87. “platoon of bagpipers”: Seitz, p. 316.
88. “little creep”: Ibid.
89. “the Queen talked at some length about violence”: Diaries of David Bruce, Aug. 2, 1968.
90. “I think she thought this was a bit too much”: Longford,
91. “Queen Anne’s dying”: Ibid.
92. Driven by an impulse: de Courcy, p. 148.
93. “People will be looking after me”: Lacey,
94. “As a mother, I’m trying to understand”:
95. “It’s nice to hibernate”:
96. The long drive from the gates: Author’s observations.
97. trucks filled with clothing: Martin Leslie interview.
98. “There is a certain fascination”:
99. “The furniture has barely been moved”: Margaret Rhodes interview.
100. “Every new person goes for it”: Jean Carnarvon interview.
101. “Her Majesty is aware”: Martin Leslie interview.
102. “Hooray!”: Confidential interview.
103. “steep frowning glories”: Dimbleby, p. 35.
104. “At Balmoral, she knows every inch”: Malcolm Ross interview.
105. “It was always fun to see a new stalker”: Margaret Rhodes interview.
106. She shot her last stag: Confidential interview.
107. a practice she was forced to stop: Confidential interview.
108. “the hoovers”: Turner, p. 73.
109. “If I’d known you were all watching”: Ibid.
110. “She shows you to your room”: Confidential interview.
111. “as if a switch has flipped”: Malcolm Ross interview.
112. “She is conversing as she is playing”: Confidential interview.
113. “she has to have it absolutely right”: Anne Glenconner interview.
114. “Our lunch was over”: Confidential interview.
115. “Woe betide if you put”: Confidential interview.
116. “At Balmoral, she never forgets”: Confidential interview.
117. “engrossed in the sufferings of Swann”: Alan Bennett,
118. For many years she would choose: Oliver Everett interview.
119. “You can go out for miles”:
NINE: Daylight on the Magic
1. “Goodness what fun”: Bradford, p. 325.
2. “was very impressed”: Mary Wilson interview.
3. Displeased by her harsh treatment: Dimbleby, p. 39.
4. The Queen was not intimidated: Ibid., p. 40.
5. “work and responsibilities and duties”:
6. “he could hear the younger children”: Min Hogg interview.
7. “dodge-ems”:
8. “pick us up and say”: Ibid.
9. “caustic lot”: Longford,
10. “exert her authority”: Bradford, p. 338.
11. “an utterly detached sensation”: Longford,
12. Having ridden since the age: Princess Anne the Princess Royal, with Ivor Herbert,
13. “creme de la creme”: Dimbleby, p. 135.
14. “on level grown-up terms”:
15. “I remember the patience”: Mary Wilson interview.
16. “charming … with his desire to please”: Gladwyn, p. 343.
17. “Right from the beginning”: Turner, p. 118.
18. “it just beggars belief”: Brandreth, p. 301.
19. “great difference”: Ibid., p. 296.
20. “was too proud to admit it”: Dimbleby, p. 189.
21. “an escape place”:
22. “pure luxury … miles of stubble fields”: Princess Anne, p. 2.
23. “the autumn colours”: Ibid., p. 16.
24. It was one of the few times: Margaret Rhodes interview.
25. the Queen Mother had been preparing: Helen Markham interview.
26. “There is a grave shortage”: Display at Castle of Mey; copyright HM the Queen.
27. “A meal of such splendour”: Castle of Mey Visitors Book, Aug. 15, 1991; copyright HM the Queen.
28. In the distance through binoculars: Nancy McCarthy interview.
29. “She did not have to worry”: Vickers,
30. “Bubby-kins”: Ibid., p. 382.
31. “Yaya”: Ibid., p. 360.
32. “Oh, I thought you were saying”: Ibid., pp. 351–52.
33. “cuddly granny”: Ibid., p. 361.
34. “compartmentalize”: Ibid.
35. Andrew and Edward often came: Lacey,
36. even joining the elderly princess: Annigoni, p. 173.
37. “not arguments, but let’s say”: Vickers,
38. Her worldly goods: Ibid., p. 394. At a later date, according to her instructions, the remains of Princess Alice were transferred to Jerusalem for burial. In April 1993 she was recognized by the Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem for her heroism in hiding a family of Jews from the Nazis in Greece during World War II.
39. “We are not publicity agents”:
40. he had hosted a second program: McDonald,
41. “I think it is quite wrong”:
42. “You can do it”: Pimlott, p. 379.
43. “the Queen goes with what she has to do”: Gay Charteris interview.
44. “She suddenly discovered”: Pimlott, p. 381.
45. “Can’t we avoid a shadow here?”: Morrow, p. 89.
46. “She never underplays the importance of ceremony”: Confidential interview.
47. implying she meant the hapless Annenberg: Diaries of David Bruce, Nov. 27, 1968.
48. “infinitely rewarding and impressive”: Walter Annenberg to Richard Nixon, May 1, 1969, Nixon Library.
49. “flustered envoy … verbal felicity”: Christopher Ogden,
50. Through speech therapy, he had learned: Ibid., p. 430.
51. “When we reviewed the film”: Ibid., p. 432.
52. “came through as a great character”: Beaton,
