Elizabeth the Queen
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20. “to appeal to de Gaulle’s sense of grandeur”: Ibid., p. 223.
21. “well informed about everything”: Charles de Gaulle, Memoirs of Hope: Renewal and Endeavor, p. 235.
22. “Only Rose Kennedy came into the room”: Brian Mulroney, Memoirs, p. 326.
23. “eaten into [JFK’s] soul”: Isaiah Berlin Oral History, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.
24. “the greatest man he ever met”: Ibid.
25. “young cocky Irishman”: Horne, p. 288.
26. “strange character … obstinate, sensitive, ruthless”: Ibid., pp. 281–82.
27. “We seemed to be able (when alone)”: Harold Macmillan to Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Feb. 18, 1964, Harold Macmillan Archive, Bodleian Library, Oxford University.
28. “surrounded himself with a large retinue”: Macmillan, Pointing the Way, p. 352.
29. “special relationship within”: Henry Brandon Oral History, Kennedy Library.
30. “professional statesman”: Raymond Seitz, Over Here, p. 41.
31. “completely overwhelmed”: Horne, p. 303.
32. “put on a good show”: Diaries of David Bruce, June 2, 1961.
33. “pretty heavy going”: Gore Vidal, Palimpsest: A Memoir, p. 372.
34. “they were all tremendously kind”: Cecil Beaton, Self Portrait with Friends, p. 341.
35. “the Queen was human only once”: Vidal, p. 372.
36. He had an Egyptian wife: David E. Lilienthal, The Journals of David E. Lilienthal, Vol. 4, The Road to Change, 1955–1959, p. 338.
37. “corrupt and tyrannical regime”: Gilbert, p. 1331.
38. “widespread uneasiness”: Ibid., p. 1330.
39. “her wish is to go”: Ibid., p. 1331.
40. “fainthearts in Parliament and the press”: Horne, p. 399.
41. “How silly I should look”: Longford, Elizabeth R, p. 320.
42. “the greatest Socialist monarch”: Horne, p. 399.
43. “fell for her”: Longford, Elizabeth R, p. 321.
44. “how muddled his views on the world”: Pimlott, p. 308, summarizing letter from Queen Elizabeth II to Henry Porchester, Nov. 24, 1961.
45. “I have risked my Queen”: Horne, p. 399.
46. “brave contribution”: Ibid.
47. This time Elizabeth II gave the American sisters: Diaries of David Bruce, March 28, 1962.
48. “It was a great pleasure”: Queen Elizabeth II to John F. Kennedy, May 20, 1962, Kennedy Library.
49. “the stuff he is made of”: Prince Philip, Selected Speeches, 1956–1959, pp. 134–35.
50. “prison sentence”: Dimbleby, p. 69.
51. “hell … especially at night”: Ibid., p. 78.
52. “an awful cloud came down”: David Ogilvy, the 13th Earl of Airlie, interview.
53. “She loves her duty”: Macmillan, Pointing the Way, p. 472.
54. “fashionable London call girl”: John F. Kennedy and Arthur Schlesinger, telephone recording transcript, March 22, 1963, Presidential Papers, Office Files, Presidential Recordings, Kennedy Library.
55. “political squalor”: Schlesinger to John F. Kennedy, “The British Political Situation,” March 25, 1963, W. Averell Harriman Papers, Library of Congress.
56. “grossly deceived”: Diaries of David Bruce, June 17, 1963.
57. “pitiable and extremely damaging”: Horne, p. 483, quoting Bruce cable to Dean Rusk, June 18, 1963.
58. “greatly undermined”: Diaries of David Bruce, June 15, 1963.
59. “deep regret at the development”: Harold Macmillan, At the End of the Day, 1961–1963, p. 445; Horne, p. 485.
60. “charmingly consoling letter”: Horne, p. 486.
61. The Palace approved: Charles Powell, Baron Powell of Bayswater, interview.
62. “in animated conversation”: Ibid.
63. “firm step, and those brightly shining eyes”: Macmillan, At the End of the Day, p. 515.
64. “there were in fact tears”: Horne, p. 565.
65. “seemed moved”: Macmillan, At the End of the Day, p. 515.
66. “the Queen asked for my advice”: Ibid.
67. “take his soundings”: Ibid., p. 516.
68. “magic circle”: Pimlott, p. 334.
69. “too remote”: Ibid., p. 332.
70. “excruciatingly amusing”: Diaries of David Bruce, July 20, 1961.
71. “taking women into a parliamentary embrace”: “The Life Peerages Act 1958: The passage of the Act,” lifepeeragesact.parliament.uk.
72. “friendly headmaster”: Lacey, Majesty, p. 260.
73. “guide and supporter”: Macmillan, At the End of the Day, p. 519. 165 “continue to take part in public life”: Ibid.
74. “It is almost incredible”: Diaries of David Bruce, Nov. 12, 1963.
75. “The unprecedented intensity”: Queen Elizabeth II speech at Runnymede, May 14, 1965, itnsource.com (Reuters TV).
76. She insisted on having: Diaries of David Bruce, Nov. 26, 1963, Nov. 28, 1963.
77. “generosity, sympathy and understanding”: Ibid., May 14, 1965.
