10 January 1954: RA QEII/PRIV/RF
10 March 1954: RA QEII/PRIV/RF
28 March 1954: RA QEII/PRIV/RF
26 August 1954: RA QEII/PRIV/RF
13 September 1954: Penn Papers
26 September 1954: Hatfield House, Papers of Elizabeth, Marchioness of Salisbury
5 November 1954: RA QEII/PRIV/RF
13 November 1954: Linley/Chatto Papers
17 January 1955: CAC, LASL 2/2/20
9 September 1955: Linley/Chatto Papers
11 October 1955: Linley/Chatto Papers
29 October 1955: Bowes Lyon Papers (SPW)
23 January 1956: RA QEII/PRIV/RF
7 February 1956: RA QEII/PRIV/RF
28 March 1956: Cazalet Papers
12 April 1956: RA QEII/PRIV/RF
14 October 1956: RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE
14 January 1957: Sitwell Archives (Renishaw)
28 January 1957: RA QEII/PRIV/RF
1 July 1957: Clark Papers
9 February 1958: RA QEII/PRIV/RF
18 February 1958: RA QEII/PRIV/RF
18 February 1958: RA QEQM/OUT/BOYD-ROCHFORT
22 February 1958: Linley/Chatto Papers
1 March 1958: RA QEII/PRIV/RF
3 June 1958: RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE
5 June 1958: RA QEQM/OUT/BOYD-ROCHFORT
24 July 1958: Linley/Chatto Papers
30 January 1959: RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE
21 February 1959: Linley/Chatto Papers
14 April 1959: RA QEQM/OUT/BOYD-ROCHFORT
12 October 1959: Cazalet Papers
23 March 1960: Hatfield House, Papers of Elizabeth, Marchioness of Salisbury
7 May 1960: The Duke of Edinburgh, Personal Archives, Buckingham Palace
22 May 1960: Linley/Chatto Papers
25 August 1960: RA QEII/PRIV/RF
17 February 1961: RA QEII/PRIV/RF
7 April 1961: Penn Papers
23 May 1961: RA QEII/PRIV/RF
20 June 1961: RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE
20 August 1961: RA QEQM/OUT/BOYD-ROCHFORT
19 September 1961: RA QEII/PRIV/RF
20 September 1961: RA QEQM/OUT/MISC
10 November 1961: RA QEII/PRIV/RF
13 February 1962: RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE
1 August 1962: Bowes Lyon Papers (SPW)
7 February 1963: RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE
27 October 1963: Beaton Papers, by permission of the Masters and Fellows of John’s College, Cambridge
27 December 1963: RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE
31 December 1963: Sitwell Archives (Renishaw)
11 February 1964: Clarence House Archives
19 February 1964: The Duke of Edinburgh, Personal Archives, Buckingham Palace
20 February 1964: Beaton Papers, by permission of the Masters and Fellows of St John’s College, Cambridge
28 March 1964: Linley/Chatto Papers
16 August 1964: Linley/Chatto Papers
11 January 1965: RA QEQMH/GEN/1971/P
29 June 1965: the letters of noël coward, edited by barry day, methuen/drama 2007, p. 726
26 February 1966: Clarence House Archives
10 April 1966: Cazalet Papers
21 April 1966: Snowdon Papers
9 May 1966: Ballantrae Papers, NLS Acc 9259/109
10 July 1966: Clarence House Archives
15 August 1966: Red House Archives, Aldeburgh
15 December 1966: Clarence House Archives
7 August 1967: Clarence House Archives
3 April 1968: RA QEQM/OUT/BOYD-ROCHFORT
6 June 1968: RA QEQMH/GEN/1968/H–K
26 December 1968: RA QEQM/OUT/SITWELL
11 May 1969: Clarence House Archives
8 July 1969: Snowdon Papers
