by Edna Healey
Lancaster House 97
Landseer, Sir Edwin 139–40, 154 CP18
Lang, Archbishop: Coronation of George VI 292
Langtry, Lillie 191, 198
Lansdowne, Henry, 5th Marquess of 205
La Roche, Sophie von, 46, 52–4
Laroon the Younger: CPi
Lascelles, Sir Alan 270, 276, 325, 340, 350–51
Lascelles, Henry, Viscount 243
Laski, Harold, 350
Lawrence, Sir Thomas 60 P3
Learmonth, Professor 330
Lehzen, Baroness Louise 116–7, 120–21, 123, 124, 125, 129, 142–4
Leicester House 28, 33
Lely, Sir Peter 71
Lennox, Lady Sarah 29
Le Nôtre, André 11
Lenthall, William 8, 15
Leonardo da Vinci 7
Leopold I, King of Belgium 114, 131–2, 133, 162, 198–9 P5
influence on Victoria 117–20, 123, 125, 129–30, 142, i75, 177
as Leopold of Saxe-Coburg 73–5, 78–9, 135
Leopold II, King of Belgium 183
Leopold III, King of Belgium 296
Leopold, Prince (son of Victoria) 143, 176
Leopold of the Belgians, Prince (1852) 156
Leslie & Co 217
Librarian of the Royal Library 383, 384
libraries 24, 34, 108, 197
Queen’s House 39–40, 42, 46, 47, 52, 72, 108, 153 CP9, CP10
Royal Library 375, 383–4
Lieven, Princess 80
Lightbody, Helen 331, 339
lighting 147, 308, 383
electricity 196, 197–8, 287, 289
gas 109, 169, 196, 198
Lightwood, Douglas 304–5
Lilley, Mrs (nurse) 150
Lilley, Beatrice 326
Lincoln, Earl of (1846) 157
Liverpool, Earl of (PM) 86, 117
Llewellyn, Sir William CP24
Llewelyn-Davies, Baroness 357
Lloyd, Christopher, x
Lloyd George, David 238, 239, 240–41, 246, 256
Logue, Lionel 282 London
Duncannon’s plan for Westminster 105
Nash’s grand scheme 86, 98, 101–2
Londonderry, Lord 373
Longford, Countess of, 171
Lord Chamberlain 65, 66, 92, 346, 364, 365, 379–80, 382–3
Lord Steward 66, 92, 125, 364
Lorraine, Claude 52, 71
Louis of Battenberg, Prince (Marquess of Milford Haven) 225–6, 312
Louis Napoleon, (Napoleon III) 156–7, 162, 173, 226
Louis XVIII, King of France 83
Louis-Philippe, King of France 156, 162, 226
Louisa, Princess (sister of George III) CP4
Louise, Princess Royal (daughter of Edward VII) P10
Louise, Queen of Belgium 117, 123
Lupton, Roger 2
Lutyens, Sir Edwin: Queen Mary’s Doll’s House 266–7
Lyttleton, Lady 194
MacArthur, Mary 236–8, 238n
Macaulay, Thomas Babington 6, 12, 13, 20, 21, 121
MacDonald, Margaret (‘Bobo’) 289, 310, 328, 339–40
MacDonald, Ramsay 246, 247, 251–2, 253, 256–8
MacDonald, Ruby 339
MacEwan, Mrs Priscilla 44
Mackenzie, James Stuart 40
Maclise, Daniel 140–41
MacMahon, Colonel (Private Secretary) 141
Macmillan, Sir Harold 356
Macy, William 182
Magnus, Sir Philip 192–3, 194, 201, 204–5, 206
Major, John 358–9, 381
Mall, The 23, 37, 86, 114, 161, 163, 242, 392, 394
altered 94, 216
Mandela, Nelson 362 CP31
Mantegna, Andrea 7, 9
Mapledurham: St Margaret’s Church 112
Maratta, Carlo 40
marble 109, 159–60, 198, 216, 231–2
Marble Arch 92, 99, 99/2, 101, 108, 111
moved 93, 161–2
Margaret, Princess ix, 311, 322, 333, 338, 347, 380
birth 253–4
childhood 258, 285, 286–90, 292, 315–16 CP26:
during 2nd World War 295, 303, 310–11 P11, P13
Elizabeth’s wedding 327–8, 329
George VI’s illness and death 334, 338
music 314–15, 316, 327–8
Marie, Princess (daughter of Tsar Alexander II) 178–9
Marie, Queen of Romania 225
Marie Louise, Princess 266–7
Marienbad, Bohemia 204, 205
Marina of Greece, Princess (Duchess of Kent) 245, 258, 279, 352
Marlborough House 47, 103, 361, 390
Edward VII and Alexandra 190, 195, 199, 212–14
George V and Mary 208, 213, 228, 229, 230
