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94. Sir John Colville, The Fringes of Power.
95. ibid.
96. ibid.
97. ibid.
98. Marion Crawford, The Little Princesses.
99. Sir John Colville, The Fringes of Power.
100. Marion Crawford, The Little Princesses.
101. ibid.
102. ibid.
103. King George V I to Princess Elizabeth on her honeymoon, quoted Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, King George V I.
104. Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, King George VI.
105. ibid.
106. Quoted Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, King George V lixom King George V I’s address to the Conference of Commonwealth Prime Ministers, Buckingham Palace, 27 April 1949, Memorandum by Sir Alan Lascelles.
107. ibid.
108. HRH Princess Margaret, private conversation.
109. James Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary.
110. King George VI to a friend, quoted Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, King George VI.
111. Winston Churchill, source unknown.
112. HRH Princess Margaret, private conversation.
113. Ben Pimlott, The Queen: A Biography of Queen Elizabeth II, Harper Collins, 1996.
114. ibid.
115. Lord Charteris, private conversation.
116. ibid.
117. Mabell, Countess of Airlie, Thatched with Gold.
118. Winston Churchill in the House of Commons, Hansard, 11 February 1952.
119. Clement Attlee, Labour Leader of the Opposition, Hansard, 11 February 1952.
120. ibid.
CHAPTER TEN
1. Mabell, Countess of Airlie, Thatched with Gold, ed. Jennifer Ellis, Hutchinson, 1962.
2. Quoted Sarah Bradford, Elizabeth: A Biography of HM The Queen, Heinemann, 1966.
3. Hansard, 25 March 1953.
4. Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt, On My Own, Harper & Row, New York, 1958.
5. Ben Pimlott, The Queen: A Biography of Queen Elizabeth II, HarperCollins, 1996.
6. Lord Cobbold, statement to the All Party Select Committee, Hansard, 21 June 1971.
7. Private conversation.
8. Elizabeth Longford, Victoria R.I., Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1964.
9. Professor Harold Laski, The Fortnightly, December 1942.
10. ibid.
11. ibid.
12. Ben Pimlott, The Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth II.
13. Author reminiscence.
14. Quoted Sarah Bradford, Elizabeth: A Biography of HM The Queen.
15. Author reminiscence.
16. Lady Solti to Edna Healey, private letter.
17. ibid.
18. Quoted Sarah Bradford, Elizabeth: A Biography of HM the Queen.
19. Quoted Ben Pimlott, The Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth II.
20. ibid.
21. Hansard, Minutes of the All-Party Select Committee of Enquiry into Royal Finances, 21 June 1971.
22. ibid.
23. ibid.
24. ibid.
25. ibid.
26. ibid.
27. ibid.
28. Hansard, 12 February 1975.
29. ibid.
30. Report of the Royal Trustees, July 1990.
31. Memorandum of Understanding, 1 April 1991.
32. ibid.
33. Lord Airlie to Press Conference, quoted Ben Pimlott, The Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth II.
34. Michael Peat, television interview, quoted Ben Pimlott, The Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth II.
35. Press conference 1994, Lord Airlie’s address.
36. Royal Finances, second edition, 1995.
37. Edna Healey, Coutts & Co., Portrait of a Private Bank, Hodder&Stoughton, 1993.
38. Official Report, the Lord Chamberlain.
39. Interview with Lord Airlie, the Lord Chamberlain.
40. Sir Oliver Millar, ‘Surveyors Past and Present’, The Queen’s Pictures: The Royal Collection through the Ages, ed. Christopher Lloyd, National Gallery Publications, 1991.
41. ibid.
42. ibid.
43. ibid.
44. ibid.
45. Elspeth Montcrieff, ‘Utility and Delight’, Apollo, October 1991.
46. James Shirley, Death the Leveller, 1659.
47. Elspeth Montcrieff, Apollo, October 1991.
48. Quoted Ben Pimlott, The Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth II, from The Sunday Times, 29 May 1977.
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Index
CP and P at the end of entries refer to either the colour plate insets or the black and white plate inset.
Abdul Karim 183–4
Aberdeen, 4th Earl of 163
accidents 52, 136, 217–18, 233, 366
Adam: Robert, James & William Adam (firm) 88–9
Adam, James 40
Adam, Robert (architect) xv-xvi, 38, 39, 96 CP5
Adams, John, 39
Adeane, Sir Michael 250, 350, 351, 386, 392
Adelaide, Queen 78–9, 102, 109–10, 112, 113, 114, 125, 135
daughter 197
Adolphus, Prince (brother of Queen Mary) see Cambridge, Adolphus, Marquess of
Afr
ica, royal tours 322, 323–4, 335, 361
air raid shelters 298, 300, 307–8
Airlie, 13th Earl of ix, 378, 380
Airlie, Countess of (wife of 13th Earl) 353
Airlie, Mabell, Countess of 209, 232–3, 239–40, 248, 252, 253–4, 271–2, 299, 378
after accession of George VI 285, 286–7, 290, 336
Elizabeth II’s wedding 323, 324, 326–7
Aiton, William Townsend 367
Albani, Cardinal 40
Albert, Prince Consort 114, 129–30, 131–76, 197, 344, 349, 385, 389 P6, CP18
affect of his death on Victoria 176–8, 192, 196–7
made ‘Prince Consort’ 163–4
Palace improvements 157, 160, 163, 165–70, 203
Albert Edward, Prince of Wales see Edward VII
Albert Victor, Prince see Clarence and Avondale
Alexander I, Tsar 73
Alexander II, Tsar 178–9, 180, 182
Alexander, Prince, of Russia 187
Alexander, Tsarevich (1839) 128, 129
Alexander, Sir Ulrick 321, 325
Alexander of Wurttemberg, Duke 186, 229
Alexandra, Princess 380
Alexandra, Queen 204, 224, 225, 244, 267
Buckingham Palace 190, 195, 199, 201–3, 202n, 206, 212, 390
death 261
Edward’s death 206–7, 212
as Princess of Wales 174, 176, 183, 185, 187 P8, P9, P10, CP22
Alexandra, Tsarina 225, 226
Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh (son of Victoria) 176, 178–9, 225
Alfred, Prince (son of George III) 76, 388 CP7
Alice, Duchess of Gloucester 245, 309–10, 380
Alice, Princess (daughter of Victoria) 179, 312
Alice, Princess (mother of Philip, Duke of Edinburgh) 312, 313
Althorp, Viscount (3rd Earl Spencer) 104, 105, 106
Altrincham, Lord (later John Grigg) 373, 392
Amelia, Princess 34, 69
America
Civil War: Prince Albert’s memorandum 174
Court etiquette 182, 250–51, 343
royal tours 294–5, 334
War of Independence 63, 78
Anderson, Mabel 331, 339
Anderson, Sir John 298
Anderson, Will 236, 237–8
Andrew, Duke of York 355, 380–81
Angeli, Heinrich von 140
animals and birds 11–12, 18, 24, 43, 285, 371 see also horses
Anne, the Princess Royal 331, 339, 380 P14
Anne, Queen 20, 21–2, 23, 24, 29
Anne of Denmark, Queen (wife of James I) 6, 29
Annuities to the Royal Family 135, 375, 376, 380