The Queen Mother (191 page)

    
6
Brigadier Bernard Fergusson to Laura Fergusson, 24 April 1961, Ballantrae Papers, NLS Acc 9259/87

    
7
Anthony Lambert to Lord Home, 4 May 1961 (copy), RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1961/TUN

    
8
Queen Elizabeth to D’Arcy Osborne, 20 June 1961, RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE

    
9
Lady in waiting’s diary, 6 April 1962, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW

  
10
John Diefenbaker to Major General Georges Vanier, 16 January 1962, LAC/BAC Acc 1988–89/081, Vol. 144, File 3185-K 1962

  
11
Acting British High Commissioner in Canada to Duncan Sandys, 25 June 1962 (copy), RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1962/CAN

  
12
Lady in waiting’s diary, 14 June 1962, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW

  
13
Major General Georges Vanier to Queen Elizabeth, 16 June 1962, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1962/CAN

  
14
Major General Georges Vanier to Queen Elizabeth, 16 June 1962, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

  
15
Lady in waiting’s diary, 8–13 May 1963, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW

  
16
Lady in waiting’s diary, 30 October 1963, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW

  
17
Longford,
Queen Mother
, p. 141

  
18
Prince Philip to Queen Elizabeth, 16 February [1964], RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  
19
Prince Charles to Queen Elizabeth, 7 February 1964 [misdated 1963], RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  
20
Queen Elizabeth II to Queen Elizabeth, 25 March 1964, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  
21
Queen Elizabeth to Princess Margaret, 24 March 1964, Linley Papers

  
22
Allen Brown to Sir Martin Gilliat, 5 February 1964, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1964/AUSNZ (cancelled)

  
23
Sir Martin Gilliat to Sir Bernard Fergusson, Governor General of New Zealand, 20 February 1964, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1964/AUSNZ (cancelled)

  
24
Queen Elizabeth to Sir Bernard Fergusson, 9 April 1964, Ballantrae Papers, NLS Acc 9259/109

  
25
Andrew Roberts,
History of the English-Speaking Peoples since 1900
, pp. 467–9

  
26
Lady in waiting’s diary, 18 February 1965, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW

  
27
Ibid., 21 February 1965

  
28
Queen Elizabeth to Princess Margaret, 28 March 1965, Linley Papers

  
29
Noël Coward to Queen Elizabeth, 9 July [1965], RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

  
30
Lady in waiting’s diary, 26 February 1965, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW

  
31
Sir Alexander Morley, British High Commissioner, Kingston, to Rt Hon. Arthur Bottomley, Commonwealth Secretary (copy), 1 March 1965, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1965/JAM

  
32
Correspondence between Sir Martin Gilliat, the Private Secretary to the Governor General and the Chief of Protocol, External Affairs, 31 December 1964–3 May 1965, LAC/BAC Acc 1988–89/081, Vol. 144, File 3185-K 1965

  
33
Lady in waiting’s diary, 25 March 1966, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW

  
34
Queen Elizabeth’s speech, 25 March 1966, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1966/AUSNZ/I/3

  
35
Lady in waiting’s diary, 25 March 1966, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW

  
36
Queen Elizabeth’s speech, 26 March 1966, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1966/AUSNZ/I/2

  
37
Campbell-Preston, p. 280

  
38
Lady in waiting’s diary, 31 March, 1 April 1966, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW

  
39
Princess Margaret to Queen Elizabeth, 8 April 1966, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  
40
Lady in waiting’s diary, 4 April 1966, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW

  
41
Ibid., 7 April 1966

  
42
Campbell-Preston, p. 280

  
43
Ibid., p. 283

  
44
Ibid.

  
45
Lady in waiting’s diary, 4 May 1966, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW

  
46
Queen Elizabeth to Sir Bernard Fergusson, 9 May 1966, Ballantrae Papers, NLS Acc 9259/109

  
47
Ibid.

  
48
Queen Elizabeth to Lord Snowdon, 21 April 1966, Snowdon Papers

  
49
Queen Elizabeth to Sir Bernard Fergusson, 24 May 1966, Ballantrae Papers, NLS Acc 9259/109

  
50
Queen Elizabeth to Lord Salisbury, 24 December 1966, Hatfield House, Papers of fifth Marquess of Salisbury

  
51
Lady in waiting’s diary, 20 September 1966, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW

  
52
Author’s interview with Sir Richard Thompson

  
53
Prince of Wales to Queen Elizabeth, 10 December 1966, Clarence House Archives

  
54
Sir Richard Bayliss to the Hon. Mrs John Mulholland, 18 September 1979, RA QEQMH/PS/GEN/1979/Searle Medical

  
55
RA QEQMH/PS/GEN/1967/Women’s Services

  
56
Correspondence with Government House, Ottawa, May-July 1966, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1967/CAN

