Elizabeth the Queen (90 page)

  77.
“and that takes a bit of arranging”: Deane Heller and David Heller,
Jacqueline Kennedy
, p. 81.

  78.
“a great big, warm personality”: Beaton,
The Strenuous Years
, p. 143.

  79.
“swathed in purple silk”:
Baltimore Sun
, June 3, 1953.

  80.
“She was relaxed”: Anne Glenconner interview.

  81.
“You must be feeling nervous”: Shawcross,
Q and C
, p. 182.

  82.
“Ready, girls?”: Anne Glenconner interview.

  83.
“plucked indiscriminately”:
Baltimore Sun
, June 3, 1953.

  84.
“backwards and forwards”: Beaton,
The Strenuous Years
, p. 144.

  85.
she gave a slight neck bow: British Pathé Coronation newsreel, Part 1, June 3, 1953.

  86.
“Lord Cholmondeley had to do”: Anne Glenconner interview.

  87.
“It was the most poignant moment”: Ibid.

  88.
“Some small interest was generated”:
Baltimore Sun
, June 3, 1953.

  89.
“The real significance”: John Andrew interview.

  90.
“gentleness in levying taxes”: British Pathé Coronation newsreel, Part 2, June 3, 1953.

  91.
“intense expectancy”: Beaton,
The Strenuous Years
, p. 144.

  92.
“Look, it’s Mummy!”: Associated Press, June 2, 1953.

  93.
“sadness combined with pride”: Beaton,
The Strenuous Years
, p. 143.

  94.
“She used to say”: Frances Campbell-Preston interview.

  95.
“never once did she lower”: Associated Press, June 2, 1953.

  96.
“Oh ma’am you look so sad”: Anne Glenconner interview.

  97.
“as a simple communicant”: Beaton,
The Strenuous Years
, p. 145.

  98.
Before leaving the chapel: Anne Glenconner interview.

  99.
“We were all running”: Ibid.

100.
“anchored them in her arms”: Beaton,
The Strenuous Years
, p. 147.

101.
“Elizabethan explorers”: William Manchester,
Baltimore Sun
, June 3, 1952.

102.
“the Coronation has unified”: Earl Warren, governor of California, to Dwight D. Eisenhower, report on coronation, June 30, 1953, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum.

103.
Future prime minister John Major: William Shawcross,
Queen and Country
, BBC Four-Part Documentary Series, 2002.

104.
“It was a thrilling time”: Sir Paul McCartney interview.

105.
“he was never anointed”: Jeremy Paxman,
On Royalty: A Very Polite Inquiry into Some Strangely Related Families
, p. 125.

106.
“television lunch”:
Baltimore Sun
, June 3, 1953; Paul Johnson,
Brief Lives: An Intimate and Very Personal Portrait of the Twentieth Century
, p. 111.

FIVE: Affairs of State

    1.
“She would pull on all sorts”: Jean, the Countess of Carnarvon, interview.

    2.
The Queen was driven down: Universal International Newsreel, June 6, 1953.

    3.
“marvelous sport”: Longford,
Elizabeth R
, p. 239.

    4.
“seemed to be just as delighted”: BBC Sport, June 2, 2003.

    5.
“Winston of course”: Longford,
Elizabeth R
, p. 214.

    6.
“Oh, racing”: Shawcross,
Q and C
, p. 70.

    7.
“they spent a lot of the audience”: Mary Soames interview.

    8.
“I could not hear”: Lascelles, p. 430.

    9.
“mingled, with perfect facility”: Lytton Strachey, p. 33.

  10.
“Not a bit of it”: Nicolson,
Vita and Harold
, p. 405.

  11.
“What did you think”: Longford,
Elizabeth R
, p. 213.

  12.
“in a frightful fury”: Ibid.

  13.
“If it was a case of teaching”: Mary Soames interview.

  14.
“rather rough on the Poles”: Gilbert, p. 810.

  15.
“the strain”: Winston and Clementine Churchill,
Winston and Clementine: The Personal Letters of the Churchills
, edited by Mary Soames, p. 569.

  16.
“fatigue”: Ibid., p. 570.

  17.
writing a lighthearted letter: Gilbert, p. 852.

  18.
“They want you”: Ibid., p. 884.

  19.
“prevaricated continuously”: Clarissa Eden,
Clarissa Eden: A Memoir from Churchill to Eden
, p. 142.

  20.
“a devilish bad equerry”: Lascelles, p. 211.

  21.
“It is not necessary for you”: Longford,
Elizabeth R
, p. 119. 96 “She would not listen ever”: Mary Clayton interview.

  22.
“Margaret was an awful tease”: Ibid.

  23.
“The Queen never shows off”: Kenneth Rose interview.

  24.
“unusual, intense beauty”: Kenneth Rose,
Intimate Portraits of Kings, Queens and Courtiers
, p. 273.

  25.
“in a black hole”: Pimlott, p. 199.

  26.
“deeply in love”: Lascelles, p. 398.

  27.
“formidable obstacles”: Ibid.

  28.
“fluff”: BBC, “On This Day,” October 31, 1955,
news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday
.

  29.
“This is most important!”: Lascelles, p. 399.

  30.
“employment abroad as soon as possible”: Ibid.

  31.
“stood on the sidelines”: Obituary of Peter Townsend,
The Independent
, June 21, 1995.

  32.
“the Queen, after consulting”: Lascelles, p. 400.

  33.
He was scheduled to retire: Ibid., p. 405.

  34.
“She strongly believed”: Elizabeth Anson interview.

  35.
By one accounting: Longford,
Elizabeth R
, p. 206.

  36.
“She sees herself fused”: Brian Mulroney interview.

  37.
Sir Philip Moore, her private secretary: Oliver Everett interview.

  38.
“The transformation of the Crown”: The Queen’s Speech at the Luncheon in the Guildhall to mark her Silver Jubilee, Tuesday 7th June 1977, Buckingham Palace Press Office.

  39.
the Queen supervised the creation:
Daily Telegraph
, June 23, 2009.

  40.
“looked so young and vulnerable”: Coward, p. 222.

  41.
“the good of the world”: Gilbert, p. 942.

  42.
Otherwise, Elizabeth II watched: Gaumont British Newsreel (Reuters), “Fiji Hails the Queen.”

  43.
“Didn’t you LOVE this?”: Pamela Hicks interview.