- Page 3 and 4: PENGUIN BOOKS ELIZABETH Sarah Bradf
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- Page 34 and 35: In the spring of 1921 Prince Albert
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Thursday, 10 December, it was all o
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to the various offices. It takes tw
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member of the Royal Family’. Late
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and nice,’ one remembered. ‘I l
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dress me,’ the King noted, ‘but
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gesture of defiance against his fat
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the Castle for high-level discussio
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of the window of Buckingham Palace
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was like a schoolboy he was so deli
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Victor, born a Prince of Battenberg
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preparatory school in England, Chea
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4 Windsor War ‘She says that she
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Margaret’s favourite was Beniamin
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The King flatly refused to agree to
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upon wave of bombers roared directl
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came up to the Castle to tutor the
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Regiment gave me a Colonel’s Colo
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the Labour Exchange at the age of s
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later he warned his sister, Philip
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peopled by royalty, courtiers and s
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no small talk and used to lie in th
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his doubts about the likelihood of
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‘was always regarded as much too
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wrote on 29 January 1947, ‘and I
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neck, saying, ‘I’m sure you’d
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against Churchill, representing the
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Royal, who allegedly stayed away in
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dynasty showed every sign of surviv
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the train; Susan stole the show by
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6 The Edinburghs ‘The Edinburghs
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cost of refurbishing Clarence House
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courtier and never will be. He will
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heir to the throne being a daughter
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under the anaesthetic, but his fami
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suit, evening clothes and a shootin
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garden’. As a mark of her appreci
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Beaverbrook. ‘As you assumed,’
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about the older generation if one i
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die than serve in that ship again,
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always wrote his own speeches; this
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ostensibly to protect the Princess
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and Sandringham, so now she made fo
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the Queen did everything possible t
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ut non-committal. ‘Cookie [the Wi
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anxiety to compensate for it were t
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The whole affair put a strain on th
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Chairman. The first and most import
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which he would not be present. He f
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Mall towards the Abbey: the Lord Ma
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mother had decided that he should w
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when she got up to lay the sword on
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Elizabeth, for all the best human r
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Townsend came closer to the heart o
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piano-player, and loved dancing. Wi
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sweeping it under the carpet. As so
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was unlikely that they would approv
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switched to London, where Peter Tow
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the press, the Queen Mother was at
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Princess at Clarence House, where t
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9 ‘The World’s Sweetheart’
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were in private. Elizabeth’s abse
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weeks later, after Churchill had su
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the hand of his neighbour, Jane Cla
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[Churchill] says that if he is goin
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the Nation and by the strongest and
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ought to the surface currents that
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least one of his [Avon’s] close c
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Then began the ritual dance of the
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ole in the world. In the words of M
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fact the same as had motivated Osbo
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heart he was and quite unlike the
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never with good humour.’ He was p
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eferred to as servants. It was thro
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audience, she’s got to be dressed
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to win top dog prizes in the Game F
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egional planning and local administ
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epressed in public; the most she al
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political gossip: She seemed fascin
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circles were concerned. This was un
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the Parker divorce gave the media p
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‘Parker was a terrible pilot - to
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slightest example of stupidity, inc
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dominant rule in the field in which
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heir to the throne and had to work
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approached him were often those he
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Elizabeth’s pregnancy was still a
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forward by Martin Charteris. Whethe
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household. At Cambridge he had take
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free a spirit to put up with the re
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12 Advise, Consult and Warn ‘She
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make the feet into wastepaper baske
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Elizabeth would have to face. Her i
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member of the Nazi league of German
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used to complain loudly about their
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lovers was a Russian naval attache
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oyal collection in 1945. By the spr
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nobody knew about it, not even Blun
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hypochondriacal, he convinced himse
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fashioned baggage for the current c
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eports in The Times and the Guardia
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odkin’, Crossman recorded with qu
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13 Head of the Family ‘The Queen
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one’s own room - a small bedroom/
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most wonderful, loyal man,’ he la
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privileged position as a member of
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all the rest of the world seemed li
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natural manner without being aggres
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Despite her sporting successes, Ann
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Duke and Duchess being allowed to r
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Nothing had changed. ‘There in th
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would arouse, damaging Charles’s
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ing engraved with Welsh dragons, th
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although it did not appear so at th
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dressing (with cream, curiously) an
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The overwhelming impression given b
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withheld, provoking reasonable comp
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make contributions to the expenses
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Duchy of Cornwall and the Queen’s
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unfamiliar, born in a small seaside
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Wilson’s next Government, says th
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naturalness of Elizabeth’s behavi
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about Ulster - indeed as we all are
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ecame Prime Minister, her sister wr
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She is emphatically not a racist.