Queen Mary, after death of George 264, 265, 276, 277, 288, 291, 341
Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps 363
Marten, Sir Henry 310 –11
Marx, Karl 162
Mary, daughter of William IV and Mrs Jordan 112
Mary, Princess (daughter of George III) 72, 79
Mary, Princess Royal (daughter of Charles I) CP32
Mary, Princess Royal (daughter of George V) 209, 243
Mary, Queen 152, 184–9, 203, 246, 248, 262–3, 333 CP25
after accession of George VI 286, 290, 291
after death of George V 264–7, 271, 288
after death of George VI 335–6, 341 P14
in Buckingham Palace 213–14, 264–7, 271:
reorganization 208, 219–32, 348–9
Coronation 214–15 CP24
Court protocol 250–53, 255
death 263, 341
Doll’s House 266–7
during the 1st World War 233–42, 387
during the 2nd World War 299, 307
Edward and Mrs Simpson 260, 265, 271–4, 333, 335: abdication 276, 277, 283
and Elizabeth II 203, 290, 292, 310–11, 324, 326–7
Indian independence 324
Silver Jubilee 258–9, 260–61
suffragettes 218–19
Mary, Queen, and William III see William III and Mary
Mary Adelaide, Duchess of Teck 184, 185, 186, 234
Mary MacArthur Holiday Homes for Working Women, 238n
Master of the Household 364, 383, 386–7
Maud, Queen of Norway P10
May, Hugh 387
Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Dukes of 30, 78, 152, 186
Chelsea china service 44–5, 367 CP12
Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Augusta, Grand Duchess of 78, 152, 186–7, 190, 221, 235, 238
Melbourne, 2nd Viscount (William Lamb) 104, 106, 124, 142, 152
and Victoria 118, 124, 125–6, 127–9, 136, 349
Mendelssohn, Felix 137–8, 372 P3
Mensdorff, Count (Austrian Ambassador) 225
Menuhin, Yehudi 372 CP33
Meyer, Jeremy, and Mrs Meyer 60, 75
Miéville, Sir Eric 281–2
Milford Haven, Marquess of (Louis of Battenberg) 225–6, 312
Millar, Sir Oliver, x, 141, 384–5, 386–7
Milton Keynes New Town 356–7
Mistress of the Robes 352–3
model dwellings for workers: Great Exhibition 167, 167n
Monck, Sir John 321
Monckton, Sir Walter 275, 277, 278–9, 281, 295
Monkswell, Lady, 184–5
Montaudon Smith, Mrs (tutor) 311
Montgomery, Bernard Law, ist Viscount (Field Marshal) 308–9, 311
Moore, George 141
Moore, Philip 351–2
Morocco, Sultan of (1902) 199
Morpeth, George, 7th Earl of Carlisle 157–8, 161
Morrison, Herbert 333
Morrison, Hon. Mary 353
Mount-Stephen, Lady 203
Mountbatten family 312–3
Mountbatten of Burma, Louis, ist Earl 226, 283, 355
during 2nd World War 304, 309, 318, 392
and India 322–3, 324, 331–2
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 48, 372
Muggeridge, Malcolm 373
Mulberry Garden 3–5, 8, 16, 19, 22, 277n Pi
Pleasure Garden 9–10, 11, 13
The Mulberry Garden (play) 9
Mulgrave, 3rd Earl of see Buckingham, John, ist Duke of
Munchenhausen, Baron Adolphus von 30
Munster, 5th Earl of 112
Murray, Lady Augusta 76
music 61–2, 136–8, 315–16, 327–8, 357, 364–5, 368, 369, 391–2
concerts of Charles, Prince of Wales 371–2
organ 48, 53, 71–2, 137–8, 169, 197 P6, CP8
Queen’s House 41, 48, 51, 53, 61, 71–2
Victoria and Albert 122, 136–7
Music Room 95, 97, 108–9, 390
Mussolini 245, 259, 291, 314
The Nahlin (yacht) 272–3
Naish, Mrs: joiner 43, 50, 51, 54
Napoleon 1
Table of the Grand Commanders 389
Waterloo Vase 366
Napoleon III, Emperor (Louis Napoleon) 156–7, 162, 173, 226
Napoleonic Wars 69, 74, 92–3, 99, 108, 389–90
Nash, John 83, 85–98, 100–102, 105, 107–8, 230–31, 304, 319–20, 389–90
grand scheme for London 86, 98, 101–2
National Gallery 85, 105, 385
