Cyprus Review, 100, 120
Dahl, Eric, 214–15
Daily Telegraph, 433
Damascus, 343–4
Dartmoor, 137
Dawkins, Richard MacGillivray, 77
Dessès, Jean (fashion designer), 68
Devonshire, Andrew Cavendish, 11th
Duke of: marriage to Debo, 107; PLF stays with at Chatsworth, 184, 276, 280, 315; suggests title for PLF article, 224; at PLF’s wedding, 260; gives up drinking, 281n5; Angela Conner bronze of, 299; climbing with PLF, 299; PLF visits in England, 307–8; resumes drinking, 358n1; on illicit liaisons at Chatsworth, 361; dislikes visiting Sandringham, 406; death and funeral, 427–8
Devonshire, Deborah, Duchess of (‘Debo’), 108, 130, 145, 431, 435; friendship and correspondence with PLF, xiii, 107; PLF stays with at Chatsworth, 184, 276, 280, 315; at Lismore Castle, 187–8; and PLF’s search for house in Greece, 219; and PLF’s attempt to help Balasha come to West, 230; PLF visits in England, 307–8; and Ann Fleming’s final illness, 348; in America, 393; and Andrew’s death and funeral, 427–8; correspondence with PLF published, 431; moves from Chatsworth to Edensor, 431; and review of Blacker’s Along the Enchanted Way, 434
Dictionary of National Biography, 326–7
Dietz, Howard and Tanis, 69n5
Dionysius the Areopagite, St, 42
Dionysius, Fr, Pro-Abbot of Arkadi, Crete, 328
Doelnitz, Marc, 154
Donaldson, John George Stuart, Baron and Frances, Lady, 303
Donici, Constantin, 16
Donne, John, 291
‘Dossiers de l’Ecran’ (TV broadcast), 314
Douglas, Sir James (d.1330), 99
Douglas, Norman, 180
Drogheda, Garrett Moore, 11th Earl of, 198, 227
Drogheda, Henry Dermot Ponsonby Moore, 12th Earl and Alexandra, Countess of (née Henderson), 407
Drogheda, Joan, Countess of, 198, 227
Drummond, Lindsay, 47
Duff Cooper Prize, 227
Dumbleton Hall, Gloucestershire, 184–5, 197n1; see also Mill House, Dumbleton
Dunbabin, Thomas James, 153, 223, 328; The Western Greeks, 77
Dunbar, William, 272n5
Durrell, Claude-Marie, 212
Durrell, Lawrence, 20, 100, 119, 181, 210; in Cyprus, xvii, 100, 119; PLF and Xan Fielding meet, 20–1; divorce from Daphne, 121n6; PLF visits, 151; in Ischia, 181; stays in PLF’s room in London, 181; house at Uzès, 244, 277; friendship with Walter Smart, 258; Alexandria Quartet (novels), 23n1; Balthazar, 181
Durrell, Sappho, 101, 120
Durrell, Yvette (Eve; earlier Cohen), 101, 120
Eastern Court Hotel see Chagford, Devon
Easton Neston, Northamptonshire, 222
Eden, Clarissa, Lady (later Countess of Avon), 80
Edwardes, Miss (of Tivoli), 163
Egerton, Thomas, 178
Egremont, John Edward Reginald Wyndham, 1st Baron, 188
Egremont, Pamela, Lady (earlier Wyndham), 187, 368, 373, 375; friendship with PLF, 187; title, 374; visits PLF at Dumbleton, 436
Eliot, T. S.: The Waste Land, 200
Encounter (magazine), 112n2
Enrico d’Assia (Henric), 175
EOKA (Greek nationalist movement), 111, 122, 126, 128–9
Erlanger, Baroness Catherine d’, 403
Fahie, Norah, 83
Falconer, Bill, 104
Falklands war (1982), 356
Faringdon House, Oxfordshire, 206–8
Farouk, King of Egypt, 10n2, 70n22
Fedden, Robin, 39, 228, 258, 275, 307; Chantemesle, 276
Fénelon, François, Archbishop of Cambrai, 32, 166
Fenton, Francesca, 305
Fenton, Vanessa (née Fermor; PLF’s sister), 6, 260, 305