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would have been sympathetic. Common
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Others included members of the roya
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and the National Health Service - n
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egun in the 1960s and epitomized to
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finding it impossible to discuss em
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called her Lilibet; she was always
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From the late 1960s the private lif
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Sardinia when the Aga Khan was abou
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moved out, taking advantage of a si
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was far from overjoyed by the prosp
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state visit to Paris in May 1972 de
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Edward VIII of Great Britain, Irela
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Elizabeth. It was noticeable, howev
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from the plane. None the less, when
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has in mind until the dust settles
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and hunting. Charles had met Camill
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of the royal family who had so nota
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een Lord Chamberlain to both Edward
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‘Diana Spencer is the most schemi
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Allibar, at a meeting in Ludlow, Sh
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oken home but they thought a family
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she was practically in tears and ha
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y her and innately suspicious of he
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large bottles of bubble bath into t
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the actress Koo Stark. Andrew, rugg
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duck to water. It was enough for he
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under the PCC. Edward has been, how
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Silver Stick in Waiting, not realiz
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Suddenly and without warning two we
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Aylard’s background was quite unl
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17 Family at War ‘We have come to
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up for her to his mother’s courti
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oof’. ‘The pictures are only ho
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where he was host to a party includ
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a move, but for the moment did noth
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of control, running through wall-sp
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correspondents [her former Assistan
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announcement, made in Parliament an
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her out of public life. Diana’s s
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pop star Phil Collins at a holiday
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courtiers like Lady Susan Hussey an
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on the HRH question: The Queen has
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funeral service in Westminster Abbe
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to Hitler at Berchtesgaden, the umb
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Communist Poland should speak ‘on
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only likes animal pictures, althoug
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Hamdan al Maktoum for between £1.5
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prevents her doing so. For Elizabet
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others no atmosphere at all. It was
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from Victoria’s day as the long-h
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courtier. One friend recalls: I rem
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Kensington Palace formerly occupied
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image the Palace presents and the t
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warmth of Elizabeth’s reception b
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Queen Victoria and her York great-g
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The first corgi: Elizabeth and frie
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Beside the swimming-pool at Fort Be
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The first meeting: Elizabeth (front
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Stag night at the Dorchester: Phili
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Elizabeth with Prince Charles Phili
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Coronation Day, 2 June 1953 The Pri
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Baron by Baron: self-portrait by Ba
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Lord Plunket, Elizabeth’s childho
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Lady Susan Hussey, Woman of the Bed
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Sir Michael Peat, KCVO, Keeper of t
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A trio of Mountbattens: the Prince
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Queen of all her peoples: Elizabeth
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‘Those bows’: Elizabeth with Pr
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The image that shocked the world: W
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Brothers and sisters-in-law: Charle
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Elizabeth and Philip with the flowe
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‘The sexual and marital tomfooler
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model for the future. More recently
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involved in its production: my agen
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8. Stanley Olson (ed.), Harold Nico
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10. Beaverbrook Papers, BBK H/165,
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een given to the author in confiden
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10: Tweed and Diamonds 1. Nicolson
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19. cited in Ben Pimlott, Harold Wi
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10. Ziegler, Mountbatten, p. 680 11
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Select Bibliography Airlie, Mabell,
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Macmillan, Harold, Pointing the Way
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Index NOTES. The following abbrevia
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Baldwin, Stanley, 1st Earl, 49, 54-
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Butler, Richard Austen, Baron (‘R
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Civil List: introduced, 3; George V
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Douglas-Home, Sir Alec see Home, Ba
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Elphinstone family, 43 Elphinstone,
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George Donatus, Prince of Hesse and
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Historic Royal Palaces Trust, 508 H
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Kenya, 159 Keppel, Alice, 9-10, 416
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ER’s grasp of business, 223; as P
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Mountbatten, Lady Pamela see Hicks,
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on family surname, 170-71; chairs C
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Sack ville-West, Vita, 121 St Aldwy
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Thin, Dr Jean, 403-4 Thomas, Clemen
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Wigram, Clive, 47 Wilding, Michael,
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