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Rae, Gwynedd, 198
Rae, Kenneth, 94, 115, 121, 140, 151–2, 198
Ragg, Herr (head keeper), 1
Ragg, Albert (son), 230
Ragg, Hubert (son), 1, 5
Rajk, László, 321
Ranguet, General de, 159
Ranković, Alexander, 303
Raphael, Frederic, 321
Ratti-Menton, Count, 33
Reagan, Ronald, 309
Rees, Goronwy, 269
Rees-Mogg, William, 267
Reich-Ranicki, Marcel, 320
Reinach, Julius, 209
Reinach, Leon and Beatrice (née Camondo), 209
Reininghaus, Kurt and Biba (née Springer), 169
Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 123
Richards, Nigel, 100
Richardson, John, 237, 276
Richmond, Bruce, 80
Riddell, Dean, 243
Rimbert (head keeper, Royaumont), 9, 211
Ritchie, Anne and Richmond, 186
Robert (valet), 141, 151
Roberts, Ellis, 65
Rockley Manor, Wiltshire, 169, 193
Root, Revd Howard, 243
Rosse, Laurence Parsons, 6th Earl and Anne, Countess of, 245
Rothschild, Alain de, 6
Rothschild, Alphonse de, 47, 143
Rothschild, Cécile de: on Max as lover, 14; Mitzi takes to theatre in Paris, 158; parentage, 164, 172; rejects Raoul Helbronner’s proposal, 170; dines at Somerhill, 212; house at Saint-Raphaël, 230; lends anorak to David, 231; David visits in Paris, 253; visits David in Oxford, 254; wedding present of yacht cruise for David and Clarissa, 266
Rothschild, Clarice, 47–8, 143, 276
Rothschild, Elie, Baron de (Liliane’s husband): in Seefeld, 1, 4–5; at Royaumont, 9–10; on quarrel beween Eugène and Robert de Rothschild, 39; engagement to Lily, 158; rejected for French regiment, 158–9; as prisoner of war, 174, 177, 227; marriage by procuration, 180, 227; meets Mitzi in Paris at war’s end, 210; buys waistcoat for David, 227; relations with Mitzi, 227–8; relations with Poppy, 228–30; qualities and style, 229; relations with David, 229–32; loses sight in eye playing polo, 230; physically attacks David, 231–2; lives at Faisanderie, Royaumont, 233; violence and overbearing behaviour, 233–5; sister Cécile’s view of, 253; David and Clarissa visit on honeymoon, 267; negotiates sale of Maisons-Alfort, 333; and disposal of Mitzi’s estate, 336–7; marriage relations, 338
Rothschild, Elizabeth de (David’s cousin), 308
Rothschild, Guy de, 199
Rothschild, Jacob, 231, 254
Rothschild, James de, 146
Rothschild, Kitty de, 167
Rothschild, Liliane, Baroness de (née Fould-Springer; David’s aunt): in Seefeld, 1, 5; photography, 4; at Royaumont before war, 9–10, 108, 126; on Max, 13; on Mitzi’s ‘Internationale Judeolesbienne’ circle, 26; on Poppy’s growing up, 29; Jewish upbringing, 30; Alan meets as girl, 93–4; life in Vienna, 106; shooting in Slovakia, 117; in Dieppe in war, 154; engagement to Elie, 158; and evacuation from Montreuil, 166–7; boils, 177; marries Elie by ‘procuration’, 180, 227; in Cannes during war, 185; escapes from Vichy France, 191–2; returns to Paris at war’s end, 210; at Royaumont after war, 213; Elie mistreats, 234–5; on Isaiah Berlin, 255–6; in Hungary, 291; and Suzanne Blum, 315; and degeneration of Royaumont, 337–8; eightieth birthday, 338
Rothschild, Louis, 143
Rothschild, Nathaniel (David’s cousin), 2, 228, 333, 338
Rothschild, Nelly (David’s cousin), 2, 228
