by Diana Cooper
Page, Lance, 1
Page, Mrs (“Podgie”), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Paget. See Duff; and Hofmannsthal.
Palewski, Gaston, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Paley, Mr and Mrs William, 1, 2, 3, 4
Palmer, Sir Richmond and Lady, 1
Parsons, Alan (“A.”), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23
Parsons, Schuyler, 1
Parsons, Viola (née Tree), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17
Patch, General, 1
Patmore, Coventry, 1
Patterson, Elinor, 1, 2
Patterson, Joe, 1
Paulet, Sir Amyas, 1
Pavlova, Anna, 1
Peake, Sir Charles, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Pechkoff, General, 1, 2
Peck, Willys R., 1, 2
Pembroke, 15th Earl and Countess of, 1
Pepys, Samuel, 1
Percival, Lieutenant-General Arthur, 1
Pershing, General, 1
Pertinax, 1
Pétain, Marshal, 1, 2
Peter the Great, 1
Peto, Ralph, 1
Petter, Sir Ernest, 1
Peyronnet, Laura de, 1
Phillips, Teddie, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Phillips, Tom, 1, 2
Phipps, Sir Eric, 1
Pickford, Mary, 1
Piddlecock, Mr, 1
Piers, Louise, 1
Pinchot, Amos, 1
Pinchot, Rosamund, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Pius XII, Pope, 1, 2, 3
Pixley, Jack, 1, 2
Placid, Father, 1
Pleven, M., 1
Plowden, Pamela (later Countess of Lytton), 1
Poiret, Paul, 1
Poitiers, Diane de, 1
Polignac, Countess, Charles de, 1
Polignac, Princesse Jean de, 1
Portal of Hungerford, Marshal of the R.A.F. Viscount, 1
Portalès, Jacqueline de, 1, 2
Portarlington, Winnafreda Countess of, 1
Porter, Cole, 1
Portes, Madame de, 1
Portland, 6th Duke of, 1
Portsmouth, Duchess of, 1
Pound, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley, 1, 2
Powerscourt, Viscountess, 1
Pownall, Lieutenant-General Sir Henry, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Preston, Harry, 1
Prince (cart-horse), 1, 2, 3
Puccini, Giacomo, 1, 2
Rasputin, Grigoriy, 1
Rayleigh, 3rd Lord, 1
Reading, Marchioness of, 1, 2, 3
Reed, Mrs, 1
Reid, Mrs Ogden, 1
Reilly, Patrick (later Lord Reilly), 1, 2
Reinhardt, Max, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33
Revelstoke, 2nd Lord, 1
Reynaud, Paul, 1
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 1
Rhodes, Cecil, 1, 2, 3
Ribbentrop, J. von, 1, 2
Ribblesdale, Lady, 1, 2
Ribblesdale, 4th Lord, 1, 2
Richmond, Captain, 1, 2, 3
Ridley, Lady, 1
Ripon, Marchioness of (Lady de Grey), 1
Ripon, 2nd Marquess of, 1
Roberts of Kandahar, Field-Marshal Lord, 1
Robertson, Major, 1, 2, 3, 4
Rocksavage, Lord (later 5th Marquess of Cholmondeley), 1, 2
Rodney, H.M.S., 1, 2, 3
Rogers, Mrs, 1
Romrée, M, 1
Rooker, Mr and Mrs Kingsley, 1, 2, 3
Roosevelt, F. D., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Rosebery, 5th Earl of, 1, 2
Rosenberg, Herr, 1
Rosiers, Etienne Burin des, 1
Rossetti, D. G., 1
Rothermere, 1st Lord, 1, 2
Rothschild, Guy de, 1
Rothschild, Maurice de, 1, 2, 3
Rothschild, 3rd Lord, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
Rousseau, J. J., 1
Rousseau, Victor, 1
Rubinstein, Artur, 1, 2
Rumbold, Hugo, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Russell, Conrad, 1 and passim
Russell, Ethel, 1, 2, 3, 4
Russell, Flora, 1
Russell, Lord Arthur, 1
Russell, Martin, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Russell, Sir Claud, 1, 2, 3
Russell-Cook, Sidney, 1
Rutland, 7th Duke of (author’s grandfather), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Rutland, 8th Duke of (author’s father), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37
Rutland, 9th Duke of (John, author’s brother), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25
Rutland, 10th Duke of (Charles, author’s nephew), 1, 2
Rutland, Kathleen Duchess of (“Kakoo”, née Tennant), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Rutland, Violet Duchess of (author’s mother), 1 (death of) passim, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Sacher, Frau, 1