4 December 1969: The Duke of Edinburgh, Personal Archives, Buckingham Palace
12 February 1970: Eton College Library, Diana Cooper Papers
10 August 1970: Red House Archives, Aldeburgh
14 August 1970: Clarence House Archives
7 February 1971: Harbottle Papers
18 June 1971: Penn Papers
3 October 1971: Clarence House Archives
3 December 1971: Clarence House Archives
16 December 1971: Snowdon Papers
undated [29 April 1972]: RA QEQMH/GEN/1972/N–Q
20 May 1972: Clarence House Archives
5 July 1972: Ballantrae Papers, NLS Acc 9259/109
17 July 1972: Bowes Lyon Papers (SPW)
17 August 1972: The Duke of Edinburgh, Personal Archives, Buckingham Palace
6 March 1973: Snowdon Papers
27 June 1973: Cazalet Papers
29 June 1973: Clarence House Archives
14 December 1973: Red House Archives, Aldeburgh
20 February 1974: Red House Archives, Aldeburgh
4 June 1974: RA QEQM/OUT/BETJEMAN
14 July 1974: Clark Papers
18 August 1974: RA QEQM/OUT/ANST
4 Mar 1975: RA QEQM/OUT/BOYD-ROCHFORT
23 May 1975: Clarence House Archives
1 July 1975: Red House Archives, Aldeburgh
14 August 1975: RA QEII/PRIV/RF
18 August 1975: Red House Archives, Aldeburgh
1 September 1975: RA QEII/PRIV/RF
19 September 1975: The Duke of Edinburgh, Personal Archives, Buckingham Palace
24 November 1975: RA QEQM/OUT/PAUY
25 November 1975: Clarence House Archives
19 February 1976: Walwyn Papers
25 April 1976: RA QEII/PRIV/RF
23 September 1976: Stark Papers, John Murray Archive, Albemarle Street
2 November 1976: Clarence House Archives
11 June 1977: The Duke of Edinburgh, Personal Archives, Buckingham Palace
29 August 1977: RA QEII/PRIV/RF
2 November 1977: Collection of Anthony Russell-Roberts
26 August 1978: Clarence House Archives
23 September 1978: Farrell Papers
30 December 1978: Hugo Vickers Collection
4 February 1979: RA QEII/PRIV/RF
24 February 1979: RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
25 February 1979: Linley/Chatto Papers
15 August 1979: Farrell Papers
26 April 1980: RA QEII/PRIV/RF
22 May 1980: Clarence House Archives
5 August 1980: RA QEII/PRIV/RF
5 August 1980: Linley/Chatto Papers
22 October 1980: RA QEII/PRIV/RF
28 March 1981: Eton College Library, Diana Cooper Papers
17 May 1981: RA QEQM/OUT/ANST
21 May 1981: Farrell Papers
20 October 1981: Snowdon Papers
23 July 1982: Parker Bowles Papers
5 August 1982: Clarence House Archives
18 October 1982: RA QEII/PRIV/RF
3 December 1982: Walwyn Papers
8 January 1983: Cazalet Papers
17 February 1983: Hugo Vickers Collection
28 February 1983: RA QEII/PRIV/RF
19 April 1983: Clarence House Archives
18 September 1983: Walwyn Papers
19 November 1983: RA QEII/PRIV/RF
1 March 1984: The Duke of Edinburgh, Personal Archives, Buckingham Palace
6 August 1984: Clarence House Archives
3 October 1984: RA QEII/PRIV/RF
6 February 1985: RA QEII/PRIV/RF
22 March 1986: H. C. Knight Letters
10 April 1986: RA QEII/PRIV/RF
28 June 1986: Woods Papers
2 May 1988: RA QEII/PRIV/RF
3 June 1988: RA QEQMH/PS/SPE
19 July 1988: Bowes Lyon Papers (SPW)
10 September 1988: Cazalet Papers
24 September 1988: Clarence House Archives
26 December 1988: Clarence House Archives
