The Horror of Love (41 page)

Berard, Christian (‘Bébé’),
183
,
185
,
190

Berenson, Bernard,
236
,
242

Berners, Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron,
37
,
62
,
85
,
132

Bessborough, Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of,
120–1

Bestegui, Carlos de,
190
,
257

Betjeman, Sir John,
34

Bevin, Ernest,
144

Bibesco, Prince Antoine,
68–70
,
199

Bibesco, Pnncesse Marthe,
69

Bidault, Georges,
150
,
151

Birkett, Norman
(later 1st
Baron),
98

Blanche, Jacques-Emile,
31
,
69

Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire,
18

Blomfield Road, Maida Vale,
1
,
79
,
128

Blum, Leon,
69
,
77
,
167

Boislambert, Claude Hettier de,
146

Boothby, Robert
(later
Baron),
183

Boris, Georges,
122–3

Bourbon-Parme, Pnncesse de,
179

Bourdet, Edouard,
183

Boutmy, Emile,
16

Bowen, Elizabeth,
219

Bowles, Dorothy (NM’s Aunt Weenie),
21

Bowles, George (NM’s uncle),
23

Bowles, Thomas (‘Tap’, Nancy’s maternal grandfather),
21–2

Bradley, General Omar,
150

Brando, Marlon,
243–4

Brandolini, Cristiana,
27

Bref (journal),
170

Bremond, Henri,
70

Bremond, Yvonne de,
234

Brighton College,
14
,
16

Bnssac, Due de,
172

Bnssac, Duchesse de,
178

Bnssac, Pierre de,
177

British Union of Fascists (BUF),
44
,
61
,
63
,
65
,
96–7

Brooks, Mel
The Producers
(comedy),
66

Brown Book of the Hitler Terror, The
,
62

Bulletin Quotidien
,
71

Bullitt, William,
150

Byron, Robert,
34
,
41
,
63
,
83

Cable Street march and riots (1936),
96

Cadogan, Sir Alexander,
144

Caetam, Cora,
234

Caetam, Marguerite,
234

Caffery, Jefferson,
172–3

Campbell, Ronald,
106–7

Capote, Truman
Answered Prayers
,
200

Casablanca Conference (1943),
137

Cassin, René,
257

Castellane, Bom de,
70
,
163
,
200
,
251

Castellane, Comte Jean de,
163

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique,
239

Chamberlain, Neville,
104

Chambre, Guy la,
100

Chanel, Coco (Gabnelle),
163

Channon, Sir Henry (‘Chips’),
92
,
121
,
190
,
199

Chantilly,
192

Chartens, Ann (Viscountess Rothermere,
later
Fleming),
204–5
,
247

Chautemps, Camille,
114–15

Chenu, Marie-Dominique,
231

Chevalier, Maurice,
177

Choltitz, General Dietrich von,
149–50

Churchill, Clementine, Lady (née Hozier),
203

Churchill, Randolph,
166
,
230

Churchill, (Sir) Winston GP arranges victory lunch for,
18
, and Rumbold’s views on Nazism,
63
, on de Gaulle,
73
,
104
, first receives de Gaulle,
102
, meets French government (June 1940),
103
, considers British union with France,
105
, and de Gaulle’s move to London,
107–8
, urges Pétain to continue to resist,
108
, speech to Commons (June 1940),
109
, authorizes destruction of French fleet,
112
, meets GP on arrival in London,
114–15
, defends de Gaulle’s actions at Dakar,
116
, and administration of Algeria,
137
, informs de Gaulle of invasion date,
143
, quarrel with de Gaulle over invasion plans,
144–6
, fails to invite de Gaulle to visit Normandy front,
145
, visits Pans on way to holiday (1945),
170
, supports European union,
211

Cicogna, Anna-Maria,
241–2

Clark, Kenneth
(later
Baron),
63

Clemenceau, Georges,
170

Cocteau, Jean,
164
,
177
,
183
,
185
,
252

Cohn-Bendit, Daniel,
246–8

Colefax, Sibyl, Lady,
84
,
136

Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises,
161
,
256

Colonna, Prince de,
232

Combattante
(French ship),
146

Comité de Vigilance des Intellectuels Annfascistes, Paris,
63

Common Market
see
European Union

Communists in French elections (1945),
167
,
169–70
, denied office by de Gaulle,
171
, French opposition to,
173–4
, oppose RPF,
210
, and worker priests,
231

Connolly, Cyril homosexual experiences,
36
, patronizes Heywood Hill,
132
, on NM’s sexual limitations,
136
, portrayed in
The Blessing
,
136
,
154
, edits
Horizon
,
252

Constitutional Council GP appointed president,
240
,
249
,
256–7

Cooper, Artemis and Antony Beevor,
150

Cooper, Lady Diana
(née
Manners) lunches wih Churchill in Paris,
10
, meets GP in London,
138–9
, and GP’s relations with NM in Paris,
156
, as ambassadress in Paris,
176–7, 179
,
182–4
, friendship with NM,
176
, and husband’s affairs,
179
,
201
,
204–5
, leaves Embassy (1947),
190
, and GP’s appointment to Rome,
215–16
, portrayed in
Don’t Tell Alfred
,
224

Cooper, Duff
(later
1st Viscount Norwich) authorizes de Gaulle’s broadcast speech from London,
108
, in North Africa,
138
, relations with GP,
139
,
180–1
, affair with Daisy Fellowes,
163
, on de Gaulle’s political style,
167
, lunches with Churchill in Palis,
170
, as ambassador in Paris,
176–9
, friendship with NM,
176
, on Pucheu’s execution,
177
, affair with Louise de Vilmorin,
178–81
, leaves Embassy,
190
, visits brothels,
197
, affair with Susan Mary Alsop,
201
, womanizing,
204–5
, writes life of Talleyrand,
251
, death,
257

