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by Anne de Courcy


  Halsey, Admiral, 90

  Hardinge, Sir Alex, 236

  Harewood, Lord, 250

  Harriman, Averell, 344

  Hart, Basil Liddell, 337

  Hartley, L. P., 363

  Henderson, Arthur, 138

  Henderson, Nevile, 199, 200, 201, 206–207, 252, 271, 291, 292, 294, 318; at Cliveden, 273–74; and the Munich crisis, 284, 286; and the outbreak of the Second World War, 299; meeting with the Windsors, 310

  Henry, Prince, 75, 88, 114

  Hess, Rudolf, 271, 291

  Hillary, Richard, 363

  Himmler, Heinrich, 271, 291

  Hitchins, Mrs. Lionel, 273

  Hitler, Adolf, 177, 269–70, 276, 286, 291; and the Mitford sisters, 221–22; at the Nuremberg Congress, 231–32; invasion of Czechoslovakia, 276, 283–84, 285, 292; and the Munich Agreement, 283, 284, 285, 286; and the outbreak of war, 294, 295, 296, 298, 299; invasion of Norway, Denmark and the Low Countries, 322–23; invasion of Russia, 349; death, 384

  Hobhouse, Christopher, 166

  Holt, Harold, 303

  Hordern, Bill, 178, 179

  Hordern, Mary, 178, 179–82

  Hordern, Peter, 178, 180, 181

  Hore-Belisha, Leslie, 282, 297, 314, 316, 353

  Howard, Peter, 153

  Howard-Vyse, Sir Richard, 310

  Howe, Captain Cecil, 243

  Hutchinson, Leslie, 335

  Hyslop, Nanny, 106, 184, 185, 198, 201, 206, 213, 289–90, 321, 335, 350

  India: Curzon as Viceroy of 7–8, 10–13; Baba’s charity work in, 398

  Irwin, Lord see Halifax, Edward Wood, 1st Earl of

  James, Admiral, 305

  James, Zita, 195, 198, 287

  Jardine, Rev. Robert Anderson, 260, 262, 263, 264

  Jean-Louis de Faucigny-Lucinge, Prince, 158

  Jebb, Gladwyn, 352, 363

  Joad, Cyril, 147, 152, 153

  Johnston, Tom, 137, 138

  Jones, Jack, 149–50, 151, 162

  Jones, Sir Roderick and Lady, 352

  Jones, Tom, 273–74, 276, 278, 337

  Jowett, William, 351

  Joyce, William (Lord Haw Haw), 321, 353

  Jungman, Baby and Zita, 157

  Kaye, Danny, 385

  Kedleston estate (Derbyshire), 2, 40, 59

  Kellett, “Flash,” 121, 123, 127

  Kennington Day Nursery, 215, 217–18, 313, 314, 325

  Keynes, John Maynard, 137

  Kitchener, Horatio Herbert, 1st Earl, 13, 33

  Labour Party, and the Mosleys, 106–108, 113, 114, 123–24, 129–33, 136–39, 145–49, 150–51, 166

  Lambe, Charles, 246, 248

  Lancaster, Nancy, 155

  Lansbury, George, 137, 138

  Lascelles, Alan (“Tommy”), 91–92, 216

  Law, Andrew Bonar, 61, 66

  League of Nations, 196

  Lee, General Cliff H., 365, 368, 377

  Legh, Piers (“Joey”), 243

  Leiter, Levi Zeigler, 4, 6, 8

  Leiter, Mary (later Lady Curzon), 4–8, 26, 103; appearance, 4–5; character, 5–6; marriage to George Curzon, 6–7; in India, 8, 11–13; illness and death, 12, 13; Curzon’s memories of, 16, 20, 97

  Leith, Gordon, 109, 111, 113, 114, 115, 119, 120, 121, 127–29, 143, 157–58, 168, 188

  Letellier, Yola, 251

  Lewis, Kid, 153, 161

  Lillie, Beatrice, 121

  Lindsay, Professor Thomas, 29

  Lloyd George, David, 40, 46, 61, 76, 79–80, 153, 278, 282, 342

  Lodge, Oliver, 26

  Loos, Anita, 121

  Losch, Tilly, 295

  Lothian, Lord, 154, 276, 279, 338–39, 342, 349

  Loughborough, Lady, 216

  Lubbock, Michael, 279, 320, 335, 396

  Lyttelton, Oliver (later Lord Chandos), 49, 332

  McCormack, John, 121, 127, 133

  MacDonald, Malcolm, 381

  MacDonald, Ramsay, 99, 106–107, 129, 130, 131, 133; and Mosley’s resignation from the Labour Party, 137, 138, 139; and Cimmie’s resignation from the Labour Party, 146–47; and the National Government, 158–59; on Wallis Simpson, 233

