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Melba, Dame Nellie, 89
Melczinsky (Bucşani agent), 142
Menderes, Adnan, 269
Menen, Aubrey: The Duke of Gallodoro, 88
Menotti, Gian Carlo, 263
Meredith, T., Mayor of Newtown, 62
Metzl, Albert, 145, 159, 162, 179, 209
Middle East: unrest in, 302
Miller, Karl, 286
Mindszenty, Cardinal József, 290
Mitchell, Julian, 260
Mitford, Jessica (Decca), 309, 312, 318
Mitford, Nancy (Mrs Rodd), 109
Mitford, Unity: devotion to Hitler, 134, 262, 312–13; David’s biography of, 314–18, 320–1; diary, 314
Molden, Fritz, 320
Montagu of Beaulieu, Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron, 85
Montesoni, near Florence (Italy), 241
Montgomery Express (newspaper), 58, 61
Montreal: Mitzi and Frank spend war in, 20, 172
Montreuil-sur-Mer, France: Mitzi acquires and occupies, 42–3, 51, 143; as hotel, 150, 154; post-war repairs, 150; David stays in as child, 152, 154–5, 159; evacuated in war, 154–5, 159; as Museum of Hope, 333, 335
Montsaulnier, Comte de, 13
Moore, Carlos, 166
Moore, Dudley, 262
Moore (of Daily Telegraph), 170
Moorhead, Alice, 279
Moraes, Dom, 260, 269
Moraes, Henrietta (née Bowler), 260
Morange, Toto, 43
Morgan, Charles, 129
Morison, Stanley, 199
Mortimer, Raymond, 129, 199
Mosley, Diana, Lady, 314
Mosley, Sir Oswald, 162, 257, 262, 314–16
Mostyn-Owen, Candida (née Pryce-Jones; David’s daughter): and Betjeman, 7; marriage, 190; encounter with Elie de Rothschild, 233; and Duchess of Buccleuch, 272; in USA as child, 288–9; accompanies David to Tassili plateau, 301; on David’s stepmother, 307; attends Liliane’s eightieth birthday, 338
Mostyn-Owen, Owen (David’s son-in-law), 190
Moumel (Mitzi’s nurse), 23, 25
Muggeridge, Malcolm, 258
Mugnier, Abbé, 48
Munich crisis (1938), 14, 140
Murat, Prince Achille, 13
Murphy, Robert, 190
Murray, John (publishers), 202
Mussolini, Benito: declares war (1940), 183
Naar, Madame, 278
Nabokov, Vladimir: Lolita, 283
Nagy, Istvanne, 291
Nagy, Pista, 291
Naipaul, Nadira, 296
Naipaul, Pat, 283
Naipaul, Vidia S., 283, 296, 320
Namier, Julia, Lady (née de Beausobre), 263
Namier, Sir Lewis, 263
Nantois, Elizabeth, Vicomtesse de (née Fould; Tante Lizzie), 35–6
Nantois, Jo, Vicomte de (Oncle Jo), 35
Napoleon III, Emperor of the French (earlier Louis Napoleon Bonaparte), 34
Narkiss, General Uzi, 297
Nasser, Gamal Abdul, 253, 292, 299, 302
National Review, 323–4
Nazis: persecute Jews, 13, 33–5, 124; violence in Vienna, 104–5; rise of, 122–3
New China Encyclopedia, 217
New Criterion, The (magazine), 323
New Republic, The (magazine), 299
New Statesman (magazine), 114
New York: Mitzi and Frank sail for, 171–2
New York Herald Tribune: Alan reviews for, 275
Newport, Rhode Island, 325–7
Newton, Gordon, 267
Next Generation (David), 287
Nichols, Beverley, 117
Nicolson, Harold, 85, 129, 327
Nordlinger, Jay, 323
Nowell, Arthur, 57
Ohana, Maurice, 165
Origo, Iris, 140
Ormesson, Rose d’, 179
Orwell, George: 1984, 225, 295
Otschkoy, Countess, 292
Owls and Satyrs (David; novel), 269, 277
Oxford University: David attends (Magdalen College), 254–5, 261–3
Pakenham, Paddy, 259
Pal, Rimler, 21
Palestine: Alan visits, 91–2; Arab-Jewish conflict, 91; Hitler’s plans for, 171; Arabs in, 282
Palestine Liberation Organisation, 282, 297
Palmer, Sir Anthony, 281
Palmer, L. R., 259
Panza, Jane, 245
Papen, Franz von, 20
Paris: Père Lachaise cemetery, 6, 232; under German occupation, 33–5, 319–20; Alan takes flat in, 96–7; Mitzi visits in war, 158–9; Germans enter, 182; Mitz returns to (1945), 210
