Elizabeth the Queen (112 page)

  37.
“That speech contained more jargon”: Chris Mullin,
A View from the Foothills: The Diaries of Chris Mullin
, p. 429.

  38.
The Queen appeared in the same double strand:
Daily Mail
, Nov. 19, 2007.

  39.
“Let us love one another”: BBC News, Nov. 19, 2007.

  40.
“a life where duty spoke”:
Daily Telegraph
, Nov. 20, 2007.

  41.
As they had with his older sister:
Daily Mail
, April 21, 2008.

  42.
Since the invasions: Gen. Charles Guthrie interview.

  43.
“The royal family has pride and joy”: Ibid.

  44.
Once she helpfully sent: Ibid.

  45.
“Do the Welsh Guards have new uniform”: Johnny Martin-Smith interview.

  46.
“The Queen has an eagle eye”: Confidential interview.

  47.
“wouldn’t read a three-volume history”: Charles Guthrie interview.

  48.
“You could tell her what you thought”: Ibid.

  49.
“She knew we had too many regiments”: Jonathan Powell interview.

  50.
Speaking to one of the army chiefs: Confidential interview.

  51.
“It is a traditional thing to do”: Charles Guthrie interview.

  52.
despite the well-documented fact: Smith, p. 212.

  53.
He was determined:
Daily Telegraph
, Feb. 28, 2008.

  54.
Army Chief of Staff Sir Richard Dannatt vetoed: Prince Harry deployment update,
PrinceofWales.gov.uk
, May 15, 2007.

  55.
“turn to the right and carry on”: BBC News interview with Prince Harry, Feb. 28, 2008.

  56.
They decided to deploy Harry: Sky News, Feb. 28, 2008.

  57.
“I think she’s relieved”: BBC interview with Prince Harry, Feb. 28, 2008.

  58.
“ ‘mucking in’ with every other soldier”:
Daily Telegraph
, Feb. 29, 2008.

  59.
“All my wishes have come true”: Ibid.

  60.
“it’s very nice to be sort of a normal person”: BBC News interview with Prince Harry, Feb. 28, 2008.

  61.
an opsimath, she calls herself: Bennett, p. 48.

  62.
“had a much better bite at the carrot”: Ibid. 482 “by analysis and reflection”: Ibid., p. 113. 482 “Oh do get on!”: Ibid., p. 49.

  63.
“offered yet another reason to think warmly”:
New York Times Book Review
, Sept. 30, 2007.

  64.
“It was shared, it was common”: Bennett, p. 31.

  65.
“It’s very informal”: Mark Collins interview.

  66.
At the invitation of a conservation group: Confidential interviews.

  67.
The following July she watched: BBC News, July 20, 2009.

  68.
She even started taking:
Daily Mail
, Dec. 17, 2009;
Daily Telegraph
, Feb. 8, 2010.

  69.
“We have seen less of them”: Confidential interview.

  70.
The children of her longtime friends: Confidential interview.

  71.
When one of her bridesmaids: Elizabeth Longman interview; Freddy Van Zevenbergen interview.

  72.
“a wall”:
Daily Telegraph
, June 21, 2008.

  73.
“I’ve done it!”: Ibid., June 19, 2008; Ian Balding interview.

  74.
“I wouldn’t have been invited”: Helen Mirren interview.

  75.
“I expect you think”:
The Guardian
, Nov. 24, 2006.

  76.
“For Prince Philip and me”: BBC News, Nov. 12, 2008.

  77.
“All her programs are done with great cleverness”: Malcolm Ross interview.

  78.
“she instantly spots it”: Confidential interview.

  79.
“Why did no one see it coming?”:
The Guardian
, Nov. 18, 2008.

  80.
“The general feeling is she is more approachable”: Confidential interview.

  81.
Philip began writing letters:
Daily Mail
, April 17, 2009.

  82.
Elizabeth II eventually took up cell phones:
The Times
, Oct. 17, 2008.

  83.
At the suggestion of Prince Andrew:
Daily Telegraph
, April 1, 2009.

  84.
“a great googler”: Confidential interview.

  85.
“Just come back from jogging?”:
Daily Mail
, Oct. 17, 2008.

  86.
“Lovely little thing isn’t it?”:
The Times
, Oct. 17, 2008.

  87.
During a shooting weekend: Confidential interview.

  88.
“At long last my grandparents are reunited”: Ashe Windham, “A Fitting Memorial to Queen Elizabeth,”
Friends of the Castle of Mey Newsletter
, April 2009. p. 5.

  89.
Elizabeth II was only scheduled: Elizabeth Anson interview.

  90.
“She knows every inch”: Charles Powell interview.

  91.
“few dogged bastions of republicanism”:
The Times
, April 29, 2011.

  92.
“I am very pleased to be in Kingston”: David Pogson, senior press officer, Buckingham Palace Press Office.

  93.
When the Queen was younger: Confidential interview. 489 To help prepare the Queen: Susan Cunliffe-Lister interview.

  94.
When the train pulled into the Hull station: Author’s observations.

  95.
“She has an amazing ability to scan”: Phil Brown interview. 490 She talked across the table: Author’s observations.

  96.
“was picking at her bread roll”: Maria Raper interview.

  97.
“SHE’S A ROYAL TONIC”:
Hull Daily Mail
, March 6, 2009.

  98.
“as a signal of the strong”:
Daily Telegraph
, Feb. 16, 2009.

  99.
The first lady even confided: Confidential interview.

100.
“The Queen knows when she enters”: Brian Mulroney interview.

101.
“frightfully funny”: Confidential interview.

102.
After ten seconds, the Queen dropped:
Daily Mail
timed sequence of photos, April 3, 2009.

103.
“It happened spontaneously”: Peter Wilkinson interview.

104.
“unthinkable”:
The Guardian
, April 2, 2009.

105.
“mutual and spontaneous display”: Confidential interview.

106.
a ritual that invariably prompted: Confidential interview.

107.
The Queen was a smiling icon: Author’s observations.

108.
“no visible signs of flagging”: Sir Richard Gozney interview.

109.
She had a four-hour stretch: Confidential interview.

110.
“I have to be seen to be believed”: Longford,
Elizabeth R
, p. 5.