Macedonia, 396
McEwen, Rory, 94
Maclean, Donald, 70n13
McLean, Lieutenant Colonel Neil
Loudon Desmond (‘Billy’), 9
Macmillan, Harold, xvi, 276, 315–16, 338
MacNeice, Louis, 55, 227
Makarios III, Archbishop, 119, 122, 124, 126, 129
Makkai, László and Erdély Öroksége (eds.): History of Transylvania, 362
Mani (PLF), xi, 125, 140n1, 141, 160–1, 178, 213, 246, 401, 430n1
Mann, Thomas: Mario and the Magician, 22
Manning, Cardinal Henry Edward, 325
Manoussakis, Manoussos, 314–15, 386–7
Marchand, Leslie, 297
Marchant, Helen, 432
Marie of the Incarnation, 28–9
Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso, 261
Marona see Cameroon Marsh, Sir Edward, 58, 63
Massourides, Tony, 191, 202, 219–22
Mastorakis, Niko, 281
Masvoulás, Miss (Greek translator), 217
Mathias, Robert, 231
Maugham, W. Somerset, xvi, 132–3, 432
Maxwell, Sir Aymer, 228, 288; on Euboea, 224–6; PLF’s obituary tribute to, 227; stays with PLF, 277
Maxwell, Gavin, 229
Mayne, Peter, 277
Meran, Hansi, 353
Meredith, George, 341
Metcalfe, Lady Alexandra (‘Baba’), 80
Metochites, Theodore, 161
Meyrowitz (Paris opticians), 253
Michael of Norgate: Agenbite of Inwit, 423–4
Mill House, Dumbleton, 195, 200, 436
Miller, Henry, 20
Mitford, Jessica (later Treuhaft; ‘Decca’), 357; Faces of Philip, 357
Mitford, Nancy, 222, 292; stays on Hydra with PLF, 72, 110; PLF lunches with, 146; at Chatsworth, 184; The Water Beetle, 222
Mitsotakis, Konstantin, 386
Mocioni de Foen (‘Mocsonyi’), Antoniu, 362
Modiano, Mario, 97
Moffat, Curtis, 264
Moffat, Ivan, 73, 161, 260, 264, 283
Moissl, Richard, 324 ‘Monasteries of the Air, The’ (PLF; article), 59n1
Moncreiffe, Sir Iain of that Ilk, 3, 6, 288
Monde, Le (French newspaper), xi, 408
Monsell, Graham Eyres, 2nd Viscount ( Joan’s brother), 25, 118, 141, 184–5, 277, 298, 307, 315, 347
Montagu of Beaulieu, Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron, 160, 170
Montagu, Judith Venetia (later Gendel; ‘Judy’), 160–1, 163, 224–5; death, 283
Montmorency, Anne, Duc de, 67, 112, 115, 341
Moore, Doris Langley, 297
Morand, Hélène (née Chrissoveloni), 234
More O’Ferrall, Elizabeth Cecilia, 60
Morris, Jan, 391
Mortimer, Raymond, 318; proposes PLF as translator of Colette, 60; at PLF’s wedding, 260; stays with PLF in Kardamyli, 309–10; PLF stays with, 318–19
Mosley, Charlotte: edits PLF/Debo letters (In Tearing Haste), xiii, 109n1, 431–2, 435
Moss, Gabriella and Pussa, 419
Moss, Natalie, 8
Moss, Countess Sophie (earlier Countess Zofia Tarnowska), 281, 419, 424, 426, 9
Moss, W. Stanley (‘Billy’), 139; and abduction of German general, x, 8–9; marriage, separation and death, 281; dislikes General Kreipe, 282; Ill Met by Moonlight, 56n6, 419
Mourouzi, Alexander, 16, 232
Müller Verlag, Salzburg, 324
Murat, Caroline, 299, 380
Murdoch, Iris, 414
Murray, Jock, 24, 54, 56, 57, 73, 116, 123, 141, 163, 177, 217, 235, 246, 266, 285, 396, 404; PLF apologises to for delays in submitting copy, xi, 266, 371; and PLF at Passerano, xiv; and PLF at Kardamyli, xv; publishes PLF, 23, 54, 125, 140n1, 142n1, 205, 392; death and obituary, 54; publishes Freya Stark, 71, 99; and PLF’s book on pre-war European journey, 296–8; and PLF’s literary earnings, 326; reads Fielding’s book on the Winds, 350; promotion campaign for PLF, 392–3; in The South Bank Show, 398