  Macmillan, Harold, 143, 145, 352

  Macmillan, Lady Dorothy, 143

  Maginot Line, 254, 316

  Maisky, M. and Mme, 333

  Makins, Roger, 363

  Malet, Mr. (Ambassador to Denmark), 333

  Margesson, David, 166, 276, 352

  Marriott, Maud, 368

  Marsh, Edward, 37

  Mary, Princess, 69, 243, 250

  Mary, Queen, 33, 57, 68, 69, 72, 74, 79, 223, 243; and the wedding of the Duke of Windsor, 262, 263, 264, 265

  Masaryk, Jan, 140, 290

  Massey, Vincent, 325

  Maugham, Somerset, 121, 157, 281

  Maugham, Syrie, 121

  Maurier, Gerald du, 121

  Maury, Bobby Casa, 134

  Maury, Paula Casa, 134

  Meade, Lady Katharine, 215

  Melton Mowbray, 85–87; Irene at, 76, 84, 111–13, 139–40; and the Prince of Wales, 84, 85–87, 112, 114, 117, 125

  Mendl, Charles, 158, 201, 293

  Mendl, Elsie, 121, 157, 280

  Mercier, Charles, 262

  Messel, Oliver, 121

  Metcalfe, David, 119, 140, 193–94, 253, 254, 280, 297, 334, 357, 387, 395

  Metcalfe, Davina, 144

  Metcalfe, Edward Dudley (“Fruity”), 72–75, 84; and Duke of Windsor (as Prince of Wales), 72–73, 74, 75, 79–81, 88–90, 95, 102–103, 110–11, 117, 133–34, 142, 202; appearance, 73, 232; character, 73, 101; in India, 72–74; courtship of Baba, 87–88, 90–93, 94–95, 100–103; riding accident, 88–89; and Lord Curzon’s death, 97–98, 99; marriage to Baba, 103–104; married life, 123, 133–34, 141–43, 168, 174, 188, 201–202, 215–16, 232, 234–35, 275, 279, 283, 382; as Father Christmas, 174; and Cimmie’s illness and death, 184; and Baba’s relationship with Tom Mosley, 186, 191, 193, 194, 197–98, 212–13, 214, 217, 218, 317; and Baba’s relationship with Grandi, 197; illness, 205; and the Abdication crisis, 239; and the Duchess of Windsor, 246, 282, 310–12, 315, 321; at Schloss Enzesfeld with the Duke of Windsor, 246–51, 252, 253; and the wedding of the Duke of Windsor, 256–57, 258, 260, 263, 264; at the Villa La Croë, 279–80, 296–97; hernia operation, 293, 296–97; and the Duke of Windsor on the outbreak of war, 300–302; wartime letters to Baba, 300–302, 325–27, 347–48; and the Duke of Windsor at the Military Mission in Paris, 306–307, 310–13, 315–17, 321, 322–23; abandoned by the Duke of Windsor in Paris, 326–28, 360–61; and Baba’s relationship with Lord Halifax, 330; at Little Compton in wartime, 334, 367, 368–69; war service in Cairo, 357, 363, 364–65, 367–68; meeting with the Duke of Windsor (1946), 392; divorce from Baba, 395, 396, 397; illness and death, 397–98

  Metcalfe, Lady Alexanda see Curzon, Lady Alexandra (“Baba”)

  Metcalfe, Linda, 144

  Milner, Alfred, Lord 22, 23

  Mitford, Debo, 296

  Mitford, Diana see Guinness, Diana

  Mitford, Nancy, 164, 336

  Mitford, Tom, 158, 221, 295

  Mitford, Unity, 169, 221–22

  Molyneux, Captain Edward, 157

  Monckton, Walter, 224, 229, 230, 248, 321, 344, 392; and the Abdication crisis, 236, 237, 239–41, 242, 243; and the wedding of the Duke of Windsor, 260, 261, 262–63; and the Windsors on the outbreak of war, 297–98, 300, 304–306; relations with Baba, 320, 322, 336; and the Second World War, 323; at the Dorchester Hotel in wartime, 332, 341