Fermor, (Muriel) Aileen (née Ambler; PLF’s mother), 260, 304–5
Fermor, Joan Leigh (earlier Rayner), 26, 34, 36, 40, 46, 48, 59, 64, 144, 147, 155, 157, 183, 190, 212, 219, 251, 254, 378; tolerates PLF’s lovers, xiii, 160; in Kardamyli house, xv; letters from PLF, xix, 414; engagement to Alan Pryce-Jones, 3; on Corfu with PLF, 17, 20; meets Durrell with PLF, 20; travels in Central America, 24; PLF meets, 25–6; qualities and character, 25; stays with brother Graham at Dumbleton, 25, 184–5, 315, 347; travels in Italy with Bowra, 78; in Middle East, 94; on Hydra, 95, 99; and difference with Katsimablis, 111; in Normandy, 112, 114; in Paris, 114, 129; buys house in Chester Row, London, 136, 141; death of mother, 182, 185; gives large cheque to PLF, 182–3; buys house in Athens, 195n1; inherits Mill House, Dumbleton, 197n1; house-hunting in Greece, 211–12; tax-free inheritance, 216n1; in Euboea, 224; PLF describes to Balasha, 232; marriage to PLF, 259–61; PLF’s mock epitaph to, 269; friendship with Connolly, 310; and PLF’s involvement with Tsangarakis family, 312; cats, 321, 408; visits Fieldings in Spain, 331–3; visits Crete with PLF, 355–6; and PLF’s promotional tour, 393; and PLF’s losing way at St Nicholas Kampinar monastery, 404–5; chess-playing, 416; fall and death, 425–6
Fermor, Patrick Leigh: walk across Europe to Constantinople, ix–x; war service, x, 3–4; British Council lecture tour, x, 17–19; anxiety over delays in delivering writings, xi, xix–xx; borrows friends’ houses, xii, 44; prospective marriage to Joan, xii, 46; love affair with Balasha Cantacuzène, xii–xiii, 10; love affairs and friendships with women, xiii, 160; retreats in French monasteries, xiv, 26–44; stays at Easton Court Hotel, Chagford, xiv, 135–8; romantic interest in aristocracy, xvi; qualities, xvii; memorises and recites poetry, xviii; letter-writing, xviii–xx; daily routine, xix, 47; transfers to Intelligence Corps and posted to Greece and Crete, 8; in Caribbean and Central America, 23–4; religious views, 28–9; poverty, 44; literary earnings and payments, 55, 58, 73, 326; awarded Heinemann Foundation Prize, 59; collects material for book on Greece, 74; stays at Chatsworth, 107, 184, 197, 258, 276, 280, 315, 393, 417, 425; horse-riding, 142–3, 148–9, 157, 185–6; writes film script for The Roots of Heaven, 145, 151, 153, 159; affair with Lyndall Birch, 160, 164–76; Joan gives cheque to, 183; injures finger, 188–9; motoring accidents in Greece, 190–1, 273; confesses to having crabs, 201–2; injures arm in hunting accident, 217; seeks house in Greece, 219–21, 228; writes on pre-war European walk (‘Great Trudge’), 223–4, 226, 266, 285–7, 290, 299–300, 360, 370; elected to Whites club, London, 229; pre-war diary discovered by Balasha, 237, 286–7; income tax, 247; orders spectacles, 253; marriage to Joan, 259–61; mock verse, 269–72; gives up smoking, 294; accepts commission unable to fulfil, 295; relations with mother, 304–5; accidentally shoots Yanni Tsangarakis and subsequent vendetta, 311–13; cancer of the tongue and treatment, 311, 317, 418; dieting and exercise, 330; elected Corresponding member of Athens Academy, 337, 339; tooth problem, 337; revisits Crete (1982), 355–6; sexual encounters on Great Trudge, 360–1; travels in Asia Minor, 368–9; Greek taxes, 370; in The South Bank Show, 398–9; writes afterword to Folio Society edition of Ill Met by Moonlight, 419; and Joan’s sudden death, 425–6; loses briefcase with personal documents, 425; finds writing difficult in later years, 430; cancer of throat and death, 437