Naguib, General Muhammad, 70n22
Nahlin (steam yacht), 283
Nairne, Lady Katherine, Baroness (later Viscountess Mersey; ‘Kitty’; ‘Wife’), 134
Nasser, Colonel Gamal Abdel, 70n22
Nerval, Gérard de (pseudonym of Gérard Labrunie), 301
New York: 9/11 attacks, 422
New York Review of Books, 433
Newman, Cardinal John Henry, 325
Niarchos, Stavros, xv, 96–7, 134n11, 255
Nicepheros I, Byzantine Emperor, 346
Nicholson-Price, Lynda, 291
Nicolson, Harold, 52; encourages PLF’s writing, xi; on PLF’s Traveller’s Tree, 55; at Travellers club, 60; and tracing of Byron’s shoes, 75–6
Nicolson, Nigel, 44
Noailles, Anna, Comtesse Mathieu de, 234
Noel-Baker, Francis Edward, 127
Northern Ireland, xvi, 279
Norton, Clifford and Noel Evelyn (‘Peter’), 71
Norwich, Anne, Viscountess, 96, 99, 426, 433
Nun’s Story, The (film), 160
Obolensky, Prince Dimitri, 364, 377, 383; Bread of Exile, 418
Ogilvie-Grant, Mark, 146, 190, 292
Ommanney, Francis Downes: The Shoals of Capricorn, 120
Onassis, Aristotle Socrates, 96
O’Neill, Raymond, 279 ‘Oracle, The’ (PLF), 239
Orpheus, 396
Ortega y Gasset, José, 193
Orwell, Sonia, 136
Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names, 319–20
Painter, George: Marcel Proust, 234
Pallis, Alexander Anastasius, 59
Palmer, Sir Richard, 119
Palmyra, 343
Papagos, Marshal Alexander, 113
Papandreou, Georgios, 252
Paris, 65, 114, 314; Coopers’ embassy reception, 372
Paris, Henri d’Orléans, Comte de, 32
Parker-Bowles, Camilla see Cornwall, Camilla, Duchess of
Parladé, Jaime, 224, 253, 388
Parladé, Janetta, 303, 359, 406, 411, 427; PLF tells Henry Bath story, 183; visits PLF in Greece, 194, 224; travels to Seville, 253; at Ham Spray, 291; and PLF’s missed appointment with Frances Partridge, 320–1; PLF stays with in Spain, 357–8; spends Christmas with PLF, 388; PLF stays with in London, 392; PLF describes Andrew Devonshire’s funeral to, 427
Parsons, Lady Mary Bridget, 80, 82, 404
Partridge, Frances, 320, 370; friendship with Joan, 194; friendship with Janetta Parladé and Brenan, 291, 358–9
Partridge, Ralph, 194, 291
Passerano castle, Italy, xiv
Paterakis, Eleni, 386
Paterakis, Manoli, 140, 281–2, 313–15; death, 386–7
Patten, Susan Mary, 96
Peake, Catherine, Lady, 102–4
Peake, Sir Charles, 89, 102–3
Pecci-Blunt, Countess Anna Laetitia (‘Mimi’), 165
Perowne, Stewart, 71
Perrone, Nathalie, 167
Peters, A. D. (literary agent), 292
Petrakis, Petro, 313
Petronius, 322
Petworth House, West Sussex, 187
Phaliréa, Socrates, 221
Phikoura, Angela, 220
Phillips, Anthony, 392
Piper, John and Myfanwy, 393
Pitt-Rivers, Julian, 214
Pol Roger, Odette, 151
Pope-Hennessy, James, 297
Portland, William Arthur Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of (‘Bill’), 231
Portugal, 332
Postlethwaite-Cobb, Caroline, 135, 141
Powell, Columbus, 140
Powell, Josephine, 160–1
Powell, Michael Latham, 55, 140
Poynter, Sir Edward: Faith