11 February 1989: Windham Papers
11 February 1989: Stark Papers, John Murray Archive, Albemarle Street
24 June 1989: Acland Papers
5 September 1989: RA QEII/PRIV/RF
30 Decemb
er 1989: Sir John Johnston Collection
13 April 1990: The Duke of Edinburgh, Personal Archives, Buckingham Palace
4 August 1990: Clarence House Archives
18 August 1990: RA QEII/OUT/HUGHES
27 April 1991: Snowdon Papers
12 July 1991: Wyatt Papers
25 January 1992: RA QEII/OUT/HUGHES
5 February 1992: RA QEII/PRIV/RF
22 February 1992: RA QEQM/OUT/MISC
5 June 1992: RA QEII/OUT/HUGHES
3 February 1993: RA QEII/PRIV/RF
21 April 1993: The Duke of Edinburgh, Personal Archives, Buckingham Palace
21 June 1993: RA QEII/PRIV/RF
18 July 1993: RA QEII/OUT/HUGHES
14 August 1994: Wyatt Papers
10 October 1994: RA CPW/OUT/HUGHES
19 October 1994: Crawford/Phipps Papers
10 June 1995: RA CPW/OUT/HUGHES
18 August 1995: RA CPW/OUT/HUGHES
29 January 1996: Bowes Lyon Papers (SPW)
9 February 1996: French Papers
10 June 1996: The Duke of Edinburgh, Personal Archives, Buckingham Palace
2 September 1996: RA QEII/PRIV/RF
7 January 1997: Slater Papers
15 February 1997: RA CPW/OUT/HUGHES
3 May 1997: RA QEII/PRIV/RF
26 June 1997: Acland Papers
7 February 1999: Harbottle Papers
29 August 2000: RA QEQM/OUT/SHAKERLEY
21 October 2000: Crawford/Phipps Papers
December 2000: Courtesy of Sir Michael Peat
4 June 2001: Farrell Papers
5 July 2001: Ogilvy Papers
August 2001: Clarence House Archives
INDEX
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Names of correspondents are shown in CAPITALS; numbers in bold indicate the first page of a letter to a correspondent.
The abbreviation QE refers to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother; GVI to King George VI, earlier Prince Albert and Duke of York; EVIII to King Edward VIII, earlier Prince of Wales, and DW to Edward VIII as Duke of Windsor. Ranks and titles are generally the highest mentioned in the text.
Abdication (1936), 77, 230–1
Abdulla of Hejaz, Crown Prince of Iraq, 417 & n
Abercrombie, James, Snr, 221, 247 & n
Abercrombie, James, Jr, 247n
Abercromby, Diamond (née Hardinge), 91n, 100; death, 153
Aberdare, 3rd Baron see Bruce, Clarence
Aberdeen: opening of new hospital, 220; bombed in war, 307
Abergeldie, 278
Aberystwyth University, 539 & n
Abyssinia: and Hoare–Laval pact, 213–14n
ACLAND, SIR ANTONY, 596, 615
Adeane, Michael, Baron, 471 & n, 480
Aden, 132–3
Africa: change in, 506–7; QE on disadvantages, 511
Ainley, Henry, 24 & n, 25–6, 29, 31, 34–5, 40
Aird, Captain Sir Alastair, 555 & n
Airlie, Blanche, Dowager Countess of, 32, 36
Airlie, David Wolseley Ogilvy, 9th Earl of, 11, 21 & n
Airlie, Mabell, Countess of: at Cortachy Castle, 11n, 21 & n; and QE’s visit to Blanche Airlie, 32 & n; and Glamis Castle fire, 41; as confidante in QE–GVI romance, 102–3, 108; entertains Clynes, 177
‘Alah’ see Knight, Clara Cooper
Albemarle, Judith, Countess of (née Wynn-Carrington; then Viscountess Bury), 33 & n
Albert, Prince, Duke of York see George VI, King
Aldeburgh Festival, 552, 558
Alexander, General Sir Harold (later Field Marshal 1st Earl), 351, 369–70