78. “doom laden period”: Queen Elizabeth II speech at Runnymede, May 14, 1965, Itnsource.com (Reuters TV).
79. “wit and style”: Diaries of David Bruce, May 14, 1965.
80. “you share with me thoughts that lie too deep”: Ibid.
81. “immensely valuable”: Woodrow Wyatt, The Journals of Woodrow Wyatt, Vol. 1, edited by Sarah Curtis, p. 249.
82. “The Queen knew for years”: Ibid.
83. “I find that I can often put things out”: Turner, p. 57.
84. “She has a compartmentalized brain”: Margaret Rhodes interview.
85. “She talked of all sorts of things”: Diaries of David Bruce, April 28, 1964.
86. “She regards Windsor as her home”: Longford, Elizabeth R, p. 303.
87. “better than any dry cleaner in London”: Confidential interview.
88. “unnerving to be descended upon”: Strong, p. 220.
89. “It is always amusing to see”: Confidential interview.
90. the “Windsor Uniform”: John Martin Robinson, Windsor Castle: The Official Illustrated History, p. 81.
91. “I need to explain about the napkins”: Paxman, p. 121.
92. “The Queen told me it was all right”: Isabel Ernst interview.
93. “She never batted an eye”: Jean, Countess of Carnarvon, interview.
94. “The selections are to entertain”: Oliver Everett interview.
95. “It gives people something to talk about”: Jean Seaton interview.
96. “I suppose landscape is quite nice”: The Queen, by Rolf documentary.
97. “he experimented terribly”: Ibid.
98. “she was steered away from the unmade bed”: The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters, p. 798.
99. “Her assessment of a picture”: Bradford, p. 500.
100. “She is neither an art historian”: Oliver Everett interview.
101. “beauty in nature”: Pimlott, p. 544.
102. “refrain from offering presents”: Diaries of David Bruce, April 29, 1964.
103. “What surprised me”: Strong, p. 219.
104. “the Lord Chamberlain is commanded”: Author’s invitation for July 7, 2009.
105. When the Palace doors open: Author’s observations.
106. “drank her tea”: Confidential interview.
107. “standing talking quietly”: Beaton, The Unexpurgated Beaton, p. 259.
108. “I suppose”: Harold Wilson, Wikipedia.
109. “I got a bleak look”: Sir Michael Oswald interview.
110. “read all his telegrams”: Lacey, Majesty, p. 260.
111. “We have to work very hard”: Confidential interview.
112. “a bit touchy … uncomfortable”: Woodrow Wyatt, The Journals of Woodrow Wyatt, Vol. 3, edited by Sarah Curtis, p. 505.
113. “tamed him”: Vickers, Elizabeth the Queen Mother, p. 409.
114. �
��Harold was never a republican”: Marcia Williams, Baroness Falkender, interview.
115. “real ceremonies of the monarchy”: Shawcross, Q and C, p. 99.
116. “She started with Winston Churchill”: Mary Wilson, Lady Wilson of Rievaulx, interview.
117. “He was surprised that she used to sit”: Marcia Falkender interview.
EIGHT: Refuge in Routines
1. “Operation Hope Not”: John Pearson, The Private Lives of Winston Churchill, p. 400.
2. “It was entirely owing”: Mary Soames interview.
3. President Lyndon Johnson was supposed: Diaries of David Bruce, Jan. 25, 1965.
4. “living entity to be fostered”: Independent Television from London, “The State Funeral of Sir Winston Churchill,” narrated by Sir Laurence Olivier, Paul Scofield, and Joseph C. Harsch.
5. Johnson desperately pressed: Diaries of David Bruce, Jan. 27, 1965.
6. The president’s designated replacement: Ibid.
7. “a great maker of history”: Dwight D. Eisenhower remarks, Jan. 30, 1965, Winstonchurchill.org.
8. “acknowledge our debt of gratitude”: Gilbert, p. 1361.
9. who equipped it with rugs: Longford, Elizabeth R, p. 282.
10. “Waiving all custom and precedence”: Gilbert, p. 1362.
11. “we were not to curtsy”: Mary Soames interview.
12. “most enthusiastically rendered”: Diaries of David Bruce, Jan. 30, 1965.
13. “the clouds of cold”: Cecil Beaton, Beaton in the Sixties: More Unexpurgated Diaries, introduction by Hugo Vickers, p. 17.
14. “It hit between wind and water”: Diaries of David Bruce, Jan. 30, 1965.
15. “only the Queen decides”: Gilbert, p. 823.
16. “mark of Royal favour”: Official Website of the British Monarchy.
17. who had regularly hosted: Ian Balding, Making the Running: A Racing Life, pp. 99, 103–4.
18. “Well, here it is”: Mary Soames interview.
19. “Whoever invented these robes”: “The Queen Off Duty,” YouTube video.
20. “she is highly practical”: The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters, p. 765.
21. “no hanging about”: Deborah Devonshire, Wait for Me!: Memoirs of the Youngest Mitford Sister, p. 314.
