Elizabeth the Queen (103 page)

  39.
Philip suffered his own indignity: Josephine Louis interview.

  40.
“Are you expecting trouble?”: Pete Metzger interview.

  41.
“Aren’t there any male supervisors?”:
Time
, March 14, 1983.

  42.
“Damned if I’ll turn off the light”: Lucky Roosevelt interview.

  43.
“The Annenbergs have more than the Queen!”: Carolyn Deaver journal, Feb. 27, 1983.

  44.
They sped off under umbrellas: Ibid.

  45.
“There was a lot of talk at the time”: Lucky Roosevelt interview.

  46.
“She said, ‘If we can get there, let’s go’ ”: Shawcross,
Queen and Country
documentary.

  47.
“I don’t know how happy she was”: Josephine Louis interview.

  48.
Even on the clearest day: Author’s observations.

  49.
She said little: Josephine Louis interview.

  50.
“Don’t be silly”: Nancy Reagan interview.

  51.
“That was so enjoyable”: Pamela Bailey interview.

  52.
“Damn it … I told them”:
Time
, March 14, 1983.

  53.
“We talked at length”: Nancy Reagan interview.

  54.
As they made their approach: Pete Metzger interview; Carolyn Deaver interview.

  55.
Ted Graber hurriedly dressed up: Nancy Reagan interview.

  56.
“I learned that night that she listened”: Carolyn Deaver interview.

  57.
At the end of the meal, she cracked open: Ibid.

  58.
“The Queen needs her tiara time!”: Ibid.

  59.
she has a kit with tools: Ibid.; David Thomas interview.

  60.
“puff sleeves decorated”: Hardy Amies,
Still Here: An Autobiography
, p. 119.

  61.
“I knew before we came”:
Time
, March 14, 1983. 321 “I know I promised Nancy”: Nancy Reagan interview.

  62.
Reagan expressed his fondness:
Time
, March 14, 1983.

  63.
In no time she had it installed: Michael Oswald interview; Associated Press, Oct. 11, 1984.

  64.
“sparkling”: Princess Margaret to Ronald and Nancy Reagan, Oct. 6, 1983, Reagan Library.

  65.
“It is a curious irony”: Confidential interview.

  66.
“debating about the past”: Margaret Thatcher radio interview with David Spanier of IRN (New Delhi Commonwealth Conference), Nov. 29, 1983, Margaret Thatcher Foundation Website.

  67.
At a black-tie dinner: Reagan,
The Reagan Diaries
, p. 246.

  68.
On the final weekend:
Time
, March 14, 1983.

  69.
Philip had already stayed: Jean Carnarvon interview.

  70.
To take advantage:
New York Times
, Oct. 9, 1984.

  71.
He gave her a nomination: FitzGerald, p. 140.

  72.
When Elizabeth II landed: Catherine Murdock interview.

  73.
the Queen immediately changed: Lady Angela Oswald interview.

  74.
“It put everyone totally at ease”: Catherine Murdock interview.

  75.
The directors of Keeneland also staged: Ibid.

  76.
Each night the Farishes had dinner parties: Ibid.

  77.
“She felt very much at home”: Confidential interview.

  78.
“all attempts to destroy democracy”: Margaret Thatcher speech to Conservative Party conference, Oct. 12, 1984, Margaret Thatcher Foundation Website.

  79.
“sympathy and deep concern”: Associated Press, Oct. 12, 1984.

  80.
“Are you having a lovely time?”: Jean Carnarvon interview. 327 “boosted one’s morale”: Shawcross,
Q and C
, p. 128.

  81.
“deep regret”: United Press International, Oct. 15, 1984. 327 Her only annoyance: Jean Carnarvon interview.

  82.
But she took five-mile walks: Ibid.; Tad Bartimus, “Queen Elizabeth Visits Wyoming,”
American West
, March/April 1985.

  83.
Meals were simple American fare:
Time
, Oct. 22, 1984.

  84.
“Queen-sized
fillette
cut”: Catherine Murdock interview.

  85.
“because I have never tasted them”: Bartimus, “Queen Elizabeth Visits Wyoming,”
American West
, March/April 1985.

  86.
“What kind of salad dressing”: Catherine Murdock interview.

  87.
she handed out gifts: Ibid.

  88.
“looking at beautiful thoroughbreds”: Queen Elizabeth II to Ronald Reagan, Oct. 14, 1984, Reagan Library.

  89.
“closed off”: Morton, p. 51.

  90.
“monstrous carbuncle”: Dimbleby, p. 384.

  91.
“catastrophe … time bomb”: Strong, p. 361.

  92.
“The Queen could not be more pleased”:
The Sun
, April 12, 1984.

  93.
“Horlicks … bitter”: Andrew Neil interview (May 6, 1998).

  94.
she memorably danced: Prince Charles to Ronald Reagan, Nov. 11, 1985, Reagan Library.

  95.
“in her clever way”:
The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters
, p. 712.

  96.
“touched perhaps by the sadness”: Lees-Milne,
Diaries, 1984–1997
, p. 93.

  97.
Most of the bluegrass breeders:
Washington Post
, May 29, 1989.

  98.
“Suddenly from the bushes to the left”: Anne Glenconner interview.

  99.
“felt favored and blessed”: Sarah, the Duchess of York, with Jeff Coplon,
My Story
, p. 108.

100.
“I was robust and jolly”: Ibid., p. 107.

101.
“She’s very sharp and clever”: Wyatt, Vol. 3, p. 410.

FIFTEEN: Family Fractures

    1.
The Queen purportedly took issue:
Sunday Times
, July 20, 1986.

    2.
“astute political infighter”: Ibid.

    3.
“It was like a scene out of Trollope”: Confidential interview.

    4.
“Margaret Thatcher was very upset”: Charles Powell interview.

    5.
“ordinary people”: Shawcross,
Q and C
, p. 133.

    6.
“commiserated with each other”: Turner, p. 181.

    7.
He was more distraught: Confidential interview.

    8.
an appointment that raised eyebrows:
The Times
, Oct. 20, 2009.

    9.
There had been press reports: Wyatt, Vol. 1, p. 167.

  10.
The Queen had encouraged Canadian: Brian Mulroney interview.

  11.
“moral obligation”: Ibid.

  12.
Thatcher eventually compromised: Mulroney, p. 404.