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  Cyprus Review, 100, 120

  Dahl, Eric, 214–15

  Daily Telegraph, 433

  Damascus, 343–4

  Dartmoor, 137

  Dawkins, Richard MacGillivray, 77

  Dessès, Jean (fashion designer), 68

  Devonshire, Andrew Cavendish, 11th

  Duke of: marriage to Debo, 107; PLF stays with at Chatsworth, 184, 276, 280, 315; suggests title for PLF article, 224; at PLF’s wedding, 260; gives up drinking, 281n5; Angela Conner bronze of, 299; climbing with PLF, 299; PLF visits in England, 307–8; resumes drinking, 358n1; on illicit liaisons at Chatsworth, 361; dislikes visiting Sandringham, 406; death and funeral, 427–8

  Devonshire, Deborah, Duchess of (‘Debo’), 108, 130, 145, 431, 435; friendship and correspondence with PLF, xiii, 107; PLF stays with at Chatsworth, 184, 276, 280, 315; at Lismore Castle, 187–8; and PLF’s search for house in Greece, 219; and PLF’s attempt to help Balasha come to West, 230; PLF visits in England, 307–8; and Ann Fleming’s final illness, 348; in America, 393; and Andrew’s death and funeral, 427–8; correspondence with PLF published, 431; moves from Chatsworth to Edensor, 431; and review of Blacker’s Along the Enchanted Way, 434

  Dictionary of National Biography, 326–7

  Dietz, Howard and Tanis, 69n5

  Dionysius the Areopagite, St, 42

  Dionysius, Fr, Pro-Abbot of Arkadi, Crete, 328

  Doelnitz, Marc, 154

  Donaldson, John George Stuart, Baron and Frances, Lady, 303

  Donici, Constantin, 16

  Donne, John, 291

  ‘Dossiers de l’Ecran’ (TV broadcast), 314

  Douglas, Sir James (d.1330), 99

  Douglas, Norman, 180

  Drogheda, Garrett Moore, 11th Earl of, 198, 227

  Drogheda, Henry Dermot Ponsonby Moore, 12th Earl and Alexandra, Countess of (née Henderson), 407

  Drogheda, Joan, Countess of, 198, 227

  Drummond, Lindsay, 47

  Duff Cooper Prize, 227

  Dumbleton Hall, Gloucestershire, 184–5, 197n1; see also Mill House, Dumbleton

  Dunbabin, Thomas James, 153, 223, 328; The Western Greeks, 77

  Dunbar, William, 272n5

  Durrell, Claude-Marie, 212

  Durrell, Lawrence, 20, 100, 119, 181, 210; in Cyprus, xvii, 100, 119; PLF and Xan Fielding meet, 20–1; divorce from Daphne, 121n6; PLF visits, 151; in Ischia, 181; stays in PLF’s room in London, 181; house at Uzès, 244, 277; friendship with Walter Smart, 258; Alexandria Quartet (novels), 23n1; Balthazar, 181

  Durrell, Sappho, 101, 120

  Durrell, Yvette (Eve; earlier Cohen), 101, 120

  Eastern Court Hotel see Chagford, Devon

  Easton Neston, Northamptonshire, 222

  Eden, Clarissa, Lady (later Countess of Avon), 80

  Edwardes, Miss (of Tivoli), 163

  Egerton, Thomas, 178

  Egremont, John Edward Reginald Wyndham, 1st Baron, 188

  Egremont, Pamela, Lady (earlier Wyndham), 187, 368, 373, 375; friendship with PLF, 187; title, 374; visits PLF at Dumbleton, 436