Costa de Beauregard, Comtesse,
192
,
216
,
244

Couture, Jean la,
112

Couve de Murville, Maurice,
247

Coward, (Sir) Noel,
134
,
183–4

Cresson, Edith,
2

Crewe, Robert Offley Ashburton CreweMilnes, Marquess of,
175

Croisset, Ethel de
(née
Woodward),
199–200
,
235

Croisset, François de,
199

Croisset, Philippe de,
199

Crowell, Ann,
199–200

Crussol, Marquise de,
78

Cullen Castle, Scotland,
35
,
38

Cunard, Emerald (Maud Alice), Lady,
84–5
,
123
,
204
,
220

Cunard, Sir Victor,
215–16

Cunningham, Admiral Andrew
(later
Viscount),
116

Curzon, Baba
see
Metcalfe, Lady Alexandra

Curzon, Cynthia
see
Mosley, Cynthia, Lady

Czechoslovakia Nazis occupy,
89
,
96

Daily Herald
,
63

Dakar de Gaulle’s failed attempt on,
115–17

Daladier, Édouard,
77–8

Darlan, Admiral Jean François, 111-12

Dashwood, Helen, Lady,
83
,
131

Debré, Michel,
238
,
240

Dejean, Maurice,
125

Democratic Alliance,
71
,
109

Desplats-Pilter, Roy André (‘André Roy’),
131–2
,
135

Devonshire, Andrew Cavendish, IIth Duke of marriage to Deborah,
93

Devonshire, Deborah, Duchess of
(née
Mitford, NM’s sister) on GP’s knowledge of nursery rhymes,
18
, birth,
25
,
28
, on Nancy as debutante,
32
, on Nancy’s unawareness of St Clair Erskine’s homosexuality,
37
, interior decorating,
57
, suffers stillbirth,
82
, at outbreak of war,
89
, brings back Unity from Switzerland,
90
, marriage,
93
, interest in fashion,
187
, on Palazzo Farnese staircase,
216
, visits GP in Rome,
220
, and GP’s marriage to Violette,
253–4
, visits NM during final illness,
255

Diamant-Berger, Dr Marcel (GP’s cousin),
48
,
70
,
75
, death,
113

Diamant-Berger, Yvan-Joseph (GP’s maternal grandfather), II

Dicks, Laura (‘Nanny Blor’),
23

Dill, General Sir John,
103

Dior, Christian,
185
,
187–8

Djibouti,
125–7

Dorchester Hotel, London (the ‘Dorch’),
133

Dreyfus, Alfred, II

Driberg, Tom
(later
Baron Bradwell),
34

Dronne, Captain Raymond,
150

Druon, Maurice,
17

du Deffand, Marie de Vichy de Chamrond, Marquise,
161

Duclos, Jacques,
171

Dumaine, Jacques,
190

Dunkirk evacuation (1940),
119–20

Dunn, Kit,
45

Dunne, Dominick
The Two Mrs Grenvilles
,
200

Eaton Terrace, London,
133

Eckersley, Peter and Dorothy,
96

Eden, Anthony
(later
Ist Earl of Avon),
81
,
103
,
145–6

18B
see
Regulation 18B

Eisenhower, Dwight D,
144
,
149

Eliot, TS,
40
,
223

Elizabeth II, Queen,
202

El Khattabi, Abdelkrim,
49

Elwes, Simon,
79

Erlanger, Leo d’,
123–4

Ethiopia (Abyssinia),
76
,
125–6
,
see also
Addis Ababa

European Coal and Steel Community (ECST),
212

European Union proposed,
211–12
, and Treaty of Rome (1956),
217
, GP supports,
218

Fabre-Luce, Alfred,
178

Fabre-Luce, Charlotte,
178

Fakrin, Prince Ahmed,
201

Farnese, Giulia,
216

Fascism Mitford family views on,
59
,
88–9
, in
Wigs on the Green
,
60–2
,
65–7
,
94–5
, opposition to,
63–6
, NM condemns,
81
,
87
, and Munich Agreement,
85

Faucigny-Lucinge Jean-Louis de,
178

Fellowes, Emmeline,
163

Fellowes, Marguerite (‘Daisy’,
née
Decazes,
then
de Broglie),
159
,
163
,
201
,
205

Févner, Jacques,
183

Fleming, Ann
see
Charteris, Ann

FNL
see
National Liberation Front of Algeria

Fontaine-les-Nonnes,
192
,
216
,
229
,
245

Forbes, Alistair,
135–6

Forbes-Adam, Virginia,
196–7

Fouchet, Marcel,
68

France and war threat,
76–8
, and Spanish Republican refugees,
86–7
, falls to Germans (1940),
94–5
, refugees from German advance,
103
, navy attacked by British at Mers el-Kebir,
112
, Vichy regime recognized by USA,
117
, British view of after fall,
119–20
, refugees in Britain,
119–21
, British relations with Vichy,
121
, repatriation of servicemen in Britain,
121
, and administration of North Africa,
137–8
, recognition of post-liberation provisional government,
146
,
épuration
(post-war purging of collaborators),
162–4
,
167
, conditions and shortages after liberation,
165–6
, elections (October 1945),
166–9
, nuclear tests,
239
, constitution,
240–1
, presidential election (1969),
257

France-Italy Association,
242

Francis Holland school, Belgravia,
24

François, Colonel,
105
,
107

Frederick II (the Great), King of Prussia,
256

Free French de Gaulle heads,
115
,
121
, African colonies rally to,
116–17
, GP appointed director of political affairs,
116–17
, British support for,
121
, low recruitment figures,
121
, discounted in Normandy invasion plans,
144