INDEX
Note: bold page numbers indicate entries in the glossary of “Diners”; italic page numbers refer to illustrations.
Acheson, Dean 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Adana 1, 2
Admiralty House 1, 2
aircraft 1, 2, 3, 4
Ajax, HMS 1
Alanbrooke, Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount see Brooke, Sir Alan
alcoholic excess, Churchill’s alleged 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Alexander, Albert Victor (later 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough) 1, 2
allotments 1
American Civil War 1
Anzio landings (1944) 1
Arnn, Larry 1
Arnold, Henry H. “Hap” 1, 2
Aron, Leon 1n17
Asquith, Herbert Henry (later 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith) 1, 2, 3
Atatürk, Mustafa Kemal 1
Athens 1, 2
Atlantic Charter 1, 2
atomic bomb 1, 2, 3, 4
Attlee, Clement, 1st Earl 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Augusta, USS 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Babelsberg 1;
Villa Urbig 1, 2
Bakewell, Joan, Baroness 1
Balaclava 1
Balmoral 1
Baruch, Bernard 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
battlefield recreations, table-top 1
BBC 1
Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, 1st Baron 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
beef 1, 2, 3
“bellybandoes” (cigar tips) 1, 2
Berezhkov, Valentin 1, 2, 3, 4
Berlin 1, 2
Bermuda 1, 2; Mid Ocean Club 1, 2, 3, 4
Bermuda Conference (1953) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Berry Brothers (wine merchants) 1
bills (restaurant and hotel) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Birla, Ghanshyam Das 1
Birse, Arthur H. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
birthday, Churchill’s 1; (1942) 1;
(1943) 1, 2, 3;
(1953) 1, 2;
(1960) 1, 2;
(1963) 1;
(1964) 1
Blamey, Sir Thomas 1
Bloody Mary (cocktail) 1
BOAC, breakfast menu 1, 2
Boer War 1
Boettiger, Anna Roosevelt 1
Boettiger, John 1
Bohlen, Charles “Chip” 1, 2, 3, 4, 5n6, 7n8
Bonham Carter, Sir Maurice 1
Bonham Carter, Violet (later Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury) 1, 2, 3
Bovril 1
Bracken, Brendan, 1st Viscount 1, 2, 3n4
Braddock, Bessie 1, 2
Braithwaite, Sir Rodric 1n2
brandy 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
breakfasts 1, 2, 3
Bright, Joan (later Astley) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
“British Restaurants” (wartime non-profit establishments) 1
Broadbent, Michael 1
Brook, Norman (later 1st Baron Normanbrook) 1, 2
Brooke, Sir Alan (later 1st Viscount Alanbrooke) 1, 2, 3, 4; Adana meeting (1943) 1, 2;
Teheran Conference (1943) 1, 2;
Yalta Conference (1945) 1
Browne, Sir Anthony Montague 1, 2, 3
Bullard, Sir Reader 1, 2
Butcher, Harry C. 1
Butler, Richard Austen “Rab” (later Baron Butler of Saffron Walden) 1, 2
Byrnes, James F. 1, 2, 3
Cadogan, Sir Alexander1; Adana meeting (1943) 1;
Moscow meetings with Stalin (1942) 1;
Potsdam Conference (1945) 1, 2;
“Riviera” summit (Placentia Bay, 1941) 1, 2, 3, 4;
Teheran Conference (1943) 1;
Yalta Conference (1945) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Cairo 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Carlton Hotel, London 1
cartoons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Casablanca Conference (1943) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
caviar 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Cecilie, German Crown Princess 1
Cecilienhof Palace, Potsdam 1, 2, 3, 4
chairs, dining room 1, 2
Chamberlain, Neville 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
champagne 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8; Krug 1;
