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  Macedonia, 396

  McEwen, Rory, 94

  Maclean, Donald, 70n13

  McLean, Lieutenant Colonel Neil

  Loudon Desmond (‘Billy’), 9

  Macmillan, Harold, xvi, 276, 315–16, 338

  MacNeice, Louis, 55, 227

  Makarios III, Archbishop, 119, 122, 124, 126, 129

  Makkai, László and Erdély Öroksége (eds.): History of Transylvania, 362

  Mani (PLF), xi, 125, 140n1, 141, 160–1, 178, 213, 246, 401, 430n1

  Mann, Thomas: Mario and the Magician, 22

  Manning, Cardinal Henry Edward, 325

  Manoussakis, Manoussos, 314–15, 386–7

  Marchand, Leslie, 297

  Marchant, Helen, 432

  Marie of the Incarnation, 28–9

  Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso, 261

  Marona see Cameroon Marsh, Sir Edward, 58, 63

  Massourides, Tony, 191, 202, 219–22

  Mastorakis, Niko, 281

  Masvoulás, Miss (Greek translator), 217

  Mathias, Robert, 231

  Maugham, W. Somerset, xvi, 132–3, 432

  Maxwell, Sir Aymer, 228, 288; on Euboea, 224–6; PLF’s obituary tribute to, 227; stays with PLF, 277

  Maxwell, Gavin, 229

  Mayne, Peter, 277

  Meran, Hansi, 353

  Meredith, George, 341

  Metcalfe, Lady Alexandra (‘Baba’), 80

  Metochites, Theodore, 161

  Meyrowitz (Paris opticians), 253

  Michael of Norgate: Agenbite of Inwit, 423–4

  Mill House, Dumbleton, 195, 200, 436

  Miller, Henry, 20

  Mitford, Jessica (later Treuhaft; ‘Decca’), 357; Faces of Philip, 357

  Mitford, Nancy, 222, 292; stays on Hydra with PLF, 72, 110; PLF lunches with, 146; at Chatsworth, 184; The Water Beetle, 222

  Mitsotakis, Konstantin, 386

  Mocioni de Foen (‘Mocsonyi’), Antoniu, 362

  Modiano, Mario, 97

  Moffat, Curtis, 264

  Moffat, Ivan, 73, 161, 260, 264, 283

  Moissl, Richard, 324 ‘Monasteries of the Air, The’ (PLF; article), 59n1

  Moncreiffe, Sir Iain of that Ilk, 3, 6, 288

  Monde, Le (French newspaper), xi, 408

  Monsell, Graham Eyres, 2nd Viscount ( Joan’s brother), 25, 118, 141, 184–5, 277, 298, 307, 315, 347

  Montagu of Beaulieu, Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron, 160, 170

  Montagu, Judith Venetia (later Gendel; ‘Judy’), 160–1, 163, 224–5; death, 283

  Montmorency, Anne, Duc de, 67, 112, 115, 341

  Moore, Doris Langley, 297

  Morand, Hélène (née Chrissoveloni), 234

  More O’Ferrall, Elizabeth Cecilia, 60

  Morris, Jan, 391

  Mortimer, Raymond, 318; proposes PLF as translator of Colette, 60; at PLF’s wedding, 260; stays with PLF in Kardamyli, 309–10; PLF stays with, 318–19

  Mosley, Charlotte: edits PLF/Debo letters (In Tearing Haste), xiii, 109n1, 431–2, 435

  Moss, Gabriella and Pussa, 419

  Moss, Natalie, 8

  Moss, Countess Sophie (earlier Countess Zofia Tarnowska), 281, 419, 424, 426, 9

  Moss, W. Stanley (‘Billy’), 139; and abduction of German general, x, 8–9; marriage, separation and death, 281; dislikes General Kreipe, 282; Ill Met by Moonlight, 56n6, 419

  Mourouzi, Alexander, 16, 232

  Müller Verlag, Salzburg, 324

  Murat, Caroline, 299, 380

  Murdoch, Iris, 414

  Murray, Jock, 24, 54, 56, 57, 73, 116, 123, 141, 163, 177, 217, 235, 246, 266, 285, 396, 404; PLF apologises to for delays in submitting copy, xi, 266, 371; and PLF at Passerano, xiv; and PLF at Kardamyli, xv; publishes PLF, 23, 54, 125, 140n1, 142n1, 205, 392; death and obituary, 54; publishes Freya Stark, 71, 99; and PLF’s book on pre-war European journey, 296–8; and PLF’s literary earnings, 326; reads Fielding’s book on the Winds, 350; promotion campaign for PLF, 392–3; in The South Bank Show, 398