Rothschild, Nelly de (Robert’s wife), 164, 172
Rothschild, Robert de, 39, 158, 172
Rothschild, Tess, 230
Rothschild, Victor, 230–1, 315
Rowntree, Kenneth, 199
Royal Welsh Warehouse (RWW), 56, 59
Royaumont, near Chantilly: described, 2, 8–18; for sale, 30; Alan visits, 106; Eduardo and Bubbles occupy in war, 158, 205; Germans commandeer in war, 166; liberated by Adrian (September 1944), 205–6; Mitzi returns to, 211–12; concerts and lectures in abbey, 214; Elie lives in Faisanderie, 233; Rothschilds take over, 333, 337; decay, 337–8; contents sold, 338; leased out as conference centre, 338
Runciman, Garry, 226
Running Away (David; novel), 288, 304
Rushmore, Robert, 276
Ruskin, John: The Bible of Amiens, 38
Sackville-West, Edward, 86, 212
Sadat, Anwar, 302
Saddam Hussein, 302
Safe Houses (David; novel), 268
Said, Edward, 186
San Martino (villa) see Florence
Sandgruber, Roman: Traumzeit für Millionäre, 20–1
Sandys, Duncan, 278
Sargent, Miss (nanny), 2
Satterthwaite, John, Bishop of Fulham, 244
Schall, Roger, 319
Scheepers, Gideon Jacobus, 61
Schirach, Baldur von, 313
Schlesinger, Arthur, 317
Schorer, Mark, 304
Schratt, Frau (Franz Josef’s mistress), 22
Schreiber, Mark, 188
Schreiber, Mrs (Mark’s mother), 188
Schultz, Roger, 242
Schwarzenberg, Kari, Prince, 117–18
Scruton, Roger, 317, 321
Searle, Alan, 238
Sears, Richard Warren and Alvah Curtis Roebuck, 56
Seefeld, Tyrol, 1, 5
Seligmann, Mrs (née David-Weill), 167
Semmering, Vienna, 104
Serpa Pinto (ship), 171
Serrano Suñer, Ramón, 182–3
Seybeel, Wolly, 117
Shanks, Edward, 121
Sharon, Ariel, 299
Shaw, R.I.H., 80
Sheean, Vincent, 91
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 140
Shostakovich, Dmitri, 263
Sicily: Bobby Pratt-Barlow in, 87–9
Simolin, Rudi, 313
Sinclair, Andrew, 226
Sitwell, Edith, 217–18, 259–60
Sitwell, Osbert, 327
Sitwell, Sacheverell, 278
Six, Dr Franz: list, 73
Skelton, Barbara, 246
Skittles (Catherine Walters; courtesan), 35
Slade, Julian, 275
Slovakia: Jewish property expropriated, 168
Snow, C.P., 285
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, 317
Somerhill (house), Tonbridge, Kent, 3, 194–5, 278–9
South America: Alan travels in, 95
Soviet Union: takes over eastern Poland, 153; invades Hungary (1956), 256; and defeat of Egypt in 1967 war, 295; disintegrates, 321–3; invasion of Czechoslovakia, 321
Spain: Alan visits, 99–100, 107; refugees from France (1940), 165, 167; occupies Tangier, 182; neutrality in war, 183; David passes through in war, 185
Sparrow, John, 248
Spectator, The (magazine), 146, 283
Speer, Albert, 313
Spender, Stephen, 129, 263, 327
Spies, Walter, 44
Springer family: background, 19–20; Jewishness, 24–5
Springer, Amalia (née Todesco), 19
Springer, Axel, 19
Springer, Elizabeth (Max’s wife), 151
Springer, Georg and Heinrich (Max-Elizabeth’s sons), 151
Springer, Baron Gustav (Max’s son), 20–4, 27–8, 41, 114, 156
Springer, Hélène (née Koenigswarter), 22
Springer, Max (1807–85), 19–20, 24
Springer, Max (Mitzi’s cousin), 124, 126, 142, 151–2, 159
Springerische Waisenhaus, Vienna (orphanage), 24, 143–4
Squire, J.C., 79–81, 94, 129
Stainer, Marion (nanny), 14–15, 22, 50, 110, 151, 174, 182, 265