Paris in the Third Reich (David), 33, 319–20
Parkes, James, 284
Partridge, Burgo, 268
Partridge, Ralph and Frances, 268
Pasternak, Boris, 255
Paulette (maid), 17, 131
Pavlević, Miodrag, 303
Pearl Diver (racehorse), 212
Pelling, Henry, 58
Pendar, Kenneth, 190
Pentwyn (cottage), Wales, 54–5
Perelman, Sidney J., 278
Peretz, Marty, 299
Pétain, Marshal Philippe, 30, 166
Petra, 283
Petscheks (Czech industrialists), 73
Piatigorsky, Gregor, 199
Pilkington, Honor and Vere, 212
Pinter, Lady Antonia, 296
Pinter, Harold, 295–6, 322
Pirbright: Guards barracks, 253
Pivot, Bernard, 319
Plas-y-Bryn, near Newtown, 59
Plomer, William, 84
Podhoretz, Norman, 287, 322
Pokorny, Georg, 332
Pokorny, Hans see Mailath-Pokorny, Hans
Pokvár, Hungary, 137–8, 142, 290–1
Poland: Germany invades, 152–3; Soviet Union occupies, 153
Pollock, Baron, 58
Pope-Hennessy, James, 199
Porgès, Michel and Dolores, 169
Portugal, 169, 178
Powell, Dilys, 59
Powell, Enoch, 278
Pratt-Barlow, Robert (Bobby): relations and travels with Alan, 86–7, 90–6, 106, 238; encourages Alan’s courtship of Poppy, 107; in Germany, 115; death and bequest to David and Alan, 266, 275
Prince Imperial see Louis Napoléon
Propper, Jacqueline, 175
Propper de Callejon, Eduardo: marriage to Bubbles, 48; in Slovakia, 117; early diplomatic career and resignation, 126; on married life, 127; marriage breakdown and reconciliation, 136–7, 141, 158; and German advance in France, 152; at Montreuil, 155; resumes diplomatic career, 157; organises evacuation from Montreuil, 160; issues transit visas for Spain, 165, 183; occupies Royaumont in war, 173, 177; and David’s crossing into Spain, 175; at Vichy, 177; Jessie nicknames, 180; relations with David, 182, 186; demoted and posted to Tangier, 183–4, 186–7; later diplomatic career, 183, 214; helps preserve Royaumont in war, 211; argument with son over cycling champion, 215; retires to London, 333
Propper de Callejon, Elena (Elly) see Bonham Carter, Elena
Propper de Callejon, Hélène (née Fould-Springer; David’s aunt; ‘Bubbles’): on Mitzi’s eyes, 17; born, 29; education, 30; on father’s word play, 36; trip to Asia with parents, 43, 45; falls for and marries Eduardo, 47–8; praises Frank Wooster, 47; in Slovakia, 117; married life, 126; depression, 127; mother supports financially, 128; marriage difficulties, 136–7, 141; on eve of war, 152; in Montreuil, 155; marriage reconciliation, 158; in France in war, 159, 176, 179; in flight from Montreuil (1940), 164, 167; breaks leg in winter sports, 180; in Barcelona, 185; in Tangier, 187–8; conversion to Catholicism, 192; returns to Paris at war’s end, 210; Mitzi ostracises, 333; and prospects of share of Mitzi’s estate, 336; receives share of Mitzi’s estate, 337; I Loved My Stay, 45, 126
Propper de Callejon, Philip (David’s cousin): childhood at Royaumont, 16; as page at Poppy’s wedding, 31; birth, 127; whooping cough, 181; in Nanny Stainer’s care, 182; in Spain and Morocco, 185, 187; argument with father ov
er cycling champion, 215; on surviving upbringing, 257; sues municipality over Montreuil house, 335; confronts Elie, 336–7
Propper de Callejon, Renata (née Goldschmidt), 257
Proust, Marcel, 38
Provins, Madame (Mitzi’s housekeeper), 131, 151
Pryce-Jones, Adam (David/Clarissa’s son), 310–11, 338
