Elizabeth the Queen (95 page)

  58.
“greatly undermined”: Diaries of David Bruce, June 15, 1963.

  59.
“deep regret at the development”: Harold Macmillan,
At the End of the Day, 1961–1963
, p. 445; Horne, p. 485.

  60.
“charmingly consoling letter”: Horne, p. 486.

  61.
The Palace approved: Charles Powell, Baron Powell of Bayswater, interview.

  62.
“in animated conversation”: Ibid.

  63.
“firm step, and those brightly shining eyes”: Macmillan,
At the End of the Day
, p. 515.

  64.
“there were in fact tears”: Horne, p. 565.

  65.
“seemed moved”: Macmillan,
At the End of the Day
, p. 515.

  66.
“the Queen asked for my advice”: Ibid.

  67.
“take his soundings”: Ibid., p. 516.

  68.
“magic circle”: Pimlott, p. 334.

  69.
“too remote”: Ibid., p. 332.

  70.
“excruciatingly amusing”: Diaries of David Bruce, July 20, 1961.

  71.
“taking women into a parliamentary embrace”: “The Life Peerages Act 1958: The passage of the Act,”
lifepeeragesact.parliament.uk
.

  72.
“friendly headmaster”: Lacey,
Majesty
, p. 260.

  73.
“guide and supporter”: Macmillan,
At the End of the Day
, p. 519. 165 “continue to take part in public life”: Ibid.

  74.
“It is almost incredible”: Diaries of David Bruce, Nov. 12, 1963.

  75.
“The unprecedented intensity”: Queen Elizabeth II speech at Runnymede, May 14, 1965,
itnsource.com
(Reuters TV).

  76.
She insisted on having: Diaries of David Bruce, Nov. 26, 1963, Nov. 28, 1963.

  77.
“generosity, sympathy and understanding”: Ibid., May 14, 1965.

  78.
“doom laden period”: Queen Elizabeth II speech at Runnymede, May 14, 1965,
Itnsource.com
(Reuters TV).

  79.
“wit and style”: Diaries of David Bruce, May 14, 1965.

  80.
“you share with me thoughts that lie too deep”: Ibid.

  81.
“immensely valuable”: Woodrow Wyatt,
The Journals of Woodrow Wyatt
, Vol. 1, edited by Sarah Curtis, p. 249.

  82.
“The Queen knew for years”: Ibid.

  83.
“I find that I can often put things out”: Turner, p. 57.

  84.
“She has a compartmentalized brain”: Margaret Rhodes interview.

  85.
“She talked of all sorts of things”: Diaries of David Bruce, April 28, 1964.

  86.
“She regards Windsor as her home”: Longford,
Elizabeth R
, p. 303.

  87.
“better than any dry cleaner in London”: Confidential interview.

  88.
“unnerving to be descended upon”: Strong, p. 220.

  89.
“It is always amusing to see”: Confidential interview.

  90.
the “Windsor Uniform”: John Martin Robinson,
Windsor Castle: The Official Illustrated History
, p. 81.

  91.
“I need to explain about the napkins”: Paxman, p. 121.

  92.
“The Queen told me it was all right”: Isabel Ernst interview.

  93.
“She never batted an eye”: Jean, Countess of Carnarvon, interview.

  94.
“The selections are to entertain”: Oliver Everett interview.

  95.
“It gives people something to talk about”: Jean Seaton interview.

  96.
“I suppose landscape is quite nice”:
The Queen, by Rolf
documentary.

  97.
“he experimented terribly”: Ibid.

  98.
“she was steered away from the unmade bed”:
The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters
, p. 798.

  99.
“Her assessment of a picture”: Bradford, p. 500.

100.
“She is neither an art historian”: Oliver Everett interview.

101.
“beauty in nature”: Pimlott, p. 544.

102.
“refrain from offering presents”: Diaries of David Bruce, April 29, 1964.

103.
“What surprised me”: Strong, p. 219.

104.
“the Lord Chamberlain is commanded”: Author’s invitation for July 7, 2009.

105.
When the Palace doors open: Author’s observations.

106.
“drank her tea”: Confidential interview.

107.
“standing talking quietly”: Beaton,
The Unexpurgated Beaton
, p. 259.

108.
“I suppose”: Harold Wilson, Wikipedia.

109.
“I got a bleak look”: Sir Michael Oswald interview.

110.
“read all his telegrams”: Lacey,
Majesty
, p. 260.

111.
“We have to work very hard”: Confidential interview.

112.
“a bit touchy … uncomfortable”: Woodrow Wyatt,
The Journals of Woodrow Wyatt
, Vol. 3, edited by Sarah Curtis, p. 505.

113.
“tamed him”: Vickers,
Elizabeth the Queen Mother
, p. 409.

114.
“Harold was never a republican”: Marcia Williams, Baroness Falkender, interview.

115.
“real ceremonies of the monarchy”: Shawcross,
Q and C
, p. 99.

116.
“She started with Winston Churchill”: Mary Wilson, Lady Wilson of Rievaulx, interview.

117.
“He was surprised that she used to sit”: Marcia Falkender interview.

EIGHT: Refuge in Routines

    1.
“Operation Hope Not”: John Pearson,
The Private Lives of Winston Churchill
, p. 400.

    2.
“It was entirely owing”: Mary Soames interview.

    3.
President Lyndon Johnson was supposed: Diaries of David Bruce, Jan. 25, 1965.

    4.
“living entity to be fostered”: Independent Television from London, “The State Funeral of Sir Winston Churchill,” narrated by Sir Laurence Olivier, Paul Scofield, and Joseph C. Harsch.

    5.
Johnson desperately pressed: Diaries of David Bruce, Jan. 27, 1965.

    6.
The president’s designated replacement: Ibid.

    7.
“a great maker of history”: Dwight D. Eisenhower remarks, Jan. 30, 1965,
Winstonchurchill.org
.

    8.
“acknowledge our debt of gratitude”: Gilbert, p. 1361.

    9.
who equipped it with rugs: Longford,
Elizabeth R
, p. 282.

  10.
“Waiving all custom and precedence”: Gilbert, p. 1362.

  11.
“we were not to curtsy”: Mary Soames interview.

  12.
“most enthusiastically rendered”: Diaries of David Bruce, Jan. 30, 1965.

  13.
“the clouds of cold”: Cecil Beaton,
Beaton in the Sixties: More Unexpurgated Diaries
, introduction by Hugo Vickers, p. 17.