Elizabeth the Queen (100 page)

  81.
After his brothers presented it: Ibid.

  82.
“I’m sure I told the gardener”: Ibid.

  83.
Some even believe: Annabel Goldsmith interview.

  84.
“Have you given some thought”: Shaun Plunket interview.

TWELVE: Feeling the Love

    1.
“profound religious existence”: Confidential interview. 263 “sacramental manner in which she views”: George Carey interview.

    2.
“not in the sense of a burden”: George Carey,
Know the Truth: A Memoir
, p. 401.

    3.
“She has a comfortable relationship with God”: George Carey interview.

    4.
“she doesn’t parade her faith”: John Andrew interview.

    5.
“an old-fashioned way of being”: Ibid.

    6.
“middle of the road”: George Carey interview.

    7.
“a masterpiece of English prose”: Queen Elizabeth II Christmas Broadcast, Dec. 25, 2010, Official Website of the British Monarchy.

    8.
“The royal family treat”: Confidential interview.

    9.
“Oh you silly woman”: George Carey interview.

  10.
“For the delicious meal”:
Daily Mail
, Nov. 11, 1997.

  11.
She admired Graham, although when he asked: Diaries of David Bruce, June 17, 1966.

  12.
“takes the place of a family confessor”: Margaret Rhodes interview.

  13.
The pageantry is intricately orchestrated: Author’s observations, Maundy Service and Office for the Royal Maundy, Westminster Abbey, April 21, 2011.

  14.
“It’s a very clever subtle way”: Kenneth Rose interview.

  15.
“He found his ecclesiastical duties”: Longford,
Elizabeth R
, p. 347.

  16.
“They used to fetch us by car”: Mary Wilson interview.

  17.
During their September 1975 visit: Ibid.

  18.
“when he first got to Number 10”: Marcia Falkender interview.

  19.
Wilson so treasured the image: Mary Wilson interview.

  20.
“too-tall … ungainly”: Susan Mitchell,
Margaret Whitlam: A Biography
, p. 213.

  21.
“Big Marge”: Turner, p. 13.

  22.
installing them in a suite: Margaret Whitlam,
My Day
, p. 41.

  23.
“deep-piled cream sheepskin rug”: Mitchell, p. 213.

  24.
“That evening she was quite determined”: Turner, p. 13.

  25.
“almost too much and too moving”: Whitlam, p. 130.

  26.
Tony was achieving even greater success: de Courcy, pp. 102, 112.

  27.
“I received a letter from Peter”: “Margaret: Unlucky in Love,” BBC News, Feb. 9, 2002.

  28.
Tony wanted the freedom: de Courcy, p. 130.

  29.
“things I hate about you”: Ibid., p. 177.

  30.
Among his dalliances: Ibid., p. 194.

  31.
Margaret’s lovers included: Ibid., p. 142.

  32.
“little lady”: James Ketchum interview.

  33.
“First, let her think”: “Princess Goes to Washington: Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon Visit Washington,” Nov. 21, 1965, British Pathé, WPA Film Library.

  34.
“I didn’t bring up my daughter”: Confidential interview. 270 “He pulled the wool”: Anne Glenconner interview.

  35.
when she flouted protocol: Confidential interview.

  36.
“I understand”: Pamela Hicks interview.

  37.
“How’s Margaret’s mood?”: Confidential interview. 271 “the atmosphere is appalling”: de Courcy, pp. 234–35. 271 “had been devastating”: Ibid.

  38.
“live apart”: Ibid., p. 243.

  39.
“The Queen and the Queen Mother never took sides”: Confidential interview.

  40.
“She doesn’t sit in the sun”: Confidential interview.

  41.
was tended by her longtime hairdresser: Morrow, pp. 60–61.

  42.
For her skin she used an assortment: Ibid.

  43.
shrewdly orchestrated a public show: Nicholas Henderson,
Mandarin: The Diaries of an Ambassador, 1969–1982
, pp. 120–21.

  44.
“a tribute to the Queen’s understanding”: Ibid.

  45.
“careful consideration”: Robert T. Armstrong to Martin Charteris, Feb. 6, 1973, National Archives, Kew.

  46.
“One would wish to consider”: Ibid.

  47.
“July 4th was really pushing it”:
New York Times
, June 13, 1976. 274 “a paragon of gaiety & dignity”: Beaton,
The Unexpurgated Beaton
, p. 334.

  48.
“should get someone more steeped”: Confidential interview.

  49.
couldn’t resist calling her “the American”: Confidential interview.

  50.
they were hit with a force nine gale: Crosland, p. 344.

  51.
“philosophical, almost merry”: Ibid., p. 345.

  52.
“Wheeeeee!”: Ibid., pp. 345–46.

  53.
“her apparent eagerness to work a crowd”:
New York Times
, July 8, 1976.

  54.
“I speak to you as the direct descendant”: Ibid., July 7, 1976. 275 “I’m going to make Attila the Hun”:
Time
, Oct. 24, 1977. 275 “press the flesh”: Crosland, p. 347. 275 “What a fascinating man”: Bradford, p. 374.

  55.
“never faltered in the day’s walk-about”: Crosland, p. 348.

  56.
Henry Kissinger’s wife, Nancy: Ibid.

  57.
“Prince Philip is renouncing”: Ibid.

  58.
“to make her grand entrance”:
Edinburgh Evening News
, June 19, 2003.

  59.
“were overwhelmed”: Shawcross,
Q and C
, p. 173.

  60.
“Luckily, I don’t mind the heat”:
New York Times
, July 10, 1976.

  61.
“There’s John Andrew!”: John Andrew interview.

  62.
“Gracious, do you really wear skirts”:
New York Times
, July 10, 1976.

  63.
“homey patched-elbow chic”: Ibid., July 9, 1976.

  64.
In fact, the evenings were often exuberant: Gay Charteris interview.

  65.
“You looked so funny standing all alone”: John Andrew interview.

  66.
“moving from one reminder”:
New York Times
, July 12, 1976.

  67.
“I was reminded of the good that can flow”: Queen Elizabeth II Christmas Broadcast, December 25, 1976, Official Website of the British Monarchy.

  68.
Very much her mother’s daughter: “The Princess Royal at 60,” BBC
Inside Sport
special, Aug. 12, 2010.

  69.
“I noticed, we’ve been going all day”: Confidential interview.

  70.
“keeping the rhythm and shaking her head”: Morrow, p. 41.

  71.
“I heard her sigh again”: John Julius Norwich interview.