Elizabeth the Queen (104 page)

  13.
“She never expressed her views”: Confidential interview.

  14.
To shield its informant:
The Times
, Oct. 20, 2009.

  15.
“misinterpreted”:
Daily Telegraph
, Oct. 19, 2009.

  16.
“crucial parts”:
The Times
, Oct. 20, 2009.

  17.
The press secretary’s colleagues: Confidential interviews.

  18.
“I think he has megalomania”: Wyatt, Vol. 1, p. 173.

  19.
“He personally didn’t go for Margaret Thatcher”: Angela Oswald interview.

  20.
“Don’t worry, dear”: Pimlott, p. 514, citing interview with Sir John Riddell.

  21.
“Well, I can’t do anything”: Wyatt, Vol, 1, p. 178.

  22.
“deliberate act by the Queen”: Shawcross,
Q and C
, pp. 133–34.

  23.
“Now Kenneth”: Brian Mulroney interview.

  24.
“How is the emotional one?”: Mulroney, p. 466.

  25.
“There was no doubt”: Brian Mulroney interview.

  26.
“I think Mr. Deng would be rather happier”: Shawcross,
Q and C
, p. 176.

  27.
“didn’t move a muscle”: Shawcross,
Queen and Country
documentary.

  28.
“The British press went nuts”: Confidential interview.

  29.
“puncture the balloon”: McDonald,
The Duke
documentary.

  30.
“I don’t know why he has the gift”: Confidential interview.

  31.
“My only claim to fame”:
Austin American-Statesman
, May 21, 1991.

  32.
including a gold bracelet:
Daily Telegraph
, Jan. 12, 2011.

  33.
In 1982 he began driving: McDonald,
The Duke
documentary.

  34.
“energy saving”: Ibid.

  35.
“Sometimes I would take an idea”: Confidential interview.

  36.
One of his favorite photographs: David Airlie interview.

  37.
“Do you really want to be”: Confidential interview.

  38.
“enormously practical … extremely businesslike”: BBC interview with David Airlie: transcript, Feb. 21, 1994.

  39.
“to sit on it and think”: Ibid.

  40.
“The reason why she moves”: Ibid.

  41.
After he had spent six months: David Airlie interview.

  42.
the press reported that his father:
The Guardian
, Jan. 8, 2010.

  43.
“They always try to make him out”: Wyatt, Vol. 1, p. 309.

  44.
“It was a disaster”: Ibid., p. 492.

  45.
“cold, drafty, and expensive”: James Murray interview.

  46.
The two queens took walks: June Webster interview; Helen Markham interview.

  47.
After dinner he played: Confidential interview.

  48.
“stripped naked”: Strong, p. 430.

  49.
In 1985 Diana had taken up: Smith, p. 197.

  50.
in November of the following year: Ibid., p. 212.

  51.
“warmth … understanding and steadiness”: Dimbleby, p. 481.

  52.
the tension was obvious enough:
Sunday Times
, Sept. 24, 1988.

  53.
“civilized space”: Penny Thornton,
With Love from Diana
, p. 52.

  54.
“new Diana”: Smith, p. 234.

  55.
Sarah was expected to live: Ibid., p. 239.

  56.
“bad royal”: Sarah, the Duchess of York, p. 148.

  57.
“crass, rude, raucous, and bereft”: Ibid., p. 155.

  58.
For a number of years”:
People
, April 24, 1989.

  59.
She was linked: Ibid.

  60.
as well as Camilla’s husband:
Daily Mail
, June 22, 2007.

  61.
“darling … affectionate terms”:
People
, April 24, 1989.

  62.
At the end of 1988 she had been reading: Monty Roberts interview.

  63.
“advance-and-retreat”: Monty Roberts,
The Man Who Listens to Horses: The Story of a Real-Life Horse Whisperer
, p. xxxi.

  64.
The Queen sent: Monty Roberts interview.

  65.
She invited some two hundred guests: The description of Roberts’s demonstration at Windsor Castle and the reactions from the royal family are drawn from author’s interview with Roberts and from his autobiography.

  66.
“I saw a mind open up”: Monty Roberts interview.

  67.
“knew every move”: Ibid.

  68.
“getting it right”: Ibid.

  69.
In 2011 she rewarded Roberts:
The Mirror
, June 11, 2011.

  70.
He offered to buy the horse: FitzGerald, p. 149.

  71.
The anger at Henry Carnarvon:
Daily Telegraph
, May 23, 2002.

  72.
“If you don’t make some sort”: Phil Dampier and Ashley Walton,
What’s in the Queen’s Handbag and Other Royal Secrets
, p. 107; Ian Balding interview.

  73.
“loud and sustained applause … swept off his Panama”:
Daily Telegraph
, May 23, 2002.

  74.
“The Queen has done something”: Wyatt, Vol. 2, p. 81.

  75.
By then, she had countermanded:
Daily Telegraph
, May 23, 2002.

  76.
“Sonny Ramphal … was sitting in London”: Brian Mulroney interview.

  77.
“in charge of our own destiny”: David Airlie interview.

  78.
“give much more dignity and continuity”: Margaret Thatcher statement to the House of Commons on the Civil List, July 24, 1990.

  79.
She was in Paris at the time: Charles Powell interview.

  80.
“She’s a very understanding person”: Shawcross,
Q and C
, p. 138. 353 “The Garter tends to go”: Charles Powell interview.

  81.
“very patriotic”: Wyatt, Vol. 2, p. 403.

SIXTEEN:
Annus Horribilis

    1.
“I couldn’t pin down a difference”: Confidential interview.

    2.
“had a lot in common”: Seitz, p. 320.

    3.
“The Queen is rather formal”: George H. W. Bush interview by email, Aug. 25, 2009.

    4.
“freedom’s friend”:
Boston Globe
, May 15, 1991.

    5.
“we had a good laugh”: George H. W. Bush interview.

    6.
“The first thing I noticed”: George W. Bush interview by email, Jan. 18, 2011.

    7.
“No, Ma’am … God Save the Queen”: Ibid., Jan. 19, 2011.