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Viktoria Luise, Duchess of Brunswick, 295<br />

Volta, Upper, 290, 293<br />

Vyner family, 163<br />

Wales (country): Charles in, 329; attitude to Charles, 342–3<br />

Wales, Charles, Prince of see Charles, Prince of Wales<br />

Wales, Diana, Princess of: character, 9, 423–4, 429–30, 441, 456; Morton’s book on, 37, 463–4, 467, 480; and stepmother<br />

Raine, 39, 423, 463; courtship, 421, 426–7; family background, 421–4; Charles first meets, 424–6; relations with press,<br />

425–7, 435, 447, 463, 477–8; engagement, 427–8; in Buckingham Palace, 430–31; interests, 430; relations with ER and<br />

royal family, 430–31, 434–5, 446–7, 464, 476–7; concern over Camilla Parker Bowles, 431–2, 445, 447–8, 482; personal<br />

problems, 431–2, 435, 442, 464, 483; wedding, 432–4; pregnancies and children, 435–6, 445; and Duchess of York, 441;<br />

marriage relations, 445–6, 448, 455, 462–8, 517; public adulation, 445, 462, 475; relations with Hewitt, 445, 474, 482;<br />

staff leave, 445–6; 1985 visit to Italy, 449–50; relations with children, 462, 468; and father’s death and funeral, 463; in<br />

India, 463; recorded conversations with Gilbey, 466; visit to South Korea, 467–8; separation, 469, 473; as potential<br />

Queen, 474–5; announces withdrawal from public life, 475; press revelations on, 476–7; 1995 Panoramainterview, 481–<br />

2; suggested divorce settlement, 482–4; deprived of HRH title, 483–4, 486; death and funeral, 485–6, 515; familiarity<br />

with staff, 511; speaking style, 513; influence on court and family life, 515<br />

Walesa, Lech, 489–91<br />

Walker, Simon, 513<br />

Wallace, Anna, 417, 426<br />

Wallace, Billy, 280<br />

Walsh, Bernard, 259<br />

Walsh, John, 139<br />

Wanganui, New Zealand: Collegiate School, 443–4<br />

Ward, Frances, 241<br />

Ward, John, 239<br />

Ward, Stephen, 259, 300<br />

Warner, Jack, 98<br />

Warren, John, 498<br />

Washington, George, 519<br />

Waverley, John Anderson, 1st Viscount, 230, 232<br />

Weinstock, Arnold, Baron, 496<br />

Weir, Sir John, 155<br />

Welf, Prince of Hanover, 321<br />

Wellesley, Lady Dorothy, 97<br />

Wellesley, Lady Jane, 417<br />

Wellesley, Lady Violet, 105<br />

Wells, H.G., 17<br />

Wernher, Myra, 43<br />

Wessex, Earl of see Edward, Prince (ER’s son)<br />

Wessex, Sophie, Countess of (née Rhys–Jones), 444–5, 513<br />

West, Dame Rebecca, 473<br />

West Ilsley racing stables, 496<br />

Westminster, Statute of (1932), 54<br />

Wheeler-Bennett, Sir John, 70, 114, 303, 337–8<br />

Whistler, Rex, 105<br />

Whitaker, James, 425–7, 461<br />

White Lodge, Richmond Park, 26<br />

Whitelaw, William, Viscount, 354<br />

Whitlam, Gough, 363, 413<br />

Whybrew, Paul, 437

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