Authors: William Shawcross
62
General Sir Arthur Wauchope to Arthur Penn, 22 November 1941, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/Black Watch
63
RA QEQMH/PS/ENGT/1998: 20 September
64
Lieutenant Colonel Evelyn Fanshawe to Captain R.J. Streatfeild, n.d. [26 July 1937], RA QEQMH/PS/ENGT/1937: 24 July
65
Arthur Penn to Lieutenant Colonel Tom Draffen, 30 April 1942, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/Queen’s Bays
66
Arthur Penn to Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Barclay, 31 December 1943, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/Queen’s Bays
67
Lieutenant Colonel Martin Gilliat to Colonel G. W. Draffen, 23 July 1957, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/Queen’s Bays
68
Note by Queen Elizabeth on regimental annual report, January 2001, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/Queen’s Dragoon Guards
69
Note by Queen Elizabeth on a letter from Lieutenant Colonel R. M. Carnegie to Sir Martin Gilliat, 11 October 1968, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/Queen’s Own Hussars
70
Queen Elizabeth’s speech, 13 June 1997, RA QEQMH/PS/ENGT/1997: 13 June
71
Brigadier R. N. M. Jones to Lieutenant Colonel Martin Gilliat, 4 March 1958, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/The King’s (Manchester and Liverpool) Regiment
72
Queen Elizabeth to Lieutenant Colonel Malcolm Grant-Howarth, 24 October 1990, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/The King’s (Manchester and Liverpool) Regiment
73
Queen Elizabeth’s speech, 2 July 1993, RA QEQMH/PS/ENGT/1993: 2 July
74
Note by Queen Elizabeth on report by Brigadier J. J. Gaskell, 21 August 1998, RA QEQMH/ARMFOR/The King’s (Manchester and Liverpool) Regiment
75
Note by Queen Elizabeth on letter from Brigadier J. A. Longmore to Lieutenant Colonel Martin Gilliat, 26 July 1960, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/Hertfordshire Regiment
76
Note by Queen Elizabeth attached to letter from Lieutenant General Sir Reginald Denning to Lieutenant Colonel Martin Gilliat, 2 January [1961], RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/Hertfordshire Regiment
77
Duchess of York to King George V, 18 March 1935, RA GV/PRIV/AA62/215
78
Lieutenant Colonel Martin Gilliat to Lieutenant Colonel R. C. P. Wheeler, 28 November 1956, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders)
79
Note by Queen Elizabeth to Lieutenant Colonel Martin Gilliat, 29 August 1960, re letter from Lieutenant Colonel G. D. Thompson, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/Inns of Court Regiment; Lieutenant Colonel Martin Gilliat to Colonel Sir James Waterlow, 21 October 1960, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders)
80
Hon. Mrs Geoffrey Bowlby to Lady Maud Bailey, 29 October 1941, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/WRAC
81
Note by Queen Elizabeth on memorandum from Defence Services Secretary to Sir Martin Gilliat, 15 August 1991, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/WRNS
82
Sir Martin Gilliat to Air Commandant Dame Felicity Hill, 7 March 1968, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/WRAF
83
Note by Queen Elizabeth on letter from Brigadier G. K. Ramsay to Sir Alastair Aird, 8 March 1990, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/WRAC; note by Queen Elizabeth on memorandum from Sir Alastair Aird, 13 January 1994, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/WRAF
84
Lord Alexander of Tunis to Sir Martin Gilliat, 16 July 1965, and reply, 21 July 1965, RA QEQMH/PS/MISCOFF/Irish Guards
85
Lieutenant Colonel James Baker to Queen Elizabeth, 19 March [1979]; Lieutenant Colonel John Clavering to Queen Elizabeth, 18 March 1981, RA QEQMH/PS/MISCOFF/Irish Guards
86
Queen Elizabeth to Commanding Officer, Toronto Scottish, 20 October 1945, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/Toronto Scottish
87
RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/Black Watch of Canada
88
Note by Queen Elizabeth on note from Sir Martin Gilliat, 21 January 1991, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/RNZAMC