ful Unto Death (painting), 322
Pressburger, Emeric (‘Imre’), 56n5, 140
Pritchett, V. S., 359
Proust, Marcel, 234
Pryce-Jones, Adrian, 3
Pryce-Jones, Alan, 3, 5, 133, 152n3, 374; death, 418
Pryce-Jones, David, 418
Psychoundakis, George, 73, 117, 313, 335, 386; The Cretan Runner, 101
Quennell, Sir Peter: friendship with PLF, 25n3, 38, 48–9, 55, 66, 68, 71, 136; and Byron’s shoes, 75–6; and Nathalie Perrone, 167; PLF meets in London, 204; letter from Cyril Connolly, 224; lectures on Byron, 296; improvising, 341; on prospective book on Ann Fleming, 355
Quinton, Antony, Baron, 373
Ralli, Jean (Lilia), 68, 97
Rayner, Joan see Fermor, Joan Leigh
Reade, Arthur, 101
Reade, Patrick, 388
Resafa, Syria, 343
Ridley, Cressida (née Bonham Carter), 407
Robinson, Hamish, 432
Rodd, Gustaf (‘Taffy’), 73
Rodd, Peter, 60
Rodocanachi, Constantine Pandia (‘Tanty’), 96, 104
Roots of Heaven, The (film), 145, 153, 173, 183
Rosenberg-Redé, Oskar Dieter Alex von (Baron de Redé), 98n10
Rosse, Anne, Countess of (née Messel), 82
Rosse, Michael Parsons, 6th Earl of, 82, 404
Roth, Joseph: The Radetzky March, 381, 385
Rothschild, Baroness Cécile de, 150
Rothschild, Jacob, 349
Rothschild, Serena Mary (née Dunn), 350n4
Roumeli (PLF), xi, 86, 178n1, 232, 235–6, 242–3, 246, 423
Rouphos, Rhodis, 120
Rousseau, Henri (‘Douanier’), 101, 159
Ruhemann, Marie-Lyse, 409
Rumania, 230, 233, 352, 354
Runciman, Steven, 377; PLF meets, 376; The Kingdom of Acre, 377
Rutland, Charles John Robert Manners, 10th Duke of, 288–9
Ryan, Desmond Francis and Mary
Rose (née Pulham), 65
Rylands, George (‘Dadie’), 322, 394; stays with PLF on Hydra, 72; stays with PLF in Kardamyli, 309–10; on PLF’s mock entry on judges, 327; reads Trollope, 349, 356; PLF misses birthday party, 394
Sackville-West, Edward, 144, 224, 309
St Clair-Erskine, Hamish, 46, 133, 374
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 50n2
St Jean de Solesmes monastery, France, 40–2
St Nicholas Kampinar monastery, Mani, Greece, 404–5
Saint-Wandrille monastery, Normandy, xiv, xix, 26–39, 41, 144
‘Saki’ (H. H. Munro): ‘The Interlopers’, 373; The Unbearable Bassington, 368, 375
Salonica, 384–5
Sandoe, John, Ltd (Chelsea bookshop), 234, 276
Sandringham, 406
Sarakatsans, 114
Schey von Koromla, Baron Philipp (‘Pips’), 300
Schneider, Maria, 289
Schoissbauer, Alois, 389
Scott-James, Anne, 299
Sedgwick, Alexander ‘A. C.’ (Shan), 252
Seferis, George, 110, 124; friendship with PLF, xvii, 109, 111; poetry collection (. . . Cyprus, Where it was Decreed for Me . . .), 122, 124; on Cyprus crisis, 124, 130n3; and Colonels’ coup in Greece, 252
Selznick, David O., 161
Selznick, Jeffrey, 172n9
Senhouse, Roger, 60
Shane’s Castle, Northern Ireland, 279
Shawe-Taylor, Desmond, 309, 407
Sheffield, 6th Baron see Stanley, Edward John
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 298
Sherrard, Philip, 224; The Marble Threshing Floor, 122
Shirley, Sir Robert, 326
Shōnagon, Sei, 203
Sigerus, Emil: Siebenbürgisch-Sächsische Burgen und Kirchenkastelle, 362
Sikelianos, Angelos, 55–6
Simeon Stylites, St, 30, 38–9, 269, 344
Simper, Caleb, 318