Pryce-Jones, Adrian (David’s uncle): at Alan-Poppy wedding, 31; birth, 71; education and upbringing, 85; skating, 116, 213–14, 305; visits Meidling, 116; army service, 199; returns to Royaumont at war’s end, 205–6; meets Mitzi in Paris, 210; beaten up by homosexual lovers, 305–6; death, 306
Pryce-Jones, Alan (David’s father): moves to London, 3; visits d’Avigdor-Goldsmids, 3; Betjeman teases, 7, 78; marriage, 31–3, 110; on Eugène, 46; stays at Pentwyn, 55; genealogy, 64–5; birth and upbringing, 70–1, 77; view of parents, 72; at Eton, 74–6, 226; and Cyril Connolly’s Enemies of Promise, 76; at Oxford, 77–9; character and style, 78–9; career prospects, 79–80; writings, 79–83, 91, 117; homosexuality, 82, 84–6, 201, 273, 326; relations with Bobby Pratt-Barlow, 87–9, 94; Middle East trip with Bobby, 89–93; trip with Bobby, 89; meets Mitzi and Frank Wooster, 93–4, 96; visits Brazil and South America, 94–5; literary earnings, 95–6; exhibitionism, 96–8; money problems, 96, 218; in Paris, 96–7; takes drugs, 96–8; travels in Africa, 96; attachment and engagement to Joan Eyres-Monsell, 99–100, 105; in Spain, 99–100; in Vienna, 101–3; writes on Beethoven, 102–3; correspondence with mother, 103, 105–9, 116; friendship and attachment with Poppy, 104–7; consults fortune-tellers, 108; courts Poppy, 108–9; marriage settlement, 110–11; honeymoon and early married life, 112–15; gives diamond bracelet to Poppy, 114; shooting, 117; Czech lessons, 120, 127, 132; Poppy declares love for, 120; takes pleasure in Austria, 122; buys Tatra car, 127; view of son as child, 127; accompanies Poppy to Buckingham Palace, 128; Mitzi supports financially, 128; descriptive phrases for characters, 129; in literary London, 129; on board of Teplá (Czech company), 132, 144; mission to Vienna and Montreuil after Anschluss, 133–6; visit to Pokvár, Hungary (July-August 1938), 137–40; describes Pokvár, 138; stays in Lerici (Italy), 140; announces wish to enter politics, 145–6; in Berlin and Prague (March 1939), 145; stands as liberal candidate in Louth by-election, 146–7; abandons politics, 149; return to England on eve of war, 151–2; posted to Dieppe on military duty, 154–5; joins Intelligence Service, 155; and David’s flight from France (1940), 169; bombed in war, 178; meets David on arrival from Tangier, 189; letter to Max and Lily in Tangier, 192; works in War Office, 193; serves at Bletchley Park, 201–2; in Vienna at war’s end as liaison officer with Russians, 207, 211; demobilised, 212; edits Times Literary Supplement, 212, 217, 236; translates Hofmannsthal’s Der Rosenkavalier, 212; conversation and verbal style, 215–16, 330; indulgence and behaviour, 215–17; musical talents, 216; marriage relations, 217, 222–4; home in Cavendish Close house, 220–2; on Poppy’s illness, 220; praises Jessie, 221; relations with Rothschilds, 228–9; Elie’s view of, 232; social life, 236, 272, 275–6, 325; owns Bentley, 237; trips abroad with David, 237–8, 245; wishes to marry Lady Elizabeth Cavendish, 245; writes libretto for Berkeley’s Nelson, 249; moves into Albany chambers, 252; plays West Side Story song to T.S. Eliot, 263; depicted in David’s novel, 269–70; relations with Duchess of Buccleuch, 271–2, 284–5, 308; and Poppy’s death, 272; relations with David, 273–4, 276; works in USA for Ford Foundation, 274–5; converts to Catholicism, 277; encourages Christopher Logue, 286; house at Newport foreclosed, 305; and brother Adrian’s crisis, 306; second marriage (to Mary Jean Kempner), 306–7; diary on American years, 308; in Newport, 325–7; relations with Larry Hudson, 326–40; will, 327; health decline, death and burial, 329–31; ‘Ash Vale 1940’ (unpublished poem), 201; Beethoven, 103; The Bonus of Laughter, 64, 94, 118, 135, 306; Journey to the South (in USA as Hot Places), 95; Pink Danube, 147–8; Private Opinion, 121; The Spring Journey, 89, 94; Twenty-Seven Poems, 114
