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by Mary S. Lovell


  Romilly, Giles 25, 121, 220, 314, 316–17, 343, 349

  Romilly, Julia Decca 258–60

  Romilly, Nellie, née Hozier 25, 26, 121, 180, 224, 226, 317, 319, 320, 348; and Esmond’s marriage 227, 237, 240; Sydney’s disapproval of 25, 61, 121, 170; legacy 449

  Roosevelt, Eleanor 348

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. 347

  Rose Cottage, Strand-on-the-Green 213

  Ross, Alan S.C. 451–2, 453

  Rosslyn, Earl of 97

  Rotherhithe, London 254–5, 258, 264, 278

  Roy, André 333, 352, 354–5

  Rule 18B see Emergency Powers Act

  Rules of the Game (Nicholas Mosley) 509–10

  Rushdie, Salman 514

  Rutland Gate, London 79, 82, 87, 98, 222, 228, 275–6, 286, 300, 312; used for Jewish evacuees 331–3; war damage 338

  SA (Sturm Abteilungen) 172–3

  St Margaret’s school, Bushey 119–20

  San Francisco 369–76, 403–4

  San Francisco Chronicle 375, 448

  San Francisco College of Mortuary Science 478

  Sarah Lawrence College 462, 472

  Sassoon, Phillip 115, 131

  Saturday Evening Post 478

  Savehay Farm 320, 324, 379

  Schaub, Julius 299

  Seafield, Nina 68

  Sewell, Mary, née Lutyens 99, 213

  Shaw, George Bernard 136, 194

  Sheridan, Diana 361

  Shipton-under-Wychwood 46, 91, 381

  Sickert, Walter 91

  Sidgwick and Jackson 502, 505

  Simolin, Rudi von 295, 296, 297, 298, 299, 307

  Sitwell family 127

  Smiley, Sir Hugh 148–9

  Smith, F.E. 135

  Smith College 494

  Snow, Jon 521, 522, 524

  Soames, Christopher 400

  Sockolovsky, Mr 331

  Spain 203, 204, 233; Civil War 218–19, 220–1, 227–8, 239, 264, 293–5, 401

  Speaker’s Corner 165, 190–1

  Spectator 506

  Speer, Albert 249, 253

  Spellman, Cardinal 384

  SS (Schutz Staffeln) 173, 206

  Stalin, Joseph 447–8

  Stamp, Lord 270

  Stanley, Venetia (cousin) 115

  Steele (gamekeeper) 48, 57

  Stewart, Madeau 473–5

  Strachey, John 136

  Strachey, Lytton 108, 111, 127, 129, 132

  Streicher, Julius 187–8, 191, 197, 266, 285

  Stuka Pilot (Hans-Ulrich Rudel) 416

  Stürmer, Der 187–8, 285

  Sudetenland 266, 268, 270

  Sunday Chronicle 204

  Sunday Times 484

  Sutro, John 68

  Swastika, Ontario 31–3, 97–8, 189, 247, 316

  Swinbrook (village) 46, 49, 54, 169, 312, 331, 341, 403

  Swinbrook, Manor of 45–6

  Swinbrook House 78–9, 82, 86–91, 98, 109, 118, 120, 121, 124–5, 147, 157, 164, 180, 327; Mill Cottage 243, 245; sold 201

  Swinton, Lord 325

  Tatler 149

  Taylor, A.J.P. 450

  Temple de la Gloire, Le 459, 502, 504, 526

  Tennant, Toby 477

  Thompson, J. Walter 255

  Thompson, Lovell 464

  Thynne, Brian 115

  Thynne, Kathleen 68

  Times, The 96, 98, 313–14, 407, 498

  Timms, Mrs 312

  Titanic 32

  Tonks, Henry 107

  Toynbee, Philip 180, 255, 260, 271, 277, 278, 279–80, 343, 484; Friends Apart 264; Jessica’s biography of 514

  Trefusis, Violet 163

  Treuhaft, Aranka 367–8, 373, 405, 407, 434, 436, 437

  Treuhaft, Benjamin 405–6, 408, 436, 437, 448, 450, 456, 462, 464, 519; and brother’s death 433, 434; career 482