  Eliot, T. S.: The Waste Land, 200

  Encounter (magazine), 112n2

  Enrico d’Assia (Henric), 175

  EOKA (Greek nationalist movement), 111, 122, 126, 128–9

  Erlanger, Baroness Catherine d’, 403

  Fahie, Norah, 83

  Falconer, Bill, 104

  Falklands war (1982), 356

  Faringdon House, Oxfordshire, 206–8

  Farouk, King of Egypt, 10n2, 70n22

  Fedden, Robin, 39, 228, 258, 275, 307; Chantemesle, 276

  Fénelon, François, Archbishop of Cambrai, 32, 166

  Fenton, Francesca, 305

  Fenton, Vanessa (née Fermor; PLF’s sister), 6, 260, 305

  Fermor, (Muriel) Aileen (née Ambler; PLF’s mother), 260, 304–5

  Fermor, Joan Leigh (earlier Rayner), 26, 34, 36, 40, 46, 48, 59, 64, 144, 147, 155, 157, 183, 190, 212, 219, 251, 254, 378; tolerates PLF’s lovers, xiii, 160; in Kardamyli house, xv; letters from PLF, xix, 414; engagement to Alan Pryce-Jones, 3; on Corfu with PLF, 17, 20; meets Durrell with PLF, 20; travels in Central America, 24; PLF meets, 25–6; qualities and character, 25; stays with brother Graham at Dumbleton, 25, 184–5, 315, 347; travels in Italy with Bowra, 78; in Middle East, 94; on Hydra, 95, 99; and difference with Katsimablis, 111; in Normandy, 112, 114; in Paris, 114, 129; buys house in Chester Row, London, 136, 141; death of mother, 182, 185; gives large cheque to PLF, 182–3; buys house in Athens, 195n1; inherits Mill House, Dumbleton, 197n1; house-hunting in Greece, 211–12; tax-free inheritance, 216n1; in Euboea, 224; PLF describes to Balasha, 232; marriage to PLF, 259–61; PLF’s mock epitaph to, 269; friendship with Connolly, 310; and PLF’s involvement with Tsangarakis family, 312; cats, 321, 408; visits Fieldings in Spain, 331–3; visits Crete with PLF, 355–6; and PLF’s promotional tour, 393; and PLF’s losing way at St Nicholas Kampinar monastery, 404–5; chess-playing, 416; fall and death, 425–6

  Fermor, Patrick Leigh: walk across Europe to Constantinople, ix–x; war service, x, 3–4; British Council lecture tour, x, 17–19; anxiety over delays in delivering writings, xi, xix–xx; borrows friends’ houses, xii, 44; prospective marriage to Joan, xii, 46; love affair with Balasha Cantacuzène, xii–xiii, 10; love affairs and friendships with women, xiii, 160; retreats in French monasteries, xiv, 26–44; stays at Easton Court Hotel, Chagford, xiv, 135–8; romantic interest in aristocracy, xvi; qualities, xvii; memorises and recites poetry, xviii; letter-writing, xviii–xx; daily routine, xix, 47; transfers to Intelligence Corps and posted to Greece and Crete, 8; in Caribbean and Central America, 23–4; religious views, 28–9; poverty, 44; literary earnings and payments, 55, 58, 73, 326; awarded Heinemann Foundation Prize, 59; collects material for book on Greece, 74; stays at Chatsworth, 107, 184, 197, 258, 276, 280, 315, 393, 417, 425; horse-riding, 142–3, 148–9, 157, 185–6; writes film script for The Roots of Heaven, 145, 151, 153, 159; affair with Lyndall Birch, 160, 164–76; Joan gives cheque to, 183; injures finger, 188–9; motoring accidents in Greece, 190–1, 273; confesses to having crabs, 201–2; injures arm in hunting accident, 217; seeks house in Greece, 219–21, 228; writes on pre-war European walk (‘Great Trudge’), 223–4, 226, 266, 285–7, 290, 299–300, 360, 370; elected to Whites club, London, 229; pre-war diary discovered by Balasha, 237, 286–7; income tax, 247; orders spectacles, 253; marriage to Joan, 259–61; mock verse, 269–72; gives up smoking, 294; accepts commission unable to fulfil, 295; relations with mother, 304–5; accidentally shoots Yanni Tsangarakis and subsequent vendetta, 311–13; cancer of the tongue and treatment, 311, 317, 418; dieting and exercise, 330; elected Corresponding member of Athens Academy, 337, 339; tooth problem, 337; revisits Crete (1982), 355–6; sexual encounters on Great Trudge, 360–1; travels in Asia Minor, 368–9; Greek taxes, 370; in The South Bank Show, 398–9; writes afterword to Folio Society edition of Ill Met by Moonlight, 419; and Joan’s sudden death, 425–6; loses briefcase with personal documents, 425; finds writing difficult in later years, 430; cancer of throat and death, 437

