Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch

  53. “we must not let in daylight upon magic”: Bagehot, p. 59.

  54. “like a middle-class family in Surbiton or Croydon”: Evening Standard, June 26, 1969.

  55. “depends on mystique”: Bradford, p. 353.

  56. “rotten idea”: William Shawcross, Queen and Country documentary.

  57. “language and culture”: Dimbleby, p. 149.

  58. “grand and simple”: BBC News interview with Lord Snowdon, June 29, 2009.

  59. “I didn’t want red carpets”: BBC Colour TV coverage, July 1, 1969, YouTube.

  60. “that it was her show not his”: Gladwyn, p. 346.

  61. “By far the most moving”: Dimbleby, p. 163. 222 “She gaily shattered”: Coward, p. 678.

TEN: Ring of Silence

    1. “Everything about her seemed smaller”: Annigoni, p. 172. 225 “At every sitting”: Ibid., p. 174.

    2. “I see Your Majesty”: Ibid., pp. 176–77.

    3. The Queen had become fascinated: Diaries of David Bruce, April 22, 1969.

    4. “and to the American people”: Queen Elizabeth II message to Richard Nixon, Department of State telegram, July 1969, Nixon Library.

    5. “it filled us with wonder”: Annigoni, p. 184.

    6. “he was so drunk”: Ibid., p. 185.

    7. “You must have emptied”: Shaun Plunket interview.

    8. “people who never in the past”: Confidential interview.

    9. “He knew everybody”: Margaret Rhodes interview.

  10. “She realized quickly that Patrick”: Shaun Plunket interview.

  11. “often with a smile”: Ibid.

  12. “a great protector”: Annabel Goldsmith, No Invitation Required: The Pelham Cottage Years, p. 87.

  13. “Ma’am, do you feel I ought to close”: Shaun Plunket interview.

  14. Afterward, he would regale: Annabel Goldsmith interview.

  15. Philip was relieved: Shaun Plunket interview.

  16. Plunket found a kindred spirit: Gay Charteris interview.

  17. “Martin was someone he could relate to”: Ibid.

  18. “would have been too late”: Ibid.

  19. “One of the pleasant things”: Diaries of David Bruce, Feb. 4, 1969.

  20. “There are no set plays”: Confidential interview.

  21. “She will say, ‘Can you cope?’ ”: Confidential interview.

  22. “a glare”: Anne Glenconner interview.

  23. “fierce whisper”: Johnson, p. 105.

  24. “It would be ghastly”: Esme, the Dowager Countess of Cromer, interview.

  25. “easy to relax”: Campbell-Preston, p. 270.

  26. “We never talked”: Esme Cromer interview.

  27. They had shared a bedroom: Crawford, p. 121.

  28. “Bobo could say anything”: Margaret Rhodes interview.

  29. “The sketches were put all over”: Valerie Rouse interview, Hardyaimes.com.

  30. “Bobo will give me hell”: Daily Mail, Nov. 11, 1997.

  31. “She knew everything”: Confidential interview.

  32. “quite friendly when thawed”: Dean, p. 60.

  33. Bobo wandered away: Jean Carnarvon interview.

  34. “sound, very human, very wise”: Patricia Brabourne interview.

  35. “ring of silence”: Turner, p. 188, quoting an anonymous former cabinet secretary.

  36. “Those who see the private side”: Confidential interview.

  37. “She is not someone who is enormously intimate”: Confidential interview.

  38. “One of her greatest strengths”: Robert Salisbury interview.

  39. “the Colonel”: Shawcross, QEQM, p. 626.

  40. “There is absolutely no such thing as snobbism”: Patricia Brabourne interview.

  41. “I nearly died of fright”: Jean Carnarvon interview.

  42. The hostess sends her the guest list: Esme Cromer interview.

  43. “easy and gay and ready to giggle”: Coward, p. 634.

  44. Two years later: Columbus O’Donnell interview.

  45. She even showed up: Duncan, p. 188.

  46. “You have mosquitoes”: Daily Mail, Sept. 16, 2008.

  47. “I get kicked in the teeth”: Prince Philip speech at Edinburgh University, May 23, 1969.

  48. “the monarchy functions”: Prince Philip interview on Grampian Television, Feb. 21, 1969.

  49. “The answer to this question”: Duncan, p. 65.

  50. he even jumped into a swimming pool: Lacey, Majesty, p. 257.

  51. Three years later, President Nixon organized: Dinner at the White House, guest list for Tuesday, Nov. 4, 1969, at 8:00 P.M., Nixon Library.

  52. “I had never thought of the President”: Barbara Walters, Audition: A Memoir, pp. 177–78.

  53. “Might Queen Elizabeth ever abdicate?”: Ibid.

  54. “means of unlocking”: Ibid.

  55. “particularly charming and intelligent”: Prince Philip to Richard Nixon, Nov. 7, 1969, Nixon Library.

  56. “Duke of Edinburgh jousts”: Time, Nov. 7, 1969.

  57. “We go into the red”: Meet the Press, Nov. 9, 1969.

  58. Consumer prices had risen by 74 percent: Lacey, Majesty, p. 275.

ELEVEN: “Not Bloody Likely!”

    1. The ball was a Patrick Plunket production: Beaton, The Unexpurgated Beaton, pp. 71–73.

    2. “We had been expecting to put up with Wilson”: Ibid., p. 75.

    3. “I was told that he blushed”: Ibid.

    4. “celibate”: Philip Ziegler, Edward Heath: The Authorised Biography, p. 230.

    5. “cold and uncompassionate”: Ibid., p. 231.

    6. He described her as a patient listener: Andrew Marr, An Intimate Portrait of the Queen at 80, BBC, 2006.

    7. “a good deal”: Longford, Elizabeth R, p. 346.

    8. “The fact that she has all these years”: Ibid.

    9. “very useful … particularly on overseas stuff”: Ziegler, p. 319.

  10. “deeply unhappy”: John Campbell, Edward Heath: A Biography, p. 494.

  11. “It’s like Nanny being there”: Lacey, Monarch, pp. 260–61.

  12. “actively sought to downgrade”: Ziegler, p. 374.

  13. their first trip: Suggested Remarks: Welcome for Prince Charles and Princess Anne, July 15, 1970, Nixon Library.

  14. “I learnt the way a monkey learns”: Longford, Elizabeth R, p. 279.

  15. “At nineteen years old suddenly being dropped”: Shawcross, Queen and Country documentary.

  16. Nixon laid on an ambitious program: Department of State, Office of the Chief of Protocol, “Administrative Arrangements for the Visit to Washington, D.C.: His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, K.G. and Her Royal Highness the Princess Anne,” Nixon Library.