Stalin, Josef: pact with Hitler (1939), 153; Isaiah Berlin denounces, 255; Namiers attack, 263
Stalin, Svetlana (Alliluyeva), 55
Stams monastery, Austria, 266
Stern, Jacques, 169
Stern, James, 103
Stern, Madame Jean, 32
Stevenson,
Quentin, 260
Stewart-Smith, Olivia, 310
Stiebel, Baron, 109
Stone, Reynolds and Janet, 199
Stopford, Robert, Bishop of London, 244, 334
Strachey, John, 100
Strand, Mark and Antonia, 289
Strauss, Michel, 170
Strauss, Richard: Arabella, 264–5
Sudan: Alan visits, 96
Suez Canal: bridged by Israeli engineers, 299
Suez crisis (1956), 256
Surrealism, 98
Switzerland, 214
Synnott, Piers, 100
Syria, 282
Szeps, Berta, 122
Tammuz, Benjamin, 102, 281
Tangier: Spain occupies, 182; David moves to in war, 186–9
Tanner, Tony, 268
Tassili cave-paintings, 300–1
Taylor, A.J.P., 261–2
Tel Aviv: Museum of the Diaspora, 19
Tennant, Neil, 320
Teplá (Czech company), 144, 168
Terry (Adrian’s lover), 306
Thatcher, Margaret, 322
Thiers, Adolphe, 173
Thomas, R.S., 55
Thorne, Daniel, 307
Time and Tide (magazine), 268
Times Literary Supplement: Bruce Richmond edits, 80; Alan edits, 212, 217, 236; reviews unsigned, 237; attacks David over Unity Mitford book, 318
Tito, Marshal Josip Broz, 303
Todesco, Eduard, 19
Tomalin, Nicholas, 298
Topol, 292
Townshend, Alice, 48
Townshend, General Sir Charles Vere Ferrers, 48
Tredegar, Evan Morgan, 2nd Viscount, 77, 79, 85, 115
Treuhaft, Bob, 309
Trevor-Roper, Hugh, 239, 257
Trissolin (racehorse), 170, 211, 291
Trooping the Colour ceremony, 250
Trost, Franz, 301
Turkey: David and Clarissa visit, 269
Tynan, Kenneth, 287
Uganda: Alan visits, 96
Ultan, Lloyd, 320
United States: Alan visits with Poppy, 218; David and family in, 288–90
Urquhart, Brian, 228
V–1 flying bombs, 203
Vacher, Dr (psychotherapist), 14
van den Breck family, 210
Van Leer, Bernard, 278
Van Leer, Wim and Lia, 278–80
Van Oss, Oliver (OVO), 6, 220, 225–6, 284
Vanity Fair: musical version, 275
Vansittart, Sir Robert, 122, 125, 133, 135, 154, 209
Vasili, Comte (pseud): La Société de Vienne, 22, 24
Vaugelas, Jean de, 13
Venice: Mitzi in, 142
Vernois, Marcel, 10, 166, 205, 211
Vernois, Renée, 10, 211
Vichy: French government in, 166
Vidler, Flight Lieutenant Tony, 206
Vienna: Waisenhaus, 24, 143–4; Alan in, 101–5; revolution (1934), 104–5; Jews repressed, 143–4; David visits on leave from army, 252
Vietnam War, 304
Vodianer, André de, 170
Waal, Edmund de, 35, 198
Waal, Elisabeth de, 198
Waal, Ignaz de (Iggy), 198
Waal, Tascha de, Dean of Canterbury, 198
Wagner, Siegfried and Winifred, 246
Wakehurst, Lady (née Grey; ‘Cousin Cuckoo’), 159, 193
Waldner, Emmeline de, 167
Waldner, Geoffrey de, 212
Waldner, Lulu de (née Esmond), 30–1, 128, 167, 199, 212, 274
Wales: David in, 54
Walker, John, 265
Wallace, Tom, 319
War That Never Was, The (David; in USA as The Strange Death of the Soviet Union), 318, 323
Warren, Sir Herbert, 77, 80
Warren Report (on death of President Kennedy), 289
Waterfield, Aubrey, 140
Watson, Peter, 74, 77
Waugh, Auberon (Bron), 286–7, 296
Waugh, Evelyn, 32, 100, 102, 129, 283, 286, 290
Waugh, Teresa, 286
Weidenfeld, George, 246, 275, 290
Weil, Julien, 30
Weishar, Charles, 329
Wells, H.G., 115
