Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch

  77. “seemed less truculent”: Eden, p. 168.

  78. “dragged out longer and longer”: Gilbert, p. 1124.

  79. The Queen remained patient: Ibid., p. 1115.

  80. “felt the greatest personal regrets”: Ibid., p. 1117.

  81. “young, gleaming champion”: Ibid., p. 1121.

  82. “never be separated”: Ibid., p. 1123.

  83. “wished to die in the House of Commons”: Ibid., p. 1124.

  84. “will ever, for me, be able to hold”: Ibid., p. 1127.

  85. “to keep Your Majesty squarely confronted”: Ibid.

  86. “the case was not a difficult one”: Ibid., p. 1125.

  87. “Well, Ma’am?”: Eden, p. 190.

  88. “the best looking politician”: Ibid., p. 122.

  89. “odd and violent temper”: Cynthia Gladwyn, The Diaries of Cynthia Gladwyn, edited by Miles Jebb, p. 198.

  90. “Anthony was telling her”: Eden, p. 215.

  91. “They were chatting away and laughing”: Clarissa Eden interview.

  92. “It is only by seeing him”: Daily Telegraph, Nov. 7, 2009.

  93. “COME ON MARGARET!”: Christopher Warwick, Princess Margaret: A Life of Contrasts, p. 197.

  94. In early October the Edens visited: Eden, p. 219.

  95. “high place”: The Times, Oct. 24, 1955.

  96. Although her sorrowful statement: BBC, “On This Day,” Oct. 31, 1955, news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday.

  97. “in a cottage”: Rose, p. 189.

  98. “selfish and hard and wild”: Bradford, p. 287.

  99. captured her in seven sessions: “1954 Sir William Dargie: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II,” artistsfootsteps.com.

100. “straight back … never slumped once”: Ibid.

101. “a nice friendly portrait”: Laura Breen, “Dargie’s Wattle Queen,” reCollections: A Journal of Museums and Collections, Nma.gov.au.

102. The only other portrait: The Queen, by Rolf documentary.

103. “kind, natural and never aloof”: Pietro Annigoni, An Artist’s Life: An Autobiography, p. 84.

104. “watching the people and the cars”: Ibid., p. 82.

105. “alone and far off”: Ibid., p. 83.

106. Margaret praised the artist’s success: Ibid., p. 86.

107. The following year Margaret sat thirty-three times: Ibid., p. 96.

108. “Mine was better than hers”: Frolic Weymouth interview.

109. she visited the Oji River Leper Settlement: Gaumont British Newsreels (Reuters), “Royal Tour of Nigeria 1956.”

110. “qualities of grace and compassion”: Barbara Ward, “The Woman Who Must Be a Symbol,” New York Times Magazine, Oct. 13, 1957.

111. On May 11, 1956: Andrew Duncan, The Queen’s Year: The Reality of Monarchy: An Intimate Report on Twelve Months with the Royal Family, p. 152.

112. which some participants liken: Morrow, p. 91.

113. Once one of her corgis had an accident: Oliver Everett interview.

114. “looking very smart”: Eden, p. 230.

115. “She was dressed”: Nikita Khrushchev, Khrushchev Remembers, translated and edited by Strobe Talbott, p. 406.

116. “The Queen said to me”: Eden, p. 231.

117. “Nothing was kept from her”: Pimlott, p. 253.

118. “she understood what we were doing”: Lacey, Majesty, p. 212. 115 He began taking Benzedrine: Gladwyn, p. 198.

119. “edgy”: Pimlott, p. 255.

120. “I think the Queen believed Eden was mad”: Ibid.

121. “Are you sure you are being wise?”: Ibid.

122. “nor would I claim that she was pro-Suez”: Lacey, Majesty, p. 212.

123. “I don’t think she was really for it”: Gay Charteris interview.

124. “in such a bad way”: Gladwyn, p. 198.

125. Churchill, who criticized: Gilbert, p. 1222.

126. “the real enemy”: Ibid.

127. “it is most interesting”: Ibid., p. 1223.

128. “highly valued”: Shawcross, Q and C, p. 74.

129. “wise and impartial reaction”: Pimlott, p. 273.

130. “choose the older man”: Lacey, Majesty, p. 215.

SIX: Made for Television

    1. “it would have been much simpler”: HRH Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip Speaks: Selected Speeches by His Royal Highness the Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, K.G., 1956– 1959, edited by Richard Ollard, p. 38.

    2. “remote communities”: McDonald, The Duke documentary.

    3. “by profession a sailor”: Prince Philip, Selected Speeches, 1948–1955, p. 105.

    4. “allegiance to another”: Ibid., p. 148.

    5. He pursued his fascination: Prince Philip, Selected Speeches, 1956–1959, p. 137.

    6. “full set”: British Pathe newsreel, “The Duke Visits the Outposts.”

    7. In a nostalgic touch: Pamela Hicks interview; McDonald, The Duke documentary.

    8. “Philip’s Folly”: Longford, Elizabeth R, p. 225. 120 although he did send the Queen white roses: Ibid.

    9. “willing to serve others”: Prince Philip, Selected Speeches, 1956–1959, p. 38.

  10. “He has one of those minds”: Confidential interview.

  11. “whole man”: Prince Philip, Selected Speeches, 1956–1959, p. 131.

  12. “sub-health”: Ibid., p. 95.

  13. The story of the “party girl”: Brandreth, p. 254.

  14. “very hurt, terribly hurt, very angry”: Pimlott, p. 271, citing Brook Productions, The Windsors, interview transcript.

  15. “It is quite untrue”: Irish Times, Feb. 12, 1957.

  16. “nothing at all”: Prince Philip, Selected Speeches, 1956–1959, p. 43. 122 The idea had come: Pimlott, p. 272.

  17. “Most of our people have never had”: Alistair Horne, Harold Macmillan, Vol. 2, 1957–1986, p. 64.

  18. although she sometimes became irritated: Charles Williams, Harold Macmillan, pp. 293, 319.

  19. “instinctive reverence”: Horne, p. 169.

  20. “We all knew about it”: Woodrow Wyatt, The Journals of Woodrow Wyatt, Vol. 2, p. 546.

  21. “a mask of impenetrable calm”: Williams, p. 474.