Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch

  17. More than three decades later: Confidential interview.

  18. “hopes and aspirations”: Henry Kissinger to Richard Nixon, July 17, 1970, Nixon Library.

  19. “pointed out one must not”: Dimbleby, p. 180.

  20. The Queen, who was on vacation: Ziegler, p. 375.

  21. “suitable for entertaining”: Michael Adeane to Charles Morris, M.P., Nov. 18, 1970, National Archives, Kew.

  22. “during his four-hour stay”: Robert T. Armstrong to Michael Adeane, Nov. 18, 1970, National Archives, Kew.

  23. “signal kindness”: Richard Nixon to Queen Elizabeth II, Oct. 7, 1970, Nixon Library.

  24. “Taking a lively interest”: Appendices to the Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Select Committee on the Civil List, 1971, p. 111.

  25. “expensive kept woman”: Pimlott, p. 404.

  26. “Martin was given his chance”: Gay Charteris interview. 246 “Your job is to spread a carpet of happiness”: Ibid.

  27. “ridiculous disease”: Queen Elizabeth II to Edward Heath, Nov. 28, 1971, National Archives, Kew.

  28. “to commiserate with you”: Edward Heath to Queen Elizabeth II, Nov. 23, 1971, National Archives, Kew.

  29. “from them—one can’t win from a virus!”: Queen Elizabeth II to Edward Heath, Nov. 28, 1971, National Archives, Kew.

  30. During her thirties and forties: Evening Standard, April 28, 1971.

  31. “She has a theory that you carry on”: Confidential interview.

  32. “how unnerving it was to get under the bedclothes”: Min Hogg interview.

  33. “can do no harm”: Wyatt, Vol. 3, p. 423.

  34. Among Blackie’s more exotic treatments: Morrow, p. 55.

  35. “for whatever was wrong with them”: Min Hogg interview.

  36. the Queen had extended an olive branch: Diaries of David Bruce, March 28, 1965.

  37. But in 1968 the Queen complied graciously: Bradford, pp. 347–48.

  38. “If the Duke of Windsor were to die”: Christopher Soames confidential telegram, May 10, 1972, National Archives, Kew.

  39. Accompanied by an entourage of thirty-six: State Visit of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh to France, Monday 15th–Friday 19th May, 1972, List of Party, National Archives, Kew.

  40. “We may drive on different sides”: Time, May 29, 1972.

  41. driving to Rouen at the mouth of the Seine: The Times, May 23, 1972.

  42. “She went on board Britannia”: Mary Soames interview.

  43. “a conspicuous demonstration”: The Observer, May 21, 1972.

  44. “had seduced and conquered”: Ibid.

  45. “With the Queen’s visit”: Time, May 29, 1972.

  46. “prattled away”: Dimbleby, p. 217.

  47. “He gave up so much for so little”: Ibid., p. 218.

  48. “showed a motherly and nanny-like tenderness”: Beaton, The Unexpurgated Beaton, p. 256.

  49. “The new links with Europe”: Queen Elizabeth II Christmas Broadcast, Dec. 25, 1972, Official Website of the British Monarchy.

  50. “scratch our heads”: Prince Philip on Meet the Press, Nov. 9, 1969.

  51. “pyramid of snobbery”: Andrew Knight interview (May 7, 1998).

  52. “Action Man”: Dimbleby, p. 221.

  53. “slightly sexy, ginny voice”: Confidential interview.

  54. “feeling of emptiness”: Dimbleby, p. 232.

  55. “shock and amazement”: Ibid.

  56. “We had to be told”: “Princess Anne and Her Fiance, Captain Mark Phillips, Talk About Marriage,” BBC, Nov. 10, 1973.

  57. “interest, fascination”: Dimbleby, p. 233.

  58. “few sentences”: The Times, Jan. 1, 2004.

  59. Undaunted by his censorship: Ibid.

  60. “The Queen could only await”: The Guardian, Feb. 14, 2010.

  61. “our relaxed intimacy”: Pimlott, p. 419.

  62. “the Queen … let it be known”: Beaton, The Unexpurgated Beaton, p. 370.

  63. “Not bloody likely!”: “The Princess Royal at 60,” BBC Inside Sport special, Aug. 12, 2010.

  64. “as if it were a perfectly normal”: Dimbleby, p. 254.

  65. “It wouldn’t have been much good”: “Heavy Security as Princess Anne Visits Her Husband’s Home Village: Princess Describes Her Reaction to Attempt to Kidnap Her,” ITV Reuters, March 22, 1974.

  66. whose grave she marked with a copper beech: FitzGerald, p. 146.

  67. “Henry was the Queen’s closest personal friend”: Ian Balding interview.

  68. They would cover not only her own: FitzGerald, pp. 135–36.

  69. “to bring in new blood”: Michael Oswald interview.

  70. Porchester advised the Queen: FitzGerald, p. 136.

  71. “long-striding filly”: Dewar, ed., p. 30.

  72. Valery Giscard d’Estaing, sent a big bowl: FitzGerald, p. 137.

  73. “fiery mood”: Ibid., p. 138.

  74. “I’m very excitable on the race course”: New York Times, Oct. 5, 1984.

  75. “Vive la Reine”: FitzGerald, p. 138.

  76. “I was assigned a valet”: Confidential interview.

  77. “I have to put on my white tie and medals”: Shaun Plunket interview.

  78. “Patrick, I’m deeply grateful”: Ibid.

  79. “caught a look of deep sadness”: Annabel Goldsmith, Annabel: An Unconventional Life: The Memoirs of Lady Annabel Goldsmith, p. 125.

  80. “She certainly helped”: Shaun Plunket interview.

  81. After his brothers presented it: Ibid.

  82. “I’m sure I told the gardener”: Ibid.

  83. Some even believe: Annabel Goldsmith interview.

  84. “Have you given some thought”: Shaun Plunket interview.

TWELVE: Feeling the Love

    1. “profound religious existence”: Confidential interview. 263 “sacramental manner in which she views”: George Carey interview.

    2. “not in the sense of a burden”: George Carey, Know the Truth: A Memoir, p. 401.

    3. “She has a comfortable relationship with God”: George Carey interview.

    4. “she doesn’t parade her faith”: John Andrew interview.

    5. “an old-fashioned way of being”: Ibid.

    6. “middle of the road”: George Carey interview.

    7. “a masterpiece of English prose”: Queen Elizabeth II Christmas Broadcast, Dec. 25, 2010, Official Website of the British Monarchy.

    8. “The royal family treat”: Confidential interview.

    9. “Oh you silly woman”: George Carey interview.