Pryce-Jones, Clarissa (née Caccia; David’s wife): accompanies David to Morocco, 188; in Wales, 54; David courts, 263–5; background and education, 264; wartime escape from Greece, 264; marriage, 266; and priest’s attack on David in Austria, 267; holiday in Turkey, 269; sees Auberon and Teresa Waugh, 286; discovers Arthur Crook’s unfinished novel, 287; in USA with David and daughters, 288–9; visits Hungarian properties with David, 290; stays with Elie at Deauville, 304; buys clothes from Hardy Amies, 326; in Barbados, 327; takes tour to China, 327; holidays in Montreuil, 333
Pryce-Jones, David: at Eton, 1, 4, 7, 73, 75, 88, 220, 225–7; holiday in Seefeld, 1; childhood relations with mother, 5, 155; mother’s death, 6–7; Jessie cares for in war, 12, 178; birth, 54, 118; at Royaumont as child, 126; father’s view of as child, 127; punished by nanny, 130; given Mitzi’s diary to edit, 131; holiday in Le Touquet, 136; in Montreuil as child, 150; otitis, 154; evacuated from Montreuil in war, 160–3, 166, 171; cuts arm at Charras, 162; in Cannes and Zarouz, 173–6, 179–81, 184; given bicycle, 181; relations with Eduardo, 182, 186; sojourn in Tangier in war, 186; flies to England from Tangier, 188–90; life at Castle Hill Farm, Kent, 195–7; attends Kent College for Girls, 199–200; learns of Jews, 200; at English prep school, 207; greets Mitzi on return from Montreal, 208; visits Royaumont after war, 213–14; letter to Jessie on writing story, 221; relations with Elie de Rothschild, 229–32; in Germany and Tyrol with Elie, 230; physically attacked by Elie, 231–2; accompanies father on trips abroad, 237–8; eighteenth birthday share deal, 246; accused of coveting Mitzi’s money, 247; National Service in Coldstream Guards, 248–9; wins scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford, 248; attends Oxford University, 254, 261–3; demobilised, 254; survival, 257; courts Clarissa, 263–5; sits and fails Foreign Office entrance examination, 265–6; marriage, 266; receives legacy from Pratt-Barlow, 266; accused of theft in Austria, 267; appointed to Financial Times, 267; relations with father, 273–4, 276; writes on Israel and Jews, 277–9, 292–4, 297–8; in Haifa, Israel, 279–80; as literary editor of The Spectator, 283; teaches at University of Iowa writers’ workshop, 288–90; war reporting from Israel, 292–3; reporting on Middle East, 299–300; reports from Balkans, 303–4; at California State University, Hayward, 304; teaches at Berkeley, California, 309; and death of daughter Sonia, 310–11; biography of Unity Mitford obstructed, 314–16; sues municipality for neglect of museum at Montreuil, 335; dispute with Elie over Mitzi’s estate, 336–7
Pryce-Jones, Sir Edward, 58
Pryce-Jones, Eleanor, Lady (née Morris), 56, 58
Pryce-Jones, Harry (David’s grandfather): life and military career, 31, 56, 59–65, 71–3; marriage and children, 65, 70–1; qualities, 72; settles Alan’s Oxford debts, 79; and sons’ homosexuality, 84–5; funds Alan’s trip to Middle East with Bobby, 89, 92; finances, 95–6; visits Meidling, 116; letter from Poppy, 117; accompanies Poppy to Buckingham Palace, 128; rescues David from nanny’s punishment, 130; predicts war with Germany, 136, 151; visits Castle Hill Farm, 199; pneumonia and death, 236; puts David down for Sandhurst, 248; General Lloyd praises, 251