West, Rebecca, 316
West, Richard, 268
White, Sir Dick, 315
Whitworth (chauffeur), 160, 167, 169
Williams, Hatch, 304
Williams, R.V. (Bob), 289, 304
Wills, Mr Justice, 58
Willson, Neil, 199–200
Willson, Sir Walter and Lady, 199
Wilson, Angus, 283
Wilson, Edmund, 218; The Fifties, 222
Windsor Castle, 72–4
Windsor, Edward, Duke of, 170
Windsor, Wallis, Duchess of, 158, 170, 314
Winn, David, 258–9
Wintringham, Margaret, 146
Withers, John, 58
Wodehouse, P. G., 39
Wolfenden, Jeremy, 259
Wooddisse, Mary, 312
Woodhouse, Christopher Montague, 219
Woolf, Leonard, 118
Woolf, Virginia, 102, 118
Wooster, Frank (Mitzi’s husband): at Poppy’s wedding, 31; background, 39; Mitzi falls for, 40–3, 46–7, 90; and house in Montreuilsur-Mer, 42–3, 51, 150; relations with Eugène, 43, 45, 47, 90, 108; on trip to Asia, 44–6; marriage to Mitzi, 51, 91, 93; travels with Mitzi, 51; in Egypt, 90; encourages Alan’s courtship of Poppy, 106, 108; homosexuality, 124; in Germany before war, 142; drinking, 160, 213, 240; in flight from France (1940), 164, 166–7, 169; sails for New York, 171; receives pocket money from Mitzi, 207; David’s wariness of, 213; deteriorating marriage relations, 240; in Florence, 240; bronchitis and death, 241; Mitzi idealises after death, 241–2, 332
Wooster, Mary (earlier Fould-Springer; David’s maternal grandmother; Mitzi; Mitz): Poppy writes to, 2; acquires Royaumont, 8; appearance, 17; manner, 17–18; birth and upbringing, 21–5; eighteenth birhday photograph, 25; wealth, 25–6, 29; falls in love with Eugène, and marriage, 26–7; lives in Paris and Berlin, 29; pregnancies and children, 36, 41; Proust praises, 38; takes David to Maxim’s, 38; falls for Frank Wooster, 40–3, 46–7, 49, 90; marriage relations with Eugène, 41, 43, 45, 47; trip to Asia, 43–6; and Eugène’s death, 46; and Bubbles’s marriage to Eduardo Propper de Callejon, 47–8; and Max’s attempt to break up relations with Frank, 48–50; threatens to dismiss nannies, 50–1; buys and occupies property in Montreuil, 51, 150; changes nationality to English and converts to Christianity, 51–2; marriage to Frank, 51, 91; travels with Frank, 51; challenges Alan’s writing claims, 82–3; criticises Alan, 82; Alan meets, 93–4, 96; lawsuit with Czech government, 106; matchmaking with Alan and Poppy, 106–8, 110; financial advisers and investments, 122–3; and Nazi threat, 122–3, 126, 132–3, 143; on Jewish question, 125; supports children financially, 128; diaries, 131–2, 244, 334–5; dispute with Czech authorities, 132; horses in Hungary, 139; stays with Accames, 141; travels to Czechoslovakia (summer 1938), 141–2; and war threat, 141, 151; doubts Alan’s wish to enter politics, 145; portrayed in Alan’s Pink Danube, 148; preparations and safeguarding of property at beginning of war, 153; Christmas 1939 in Montreuil, 155; and Nazi looting of Meidling, 156–7; visits Paris in war, 158–9; and German advance in France, 159–60; and Frank’s wild behaviour in France during war, 160; in flight from France (1940), 164, 166–9; settles in Lisbon (Estoril), 169, 184; sails for New York, 171; spends war in Montreal, 172; sends parcels from Montreal, 197; leaves Montreal for England