  Field, Theophilus, Bishop of Hereford, 326

  Fielding, Agnes (earlier Phillips; ‘Magouche’): on PLF’s Englishness, xvii; mule journey across Arcadia, 189; at Derek Jackson’s banquet, 196; at Bruern, 199; dines with PLF and Hadjimichalis, 252; at PLF’s wedding, 260; and Xan’s illness, 317; marriage to Xan, 318n2; PLF stays with in Spain, 331, 358; Asia Minor trip with PLF, 368, 371; spends Christmas with PLF, 388; sends cutting of Francis Bacon’s death, 407; delayed on visit to Kardamyli, 411–12

  Fielding, Daphne (earlier Marchioness of Bath), 60, 81, 120, 130, 276, 318n2; Mercury Presides, 101; The Rainbow Picnic, 298, 301

  Fielding, Magouche and Xan, 332

  Fielding, xan (Alexander), 153, 223, 243, 278, 317, 328, 350, 386; meets Lawrence Durrell with PLF, 20; and death of Duff Cooper, 81; visits Gadencourt, 120; and film of Ill Met by Moonlight, 130–1; house in Uzès, 244–5, 358; attempts to recover money on Nice house, 24
5n4; PLF describes to Balasha, 276; marriage to Magouche, 318n2; PLF and Joan spend Christmas 1979 with, 331; travels to Syria with PLF, 343–4; with PLF in Asia Minor, 368, 371; spends Christmas with PLF, 388; sends hoax letter to PLF, 389; PLF meets in Marseilles, 398; in The South Bank Show, 398; ashes scattered, 412; Aeolus Displayed, 335, 250; Corsair Country, 153; Hide and Seek, 101; The Stronghold, 63

  Fischer, Dagmar, 379–81

  Fischer, Rudolf, 323, 361, 371, 390, 391, 400, 421; letter from PLF on attack on twin towers in New York, xviii; comments on PLF’s A Time of Gifts, 323; and PLF’s memories of Great Trudge, 360–1; PLF meets in Budapest, 379, 381; sends hoax letter to PLF, 389–90; on al-Qaida attacks, 421

  Fleming, Ann, 79, 93, 95, 117, 142, 184, 248, 348; friendship and correspondence with PLF, xiii, 79; meets PLF in Paris, 65–6; stays with Somerset Maugham, 132–3; at Chatsworth, 198; PLF meets in England, 204, 303, 307; PLF complains to of Bowra’s deafness, 262n8; PLF visits in Ireland, 279–80; illness and death, 348, 350; letters, 354n4, 356, 414; proposed biography, 355–6

  Fleming, Caspar, 307, 319, 355

  Fleming, Ian, 58, 65–6, 82n5, 142n1, 143n3, 198, 204

  Flon, Suzanne, 158

  Flynn, Errol, xvi, 153–5

  Folio Society, 419–20

  Foot, M. R. D., 419

  Forster, E. M.: Guide to Alexandria, 39

  Foster, John Galway, 65

  Fould-Springer, Baron Max, 148

  French Equatorial Africa see Cameroon

  Frere-Reeves, Alexander and Patricia (née Wallace), 132

  ‘Friends Apart’ and ‘Friends Wide Apart’ (PLF; articles), 115n6

  Fuller, Horace (‘Hod’), 372

  Gadencourt (manor-house), Normandy, 48, 62, 68–9, 112, 114, 116–18, 136

  Gage, Diana, Viscountess, 356

  Gage, George, 7th Viscount, 341

  Gaitskell, Hugh, 355

  Gal, István, 324

  Garibaldi, Anita, 400

  Garnett, David (‘Bunny’), 291

  Gary, Romain: Les Racines du ciel, 145, 153

  Gendel, Anna, 284

  Gendel, Judy see Montagu, Judith Venetia

  Gendel, Milton, 162n5, 224, 284

  Ghika, Antigone (‘Tiggie’) and Niko, 111

  Ghika, Barbara (earlier Warner): PLF borrows house in Wales, xii, 198–9; lends London house to Joan, 60; attachment and marriage to Niko, 200; PLF meets in London, 200, 204; Joan stays with in London, 258; at PLF/Joan’s wedding, 259; drinking with PLF, 268; visits PLF in Kardamyli, 289; and Bloomsbury Group, 291; PLF spends Christmas with, 323; PLF visits in Corfu, 347, 356