Pryce-Jones, Jessica (David’s daughter): and Betjeman, 7; in USA as child, 188–9; and Duchess of Buccleuch, 272; birth, 279; accompanies David to Sahara, 301; attends Liliane’s eightieth birthday, 338
Pryce-Jones, Mary Jean (née Kempner; Alan’s second wife), 306–8
Pryce-Jones, Sir Pryce, 56–8
Pryce-Jones, Sonia (David/Clarissa’s daughter), 309–10
Pryce-Jones, Thérèse (née Fould-Springer; David’s mother; ‘Poppy’): returns to Seefeld, 1; cancer, 2–4, 220, 222, 228–30; languages, 3, 8; death and burial, 6–7, 272; Alan gives diamond bracelet to, 11; portrait, 16; birth, 29; schooling, 30; marriage, 31–3; weeps at parents’ departure for Asia, 44; accompanies mother to Montreuil, 50; confrontation with mother, 50–1; Alan meets as girl, 93–4; Alan’s attachment, courtship and engagement, 104–10; life in Vienna, 105–6; married life at Meidling, 111; honeymoon and early married life, 112–15; depressions and mental condition, 115, 118–
19, 219–20, 224; pregnancy and birth of son, 115; Diary, 117; writes to parents-in-law, 117, 119–20; and Alan’s pleasure in Austria, 122; and acquisition of Herstmonceux, 128; presented at court (Buckingham Palace), 128; settles in England, 128; visit to Hungary (July 1938), 137–40; in Lerici (Italy), 140; accompanies Alan in by-election campaign, 146; and Alan’s homosexuality, 149; takes cure at Bagnoles, 151; returns to England on eve of war, 152; joins Alan in Dieppe in war, 154; Christmas 1939 in Montreuil, 155; relations with David, 155; and family’s evacuation from France, 161–2, 166; passport, 174–5; wartime letters from Jessie, 176–9, 180, 184–5; bombed in war, 178; in London in war, 188, 193; meets David on arival from Tangier in war, 189; letter to Max and Lily in Tangier, 192; at Castle Hill Farm, Kent, 194, 196–7; works for WVS, 197; told of Miss Earnshaw’s anti-Jewish remark, 200; protects David from Spitfire bullets, 203; translates instructions from crashed V–1, 204; returns to Royaumont (June 1945), 206; recovers health, 212; marriage relations, 217, 222–4, 273; Edith Sitwell gives poems to, 218; miscarriage, 218–19; social life, 218; home in Cavendish Close, St John’s Wood, 219, 222; letter to Alan on impending death, 222–4; relations with Lily de Rothschild, 228; relations withs Elie de Rothschild, 228–30; reinterred at Viames, 232; forces Alan to adopt Catholicism, 277; Jewish identity, 280; in Hungary, 291
Pryce-Jones, Vere (née Dawnay; David’s grandmother): background and marriage to Harry, 31, 60, 62, 65–7; children, 70–1; finances, 72; home life, 74; and sons’ homosexuality, 84–5; and Alan’s trip to Middle East with Bobby, 89, 92; letter from Joan Eyres-Monsell, 101; Alan’s correspondence with, 103, 105–9, 116; visits Meidling, 116; letters from Poppy, 117, 119–20; declares love for Alan, 120; accompanies Poppy to Buckingham Palace, 128; in Le Touquet, 136; predicts war at Munich crisis, 141; returns to York Gate, 158; visits Paris in war, 158; visits Castle Hill Farm, 199; and Harry’s death, 236
Pryce-Jones, Victor (David’s great uncle), 56–7
Pundik, Herbert and Susie, 281
Purdue, Miss (lady’s maid), 44–6
Quennell, Peter and Marcelle, 100
Quinton, Antony, 218
Quondam (David; novel), 288
Radcliffe, Cyril, Viscount, 237
Radziwiłł, Prince and Princess Eugénie, 170