  Treuhaft, Jessica see Mitford, Jessica

  Treuhaft, Jung Min 519

  Treuhaft, Nicholas Tito 385, 405, 406, 407; death 433, 456

  Treuhaft, Robert 399–400, 511, 512; meets and marries Decca and moves to San Francisco 366–74, 375, 403–4, 408; relationship with Dinky 374, 406, 525; and Communist Party 376; background 385, 443; children 385, 405–6, 408; refused passport 428, 432–3; and McCarthy persecutions 430, 432; and death of Nicholas 433, 434; passport mistake enables trip to UK and Europe 434, 436, 437–9; reaction to Chatsworth 442–3, 511; visits Hungary and Paris 443–6; passport confiscated on return 446; leaves Communist Party 448; and Decca’s books 449, 469–70, 477–8, 479–80, 524; further trips to UK and Europe 450, 462–3, 482, 494; misses Decca 483; runs for office of DA 483; 50th birthday party 484; and Decca’s efforts to give up drinking and smoking 520, 521; website 524–5

  Tullamaine Castle 420

  twenties 67, 108

  Union Movement 417, 460

  Unity Mitford (David Pryce-Jones) 121–2, 494–9

  Vanity Fair (magazine) 16, 506

  Venice 141, 454, 461

  Versailles, treaty of 310

  Victoria Road, London 33

  Vile Bodies (Evelyn Waugh) 110, 112, 113

  Vogue 107

  Voltaire in Love (Nancy Mitford) 453, 454

  Wagner, Gauleiter 285, 288, 296, 298, 299

  Wagner, Winifred 185

  Walker, Doris see Brin, Doris

  Wall Street Crash 108

  Wannsee, Lake 206, 207

  Washington DC 302–3, 319, 337, 365–9

  Washington Post 335, 337

  Water Beetle, The (Nancy Mitford) 472–3

  Watney, Oliver (‘Togo’) 96

  Watson, Peter 69–70

  Waugh, Evelyn 22, 168, 397, 444, 445, 451, 452, 469; bases character on Peter Rodd 152; friendship with and feelings for Diana 109–10, 111–12; marriage 108, 109; Brideshead Revisited 68, 395; The Loved One 407; Vile Bodies 110, 112, 113

  Webb, Beatrice138–9

  Webb, General 126–7

  Week 401

  ‘Weenie’, Aunt see Bailey, Dorothy

  West, Rebecca 90

  Weymouth, Henry 68

  Whistler, James McNeill 126

  White Fang (Jack London) 16

  Whitey, Miss see Hussey, Miss

  Whitfield, Mr 482

  Whyte, Lady Maude 86

  Widemann, Erich 206

  Wigs on the Green (Nancy Mitford) 168–70, 188, 193, 196–7, 330

  Wilde, Dolly 202

  Wilde, Oscar 70

  Windsor, Duchess of 502–3

  Windsor, Duke of, formerly Edward VIII 204, 215–16, 249; Mosleys and 502, 504

  Wollner, Senator 266, 268

  Wootton Lodge 200–1, 212, 213–14, 216, 273, 289, 320

  World War I 33–7, 38, 44, 45, 91, 92, 119, 206, 323

  World War II 295–399; food shortages 341; Hitler enters France 316; Japan and USA enter war 347; London and 288–9, 300, 301–2, 330–1, 389–90

  Wrede sisters 290

  Wright, Margaret 312, 399–400

  Yale University 494

  Yorke, Henry 108

  Young, Alan 136

  Ypres 35–6

  *See family tree, page x.

  *Nancy’s spelling, but in the OED it is given as ‘chub’.

  *Later Lord Longford.

  *Because Idden and Rudbin are more memorable names (than Ann and Robin) I have referred to them by these nicknames throughout the book.

  *Hitler’s adjutant.

  *This was either a bluff or some nonsense of Decca’s.

  *Through his mother Churchill could trace unbroken descent through five generations from a lieutenant who served in GeorgeWashington’s army.

  *Gaelic: informal gathering for singing, dancing and story-telling.

  *For the benefit of overseas readers, it is customary in the UK for peers to sign only their surname.

  *Their old groom, Hooper.

  *Lebensraum = ‘room to live’: Hitler’s defence of his attacks on neighbouring countries.

  *Redesdale motto: God Careth For Us.

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