Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch

  91. “nowhere is reconciliation more desperately”: Queen Elizabeth II Christmas Broadcast, Dec. 25, 1977, Official Website of the British Monarchy.

  92. He was the first baby in the royal family: The Guardian, Nov. 16, 1977.

  93. “The Queen knew Martin would cry”: Gay Charteris interview.

  94. “he was still around”: Shawcross, QEQM, p. 895.

  95. “Martin, thank you for a lifetime”: Gay Charteris interview.

THIRTEEN: Iron Lady and English Rose

    1. “conversation flowed easily”: Sunday Times, Feb. 7, 1982.

    2. their talk over the next hour might touch: Longford, Elizabeth R, p. 350.

    3. “weighs up”: Ibid., p. 349.

    4. One week she memorably took him for a stroll: Shawcross, Q and C, p. 112.

    5. “What one gets … is friendliness”: Longford, Elizabeth R, p. 349.

    6. “poor old Jim Callaghan”: Wyatt, Vol. 2, p. 36.

    7. “the last shreds of prejudice”: Shawcross, Q and C, p. 121.

    8. “What do you think about Margaret Thatcher”: Ian Balding interview.

    9. “the eternal scholarship girl”: Johnson, p. 263.

  10. “The Queen found that irritating”: Confidential source.

  11. “The agenda included major topical”: Charles Powell interview.

  12. “She chatted with us”: Confidential interview.

  13. “She seemed to come back in a cheerful”: Charles Powell interview. 290 One exception was the time: Morrow, p. 167.

  14. “Mrs. Thatcher would have thought it impudent”: Pimlott, pp. 460–61.

  15. Whenever the Thatchers came: Monica Tandy tour of Windsor Castle; Longford, Elizabeth R, p. 376.

  16. “was reserved but she could give you”: Turner, pp. 48–49.

  17. “Would you like to order, sir?”: Spitting Image, YouTube.

  18. “The Queen is the mother of the country”: James Lees-Milne, Diaries: 1984– 1997, abridged and introduced by Michael Bloch, p. 141.

  19. “No one could curtsy lower”: Charles Powell interview.

  20. “I would set up … a hereditary monarchy”: Longford, Elizabeth R, p. 358.

  21. “out of loyalty”: Charles Powell interview.

  22. “The hills? … The hills? She walks on the road!”: Confidential interview.

  23. “The Queen finessed it”: Ibid.

  24. she let her manners slip and kept her elbows: Morrow, pp. 147–48.

  25. “quartering the room”: Paxman, p. 315.

  26. “an enormous role in calming everything”: Shawcross, Q and C, p. 123.

  27. “talked to Mrs. Thatcher and to Kaunda”: Pimlott, p. 468.

  28. Whenever she and Philip are having lunch: Confidential interview.

  29. “his closest confidant”: Dimbleby, p. 213.

  30. “someone who showed enormous affection”: Ibid., p. 324.

  31. The Queen called the hospital: Timothy Knatchbull, From a Clear Blue Sky: Surviving the Mountbatten Bomb, p. 115.

  32. “That kind of private person”: Pamela Hicks interview.

  33. “A dog isn’t important”: Ibid.

  34. “Please sit with me”: Ibid.

  35. “Ma’am, would you like to go upstairs?”: Timothy Knatchbull interview.

  36. “striding down the corridor”: Knatchbull, p. 176.

  37. “She was in almost unstoppable mothering mode”: Ibid.

  38. “She was caring and sensitive and intuitive”: Timothy Knatchbull interview.

  39. “I fear it will take me”: Dimbleby, p. 324. 296 she said the Irish were pigs: Wilson, p. 259.

  40. “She had all the feelings”: Timothy Knatchbull interview.

  41. One unlikely source of consolation: Smith, p. 87.

  42. “German family”: Sunday Times, Jan. 31, 2010.

  43. “By the time we reached Australia”: Pamela Hicks interview.

  44. “a good age for a man”: Woman’s Own, Feb. 1975.

  45. “easy and open manner”: Dimbleby, p. 338.

  46. “LADY DI IS THE NEW GIRL”: The Sun, Sept. 8, 1980.

  47. “fallen in love with an idea”: Dimbleby, p. 341.

  48. “Prince Philip and the Queen felt responsible”: Pamela Hicks interview.

  49. “There is a difference”: Confidential interview.

  50. “If I’d said to him”: Dimbleby, p. 340.

  51. “intent to alarm”: Morrow, p. 131.

  52. sitting calmly when a ball crashed: Jean Carnarvon interview.

  53. “I never saw her scared”: Turner, p. 46.

  54. “You know why you’re there”: Malcolm Ross interview.

  55. “Left leg straight!”: Ibid.

  56. “In every pub and club”: Dewar, ed., p. 17.

  57. A poll in July 1981: Longford, Elizabeth R, p. 357.

  58. The first lady had met Charles: Prince Charles to Nancy Reagan, June 6, 2004, The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Library.

  59. Nancy Reagan also endeared: Henderson, pp. 395–97.

  60. “I have fallen in love”: Mary Henderson to Nancy Reagan, May 3, 1981, Reagan Library.

  61. “in our best bib and tucker”: Josephine Louis interview.

  62. “She was wonderful that day”: Ibid.

  63. “little house in Windsor Great Park!”: Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother to Nancy Reagan, July 28, 1981, Reagan Library.

  64. The atmosphere was exultant: BBC, “On This Day,” July 29, 1981, news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday.

  65. “grow into it”: Daily Mail, Sept. 10, 1996.

  66. It was a high-spirited occasion: Josephine Louis interview; Nicholas Haslam interview; confidential interview.

  67. “Oh Philip, do look!”: Morrow, p. 7.

  68. “I’d love to stay and dance”: Ibid.

  69. “The Queen was so mad”: Josephine Louis interview.

  70. she rapidly lost weight: Andrew Morton, Diana: Her True Story—In Her Own Words, p. 56.

  71. down to a mere 110 pounds: Smith, p. 145.

  72. “It was just impossible”: Paxman, p. 274.

  73. “other side … jolly girl”: Dimbleby, p. 345.

  74. Charles had Diana flown: Smith, p. 151.

  75. “the Queen is the least self-absorbed”: Confidential interview.

  76. “Regardless of how rude Princess Margaret”: Confidential interview.

  77. “The Queen was always kind”: Lucia Flecha de Lima interview (Nov. 10, 1997).

  78. “terrified”: Daily Mail, Sept. 10, 1996.

  79. “the briskest, deepest, most correct curtsy”: Morrow, p. 40.

  80. Although Diana wrote letters of gratitude: Jonathan Dimbleby interview (Dec. 10, 1997).

  81. “She is pretty, soft and amusing”: Confidential interview.

  82. “betrayed”: Confidential interview.