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PENGUIN BOOKS ELIZABETH Sarah Bradf
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Elizabeth A BIOGRAPHY OF HER MAJEST
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For William
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Foreword to Revised Edition When I
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Descendants of Christian IX of Denm
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Second plate section Coronation Day
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1 Destiny ‘In a way I didn’t ha
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and dissolve Parliaments - in actua
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made pregnant by a footman, Queen V
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Prince Albert Edward (known as ‘B
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age which, allied to the splenetic
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‘before their family was even com
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his father, he showed a sure touch
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miserable time kicking his heels at
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But with her charm and enjoyment of
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see,’ Elizabeth’s mother was he
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2 Princess in an Ivory Tower ‘It
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oyal children. Victoria’s last su
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Queen Mary: I fear it has been a ve
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changed round”… she obviously f
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their lives was now settled: weeken
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At their first meeting Crawfie had
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Elizabeth and her grandmother were
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whose lapses they struggled to conc
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Simpson. The increasing prominence
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pretty little knees’). The King,
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Wallis appeared all over the world,
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also above the law, and there would
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3 Heiress ‘I thought it all very,
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Room’ and the ‘Boudoir’, with
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throne they were taking her educati
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Coronation, From Lilibet By Herself
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changed her style to suit current f
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million in today’s money], the ch
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valley; up on the moors the air is
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Chamberlain pursued his policy of c
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that Edward, Duke of Windsor, is th
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occupants of probably the most inse
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Dartmouth; two of the boys had deve
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everything,’ Lampson reported on
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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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Page 445 and 446: Elizabeth and Philip with their sen
Page 447 and 448: ‘That’s what it’s all about
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Page 453 and 454: Acknowledgements By kind permission
Page 455 and 456: Sources All royal letters and diari
Page 457 and 458: 3: Heiress 1. Norman Hartnell, Silv
Page 459 and 460: 6: The Edinburghs 1. Balliol Colleg
Page 461 and 462: 1. Townsend, op. cit., p. 189 2. Th
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Page 465 and 466: 4. Longford, op. cit., p. 276 5. In
Page 467 and 468: 3. Bernard Palmer, High and Mitred
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Page 471 and 472: Vickers, Hugo, Alice: Princess Andr
Page 473 and 474: Altrincham, John Grigg, 2nd Baron,
Page 475 and 476: Blunt, Alfred Walter Frank, Bishop
Page 477 and 478: Charles I, King, 2, 95 Charles:The
Page 479 and 480: and outbreak of war, 86, 88; at Win
Page 481 and 482: dedication, 179-80, 186; and Common
Page 483 and 484: Francis, Mary, 514 Franz, Prince, D
Page 485 and 486: Hailsham, Douglas McGarel Hogg, 1st
Page 487: Imperial Poona Yacht Club, 263 In W
Page 491 and 492: Meade, Richard, 334 Meet the Press
Page 493 and 494: Nyerere, Julius, 362, 376 Ogilvy, A
Page 495 and 496: Rainier, Prince of Monaco, 458 Ramp
Page 497 and 498: Soames, Christopher, Baron, 217, 40
Page 499 and 500: Viktoria Luise, Duchess of Brunswic
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