169 “She positively glowed”: private interview.
169 “One imagined”: Ibid.
170 “favourite kit”: Crawford, p. 111.
170 “to rearrange the Palace furniture”: Alexandra, p. 106.
170 “Sometimes I wondered”: Ibid.
171 “We quite often fought each other”: Townsend, Time and Chance, p. 142.
171 “rang up Lilibet”: Alexandra, p. 107.
171 “poked her head into ... ring sparkled”: Crawford, p. 107.
172 “She wore her happiness”: Shew, p. 92.
172 “They’ve wasted no time”: Alexandra, p. 109.
172 “straining to see”: H. Nicolson, Diaries, v. II, p. 115.
172 “For the less experienced”: Alexandra, p. 110.
173 “The Orthodox robes”: Lacey, p. 160.
173 “roamed the London art ... China, of course”: Hartnell, Silver and Gold, p. 112.
174 “The glory that was”: Wheeler-Bennett, p. 703.
174 “which had flown day and night”: Ibid.
175 “The young Naval officer”: Liversidge, p. 104.
175 “Margaret was sweet”: Crawford, p. 108.
176 “At mealtimes”: Alexandra, For a King’s Love, p. 123.
176 “I stood from 9:30”: Pope-Hennessy, p. 616.
176 “Everyone was covered”: Sunday Times, November 11, 1989.
177 “An Indian Rajah”: J. Colville, p. 620.
177 “Queen Mary, scintillating”: Ibid.
177 “Princess Elizabeth and I”: Ibid.
177 “My parents lived”: Ibid.
178 “We were both very small”: Ibid.
178 “Queen Mary was furious”: Ibid.
178 “struck by how ghastly”: Channon, p. 418.
179 “just to dress”: Cordêt, p. 232.
179 “Hello, Princess Elizabeth”: Ibid.
180 “Gold chairs were stacked”: Ibid.
180 “I am giving the Garter”: Wheeler-Bennett, p. 753.
181 “The great congregation”: Wulff, Queen of Tomorrow, p. 161.
182 “rushed down the seemingly”: Field, p. 104.
182 “were being counted’”: Alexandra, For a King’s Love, p. 160.
183 “swept out the great iron gates”: Wulff, p. 162.
183 “He’s a little more serious”: Alexandra, p. 162.
183 “It had been a dull morning”: Crawford, p. 115.
184 “Pammie Mountbatten”: Sunday Times, November 21, 1988.
184 “One noticed”: Alexandra, p. 99.
184 “Liz [Lady Elizabeth]”: Sunday Times, November 21, 1988.
184 “In the car”: Alexandra, p. 100.
184 “what a wonderful frock”: Ibid.
186 “led by the King”: Ibid., p. 176.
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187 “Those who could not get in”: Dean, p. 61.
188 “I was so proud of you and thrilled”: Wheeler-Bennett, pp. 754–755.
188 “the small, very smart, rather peremptory”: Ibid., pp. 59–61.
189 “Sir ... which I found” : Dean, p. 63.
189 “The food was not always”: Ibid.
189 “Windows were boarded up”: Cathcart, The Queen and Prince Philip, p. 89.
190 “glossy mirrors and green marble”: Ibid., p. 76.
191 “each afternoon at four-thirty”: Dean, p. 100.
191 “Even the most antique Bob Hope”: Molly Panter-Downes, New Yorker, March 20, 1948.
191 “the most marvellous person in the world”: Wheeler-Bennett, p. 755.
191 “a hint of sensitivity, a touch”: Mortimer, p. 216.
192 “[Princess Elizabeth] makes it very plain”: Lees-Milnes, p. 239.
192 “a bit unseemly”: private interview.
192 “warm and captivating charm”: Townsend, Time and Chance, p. 144.
192 “he seemed even more royal”: Regan, p. 86.
193 “Vive la Princesse”: Longford, The Queen, p. 131.
193 “We went to a most select”: Ibid.