  
57
Lady in waiting’s diary, 11 July 1967, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW

  
58
Queen Elizabeth to Rear Admiral P. J. Morgan, 22 July 1967, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1967/CAN

  
59
Lady in waiting’s diary, 26 June 1974, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW

  
60
Ibid., 28 June 1974

  
61
Pauline McGibbon to Governor General of Canada, 8 August 1978, LAC/BAC Acc 90–91/016, Vol. 156, File 896–7901

  
62
Thomas Brimelow to Sir Martin Gilliat, 17 May 1974, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1975/IRAN

  
63
Lady in waiting’s diary, 15 April 1975, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW

  
64
Ibid., 16 April 1975

  
65
Lady Parsons to Queen Elizabeth, n.d. [December 1975], RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

  
66
Lady in waiting’s diary, 18 April 1975, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW

  
67
Sir Anthony Parsons to Rt Hon. James Callaghan, 30 April 1975 (copy), RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1975/IRAN

  
68
Queen Elizabeth to Sir Alan Lascelles, 17 January 1955, CAC LASL 2/2/20

  
69
Queen Elizabeth to D Arcy Osborne, 7 February 1963, RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE

  
70
Oliver Wright to Sir Martin Gilliat, 7, 18 March 1963, Sir Martin Gilliat to Oliver Wright, 12 March 1963, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1963/FRA

  
71
Details of this and subsequent trips are taken from the account of her travels written by Sir Ralph Anstruther, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS

  
72
Queen Elizabeth to Madame Georgina Reinhold, 16 February 1965, RA QEII/OUT/GUÉRIN/09

  
73
Lord Euston to Queen Elizabeth, 26 April 1963, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

  
74
RCIN 1164183; copy in Royal Archives, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS

  
75
Paris Match
, 17 April 1965

  
76
Lord Euston to Queen Elizabeth, 13 April 1965, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

  
77
Anstruther account, 5 April 1965, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS

  
78
Ibid., 1–7 May 1967, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS

  
79
Prince Jean-Louis de Faucigny-Lucinge in
The Queen Mother Remembered
, pp. 110–13

  
80
Ibid.

  
81
Ibid.

  
82
Anstruther account, 27–28 April 1976, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS

  
83
Ibid., 28 April 1976, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS

  
84
Longford,
Queen Mother
, pp. 154–5; author’s interview with Duke and Duchess of Grafton

  
85
Anstruther account, 25–28 April 1977, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS

  
86
Ibid., 1–2 May 1978

  
87
Interview with Laure, Princesse de Beauvau-Craon on behalf of the author

  
88
Ibid.

  
89
Ibid.;
Le Figaro
, 28 June 1979

  
90
Interview with Laure, Princesse de Beauvau-Craon on behalf of the author

  
91
Anstruther account, 6–9 May 1980, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS

  
92
Ibid., 14 May 1981

  
93
Queen Elizabeth to Sir Ralph Anstruther, 17 May 1981, RA QEQM/OUT/ANSTRUTHER

  
94
Anstruther account, 6 May 1983, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS

  
95
Interview with Madame Servagnat on behalf of the author

  
96
Anstruther account, 12–25 June 1984, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS

  
97
Comte et Comtesse René de Nicolay in
The Queen Mother Remembered
, pp. 114–15

  
98
Anstruther account, 25–27 June 1985, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS

  
99
James Lees-Milne,
Holy Dread: Diaries 1982–1984
, ed. Michael Bloch, John Murray, 2001, 3 August 1983

100
Interview with Marquise de Ravenel on behalf of the author

101
Sir Hugh Casson to Sir Alastair Aird, 9 July 1984, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1984/ITA

102
Author’s interview with the Duke and Duchess of Grafton

103
Laird, p. 376

104
Lady in waiting’s diary, 27 October 1984, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW

105
Queen Elizabeth to Sir Hugh Casson, 27 December 1984, RA AEC/GG/21

106
Anstruther account, 23–27 June 1986, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS

107
Queen Elizabeth to Prince Jean-Louis de Faucigny-Lucinge, July 1986, private collection

108
Anstruther account, 25–29 May 1987, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS

109
Ibid., 23 June 1988

110
Ibid., 20–25 June 1988

111
Sir Hugh Casson in
The Queen Mother Remembered
, pp. 116–22

112
Sir Derek Thomas to Sir Patrick Wright, 1 July 1988 (copy), RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1988/ITA

