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  49.
“There is a difference”: Confidential interview.
  50.
“If I’d said to him”: Dimbleby, p. 340.
  51.
“intent to alarm”: Morrow, p. 131.
  52.
sitting calmly when a ball crashed: Jean Carnarvon interview.
  53.
“I never saw her scared”: Turner, p. 46.
  54.
“You know why you’re there”: Malcolm Ross interview.
  55.
“Left leg straight!”: Ibid.
  56.
“In every pub and club”: Dewar, ed., p. 17.
  57.
A poll in July 1981: Longford,
Elizabeth R
, p. 357.
  58.
The first lady had met Charles: Prince Charles to Nancy Reagan, June 6, 2004, The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Library.
  59.
Nancy Reagan also endeared: Henderson, pp. 395–97.
  60.
“I have fallen in love”: Mary Henderson to Nancy Reagan, May 3, 1981, Reagan Library.
  61.
“in our best bib and tucker”: Josephine Louis interview.
  62.
“She was wonderful that day”: Ibid.
  63.
“little house in Windsor Great Park!”: Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother to Nancy Reagan, July 28, 1981, Reagan Library.
  64.
The atmosphere was exultant: BBC, “On This Day,” July 29, 1981,
news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday
.
  65.
“grow into it”:
Daily Mail
, Sept. 10, 1996.
  66.
It was a high-spirited occasion: Josephine Louis interview; Nicholas Haslam interview; confidential interview.
  67.
“Oh Philip, do look!”: Morrow, p. 7.
  68.
“I’d love to stay and dance”: Ibid.
  69.
“The Queen was so mad”: Josephine Louis interview.
  70.
she rapidly lost weight: Andrew Morton,
Diana: Her True Story—In Her Own Words
, p. 56.
  71.
down to a mere 110 pounds: Smith, p. 145.
  72.
“It was just impossible”: Paxman, p. 274.
  73.
“other side … jolly girl”: Dimbleby, p. 345.
  74.
Charles had Diana flown: Smith, p. 151.
  75.
“the Queen is the least self-absorbed”: Confidential interview.
  76.
“Regardless of how rude Princess Margaret”: Confidential interview.
  77.
“The Queen was always kind”: Lucia Flecha de Lima interview (Nov. 10, 1997).
  78.
“terrified”:
Daily Mail
, Sept. 10, 1996.
  79.
“the briskest, deepest, most correct curtsy”: Morrow, p. 40.
  80.
Although Diana wrote letters of gratitude: Jonathan Dimbleby interview (Dec. 10, 1997).
  81.
“She is pretty, soft and amusing”: Confidential interview.
  82.
“betrayed”: Confidential interview.
  83.
“despondent”: Smith, p. 155.
  84.
“That’s the most pompous thing”: Longford,
Elizabeth R
, p. 409.

FOURTEEN: A Very Special Relationship

    1.
“brought into stark focus”:
The Queen at 80
, Sky News, 2006. 310 “I definitely went there a boy”:
Daily Telegraph
, Feb. 13, 2010.
    2.
“We have ceased to be a nation in retreat”: Margaret Thatcher, speech to Conservative rally at Cheltenham, July 3, 1982, Margaret Thatcher Foundation Website.
    3.
“quiet two days”:
New York Times
, June 7, 1982.
    4.
“invariably lit up at the prospect”: Henderson, p. 434.
    5.
“the first country that I have visited”: Jimmy Carter, London, England, remarks on arrival at Heathrow Airport, May 5, 1977.
    6.
“I took a sharp step backwards”: Shawcross,
QEQM
, p. 900.
    7.
The Queen had arranged:
New York Times
, June 8, 1982. 312 “that was what he needed”: Michael Fawcett interview.
    8.
“We had the feeling we had come”: Carolyn Deaver interview.
    9.
“It was surprisingly informal”: Nancy Reagan interview.
  10.
“bobbing when he should have remained’:
Daily Mirror
, June 9, 1982.
  11.
“Does it ride well?” Associated Press, June 8, 1982.
  12.
offered the first lady a running commentary: Nancy Reagan interview.
  13.
“charming … down-to-earth … she was in charge”:
Daily Telegraph
, Aug. 17, 1982.
  14.
the first American president: Ronald Reagan,
The Reagan Diaries
, p. 88.
  15.
“Are you enjoying yourself?”: Carolyn Deaver interview.
  16.
“much impressed by the way: United Press International, June 8, 1982.
  17.
“the conflict on the Falkland islands”:
Daily Mirror
, June 9, 1982.
  18.
“I suddenly saw this tiny figure”:
Daily Telegraph
, Aug. 17, 1982.
  19.
“It was a great relief”: Martin Bashir interview with Diana, Princess of Wales,
Panorama
, BBC, Nov. 20, 1995.
  20.
The Queen was among the first to visit: Morrow, p. 238.
  21.
“Get out of here at once!”: Ibid., p. 232.
  22.
“Tell me about it”: Shawcross,
QEQM
, p. 533.
  23.
“I am used to talking to people”: Confidential interview.
  24.
“Bloody ’ell, Ma’am”: Morrow, p. 232.
  25.
“Oh come on, get a bloody move”: Ibid., p. 233.
  26.
“The whole thing was so surreal”: Colin Burgess,
Behind Palace Doors: My Service as the Queen Mother’s Equerry
, p. 156.
  27.
“mostly shock and disbelief”: Confidential interview.
  28.
“dark ages”: Morton, p. 61.
  29.
she underwent therapy with two different professionals: Ibid., pp. 140–41.
  30.
“It was actually very emotional”:
The Queen at 80
, Sky News, 2006.
  31.
“for reasons of time and protocol”:
Newsweek
, Oct. 21, 1957.
  32.
She had raised the matter: Henderson, p. 273.
  33.
“What better time”:
Time
, March 14, 1983.
  34.
She expressly asked: Henderson, p. 485.
  35.
At one point Princess Margaret called: Selwa “Lucky” Roosevelt interview.
  36.
“We said, ‘But she’s
never
been’ ”: Peter McKay interview.
  37.
“They sat on the first two seats”: Lucky Roosevelt interview.
  38.
“The Queen was visibly bothered”:
Time
, March 14, 1983.

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