  Montacute House, Somerset, 36–37, 38, 59, 67, 82

  Montagu, Edwin, 337

  Montgomery, Robert, 352

  Morris, Sir William, 148

  Morrison, Herbert, 271–72, 330–31, 335, 358, 376

  Morrow, Ed, 364

  Mosley, Alexander, 286–87, 289, 292, 321, 329, 377

  Mosley, Lady Cynthia see Curzon, Lady Cynthia (“Cimmie”)

  Mosley, Lady (Maud), 168, 173, 205, 213, 295; and Cimmie’s illn
ess and death, 182, 183–84, 185; and Baba’s relations with Tom Mosley, 189, 192; and Baba’s relations with Diana Guinness, 190, 231; and Tom Mosley’s children, 211, 226–27, 245, 266–67, 275, 278–79, 309; and Tom Mosley’s marriage to Diana Guinness, 289; and Tom Mosley’s imprisonment, 371

  Mosley, Max, 329, 377

  Mosley, Micky, 168, 192, 195, 199, 201, 204, 206, 210, 211, 212, 213, 217, 303, 309, 353–54, 371, 373, 379, 389; and the Abdication crisis, 242; and Diana Mosley, 254; and Tom Mosley’s marriage to Diana Guinness, 289–90; and the Second World War, 321, 335, 363; Irene’s travels with, 390

  Mosley, Nicholas, 103, 106, 140, 195, 208, 210, 226, 245, 252, 275; and Tom Mosley’s marriage to Diana Guinness, 288, 289; and Tom Mosley’s politics, 295; and the Second World War, 298–99, 303, 309, 310, 320, 321, 370, 374; and Tom Mosley’s imprisonment, 340, 377; and Irene’s public speaking, 389

  Mosley, Sir Oswald Ernald (“Tom”): meets Cimmie, 45–47; appearance, 46; as Coalition MP for Harrow, 46–47, 49, 62; and the First World War, 46; love affairs, 46, 105–106, 119, 122, 155, 158, 159, 163, 172; courtship of Cimmie, 49–50, 53, 54–56, 84; marriage to Cimmie, 56–57; and Cimmie’s settlement income, 62, 64; and Baba’s marriage, 103; married life with Cimmie, 105–108, 122, 140–41, 158, 159; and the Labour Party, 106–108, 113, 114, 123–24, 129–33, 136–39, 145–49, 150–51, 166; family home at Savehay Farm, 114, 205, 206, 211–12, 266; and hunting 117; relations with Irene, 119, 123, 129, 171, 194, 195–96, 205, 206, 208, 227–28; relations with Baba, 123, 176–77, 186, 189–93, 194, 197–98, 200, 201, 202, 203, 208, 212–14, 215, 217, 218–20, 222, 225–26, 227, 234, 317; Memorandum, 137–38; and the New Party, 145–53, 155–56, 159–63; and fascism, 160–61, 166–67, 171, 173–74, 177–78, 194, 195, 200–201, 203–205, 207–208, 220–21, 233–34, 266, 294–96, 323–25; meets Diana Guinness, 164–65; affair with Diana Guinness, 167–68, 169, 171–72, 173, 174, 175, 200; The Greater Britain, 168, 173; and Irene’s engagement to Miles Graham, 181; and Cimmie’s death, 182–85; relations with his children, 192, 208, 210–12, 226–27, 252, 254, 266–68, 288–90, 308, 309, 310, 353–54; effect of Cimmie’s death on, 194–95; health problems, 194, 195–96; character, 226; operation for appendicitis, 230–31; marriage to Diana Guinness, 233–34, 282, 286–87, 288–90; and Christmases at Denham, 244–45; loss of libel case, 270–71; birth of son Alexander, 286–87; and Nazi Germany, 291; Lord Halifax compared with, 318; imprisonment, 324–25, 328, 329, 330–31, 335, 340, 350, 352, 358–59, 370, 371; release from prison, 375–77; at Crowood House after the war, 385–86; Baba’s hatred of, 399