193 “That’s my godfather!” Cordêt, p. 263.
194 “The Russians have stated”: H. Nicholson, Dianes, v.II, p. 238.
195 “The King seemed oddly protective”: Ibid.
195 “Old ladies dying like flies”: Coward, p. 111.
196 “Winston was in grey morning coat” through “a demonstration and was quite extraordinary”: Channon, pp. 429–430.
196 “that somewhat sinister landmark”: Townsend, p. 182.
196 “What’s the matter with my blasted legs”: Ibid.
197 “longing for horizons”: Ibid., p. 181.
198 “there was a danger of gangrene”: Wheeler-Bennett, p. 765.
198 “Philip took the stairs”: Holden, p. 49.
199 “which after dusk [were] lit with”: M.P.D., New Yorker, December 25, 1948.
199 “I am getting tired and bored”: Wheeler-Bennett, p. 765.
200 “I’ve never heard of a King”: Ibid., p. 767.
200 “One could not help”: private interview.
200 “That was the beginning”: Ibid.
200 [“Members of the Household] also felt”: Ibid.
201 “with his slight Southern drawl”: Channon, p. 447.
201 “gay, simple and yet very much”: Ibid.
203 “Most of the people who became my friends”: Warwick, Princess Margaret, p. 49.
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204 “was profound and sincere”: Wheeler-Bennett, p. 744.
204 “What is love?”: Ibid.
205 “She’s a natural”: Newsweek, July 27, 1953.
206 “hand-holding and a goodnight kiss”: private interview.
206 “She’s a hell of a girl”: Life, August 21, 1949.
207 “Dined with the Douglases”: Coward, p. 136.
208 “an immense dynamism”: private interview.
208 “to take it as well as dish it out”: Ibid.
209 “Margaret and Johnny”: Newsweek, July 29, 1953.
209 “tried to shush her”: Ibid.
210 “already she is a public character”: Channon, p. 439.
210 “She was at Lords”: Beaton, Royal Portraits, p. 122.
211 “I came away”: Ibid.
212 “empire ... the pale blue nursery ...” Lacey, Majesty, p. 168.
212 “ceremonial existence”: Ibid.
212 “prickly ... staff at all levels”: Dean, p. 66.
212 “featured”: Ibid.
215 “Dear old Sandringham”: Wheeler-Bennett, p. 740.
216 “A position, while it”: Townsend, Time and Chance, p. 186.
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217 “It was a contract”: Jill Seymour, Majesty Magazine, February 1988.
218 “clearly defined and undemocratic”: Russell and James, p. 193.
219 “vestiges of real affection”: Townsend, Time and Chance, p. 187.
219 “to show the world the degree”: Wheeler-Bennett, p. 784.
220 “She was a girl of unusual, intense”: Townsend, p. 188.
220 “But what ultimately made Princess Margaret”: Ibid.
222 “I have a condition”: Wheeler-Bennet, p. 786.
222 “might not be able”: Ibid., p. 789.
223 “Very thin but very plucky”: Ibid.
223 “had steeled them to the part”: Cathcart, Her Majesty, p. 111.
223 “was only too well”: Wheeler-Bennet, p. 799 n.
224 “This is a waste of time!”: Cathcart, p. 112.
224 “Here, at last, is something that”: Wheeler-Bennet, p. 799.
224 “When I was a little boy”: Cathcart, p. 117.
224 “Royalty would not fit”: Wheeler-Bennett, p. 799.
224 “such occasions as last week’s”: Ibid., p. 800.
224 “No one dared touch the newspaper”: Dean, p. 138.
224 “was sufficiently recovered”: Ibid.
225 “This heartening”: Ibid.
225 “I must be ready for the result”: Wheeler-Bennett,
p. 796.
226 “I cannot believe that such a little girl”: The Times, November 12, 1951.
226 “as his strength allowed”: Wheeler-Bennett, p. 802.
226 “This just shows that an operation”: Laird, Queen Elizabeth, p. 266.