  Naguib, General Muhammad, 70n22

  Nahlin (steam yacht), 283

  Nairne, Lady Katherine, Baroness (later Viscountess Mersey; ‘Kitty’; ‘Wife’), 134

  Nasser, Colonel Gamal Abdel, 70n22

  Nerval, Gérard de (pseudonym of Gérard Labrunie), 301

  New York: 9/11 attacks, 422

  New York Review of Books, 433

  Newman, Cardinal John Henry, 325

  Niarchos, Stavros, xv, 96–7, 134n11, 255

  Nicepheros I, Byzantine Emperor, 346

  Nicholson-Price, Lynda, 291

  Nicolson, Harold, 52; encourages PLF’s writing, xi; on PLF’s Traveller’s Tree, 55; at Travellers club, 60; and tracing of Byron’s shoes, 75–6

  Nicolson, Nigel, 44

  Noailles, Anna, Comtesse Mathieu de, 234

  Noel-Baker, Francis Edward, 127

  Northern Ireland, xvi, 279

  Norton, Clifford and Noel Evelyn (‘Peter’), 71

  Norwich, Anne, Viscountess, 96, 99, 426, 433

  Norwich, John Julius Cooper, 2nd Viscount, 325, 398, 425; PLF lunches with, 92; guitar-playing and singing, 96, 104, 258; visits Hydra, 96, 99; at PLF’s wedding, 260; annual Christmas Crackers, 325; TV interview with PLF, 392; Byzantium: The Early Centuries, 398

  Nun’s Story, The (film), 160

  Obolensky, Prince Dimitri, 364, 377, 383; Bread of Exile, 418

  Ogilvie-Grant, Mark, 146, 190, 292

  Ommanney, Francis Downes: The Shoals of Capricorn, 120

  Onassis, Aristotle Socrates, 96

  O’Neill, Raymond, 279 ‘Oracle, The’ (PLF), 239

  Orpheus, 396

  Ortega y Gasset, José, 193

  Orwell, Sonia, 136

  Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names, 319–20

  Painter, George: Marcel Proust, 234

  Pallis, Alexander Anastasius, 59

  Palmer, Sir Richard, 119

  Palmyra, 343

  Papagos, Marshal Alexander, 113

  Papandreou, Georgios, 252

  Paris, 65, 114, 314; Coopers’ embassy reception, 372

  Paris, Henri d’Orléans, Comte de, 32

  Parker-Bowles, Camilla see Cornwall, Camilla, Duchess of

  Parladé, Jaime, 224, 253, 388

  Parladé, Janetta, 303, 359, 406, 411, 427; PLF tells Henry Bath story, 183; visits PLF in Greece, 194, 224; travels to Seville, 253; at Ham Spray, 291; and PLF’s missed appointment with Frances Partridge, 320–1; PLF stays with in Spain, 357–8; spends Christmas with PLF, 388; PLF stays with in London, 392; PLF describes Andrew Devonshire’s funeral to, 427

  Parsons, Lady Mary Bridget, 80, 82, 404

  Partridge, Frances, 320, 370; friendship with Joan, 194; friendship with Janetta Parladé and Brenan, 291, 358–9

  Partridge, Ralph, 194, 291

  Passerano castle, Italy, xiv

  Paterakis, Eleni, 386

  Paterakis, Manoli, 140, 281–2, 313–15; death, 386–7

  Patten, Susan Mary, 96

  Peake, Catherine, Lady, 102–4

  Peake, Sir Charles, 89, 102–3

  Pecci-Blunt, Countess Anna Laetitia (‘Mimi’), 165

  Perowne, Stewart, 71

  Perrone, Nathalie, 167

  Peters, A. D. (literary agent), 292

  Petrakis, Petro, 313

  Petronius, 322

  Petworth House, West Sussex, 187

  Phaliréa, Socrates, 221

  Phikoura, Angela, 220

  Phillips, Anthony, 392

  Piper, John and Myfanwy, 393

  Pitt-Rivers, Julian, 214

  Pol Roger, Odette, 151

  Pope-Hennessy, James, 297

  Portland, William Arthur Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of (‘Bill’), 231

