Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch

  22. “Victorian languor”: Horne, p. 308.

  23. astonished him from the outset: Ibid., p. 14.

  24. “a great support”: Ibid., p. 168.

  25. “She never reacted excessively”: Lacey, Majesty, p. 217.

  26. “be made to smile more”: Ibid., p. 218.

  27. “had always assumed people wanted”: Ibid.

  28. Dickie Mountbatten blamed the delay: Massingberd, p. 148.

  29. “just as calm and composed”: Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt’s Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936–1962, p. 247.

  30. “haven of security”: Dimbleby, p. 40.

  31. “She let things go”: Gay Charteris interview.

  32. Six-year-old Charles flopped onto: Eden, p. 201.

  33. Clarissa Eden was mildly amused: Clarissa Eden interview.

  34. “the natural state of things”: McDonald, The Duke documentary, quoting Pamela Hicks.

  35. that Charles make his bed: Lacey, Majesty, p. 235.

  36. “a very gentle boy”: Bradford, p. 329.

  37. “not a vessel to be filled”: Hill House International Junior School Website.

  38. being in a classroom with other boys: Dimbleby, pp. 32–33.

  39. educating the “whole” child: Cheam School Website.

  40. “Children may be indulged at home”: Dimbleby, p. 43.

  41. “I always preferred my own company”: Ibid., p. 44.

  42. He had no idea what was coming: Ibid., p. 49.

  43. “dread”: Queen Elizabeth II to Anthony Eden, Jan. 16, 1958, Lord Avon Papers.

  44. “not necessarily fitted to serve”: Time, April 8, 1957.

  45. “tight little enclave”: “The Monarch Today,” National and English Review, Aug. 1957, pp. 61–67.

  46. “efficient public relations set-up”: New Statesman, Oct. 22, 1955.

  47. “to pit his infinitely tiny”: Pimlott, p. 281.

  48. “a very silly man”: Time, Aug. 19, 1957.

  49. “95 per cent of the population”: Ibid. In 1963 after Parliament passed a law allowing peers to renounce their titles, Altrincham would disclaim his and become known as John Grigg.

  50. “real watershed”: Roy Strong, The Roy Strong Diaries, 1967–1987, p. 430.

  51. By some accounts, Prince Philip: Sunday Graphic, Nov. 17, 1957.

  52. With help from her husband: Sunday Times, Dec. 22, 1957.

  53. The following year marked the last: Fiona MacCarthy, Last Curtsey: The End of the Debutantes, pp. 1, 17–18.

  54. “those who mix socially”: Malcolm Muggeridge, “Does England Really Need a Queen?,” Saturday Evening Post, Oct. 19, 1957.

  55. He was harassed: Longford, Elizabeth R, p. 229.

  56. She used a TelePrompTer for the first time: Washington Post, Oct. 14, 1957.

  57. “shy, a bit bashful”: New York Times, Oct. 14, 1957. 131 “I want to talk to you”: Washington Post, Oct. 14, 1957. 131 “taking part in a piece”: New York Times, Oct. 15, 1957.

  58. “there does seem to be a much closer”: Queen Elizabeth II to Anthony Eden, Oct. 11, 1957, Lord Avon Papers, Birmingham University.

  59. “devoted friendship”: The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower: NATO and the Campaign of 1952, Vol. 13, letter to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Feb. 7, 1952, p. 947.

  60. he liked to recount: “Suggested Remarks: Welcome for Prince Charles and Princess Anne,” July 15, 1970, Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum.

  61. “We all dived under the table”: Daily Mail, Jan. 15, 2011, citing unused footage from the 1969 documentary Royal Family.

  62. “If [Eisenhower] and his party”: Rhodes, p. 57.

  63. “was so staggered”: Daily Mail, Jan. 15, 2011.

  64. A crowd of ten thousand greeted: Illustrated London News, Oct. 26, 1957.

  65. “enlightened and skilled statesmen”: Washington Post, Oct. 17, 1957.

  66. As they waited to take off: Wiley T. Buchanan, Jr., with Arthur Gordon, Red Carpet at the White House: Four Years as Chief of Protocol in the Eisenhower Administration, p. 130.

  67. “He was flustered”: Ruth Buchanan interview.

  68. “the little British sovereign”: Washington Post, Oct. 18, 1957.

  69. “very certain, and very comfortable”: Ruth Buchanan interview.

  70. “staggering amount”: New York Times, Oct. 19, 1957.

  71. “rather startling ideas”: Richard Nixon to Queen Elizabeth II, Oct. 19, 1957, Nixon Library.

  72. “match”: Washington Post, Oct. 19, 1957.

  73. “could see how American housewives”: New York Times, Oct. 20, 1957.

  74. Dressed in a $15,000 mink coat: Buchanan, p. 132. 134 “perturbed”: Washington Post, Oct. 20, 1957.

  75. “parade of industries”: New York Times, Oct. 20, 1957.

  76. “How nice that you can bring your children”: Washington Post, Oct. 20, 1957.

  77. “Good for mice!”: Ibid.

  78. “amazed and scared”: Ibid.

  79. On their final day: Ibid., Oct. 21, 1957.

  80. “as it should be approached”: New York Times, Oct. 22, 1957.

  81. “Wheeeee!”: New York Daily News, Oct. 21, 1957.

  82. “a row of great jewels”: Alistair Cooke, Manchester Guardian, Oct. 22, 1957.

  83. “Hi Liz”: Washington Post, Oct. 22, 1957.

  84. “I never realized”: New York Daily News, Oct. 21, 1957.

  85. “a teaser”: New York Times, Oct. 22, 1957.

  86. “a thunderous standing ovation”: Washington Post, Oct. 22, 1957.

  87. “kept standing up”: Ibid.

  88. “tremendous”: New York Times, Oct. 22, 1957.

  89. “the evening sky was purple”: Manchester Guardian, Oct. 22, 1957.

  90. eating striped bass with champagne sauce: Anne Pimlott Baker, The Pilgrims of the United States: A Centennial History, pp. 128–29.

  91. Guests could watch: New York Times, Oct. 22, 1957.

  92. “one time during the program”: Ibid.

  93. “straight as a ruler”: Buchanan, p. 149

  94. “Philip … look at all those people”: Ibid., pp. 149–50.

  95. “You both have captivated”: Dwight D. Eisenhower to Queen Elizabeth II, Oct. 20, 1957, Eisenhower Library.

  96. “extraordinarily successful”: New York Times, Oct. 22, 1957.

  97. “has buried George III for good and all”: Horne, p. 55.

  98. “Why did she have to cross”: Washington Post, Oct. 27, 1957.

  99. “gone beyond the stage”: Prince Philip, Selected Speeches, 1948–1955, p.