227 “hatless, in a bitingly cold wind”: Townsend, p. 192.
228 “fellows in leopard skins”: Cathcart, p. 125.
228 “and the garden ran steeply”: Ibid.
228 “blue sky, sunshine”: Buxton, p. 138.
237 “bravely, like a Queen”: Cathcart, p. 124.
238 “gathered at the street”: Edwards, p. 414.
238 “had the look of”: Ibid.
238 “Lilibet, your skirts”: Dean, p. 150.
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240 “About what?” Bloch, Secret File, p. 257.
240 “genuine brotherly”: Ibid.
241 “to his mother blaming his sister-in-law”: Ibid.
241 “Be canny with Dickie”: Ibid., p. 258.
241 “Officially and on the surface”: Ibid., p. 261.
242 “as though she, too, had been struck”: M.P.D., New Yorker, February 16, 1953.
242 “My heart is too full”: Lacey, Majesty, p. 182.
243 “Great Hall was”: Channon, p. 463.
244 “was the most extraordinary”: M.P.D., New Yorker, February 23, 1953.
244 “would be discontinued, since it had been”: Bloch, p. 262.
244 “long, melancholy”: Airlie, p. 235.
244 “alone together at the window”: Ibid.
244 “As the cortege”: Ibid.
245 “Funeral passed off well”: Bloch, p. 263.
245 “Nobody cried”: Ibid.
246 “Cookie was sugar”: Ibid.
246 “was alarmed to find how thin” Alexandra, Prince Philip, p. 139.
246 “basking in his status”: Pearson, The Selling of the Royal Family, p. 107.
246 “egged on by”: Ibid., p. 108.
247 “wonderfully polite”: Ibid., p. 110.
248 “increasing solace”: Ibid., p. 193.
249 “One afternoon [a few weeks later]”: Townsend, Time and Chance, p. 195.
249 “At Balmoral”: Ibid.
249 “How to consummate”: Ibid.
250 “a funny side to the poignant”: Ibid., p. 197.
250 “without a sign”: Ibid., p. 198.
251 “I cannot help feeling ...” Bloch, p. 274.
251 “The bulletins from Marlborough House”: Ibid.
251 “I have lost my memory”: Pope-Hennessy, p. 622.
251 “There were cries of dismay”: Channon, p. 473.
252 “Well, thank God the nightmare”: Bloch, p. 276.
252 “My sadness was mixed”: Ibid.
252 “She was magnificent”: Channon, p. 473.
252 “something familiar in the people’s”: M.P.D., New Yorker, April 11, 1953.
253 “What a smug, stinking lot”: Bloch, p. 279.
253 “in which he looked tragically like”: Ibid.
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254 “Sovereign and people alike”: King-Hall, p. 16.
254 “for celebration”: Brooke-Little, p. 46.
255 “not just well”: Ibid.
255 “Our first main”: Ibid.
256 “drawn by eight”: Ibid.
257 “feeling a little foolish”: Judd, p. 160.
259 “beaming like a moon”: M.P.D., New Yorker, June 13, 1953.
259 “In she came”: Ibid.
260 “A shaft of silvery sunlight”: Hartnell, Silver and Gold, p. 134.
260 “Suddenly”: Clark, p. 115.
260 “pale and composed”: Ibid., p. 117.
260 “piece by piece”: Ibid.
260 “in a moment” through “high above her head”: Ibid., p. 118.
262 “superb, sparkling”: Townsend, Time and Chance, p. 200.
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264 “was incredible”: private interview.
267 “frighten Mrs. Simpson”: Colville, p. 266.
268 “I don’t know her”: Lacey, p. 194.
268 “not so good mentally”: Pelling, p. 603.
269 “being dispatched willy-nilly”: Townsend, Time and Chance, p. 203.
270 “Her mother—I blessed”: Ibid., p. 202.
270 “There on the tarmac”: Ibid.
271 “particularly harrowing”: Ibid., p. 203.