Sitwell, Sir Osbert, 289
Sitwell, Sir Sacheverell and Georgia, Lady, 8n7, 60, 231, 403
Skelton, Barbara, 94
Smart, Amy, Lady: PLF stays with in Normandy, xii, 35, 48–9, 65, 68–9, 112, 114, 136, 151, 163; PLF borrows cottage, 57, 63; and Xan Fielding’s attempt to recover money on Nice house, 245; background and character, 258; teases PLF over delay in marrying, 259
Smart, Sir Walter: PLF stays with in Normandy, xii, 48–9, 68–9, 112, 114, 136, 163; submits essay on existentialism to Connolly, 49; death, 258
Smiley, Colonel David de Crespigny, 9
Smith, Revd Sydney, 88
Smyth, Dame Ethel, 289
Snowdon, Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of, 82n4
Sofia, 381–4
Solesmes see St Jean de
Solesmes Sound Barrier (film), 68
‘Sounds of the Greek World’ (PLF; article), 112n2
Soupault, Philippe, 150–1
South Bank Show, The (ITV programme), 398
Soutzo, Prince Constantin, 282, 410
Soutzo, Princess Ioanna, 410
Souza Lage, M. de, 147–9
Spain, 331–5
Spears, Mary, Lady (Mary Borden; ‘May’), 8
Spectator, The (magazine), 388
Spender, Sir Stephen and Natasha, Lady, 112, 204
Spiller, ‘Bunny’, 185
Staercke, André de, 138, 150
Stanley, Edward John, 6th Baron Sheffield, 66, 120
Stark, Freya, 71, 77, 99; stays on Hydra with PLF, 72; friendship with PLF, 117, 414; Ionia: A Quest, 99
Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle), 193
Stephanéa, George, 220
Stewart, Damaris, 267
Stewart, Mary, Lady (née Rainbow): The Ivy Tree, 327
Stewart, Michael, 295, 355, 397, 402; friendship with PLF, 267; sends Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names to PLF, 319; transports PLF’s Diana Cooper letters, 338; gives watch to PLF, 355; PLF visits, 407
Stewart, Olivia, 436; visits Kardamyli, 426, 436
Stewart-Richardson, Gladys, 104
Stirling, Lieutenant-Colonel William Joseph, 288
Stoppard, Tom, 340
Storrs, Sir Ronald, 60
Stourton, James, 394
Strásser, Mrs (sculptress), 324
Strauss, Minka, 300
Sturdza, Ileană (née Ghika), 234
Stylites, 30–1, 36
Sunday Times, 143n3, 184, 202
Sykes, Christopher, 110n1
Synge, John Millington: Deirdre of the Sorrows, 189
Syria: PLF visits, 343–5
Széchényi, Count István, 377
Taafe family, 306
Tailleferre, Françoise, 150
Tailleferre, Germaine, 150–1
Taillis, Lucienne Gourgaud du (née Haas), 257
Talleyrand, Charles-Maurice de, 316
Tarnowska, Countess Zofia see Moss, Countess Sophie
Tarnowski, Count Andrew, 283n3
Tarnowski, Jan, 283n3
Tennant, Colin, 283
Tennant, Lady Emma, 423, 293
Tennant, Stella, 428
Teresa, St, 28–9
Thorneycroft, Carla, 172n10
Three Letters from the Andes (PLF), 275
Thubron, Colin, 433; and PLF’s status as writer, xi; praises PLF, 433; To the Last City, 433
Time of Gifts, A (PLF): writing, x–xi, 225n2, 365–6, 377; title, 227, 237; publication, 323; false Hinterwälder praises, 389; translations, 392, 421
Time to Keep Silence, A (PLF), 141, 144
Topley, Lady Sophia (née Cavendish), 428
Toynbee, Philip: and PLF’s stay at Saint-Wandrille monastery, 34; PLF visits, 198, 204, 280; approach to women, 215; death, 351; Jessica Mitford publishes memoir of, 357–8