89
Lieutenant Colonel Martin Gilliat to Commandant Denzil M. Loveland, 14 April 1961, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/South Africa
90
Lieutenant Colonel Martin Gilliat to Commandant C. St L. Hone, 27 October 1961, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/South Africa
91
Telegram from Queen Elizabeth to Acting Commissioner, BSAP, [12 February 1954], QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/South Africa
92
Note by Queen Elizabeth on letter from John Graham, FCO, to Sir Martin Gilliat, 6 March 1970, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/South Africa
93
Pimlott, p. 565
94
Geoffrey Finlayson,
Citizen State and Social Welfare in Britain, 1830–1990
, 1994, p. 352, quoted in Prochaska,
Royal Bounty
, p. 256
95
Ibid., pp. 259–60
96
Ibid., p. 272
97
For my Grandchildren: Some Reminiscences of Her Royal Highness Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone
, 1996, p. 7, quoted in Prochaska,
Royal Bounty
, pp. 261–2
98
Vernon Bogdanor,
The Monarchy and the Constitution
, Oxford University Press, 1995, p. 308
99
In Tearing Haste: Letters between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor
, ed. Charlotte Mosley, John Murray, 2008, letter from Deborah Devonshire, 18 January 1980, p. 177
100
Prochaska,
Royal Bounty
, p. 279
101
Bogdanor, pp. 305–9
102
Queen Elizabeth’s speech, January 1993, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Sandringham WI
1
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 17 February 1961, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
2
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 26 November 1961, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
3
Longford,
Queen Mother
, p. 135
4
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 23 May 1961, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
5
Queen Elizabeth to John Elphinstone, 6 June 1962, RA QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE
6
Queen Elizabeth to Prince Charles, 5 January 1967, Clarence House Archives
7
Prince Charles to Queen Elizabeth, 21 May 1962, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
8
Queen Elizabeth to John Elphinstone, 6 June 1962, RA QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE
9
Queen Elizabeth to Prince Charles, 15 December 1966, Clarence House Archives
10
The Times
, 21 May 1960
11
Martin Gilliat to Richard Colville, 22 May 1960, RA QEQMH/PRS/CSP/1/2
12
Sir Arthur Penn to Richard Colville, 21 May 1960, RA QEQMH/PRS/CSP/1/2
13
Sir Arthur Penn to Queen Elizabeth, 20 November [1960], RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Penn
14
Queen Elizabeth to Marjorie Penn, 7 April 1961, Penn Papers
15
Elizabeth Leeming interview with Margaret Rhodes
16
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 19 September 1961, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
17
Queen Elizabeth to Rachel Bowes Lyon, 1 August 1962, Bowes Lyon Papers, SPW
18
Queen Elizabeth to Rachel Bowes Lyon, 29 July 1965, Bowes Lyon Papers, SPW
19
Elizabeth Leeming interview with Lady Stair
20
Queen Elizabeth to D’Arcy Osborne, 13 February 1962, RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE
21
D’Arcy Osborne to Queen Elizabeth, 17 October 1962, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Osborne
22
Queen Elizabeth to D’Arcy Osborne, 7 February 1963, RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE
23
D’Arcy Osborne to Queen Elizabeth, 19 February 1963, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Osborne
24
Mrs Milton (Judy) Gendel to Queen Elizabeth, n.d. [April 1964], RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
25
Note by Lady Jean Rankin, 28 October 1963, RA QEQMH/PS/GEN/1971/Poignand; Queen Elizabeth to Beryl Poignand, 12 October 1963, Glamis Archives (CH)
26
Queen Elizabeth to Mrs Leone Poignand Hall, 11 January 1965, private collection
27
Queen Elizabeth to Osbert Sitwell, 26 December 1968, RA QEQM/OUT/SITWELL
28
Queen Elizabeth to Sacheverell Sitwell, 5 May 1969, RA QEQMH/PS/GEN/1969/Sitwell
29