  Portugal, 332

  Postlethwaite-Cobb, Caroline, 135, 141

  Powell, Columbus, 140

  Powell, Josephine, 160–1

  Powell, Michael Latham, 55, 140

  Poynter, Sir Edward: Faith
ful Unto Death (painting), 322

  Pressburger, Emeric (‘Imre’), 56n5, 140

  Pritchett, V. S., 359

  Proust, Marcel, 234

  Pryce-Jones, Adrian, 3

  Pryce-Jones, Alan, 3, 5, 133, 152n3, 374; death, 418

  Pryce-Jones, David, 418

  Psychoundakis, George, 73, 117, 313, 335, 386; The Cretan Runner, 101

  Quennell, Sir Peter: friendship with PLF, 25n3, 38, 48–9, 55, 66, 68, 71, 136; and Byron’s shoes, 75–6; and Nathalie Perrone, 167; PLF meets in London, 204; letter from Cyril Connolly, 224; lectures on Byron, 296; improvising, 341; on prospective book on Ann Fleming, 355

  Quinton, Antony, Baron, 373

  Ralli, Jean (Lilia), 68, 97

  Rayner, Joan see Fermor, Joan Leigh

  Reade, Arthur, 101

  Reade, Patrick, 388

  Resafa, Syria, 343

  Ridley, Cressida (née Bonham Carter), 407

  Robinson, Hamish, 432

  Rodd, Gustaf (‘Taffy’), 73

  Rodd, Peter, 60

  Rodocanachi, Constantine Pandia (‘Tanty’), 96, 104

  Roots of Heaven, The (film), 145, 153, 173, 183

  Rosenberg-Redé, Oskar Dieter Alex von (Baron de Redé), 98n10

  Rosse, Anne, Countess of (née Messel), 82

  Rosse, Michael Parsons, 6th Earl of, 82, 404

  Roth, Joseph: The Radetzky March, 381, 385

  Rothschild, Baroness Cécile de, 150

  Rothschild, Jacob, 349

  Rothschild, Serena Mary (née Dunn), 350n4

  Roumeli (PLF), xi, 86, 178n1, 232, 235–6, 242–3, 246, 423

  Rouphos, Rhodis, 120

  Rousseau, Henri (‘Douanier’), 101, 159

  Ruhemann, Marie-Lyse, 409

  Rumania, 230, 233, 352, 354

  Runciman, Steven, 377; PLF meets, 376; The Kingdom of Acre, 377

  Rutland, Charles John Robert Manners, 10th Duke of, 288–9

  Ryan, Desmond Francis and Mary

  Rose (née Pulham), 65

  Rylands, George (‘Dadie’), 322, 394; stays with PLF on Hydra, 72; stays with PLF in Kardamyli, 309–10; on PLF’s mock entry on judges, 327; reads Trollope, 349, 356; PLF misses birthday party, 394

  Sackville-West, Edward, 144, 224, 309

  St Clair-Erskine, Hamish, 46, 133, 374

  Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 50n2

  St Jean de Solesmes monastery, France, 40–2

  St Nicholas Kampinar monastery, Mani, Greece, 404–5

  Saint-Wandrille monastery, Normandy, xiv, xix, 26–39, 41, 144

  ‘Saki’ (H. H. Munro): ‘The Interlopers’, 373; The Unbearable Bassington, 368, 375

  Salonica, 384–5

  Sandoe, John, Ltd (Chelsea bookshop), 234, 276

  Sandringham, 406

  Sarakatsans, 114

  Schey von Koromla, Baron Philipp (‘Pips’), 300

  Schneider, Maria, 289

  Schoissbauer, Alois, 389

  Scott-James, Anne, 299

  Sedgwick, Alexander ‘A. C.’ (Shan), 252

  Seferis, George, 110, 124; friendship with PLF, xvii, 109, 111; poetry collection (. . . Cyprus, Where it was Decreed for Me . . .), 122, 124; on Cyprus crisis, 124, 130n3; and Colonels’ coup in Greece, 252