Alexander, King of Yugoslavia, 100n, 122n, 123–5
ALEXANDRA, PRINCESS, 618; 303, 324, 367, 418, 477
Alexandra, Queen of Edward VII, 34, 97n; death, 149n
All Souls, Oxford: QE visits (2001), 619
Althorp, Northamptonshire, 427
Amery, Julian, 419
Anderson, Eric: conversations with QE, 3, 13, 14, 16, 20, 21, 23, 26, 42, 103, 122, 203, 230, 258n, 312, 358n, 391n, 402n
Anderson, Rev. Hector, 404 & n, 477
Anderson, Mabel, 433 & n, 437, 443, 479, 531
Anderson, Major, 133–4
Andrei Alexandrovich and Elisabetta, Prince and Princess of Russia, see Russia, Andrei Alexandrovich and Elisabetta, Prince and Princess of
Andrej, Prince of Yugoslavia, see Yugoslavia, Andrej, Prince of
Andrew, Prince see York, Prince Andrew, Duke of
Andrew, Princess of Greece (Prince Philip’s mother; Alice) see Greece, Alice, Princess Andrew of
Annaly, Lavinia, Lady (née Lady Lavinia Spencer), 25 & n, 32–3, 37, 53, 81, 137–8
Annaly, Luke White, 4th Baron, 25n
Anne, Princess Royal: birth, 245, 430n; infancy, 432–3, 437; and parents’ absence abroad, 441, 482; divorce, 453; at Royal Lodge as child, 475; at Sandringham, 476–7, 479; attends chapel as child, 482; unwell, 513; as Counsellor of State, 551, 583; marriage and children with Mark Phillips, 566n; remarries (Timothy Laurence), 566n
Annigoni, Pietro, 519n
ANSTRUTHER, SIR RALPH, 554, 577; 52n, 593; arranges QE’s visits to France, 577n
Appleton House, Sandringham estate, 302, 304, 329
Apsley, Allen Algernon Bathurst, Lord, 79 & n
Arden, Elizabeth, 492
Argyll, Princess Louise, Duchess of, 286
Ark Royal, HMS (carrier), 427 & n, 620
Armistice Day celebrations (11 November), 565n
Armstrong-Jones, Lady Sarah see Chatto, Lady Sarah
Arthur, David, 115
ASHTON, SIR FREDERICK, OM, 567; 115; death, 593
Asolo, Italy, 595
Asquith, Lady Cynthia, 3
Astaire, Fred and Adele, 122, 591
Astley, Hester, 12
ASTOR, NANCY WITCHER, VISCOUNTESS, 309; party, 187; as appeaser, 309n
At the Villa Rose (film), 83
Athlone, Prince Alexander of Teck, Earl of, 587n
Athlone, Princess Alice, Countess of, 387, 572
atom bombs: dropped on Japan, 385
Attlee, Clement, 1st Earl, 391 & n, 397, 407
Attlee, Violet, Countess, 391 & n
Aureole (racehorse), 480 & n, 556
Auriol, Vincent, 425 & n
Australia: GVI opens new federal parliament (1927), 75; QE and GVI tour (1927), 150–2, 155, 158–60; politics, 158–9, 161; GVI cancels trip (1948), 409; Prince Charles in, 530, 535; QE visits (1958), 498–503; (1966), 530n, 532; Elizabeth II tours (1982), 580n; Charles and Diana visit (1983), 583–4
Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS), 379 & n
Ayre, Pat, 133, 136
Badminton House, Gloucestershire, 316, 333–4, 355
Bagshawe, Vivian, 876
Baillie, Victor Cochrane (later 3rd Baron Lamington), 56 & n, 61, 84
Baldwin, Stanley (later 1st Earl): and abdication crisis, 77, 224n, 229, 243; and Hoare–Laval Pact, 213–14
Balfour, Archibald, 52
Balfour, Arthur James, 1st Earl, 143 & n
Balfour, Captain Charles Barrington, 16n
Balfour, Lady Helena (née McDonnell; ‘Nina’), 16, 57, 107, 508
Bali H’ai (racehorse), 498, 500, 504, 506, 508, 516, 518
Ballantrae, Laura, Lady (née Grenfell), 533–4 & n
