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2 Princess in an Ivory Tower ‘It has often seemed to me that in those days we lived in an ivory tower, removed from the real world… Looking back on it, it often seems to me as though while we were there the season was always spring.’ Marion Crawford, The Little Princesses Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary of York was not born in one of her royal grandparents’ palaces, nor even, as most babies were in those days, in her parents’ home, but in the Strathmores’ London house, 17 Bruton Street, in Mayfair, then the smartest residential quarter of the capital. The house has since disappeared, victim to the commercial redevelopment which has overtaken the area, and only a plaque marks the birthplace of the future Queen. In 1926 No. 17 was typical of the five-storeyed eighteenth-century town houses which aristocratic families like the Strathmores used as their London pieds-à-terre, not so much as a home but simply as somewhere to which they migrated for the social Season and the sittings of the Houses of Parliament. Elizabeth was born there because her parents refused to live in the house which King George V and Queen Mary had designated for them, White Lodge, a vast Palladian mansion in Richmond Park on the outskirts of London. Queen Mary had spent much of her childhood there; her eldest son, David, had been born there in June 1894 and it had hardly changed since. The Yorks complained constantly about the discomfort, the dilapidation, the eleven servants needed to run it and its remoteness from central London. Lord Lee of Fareham, who took the house on after the Yorks left, was astounded by the primitive conditions in which they had been expected to live. There was practically no central heating and the vast rooms were desperately cold, the electric lighting was inadequate and the wiring unsafe. The drains were suspect; there was only one lavatory on the whole ground floor of the huge house and that appeared to be about one hundred years old. Not surprisingly, the Duchess of York had decided to have her baby in the familiar comfort of her parents’ London home. It was a difficult birth at a difficult time. Elizabeth was a breech baby, her mother tiny and small-boned; the birth was a Caesarean, performed at 2.40 a.m. on 21 April 1926, just twelve days before the country was engulfed by the General Strike, which many observers saw as the onset of class struggle and even revolution. The King had been particularly apprehensive about the imminent strike. He sympathized with the miners, whose reaction to a proposed reduction in their wages precipitated the crisis. At
Page 3 and 4: PENGUIN BOOKS ELIZABETH Sarah Bradf
Page 5 and 6: Elizabeth A BIOGRAPHY OF HER MAJEST
Page 7 and 8: For William
Page 9 and 10: Foreword to Revised Edition When I
Page 12: Descendants of Christian IX of Denm
Page 15 and 16: Second plate section Coronation Day
Page 17 and 18: 1 Destiny ‘In a way I didn’t ha
Page 19 and 20: and dissolve Parliaments - in actua
Page 21 and 22: made pregnant by a footman, Queen V
Page 23 and 24: Prince Albert Edward (known as ‘B
Page 25 and 26: age which, allied to the splenetic
Page 27 and 28: ‘before their family was even com
Page 29 and 30: his father, he showed a sure touch
Page 31 and 32: miserable time kicking his heels at
Page 33 and 34: But with her charm and enjoyment of
Page 35: see,’ Elizabeth’s mother was he
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Page 41 and 42: Queen Mary: I fear it has been a ve
Page 43 and 44: changed round”… she obviously f
Page 45 and 46: their lives was now settled: weeken
Page 47 and 48: At their first meeting Crawfie had
Page 49 and 50: Elizabeth and her grandmother were
Page 51 and 52: whose lapses they struggled to conc
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Page 55 and 56: pretty little knees’). The King,
Page 57 and 58: Wallis appeared all over the world,
Page 59 and 60: also above the law, and there would
Page 61 and 62: 3 Heiress ‘I thought it all very,
Page 63 and 64: Room’ and the ‘Boudoir’, with
Page 65 and 66: throne they were taking her educati
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Page 69 and 70: changed her style to suit current f
Page 71 and 72: million in today’s money], the ch
Page 73 and 74: valley; up on the moors the air is
Page 75 and 76: Chamberlain pursued his policy of c
Page 77 and 78: that Edward, Duke of Windsor, is th
Page 79 and 80: occupants of probably the most inse
Page 81 and 82: Dartmouth; two of the boys had deve
Page 83 and 84: everything,’ Lampson reported on
Page 85 and 86: Cynthia Colville, whose son Jock ha
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sitting-room there on the morning o
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educed so that on certain days of t
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The King and Queen were grooming El
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were often childish games like sard
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wrote. He and Milford Haven ‘went
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worrying… Now we have to fight a
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girls her daughter was associating
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5 A Princely Marriage ‘A princely
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during the war, was about to marry
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with difficulty that he faced the w
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off the Gestapo at last.’ One inc
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great comfort,’ the Queen wrote t
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master, Lord Beaverbrook: The Princ
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eyes,’ Crawfie wrote. Once the en
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gin and tonic with Milford Haven be
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old home is still yours & do come b
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originally been built in 1825-30 fo
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handled on that basis. The Civil Se
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as a wedding present), went to Font