Queen Elizabeth to the Hon. Elizabeth Elphinstone, 14 September 1964, RA QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE
30
Queen Elizabeth to Osbert Sitwell, 26 January 1967, RA QEQM/OUT/SITWELL
31
Correspondence between Sir Arthur Penn, the Dean of Windsor and others, 11 June 1954–29 June 1960; memorandum by Sir Arthur Penn, 29 March 1960, RA QEQM/PRIV/MEM
32
Queen Elizabeth to Lord Salisbury, 16 October 1969, Hatfield House, Papers of fifth Marquess of Salisbury
33
John Cornforth,
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother at Clarence House
, Michael Joseph, 1996, pp. 64–5
34
Ibid., pp. 61–5
35
Ibid., pp. 71–3
36
Michael Holroyd,
Augustus John
, vol. 2, p. 473, quoted in Owens, p. 48
37
Augustus John to Queen Elizabeth, July 1961, RA QEQM/PRIV/PIC
38
Cornforth, pp. 88–9
39
Sir Arthur Penn to Brigadier Kingstone, 21 May 1952, RA QEQMH/PS/POR/5
40
Roger Berthoud,
Graham Sutherland
, Faber & Faber, 1982, pp. 152, 243–4
41
Cornforth, pp. 109–10
42
Pietro Annigoni,
An Artist’s Life
, W. H. Allen, 1977, pp. 140–3
43
John Bratby to Captain Alastair Aird, 10 February 1978, John Bratby to Queen Elizabeth, 22 February 1978, RA QEQMH/POR/18; Owens, p. 184; Cornforth, pp. 5, 29–30
44
Cornforth, p. 38
45
Frances Campbell-Preston,
The Rich Spoils of Time
, Dovecote Press, 2006, pp. 273–4
46
Queen Elizabeth to Princess Margaret, 24 July 1958, Linley Papers
47
Harold Macmillan to Queen Elizabeth, 18 June 1970, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
48
Roy Strong,
The Roy Strong Diaries 1967–1987
, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997, p. 175
49
Diaries of Cynthia Gladwyn
, pp. 285–7
50
Campbell-Preston, pp. 268–311
51
Author’s interview with Frances Campbell-Preston, 5 February 2004
52
Ibid.
53
Author’s interview with Michael Sealey
54
Ibid.
55
Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, QEQM/ADD/MISC;
JS Journal
, April 1985; author’s interview with Lord Sainsbury
56
Stephen Spender to Queen Elizabeth, 5 March 1986, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
57
Sir Charles Johnston’s diary, quoted in Vickers, p. 431
58
Vickers, pp. 344–5
59
Author’s interview with Lord Carrington
60
Author’s interview with Sir Michael Oswald
61
Author’s interview with Zara Cazalet
62
Ibid.
63
Dick Francis in
The Queen Mother Remembered
, pp. 193–5
64
Author’s interview with Sir Michael Oswald
65
Smith, p. 235
66
Mrs Fulke Walwyn in
The Queen Mother Remembered
, pp. 196–8
67
Sunday Times
, 29 April 1984, quoted in Laird, p. 372
68
Queen Elizabeth to Lady Katharine Farrell, 15 August 1979, Farrell Papers
69
Sir Arthur Penn to Queen Elizabeth, 8 April 1959, RA QEQM/PRIV/RES
70
Friends of the Castle of Mey Newsletter
, April 2005
71
The Castle & Gardens of Mey
, The Queen Elizabeth Castle of Mey Trust, 2008, pp. 65–71
72
Author’s interview with Martin Leslie;
The Queen Mother Remembered
, p. 221
73
Rose,
Kings, Queens and Courtiers
, p. 105
74
The Queen Mother Remembered
, p. 231
75
Ibid., p. 232
76
Author’s interview with Christine Shearer
77
Rev. Alex Muir in
The Queen Mother Remembered
, pp. 234–5
78
Information from Martin Leslie
79
Castle of Mey Visitors Book
80
Author’s interview with Lady Penn
81
Interview with Lady Bacon on behalf of the author
82
Author’s interview with Ashe Windham
83
Elizabeth Leeming interview with Dr Michael Briggs
84
Author’s interview with Charlie Wright
85
Laird, pp. 373–4
86
Campbell-Preston, p. 306
87
Sir Pierson Dixon to Queen Elizabeth, 2 September 1963, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
1
Foreign Office note, ‘Proposal that HM The Queen Mother should visit Tunisia’, 16 January 1961 (copy), RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1961/TUN
2
Brigadier Bernard Fergusson to Laura Fergusson, 19 April 1961, Ballantrae Papers, NLS Acc 9259/87
3
Brigadier Bernard Fergusson to Laura Fergusson, 22 April 1961, Ballantrae Papers, NLS Acc 9259/87
4
Brigadier Bernard Fergusson to Laura Fergusson, 24 April 1961, Ballantrae Papers, NLS Acc 9259/87
5
Anthony Lambert to Lord Home, 4 May 1961 (copy), RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1961/TUN