by Andrew Marr
11. Prochaska, Republic of Britain.
12. John Gore, King George V: A Personal Memoir, John Murray, 1941.
13. J. R. Clynes, Memoirs, quoted in Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, p. 534.
14. Sir Arthur Bryant, King George V, Collins, 1936.
15. Edward, Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story, Cassell & Co., 1951, pp. 132–3.
16. Sir Alan Lascelles, In Royal Service: Letters and Journals 1920–1936, Hamish Hamilton, 1989, p. 50.
17. Ibid., p. 88.
18. Ibid., p. 109.
19. Nicolson, Diaries, entries for 25 May 1929 and 10 July 1940.
20. King George VI’s own words, from a memorandum on the abdication crisis he wrote, and which is reproduced in full in Wheeler-Bennett’s official biography, King George VI.
21. Ibid., p. 294.
22. Mark Logue and Peter Conradi, The King’s Speech, Quercus, 2010, p. 62.
23. Dermot Morrah, The Work of the Queen, William Kimber, 1958; see also Robert Lacey, Majesty, Sphere Books, 1977, pp. 128–9.
24. Kenneth Rose in Kings, Queens and Courtiers, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1985.
25. Eleanor Roosevelt’s diary, 9 June 1939, Roosevelt archives, quoted in Wheeler-Bennett, King George VI, p. 382.
26. From the Broadlands Archive, quoted in Philip Ziegler, Mountbatten, Collins, 1985, p. 457.
27. Ibid., p. 680.
28. Wheeler-Bennett, quoted in Harold Nicolson’s diary, March 1954: see Andrew Roberts, Eminent Churchillians, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1994.
29. William Shawcross, Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother: The Official Biography, Macmillan, 2009, p. 167.
30. Ibid., p. 75.
31. Ibid., p. 165.
32. Ibid., p. 187.
Part Two – Lilibet
1. David Cannadine, interview with author.
2. Harold Nicolson, Diaries and Letters, ed. Stanley Olson, part 3, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1980, p. 338.
3. Marion Crawford, The Little Princesses, with an introduction by A. N. Wilson, Duckworth, 1993, p. viii.
4. William Shawcross, Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother: The Official Biography, Macmillan, 2009, p. 336.
5. Lady Cynthia Asquith, The King’s Daughter, Hutchinson, 1937, pp. 96–7.
6. See Philip Eade, Young Prince Philip, HarperPress, 2011, p. 111.
7. Gyles Brandreth, Philip & Elizabeth, Century Books, 2004, p. 181.
8. Shawcross, Queen Elizabeth, pp. 523–4.
9. Ibid., p. 532.
10. Robert Lacey, Majesty, Sphere Books, 1977, p. 179.
11. See Nigel Dempster, H.R.H The Princess Margaret, Quartet Books, 1981, p. 5ff.
12. Taken from Margaret Rhodes, The Final Curtsey, Calder Walker Associates, 2011.
13. See David Cannadine, The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy, Penguin, 2005.
14. Basil Boothroyd, Prince Philip: An Informal Biography, Dutton, 1971, p. 24.
15. Michael Sissons and Philip French (eds), Age of Austerity: 1945–1951, Penguin, 1964, p. 138.
16. Peter Clarke, The Cripps Version, Penguin, 2002, p. 268.
17. Ben Pimlott, The Queen, HarperCollins, 1996, p. 170.
18. Elizabeth Longford, Elizabeth R, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1983, p. 141.
Interlude – The Queen in the World
1. John Wheeler-Bennett: King George VI, Macmillan, 1958, p. 722.
2. Robert Lacey, Majesty, Sphere Books, 1977, p. 260.
Part Three – The Queen at Work
1. David Cannadine, interview with author.
2. Harold Macmillan, The Macmillan Diaries: The Cabinet Years 1950–1957, Macmillan, 2003, p. 140.
3. Private conversation.
4. Lord Moran, Winston Churchill, The Struggle for Survival: Diaries 1940–65, entry for 15 May 1954.
5. Macmillan, Diaries: The Cabinet Years, p. 208.
6. Peter Hennessy, interview with author.
7. Quoted in Jonathan Dimbleby, Richard Dimbleby, Hodder and Stoughton, 1975, p. 236ff.
8. The Spectator, 27 February 1953.
9. Asa Briggs, Sound and Vision: The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom, vol. 4, Oxford University Press, 1995, pp. 420ff.