Field, Theophilus, Bishop of Hereford, 326
Fielding, Agnes (earlier Phillips; ‘Magouche’): on PLF’s Englishness, xvii; mule journey across Arcadia, 189; at Derek Jackson’s banquet, 196; at Bruern, 199; dines with PLF and Hadjimichalis, 252; at PLF’s wedding, 260; and Xan’s illness, 317; marriage to Xan, 318n2; PLF stays with in Spain, 331, 358; Asia Minor trip with PLF, 368, 371; spends Christmas with PLF, 388; sends cutting of Francis Bacon’s death, 407; delayed on visit to Kardamyli, 411–12
Fielding, Magouche and Xan, 332
Fielding, xan (Alexander), 153, 223, 243, 278, 317, 328, 350, 386; meets Lawrence Durrell with PLF, 20; and death of Duff Cooper, 81; visits Gadencourt, 120; and film of Ill Met by Moonlight, 130–1; house in Uzès, 244–5, 358; attempts to recover money on Nice house, 24
5n4; PLF describes to Balasha, 276; marriage to Magouche, 318n2; PLF and Joan spend Christmas 1979 with, 331; travels to Syria with PLF, 343–4; with PLF in Asia Minor, 368, 371; spends Christmas with PLF, 388; sends hoax letter to PLF, 389; PLF meets in Marseilles, 398; in The South Bank Show, 398; ashes scattered, 412; Aeolus Displayed, 335, 250; Corsair Country, 153; Hide and Seek, 101; The Stronghold, 63
Fischer, Dagmar, 379–81
Fischer, Rudolf, 323, 361, 371, 390, 391, 400, 421; letter from PLF on attack on twin towers in New York, xviii; comments on PLF’s A Time of Gifts, 323; and PLF’s memories of Great Trudge, 360–1; PLF meets in Budapest, 379, 381; sends hoax letter to PLF, 389–90; on al-Qaida attacks, 421
Fleming, Ann, 79, 93, 95, 117, 142, 184, 248, 348; friendship and correspondence with PLF, xiii, 79; meets PLF in Paris, 65–6; stays with Somerset Maugham, 132–3; at Chatsworth, 198; PLF meets in England, 204, 303, 307; PLF complains to of Bowra’s deafness, 262n8; PLF visits in Ireland, 279–80; illness and death, 348, 350; letters, 354n4, 356, 414; proposed biography, 355–6
Fleming, Caspar, 307, 319, 355
Fleming, Ian, 58, 65–6, 82n5, 142n1, 143n3, 198, 204
Flon, Suzanne, 158
Flynn, Errol, xvi, 153–5
Folio Society, 419–20
Foot, M. R. D., 419
Forster, E. M.: Guide to Alexandria, 39
Foster, John Galway, 65
Fould-Springer, Baron Max, 148
French Equatorial Africa see Cameroon
Frere-Reeves, Alexander and Patricia (née Wallace), 132
‘Friends Apart’ and ‘Friends Wide Apart’ (PLF; articles), 115n6
Fuller, Horace (‘Hod’), 372
Gadencourt (manor-house), Normandy, 48, 62, 68–9, 112, 114, 116–18, 136
Gage, Diana, Viscountess, 356
Gage, George, 7th Viscount, 341
Gaitskell, Hugh, 355
Gal, István, 324
Garibaldi, Anita, 400
Garnett, David (‘Bunny’), 291
Gary, Romain: Les Racines du ciel, 145, 153
Gendel, Anna, 284
Gendel, Judy see Montagu, Judith Venetia
Gendel, Milton, 162n5, 224, 284
Ghika, Antigone (‘Tiggie’) and Niko, 111