  Mosley, Vivien, 103, 105, 106, 192, 194, 195, 205, 208, 210–11, 218, 226, 245, 254; and Diana Mosley, 266; visit to Germany, 269–70; in Paris, 278; coming-out, 288, 290–91, 292, 293–94; and Tom Mosley’s marriage to Diana Guinness, 288, 289; and Tom Mosley’s politics, 295; and the Second World War, 298–99, 308, 314, 353, 359; and Tom Mosley’s imprisonment, 324, 325, 340, 377; and Irene’s drinking bouts, 362; and Baba’s relations with Irene, 377

  Mountbatten, Lady Edwina, 74, 75, 101, 103, 104, 112, 134, 251, 335; and the Abdication crisis, 237, 240, 241

  Mountbatten, Lord Louis (“Dickie”), 73–74, 75, 103, 104, 216, 230, 251; and Brook House, 100–101; and the Abdication crisis, 239, 241; and the Windsors on the outbreak of war, 305

  Munich crisis, 276–77, 283–86

  Mussolini, Benito, 160, 178, 196, 214, 215, 220–21, 274, 284, 291–92; and Hitler, 269–70, 296; death, 384

  National Government, 159, 161

  Nazi Germany, 152; and Diana Guinness, 221–22, 291; Nuremberg Congress, 231–32; visit of the Duke of Windsor to, 268–69, 271–72; Irene and Vivien Mosley in, 269–70; and Lord Halifax, 274–75; and the Munich crisis, 276–77, 283–86; and Tom Mosley, 291, see also Hitler, Adolf; Second World War

  Negri, Pola, 110

  New Party, 145–53, 155–56, 159–63, 166

  Nichols, Philip, 273

  Nicolson, Harold, 99, 130, 131, 166, 167, 223–24, 227, 363, 397; and the New Party, 145, 152, 153, 156, 159, 160–63; and the Munich Agreement, 285–86

  Nicolson, Nigel, 398–99

  Norton, Mrs. Richard, 120

  Novello, Ivor, 121

  O’Connor, Terence, 265

  Onslow, Lady Dorothy, 110

  Otto, Archduke of Austria, 334

  Owen, Frank, 277

  Pakenham, Mrs. (later Lady Longford), 197

  Palewski, Gaston, 336

  Paul, Prince of Greece, 195

  Peake, Charles (later Sir Charles), 319, 341–42, 369, 371–72, 374, 376, 395, 396

  Phillips, Gray, 312, 355

  Portal, Lord, 332

  Portarlington, Winnie, 178, 179–80, 182, 187

  Potts, Miss Jane, 19

  Pratt, Sir John, 150

  Price, Ward, 266

  Ramsay, Captain Maule, 324

  Ravensdale, Lady see Curzon, Lady Irene (later Lady Ravensdale)

  Reading, Stella, Marchioness of, 390

  Redesdale, Lady, 289, 296

  Rennell, Lady, 217

  Rice, Edward, 117–18

  Robeson, Paul, 121, 133

  Rochfort, Cecil Boyd, 224

  Roehm, Ernst, 206

  Rogers, Herman, 255, 259, 260, 263

  Roosevelt, Franklin D., 284, 349

  Roosevelt, Theodore, 112

  Rothschild, Baron Eugene de, 243, 262

  Rothschild, Kitty, 244, 246, 248, 249–50, 262

  Rothschild, Mrs. Leo, 334

  Rubinstein, Arthur, 34–35, 111, 118, 127, 133, 140, 168–70

  Russell, Mrs. Gilbert, 352

  Russell, Muriel, 92, 213

  Salisbury, Lady, 55, 83–84

  Sanford, Laddie, 112

  Sargent, Malcolm, 128

  Scarsdale, Lord (father of Lord Curzon), 2, 6, 40

  Second World War, 303–17; outbreak, 297–99; and the Duke of Windsor, 299–302, 304–307, 310–13; and upper-class social life, 313–14; and Strasbourg, 315–16; invasion of Norway, Denmark and the Low Countries, 322–23; fall of France, 325–26, 329; bombing raids, 331, 333–34, 347–48, 381–82; and the Dorchester Hotel, 331, 332–34, 335, 340–41, 351, 352; bombing of Pearl Harbor, 357–58; conscription of women 359; and Cairo, 367–68; Allied gains, 380–81, 382, 383