Saint-Denis, Michel, 1
St George, Mrs, 1
St George’s Westminster, 1, 2, 3
Salisbury, 3rd Marquess of, 1
Salisbury, 4th Marquess and Marchioness of, 1, 2
Salisbury, 5th Marquess of (Bobbety, Viscount Cranborne), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Salisbury, Marchioness of (Betty, Viscountess Cranborne), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Salzburg, 1, 2
Samson, Sir George, 1
Samuel, 1st Viscount, 1
San Faustino, Princess, 1, 2
San Vigilio, 1, 2
Sandys, Diana, 1
Sandys, Duncan (later Lord Duncan-Sandys), 1, 2
Sargent, J. S., 1
Sassoon, Sir Philip, 1, 2
Scarbrough, Countess of, 1
Schwartz, General, 1
Schildkraut, Joseph, 1, 2, 3
Schnitzler, Arthur, 1
Scott, Lord George, 1
Scott, Mr and Mrs, 1
Selfridge, Gordon, 1
Selznick, David, 1
Sert, J. M., 1
Sert, Madame, 1
Shakespeare, William, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17
Shannon, J. J., 1, 2, 3
Shaw, Bernard, 1
Shaw-Stewart, Patrick (“P.”), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22
Shaw-Stewart, Sir Hugh, 1
Shearer, Norma, 1
Sheean, Vincent (Jimmy), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Sherfield, 1st Lord (Sir Roger Makins), 1, 2, 3
Sheridan, Clare, 1
Shrewsbury, Countess of, 1
Shropshire Lad, A, 1, 2
Shwe, Dagôn, The, 1, 2
Sikorski, President, 1
Simpson, Brigadier, 1
Sitwell, Sir Osbert, 1, 2, 3
Sitwell, Sir Sacheverell, 1, 2
Sitwell family, 1
Slade School, 1
Slessor, Marshal of the R.A.F. Sir John, 1
Smith, F. E. (later Earl of Birkenhead), 1, 2, 3
Smith, James, 1
Smyth, Dame Ethel, 1, 2, 3
Snow, T. M., 1
Somervell, Arthur, 1
Souls, The, 1, 2
Southey, Robert, 1
South Uist, 1, 2, 3
Sowrey, Air Commodore William, 1
Spender, Stephen, 1
Spinoza, B., 1
Squire, Sir J. C., 1, 2
Staël, Madame de, 1
Stalin, Joseph, 1, 2
Stanhope, 7th Earl and Countess, 1
Stanislavsky, Konstantin, 1, 2
Stanley, Lady, 1, 2, 3
Stanley, Lady Maureen, 1, 2
Stanley, Oliver, 1, 2, 3, 4
Stanley of Alderley, 6th Lord, 1
Stark, Dame Freya, 1
Stein, Gertrude, 1
Stephen, J. K.
, 1
Stevenson, R. L., 1, 2
Stewart-Richardson, Lady Constance (later Matthew), 1
Stones of Venice, The, 1
Storrs, Sir Ronald, 1, 2
Strachey, Lytton, 1, 2, 3
Straight, Whitney, 1
Strasburger, Mr, 1
Strauss, Richard, 1
Streatfield, Colonel Sir Henry, 1
Stuart, Bimbash, 1
Stuart-Wortley, Major-General Edward, 1
Stubbs, Mrs, 1
Sutherland, Millicent Duchess of, 1, 2, 3, 4
Sutton Courtenay, 1
Sweeney, Rifleman, 1, 2, 3, 4
Swinburne, A. C., 1
Talleyrand, 1, 2
Talmadge, Constance, 1
Tangier, 1
Tate, Harry, 1
Taubman, Mr, 1
Tchekov, Anton, 1, 2
Tedder, Marshal of the R.A.F. Lord, 1, 2
Tempest, Marie, 1
Tennant, Captain, 1
Tennant, Harold John, 1
Tennant family, 1
Tennyson, Alfred Lord, 1, 2
Terry, Ellen, 1, 2
Tertis, Lionel, 1
Thomas, Godfrey, 1, 2, 3
Thomas, Sir Shenton and Lady, 1
Thompson, Dorothy, 1
Thompson, Inspector, 1
Thompson, Tommy, 1, 2, 3
Thorez, Maurice, 1
Thornton, Dr, 1
Thurso, 1st Viscount (Archibald Sinclair), 1
Tiepolo, G. B., 1
Times, The, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Timmig, Frau Helene, 1
Tipple, Mr, 1, 2
Tixier, Adrien, 1
Toklas, Alice B., 1
Tonks, Henry, 1
Tosti, Sir Paolo, 1
Towers, Duchess of, 1
Toynbee, Arnold, 1
Tree, Felicity, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Tree, Iris, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30
Tree, Maud, 1, 2
Tree, Michael, 1
Tree, Mrs Ronald, 1, 2
Tree, Ronald, 1, 2
Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm, 1, 2, 3
Tree family, 1, 2, 3, 4
Trelawny, E. J., 1
Trenchard, Marshal of the R.A.F. Viscount, 1, 2, 3
Trevelyan, G. M., 1
Trinder, Tommy, 1
Trollope, Anthony, 1, 2
Troubridge, Admiral Sir Thomas (“Salt”), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Turner, J. M. W., 1
Tuyll, Frankie de, 1
Tweedmouth, 3rd Lord, 1
Tweedsmuir. See Buchan.
