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  92. “Out in crowd again”: Rhodes, p. 69.

  93. “It was a unique burst of personal freedom”: Ibid., p. 68.

  94. “walked miles … Ran through Ritz”: Ibid., p. 69.

  95. “the princesses wished to be treated”: The Times, Aug. 8, 1945.

TWO: Love Match

    1. “There was a whole battalion”: Lady Anne Glenconner interview.

    2. “boulevardier”: Hugo Vickers, Alice Princess Andrew of Greece, p. 210.

    3. “The family broke up”: Brandreth, pp. 33–34.

    4. “He was one of those boys”: Sir Trevor McDonald, The Duke: A Portrait of Prince Philip, Indigo Television for ITV, May 13, 2008.

    5. “born leader”: Wheeler-Bennett, p. 748.

    6. “intelligence and spirit”: Brandreth, p. 39.

    7. “Prince Philip is a more sensitive”: Patricia Brabourne interview.

    8. “never took her eyes off him”: Crawford, p. 101.

    9. “been in love for the past eighteen”: Bradford, p. 105.

  10. “intelligent, has a good sense of humour”: Shawcross, QEQM, p. 579.

  11. “the simple enjoyment”: Ibid., p. 578.

  12. All he left: Vickers, Alice, p. 321.

  13. “descants and ditties”: Shawcross, QEQM, p. 598. 29 “pink and fawn”: Longford, Elizabeth R, p. 126.

  14. She invited Mrs. Vicary Gibbs: Mabel, Countess of Airlie, Thatched with Gold: The Memoir of Mabel, Countess of Airlie, edited by Jennifer Ellis, pp. 223–24.

  15. “absolutely natural”: Campbell-Preston, p. 217.

  16. “danced every dance”: Ibid., p. 219.

  17. He was a frequent visitor: Crawford, pp. 175–77.

  18. “all the good things which have happened”: Shawcross, QEQM, p. 625.

  19. “Philip had a capacity for love”: Turner, p. 34.

  20. “would not have been a difficult person”: Patricia Brabourne interview.

  21. “pin-up”: Michael Dewar, editor, All the Queen’s Horses: A Golden Jubilee Tribute to Her Majesty the Queen, p. 11.

  22. “sugar pink”: Cecil Beaton, The Strenuous Years: Diaries, 1948–1955, p. 143.

  23. “She sort of expands”: Margaret Rhodes interview.

  24. “was always trying to catch up”: Anne Glenconner interview.

  25. “one of the most becoming frocks”: Crawford, p. 165.

  26. “I think people thought ‘Aha!’ ”: Patricia Brabourne interview.

  27. “Royal Firm”: Longford, Elizabeth R, pp. 15, 140.

  28. “a practical little man”: Shawcross, QEQM, p. 602.

  29. The first several days: Gaumont British Newsreel (Reuters), “Royal Family on Board the HMS Vanguard.”

  30. Elizabeth carried a photograph: Crawford, p. 185.

  31. The princesses were enchanted: Gaumont British Newsreel (Reuters), “Royal Welcome to Capetown”; “Royal Family Visits Ostrich Farm”; “Royal Visit to Durban and Zululand”; “Royal Family Tour the Kruger National Park.”

  32. “guilty that we had got away”: Shawcross, QEQM, p. 612.

  33. “quite sucked dry sometimes”: Ibid., p. 619.

  34. her mother’s ability to still his “gnashes”: Ibid., pp. 618–19.

  35. “terrible and glorious years”: “21st birthday speech,” April 21, 1947, Official Website of the British Monarchy.

  36. The address was written: Brandreth, p. 153.

  37. “the trumpet-ring”: Ibid.

  38. Reading the text for the first time: Helen Cathcart, Her Majesty the Queen: The Story of Elizabeth II, p. 80.

  39. “200 million other people cry”: Ibid.

  40. “a lump into millions”: S. Evelyn Thomas, Princess Elizabeth: Wife and Mother: A Souvenir of the Birth of Prince Charles of Edinburgh, p. 47.

  41. “Of course I wept”: Shawcross, QEQM, p. 621.

  42. “solid and endearing”: May 13, 1947, LASL 4/4/17, Sir Alan Lascelles Papers, Churchill College, Cambridge University.

  43. “an astonishing solicitude”: Sir Alan Lascelles to Lady Lascelles, April 30, 1947, LASL 4/4/2/17, Lascelles Papers.

  44. They had made a great effort: Gaumont British Newsreel (Reuters), “Royal Tour Reaches Pretoria and Johannesburg”; “Tribesmen Gather for Royal Visit.”

  45. the princesses sometimes in their dressing gowns: Shawcross, QEQM, p. 615.

  46. After boarding the Vanguard: Gaumont British Newsreel (Reuters), “Capetown Bids Farewell to Royal Family.”

  47. “real”: Pimlott, p. 110.

  48. “There was luxury, sunshine and gaiety”: Pimlott, p. 124, citing Jock Colville unpublished diary, end of Aug. 1947, Sept. 21 and 29, 1947.

  49. In 1947 the Crown Estate provided: Zaki Cooper, assistant press secretary to the Queen, email, June 17, 2010.

  50. “sensational evening”: Noel Coward, The Noel Coward Diaries, p. 96.

  51. “he dealt them out like playing cards”: Lady Elizabeth Longman interview.

  52. “busy refilling the cigarette boxes”: Dean, p. 46.

  53. “suddenly and apparently without difficulty”: Ibid.

  54. “very brave or very foolish”: Patricia Brabourne interview.

  55. “Nothing was going to change for her”: Ibid.

  56. “a flash of colour”: Gilbert, p. 359.

  57. “patience, a ready sympathy”: British Pathe Newsreel, “The Princess Weds,” Nov. 20, 1947.

  58. “tumultuous expression of good will”: Ibid.

  59. “the bride snugly ensconced”: Cathcart, p. 92.

  60. As they alighted: Ibid.

  61. “like a female Russian commando”: Rhodes, p. 35.

  62. “I only hope that I can bring up”: Shawcross, QEQM, p. 630.

  63. “Cherish Lilibet?”: Ibid., p 631.

THREE: Destiny Calls

    1. “serious questions”: Eleanor Roosevelt, This I Remember, p. 209.

    2. “social problems”: Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt, p. 230.

    3. “brimming with tears”: Horbury, “A Princess in Paris,” Royalty Digest, Sept. 1996, p. 88.

    4. “published good photographs”: Ibid.

    5. “in black lace, with a large comb”: Henry Channon, Chips: The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon, edited by Robert Rhodes James, p. 425.

    6. “I never realized”: Patricia Brabourne interview.

    7. a hospital suite had been prepared: Alfred Wright, Jr., “A Royal Birth,” Life,