colonel Victor Chartier on behalf of the author
28 Interviews with Colonel Victor Chartier and Harris Boyd on behalf of the author
29 Interview with Mrs Tom Price on behalf of the author
30 Interview with Jean Paul Roy on behalf of the author
31 Lady in waiting’s diary, 5 July 1989, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW
32 Ibid., 6 July 1989
33 Interview with David Willmot on behalf of the author
34 Lady in waiting’s diary, 10 July 1989, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW
35 Interview with Harris Boyd on behalf of the author
36 Interview with Michael Parker on behalf of the author
37 Princess Margaret to Queen Elizabeth II, 28 June 1990, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
38 Ibid.
39 Queen Elizabeth, speech to Sandringham Women’s Institute, 15 January 1991, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Sandringham WI
40 Lady in waiting’s diary, 3 August 1990, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW
41 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 5 February 1992, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
42 Lady in waiting’s diary, 25 March 1992, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW
43 Ted Hughes to Queen Elizabeth, 20 May 1992, RA QEQMH/PS/GEN/1992/Hughes
44 Ted Hughes, ‘The Picnic’, RA QEQMH/PS/GEN/1992/Hughes
45 Queen Elizabeth to Ted Hughes, 5 June 1992, RA QEII/OUT/HUGHES
46 Lady in waiting’s diary, 12 April 1983, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW
47 Sir John Grandy to Queen Elizabeth, 1 June 1992, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
48 Pimlott, p. 521
49 Donald Trelford, ‘Why Princess Anne horsewhipped the Press’, Observer, 21 September 1986
50 Quoted in Shawcross, p. 169
51 Princess of Wales to Queen Elizabeth, 19 May 1983, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
52 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 10 April 1986, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
53 Princess Margaret to Queen Elizabeth II, 21 January 1992, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
54 Queen Elizabeth to Ted Hughes, 25 January 1992, RA QEQM/OUT/HUGHES
55 Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RA QEQM/ADD/MISC
56 Duke of Edinburgh to Princess of Wales, 7 July 1992, Princess of Wales to Duke of Edinburgh, 12 July 1992, published in Daily Telegraph, 17 December 2007
57 Princess Margaret to Queen Elizabeth II, 18 September 1992, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
58 Queen Elizabeth II to Queen Elizabeth, 1 December 1992, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
59 Author’s interview with Lord Fellowes
60 Pimlott, pp. 558–61
61 Prince of Wales to Queen Elizabeth, 7 December 1992, Clarence House Archives
62 Lady in waiting’s diary, 9 December 1992, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW
63 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 3 February 1993, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
64 Prince of Wales to Queen Elizabeth, 18 March 1993, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
65 Memorial Address, St Martin in the Fields, 8 July 1993
66 Ted Hughes to Queen Elizabeth, 11 July 1993, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Hughes
67 Queen Elizabeth II to Queen Elizabeth, 27 May 1993, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
68 Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RA QEQM/ADD/MISC
69 Author’s interview with Andrew Festing
70 Queen Elizabeth II to Queen Elizabeth, 27 May 1993, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
71 Author’s interview with Sir Alastair Aird
72 Mary Roche to Queen Elizabeth, 16 July 1993, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
73 Queen Elizabeth to Ted Hughes, 18 July 1993, RA QEII/OUT/HUGHES
74 Ibid.
75 Queen Elizabeth to Ted Hughes, 10 June 1995, RA CPW/OUT/HUGHES
76 Author’s interview with Lord Janvrin
77 Queen Elizabeth II to Queen Elizabeth, 24 June 1993, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
78 Queen Elizabeth to Lady Katharine Farrell, n.d. [May] 1993, Farrell Papers
79 Princess Margaret to Queen Elizabeth, 12 October 1993, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
80 Ibid.
81 Princess Margaret to Queen Elizabeth, 13 October 1993, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
82 Author’s interview with Lady Penn
83 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 7 February 1994, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
84 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 28 February 1994, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
85 Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RA QEQM/ADD/MISC
86 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 6 February 1996, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
87 Ted Hughes to Queen Elizabeth, 19 May 1994, RA QEQMH/PS/GEN/1994/Hughes
88 Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RA QEQM/ADD/MISC
89 Author’s interview with Peter Ord
90 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 4 February 1995, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
91 Hansard, 11 July 2000
92 Queen Elizabeth to Lady Katharine Farrell, 29 May 1995, Farrell Papers
93 Queen Elizabeth’s speech, 6 May 1995, RA QEQMH/PS/ENGT/1995
94 Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RA QEQM/ADD/MISC
95 Ibid.
96 Queen Elizabeth to Ted Hughes, 18 August 1995, RA CPW/OUT/HUGHES
97 Author’s interview with Roger Vickers
98 Queen Elizabeth to Simon Bowes Lyon, 29 January 1996, Bowes Lyon Papers, SPW
99 Queen Elizabeth to Rev. Anthony Harbottle, 6 February 1982, Harbottle Papers
100 Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord St John of Fawsley, Hansard, 13 July 2000
101 Lady Elizabeth Basset, ‘Living Her Faith’, June 1990, RA QEQMH/PS/PRIV
102 Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RA QEQM/ADD/MISC
103 Robert Ford to Sir Alastair Aird, 5 August 1996, RA QEQMH/PS/GEN/1996/Dalai Lama
104 Pico Iyer to author, 2 October 2008
105 Ted Hughes, ‘Christmas Card Rhymes, The Day of the Sandringham Flower Show’, 22 December 1996, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Hughes; typescripts in Royal Library, RCIN 1165092–3
