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4. Longford, op. cit., p. 276
5. In November 1975 the Governor–General of Australia, Sir John Kerr, dismissed the
Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam, in consequence of the latter’s inability to obtain
supply. Kerr, quite rightly, did not consult the Palace since the Australian Constitution
vested the power of dismissal in the Governor–General and not the sovereign, and he
loyally did not wish to involve the Queen in an Australian political and constitutional
crisis in which she had no legal powers. Constitutionally, therefore, the Queen was
not involved, but because the Governor–General was her representative and she was,
as Queen of Australia, head of state, the controversy raised Australian hackles and
generated nationalist feeling about the anomaly of having an absentee head of state.
6. Denis Healey, Time of My Life (1989), p. 373
7. Pimlott, op. cit., p. 648
8. Longford, op. cit., pp. 278–9
9. Interview with Lord Owen, 22 November 1994
10. Interview with Susan Crosland, 1994
11. Susan Crosland, Tony Crosland (1982), p. 345
12. Roy Jenkins, European Diary, 1977–81 (1989), p. 130
13. Hugo Young, One of Us (1990), p. 12
14. Letter to the author, 4 March 1995
15. Interview with Sir Shridath Ramphal, 20 December 1993
16. Interview with the author, 18 November 1993
17. Interview with the author, 18 July 1994
18. Paul Routledge in the Observer, 5 September 1993
19. Margaret Thatcher, The Downing Street Years (1993), p. 18
15: Extended Family
1. Courtney, op. cit., pp. 61 and 57
2. John Barratt, With the Greatest Respect. The book, written with Jean Ritchie, was to
have been published in 1991 but was withdrawn. John Barratt later died of Aids.
3. cited in Dimbleby, op. cit., p. 155
4. Ibid., p. 193
5. see Roger Lewis, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (1995), pp. 933–6
6. cited in Nigel Dempster, HRH The Princess Margaret: A Life Unfulfilled (1981), p. 127
7. Ibid., pp. 119–20
8. Rose, Kings, Queens and Courtiers, p. 132
9. Bloch, Secret File, pp. 301–2