at war’s end, 207–9; on Max’s mental state, 207; learns of concentration camp victim, 209–10; returns to Paris at war’s end, 210; diaries partly destroyed by damp, 211; resettles in Royaumont, 211–12; and Alan’s money needs, 218; letter from dying Poppy, 224; relations with Elie de Rothschild, 227–8; letter from Alan on family matters, 229–30; David stays with in Paris, 231; David and Alan visit in Florence, 237–8, 240, 245; settles in Florence, 237; renounces Jewishness, 239; deteriorating marriage relations, 240–1, 245; breakdown after Frank’s deat
h, 241; idealises Frank after death, 241–2; religious fancies, 241–3; and Unite the Impossible doctrine, 242, 296, 332, 333–4; generosity and gifts to religious bodies, 243–4, 296; anger at David’s article on Mindszenty, 290; establishes fund for pensioners, 290, 292; disparages Czechs, 291–2; opposes advancing money to Alan, 305; lifestyle in later years, 332–3; and disposal of Royaumont, 333; disposal of estate, 334–7; heart attack and death, 334; letter of intent, 335
Yad Vashem, 183
Yakovlev, Alexander, 323
Yates, Richard: Revolutionary Road, 289
Yoeli, Agi, 280
Yoeli, Pinchas, 280
Yorck, Count (‘Sonny’), 125
York Gate, Marylebone (London): Poppy and Alan’s home in, 128–9, 158–9; bombed in war, 178, 184
Yorke, Henry (Henry Green), 75
Yugoslavia, 303
Žantovský, Michael, 321
Zarouz, Spain, 174–5
Zionism, 279
Zuckerman, Pinchas, 320
A NOTE ON THE TYPE
FAULT LINES has been set in Kingfisher, a family of types designed by Jeremy Tankard. Frustrated by the paucity of truly well-drawn fonts for book work, Tankard set out to create a series of types that would be suitable for a wide range of text settings. Informed by a number of elegant historical precedents – the highly regarded Doves type, Monotype Barbou, and Ehrhardt among them – yet beholden to no one type in particular, Kingfisher attains a balance of formality, detail, and color that is sometimes lacking in types derived or hybridized from historical forms. The italic, designed intentionally as a complement to the roman, has much in common with earlier explorations in sloped romans like the Perpetua and Joanna italics, yet moderates the awkward elements that mar types like Van Krimpen’s Romulus italic. The resulting types, modern, crisp, and handsome, are ideal for the composition of text matter at a variety of sizes, and comfortable for extended reading.
SERIES DESIGN BY CARL W. SCARBROUGH
David Pryce-Jones arrived in England aged five in 1941 having fled Vienna when the Nazis took over, escaped through a crumbling France under the protection of his resourceful English nanny, and learned Arabic from a Tangier gardener while waiting for a plane to safety. But the gods had given him a full season ticket for the theatre of twentieth-century history and the talent to review it. In these superb memoirs he paints a vivid picture of how its wars, revolutions and upheavals have destroyed his extended international family and the high European civilization in which once it flourished. Here is the sadness of things told with honesty, regret and love.
JOHN O’SULLIVAN
editor at large, National Review