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Charles Edward Stuart, ‘Bonnie Pr
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hyme figures on them. There was a g
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World War had drastically shrunk an
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and Margaret. She had loved them an
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fact, years afterwards when it was
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daughter in the terms that his own
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Gloucester. The King was his keenes
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celebrated as usual at Sandringham
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7 Sovereign Lady ‘I never imagine
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I think that those years after the
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Etched into the public consciousnes
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machinery have their tales to tell
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Express, almost the only newspaperm
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the Duke, was the first day of the
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public had insisted on its rights t
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world that vanished in 1939 lived a
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spurs to Lords Hastings and Chursto
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priest and Nathan the prophet, so b
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8 Dark Princess ‘One of the funct
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her to marry a divorced man, howeve
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more and more time with Margaret. O
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futilely, in their forecasts of the
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was, however, furious when, in the
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occasion of Margaret’s twenty-fou
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discussions with her sister about i
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This was the moral straitjacket int
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who could not bring themselves to b
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and over 600 Kandyan dancers and dr
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showing her a drawing and her sayin
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personality since I last saw him at
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had been told that he might not las
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eplied, ‘Not at all… He could h
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Elizabeth was always well briefed.
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un on the pound had developed. Brit
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tragic turn of fate which laid you
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grandee: ‘What do they want?’ T
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the main focus of his attack was up
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10 Tweed and Diamonds ‘Poor young
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atmosphere in the Private Secretari
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same as they had for her forebears,
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formidable lady. I got on with her
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sphere as Ladies of the Bedchamber
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training establishments. She likes
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to her work - politics and world af
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Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, dr
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11 Mountbatten - Windsor ‘The Que
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his studio in Brick Street, Mayfair
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when the Island Sailing Club had gi
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took on the headship of various org
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Fleet, Field Marshal and Marshal of
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sword; his grandmother presented hi
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sending him. He went, but had to ru
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under the age of 25 has ever known
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Now therefore I declare my Will and
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to see The Bells Are Ringing. After
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enjoyed an informal style of living
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next decade. The 1960s was the era
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economically would ultimately fade
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Macmillan’s trump card. Elizabeth
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to satisfy the Conference that ‘B
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Elizabeth’s own first experience
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occasion, I’m told.’ Elizabeth
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ehaviour. She knew Cliveden, the se
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played in the Duke of Windsor saga
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summoned to Windsor to see the Quee
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and a pail underneath into which bi
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caught him completely on the wrong
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long time at it…’ The radical T
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tenth anniversary of the Coronation
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important area of her life - her ch
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mercilessly portrayed by cartoonist
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Australian terms - from Timbertop.
