Elizabeth the Queen (94 page)

125.
“he had never witnessed”: Dwight D. Eisenhower to Queen Elizabeth II, July 7, 1959, Eisenhower Library.

126.
“this will be an insult”: Horne, p. 147.

127.
friends including the Earl of Westmorland: Eisenhower Archives, guest list, Aug. 21, 1959, Eisenhower Library.

128.
“The Queen and Eisenhower got on”: Dominic Elliot interview.

129.
“When there are fewer I generally put”: Queen Elizabeth II to Dwight D. Eisenhower, Jan. 24, 1960, Eisenhower Library.

130.
“perfect in every respect”: Dwight Eisenhower to Queen Elizabeth II, Aug. 30, 1959, Eisenhower Library.

131.
Philip gave eight speeches: Prince Philip,
Selected Speeches, 1956–1959
, pp. 32–34.

132.
“great national awakening”: Ibid., p. 33.

133.
“The Queen only wishes”: Williams, p. 357.

134.
“absolutely set her heart”: Anthony Howard,
Rab: The Life of R. A. Butler
, p. 276.

135.
“in tears”: Bradford, p. 286.

136.
“de-royalised”: Harold Macmillan,
Pointing the Way, 1959–1961
, p. 161.

137.
at the urging of Dickie and Prince Charles: Dimbleby, p. 234; Massingberd, p. 148.

138.
“a great load off her mind”: Bradford, p. 286.

139.
“The Queen has had this in mind”: Longford,
Elizabeth R
, p. 251.

SEVEN: New Beginnings

    1.
“Nothing, but
nothing
”: Turner, pp. 46–47.

    2.
“Pigmy-Peep-a-toes”:
The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters
, edited by Charlotte Mosley, p. 287.

    3.
“slightly explosive drawl”: Strong, p. 158.

    4.
“If you missed the ‘royal’ ”: Confidential interview.

    5.
“I don’t measure the depth”: Peter Morgan,
The Queen
, p. 5.

    6.
“You mustn’t worry”: Shawcross,
QEQM
, p. 847.

    7.
“I felt the Queen was not served well: Patricia Brabourne interview.

    8.
“whole atmosphere”: Coward, p. 437.

    9.
“endless, vivid herbaceous borders”: Ibid., p. 438.

  10.
“pale … a bit tremulous”: Ibid.

  11.
“scowl a good deal”: Ibid.

  12.
“When she is deeply moved”: Richard Crossman,
The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister
, Vol. 2,
Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons, 1966–1968
, Sept. 20, 1966, p. 44.

  13.
The £26,000 cost: Bradford, p. 292.

  14.
the Macmillan government picked up: Lacey,
Monarch
, p. 216. 152 refurbished at a cost: Bradford, p. 402.

  15.
£50,000 of which was allocated: Anne de Courcy,
Snowdon: The Biography
, p. 105.

  16.
“an opportunity to consider”: Horne, p. 169.

  17.
“assiduity with which she absorbed”: Ibid.

  18.
“the wind of change is blowing”: Macmillan,
Pointing the Way
, p. 156.

  19.
“The official text is weak”: Horne, p. 205.

  20.
“to appeal to de Gaulle’s sense of grandeur”: Ibid., p. 223.

  21.
“well informed about everything”: Charles de Gaulle,
Memoirs of Hope: Renewal and Endeavor
, p. 235.

  22.
“Only Rose Kennedy came into the room”: Brian Mulroney,
Memoirs
, p. 326.

  23.
“eaten into [JFK’s] soul”: Isaiah Berlin Oral History, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.

  24.
“the greatest man he ever met”: Ibid.

  25.
“young cocky Irishman”: Horne, p. 288.

  26.
“strange character … obstinate, sensitive, ruthless”: Ibid., pp. 281–82.

  27.
“We seemed to be able (when alone)”: Harold Macmillan to Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Feb. 18, 1964, Harold Macmillan Archive, Bodleian Library, Oxford University.

  28.
“surrounded himself with a large retinue”: Macmillan,
Pointing the Way
, p. 352.

  29.
“special relationship within”: Henry Brandon Oral History, Kennedy Library.

  30.
“professional statesman”: Raymond Seitz,
Over Here
, p. 41.

  31.
“completely overwhelmed”: Horne, p. 303.

  32.
“put on a good show”: Diaries of David Bruce, June 2, 1961.

  33.
“pretty heavy going”: Gore Vidal,
Palimpsest: A Memoir
, p. 372.

  34.
“they were all tremendously kind”: Cecil Beaton,
Self Portrait with Friends
, p. 341.

  35.
“the Queen was human only once”: Vidal, p. 372.

  36.
He had an Egyptian wife: David E. Lilienthal,
The Journals of David E. Lilienthal
, Vol. 4,
The Road to Change, 1955–1959
, p. 338.

  37.
“corrupt and tyrannical regime”: Gilbert, p. 1331.

  38.
“widespread uneasiness”: Ibid., p. 1330.

  39.
“her wish is to go”: Ibid., p. 1331.

  40.
“fainthearts in Parliament and the press”: Horne, p. 399.

  41.
“How silly I should look”: Longford,
Elizabeth R
, p. 320.

  42.
“the greatest Socialist monarch”: Horne, p. 399.

  43.
“fell for her”: Longford,
Elizabeth R
, p. 321.

  44.
“how muddled his views on the world”: Pimlott, p. 308, summarizing letter from Queen Elizabeth II to Henry Porchester, Nov. 24, 1961.

  45.
“I have risked my Queen”: Horne, p. 399.

  46.
“brave contribution”: Ibid.

  47.
This time Elizabeth II gave the American sisters: Diaries of David Bruce, March 28, 1962.

  48.
“It was a great pleasure”: Queen Elizabeth II to John F. Kennedy, May 20, 1962, Kennedy Library.

  49.
“the stuff he is made of”: Prince Philip,
Selected Speeches, 1956–1959
, pp. 134–35.

  50.
“prison sentence”: Dimbleby, p. 69.

  51.
“hell … especially at night”: Ibid., p. 78.

  52.
“an awful cloud came down”: David Ogilvy, the 13th Earl of Airlie, interview.

  53.
“She loves her duty”: Macmillan,
Pointing the Way
, p. 472.

  54.
“fashionable London call girl”: John F. Kennedy and Arthur Schlesinger, telephone recording transcript, March 22, 1963, Presidential Papers, Office Files, Presidential Recordings, Kennedy Library.

  55.
“political squalor”: Schlesinger to John F. Kennedy, “The British Political Situation,” March 25, 1963, W. Averell Harriman Papers, Library of Congress.

  56.
“grossly deceived”: Diaries of David Bruce, June 17, 1963.

  57.
“pitiable and extremely damaging”: Horne, p. 483, quoting Bruce cable to Dean Rusk, June 18, 1963.