Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch

  14. “the corners of the Commonwealth”: Mark Collins interview.

  15. “stood me in good stead”: Robert Lacey, Monarch: The Life and Reign of Elizabeth II, pp. 406–7.

  16. “a dramatic, racy, enthusiastic”: Longford, Elizabeth R, p. 304.

  17. “entirely at home with him”: Crawford, p. 85.

  18. “Hide nothing”: Sir Alan “Tommy” Lascelles, King’s Counsellor: Abdication and War: The Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles, edited by Duff Hart-Davis, p. 208.

  19. “somewhat rambling structure”: Lacey, Monarch, p. 116. 7 “a consultative and tentative absolutism”: Ibid., p. 117.

  20. “it was as if she were studying”: Ibid., p. 118.

  21. “cool clear precision”: David Horbury, “A Princess in Paris,” Royalty Digest: A Journal of Record 6, no. 3 (September 1996): 88.

  22. “to appraise both sides”: Longford, Elizabeth R, p. 116.

  23. “fresh, buxom altogether ‘jolly’ ”: Time, April 29, 1929.

  24. “The way that Dame Pearl”: Shawcross, QEQM, p. 555.

  25. “The arches and beams”: Jane Roberts, Queen Elizabeth: A Birthday Souvenir Album, facsimile reproduction of “The Coronation 12th May, 1937, To Mummy and Papa In Memory of Their coronation, From Lilibet, By Herself.”

  26. “No, none”: The Queen, by Rolf, BBC documentary, Jan. 1, 2006.

  27. “intelligent and full of character”: Gerald Isaaman, “A Forgotten Artist Who Had a Brush with Grandeur,” Camden New Journal, Jan. 15, 2004.

  28. “horrid … He was one of those”: The Queen, by Rolf, BBC documentary.

  29. The second artist to capture: Pimlott, p. 33.

  30. “It’s quite nice”: The Queen, by Rolf documentary.

  31. “horses are the greatest levelers”: Frolic Weymouth interview.

  32. “moving carpet”: Sally Bedell Smith, Diana in Search of Herself: Portrait of a Troubled Princess, p. 149.

  33. “They’re heelers”: The Queen, by Rolf documentary.

  34. “It was a very inhibiting experience”: Turner, p. 11.

  35. “Never do that to royalty”: James Ogilvy interview.

  36. “a glass curtain”: Crawford, p. 81.

  37. “real people”: Ibid., p. 31.

  38. “quite fierce”: Lady Pamela Mountbatten (Hicks after her marriage to interior designer David Hicks) interview.

  39. “was brought up knowing”: Patricia Brabourne interview.

  40. “if you find something or somebody”: Ann Morrow, The Queen, p. 16.

  41. “You must not be in too much of a hurry”: Crawford, p. 89.

  42. “particularly easy and pleasant”: Shawcross, QEQM, p. 465.

  43. “sometimes I have tears”: Ibid., p. 468.

  44. “almost continually ‘on show’ ”: Ibid., p. 478.

  45. “The Queen knows the prayer book”: George Carey, the 103rd Archbishop of Canterbury and later Lord Carey of Clifton, interview.

  46. “She comes from a generation”: Ibid.

  47. “sit up at a slight distance:” Clarissa Eden, the Countess of Avon, interview.

  48. “a lady’s back should never touch”: Shawcross, QEQM, p. 780.

  49. “brought up her children”: Mary Clayton interview.

  50. “never shout or frighten”: Shawcross, QEQM, p. 336.

  51. “remember to keep your temper”: Ibid., p. 583.

  52. “She was brought up by strict”: Confidential interview.

  53. “small, very smart, and rather peremptory”: John Dean, H.R.H. Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh: A Portrait by His Valet, p. 60.

  54. “The Queen just enjoyed”: Mary Clayton interview.

  55. “clothes tidy”: Crawford, p. 172.

  56. “internal fast beat”: Helen Mirren interview.

  57. who wore a tiara every night at dinner: Deborah Devonshire, the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, Home to Roost and Other Peckings, p. 62.

  58. “look anyone straight in the face”: Cecil Beaton, Self Portrait with Friends: The Selected Diaries of Cecil Beaton, edited by Richard Buckle, p. 264.

  59. “Queen Mary wore tiaras like she wore her toques”: Devonshire, Home to Roost and Other Peckings, p. 62.

  60. Queen Mary touchingly said: Longford, Elizabeth R, p. 196.

  61. “all the people who’ll be waiting”: Ibid., pp 73–74.

  62. “new ideas held no terrors”: Gilbert, p. 809.

  63. “a happy childhood”: Crawford, p. 18.

  64. “wonderful memory training”: Ibid., p. 43.

  65. “steadfastness”: Robert Lacey, Majesty: Elizabeth II and the House of Windsor, p. 92.

  66. Six weeks later: Crawford, p. 106.

  67. Crawfie directed the princesses: Ibid., p. 108.

  68. “purdah”: Lacey, Majesty, p. 105.

  69. “I was brought up amongst men”: Longford, Elizabeth R, p. 122.

  70. “the first requisite of a really good officer”: Crawford, p. 150.

  71. “a rather shy little girl”: Ibid., p. 134.

  72. “never forgot there was a war on”: Longford, Elizabeth R, p. 122.

  73. “the whistle & scream”: Shawcross, QEQM, p. 527.

  74. “looking different”: Ibid., p. 531.

  75. “Though they are so good”: Ibid., p. 586.

  76. “pink cheeks and good appetites”: Ibid., p. 542.

  77. “All seemed to breathe”: Christopher Hibbert, Queen Victoria: A Personal History, p. 177.

  78. shot her first stag: Margaret Rhodes interview. 19 caught her first salmon: Lascelles, p. 257.

  79. Tommy Lascelles imitating a St. Bernard: Ibid., p. 54. 19 “young men and maidens”: Ibid., p. 184.

  80. “the best waltzer in the world”: Frances Campbell-Preston, The Rich Spoils of Time, edited by Hugo Vickers, p. 221.

  81. “confidence and vigour”: Horace Smith, A Horseman Through Six Reigns: Reminiscences of a Royal Riding Master, p. 150.

  82. “What a beastly time”: Shawcross, QEQM, p. 576.

  83. “and give her a little picture”: Crawford, p. 142.

  84. “all the happiest memories”: Bradford, p. 86.

  85. The girls earned their cooking badges: Crawford, p. 148.

  86. With their Cockney accents: Ibid., pp. 117–18.

  87. “I think I’ve broken the prop-shaft”: Peter Morgan, The Queen screenplay, p. 65.

  88. She told Labour politician: Barbara Castle, The Castle Diaries, 1964–1976, p. 213.

  89. “I’ve never worked so hard”: Bradford, p. 108.

  90. That night, she and Margaret Rose: Margaret Rhodes, The Final Curtsey, pp. 66–67; Longford, Elizabeth R, p. 124, recounting Toni de Bellaigue’s memories.

  91. “provided us with sandwiches”: Longford, Elizabeth R, p. 124.