The Viceroy's Daughters (48 page)

Curzon, Mary
see
Leiter, Mary (later Lady Curzon)

Cust, Harry, 41

Czechoslovakia, Hitler's invasion of, 276, 283–84, 285, 292

 

Dalai Lama, 398

Dawson, Geoffrey, 114, 273

Desborough, Lady, 41

Digby, Bobby, 120, 128, 293

Dillon, Sir Clarence, 276, 277

Diot, Alphonse, 255

Dorchester Hotel, 331, 332–34, 335, 340–41, 351, 352

Duff, Juliet, 352

Dugdale, Blanche, 252

Duggan, Alfred, 39, 82, 143, 152, 385

Duggan, Grace (later Lady Curzon), 67, 122, 337, 385; meets Lord Curzon, 35; marriage to Lord Curzon, 37–38, 39–43; appearance, 39, 69; social activities, 47–48; miscarriages, 48; jealous outbursts, 49, 57; relations with her stepdaughters, 54, 60, 70, 78, 94–95; relations with Lord Curzon, 57–58, 76–77, 78, 82–83, 95–96; and Baba's marriage to Fruity Metcalfe, 94–95, 103; and Lord Curzon's death, 97, 98; inheritance under Lord Curzon's will, 99–100; at Marcella's wedding, 117; at Hackwood after Lord
Curzon's death, 119–20, 143;
financial difficulties, 120, 134–35, 151–52

Duggan, Hubert, 39, 82, 103, 152, 375

Duggan, Marcella, 39, 48, 77, 82, 84, 94, 100; marriage to Edward Rice,
117–18

Duhamel, Paul, 127–28

Duncombe, Clarissa, 395

 

economic crisis, and the National Government, 158–59

Eden, Anthony, 273–74, 275, 369

Eden, Beatrice, 273

Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII, later the Duke of Windsor), 123; at Carlton House Terrace, 47–48, 69; friendship with Fruity Metcalfe, 72–73, 74, 75, 79–81, 88–90, 95, 102–103, 110–11, 117, 142, 202, 224, 230, 243, 246–51; in India, 72–74; at Melton Mowbray, 84, 85–87, 112, 114, 117, 125; and hunting, 88, 89, 125, 126; visit to Canada (1924), 89–92; affair with Lady Furness, 112, 125–26; apartments in St. James's Palace, 126; and Fort Belvedere, 126–27, 228; the Bobby Shaw scandal, 155; affair with Wallis Simpson, 216–17, 224, 228–30, 232–33, 234; as King, 223–24, 228–30, 232–33; and the Abdication crisis, 236–44; at Schloss Enzesfeld after the Abdication, 243, 244, 245–51, 253; half-cockney accent, 246, 281; wedding at the Château de Candé, 255–65; visit to Germany (1937), 268–69, 271–72; at the Villa La Cröe, 279–82, 296–98, 299–300, 328, 391–93; and Irene, 293; and the outbreak of the Second World War, 299–302; stays with the Metcalfes during the war, 304–307; and the wartime Military Mission in Paris, 304, 306–307, 310–13, 315–17, 321, 322–23; meeting with Nevile Henderson, 310; abandons Fruity in Paris, 325–28, 360–61; wartime governorship of the Bahamas, 329–30;
Liberty
interview, 345–46; visit to Washington in wartime, 355–57; seeks position as Ambassador-at-large, 384–85; meeting with Fruity Metcalfe (1946), 392; and Fruity's death, 397

Elliot, Katherine, 390

Elliot, Maxine, 46, 157, 159, 281, 297

Elliot, Walter, 145, 196, 292

Elwes, Simon, 397

Erlanger, Baba d', 158

Erlanger, Leo d', 338, 351

 

Fabre-Luce, Lottsie, 158, 159

Fairbanks, Douglas, 121, 286

fascism, and Mosley, 160–61, 166–67, 171, 173–74, 177–78, 194, 195, 200–201, 203–205, 207–208, 220–21, 233–34, 266, 294–96, 323–25

Fellowes, Daisy, 134, 281, 293

Feversham, Sim, Viscount, 394–95, 396–97

First World War, 33, 41, 46

Fitzgerald, Helen, 280

FitzRoy, Edward, 273, 276

Fleming, Jean, 122

Forgan, Robert, 145, 149

Fort Belvedere, 126–27

Forwood, Dudley, 243–44, 245–47, 258, 259, 281, 282

Fox, William, 58

Furness, Thelma, Lady, 112, 125–26, 127, 134, 144, 163, 202

 

Gaulle, General de, 336

George, Prince (later Duke of Kent), 72, 75, 79, 126, 191, 216, 293; and the Abdication crisis, 241; and the wedding of the Duke of Windsor, 257, 259; death in plane crash, 365

