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100. “Television is the worst of all”: Queen Elizabeth II to Anthony Eden, Oct. 11, 1957, Lord Avon Papers.

101. Philip, who had urged her: Sunday Dispatch, Oct. 6, 1957.

102. “more vivacious”: Daily Mirror, Oct. 11, 1957.

103. Philip took a particularly active role: Sunday Times, Dec. 22, 1957.

104. In addition to getting the knack: Sunday Graphic, Dec. 22, 1957.

105. “My husband seems to have found”: Daily Express, Dec. 27, 1957.

106. A few days before the broadcast: News Chronicle, Dec. 27, 1957.

107. The Queen spoke: Queen Elizabeth II Christmas Broadcast, Dec. 25, 1957, Official Website of the British Monarchy.

108. her husband standing behind: News Chronicle, Dec. 27, 1957.

109. “post-Altrincham royal speech”: Daily Express, Dec. 27, 1957.

110. “unstrained and natural”: News Chronicle, Dec. 27, 1957.

111. “All her charm”: Daily Express, Dec. 27, 1957.

112. “lovely statement”: News Chronicle, Dec. 27, 1957.

113. “The final draft was, in fact”: Pimlott, p. 291.

114. one year her butler noted: Paul Burrell, A Royal Duty, p. 19.

115. “the working pieces of kit”: David Thomas interview.

116. “There is one thing to remember”: Ibid.

117. “looking like culprits”: Diaries of David Bruce, Nov. 3, 1964, Richmond Historical Society.

118. “I think I have made the dullest”: Annigoni, p. 181.

119. “my neck is still feeling”: Ibid.

120. “many millions of my subjects”: “The Queen’s Speech,” Oct. 28, 1958.

121. “were scarcely separated”: Lacey, Monarch, p. 214.

122. “I am going to have a baby”: Pimlott, p. 305.

123. Mayor Richard Daley rolled the red carpet: Chicago Tribune, July 17, 2005.

124. “Chicago is yours!”: Longford, Elizabeth R, p. 311.

125. “he had never witnessed”: Dwight D. Eisenhower to Queen Elizabeth II, July 7, 1959, Eisenhower Library.

126. “this will be an insult”: Horne, p. 147.

127. friends including the Earl of Westmorland: Eisenhower Archives, guest list, Aug. 21, 1959, Eisenhower Library.

128. “The Queen and Eisenhower got on”: Dominic Elliot interview.

129. “When there are fewer I generally put”: Queen Elizabeth II to Dwight D. Eisenhower, Jan. 24, 1960, Eisenhower Library.

130. “perfect in every respect”: Dwight Eisenhower to Queen Elizabeth II, Aug. 30, 1959, Eisenhower Library.

131. Philip gave eight speeches: Prince Philip, Selected Speeches, 1956–1959, pp. 32–34.

132. “great national awakening”: Ibid., p. 33.

133. “The Queen only wishes”: Williams, p. 357.

134. “absolutely set her heart”: Anthony Howard, Rab: The Life of R. A. Butler, p. 276.

135. “in tears”: Bradford, p. 286.

136. “de-royalised”: Harold Macmillan, Pointing the Way, 1959–1961, p. 161.

137. at the urging of Dickie and Prince Charles: Dimbleby, p. 234; Massingberd, p. 148.

138. “a great load off her mind”: Bradford, p. 286.

139. “The Queen has had this in mind”: Longford, Elizabeth R, p. 251.

SEVEN: New Beginnings

    1. “Nothing, but nothing”: Turner, pp. 46–47.

    2. “Pigmy-Peep-a-toes”: The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters, edited by Charlotte Mosley, p. 287.

    3. “slightly explosive drawl”: Strong, p. 158.

    4. “If you missed the ‘royal’ ”: Confidential interview.

    5. “I don’t measure the depth”: Peter Morgan, The Queen, p. 5.

    6. “You mustn’t worry”: Shawcross, QEQM, p. 847.

    7. “I felt the Queen was not served well: Patricia Brabourne interview.

    8. “whole atmosphere”: Coward, p. 437.

    9. “endless, vivid herbaceous borders”: Ibid., p. 438.

  10. “pale … a bit tremulous”: Ibid.

  11. “scowl a good deal”: Ibid.

  12. “When she is deeply moved”: Richard Crossman, The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister, Vol. 2, Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons, 1966–1968, Sept. 20, 1966, p. 44.

  13. The ?26,000 cost: Bradford, p. 292.

  14. the Macmillan government picked up: Lacey, Monarch, p. 216. 152 refurbished at a cost: Bradford, p. 402.

  15. ?50,000 of which was allocated: Anne de Courcy, Snowdon: The Biography, p. 105.

  16. “an opportunity to consider”: Horne, p. 169.

  17. “assiduity with which she absorbed”: Ibid.

  18. “the wind of change is blowing”: Macmillan, Pointing the Way, p. 156.

  19. “The official text is weak”: Horne, p. 205.

  20. “to appeal to de Gaulle’s sense of grandeur”: Ibid., p. 223.

  21. “well informed about everything”: Charles de Gaulle, Memoirs of Hope: Renewal and Endeavor, p. 235.

  22. “Only Rose Kennedy came into the room”: Brian Mulroney, Memoirs, p. 326.

  23. “eaten into [JFK’s] soul”: Isaiah Berlin Oral History, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.

  24. “the greatest man he ever met”: Ibid.

  25. “young cocky Irishman”: Horne, p. 288.

  26. “strange character … obstinate, sensitive, ruthless”: Ibid., pp. 281–82.

  27. “We seemed to be able (when alone)”: Harold Macmillan to Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Feb. 18, 1964, Harold Macmillan Archive, Bodleian Library, Oxford University.

  28. “surrounded himself with a large retinue”: Macmillan, Pointing the Way, p. 352.

  29. “special relationship within”: Henry Brandon Oral History, Kennedy Library.

  30. “professional statesman”: Raymond Seitz, Over Here, p. 41.

  31. “completely overwhelmed”: Horne, p. 303.

  32. “put on a good show”: Diaries of David Bruce, June 2, 1961.

  33. “pretty heavy going”: Gore Vidal, Palimpsest: A Memoir, p. 372.

  34. “they were all tremendously kind”: Cecil Beaton, Self Portrait with Friends, p. 341.

  35. “the Queen was human only once”: Vidal, p. 372.

  36. He had an Egyptian wife: David E. Lilienthal, The Journals of David E.