  Selznick, David O., 161

  Selznick, Jeffrey, 172n9

  Senhouse, Roger, 60

  Shane’s Castle, Northern Ireland, 279

  Shawe-Taylor, Desmond, 309, 407

  Sheffield, 6th Baron see Stanley, Edward John

  Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 298

  Sherrard, Philip, 224; The Marble Threshing Floor, 122

  Shirley, Sir Robert, 326

  Shōnagon, Sei, 203

  Sigerus, Emil: Siebenbürgisch-Sächsische Burgen und Kirchenkastelle, 362

  Sikelianos, Angelos, 55–6

  Simeon Stylites, St, 30, 38–9, 269, 344

  Simper, Caleb, 318

  Sitwell, Sir Osbert, 289

  Sitwell, Sir Sacheverell and Georgia, Lady, 8n7, 60, 231, 403

  Skelton, Barbara, 94

  Smart, Amy, Lady: PLF stays with in Normandy, xii, 35, 48–9, 65, 68–9, 112, 114, 136, 151, 163; PLF borrows cottage, 57, 63; and Xan Fielding’s attempt to recover money on Nice house, 245; background and character, 258; teases PLF over delay in marrying, 259

  Smart, Sir Walter: PLF stays with in Normandy, xii, 48–9, 68–9, 112, 114, 136, 163; submits essay on existentialism to Connolly, 49; death, 258

  Smiley, Colonel David de Crespigny, 9

  Smith, Revd Sydney, 88

  Smyth, Dame Ethel, 289

  Snowdon, Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of, 82n4

  Sofia, 381–4

  Solesmes see St Jean de

  Solesmes Sound Barrier (film), 68

  ‘Sounds of the Greek World’ (PLF; article), 112n2

  Soupault, Philippe, 150–1

  South Bank Show, The (ITV programme), 398

  Soutzo, Prince Constantin, 282, 410

  Soutzo, Princess Ioanna, 410

  Souza Lage, M. de, 147–9

  Spain, 331–5

  Spears, Mary, Lady (Mary Borden; ‘May’), 8

  Spectator, The (magazine), 388

  Spender, Sir Stephen and Natasha, Lady, 112, 204

  Spiller, ‘Bunny’, 185

  Staercke, André de, 138, 150

  Stanley, Edward John, 6th Baron Sheffield, 66, 120

  Stark, Freya, 71, 77, 99; stays on Hydra with PLF, 72; friendship with PLF, 117, 414; Ionia: A Quest, 99

  Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle), 193

  Stephanéa, George, 220

  Stewart, Damaris, 267

  Stewart, Mary, Lady (née Rainbow): The Ivy Tree, 327

  Stewart, Michael, 295, 355, 397, 402; friendship with PLF, 267; sends Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names to PLF, 319; transports PLF’s Diana Cooper letters, 338; gives watch to PLF, 355; PLF visits, 407

  Stewart, Olivia, 436; visits Kardamyli, 426, 436

  Stewart-Richardson, Gladys, 104

  Stirling, Lieutenant-Colonel William Joseph, 288

  Stoppard, Tom, 340

  Storrs, Sir Ronald, 60

  Stourton, James, 394

  Strásser, Mrs (sculptress), 324

  Strauss, Minka, 300

  Sturdza, Ileană (née Ghika), 234

  Stylites, 30–1, 36

  Sunday Times, 143n3, 184, 202

  Sykes, Christopher, 110n1

  Synge, John Millington: Deirdre of the Sorrows, 189

  Syria: PLF visits, 343–5

  Széchényi, Count István, 377

  Taafe family, 306

  Tailleferre, Françoise, 150

  Tailleferre, Germaine, 150–1

  Taillis, Lucienne Gourgaud du (née Haas), 257

  Talleyrand, Charles-Maurice de, 316

  Tarnowska, Countess Zofia see Moss, Countess Sophie

  Tarnowski, Count Andrew, 283n3

  Tarnowski, Jan, 283n3

  Tennant, Colin, 283

  Tennant, Lady Emma, 423, 293

  Tennant, Stella, 428

  Teresa, St, 28–9

  Thorneycroft, Carla, 172n10

  Three Letters from the Andes (PLF), 275

  Thubron, Colin, 433; and PLF’s status as writer, xi; praises PLF, 433; To the Last City, 433

  Time of Gifts, A (PLF): writing, x–xi, 225n2, 365–6, 377; title, 227, 237; publication, 323; false Hinterwälder praises, 389; translations, 392, 421