Pol Roger 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
Pommery 1, 2
Charles XII, King of Sweden 1
Charmley, John 1
Chartwell 1, 2;
dining room 1, 2
cheese 1
Chequers 1, 2, 3, 4;
dining room 1
Cherbourg 1
Cherwell, Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount 1, 2, 3, 4
Chicago 1
china (dinner service) 1
Chopin, Frédéric 1
Christmas dinner 1
Chubb, Percy 1
Churchill, Clementine (later Baroness Spencer-Churchill) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13n27
Churchill, Mary (later Baroness Soames) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Churchill, Lady Randolph (née Jennie Jerome) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Churchill, Lord Randolph 1, 2
Churchill, Randolph 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Churchill, Sarah 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Churchill, Sir Winston: acceptance of hospitality 1; affection for animals 1, 2, 3;
after-lunch naps 1;
appetite and tastes in food 1, 2, 3, 4;
battlefield recreations 1;
birthdays 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
charm 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
clothes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
conversational skills 1, 2, 3, 4;
conviviality 1, 2, 3;
curiosity and information gathering xiv, 1, 2;
depressions 1, 2;
diplomatic skills 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
drinking 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
favourite films 1;
financial interests 1;
generosity 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
hosting skills 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
humanity 1;
humour 1, 2, 3, 4;
ill-health and physical decline 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11;
indigestion 1, 2, 3;
intelligence 1, 2, 3;
lack of culinary skills 1;
memory 1;
musical tastes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
novel reading 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
resilience 1;
self-confidence 1, 2, 3;
smoking 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10;
taste in desserts 1, 2, 3;
toughness 1;
“tummy-time” 1, 2;
unpunctuality 1, 2;
work ethic and routine 1, 2, 3, 4
Churchill, Winston (grandson) 1
Churchill College, Cambridge 1, 2
cigarettes 1, 2, 3, 4
cigars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
as security risk 1;
symbolism of 1, 2, 3, 4
claret 1, 2, 3
Claridge’s 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
cocktails 1;
Bloody Marys 1;
martinis 1, 2
Cohen, Eliot A. 1
Cold War 1, 2, 3, 4
Colville, Sir John “Jock” 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Combined Chiefs of Staff Committee 1, 2
commemorative meals 1, 2, 3
Como, Lake 1
consommé 1, 2, 3
Cooper, Alfred Duff (later 1st Viscount Norwich) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Cooper, Lady Diana 1, 2
Coward, Sir Noël 1
Crankshaw, Eric 1
cream 1
Crimean War 1
Cripps, Sir Stafford 1, 2
Croft, Henry Page (later 1st Baron Croft) 1
Cuba 1
Cunningham, Sir Andrew (later 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope) 1, 2, 3
Cunningham, Sir John 1, 2
D-Day 1, 2, 3
Daily Graphic 1
Dallas, Texas 1
Damaskinos, Archbishop 1, 2
Dardanelles Campaign 1
Davies, David, 1st Baron 1
Davies, Joseph E. 1, 2
Davies, Marion 1, 2
Dempsey,
Jack 1
Denmark 1
desserts: Churchill’s taste in 1, 2, 3;
“Persian lantern” dessert 1, 2
D’Este, Carlo 1
détente 1
Dickens, Charles, Oliver Twist 1
Dill, Sir John 1
Dixon, Sir Pierson 1
Downing Street 1;
dining room 1, 2;
wartime basement dining room 1, 2
Dreyfus, Louis G. 1, 2
Dufferin and Ava, Basil Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 4th Marquess of 1n2