Ghika, Barbara (earlier Warner): PLF borrows house in Wales, xii, 198–9; lends London house to Joan, 60; attachment and marriage to Niko, 200; PLF meets in London, 200, 204; Joan stays with in London, 258; at PLF/Joan’s wedding, 259; drinking with PLF, 268; visits PLF in Kardamyli, 289; and Bloomsbury Group, 291; PLF spends Christmas with, 323; PLF visits in Corfu, 347, 356
Ghika, Niko, 273; PLF stays at Hydra house, xii, 72, 76, 99–100; returns to Hydra, 97, 110; entertaining, 103; attachment and marriage to Barbara, 200; PLF meets in London, 200, 204; PLF describes to Balasha, 242–3; Joan stays with in London, 258; builds house on Corfu, 274; visits PLF in Kardamyli, 289; PLF visits in Corfu, 293, 347, 356; PLF spends Christmas with, 323; and PLF’s election as Corresponding member of Athens Academy, 337, 339; PLF forwards Steven Runciman paper to, 377; PLF broadcasts on, 412; friendship with PLF, xvii, 267–8, 553
Ghika, Niko and Barbara, 339
Ghyka, Princess Eileen (née O’Connor), 232
Ghyka, Prince Matila, 232; The World Mine Oyster, 140n1
Gide, André, 53; Les Caves du Vatican, 50, 276; Paludes, 50
Giles, Frank and Lady Katherine (‘Kitty’), 133, 136, 283
Glenconner, Christopher Grey Tennant, 2nd Baron, 293
Gontard, Dom. Gabriel, Lord Abbot of Saint-Wandrille, 27–8, 31–2, 39, 372
Goring, Marius, 140
Gorky, Arshile, 189n3
Goschen, John Alexander, 3rd Viscount and Alvin, Viscountess, 104
Gowrie, Alexander Patrick Greysteil Ruthven, 2nd Earl (‘Grey’) and Adelheid, Countess of, 408
Goya, Francisco: Los Caprichos, 275
Grande Trappe, La (monastery), 40
Great Greek Encyclopaedia, 115n2, 116
Gréco, Juliette, xvi, 153–5, 159
Greece: Colonels’ coup (1967), xviii, 251–3; PLF’s attachment to, xvii; and trouble in Cyprus, xvii, 111, 119–22, 124–9; civil war (1946), 17
Grigorakis, Zanetbey, 401
Grivas, General Giorgios, 126–7
Gross, John, 341
Grosvenor, Robert Victor and Caroline (née Higham), 208–9
Grunne, Jean-Dominique de Hemricourt de, 138, 398
Guinness family, 185–6
Guinness, Loel, 69n5
Guiscard, Robert, 78
Guise, Jean Pierre Clément Marie d’Orléans, Duc de, 32
Hadjimichalis, Nico and Vana, 252
Hammer-Purgstall, Joseph, Freiherr von, 78
Hammersley, Mary (née Williams-Freeman), 184
Hampshire, Stuart, 136
Hardinge, Helen, Lady, 6
Hardinge, General Sir John, 111, 119, 126–7
Hare, Alan, 60
Harper’s (US publishers), 246
Harrod, Wilhelmine (‘Billa’), 404
Hart-Davis, Sir Rupert, 351
Hatterick, Dirk, 288
Haworth, Yorkshire, 308
Heber-Percy, Robert (‘The Mad Boy’), 207–8, 391
Heidsièck, Lil, 104
Heliogabalus (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus), Roman Emperor, 415
Hellespont: PLF swims, 369
Henderson, Sir Nicholas and Mary, Lady, 407, 431
Henley, Sylvia (née Stanley), 345
Hepburn, Audrey, 160
Heppenstall, Rayner: Imaginary Conversations, 189n1
Herakleion, Crete, 328–9
Herbert, Bridget, 292
Herbert, David Alexander Reginald, 82
Hesketh, Christian Mary McEwen (‘Kisty’), Lady, 95, 222–3
Heyworth, Peter, 407
Hill, Derek, 279, 407
Hinks, Roger, 120–1, 376
Hinterwälder, Franz Xaver (hoax name), 390
Hobhouse, John Cam, 57, 74
Hodgkin, Thomas: Italy and her Invaders, 414
