Elizabeth the Queen (101 page)

  72.
“Next year is a rather special one for me”: Queen Elizabeth II Christmas Broadcast, December 25, 1976, Official Website of the British Monarchy.

  73.
“express wish”:
Daily Telegraph
, Dec. 29, 2007.

  74.
“apathy hits plans”:
The Guardian
, Feb. 6, 1977.

  75.
“Harbour entrances would be just packed”: Shawcross,
Q and C
, p. 114.

  76.
“seized the moment to whip out a lipstick”: Morrow, p. 59.

  77.
“one of the most significant decisions”: The Queen’s Reply, Westminster Hall, May 4, 1977.

  78.
“That was significant”: Simon Walker interview.

  79.
“Your Majesty, I’m afraid”:
The Times
, Sept. 13, 2008. Major Sir Michael Parker was an Englishman who worked on numerous royal events, not to be confused with Lieutenant Michael Parker, the Australian naval officer who had worked for Prince Philip.

  80.
“I had forgotten how uncomfortable”: Burrell, p. 30.

  81.
“an example of service untiringly done”: BBC, “On This Day,” June 7, 1977,
news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday
.

  82.
“in my salad days when I was green”: Ibid.

  83.
the roar of the vast crowd was so loud: Shawcross,
Q and C
, p. 115.

  84.
“They
really
love you”: Strong, p. 194.

  85.
“basically middle class British”: Ibid, p. 193.

  86.
“more or less had to push”: Ibid., p. 194.

  87.
“The Queen received me”: Shawcross,
Q and C
, pp. 108–9.

  88.
“our own particular sorrows”: Queen Elizabeth II Christmas Broadcast, Dec. 25, 1972, Official Website of the British Monarchy.

  89.
“Martin, we
said
we’re going”: Bradford, p. 377.

  90.
“the safest way for the Queen”: BBC, “On This Day,” Aug. 10, 1977,
news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday
.

  91.
“nowhere is reconciliation more desperately”: Queen Elizabeth II Christmas Broadcast, Dec. 25, 1977, Official Website of the British Monarchy.

  92.
He was the first baby in the royal family:
The Guardian
, Nov. 16, 1977.

  93.
“The Queen knew Martin would cry”: Gay Charteris interview.

  94.
“he was still around”: Shawcross,
QEQM
, p. 895.

  95.
“Martin, thank you for a lifetime”: Gay Charteris interview.

THIRTEEN: Iron Lady and English Rose

    1.
“conversation flowed easily”:
Sunday Times
, Feb. 7, 1982.

    2.
their talk over the next hour might touch: Longford,
Elizabeth R
, p. 350.

    3.
“weighs up”: Ibid., p. 349.

    4.
One week she memorably took him for a stroll: Shawcross,
Q and C
, p. 112.

    5.
“What one gets … is friendliness”: Longford,
Elizabeth R
, p. 349.

    6.
“poor old Jim Callaghan”: Wyatt, Vol. 2, p. 36.

    7.
“the last shreds of prejudice”: Shawcross,
Q and C
, p. 121.

    8.
“What do you think about Margaret Thatcher”: Ian Balding interview.

    9.
“the eternal scholarship girl”: Johnson, p. 263.

  10.
“The Queen found that irritating”: Confidential source.

  11.
“The agenda included major topical”: Charles Powell interview.

  12.
“She chatted with us”: Confidential interview.

  13.
“She seemed to come back in a cheerful”: Charles Powell interview. 290 One exception was the time: Morrow, p. 167.

  14.
“Mrs. Thatcher would have thought it impudent”: Pimlott, pp. 460–61.

  15.
Whenever the Thatchers came: Monica Tandy tour of Windsor Castle; Longford,
Elizabeth R
, p. 376.

  16.
“was reserved but she could give you”: Turner, pp. 48–49.

  17.
“Would you like to order, sir?”:
Spitting Image
, YouTube.

  18.
“The Queen is the mother of the country”: James Lees-Milne,
Diaries: 1984–1997
, abridged and introduced by Michael Bloch, p. 141.

  19.
“No one could curtsy lower”: Charles Powell interview.

  20.
“I would set up … a hereditary monarchy”: Longford,
Elizabeth R
, p. 358.

  21.
“out of loyalty”: Charles Powell interview.

  22.
“The hills? … The hills? She walks on the road!”: Confidential interview.

  23.
“The Queen finessed it”: Ibid.

  24.
she let her manners slip and kept her elbows: Morrow, pp. 147–48.

  25.
“quartering the room”: Paxman, p. 315.

  26.
“an enormous role in calming everything”: Shawcross,
Q and C
, p. 123.

  27.
“talked to Mrs. Thatcher and to Kaunda”: Pimlott, p. 468.

  28.
Whenever she and Philip are having lunch: Confidential interview.

  29.
“his closest confidant”: Dimbleby, p. 213.

  30.
“someone who showed enormous affection”: Ibid., p. 324.

  31.
The Queen called the hospital: Timothy Knatchbull,
From a Clear Blue Sky: Surviving the Mountbatten Bomb
, p. 115.

  32.
“That kind of private person”: Pamela Hicks interview.

  33.
“A dog isn’t important”: Ibid.

  34.
“Please sit with me”: Ibid.

  35.
“Ma’am, would you like to go upstairs?”: Timothy Knatchbull interview.

  36.
“striding down the corridor”: Knatchbull, p. 176.

  37.
“She was in almost unstoppable mothering mode”: Ibid.

  38.
“She was caring and sensitive and intuitive”: Timothy Knatchbull interview.

  39.
“I fear it will take me”: Dimbleby, p. 324. 296 she said the Irish were pigs: Wilson, p. 259.

  40.
“She had all the feelings”: Timothy Knatchbull interview.

  41.
One unlikely source of consolation: Smith, p. 87.

  42.
“German family”:
Sunday Times
, Jan. 31, 2010.

  43.
“By the time we reached Australia”: Pamela Hicks interview.

  44.
“a good age for a man”:
Woman’s Own
, Feb. 1975.

  45.
“easy and open manner”: Dimbleby, p. 338.

  46.
“LADY DI IS THE NEW GIRL”:
The Sun
, Sept. 8, 1980.

  47.
“fallen in love with an idea”: Dimbleby, p. 341.

  48.
“Prince Philip and the Queen felt responsible”: Pamela Hicks interview.