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Counsellors of State entitled to ca
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extrovert personality, she had foun
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parks the events were held and gett
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willing to play with him - absolute
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it was only after a threat of legal
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luncheon with the royal party but l
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Unlike his great-uncle, for whom th
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14 Daylight upon Magic ‘You’re
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Poet Laureate, C. Day Lewis, neithe
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from Buckingham Palace. The Palace
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publicity on a subject which both t
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Stationery and office equipment 46,
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The Committee’s recorded proceedi
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suggesting a royal commission into
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to reassure the Commonwealth. Unlik
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One gets a great deal of friendline
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1978, when the representatives of t
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experience. Not only was Margaret T
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continued. Lord Carrington, Thatche
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made concessions, led to the consti
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her Government’. Lastly, the Quee
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and perhaps to avoid the repeated c
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15 Extended Family ‘A family on t
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‘Her story was just like a nightm
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anecdotes which were invariably sel
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marriage. The question of Philip’
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and their active royal role, Elizab
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hostess Mrs Violet Wyndham. As the
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taxpayers by flying off to Mustique
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unspoken put-down - ‘she could ch
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eeked of joss sticks and from out o
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made from the emerald of the Great
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tragedy when Patrick Plunket died,
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ceremonial functions as the heir to
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friends, the elderly South African
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aware of what marriage into the roy
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16 Grim Fairy-Tales ‘It all seeme
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Althorp was tall, good-looking and,
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had been discussed. In 1978 Jane, t
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father, who later, when the marriag
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ealized, was not her type of girl.
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her courtiers might have had faded
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with the Prince at the Brabournes
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shaking like leaves and returned ca
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Sarah was the Fergusons’ second d
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much on his own. His education had
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a deeper level between Elizabeth an
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not an easy man to work for and was
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Prince’s attacks on ministers, wh
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staff included two public school bo
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more impatient with him than they w
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oth Wyatt and Ramzi Sultan, and ind
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epresenting the Queen, and Charles
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News International, owners of the S
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‘Squidgy’, ended with the publi
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father himself had not enjoyed. Fur
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(author’s italics) on their priva
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eing met. The conversation, curious
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the wake of the Waleses’ separati
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the Prince for her co-operation. El
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ambassador. In return Diana made it
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party which Prince Charles was to g
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18 Elizabeth R ‘With the monarchy
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a fundamental condition of royal in
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acknowledge that I hold the said bi
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etween two funds managed by two dif
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and some free nominations for her o
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grandfather; both her grandfather a
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and occupy the purpose-built villag
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are such an inseparable part of Eli
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public desire for a slimmed-down mo
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outside the Palace the newspapers a
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Airways. Relations between Palace a
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the enhanced public profile of the
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‘The long, cool stare’: Elizabe
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‘Uncle David’: Edward as Prince
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Sir Alan ‘Tommy’ Lascelles, Pri
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‘Us four’ at the Royal Lodge, W
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Elizabeth and Philip pose for their
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The new Queen: Elizabeth at London
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‘Blissful’ couple: Margaret and
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February 1957 ‘Bobo’ - Margaret
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Elizabeth seen with her Private Sec
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David George Coke Patrick Ogilvy, 1
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The fairy-tale Princess and her Sol
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Love Story II: The Prince of Wales
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Elizabeth with her racing manager a
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Balmoral Castle, set in the green v
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Elizabeth and Philip with their sen
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‘That’s what it’s all about
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Epilogue ‘Everyone thinks what fu
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American observer put it, ‘You ta
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Acknowledgements By kind permission
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Sources All royal letters and diari
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3: Heiress 1. Norman Hartnell, Silv
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6: The Edinburghs 1. Balliol Colleg
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1. Townsend, op. cit., p. 189 2. Th
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16. cited in Anthony Holden, Charle
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4. Longford, op. cit., p. 276 5. In
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3. Bernard Palmer, High and Mitred
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Falkender, Marcia, Inside Number 10
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Vickers, Hugo, Alice: Princess Andr
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Altrincham, John Grigg, 2nd Baron,
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Blunt, Alfred Walter Frank, Bishop
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Charles I, King, 2, 95 Charles:The
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and outbreak of war, 86, 88; at Win
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dedication, 179-80, 186; and Common
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Francis, Mary, 514 Franz, Prince, D
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Hailsham, Douglas McGarel Hogg, 1st
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Imperial Poona Yacht Club, 263 In W
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Legh family, 43 Legh, Diana, 64, 74
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Meade, Richard, 334 Meet the Press
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Nyerere, Julius, 362, 376 Ogilvy, A
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Rainier, Prince of Monaco, 458 Ramp
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Soames, Christopher, Baron, 217, 40
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Viktoria Luise, Duchess of Brunswic
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York Cottage, Sandringham, 14, 500
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