272 “Philip invited me”: Cordêt, p. 145.
272 “For some time now”: Ibid.
272 “where some close friends”: Ibid.
272 “Mother and the children”: Ibid., p. 149.
273 “Having my mother with me”: Ibid., p. 141.
273 “As I wanted to send”: Ibid., p. 142.
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275 “when every other”: private interview.
276 “he was going into”: private interview.
277 “unusual even for”: Regan, p. 141.
278 “Our own world”: Townsend, Time and Chance, p. 210.
278 “Goodbye, wonderful”: Channon, p. 581.
278 “funk” through “Ho! Ho!”: private interview.
279 “It may well be”: Churchill (quoted in several newspapers).
280 “the most ambitious”: Cathcart, Her Majesty, p. 146.
280 “pyramids of roast pig”: Ibid., p. 151.
280 “hurriedly stripped”: Ibid., p. 152.
281 “since it was a hue”: Lacey, Majesty, p. 211.
281 “What the Queen did find”: Longford, The Queen, p. 182.
281 “The entire crowd”: Ibid.
282 “that she had returned”: M.P.D., New Yorker, May 29, 1954.
283 “Our joy at being together”: Townsend, p. 210.
284 “was out on her own”: Boothroyd, p. 50.
284 “He had no entitlement”: Ibid.
284 “Good works apart”: Ibid., p. 53.
285 “Anything can come up”: Ibid., p. 54.
285 “He could put”: Ibid.
286 “With the job itself”: Ibid., p. 225.
286 “Fella belong”: Edinburgh, The Wit of Prince Philip, p. 31.
286 “She still brightened”: private interview.
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287 “he brooded about the atomic”: Macmillan, p. 530.
287 “First ... he had told him”: Ibid.
288 “scuds of stormy rain”: M.P.D., New Yorker, December 11, 1954.
289 “in the medieval chill”: Ibid.
289 “found no unmanliness”: Ibid.
289 “smiling vaguely”: Ibid.
289 “an historic occasion”: Macmillan, p. 556.
290 “physically”: Townsend, Time and Chance, p. 213.
291 “[Foot] told me in detail”: Coward, p. 254.
292 “Princess Margaret’s visit”: Ibid., p. 257.
293 “Colville and the Queen’s”: Townsend, p. 216.
293 “morass of frantic”: Ibid.
294 “peppered with comments”: Majesty, Lacey, p. 219.
294 “banquet food”: Ibid.
303 “continuity with the past”: Times, October 3, 1989.
303 “The trouble was said to be”: Pearson, The Selling of the Royal Family, p. 127.
303 “a quiet picnic”: Barrymaine, p. 144.
304 “The Queen declined”: Lacey, p. 227.
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306 “undemocratic bullies”: Time, November 7, 1955.
307 “was unable to feel ”: Townsend, Time and Chance, p. 236.
309 “Time had not staled”: Ibid., p. 222.
310 “was besieged”: Ibid., p. 226.
310 “had a huge load”: Ibid., p. 228.
311 “I had an interesting”: Bloch, p. 286.
314 “unwavering in her”: Barrymaine, p. 169.
314 “before a log”: Ibid., p. 172.
315 “I was obsessed” : Townsend, Time an
d Chance, p. 236.
315 “The smile had vanished”: Ibid.
315 “I have been thinking”: Townsend, p. 235.
316 “I was stunned”: private interview.
317 “with a man”: Daily Express, October 29, 1955.
317 “hundreds of cars”: Barrymaine, p. 159.
317 “the unctuous”: Bloch, Secret File, p. 289.
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319 “Her husband’s resentment”: Lacy, Majesty, p. 194.
319 “there were a good many island”: Boothroyd, Prince Philip, p. 173.
320 “I showed them”: Ibid.
320 “even on the 3,800 miles”: Ibid.
320 “drove out of Brussels”: Townsend, Time and Chance, p. 237.
320 “Only when I left Istanbul”: Ibid.
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