George V, King, 33, 57, 67, 68, 69, 74, 79, 92, 95, 125, 126; as Prince of Wales, 13; and Wallis Simpson, 216; death of, 223

Gibson, Irene, 196

Gilbert, John, 110, 134

Giles, Frank, 393

Gillies, Sir Harold, 89, 219

Glyn, Clayton, 21, 22, 24–25, 26, 36, 37

Glyn, Elinor, 109, 118, 128, 286; love affair with Lord Curzon, 4, 20–23, 24–27, 28–29, 30–31, 35, 36–38; appearance, 20–21;
Three Weeks
, 22–23, 26, 28; relationship with the Curzon daughters, 25, 26, 31, 54; and the decoration of Montacute House, 36–37, 38; Grace Curzon's jealousy of, 49; and Cimmie's marriage to Mosley, 54, 56, 57; and Cimmie's death, 185,
186

Glyn, Margot, 25, 33

Goebbels, Dr. Joseph, 270, 271, 291

Göring, Hermann, 271, 284, 299

Gone With the Wind
, 225

Graham, Miles, 178–88, 198, 201, 293,
314

Graham, Sheila, 178, 179

Grandi, Count Dino, 196–98, 204, 208–209, 214–15, 218, 220, 245, 274, 291–92, 296, 318, 393–94, 395–96; and the fall of Mussolini, 384, 394

Greenwood, Arthur, 298

Greig, Louis, 364–65, 372

Greville, Maggie, 333

Greville, Mrs. Ronnie, 349

Grunne, Comte Willy de, 35

Guinness, Beatrice, 157

Guinness, Bryan, 164, 167, 174, 286

Guinness, Colonel Walter (later Lord Moyne), 164

Guinness, Diana (later Lady Mosley), 158, 164–65; appearance, 164; character, 164–65; meets Tom Mosley, 164–65; affair with Tom Mosley, 167–68, 169, 171–72, 173, 174, 175, 176, 217, 226, 227–28; decides to leave her husband (Bryan Guinness), 174; and Baba's relations with Tom Mosley, 177, 190–91, 192, 193; and Cimmie's death, 185; and Tom Mosley's children, 213, 218, 227, 231, 254, 278–79; car crash, 219; and Nazi Germany, 221–22, 291, 298, 299, 303; marriage to Tom Mosley, 233–34, 266, 267, 282, 286–87, 288–90; birth of son Alexander, 286–87; and fascism, 303; and the outbreak of the Second World War, 304; and the Mosley children during the war, 308; imprisonment in wartime, 329, 358–59; release from
prison, 377; at Crowood House after the war, 385–86; Baba's hatred of,
399

Guinness, Lady Evelyn, 164

 

Hackwood, 12, 18–19, 36, 59, 119–20, 143; Curzon's renovations, 14–15; house parties at, 15, 30; and hunting, 19; Belgian royal family at, 33–34; costs of running, 82

Hale, James, 255–56, 258

Halifax, Dorothy, 318, 319, 320, 330, 332, 333–34, 340–41, 342, 348, 355

Halifax, Edward Wood, 1st Earl of (formerly Lord Irwin), 110, 274–75, 285, 296, 323; and the outbreak of the Second World War, 298; appearance, 318; character, 318, 319; relations with Baba, 318–20, 322, 330–31, 334–36, 337–39, 363–64, 374, 380–81; at the Dorchester Hotel in wartime, 332, 333–34; as British Ambassador to Washington, 339, 340–43, 348–49; letters to Baba, 341–43, 346–47, 348, 349, 351, 352–53, 355–58, 362–63, 365–66, 369, 370, 372–73, 380–81, 395; death and injury of sons, 367; and the Duke of Windsor, 384–85

Halsey, Admiral, 90

Hardinge, Sir Alex, 236

Harewood, Lord, 250

Harriman, Averell, 344

Hart, Basil Liddell, 337

Hartley, L. P., 363

Henderson, Arthur, 138

Henderson, Nevile, 199, 200, 201, 206–207, 252, 271, 291, 292, 294, 318; at Cliveden, 273–74; and the Munich crisis, 284, 286; and the outbreak of the Second World War, 299; meeting with the Windsors, 310

Henry, Prince, 75, 88, 114

Hess, Rudolf, 271, 291

Hillary, Richard, 363

Himmler, Heinrich, 271, 291

Hitchins, Mrs. Lionel, 273

Hitler, Adolf, 177, 269–70, 276, 286, 291; and the Mitford sisters, 221–22; at the Nuremberg Congress, 231–32; invasion of Czechoslovakia, 276, 283–84, 285, 292; and the Munich Agreement, 283, 284, 285, 286; and the outbreak of war, 294, 295, 296, 298, 299; invasion of Norway, Denmark and the Low Countries, 322–23; invasion of Russia, 349; death, 384

