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  82. But she took five-mile walks: Ibid.; Tad Bartimus, “Queen Elizabeth Visits Wyoming,” American West, March/April 1985.

  83. Meals were simple American fare: Time, Oct. 22, 1984.

  84. “Queen-sized fillette cut”: Catherine Murdock interview.

  85. “because I have never tasted them”: Bartimus, “Queen Elizabeth Visits Wyoming,” American West, March/April 1985.

  86. “What kind of salad dressing”: Catherine Murdock interview.

  87. she handed out gifts: Ibid.

  88. “looking at beautiful thoroughbreds”: Queen Elizabeth II to Ronald Reagan, Oct. 14, 1984, Reagan Library.

  89. “closed off”: Morton, p. 51.

  90. “monstrous carbuncle”: Dimbleby, p. 384.

  91. “catastrophe … time bomb”: Strong, p. 361.

  92. “The Queen could not be more pleased”: The Sun, April 12, 1984.

  93. “Horlicks … bitter”: Andrew Neil interview (May 6, 1998).

  94. she memorably danced: Prince Charles to Ronald Reagan, Nov. 11, 1985, Reagan Library.

  95. “in her clever way”: The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters, p. 712.

  96. “touched perhaps by the sadness”: Lees-Milne, Diaries, 1984–1997, p. 93.

  97. Most of the bluegrass breeders: Washington Post, May 29, 1989.

  98. “Suddenly from the bushes to the left”: Anne Glenconner interview.

  99. “felt favored and blessed”: Sarah, the Duchess of York, with Jeff Coplon, My Story, p. 108.

100. “I was robust and jolly”: Ibid., p. 107.

101. “She’s very sharp and clever”: Wyatt, Vol. 3, p. 410.

FIFTEEN: Family Fractures

    1. The Queen purportedly took issue: Sunday Times, July 20, 1986.

    2. “astute political infighter”: Ibid.

    3. “It was like a scene out of Trollope”: Confidential interview.

    4. “Margaret Thatcher was very upset”: Charles Powell interview.

    5. “ordinary people”: Shawcross, Q and C, p. 133.

    6. “commiserated with each other”: Turner, p. 181.

    7. He was more distraught: Confidential interview.

    8. an appointment that raised eyebrows: The Times, Oct. 20, 2009.

    9. There had been press reports: Wyatt, Vol. 1, p. 167.

  10. The Queen had encouraged Canadian: Brian Mulroney interview.

  11. “moral obligation”: Ibid.

  12. Thatcher eventually compromised: Mulroney, p. 404.

  13. “She never expressed her views”: Confidential interview.

  14. To shield its informant: The Times, Oct. 20, 2009.

  15. “misinterpreted”: Daily Telegraph, Oct. 19, 2009.

  16. “crucial parts”: The Times, Oct. 20, 2009.

  17. The press secretary’s colleagues: Confidential interviews.

  18. “I think he has megalomania”: Wyatt, Vol. 1, p. 173.

  19. “He personally didn’t go for Margaret Thatcher”: Angela Oswald interview.

  20. “Don’t worry, dear”: Pimlott, p. 514, citing interview with Sir John Riddell.

  21. “Well, I can’t do anything”: Wyatt, Vol, 1, p. 178.

  22. “deliberate act by the Queen”: Shawcross, Q and C, pp. 133–34.

  23. “Now Kenneth”: Brian Mulroney interview.

  24. “How is the emotional one?”: Mulroney, p. 466.

  25. “There was no doubt”: Brian Mulroney interview.

  26. “I think Mr. Deng would be rather happier”: Shawcross, Q and C, p. 176.

  27. “didn’t move a muscle”: Shawcross, Queen and Country documentary.

  28. “The British press went nuts”: Confidential interview.

  29. “puncture the balloon”: McDonald, The Duke documentary.

  30. “I don’t know why he has the gift”: Confidential interview.

  31. “My only claim to fame”: Austin American-Statesman, May 21, 1991.

  32. including a gold bracelet: Daily Telegraph, Jan. 12, 2011.

  33. In 1982 he began driving: McDonald, The Duke documentary.

  34. “energy saving”: Ibid.

  35. “Sometimes I would take an idea”: Confidential interview.

  36. One of his favorite photographs: David Airlie interview.

  37. “Do you really want to be”: Confidential interview.

  38. “enormously practical … extremely businesslike”: BBC interview with David Airlie: transcript, Feb. 21, 1994.

  39. “to sit on it and think”: Ibid.

  40. “The reason why she moves”: Ibid.

  41. After he had spent six months: David Airlie interview.

  42. the press reported that his father: The Guardian, Jan. 8, 2010.

  43. “They always try to make him out”: Wyatt, Vol. 1, p. 309.

  44. “It was a disaster”: Ibid., p. 492.

  45. “cold, drafty, and expensive”: James Murray interview.

  46. The two queens took walks: June Webster interview; Helen Markham interview.

  47. After dinner he played: Confidential interview.

  48. “stripped naked”: Strong, p. 430.

  49. In 1985 Diana had taken up: Smith, p. 197.

  50. in November of the following year: Ibid., p. 212.

  51. “warmth … understanding and steadiness”: Dimbleby, p. 481.

  52. the tension was obvious enough: Sunday Times, Sept. 24, 1988.

  53. “civilized space”: Penny Thornton, With Love from Diana, p. 52.

  54. “new Diana”: Smith, p. 234.

  55. Sarah was expected to live: Ibid., p. 239.

  56. “bad royal”: Sarah, the Duchess of York, p. 148.

  57. “crass, rude, raucous, and bereft”: Ibid., p. 155.

  58. For a number of years”: People, April 24, 1989.

  59. She was linked: Ibid.

  60. as well as Camilla’s husband: Daily Mail, June 22, 2007.

  61. “darling … affectionate terms”: People, April 24, 1989.

  62. At the end of 1988 she had been reading: Monty Roberts interview.

  63. “advance-and-retreat”: Monty Roberts, The Man Who Listens to Horses: The Story of a Real-Life Horse Whisperer, p. xxxi.

  64. The Queen sent: Monty Roberts interview.

  65. She invited some two hundred guests: The description of Roberts’s demonstration at Windsor Castle and the reactions from the royal family are drawn from author’s interview with Roberts and from his autobiography.

  66. “I saw a mind open up”: Monty Roberts interview.

  67. “knew every move”: Ibid.

  68. “getting it right”: Ibid.