22. Following the luncheon: Author’s observations, June 15, 2009.
23. “The Queen is always very concerned”: Lt. Col. Sir Malcolm Ross interview.
24. “It’s always very lucky”: “The Queen Off Duty,” YouTube video.
25. “hats off, hair down”: The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters, p. 766.
26. “had very good views on everything”: Marcia Falkender interview. 183 “justify any proposals to her”: Shawcross, Q and C, p. 99.
27. “restraining influence”: Horne, p. 171.
28. “The fact that she was Queen”: Marcia Falkender interview.
29. When he was worried: Kenneth Rose interview.
30. “large, shamoblic bisexual”: A. N. Wilson, Our Times: The Age of Elizabeth II, p. 150.
31. “terribly degrading”: Tony Benn, Out of the Wilderness: Diaries, 1963–1967, p. 168.
32. “the most miniature bow”: Ibid., p. 169.
33. “lovely laugh … really very spontaneous”: Crossman, The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister, Vol. 2, p. 44.
34. “Oh that woman”: Daily Telegraph, Dec. 29, 2007.
35. “natural charm”: Shawcross, Q and C, p. 100.
36. “You and I would never have got”: Castle, p. 25.
37. “which kept the conversation going”: Bradford, p. 321.
38. She patiently listened: Benn, pp. 230–32.
39. “She took him for a mug”: Kenneth Rose interview. 185 “I’m sure you’ll miss your stamps”: Benn, p. 446.
40. “except in knowledge of horse flesh”: Diaries of David Bruce, April 23, 1968.
41. “walking wounded”: Michael Oswald interview.
42. The Royal Stud at Sandringham: Author’s observations.
43. “a horse had a good shoulder”: Longford, Elizabeth R, p. 249.
44. “She reads a lot, and she knows a lot”: Michael Oswald interview.
45. “rests always with the Queen”: Arthur FitzGerald, Thoroughbreds of the Crown: The History and Worldwide Influence of the Royal Studs, p. 136.
46. “Maternity Help and Marriage Guidance Center”: Michael Oswald interview.
47. “She is very matter-of-fact”: Ibid.
48. “dive bombing”: Ian Balding interview.
49. “Oh, that was scary”: Ibid.
50. “She has the ability to get calmer”: Monty Roberts interview.
51. “talking to her is almost like talking”: Turner, p. 75.
52. “If she had been a normal person”: Ian Balding interview.
53. “Some trainers suit a particular horse”: Turner, p. 75.
54. “She would watch”: Balding, p. 115.
55. She revisits her horses: Ian Balding interview.
56. “I had a feeling that it was incredibly dusty”: Ibid.
57. “used to be bananas about it”: Jean Carnarvon interview.
58. “I really think it is ridiculous”: Ian Balding interview.
59. “I never have”: Ibid.
60. “keen to win at all costs”: Dewar, ed., p. 62.
61. “He drives it”: Monty Roberts interview.
62. “She has an ability to get horses”: Pimlott, p. 107.
63. “She gets into it and investigates”: Monty Roberts interview.
64. “the Ascot Vigil”: Vickers, Elizabeth the Queen Mother, p. 409.
65. “formal day wear”: Diaries of David Bruce, June 20, 1962.
66. “The great thing about racing”: Michael Oswald interview.
67. “Look, it’s on the wrong leg”: E II R documentary.
68. “I don’t think that horse stayed”: Longford, Elizabeth R, p. 249.
69. “As a human being one always has hope”: E II R documentary.
70. The 1950s brought her a string: Dewar, ed., pp. 29–30.
71. “Racing is incredible”: Shawcross, QEQM, p. 691.
72. “The Queen Mother accepted gratefully”: Ibid., p. 790.
73. “great gastronome”: Diaries of David Bruce, March 4, 1969.
74. She had one serious health scare: Shawcross, QEQM, pp. 816–17.
75. “Oh, the Cake!”: The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters, p. 308.
76. “She really is superb”: Ibid., p. 433.
77. the Queen Mother even joined: Diaries of David Bruce, June 4, 1962.
78. “the Japs”: Beaton, The Unexpurgated Beaton, p. 52.
79. “so nice & so nasty”: Shawcross, QEQM, p. 348.
80. “They were naked”: Confidential interview.
81. “Darling, you must have them close”: Jane FitzGerald interview.
82. “Look at us. We are just ordinary people”: Wyatt, Vol. 2, p. 311.
83. In 1967 even seventeen-year-old Princess Anne: Shawcross, Q and C, p. 102.
84. “major blunder”: Coward, pp. 601–2.
85. “Tomorrow night, Ma’am”: Paul McCartney interview.
86. “lovely … She was like a mum”: Ibid.
87. “platoon of bagpipers”: Seitz, p. 316.
88. “little creep”: Ibid.
89. “the Queen talked at some length about violence”: Diaries of David Bruce, Aug. 2, 1968.
90. “I think she thought this was a bit too much”: Longford, Elizabeth R, p. 328.
91. “Queen Anne’s dying”: Ibid.
92. Driven by an impulse: de Courcy, p. 148.
93. “People will be looking after me”: Lacey, Monarch, p. 223.