10. Time and Tide, 6 June 1953.
11. New Statesman and Nation, 6 June 1953.
12. Dimbleby, Richard Dimbleby, p. 246.
13. See the round-up in Time and Tide, 13 June 1953.
14. For details, see Harry Hopkins, The New Look, Secker and Warburg, 1963, pp. 296–7.
15. New Statesman and Nation, 30 May 1953.
16. Macmillan, Diaries: The Cabinet Years 1950–1957, p. 208.
17. Moran, Churchill, The Struggle for Survival, p. 377.
18. Ibid., p. 399.
19. Macmillan, Diaries: The Cabinet Years, p. 150.
20. Ibid., pp. 391, 393.
21. Richard Cockett, Thinking the Unthinkable, HarperCollins, 1994, p. 127.
22. D. R. Thorpe, Eden, Chatto & Windus, 2003, pp. 124–5.
23. Robert Lacey, Majesty, p. 298.
24. D. R. Thorpe, Eden, pp. 584–5.
25. Robert Rhodes James, Anthony Eden, Papermac, 1987, p. 595.
26. Elizabeth Langford, Elizabeth R, p. 255.
27. Ben Pimlott, The Queen, HarperCollins, 1996, p. 332.
Interlude – Britannia and the Waves
1. Interview with Alan Titchmarsh for ITV, broadcast May 2011.
Part Four – Off with Her Head!
1. Ben Pimlott, Harold Wilson, HarperCollins, 1992, p. 113.
2. Anthony Howard (ed.), The Crossman Diaries, Methuen, 1979, p. 283.
3. Philip Ziegler, Wilson: The Authorised Life, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1993, p. 214.
4. Peter Hennessy, The Secret State, Penguin, 2010, p. xxxv.
5. Peter Hennessy, interview with author.
6. Tony Benn, Out of the Wilderness: Diaries 1963–67, Hutchinson, 1987, p. 14.
7. Ibid., p. 55.
8. Ibid., p. 232.
9. Richard Crossman, The Crossman Diaries, Hamish Hamilton/Jonathan Cape, 1979, p. 30.
10. Richard Crossman, The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister, vol. 2, Hamish Hamilton/Jonathan Cape, 1976, pp. 43–4.
11. Ibid., p. 121.
12. Ibid., pp. 249–50.
13. Ibid., p. 510.
14. Crossman, Crossman Diaries, p. 346.
15. Ibid., p. 594.
16. Willie Hamilton, Blood on the Walls, Bloomsbury, 1992, p. 15.
17. Guardian parliamentary report, 15 December 1971.
18. Ian Smith, The Great Betrayal, Blake Publishing, 1997, p. 86.
19. Edward Heath, The Course of My Life, Hodder & Stoughton, 1998, p. 483.
20. Sir Anthony Jay, interview with author.
21. See Asa Briggs, Competition: The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom, vol. 5, Oxford University Press 1995, p. 917; Cawston’s entry in the Dictionary of National Biography; and Elizabeth Longford, Elizabeth R, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1983, pp. 220–1.