  Ghika, Niko, 273; PLF stays at Hydra house, xii, 72, 76, 99–100; returns to Hydra, 97, 110; entertaining, 103; attachment and marriage to Barbara, 200; PLF meets in London, 200, 204; PLF describes to Balasha, 242–3; Joan stays with in London, 258; builds house on Corfu, 274; visits PLF in Kardamyli, 289; PLF visits in Corfu, 293, 347, 356; PLF spends Christmas with, 323; and PLF’s election as Corresponding member of Athens Academy, 337, 339; PLF forwards Steven Runciman paper to, 377; PLF broadcasts on, 412; friendship with PLF, xvii, 267–8, 553

  Ghika, Niko and Barbara, 339

  Ghyka, Princess Eileen (née O’Connor), 232

  Ghyka, Prince Matila, 232; The World Mine Oyster, 140n1

  Gide, André, 53; Les Caves du Vatican, 50, 276; Paludes, 50

  Giles, Frank and Lady Katherine (‘Kitty’), 133, 136, 283

  Glenconner, Christopher Grey Tennant, 2nd Baron, 293

  Gontard, Dom. Gabriel, Lord Abbot of Saint-Wandrille, 27–8, 31–2, 39, 372

  Goring, Marius, 140

  Gorky, Arshile, 189n3

  Goschen, John Alexander, 3rd Viscount and Alvin, Viscountess, 104

  Gowrie, Alexander Patrick Greysteil Ruthven, 2nd Earl (‘Grey’) and Adelheid, Countess of, 408

  Goya, Francisco: Los Caprichos, 275

  Grande Trappe, La (monastery), 40

  Great Greek Encyclopaedia, 115n2, 116

  Gréco, Juliette, xvi, 153–5, 159

  Greece: Colonels’ coup (1967), xviii, 251–3; PLF’s attachment to, xvii; and trouble in Cyprus, xvii, 111, 119–22, 124–9; civil war (1946), 17

  Grigorakis, Zanetbey, 401

  Grivas, General Giorgios, 126–7

  Gross, John, 341

  Grosvenor, Robert Victor and Caroline (née Higham), 208–9

  Grunne, Jean-Dominique de Hemricourt de, 138, 398

  Guinness family, 185–6

  Guinness, Loel, 69n5

  Guiscard, Robert, 78

  Guise, Jean Pierre Clément Marie d’Orléans, Duc de, 32

  Hadjimichalis, Nico and Vana, 252

  Hammer-Purgstall, Joseph, Freiherr von, 78

  Hammersley, Mary (née Williams-Freeman), 184

  Hampshire, Stuart, 136

  Hardinge, Helen, Lady, 6

  Hardinge, General Sir John, 111, 119, 126–7

  Hare, Alan, 60

  Harper’s (US publishers), 246

  Harrod, Wilhelmine (‘Billa’), 404

  Hart-Davis, Sir Rupert, 351

  Hatterick, Dirk, 288

  Haworth, Yorkshire, 308

  Heber-Percy, Robert (‘The Mad Boy’), 207–8, 391

  Heidsièck, Lil, 104

  Heliogabalus (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus), Roman Emperor, 415

  Hellespont: PLF swims, 369

  Henderson, Sir Nicholas and Mary, Lady, 407, 431

  Henley, Sylvia (née Stanley), 345

  Hepburn, Audrey, 160

  Heppenstall, Rayner: Imaginary Conversations, 189n1

  Herakleion, Crete, 328–9

  Herbert, Bridget, 292

  Herbert, David Alexander Reginald, 82

  Hesketh, Christian Mary McEwen (‘Kisty’), Lady, 95, 222–3

  Heyworth, Peter, 407

  Hill, Derek, 279, 407

  Hinks, Roger, 120–1, 376

  Hinterwälder, Franz Xaver (hoax name), 390

  Hobhouse, John Cam, 57, 74

  Hodgkin, Thomas: Italy and her Invaders, 414

  Hofmannsthal, Elizabeth von, 66, 68

  Hofmannsthal, Raimund von, 298

  Holiday (magazine), 223, 230

  Holland, Antony James, 6, 88

  Hooley, Charles, 185

  Horizon (magazine), 38

  Howard, Brian, 34

  Howard, Edmund Bernard Carlo (‘Mondi’) and Cécile (née Geoffroy-Dechaume), 44, 46