Dugdale, Blanche 1
Duke of York, HMS 1
Dulles, John Foster 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Dunottar Castle, SS 1
Eden, Anthony (later 1st Earl of Avon) 1, 2, 3, 4;
meeting with Stalin in Moscow (1941) 1, 2;
Potsdam Conference (1945) 1, 2, 3;
relations with Churchill 1, 2, 3;
Teheran Conference (1943) 1;
Yalta Conference (1945) 1
eggs 1; plovers’ 1, 2, 3;
powdered 1
Eisenhower, Dwight D. 1, 2;
Bermuda Conference (1953) 1, 2, 3, 4;
and Churchill’s hosting skills 1, 2;
refusal to meet Soviet leaders 1, 2, 3;
relations with Churchill 1, 2;
Tuesday lunches with Churchill 1, 2, 3
Eisenhower, John S.D. 1
elections:
Britain: (1945) 1, 2, 3, 4;
(1951) 1
United States: (1940) 1;
(1944) 1n7
Elizabeth II, Queen 1
Elizabeth, Queen (consort of George VI; later Queen Mother) 1, 2, 3, 4
Enchantress, HMS 1
Enigma (intelligence information) 1
Fields, Alonzo 1, 2, 3
films 1, 2
Firpo, Luis Angel 1
food production, wartime 1, 2, 3
Forester, C.S. 1, 2, 3
Fortnum and Mason 1
Fox of St James’s (tobacconists) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Franconia, SS 1
Frederick IV, King of Denmark 1
Freeman, Sir Wilfrid 1
French Riviera 1, 2, 3;
Villa La Pausa 1, 2
Fuchs, Klaus 1
Fulton, Missouri 1, 2, 3
Gandhi, Mahatma 1
garden parties 1, 2
George VI, King 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;
meals with Churchill 1, 2, 3
German-Americans 1
Gibraltar 1
Gilbert, Sir Martin 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Gilbert and Sullivan 1, 2
Gilmour, Joe 1
Goebbels, Joseph 1
Golovanov, Alexander 1, 2
Greece 1, 2, 3
Grieg, Edvard 1
Grigg, Sir Percy James 1
grouse 1, 2
Gusev, Fedor 1, 2
Halifax, Dorothy, Countess of 1, 2, 3
Halifax, E.F.L. Wood, 1st Earl of 1, 2, 3
Hall, Douglas 1
Hall, Gilbert 1, 2
Hall, Radclyffe 1
ham 1, 2, 3, 4; Callaway ham 1
Hamlin, Bertie 1, 2
Hampton Roads, Virginia 1
Harcourt, Sir Cecil 1
Harriman, Averell 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11n12
Harriman, Kathleen 1, 2
Harriman, Pamela (earlier Churchill) 1, 2
Harvey, Oliver (later 1st Baron Harvey of Tasburgh) 1, 2, 3, 4
Hastings, Sir Max 1
Hatch Mansfield (wine merchants) 1
Hearst, William Randolph 1, 2, 3
Hetherington, Derek 1
Hight, Betty 1
Hill, Kathleen 1
Himmelfarb, Gertrude 1
Hitler, Adolf, on Churchill’s drinking 1, 2
Hollis, Sir Leslie 1, 2, 3n4
Holmes, Marian 1, 2, 3, 4
Hopkins, Harry L. 1, 2, 3, 4;
meeting with Stalin (July 1941) 1;
relations with Churchill 1, 2;
“Riviera” summit (Placentia Bay, 1941) 1, 2, 3;
Teheran Conference (1943) 1;
visit to Britain (January 1941) 1;
at White House 1, 2, 3;
Yalta Conference (1945) 1, 2
Hopkins, Robert 1
Howard, Leslie 1
Howells, Roy 1, 2, 3n4
Hull, Cordell 1, 2, 3, 4
Hunt, Thomas Cecil 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Hyde Park, London, piggery 1
Hyde Park, New York 1, 2, 3
ice-cream 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
India Bill (1935) 1
indigestion 1, 2, 3
Inönü, Ismet 1, 2, 3, 4
International Churchill Societies 1
Ionides, Basil 1
Irish stew 1, 2, 3
Irish-Americans 1
“Iron Curtain” speech (1946) 1, 2, 3, 4
Irving, David 1
Ismay, Sir Hastings “Pug” (later Baron Ismay) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Ive, Ruth 1, 2
Jacob, Sir Ian 1, 2, 3n4
James, Sir Robert Rhodes 1
Japan 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Jerome, Clarita “Clara” 1
J.J. Fox Cigar Shop 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Johnnie Walker (whisky) 1
Jutland, Battle of (1916) 1
Kass, Leon 1
Kennedy, John F. 1, 2
Kennedy, Joseph 1, 2
Kensington Gardens 1
Kerr, Sir Archibald Clark (later 1st Baron Inverchapel) 1, 2, 3