BALLANTRAE, SIR BERNARD FERGUSSON, BARON, 533, 548; ennobled, 548
Balmoral: QE visits as Duchess, 74, 121, 130; EVIII’s changes, 221n; QE occupies and visits as Queen, 247–8, 408, 430; Second World War evacuees at, 278; QE visits in wartime, 315; QE visits as Queen Mother, 483, 512, 560, 613; QE’s fondness for, 565
Barrogill Castle see Mey, Castle of
Barson, Arthur, 30 & n, 36, 38, 62, 91, 116
Basset, Lady Eizabeth, 610 & n
Bateman, H.M., 123 & n
Batterbee, Sir Harry, 156
&n
bsp; Battersea Power Station, 170
BEATON, (SIR) CECIL, 522, 526; portrait photographs of QE, 280 & n, 310
Beatrice, Princess (daughter of Prince Andrew, Duke of York), 589n
Beatrix, Queen of the Netherlands, 407n
Beatty, Admiral David, 1st Earl, 28
Beaufort, Mary, Duchess of, 187n, 208 & n, 316n
Beautiful One (Red Cross chauffeur), 24
Beaverbrook, Marcia, Lady, 556
Beaverbrook, William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron, 174 & n, 196, 229
Bedford, John Robert Russell, 13th Duke of, 524 & n
Beecham, Sir Thomas, 38
Beerbohm, Sir Max, 201 & n
BEEVERS, ANNE, 145, 148, 172, 186, 192, 388; QE and friends buy annuity for, 388
Bel Ambre (racehorse), 532
Belgium: QE visits, 162
Belgrade, 122–5
Bell, Misses, 501
Belloc, Hilaire: Ballade of Illegal Ornaments, 205 & n
Benson, Rex, 79
Berlin: QE visits, 166
Bernhard, Prince of the Netherlands, 407 & n
BETJEMAN, SIR JOHN, 553; gives poem to QE, 553 & n
Beveridge Report (1942), 342 & n
Biddlecombe, Terry, 588n
Biddulph, Adelaide Mary, 52n, 64
Biddulph, Michael, 52
Bigge, Arthur John see Stamfordham, 1st Baron
Birkhall (house), Balmoral estate, 168 & n, 194, 222, 404, 461, 504, 522, 535, 548, 619
Birley, Sir Oswald, 227 & n
Birtwhistle, Misses (schoolteachers), 6
Black, Sister Catherine, 212
Blackburn, Robert Francis Leslie, Lord and Lady Constance Frances (née Bowes Lyon), 139 & n
Blackie, Dr Marjorie, 184n
Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, 551
Blunt, Anthony, 402 & n, 426
‘Bobo’ see McDonald, Margaret
Bodley, Ava, see Waverley, Ava, Viscountess
Bonham Carter, Mark (later Baron), 359 & n
Bonham Carter, Lady Violet (née Asquith; later Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury), 359;34
Bordighera, Italy, 8
Bourguiba, Habib, 576
Boussac, Marcel, 520
Bowes Lyon, Alexander (Alec; QE’s brother): birth, 3; injury and death, 11–12 & n
Bowes Lyon, Anne (John–Neva’s daughter), 119; death and funeral, 508 & n
Bowes Lyon, Caroline (Simon’s wife), 518n, 548
Bowes Lyon, Lady Christian (née Dawson-Damer; Fergus’s wife), 26 & n
BOWES LYON, DAVID (QE’s brother), 20, 21, 323, 339, 354, 374, 376; birth, 3; schooling, 6, 17, 21, 31, 33, 37, 45, 83; at St Paul’s Walden Bury, 12–14, 116; in Italy, 19; QE’s fondness for, 28–9; ill health, 33; and Glamis fire, 41; shooting, 41; at Glamis in war, 50; in London, 50–1; advises QE to be more flirtatious, 51; and Mike’s return from prison camp, 63; at QE’s wedding, 119; activities in Second World War, 299; posted to Washington in war, 323 & n; misses father’s death and funeral, 374, 376; comforts QE, 441; QE visits, 490; death, 518 & n, 567
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