  Howard, Philip, 341

  Howard, Trevor, xvi, 153, 155–6

  Hoxha, Enver, 350n3

  Hrissakis, George, 192

  Hubbard, Biddy, 231

  Hudson, Charles, 428

  Hungary, 352–3, 362–5

  Huston, Allegra, 239

  Huston, John, xvi, 145, 153–5, 158–9, 188, 198

  Huston, Ricki (Enrica), 188, 192, 195, 197, 200, 203, 206, 238; PLF’s attachment to, xiii, 188; PLF maintains contact with, 238

  Hutchinson, Jeremy, 242, 258

  Hutchinson, Mary, 291

  Hydra (island), xii, 72, 93–4, 97, 103–6, 110–11

  Ill Met by Moonlight (film): xvi, 130–1, 139, 315; see also Moss, W. Stanley

  Illyés, Gyula, 362

  In Tearing Haste see Mosley, Charlotte

  Ironside, Robin, 227

  Jackson, Derek Ainslie, 196, 292

  James, Clive, 351

  Jebb, Julian, 224, 399

  Jellicoe, George, 2nd Earl, 416

  Jellicoe, George, 2nd Earl and Philippa, Countess, 268, 393, 407–8, 427

  John XXIII, Pope, 179

  Johnson, Samuel, 351, 364

  Jouvet, Louis, 315

  Joyce, James: Ulysses, 424

  Kanellopoulos, Panagiotis, 252

  Kantakuzin, General Volodia, 411

  Karaiskáki, Dozia, 372

  Karamanlis, Constantine, 401n4

  Kardamyli, Greece: PLF and Joan buy and occupy house at, xv, 219–20; building and design, 241, 244, 248–9, 255, 268, 274; storm, 397

  Ka
tsimbalis, Aspasia (‘Spatch’), 115

  Katsimbalis, George, 113, 122; friendship with PLF, xvii, 112; returns from America, 101; argument with PLF over Cyprus, 111, 113, 127, 129; praises Xan Fielding’s house, 244

  Kazan defile (Danube), 377

  Kazìs, Yanni, 75

  Kee, Cynthia, 315

  Kee, Robert, 315, 431

  Kepes, Géza, 325

  Khnarakis, Grigori, 280

  King’s School, Canterbury, 432

  Kinross, Patrick Balfour, 3rd Baron, 62; stays at Chagford, xiv; at Gadencourt, 49; PLF meets and stays with in London, 60, 204, 258, 307, 317; in France, 150; at PLF’s wedding, 259–60; The Orphaned Realm, 59, 62

  Kiosse, Hará, 355

  Kipling Society, 375

  Kitaj, R. B. and Sandra, 407

  Klobusiçky, Elemér von, 299, 324, 354, 361, 379–80, 387

  Knollys, Eardley, 309

  Kolokotrones, Niko, 241, 244

  Korda, Sir Alexander, 68

  Kranidiotis, Nikos, 120, 127

  Kreipe, General Heinrich: film of capture, xvi, 55; PLF abducts in war, 8–9, 17; PLF meets after war, 281; illness, 315

  Laden, Osama bin, 422

  Lambert, Baroness Joanna (‘Hansi’), 138

  Lambrakis, Christos Dimitrios, 252

  Lancaster, Nancy, 255

  Landor, Walter Savage, 223

  Larbaud, Valery, 152

  Last Tango in Paris (film), 289n5

  Lawrence, T. E., 344

  Leatham, John, 412

  Ledebur, Graf Friedrich von, 156–7, 179–81, 264, 301

  Lees-Milne, James, 403

  Leigh, Vivien, 136

  Lemar, Nellie, 392

  Lemprière, John: Bibliotheca classica, 416

  Leroux, Gaston: Le Mystère de la chambre jaune, 145n2

  Levi, Peter, 289

  Lewisham, Raine, Lady (née McCorquodale), 185

  Lismore Castle, Ireland, 107–8, 187

  Little, Neil, 180

  Londonderry, 279

  Lopez-Wilshaw, Arturo, 96

  Lucas, Audrey, 292

  Lycett Green, Candida, 84n2, 407

  Lygon, Lady Dorothy (‘Coote’), 190, 208, 260, 289, 391

  Lyttelton, George, 351

  Lytton, Neville Bulwer-Lytton, 3rd Earl of, 89

  Macaulay, Rose, 63, 332

  McCarthy, Mary, 204

 

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