Keynes, John Maynard, 1st Baron 1, 2
KGB 1
Kimball, Warren F. 1
King, Ernest J. 1, 2, 3, 4
King, William Lyon Mackenzie 1, 2, 3, 4
Knatchbull-Hugessen, Sir Hughe 1, 2
lamb cutlets 1
Land Army 1
Landemare, Georgina 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Landemare, Paul 1
Langworth, Richard 1, 2
Laniel, Joseph 1, 2
Laski, Harold 1, 2
Laxford River 1
Layton, Elizabeth (later Nel) 1, 2, 3
League of Nations 1
Leahy, William D. 1, 2
Lees-Milne, James 1
Lend-Lease 1, 2, 3, 4
Lindemann, Frederick (later 1st Viscount Cherwell) 1, 2, 3, 4
List, Eugene 1
Livadia Palace, Crimea 1, 2
Llewellin, John Jestyn, 1st Baron 1, 2, 3
Lloyd George, David, (later 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor) 1, 2
Loch More 1
Los Angeles, Montmartre Restaurant 1
Lunghi, Hugh 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Lyttelton, Oliver (later 1st Viscount Chandos) 1, 2
MacArthur, Douglas 1
McCormick, Robert 1
MacDonald, Ramsay 1
McGowan, Norman 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6n7, 8n9
Mackenzie King, William Lyon 1, 2, 3, 4
Macmillan, Harold (later 1st Earl of Stockton) 1, 2, 3
Maisky, Ivan 1, 2, 3
Malaya 1
Malta 1, 2, 3, 4
Manhattan Project 1
Marlborough, John Spencer-Churchill, 10th Duke of 1
Marrakesh 1
Marshall, George C. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Martin, Sir John 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8n31
martinis 1, 2
matches 1, 2n3
Meiklejohn, Robert P. 1
menus: breakfasts 1; dinners 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15;
garden parties 1, 2;
lunches 1, 2, 3, 4
MI5 1, 2
Molotov, Vyacheslav 1;
at Chequers 1;
in Moscow 1, 2; Potsdam Conference (1945) 1, 2, 3, 4;
Teheran Conference (1943) 1;
Yalta Conference (1945) 1
Molyneux, Edward 1
Monckton, Sir Walter (later 1st Viscount Monckton of Brenchley) 1, 2
Montagu, Venetia 1, 2
Monte Carlo, Hôtel de Paris 1
Montgomery, Bernard, (later 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein)
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Moran, Charles Wilson, 1st Baron see Wilson, Sir Charles
Morgenthau, Henry 1, 2, 3
Morgenthau, Robert 1
Morton, Henry Vollam 1, 2, 3, 4n5
Moscow 1;
Metropole Hotel 1
Murray, Edmund 1, 2
mustard 1
Napoleon I 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Napoleonic Wars 1, 2
Nel, Elizabeth see Layton, Elizabeth
Nesbitt, Henrietta 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
New York, Lenox Hospital 1
Newfoundland see “Riviera” summit
Nicholas II, Tsar 1
Nicholson, Sir William 1
Nicolson, Sir Harold 1, 2
Novello, Ivor 1
Oliver Twist: (book) 1; (film) 1
Omdurman, Battle of (1898) 1
Onassis, Aristotle 1
oranges 1, 2
Orczy, Emmuska, Baroness, The Scarlet Pimpernel 1
Other Club 1, 2, 3
Overlord, Operation 1, 2
Paley, William S. 1
Paris: British embassy 1;
Ritz Hotel 1, 2, 3
Patton, George S. 1
Pavlov, Vladimir 1, 2, 3, 4
Pearl Harbor 1, 2
peas 1, 2
Peck, Sir John 1, 2, 3
“Persian lantern” dessert 1, 2
Phillips, Sir Thomas “Tom” 1
photography 1
Pickhardt, Otto C. 1
picnics 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
pigs 1, 2, 3, 4
Pim, Sir Richard 1, 2
Pimpernel Smith (film) 1
Pinfield, Stewart 1, 2
placement see seating arrangements
Placentia Bay see “Riviera” summit
Pleydell-Bouverie, Audrey 1
plovers’ eggs 1, 2, 3
Pol Roger, Odette 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Pol Roger (racehorse) 1
Poland 1, 2, 3, 4
Pompano Beach, Florida 1
Ponting, Clive 1
pork 1, 2, 3
port 1, 2, 3, 4
Portal, Sir Charles (later 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford) 1, 2
Portal, Jane see Williams, Jane, Baroness Williams of Elvel