22. New Statesman, 17 June 1969.
23. Spectator, 28 June 1969.
24. New Statesman profile, 27 June 1969. Though anonymous, it reads very like the prose of Mr Alan Watkins.
25. Ann Leslie, interview with author.
26. Harry Arnold, interview with author.
27. Gore Vidal, Point to Point Navigation, Little, Brown, 2006.
28. Robert Lacey, interview with author.
29. Edward Heath, The Course of My Life, Hodder & Stoughton, 1998, p. 308.
30. Ibid., p. 318.
31. Ibid., p. 394.
32. Interview with author.
33. Philip Howard, the Times, 8 June 1977, special edition.
34. Roger Berthoud in The Times, 4 June 1977.
35. See Kenneth O. Morgan, Callaghan, A Life, Oxford University Press, 1997, p. 511.
36. Timothy Knatchbull, interview with author.
37. Jonathan Dimbleby, The Prince of Wales, Little, Brown, 1994, p. 266.
38. Longfo
rd, Elizabeth R, p. 7.
Interlude – Money
1. Ben Pimlott, The Queen, HarperCollins, 1996, p. 534.
2. Dorothy Laird, How the Queen Reigns, Hodder & Stoughton 1959, p. 332.
Part Five – Into the Maelstrom
1. Margaret Thatcher, The Downing Street Years, HarperCollins, 1993, p. 18.
2. Peter Hennessy, Having It So Good, Allen Lane, 2006, p. 235.
3. Jonathan Dimbleby, The Prince of Wales, Little, Brown, 1994, pp. 322–4.
4. Lord Hurd, BBC interview.
5. Alastair Campbell, The Alastair Campbell Diaries, vol. 1, Hutchinson, 2010, p. 621.
6. Tony Blair, The Journey, Hutchinson, 2010, p. 133.
7. John Birt, The Harder Path; see Tina Brown, The Diana Chronicles, Century, 2007, pp. 350ff.
8. Blair, The Journey, p. 142.
9. Ibid., pp. 148–9 and 260–1.
10. Gyles Brandreth, Something Sensational to Read in the Train, John Murray, 2009, p. 649.
11. Guardian, 24 January 2002.
12. See Robert Blackburn, King and Country, Politico’s, 2006, pp. 32–3.
13. Margaret Rhodes, The Final Curtsey, Walker Associates, 2011.
14. David Starkey, Crown and Country, HarperPress, 2010, p. 492.
Select Bibliography
There is a vast literature about the Queen and her family. Madness and exhaustion would have followed any attempt – at least by this author – to read everything. The various political and other memoirs and general histories I have used are referred to where they are quoted from directly. But the following is the list of books about the Queen and other Royals that I have found particularly helpful.
Beaverbrook, Lord, The Abdication of King Edward VIII, ed. A. J. P. Taylor, Hamish Hamilton, 1966.
Blackburn, Robert, King and Country, Politico’s, 2006.
Bradford, Sarah, Elizabeth, William Heinemann, 1996.
———, George V, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989.
Brandreth, Gyles, Philip and Elizabeth, Portrait of a Marriage, Arrow Books, 2004.
Brown, Tina, The Diana Chronicles, Century, 2007.
Dimbleby, Jonathan, The Prince of Wales, Little, Brown, 1994.
Donaldson, Frances, Edward VIII, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1974.
Eade, Philip, Young Prince Philip, 2011.
Hibbert, Christopher, Queen Victoria: An Intimate History, HarperCollins, 2000.
Hoey, Brian, Mountbatten, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1994.
Lacey, Robert, Majesty, Hutchinson & Co., 1977.
———, Royal: HM Queen Elizabeth II, HarperCollins 2002
Longford, Elizabeth, Elizabeth R, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1983.
Morton, Andrew, Diana, her True Story, Michael O’Mara Books, 1993.
Pimlott, Ben, The Queen, HarperCollins, 1996.
Plumtree, George, Edward VIII, Pavilion, 1995.
Pope-Hennessy, James, Queen Mary, Allen & Unwin, 1959.
Rose, Kenneth, King George V, Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1983.
———, Kings, Queens and Courtiers, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1985.
Shawcross, William, Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother: The Official Biography, Macmillan, 2009.
Vickers, Hugo, Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, Random House, 2006.
Wheeler-Bennett, John W., King George VI, Macmillan, 1958.
Zeigler, Philip, King Edward VIII, HarperCollins, 1990.
———, Mountbatten, HarperCollins, 1988.
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