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on family surname, 170–71; chairs Coronation Committee, 174–5; at Coronation, 181–2, 185; and Margaret-Townsend
romance, 197, 205; on 1953/54 Commonwealth tour, 209–10, 213; helps ER with speechmaking, 224; Palace
modernization and innovations, 237, 255; intellectual interests, 252; shooting, 252; 1956 Commonwealth tour, 258, 263–
4, 269, 278; painting, 258; rumoured infidelities and flirtations, 258–62, 269, 391–3; and Thursday Club, 260–62;
undemonstrative nature, 262; sailing, 263, 330; helicopter flying, 267; and Mountbatten surname, 268, 279–80;
nominated Regent, 268; relations with children, 269–74, 318–20, 480; and Charles’s education, 274–5, 320–21, 323, 325–
6; 1959 visit to Canada and USA, 277; at Margaret’s wedding, 286; and Greek royal family, 295–6; 1965 visit to Germany,
296–9; Barbara Castle on, 314; political views, 315; home life, 318–20; relations with Anne, 330; and TV film of royal
family, 345, 348–9, 351; on cost of monarchy, 352–3; Civil List allowance,
Philip, Prince, Duke of Edinburgh – cont. 356–7; ER rebukes, 367; views on EC, 369; offends Chinese, 380; criticizes
Scargill, 381; relations with Charles, 388, 482; in Ghana, 390; and Duke of Windsor’s funeral, 407; at Balmoral, 410; and
Charles’s marriage prospects, 417–18, 420; and Charles’s courtship of Diana, 427, 429; and Fergusons, 440; and Edward’s
resignation from Marines, 444–5; ostracizes Major Ferguson, 458; attitude to Diana and Duchess of York, 464–5;
supports Charles, 465, 477; and Charles’s marriage breakdown, 468, 473, 479; remains on Civil List, 469; speechmaking,
470; religious observance, 492; and alterations to Sandringham, 500; runs Sandringham and Balmoral estates, 503–4;
relations with staff, 511–12; evening engagements, 515
Philipp, Prince, Landgrave of Hesse, 123, 302
Phillips, Captain Mark: marriage, 280, 385–7; Anne meets, 332, 334; riding, 332–4; honeymoon, 361; qualities, 385–6;
marriage breakdown, 459
Phillips, Peter, 387
Piccadilly (No. 145), 30, 36, 43
Pickering, Sir Edward, 176
Plaid Cymru (political party), 342
Player, Lesley, 459–61
Plunket family, 43
Plunket, Dorothé, Lady (née Lewis), 39, 241
Plunket, Patrick, 7th Baron, 148, 241–2, 311, 343, 348, 372, 408–10, 507
Plunket, Terence, 6th Baron (‘Teddy’), 241
Poland: and outbreak of war, 85–6
Polesden Lacey (house), Surrey, 37
Ponsonby, Sir Frederick (‘Fritz’), 12, 303
Ponsonby, Loelia, 15, 52
Pope-Hennessy, James, 56, 71, 166, 500–502
Porchester, Henry Molyneux Herbert, Baron (‘Porchy’) see Carnarvon, 7th Earl of
Porritt, Jonathon, 452
Portland, William Cavendish–Bentinck, 6th Duke of, 67
Portugal, 269
Powell, Enoch, 310
Prasad, Rajendra, 288
Prempeh, Sir Osei (Ageyman III, King of Ashanti), 291
Preston, Kiki Whitney, 46
Prince’s Trust, 413, 451, 480
Prince’s Youth Business Trust, 451
Princess Elizabeth Land, Antarctica, 33
Private Eye (magazine), 394
Privy Council, 314–15
Profumo, John, 260, 299–301, 306
Public Estates, 359
Pye, Miss (maid), 128
Radcliffe, Cyril, Baron, 215