  Time to Keep Silence, A (PLF), 141, 144

  Topley, Lady Sophia (née Cavendish), 428

  Toynbee, Philip: and PLF’s stay at Saint-Wandrille monastery, 34; PLF visits, 198, 204, 280; approach to women, 215; death, 351; Jessica Mitford publishes memoir of, 357–8

  Traveller’s Tree, The (PLF), xi, xiv, 23, 47, 52, 56, 59n2

  Tree, Lady Anne Evelyn Beatrice, 196, 255

  Tree, Arthur Ronald Lambert Field, 198

  Tree, Iris, 162n1, 175–6, 179–81, 183, 194, 227, 260, 263–5, 298

  Tree, Mariett
a, 198

  Treuhaft, Jessica see Mitford, Jessica Trevor-Roper, Patrick, 310n1, 347–8, 407

  Tsangarakis, Ioanna, 314

  Tsangarakis, Kanaki, 311–14

  Tsangarakis, Yanni, 311–12

  Tsangarakis, Yorgo, 312–14

  Turgenev, Ivan: Smoke, 376

  Tyrakis, George, 281–2

  Tytler, William, 326

  Tzannetakis, Tzannis, 429; friendship with PLF, xviii; government posts and premiership, 402; PLF praises speech, 429; translates Mani, 430n1

  Ubaldini, Petruccio, 326

  Valery, Paul, 258

  Venizelist revolution, 237, 287, 367

  Verschoyle, Derek, 64, 66

  Vesey, Colonel Thomas, 8

  Vilmorin, Marie Louise Lévêque de, 49

  Violins of Saint-Jacques, The (PLF), x, 65–6, 73, 326

  Vivian, George, 4th Baron, 277

  Voigt, Jochen, 407–8

  Vyner, Henry, 95

  Wade, Miss (Lady Diana Cooper’s maid), 92

  Wales, 198–9, 223, 307

  Walker, Rita, 432

  Walpole, Horace, 326

  Walters, Catherine (‘Skittles’), 89

  Ward, Aileen: wins Duff Cooper Prize, 227n4

  Warner, Barbara see Ghika, Barbara Warner, Rex, 242

  Warwick, Charles Guy Fulke Greville, 7th Earl of, 97

  Watson, Sir Francis John Bagot, 303

  Waugh, Evelyn: stays at Easton Court Hotel, Chagford, xiv; on Hugh Cruddas, 210n6; memoirs and letters, 338; Black Mischief, 62n9; Sword of Honour (trilogy), 250

  Waugh, Laura, 292, 338

  Webb, Norman, 135, 141

  Wedgwood, Dame Cicely Veronica: Thirty Years War, 293

  Weidenfeld, George, Baron, 44n8

  Wentworth, Lady ( Judith Anne Dorothea Blunt-Lytton), xvi, 74–5, 86, 88–90

  Whistler, Rex, 415n5

  Wilde, Oscar: Ravenna, 400

  Williamson, Malcolm, 327n3

  Wilson, Edmund, 204

  Wilson, Reuel, 204

  Winn, Rowland Denys Guy (‘Rowley’) and Laurian (née Jones), 65

  Woodhouse, C. M. (‘Monty’), 297

  Woolf, Virginia: on Ethel Smyth, 289n4; Quentin Bell biography, 291; The Common Reader, 322n

  Woolley, Janetta see Parladé, Janetta Wyatt, Sir Thomas, 341

  Wyndham, Pamela see Egremont, Pamela, Lady

  Wyndham, Violet (‘Auntie Nose’), 319

  Yannakea, Lela, 251, 255, 274, 295, 320

  Zanuck, Darryl Francis, 145, 153–5, 158

  Ziegler, Philip, 337–8

  Zinnemann, Fred, 160

  PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR

  In December 1933, at the age of eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor walked across Europe, reaching Constantinople on the last day of 1934. He travelled on into Greece, where in Athens he met Balasha Cantacuzène, with whom he lived – mostly in Rumania – until the outbreak of war. Serving in occupied Crete, he led a successful operation to kidnap a German general, for which he won the DSO. After the war he began writing, and travelled extensively round Greece with Joan Rayner whom he later married. In 2008, he published In Tearing Haste, a collection of letters with Deborah Devonshire. Towards the latter part of his life he wrote two books about his early trans-European odyssey, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water. He planned a third, The Broken Road, which was published posthumously in 2013.

 

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