Elizabeth the Queen (99 page)

    8.
“The fact that she has all these years”: Ibid.

    9.
“very useful … particularly on overseas stuff”: Ziegler, p. 319.

  10.
“deeply unhappy”: John Campbell,
Edward Heath: A Biography
, p. 494.

  11.
“It’s like Nanny being there”: Lacey,
Monarch
, pp. 260–61.

  12.
“actively sought to downgrade”: Ziegler, p. 374.

  13.
their first trip: Suggested Remarks: Welcome for Prince Charles and Princess Anne, July 15, 1970, Nixon Library.

  14.
“I learnt the way a monkey learns”: Longford,
Elizabeth R
, p. 279.

  15.
“At nineteen years old suddenly being dropped”: Shawcross,
Queen and Country
documentary.

  16.
Nixon laid on an ambitious program: Department of State, Office of the Chief of Protocol, “Administrative Arrangements for the Visit to Washington, D.C.: His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, K.G. and Her Royal Highness the Princess Anne,” Nixon Library.

  17.
More than three decades later: Confidential interview.

  18.
“hopes and aspirations”: Henry Kissinger to Richard Nixon, July 17, 1970, Nixon Library.

  19.
“pointed out one must not”: Dimbleby, p. 180.

  20.
The Queen, who was on vacation: Ziegler, p. 375.

  21.
“suitable for entertaining”: Michael Adeane to Charles Morris, M.P., Nov. 18, 1970, National Archives, Kew.

  22.
“during his four-hour stay”: Robert T. Armstrong to Michael Adeane, Nov. 18, 1970, National Archives, Kew.

  23.
“signal kindness”: Richard Nixon to Queen Elizabeth II, Oct. 7, 1970, Nixon Library.

  24.
“Taking a lively interest”: Appendices to the Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Select Committee on the Civil List, 1971, p. 111.

  25.
“expensive kept woman”: Pimlott, p. 404.

  26.
“Martin was given his chance”: Gay Charteris interview. 246 “Your job is to spread a carpet of happiness”: Ibid.

  27.
“ridiculous disease”: Queen Elizabeth II to Edward Heath, Nov. 28, 1971, National Archives, Kew.

  28.
“to commiserate with you”: Edward Heath to Queen Elizabeth II, Nov. 23, 1971, National Archives, Kew.

  29.
“from
them
—one can’t win from a virus!”: Queen Elizabeth II to Edward Heath, Nov. 28, 1971, National Archives, Kew.

  30.
During her thirties and forties:
Evening Standard
, April 28, 1971.

  31.
“She has a theory that you carry on”: Confidential interview.

  32.
“how unnerving it was to get under the bedclothes”: Min Hogg interview.

  33.
“can do no harm”: Wyatt, Vol. 3, p. 423.

  34.
Among Blackie’s more exotic treatments: Morrow, p. 55.

  35.
“for whatever was wrong with them”: Min Hogg interview.

  36.
the Queen had extended an olive branch: Diaries of David Bruce, March 28, 1965.

  37.
But in 1968 the Queen complied graciously: Bradford, pp. 347–48.

  38.
“If the Duke of Windsor were to die”: Christopher Soames confidential telegram, May 10, 1972, National Archives, Kew.

  39.
Accompanied by an entourage of thirty-six: State Visit of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh to France, Monday 15th–Friday 19th May, 1972, List of Party, National Archives, Kew.

  40.
“We may drive on different sides”:
Time
, May 29, 1972.

  41.
driving to Rouen at the mouth of the Seine:
The Times
, May 23, 1972.

  42.
“She went on board
Britannia
”: Mary Soames interview.

  43.
“a conspicuous demonstration”:
The Observer
, May 21, 1972.

  44.
“had seduced and conquered”: Ibid.

  45.
“With the Queen’s visit”:
Time
, May 29, 1972.

  46.
“prattled away”: Dimbleby, p. 217.

  47.
“He gave up so much for so little”: Ibid., p. 218.

  48.
“showed a motherly and nanny-like tenderness”: Beaton,
The Unexpurgated Beaton
, p. 256.

  49.
“The new links with Europe”: Queen Elizabeth II Christmas Broadcast, Dec. 25, 1972, Official Website of the British Monarchy.

  50.
“scratch our heads”: Prince Philip on
Meet the Press
, Nov. 9, 1969.

  51.
“pyramid of snobbery”: Andrew Knight interview (May 7, 1998).

  52.
“Action Man”: Dimbleby, p. 221.

  53.
“slightly sexy, ginny voice”: Confidential interview.

  54.
“feeling of emptiness”: Dimbleby, p. 232.

  55.
“shock and amazement”: Ibid.

  56.
“We had to be told”: “Princess Anne and Her Fiancé, Captain Mark Phillips, Talk About Marriage,” BBC, Nov. 10, 1973.

  57.
“interest, fascination”: Dimbleby, p. 233.

  58.
“few sentences”:
The Times
, Jan. 1, 2004.

  59.
Undaunted by his censorship: Ibid.

  60.
“The Queen could only await”:
The Guardian
, Feb. 14, 2010.

  61.
“our relaxed intimacy”: Pimlott, p. 419.

  62.
“the Queen … let it be known”: Beaton,
The Unexpurgated Beaton
, p. 370.

  63.
“Not bloody likely!”: “The Princess Royal at 60,” BBC
Inside Sport
special, Aug. 12, 2010.

  64.
“as if it were a perfectly normal”: Dimbleby, p. 254.

  65.
“It wouldn’t have been much good”: “Heavy Security as Princess Anne Visits Her Husband’s Home Village: Princess Describes Her Reaction to Attempt to Kidnap Her,” ITV Reuters, March 22, 1974.

  66.
whose grave she marked with a copper beech: FitzGerald, p. 146.

  67.
“Henry was the Queen’s closest personal friend”: Ian Balding interview.

  68.
They would cover not only her own: FitzGerald, pp. 135–36.

  69.
“to bring in new blood”: Michael Oswald interview.

  70.
Porchester advised the Queen: FitzGerald, p. 136.

  71.
“long-striding filly”: Dewar, ed., p. 30.

  72.
Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, sent a big bowl: FitzGerald, p. 137.

  73.
“fiery mood”: Ibid., p. 138.

  74.
“I’m very excitable on the race course”:
New York Times
, Oct. 5, 1984.

  75.
“Vive la Reine”: FitzGerald, p. 138.

  76.
“I was assigned a valet”: Confidential interview.

  77.
“I have to put on my white tie and medals”: Shaun Plunket interview.

  78.
“Patrick, I’m deeply grateful”: Ibid.

  79.
“caught a look of deep sadness”: Annabel Goldsmith,
Annabel: An Unconventional Life: The Memoirs of Lady Annabel Goldsmith
, p. 125.

  80.
“She certainly helped”: Shaun Plunket interview.