Hofmannsthal, Elizabeth von, 66, 68
Hofmannsthal, Raimund von, 298
Holiday (magazine), 223, 230
Holland, Antony James, 6, 88
Hooley, Charles, 185
Horizon (magazine), 38
Howard, Brian, 34
Howard, Edmund Bernard Carlo (‘Mondi’) and Cécile (née Geoffroy-Dechaume), 44, 46
Howard, Philip, 341
Howard, Trevor, xvi, 153, 155–6
Hoxha, Enver, 350n3
Hrissakis, George, 192
Hubbard, Biddy, 231
Hudson, Charles, 428
Hungary, 352–3, 362–5
Huston, Allegra, 239
Huston, John, xvi, 145, 153–5, 158–9, 188, 198
Huston, Ricki (Enrica), 188, 192, 195, 197, 200, 203, 206, 238; PLF’s attachment to, xiii, 188; PLF maintains contact with, 238
Hutchinson, Jeremy, 242, 258
Hutchinson, Mary, 291
Hydra (island), xii, 72, 93–4, 97, 103–6, 110–11
Ill Met by Moonlight (film): xvi, 130–1, 139, 315; see also Moss, W. Stanley
Illyés, Gyula, 362
In Tearing Haste see Mosley, Charlotte
Ironside, Robin, 227
Jackson, Derek Ainslie, 196, 292
James, Clive, 351
Jebb, Julian, 224, 399
Jellicoe, George, 2nd Earl, 416
Jellicoe, George, 2nd Earl and Philippa, Countess, 268, 393, 407–8, 427
John XXIII, Pope, 179
Johnson, Samuel, 351, 364
Jouvet, Louis, 315
Joyce, James: Ulysses, 424
Kanellopoulos, Panagiotis, 252
Kantakuzin, General Volodia, 411
Karaiskáki, Dozia, 372
Karamanlis, Constantine, 401n4
Kardamyli, Greece: PLF and Joan buy and occupy house at, xv, 219–20; building and design, 241, 244, 248–9, 255, 268, 274; storm, 397
Ka
tsimbalis, Aspasia (‘Spatch’), 115
Katsimbalis, George, 113, 122; friendship with PLF, xvii, 112; returns from America, 101; argument with PLF over Cyprus, 111, 113, 127, 129; praises Xan Fielding’s house, 244
Kazan defile (Danube), 377
Kazìs, Yanni, 75
Kee, Cynthia, 315
Kee, Robert, 315, 431
Kepes, Géza, 325
Khnarakis, Grigori, 280
King’s School, Canterbury, 432
Kinross, Patrick Balfour, 3rd Baron, 62; stays at Chagford, xiv; at Gadencourt, 49; PLF meets and stays with in London, 60, 204, 258, 307, 317; in France, 150; at PLF’s wedding, 259–60; The Orphaned Realm, 59, 62
Kiosse, Hará, 355
Kipling Society, 375
Kitaj, R. B. and Sandra, 407
Klobusiçky, Elemér von, 299, 324, 354, 361, 379–80, 387
Knollys, Eardley, 309
Kolokotrones, Niko, 241, 244
Korda, Sir Alexander, 68
Kranidiotis, Nikos, 120, 127
Kreipe, General Heinrich: film of capture, xvi, 55; PLF abducts in war, 8–9, 17; PLF meets after war, 281; illness, 315
Laden, Osama bin, 422
Lambert, Baroness Joanna (‘Hansi’), 138
Lambrakis, Christos Dimitrios, 252
Lancaster, Nancy, 255
Landor, Walter Savage, 223
Larbaud, Valery, 152
Last Tango in Paris (film), 289n5
Lawrence, T. E., 344
Leatham, John, 412
Ledebur, Graf Friedrich von, 156–7, 179–81, 264, 301
Lees-Milne, James, 403
Leigh, Vivien, 136
Lemar, Nellie, 392
Lemprière, John: Bibliotheca classica, 416
Leroux, Gaston: Le Mystère de la chambre jaune, 145n2
Levi, Peter, 289
Lewisham, Raine, Lady (née McCorquodale), 185
Lismore Castle, Ireland, 107–8, 187
Little, Neil, 180
Londonderry, 279
Lopez-Wilshaw, Arturo, 96
Lucas, Audrey, 292
Lycett Green, Candida, 84n2, 407
Lygon, Lady Dorothy (‘Coote’), 190, 208, 260, 289, 391
Lyttelton, George, 351
Lytton, Neville Bulwer-Lytton, 3rd Earl of, 89
Macaulay, Rose, 63, 332
McCarthy, Mary, 204