Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch

    1. “Operation Hope Not”: John Pearson, The Private Lives of Winston Churchill, p. 400.

    2. “It was entirely owing”: Mary Soames interview.

    3. President Lyndon Johnson was supposed: Diaries of David Bruce, Jan. 25, 1965.

    4. “living entity to be fostered”: Independent Television from London, “The State Funeral of Sir Winston Churchill,” narrated by Sir Laurence Olivier, Paul Scofield, and Joseph C. Harsch.

    5. Johnson desperately pressed: Diaries of David Bruce, Jan. 27, 1965.

    6. The president’s designated replacement: Ibid.

    7. “a great maker of history”: Dwight D. Eisenhower remarks, Jan. 30, 1965, Winstonchurchill.org.

    8. “acknowledge our debt of gratitude”: Gilbert, p. 1361.

    9. who equipped it with rugs: Longford, Elizabeth R, p. 282.

  10. “Waiving all custom and precedence”: Gilbert, p. 1362.

  11. “we were not to curtsy”: Mary Soames interview.

  12. “most enthusiastically rendered”: Diaries of David Bruce, Jan. 30, 1965.

  13. “the clouds of cold”: Cecil Beaton, Beaton in the Sixties: More Unexpurgated Diaries, introduction by Hugo Vickers, p. 17.

  14. “It hit between wind and water”: Diaries of David Bruce, Jan. 30, 1965.

  15. “only the Queen decides”: Gilbert, p. 823.

  16. “mark of Royal favour”: Official Website of the British Monarchy.

  17. who had regularly hosted: Ian Balding, Making the Running: A Racing Life, pp. 99, 103–4.

  18. “Well, here it is”: Mary Soames interview.

  19. “Whoever invented these robes”: “The Queen Off Duty,” YouTube video.

  20. “she is highly practical”: The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters, p. 765.

  21. “no hanging about”: Deborah Devonshire, Wait for Me!: Memoirs of the Youngest Mitford Sister, p. 314.

  22. Following the luncheon: Author’s observations, June 15, 2009.

  23. “The Queen is always very concerned”: Lt. Col. Sir Malcolm Ross interview.

  24. “It’s always very lucky”: “The Queen Off Duty,” YouTube video.

  25. “hats off, hair down”: The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters, p. 766.

  26. “had very good views on everything”: Marcia Falkender interview. 183 “justify any proposals to her”: Shawcross, Q and C, p. 99.

  27. “restraining influence”: Horne, p. 171.

  28. “The fact that she was Queen”: Marcia Falkender interview.

  29. When he was worried: Kenneth Rose interview.

  30. “large, shamoblic bisexual”: A. N. Wilson, Our Times: The Age of Elizabeth II, p. 150.

  31. “terribly degrading”: Tony Benn, Out of the Wilderness: Diaries, 1963–1967, p. 168.

  32. “the most miniature bow”: Ibid., p. 169.

  33. “lovely laugh … really very spontaneous”: Crossman, The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister, Vol. 2, p. 44.

  34. “Oh that woman”: Daily Telegraph, Dec. 29, 2007.

  35. “natural charm”: Shawcross, Q and C, p. 100.

  36. “You and I would never have got”: Castle, p. 25.

  37. “which kept the conversation going”: Bradford, p. 321.

  38. She patiently listened: Benn, pp. 230–32.

  39. “She took him for a mug”: Kenneth Rose interview. 185 “I’m sure you’ll miss your stamps”: Benn, p. 446.

  40. “except in knowledge of horse flesh”: Diaries of David Bruce, April 23, 1968.

  41. “walking wounded”: Michael Oswald interview.

  42. The Royal Stud at Sandringham: Author’s observations.

  43. “a horse had a good shoulder”: Longford, Elizabeth R, p. 249.

  44. “She reads a lot, and she knows a lot”: Michael Oswald interview.

  45. “rests always with the Queen”: Arthur FitzGerald, Thoroughbreds of the Crown: The History and Worldwide Influence of the Royal Studs, p. 136.

  46. “Maternity Help and Marriage Guidance Center”: Michael Oswald interview.

  47. “She is very matter-of-fact”: Ibid.

  48. “dive bombing”: Ian Balding interview.

  49. “Oh, that was scary”: Ibid.

  50. “She has the ability to get calmer”: Monty Roberts interview.

  51. “talking to her is almost like talking”: Turner, p. 75.

  52. “If she had been a normal person”: Ian Balding interview.

  53. “Some trainers suit a particular horse”: Turner, p. 75.

  54. “She would watch”: Balding, p. 115.

  55. She revisits her horses: Ian Balding interview.

  56. “I had a feeling that it was incredibly dusty”: Ibid.

  57. “used to be bananas about it”: Jean Carnarvon interview.

  58. “I really think it is ridiculous”: Ian Balding interview.

  59. “I never have”: Ibid.

  60. “keen to win at all costs”: Dewar, ed., p. 62.

  61. “He drives it”: Monty Roberts interview.

  62. “She has an ability to get horses”: Pimlott, p. 107.

  63. “She gets into it and investigates”: Monty Roberts interview.

  64. “the Ascot Vigil”: Vickers, Elizabeth the Queen Mother, p. 409.

  65. “formal day wear”: Diaries of David Bruce, June 20, 1962.

  66. “The great thing about racing”: Michael Oswald interview.

  67. “Look, it’s on the wrong leg”: E II R documentary.

  68. “I don’t think that horse stayed”: Longford, Elizabeth R, p. 249.

  69. “As a human being one always has hope”: E II R documentary.

  70. The 1950s brought her a string: Dewar, ed., pp. 29–30.

  71. “Racing is incredible”: Shawcross, QEQM, p. 691.

  72. “The Queen Mother accepted gratefully”: Ibid., p. 790.

  73. “great gastronome”: Diaries of David Bruce, March 4, 1969.

  74. She had one serious health scare: Shawcross, QEQM, pp. 816–17.

  75. “Oh, the Cake!”: The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters, p. 308.

  76. “She really is superb”: Ibid., p. 433.

  77. the Queen Mother even joined: Diaries of David Bruce, June 4, 1962.

  78. “the Japs”: Beaton, The Unexpurgated Beaton, p. 52.

  79. “so nice & so nasty”: Shawcross, QEQM, p. 348.

  80. “They were naked”: Confidential interview.

  81. “Darling, you must have them close”: Jane FitzGerald interview.

  82. “Look at us. We are just ordinary people”: Wyatt, Vol. 2, p. 311.

  83. In 1967 even seventeen-year-old Princess Anne: Shawcross, Q and C, p. 102.

  84. “major blunder”: Coward, pp. 601–2.

  85. “Tomorrow night, Ma’am”: Paul McCartney interview.

  86. “lovely … She was like a mum”: Ibid.