National Portrait Gallery 194, 198, 222
National Relief Fund 235–6
Nazism 245, 259, 291
Needlework Guild: Queen Mary 235
Nehru, Jawaharlal 322, 331–2
Nelson, Horatio, and Trafalgar 69, 92–3, 389
New Zealand: royal tours 361
newspapers, on Edward and Mrs Simpson 271, 272, 273, 276
Nicholas II, Tsar 225, 226, 349
Nicolson, Harold, 243
Nilsson, Birgit 372
Nixon, William 91
Nollekens, Joseph 42
Norfolk, i6h Duke of (Earl Marshal) 340
Normanby, John, Duke of see Buckingham, ist Duke of
North, Frederick, 8th Lord North 63
Northumberland, Duke of, (C1830) 103
Norton, Eardley 46
Norton, Mrs (mistress of Lord Melbourne) 136
Norwich, ist Earl of (George Goring) 5 –11
Norwich, 2nd Earl of 11
nurses and governesses 209, 339
O’Connor, Feargus 162–3
Octagon Library, 39–40, 46, 47, 52, 72, 108, 153 CP9
Octavius, Prince, 76, 388 CP7
offices 92, 107–8, 154, 321
official birthday: Trooping the Colour 368–9
operations, surgical, at the Palace 201, 248–9, 331, 333–4
Order of the Garter CPi, CP18, CP23
organ 48, 53, 71–2, 137–8, 169, 197 P6, CP8
Osborne House 152–3, 165, 167, 175, 176, 189, 191
Ostade, Isack van 84
Oxford University: Duke of Windsor 241
Page, Walter 239
pagodas 89, 179–80
paintings see art(s)
Pakistan founded 324
‘Palace in Pimlico’ 100
Palace Steward’s Department 346–7
Palace of Westminster 1–2, 4, 16–17
Houses of Parliament 103–4, 105: House of
Commons 306; House of Lords 215, 215n, 218, 346; Reform Bills 102, 115, 127, 178
Parliament and the monarch 354–9
Parliament and Palace, Privy Counsellors 39–60
Westminster Hall 262, 306
Palace of Whitehall see Whitehall Palace
Palmerston, Henry, 3rd Viscount 156, 164
Pankhurst, Emmeline 219
Pantheon, Oxford Street 44
Papendiek, Charlotte, 52, 55, 59–62, 66, 68–9 P3
Papendiek, Christopher 55, 59, 68–9
Parker &, Perry: chandeliers 109
Parker, Michael 331, 335, 344
Parker, Samuel 93, 97, 108
Parliament see Palace of Westminster
Passage Room 41
pavilions 94, 94/7, 152, 152/2, 319–20
Pearl Harbor 307
Peat, Michael, of Peat Marwick McLintock x, 378–80, 381, 382
Peel, Sir Robert 99, 127–8, 151, 153–4, 157
Pembroke, Earl of (1901) 193 Pembroke, Lady, and George III 33
Pennethorne, James 101–2, 165–6, 169, 320
Pepys, Samuel 10, 13 –14, 20, 148
Persia: visit of the Shah (1873) 178
personal standards of Elizabeth II 361
Peter, King of Yugoslavia 310, 311–12
Phillip, Lt Colonel, 54
Picture Gallery 19, 112–13, 139, 196, 230–31, 387, 388 CP33
uses 156, 255–6, 372
see also art(s); Queen’s Gallery
pillars 95, 96, 108, no-11, 169, 203, 389–90
Pinchback: clock case 46
Piper, John 299–300
Pitt the Elder (1st Earl of Chatham) 63
Pitts, William 97–8 Planché, James CP18
Plunket, Patrick (later Lord Plunket) 347–8
Ponsonby, Caroline 124
Ponsonby, Fritz 243
Ponsonby, Henry 177, 349–50
Ponsonby, John William (Viscount Duncannon) 103, 104–7, 109–10, 349
Pope, Alexander 21, 26
Pope-Hennessy, James 223, 236, 237–8
popes: paintings 7, 40
Porden, William: on Nash 88–9
porphyria: George III 62
Portland, Duke of 193, 231
Portland stone 216–7, 217n
Potsdam Conference 318
Poussin, Nicolas 40
Powys, Mrs Philip Lybbe, 47–8
Prime Minister: Tuesday audience with the Queen 354–9
held at Macmillan’s bedside in hospital 356
Private Secretary 349–52, 354–5, 358, 360, 383
Privy Council 134, 359–60
Privy Purse
Elizabeth II 373, 374, 375–6
George III 49–50
Probyn, Sir Dighton 193
Profumo scandal 356
Property Services Agency 379
Pudney, John, 147
Punchy 159, 172 Pyne, W. H. 71, 230 CP6
Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing
Service 239
Queen Mary’s Doll’s House 266–7
Queen Mary’s Needlework Guild 235
Queen’s Breakfast Room 41, 43, 71–2
Queen’s Dressing Room 47
Queen’s Gallery x, 348, 384–5
Queen’s Guard 370
Queen’s House 37–55
alterations to Buckingham House 37–50
cost 48–50
called ‘Queen’s House’, xvi, 34
during Regency 70–2, 75–6
George III 51–5, 64 CP5
household, court life 32–3, 50, 64–6, 68–70
troops quartered during Gordon Riots 63
see also Buckingham House (before George III); Buckingham Palace (after George III)
Queen’s Sitting Room 284–5
Queen’s Ware 44–5
Queen’s Work for Women Fund 235–6, 238n
radio broadcasts 258–9, 261–2, 296, 306–7
Duke of Windsor 277, 278, 283
RAF flypast, Trooping the Colour 368
Ramphal, Sonny 361–2
Ramsay, Allan 38, 42, 388 CP2
Raphael 15
cartoons 7, 36, 41, 52, 170
Red Cross 235, 239
Redgrave, Richard 385
Reform Bills (1832+) 102, 115, 127, 178
Regency Act (1765, 1812) 67, 70
Regency period 70–81
Regent Street 86, 88
Regent’s Park 86
Reid, Sir James 180
Relief Clothing Guild 235
Rembrandt 387
Reni, Guido 52
Repton, Humphrey 94
Reynolds,
Sir Joshua 42, 60, 84
Rhédey of Kis-Rede, Claudine, Comtess de 186, 229
Ricci, Marco 36, 40
Richmond Palace in, 51
Riding School 85, 238
Roberts, Hugh x, 383–4
Roberts, James 140 CP19
Robertson, Steve 304–6
Rogers (friends of Wallis Simpson) 276
Roman Catholicism 7, 16, 19, 21, 99, 135
George III 30, 31, 63–4, 67
Roosevelt, Eleanor 294, 307–9, 318, 342–3 P11
Roosevelt, Franklin 294–5, 307
Rose, Kenneth 220, 248, 249, 257
Ross, Charles 97–8
Royal Academy 41–2, 112
Royal Chef 347
Royal Collection 138–40, 375, 383, 384–91
see also art(s)
Royal Collection Enterprise 384
Royal Collection Trust 384
Royal Household (esp. Victoria), 141, 144–52, 178
Duke of Windsor 268–9, 274
Edward VII 193–4
Elizabeth II 346–9, 359, 375–6, 379–82, 393:
affairs of state 349–54
George III 32–3, 50, 64–6, 68–70
Royal Library 375, 383–4
see also libraries
Royal Marriages Act (1773) 68
Royal Mews 16, 86, 383 P7
Royal Palaces: ownership 375, 379–80
Royal Pavilion, Brighton ix, 44, 46, 73, 109, 154, 157, 231–2
George IV 82–3, 87, 89, 107: before accession 44, 46, 70, 89
Royal Philatelic Collection 203, 212–3, 375, 383
Royal School of Embroidering Females 44
Royal Titles Act (1953) 360
royal tours 294–5, 322, 323–4, 330, 334, 335, 352, 353
Royal Trustees 378–9
Royal Yachts 199, 201, 204, 347, 381
Rubens, Peter Paul 7, 8–9, 41, 71
Rush, Richard 77–8
Russell, John, 1st Earl 125, 157, 174
Russell, Lady John 152
Russian Revolution, and George V 253
Rutherford, Jessica, ix
St George’s Chapel, Windsor, monarchs’ death 79, 99, 175, 194, 208, 336, 369
St James’s Palace 2–3, 4, 16–17, 22, 103, 236, 370, 384
functions 114, 199, 327, 328, 360
George III and Charlotte 31–2, 34, 41, 51, 55–6, 71
George IV 92
Prince of Wales 375–6
weddings in the Chapel Royal 74, 135, 171
see also York House
St James’s Park 2, 4, n-12, 16–17, 22–3, 86, 89, 93–4 P1
new palaces planned 33, 84–5
St Laurent, Mme de 76, 79, 119
St Paul’s Cathedral 188, 258, 309, 311
Salisbury, 3rd Marquess of (Robert Cecil) 204, 248
Saloman, Peter 61–2
Saloon
Buckingham House 36–7, 43
Queen’s House 38–9, 41, 71, 72, 78
Samuel, Sir Herbert 256–7
Sandringham 345, 352, 375, 376
Edward VII 204, 206, 211, 212–13
George V 188, 208, 210–11, 212–3, 261, 262: before accession 185, 188, 203; radio broadcasts 258–9, 261–2