Traveller’s Tree, The (PLF), xi, xiv, 23, 47, 52, 56, 59n2
Tree, Lady Anne Evelyn Beatrice, 196, 255
Tree, Arthur Ronald Lambert Field, 198
Tree, Iris, 162n1, 175–6, 179–81, 183, 194, 227, 260, 263–5, 298
Tree, Mariett
a, 198
Treuhaft, Jessica see Mitford, Jessica Trevor-Roper, Patrick, 310n1, 347–8, 407
Tsangarakis, Ioanna, 314
Tsangarakis, Kanaki, 311–14
Tsangarakis, Yanni, 311–12
Tsangarakis, Yorgo, 312–14
Turgenev, Ivan: Smoke, 376
Tyrakis, George, 281–2
Tytler, William, 326
Tzannetakis, Tzannis, 429; friendship with PLF, xviii; government posts and premiership, 402; PLF praises speech, 429; translates Mani, 430n1
Ubaldini, Petruccio, 326
Valery, Paul, 258
Venizelist revolution, 237, 287, 367
Verschoyle, Derek, 64, 66
Vesey, Colonel Thomas, 8
Vilmorin, Marie Louise Lévêque de, 49
Violins of Saint-Jacques, The (PLF), x, 65–6, 73, 326
Vivian, George, 4th Baron, 277
Voigt, Jochen, 407–8
Vyner, Henry, 95
Wade, Miss (Lady Diana Cooper’s maid), 92
Wales, 198–9, 223, 307
Walker, Rita, 432
Walpole, Horace, 326
Walters, Catherine (‘Skittles’), 89
Ward, Aileen: wins Duff Cooper Prize, 227n4
Warner, Barbara see Ghika, Barbara Warner, Rex, 242
Warwick, Charles Guy Fulke Greville, 7th Earl of, 97
Watson, Sir Francis John Bagot, 303
Waugh, Evelyn: stays at Easton Court Hotel, Chagford, xiv; on Hugh Cruddas, 210n6; memoirs and letters, 338; Black Mischief, 62n9; Sword of Honour (trilogy), 250
Waugh, Laura, 292, 338
Webb, Norman, 135, 141
Wedgwood, Dame Cicely Veronica: Thirty Years War, 293
Weidenfeld, George, Baron, 44n8
Wentworth, Lady ( Judith Anne Dorothea Blunt-Lytton), xvi, 74–5, 86, 88–90
Whistler, Rex, 415n5
Wilde, Oscar: Ravenna, 400
Williamson, Malcolm, 327n3
Wilson, Edmund, 204
Wilson, Reuel, 204
Winn, Rowland Denys Guy (‘Rowley’) and Laurian (née Jones), 65
Woodhouse, C. M. (‘Monty’), 297
Woolf, Virginia: on Ethel Smyth, 289n4; Quentin Bell biography, 291; The Common Reader, 322n
Woolley, Janetta see Parladé, Janetta Wyatt, Sir Thomas, 341
Wyndham, Pamela see Egremont, Pamela, Lady
Wyndham, Violet (‘Auntie Nose’), 319
Yannakea, Lela, 251, 255, 274, 295, 320
Zanuck, Darryl Francis, 145, 153–5, 158
Ziegler, Philip, 337–8
Zinnemann, Fred, 160
PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR
In December 1933, at the age of eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor walked across Europe, reaching Constantinople on the last day of 1934. He travelled on into Greece, where in Athens he met Balasha Cantacuzène, with whom he lived – mostly in Rumania – until the outbreak of war. Serving in occupied Crete, he led a successful operation to kidnap a German general, for which he won the DSO. After the war he began writing, and travelled extensively round Greece with Joan Rayner whom he later married. In 2008, he published In Tearing Haste, a collection of letters with Deborah Devonshire. Towards the latter part of his life he wrote two books about his early trans-European odyssey, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water. He planned a third, The Broken Road, which was published posthumously in 2013.