113
Prince Jean-Louis de Faucigny-Lucinge in
The Queen Mother Remembered
, pp. 110–13

114
Interview with Bertrand du Vignaud on behalf of the author

115
Ibid.

116
Anstruther account, 30 May-2 June 1990, RAQEQMH/PS/VIS

117
Ibid., 27–30 May 1991

118
Ibid., 26–29 May 1992

    
1
Briggs,
Social History of England
, pp. 324–6

    
2
Clarke, p. 286

    
3
David Burnside, MP for South Antrim, House of Commons Tribute to Queen Elizabeth, Hansard, 3 April 2002, column 821

    
4
Queen Elizabeth to Sir Bernard Fergusson, 19 September 1970, Ballantrae Papers, NLS Acc 9259/109

    
5
Shawcross, p. 104

    
6
Sarah Bradford,
Elizabeth
, Heinemann, 1996, pp. 359–60

    
7
Pimlott, pp. 378–88

    
8
Ibid., p. 390

    
9
Noël Coward Diaries
, 27 July 1969, quoted in ibid., p. 391

  
10
Jonathan Dimbleby,
The Prince of Wales
, Little, Brown, 1994, p. 163

  
11
Queen Elizabeth to Lord Snowdon, 8 July 1969, Snowdon Papers

  
12
Prochaska,
Royal Bounty
, pp. 255–6

  
13
Prince Philip interview with NBC Television, 10 November 1969, quoted in Pimlott, p. 394

  
14
Pimlott, p. 402

  
15
Ibid., pp. 402–6

  
16
Hansard, Civil List debate, 14 December 1971, columns 278–400

  
17
Queen Elizabeth to Lord Snowdon, 16 December 1971, Snowdon Papers

  
18
Pimlott, pp. 409–10

  
19
Campbell-Preston, pp. 307–8

  
20
Terence Rattigan to Queen Elizabeth, 5 December 1971, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

  
21
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 24 February 1979, RA QEII/PRIV/RF

  
22
Private letter from the Prince of Wales, 11/12 March 1970, quoted in Dimbleby, p. 215

  
23
Dimbleby, p. 215

  
24
Author’s interview with Lord Fellowes

  
25
The Times
, 29 May 1972, quoted in Pimlott, p. 408

  
26
Longford,
Queen Mother
, pp. 162–4

  
27
Author’s interview with Dame Frances Campbell-Preston

  
28
Queen Elizabeth to Lady Salisbury, 27 June 1972, Hatfield House, Papers of Elizabeth, Marchioness of Salisbury

  
29
Information from Lucy Murphy

  
30
Mrs Barnard to Queen Elizabeth, 16 May 1986, RA QEQMH/PS/GEN/1986/Barnard; Longford,
Queen Mother
, pp. 162–4

  
31
Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RA QEQM/ADD/MISC

  
32
Rose,
Kings, Queens and Courtiers
, p. 191

  
33
Author’s interview with Lady Penn

  
34
Author’s interview with Viscount Linley

  
35
Ibid.

  
36
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 29 August 1978, RA QEII/PRIV/RF

  
37
Author’s interview with Viscount Linley

  
38
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 6 February 1981, RA QEII/PRIV/RF

  
39
Ibid.

  
40
Sir Nicholas Henderson to Anthony Crosland (copy), 3 November 1976, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1976/FRA

  
41
Author’s interview with Lord Charteris, quoted in Shawcross, p. 117

  
42
Author’s interview with Lady Susan Hussey, quoted in ibid.

  
43
Lady in waiting’s diary, 7 June 1977, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW

  
44
Author’s interview with Lady Thurso

  
45
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 24 February 1979, RA QEII/PRIV/RF