  Sefton, Lord, 257, 280

  Selby, Lady, 262, 264

  Selby, Sir Wolford, 243

  Senhouse, Roger, 352

  Seymour, Sir Horace, 333

  Shaw, Bernard, 154

  Shaw, Bobbie, 23, 78–79, 117, 153–55

  Shilling Theatre Company, 195

  Sibley, Lena, 140, 141, 144, 151, 152

  Sibley, Nanny, 17

  Sieff, Israel, 171, 172–74

  Sikorski, General, 343, 372

  Simpson, Wallis (later Duchess of Windsor), 202, 216–17, 224; and Edward VIII as King, 224, 228–30, 232–33, 234; and the Abdication crisis, 236–38, 240; telephone calls to the Duke at the Schloss Enzesfeld, 244, 247, 249–50; and Fruity Metcalfe, 246, 282, 310–12, 315, 321; marriage to the Duke of Windsor, 255–65; appearance, 259; and the HRH question, 260–61, 264, 265; and the Second World War, 300, 301, 323; stays with the Metcalfes during the war, 304–307; Red Cross work during the war, 310, 315, 316; and Baba, 322, 360–61, 383, 392–93; visit to Washington in wartime, 355–57; and Fruity’s death, 397–98

  Sinclair, Sir Archibald, 106, 177, 364, 365

  Sitwell, Georgia, 121, 122, 133, 137, 174, 191; and Fruity Metcalfe, 142, 163, 290, 334; on Mosley and politics, 151, 155, 161, 162; and Baba, 163, 290, 291, 323, 335; on Diana Guinness, 164, 173, 174; as Tom Mosley’s mistress, 168; on Cimmie’s death, 185, 186; on Baba’s relations with Tom Mosley, 203; on the British Union of Fascists, 204; on the Duke of Windsor’s wedding, 267

  Sitwell, Osbert, 156

  Sitwell, Sacheverell, 121, 122, 161, 163, 174, 185

  Smith, F. E., 46

  Smith, Lady Eleanor, 133

  Snowden, Philip, 137

  Somervi
lle, Donald, 325

  Souls, the, 3, 26, 30, 35, 39, 41, 77

  Stanley, Lady Maureen, 143

  Stanley, Oliver, 143, 145, 332

  Stanley, Venetia, 320

  Stevenson, Frances (later Lady Lloyd George), 72

  Steward, Campbell, 303

  Storrs, Ronald, 70–71

  Strachey, John, 107, 108, 111, 121, 131, 133, 137, 145, 146, 208, 226; and the New Party, 152–53

  Strasbourg, 254, 315–16

  Sweeney, Bobby, 234

  Tattershall Castle, Lincolnshire, 35, 59, 100

  Thomas, J. H., 136, 137, 139, 223–24

  Thompson, Edith, 16

  Tiarks, Henry, 372

  Tree, Nancy, 251

  Tree, Ronnie, 117, 251, 276

  Trotter, Brigadier Gerald (“G”), 90, 91

  unemployment, and Mosley’s politics, 136, 137, 156, 162

  Valentino, Rudolf, 110

  Vanderbilt, Gloria, 126

  Vaughan, General John, 86

  Verdura, Fulco di, 225

  Walpole, Hugh, 227

  Walton, William, 133

  Ward, Colonel, 129, 131–32

  Ward, Mrs. Freda Dudley, 71, 73, 75, 112, 125, 163, 202, 229

  Wardell, Captain Michael, 85–86, 89, 282, 295

  Webb, Beatrice, 107, 123–24, 136, 138, 139, 145–46, 161

  Webb, Sidney, 123–24

  Weidenfeld, George (now Lord), 390

  Weizmann, Chaim, 344, 352, 372

  Westminster, Loelia, Duchess of, 335

  Whitney, Adrienne, 352

  Whitney, Helen Hay, 112

  Whitney, Jock, 112, 218, 220, 224–25, 230, 251, 351, 365

  Wilder, Thornton, 293, 352

  Williams-Ellis, Annabel, 114

  Williams-Ellis, Clough, 111, 114

  Willingdon, Lord, 228

  Wilson, Lady, 276, 278

  Wilson, “Scatters,” 99, 113, 120, 122, 134–35, 337

  Windsor, Duchess of see Simpson, Wallis (later Duchess of Windsor)

  Windsor, Duke of see Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII, later the Duke of Windsor)

  Winn, Alice, 273, 276

  Winn, Reggie, 44, 273, 276

  Wolfe, Elsie de, 228

 

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