Elizabeth the Queen (97 page)

  91.
“Queen Anne’s dying”: Ibid.

  92.
Driven by an impulse: de Courcy, p. 148.

  93.
“People will be looking after me”: Lacey,
Monarch
, p. 223.

  94.
“As a mother, I’m trying to understand”:
Sunday Times
, Oct. 30, 1966.

  95.
“It’s nice to hibernate”:
E II R
documentary.

  96.
The long drive from the gates: Author’s observations.

  97.
trucks filled with clothing: Martin Leslie interview.

  98.
“There is a certain fascination”:
E II R
documentary.

  99.
“The furniture has barely been moved”: Margaret Rhodes interview.

100.
“Every new person goes for it”: Jean Carnarvon interview.

101.
“Her Majesty is aware”: Martin Leslie interview.

102.
“Hooray!”: Confidential interview.

103.
“steep frowning glories”: Dimbleby, p. 35.

104.
“At Balmoral, she knows every inch”: Malcolm Ross interview.

105.
“It was always fun to see a new stalker”: Margaret Rhodes interview.

106.
She shot her last stag: Confidential interview.

107.
a practice she was forced to stop: Confidential interview.

108.
“the hoovers”: Turner, p. 73.

109.
“If I’d known you were all watching”: Ibid.

110.
“She shows you to your room”: Confidential interview.

111.
“as if a switch has flipped”: Malcolm Ross interview.

112.
“She is conversing as she is playing”: Confidential interview.

113.
“she has to have it absolutely right”: Anne Glenconner interview.

114.
“Our lunch was over”: Confidential interview.

115.
“Woe betide if you put”: Confidential interview.

116.
“At Balmoral, she never forgets”: Confidential interview.

117.
“engrossed in the sufferings of Swann”: Alan Bennett,
The Uncommon Reader
, p. 62.

118.
For many years she would choose: Oliver Everett interview.

119.
“You can go out for miles”:
E II R
documentary.

NINE: Daylight on the Magic

    1.
“Goodness what fun”: Bradford, p. 325.

    2.
“was very impressed”: Mary Wilson interview.

    3.
Displeased by her harsh treatment: Dimbleby, p. 39.

    4.
The Queen was not intimidated: Ibid., p. 40.

    5.
“work and responsibilities and duties”:
The Queen at 80
, Sky News, 2006.

    6.
“he could hear the younger children”: Min Hogg interview.

    7.
“dodge-ems”:
The Queen at 80
, Sky News, 2006.

    8.
“pick us up and say”: Ibid.

    9.
“caustic lot”: Longford,
Elizabeth R
, p. 273.

  10.
“exert her authority”: Bradford, p. 338.

  11.
“an utterly detached sensation”: Longford,
Elizabeth R
, p. 273.

  12.
Having ridden since the age: Princess Anne the Princess Royal, with Ivor Herbert,
Riding Through My Life
, p. 2.

  13.
“crème de la crème”: Dimbleby, p. 135.

  14.
“on level grown-up terms”:
Daily Mirror
, Feb. 28, 1968.

  15.
“I remember the patience”: Mary Wilson interview.

  16.
“charming … with his desire to please”: Gladwyn, p. 343.

  17.
“Right from the beginning”: Turner, p. 118.

  18.
“it just beggars belief”: Brandreth, p. 301.

  19.
“great difference”: Ibid., p. 296.

  20.
“was too proud to admit it”: Dimbleby, p. 189.

  21.
“an escape place”:
E II R
documentary.

  22.
“pure luxury … miles of stubble fields”: Princess Anne, p. 2.

  23.
“the autumn colours”: Ibid., p. 16.

  24.
It was one of the few times: Margaret Rhodes interview.

  25.
the Queen Mother had been preparing: Helen Markham interview.

  26.
“There is a grave shortage”: Display at Castle of Mey; copyright HM the Queen.

  27.
“A meal of such splendour”: Castle of Mey Visitors Book, Aug. 15, 1991; copyright HM the Queen.

  28.
In the distance through binoculars: Nancy McCarthy interview.

  29.
“She did not have to worry”: Vickers,
Alice Princess Andrew of Greece
, p. 335.

  30.
“Bubby-kins”: Ibid., p. 382.

  31.
“Yaya”: Ibid., p. 360.

  32.
“Oh, I thought you were saying”: Ibid., pp. 351–52.

  33.
“cuddly granny”: Ibid., p. 361.

  34.
“compartmentalize”: Ibid.

  35.
Andrew and Edward often came: Lacey,
Monarch
, p. 232.

  36.
even joining the elderly princess: Annigoni, p. 173.

  37.
“not arguments, but let’s say”: Vickers,
Alice Princess Andrew of Greece
, p. 391.

  38.
Her worldly goods: Ibid., p. 394. At a later date, according to her instructions, the remains of Princess Alice were transferred to Jerusalem for burial. In April 1993 she was recognized by the Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem for her heroism in hiding a family of Jews from the Nazis in Greece during World War II.

  39.
“We are not publicity agents”:
Time
, April 11, 1949.

  40.
he had hosted a second program: McDonald,
The Duke
documentary. 215 “I was quite a different kind”: Shawcross,
Q and C
, p. 151.

  41.
“I think it is quite wrong”:
The Times
, Nov. 10, 1969.

  42.
“You can do it”: Pimlott, p. 379.

  43.
“the Queen goes with what she has to do”: Gay Charteris interview.

  44.
“She suddenly discovered”: Pimlott, p. 381.

  45.
“Can’t we avoid a shadow here?”: Morrow, p. 89.

  46.
“She never underplays the importance of ceremony”: Confidential interview.

  47.
implying she meant the hapless Annenberg: Diaries of David Bruce, Nov. 27, 1968.

  48.
“infinitely rewarding and impressive”: Walter Annenberg to Richard Nixon, May 1, 1969, Nixon Library.

  49.
“flustered envoy … verbal felicity”: Christopher Ogden,
Legacy: A Biography of Moses and Walter Annenberg
, p. 429.