Thin, Dr Jean, 403–4 Thomas, Clement Price, 156 Thomas, George (later Viscount Tonypandy), 343–4 Thomas, Ian, 245 Thomas, James Purdon (Viscount Cilcennin), 212 Thompson, Janet, 424 Thorpe, Jeremy, 299 Thursday Club, The, 259–60, 262–3 Tim Bell Associates, 462 Timbertop (Geelong High School), Australia, 323–4 Timemagazine, 258–9, 262, 295 Times, The (newspaper), 205, 379, 381 Toerring-Jettenbach, Carl, Count zu, and Princess Elizabeth, Countess zu, 46, 123 Toronto Star (newspaper), 363 Townend, Colonel (of Hill House school), 273 Townsend, Marie-Luce (formerly Jamagne), 282 Townsend, Michael, 197 Townsend, Group Captain Peter: on 1947 South Africa tour, 117–18; attends theatre with royal family, 158; romance with Margaret, 187–208, 233, 257–9, 281; background, 191; divorce, 195; posted to Brussels, 199–200; on Richard Colville, 240; engagement to Marie-Luce, 282; admitted to royal household as divorcee, 492 Townsend, Rosemary (née Pawle; later Marchioness of Camden), 190–92, 195 Tranby Croft scandal, 9 Treby, Leslie, 144 Tree, Ronald, 35 Trestrail, Commander Michael, 438 Trinity College see Cambridge Trudeau, Pierre, 315, 370 Truman; Harry S., 155, 157, 165 Tryon, Charles Tryon, 2nd Baron, 242 Tryon, Dale Elizabeth, Lady, 433 Tweedsmuir, John Buchan, 1st Baron, 238 United States of America: royal visits to, 78–9, 156–63, 269, 277, 366–8; and Suez War, 225, 229; and Vietnam War, 232; and Volta project, 290, 293 Usher, Frank, 144 Ustinov, (Sir) Peter, 259–60, 264 VI weapon, 104 Vacani, Miss (dancing teacher), 96 Valiant, HMS, 102 van der Post, Sir Laurens, 415, 434 Vanguard, HMS, 116–17, 119 Vassall case (1962), 299–300 VE Day (1945), 108, 520 Verwoerd, Hendrick Frensch, 290 Victoria, Queen: reign and character, 4–7; children, 8; approves of May of Teck, 11–12; ER compared with, 28, 33, 97–8; lives at Buckingham Palace, 33; at Balmoral, 73–4; ER’s interest in, 95 Victoria and Albert (royal yacht), 77, 83, 211–13 Victoria, Crown Princess of Germany, 10 Victoria, Princess (Edward VII’s daughter), 13, 49 Vietnam War, 232
Viktoria Luise, Duchess of Brunswick, 295 Volta, Upper, 290, 293 Vyner family, 163 Wales (country): Charles in, 329; attitude to Charles, 342–3 Wales, Charles, Prince of see Charles, Prince of Wales Wales, Diana, Princess of: character, 9, 423–4, 429–30, 441, 456; Morton’s book on, 37, 463–4, 467, 480; and stepmother Raine, 39, 423, 463; courtship, 421, 426–7; family background, 421–4; Charles first meets, 424–6; relations with press, 425–7, 435, 447, 463, 477–8; engagement, 427–8; in Buckingham Palace, 430–31; interests, 430; relations with ER and royal family, 430–31, 434–5, 446–7, 464, 476–7; concern over Camilla Parker Bowles, 431–2, 445, 447–8, 482; personal problems, 431–2, 435, 442, 464, 483; wedding, 432–4; pregnancies and children, 435–6, 445; and Duchess of York, 441; marriage relations, 445–6, 448, 455, 462–8, 517; public adulation, 445, 462, 475; relations with Hewitt, 445, 474, 482; staff leave, 445–6; 1985 visit to Italy, 449–50; relations with children, 462, 468; and father’s death and funeral, 463; in India, 463; recorded conversations with Gilbey, 466; visit to South Korea, 467–8; separation, 469, 473; as potential Queen, 474–5; announces withdrawal from public life, 475; press revelations on, 476–7; 1995 Panoramainterview, 481– 2; suggested divorce settlement, 482–4; deprived of HRH title, 483–4, 486; death and funeral, 485–6, 515; familiarity with staff, 511; speaking style, 513; influence on court and family life, 515 Walesa, Lech, 489–91 Walker, Simon, 513 Wallace, Anna, 417, 426 Wallace, Billy, 280 Walsh, Bernard, 259 Walsh, John, 139 Wanganui, New Zealand: Collegiate School, 443–4 Ward, Frances, 241 Ward, John, 239 Ward, Stephen, 259, 300 Warner, Jack, 98 Warren, John, 498 Washington, George, 519 Waverley, John Anderson, 1st Viscount, 230, 232 Weinstock, Arnold, Baron, 496 Weir, Sir John, 155 Welf, Prince of Hanover, 321 Wellesley, Lady Dorothy, 97 Wellesley, Lady Jane, 417 Wellesley, Lady Violet, 105 Wells, H.G., 17 Wernher, Myra, 43 Wessex, Earl of see Edward, Prince (ER’s son) Wessex, Sophie, Countess of (née Rhys–Jones), 444–5, 513 West, Dame Rebecca, 473 West Ilsley racing stables, 496 Westminster, Statute of (1932), 54 Wheeler-Bennett, Sir John, 70, 114, 303, 337–8 Whistler, Rex, 105 Whitaker, James, 425–7, 461 White Lodge, Richmond Park, 26 Whitelaw, William, Viscount, 354 Whitlam, Gough, 363, 413 Whybrew, Paul, 437
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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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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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his father, he showed a sure touch
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miserable time kicking his heels at
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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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Queen Mary: I fear it has been a ve
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their lives was now settled: weeken
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Elizabeth and her grandmother were
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whose lapses they struggled to conc
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pretty little knees’). The King,
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also above the law, and there would
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throne they were taking her educati
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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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that Edward, Duke of Windsor, is th
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occupants of probably the most inse
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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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worrying… Now we have to fight a
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girls her daughter was associating
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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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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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7 Sovereign Lady ‘I never imagine
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world that vanished in 1939 lived a
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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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showing her a drawing and her sayin
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personality since I last saw him at
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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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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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sending him. He went, but had to ru
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next decade. The 1960s was the era
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economically would ultimately fade
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Elizabeth’s own first experience
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played in the Duke of Windsor saga
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extrovert personality, she had foun
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parks the events were held and gett
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from Buckingham Palace. The Palace
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her Government’. Lastly, the Quee
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taxpayers by flying off to Mustique
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tragedy when Patrick Plunket died,
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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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not an easy man to work for and was
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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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‘The long, cool stare’: Elizabe
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