Hobhouse, Christopher, 166

Holt, Harold, 303

Hordern, Bill, 178, 179

Hordern, Mary, 178, 179–82

Hordern, Peter, 178, 180, 181

Hore-Belisha, Leslie, 282, 297, 314, 316, 353

Howard, Peter, 153

Howard-Vyse, Sir Richard, 310

Howe, Captain Cecil, 243

Hutchinson, Leslie, 335

Hyslop, Nanny, 106, 184, 185, 198, 201, 206, 213, 289–90, 321, 335, 350

 

India: Curzon as Viceroy of 7–8, 10–13; Baba's charity work in,
398

Irwin, Lord
see
Halifax, Edward Wood, 1st Earl of

 

James, Admiral, 305

James, Zita, 195, 198, 287

Jardine, Rev. Robert Anderson, 260, 262, 263, 264

Jean-Louis de Faucigny-Lucinge, Prince,
158

Jebb, Gladwyn, 352, 363

Joad, Cyril, 147, 152, 153

Johnston, Tom, 137, 138

Jones, Jack, 149–50, 151, 162

Jones, Sir Roderick and Lady, 352

Jones, Tom, 273–74, 276, 278, 337

Jowett, William, 351

Joyce, William (Lord Haw Haw), 321,
353

Jungman, Baby and Zita, 157

 

Kaye, Danny, 385

Kedleston estate (Derbyshire), 2, 40, 59

Kellett, “Flash,” 121, 123, 127

Kennington Day Nursery, 215, 217–18, 313, 314, 325

Keynes, John Maynard, 137

Kitchener, Horatio Herbert, 1st Earl, 13,
33

 

Labour Party, and the Mosleys, 106–108, 113, 114, 123–24, 129–33, 136–39, 145–49, 150–51, 166

Lambe, Charles, 246, 248

Lancaster, Nancy, 155

Lansbury, George, 137, 138

Lascelles, Alan (“Tommy”), 91–92, 216

Law, Andrew Bonar, 61, 66

League of Nations, 196

Lee, General Cliff H., 365, 368, 377

Legh, Piers (“Joey”), 243

Leiter, Levi Zeigler, 4, 6, 8

Leiter, Mary (later Lady Curzon), 4–8, 26, 103; appearance, 4–5; character, 5–6; marriage to George Curzon, 6–7; in India, 8, 11–13; illness and death, 12, 13; Curzon's memories of, 16, 20,
97

Leith, Gordon, 109, 111, 113, 114, 115, 119, 120, 121, 127–29, 143, 157–58, 168, 188

Letellier, Yola, 251

Lewis, Kid, 153, 161

Lillie, Beatrice, 121

Lindsay, Professor Thomas, 29

Lloyd George, David, 40, 46, 61, 76, 79–80, 153, 278, 282, 342

Lodge, Oliver, 26

Loos, Anita, 121

Losch, Tilly, 295

Lothian, Lord, 154, 276, 279, 338–39, 342, 349

Loughborough, Lady, 216

Lubbock, Michael, 279, 320, 335, 396

Lyttelton, Oliver (later Lord Chandos), 49, 332

 

McCormack, John, 121, 127, 133

MacDonald, Malcolm, 381

MacDonald, Ramsay, 99, 106–107, 129, 130, 131, 133; and Mosley's resignation from the Labour Party, 137, 138, 139; and Cimmie's resignation from the Labour Party, 146–47; and the National Government, 158–59; on Wallis Simpson, 233

Macmillan, Harold, 143, 145, 352

Macmillan, Lady Dorothy, 143

Maginot Line, 254, 316

Maisky, M. and Mme, 333

Makins, Roger, 363

Malet, Mr. (Ambassador to Denmark),
333

Margesson, David, 166, 276, 352

Marriott, Maud, 368

Marsh, Edward, 37

Mary, Princess, 69, 243, 250

Mary, Queen, 33, 57, 68, 69, 72, 74, 79, 223, 243; and the wedding of the Duke of Windsor, 262, 263, 264, 265

Masaryk, Jan, 140, 290

Massey, Vincent, 325

Maugham, Somerset, 121, 157, 281

Maugham, Syrie, 121

Maurier, Gerald du, 121

Maury, Bobby Casa, 134

Maury, Paula Casa, 134

Meade, Lady Katharine, 215

Melton Mowbray, 85–87; Irene at, 76, 84, 111–13, 139–40; and the Prince of Wales, 84, 85–87, 112, 114, 117,
125

Mendl, Charles, 158, 201, 293