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Authors: Sally Bedell Smith
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.