106 Queen Elizabeth to Ted Hughes, 15 February 1997, RA CPW/OUT/HUGHES
107 Ted Hughes to Queen Elizabeth, 1 June 1997, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Hughes
108 Prince of Wales to Queen Elizabeth, 5 August 1997, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
109 Ibid.
110 Castle of Mey Visitors Book
111 Princess Margaret to Queen Elizabeth II, 14 September 1997, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
112 Bogdanor, passim; Shawcross, p. 214
113 Rowan Williams, Lost Icons: Reflections on Cultural Bereavement, T. & T. Clark, 2000, pp. 65–6
114 Author’s interview with Dr Ian Campbell
115 Ted Hughes to Queen Elizabeth, 1 June 1997, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Hughes
116 Ted Hughes to Queen Elizabeth, 26 May 1998, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Hughes
117 Queen Elizabeth’s copy of Birthday Letters, dedicated by Ted Hughes, 15 May 1998, RCIN 1167528
118 Lady Penn, diary, Penn Papers
119 Ted Hughes to Queen Elizabeth, 26 May 1998, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Hughes
120 Ted Hughes to Hilda Farrer, 19 October 1998, Letters of Ted Hughes, ed. Christopher Reid, Faber & Faber, 2007, pp. 736–7
121 Carol Hughes to Queen Elizabeth, 18 November 1998, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Hughes
TWENTY-FOUR: CENTENARIAN 1999–2002
1 Note by Sir Hugh Roberts, ‘Tea at Royal Lodge’, 20 February 1999
2 Ibid.
3 Queen Elizabeth to Lady Katharine Farrell, 26 January 1999, Farrell Papers
4 Queen Elizabeth to Lady Katharine Farrell, 12 May 1999, Farrell Papers
5 Author’s interview with Sir Michael Oswald
6 Tom Stoppard to Queen Elizabeth, 18 June 1999, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
7 Rev. Anthony Harbottle to Queen Elizabeth, 3 February 2000; Queen Elizabeth to Rev. Anthony Harbottle, 7 February 2000, Harbottle Papers
8 Lady Angela Oswald, diary compiled for the author
9 Ibid.
10 Hansard, 3 April 2002
11 Hansard, 11 July 2000
12 Interview with Sir Michael Parker on behalf of the author
13 Ibid.
14 Queen Elizabeth to Major Michael Parker, 2 August 2000, Michael Parker Papers
15 Queen Fabiola to Queen Elizabeth, 29 July 2000, RA QEQM/PRIV/FORRF
16 Andrew Motion to Sir Alastair Aird, 13 August 2000, RA QEQMH/PS/GEN/2000/Motion
17 Campbell-Preston, p. 309
18 Prince of Wales to Queen Elizabeth, 6 August 2000, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
19 Elizabeth Basset, Moments of Vision, Ledburn Press, 2004, p. 140
20 Author’s interview with Lady Angela Oswald
21 Sermon preached by the Rev. John Robson LVO, Chaplain of the Savoy Chapel, Sunday 7 April 2002
22 Prince of Wales to Queen Elizabeth, 29 July 2001, Clarence House Archives
23 Lady Angela Oswald, diary compiled for the author
24 Author’s interview with Lucy Murphy
25 Prince of Wales to Queen Elizabeth, 8 August 2001, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
26 Author’s interview with Mrs Timmy Munro
27 Prince of Wales to Queen Elizabeth, 8 September 2001, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
28 RA QEQMH/PS/ENGTPRIV/2001: 11 October
29 Author’s interview with Charlie Wright
30 Author’s interview with the Duke of Kent
31 Navy News, 27 November 2001
32 Rev. Robert Beaken to Queen Elizabeth, 4 December 2001, RA QEQMH/PS/GEN/2001/Beaken; Sir Alastair Aird to Mrs Coryne Hall, 4 December 2001, RA QEQMH/PS/GEN/2001/Hall
33 Author’s interview with Sir Michael Oswald
34 Campbell-Preston, pp. 309–10
35 Author’s interview with Leslie Chappell and Jacqui Meakin
36 Prince of Wales to Queen Elizabeth, 12 February 2002, Clarence House Archives
37 Lady Angela Oswald to author, 14 May 2009
38 Author’s interview with Gillian Frampton
39 Sir Alastair Aird, account of the last days of Queen Elizabeth, RA QEQM/ADD/MISC
40 Author’s interview with Canon Ovenden; The Oxford Book of Prayer, ed. George Appleton, Oxford University Press, 1985, p. 101
41 In Tearing Haste: Letters between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor, ed. Charlotte Mosley, John Murray, 2008, p. 332
42 Author’s interview with lady in waiting
43 Guardian, 2 April 2002
44 Daily Telegraph, 9 April 2002
EPILOGUE
1 J. M. Roberts, Twentieth Century, Allen Lane, 1999, pp. 848–56
2 The Queen to Most Rev. Cosmo Lang, 12 December 1936, Lambeth Palace Library, Lang Papers 318, ff. 177–80
3 Nicolson, Diaries and Letters 1930–1939, p. 405
4 The Queen to Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, 2 October 1939, copy enclosed with letter from Prince of Wales to Queen Elizabeth, 1 September 2000, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
5 John Wheeler-Bennett, draft obituary of Queen Elizabeth for The Times, October 1967, RA AEC/GG/20
6 Duchess of York to D’Arcy Osborne, 13 July 1928, RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE
7 Most Rev. Cosmo Lang to Queen Elizabeth, 5 September 1939, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Lang
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Duff Cooper Papers, Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge
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Hickleton Papers (papers of Earls of Halifax), Borthwick Institute, University of York
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Lloyd Papers, Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge
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Royal Archives, Windsor Castle
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