Tyrrell, Lord, 1
Tyrrell, Sir William, 1
Uxbridge, 2nd Earl of (later 1st Marquess of Anglesey), 1
Vanier, General and Mrs, 1
Vansittart, Lord, 1
Venice, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
Vernon, George, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Victoria, Queen, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Victoria Palace, 1
Villiers, Jerry, 1
Vilmorin, Louise de, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Vincent, Lady Helen, 1
Virgil, 1, 2, 3
Virgin Queen, The, 1
Vishinsky, Andrei, 1, 2
Vollmöller, Karl, 1, 2, 3, 4
Volotskoy, Mr, 1
Vortex, The, 1
Wade, Kate (“Wadey”), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25
Wagner, Richard, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Wakefield, Daphne, 1
Walker, Mrs, 1
Wallace, Barbie (née Lutyens), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Wallace, Billy, 1
Wallace, David, 1
Wallace, Euan, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
Walton, Sir William, 1
War and Peace, 1, 2
Ward, Arnold, 1
Ward, Bobbie, 1
Warne, “Bear”, 1
Warner, Mr and Mrs Jack, 1, 2, 3
Waterfall, Mr, 1
Waterlow, Sir Sydney, 1, 2, 3
Watson, Colonel, 1
Watts, G. F., 1
Waugh, Evelyn, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Wavell, Field-Marshal Earl, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Webb, Mary, 1
Wedgwood, Josiah, 1
Weiller, Paul-Louis, 1
Welfare, Billy, 1
Welles, Sumner, 1
Wellington, 1st Duke of, 1, 2
Wells, H. G., 1, 2, 3, 4
West, Ferdinand, 1, 2
West, Mr, 1, 2
Westminster, Duchess of, 1
Westminster, 2nd Duke of, 1, 2
Westmorland, Diana Countess of, 1, 2, 3
Weymouth, Viscountess (later Mrs Fielding), 1, 2, 3, 4
Whibley, Charles, 1, 2
Whistler, Rex, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
White, Sister, 1, 2, 3, 4
Whitworth, Admiral Sir William, 1, 2
Widener, Joe, 1
Wiggins, W. M., 1
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler, 1
Wilczeck, Count, 1
Wilde, Oscar, 1
Wilding, Tony, 1
Wilhelm (“Little Willie”), Crown Prince of the German Empire, 1
Wilhelm II, Kaiser, 1, 2
Wilkie, Wendell, 1, 2, 3
William (footman), 1, 2
William III, King, 1
Wilson, Lady, 1
Wilson, Sir Henry Maitland (“Jumbo”, later Field-Marshal Lord), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Wilson, Sir Horace, 1, 2
Wilson, Sir Matthew (“Scatters”), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Wilson, Woodrow, 1, 2, 3
Wimborne, 1st Viscount (Lord Ashby St Ledgers) (Ivor), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Winchester, 1, 2
Wind in the Willows, The, 1
Windsor, Duchess of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Windsor Castle, 1, 2
Winn, Anthony, 1
Winterhalter, Franz, 1
Winterton, 6th Earl, 1, 2
Wolff, Miss, 1, 2
Wolfit, Sir Donald, 1
Wolkoff, Count Gabriel, 1
Wolseley, Sir Garnet and Lady, 1
Wolsey, Cardinal, 1
Woodhouse, The, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Woodlock, Father, 1
Woolf, Virginia, 1, 2
Woolton, Countess of, 1
Woolton, 1st Earl of, 1
Wordsworth, William, 1
Wormwood. See de Gaulle.
Worthington-Evans, Sir Laming, 1, 2
Wright, Sir Michael, 1, 2, 3
Wyatville, Sir Jeffry, 1
Wyborg, Hoytie, 1
Young, Lord, 1
Youssupoff, Prince Felix, 1, 2
Ypres. See French.
Zick, Madame, 1
Zuckerman, Solly (later Lord Zuckerman), 1
Marjorie teaching me to read at Hatley
My mother and Marjorie in the Hatley drawing-room
My mother, John, Haddon and Marjorie
My father
My brother Haddon
Detail of his monument by my mother
Belvoir
Queen Victoria’s drawing of my mother, Balmoral 1877
Marjorie resting from sitting to Jacques-Émile Blanche
Felix Youssupoff in the Eglinton Tournament
Raymond Asquith
Edward Horner
Letty’s children were my pages
The Nun
Jo Davidson at work
The Miracle-Makers, Reinhardt, Kommer, Kahn, Gest
Raimund von Hofmannsthal
With Iris in Arizona
Gower Street: the drawing-room, showing Rex Whistler’s trompe l’oeil
Conrad Russell sewing his cheeses
The dolphins
Copyright Country Life
John Julius
Reading aloud
Maurice Baring and Dempsey
The Princess and the Dairymaid
; The refugees: Kaetchen, John Julius and Nanny Ayto
Rex Whistler
Two drawings by Rex Whistler
Bognor after lunch
The pigs
(The scaffolding behind the trees was meant to keep out German tanks)
Duff and his staff, Singapore
Denis Allen Alex Newboult Martin Russell
Major Robertson Duff Tony Keswick
Paris, 11 November 1944
Pauline Borghese’s bed
Cecil Beaton in the library
My idea of Tiepolo’s idea of Cleopatra
Anne
Artemis
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