Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch

Street, p. 186.

  67. “The first was Winston”: Tony Blair, p. 16.

  68. “I got a sense of my relative seniority”: The Times, May 22, 2002.

  69. “general guff”: Tony Blair, p. 16.

  70. “I can’t remember not curtsying”: Cherie Blair, p. 180.

  71. “generally clucking sympathetically”: Tony Blair, p. 16.

  72. “hot spring sunshine”: Queen Elizabeth II to Nancy Reagan, April 24, 1997, Ronald Reagan Library.

  73. “opens the door”: Royalty Digest, No. 70, April 1997, p. 316.

  74. “there’s a bit of her that is very”: Marr, The Queen at 80, BBC.

  75. “A lot of people thought Britannia”: Confidential interview.

  76. “Sea Days” for businessmen: The Royal Yacht Britannia Official Guidebook, p. 56.

  77. “What an asset”: Alastair Campbell, p. 218.

  78. “Lilibet” and “Philip”: Castle of Mey Visitors Book, Aug. 16, 1997.

  79. “somewhat melancholy”: Shawcross, QEQM, p. 909.

  80. steamed past the coast twice: June Webster interview.

  81. “With all our memories of you”: Castle of Mey Visitors Book, Aug. 16, 1997, Copyright HM the Queen.

  82. “Oh what a heavenly day”: Ibid.

  83. “an understanding of people’s emotions”: Bashir interview, Panorama.

  84. Yet she also began to burden: Roberto Devorick interview (March 10, 1998); Elsa Bowker interview (Dec. 12, 1997).

  85. “by cultivating the idea”: Andrew Neil interview (May 6, 1998).

  86. they were embarrassed: Lacey, Monarch, p. 358.

  87. the Queen wrote a note: Shawcross, QEQM, p. 910.

  88. “global event like no other”: Tony Blair, p. 138.

  89. “The Queen and Prince of Wales are deeply shocked”: Daily Mail, Sept. 4, 1997.

  90. “philosophical, anxious for the boys”: Tony Blair, p. 140.

  91. “the People’s Princess”: Ibid., p. 141.

  92. “how difficult things were”: Lacey, Monarch, p. 360.

  93. But the royal family thought: Alastair Campbell, p. 246.

  94. “encourage the temptation”: Carey, p. 407.

  95. “don’t pray for the souls”: Confidential interview.

  96. “They handled it like ostriches”: Diana: The Week She Died, ITV documentary, 2006.

  97. the princes wanted the comfort: Daily Telegraph, Sept. 27, 2009. 396 “talk to Mummy”: Lacey, Monarch, p. 358.

  98. “To take them away to have nothing to do”: Margaret Rhodes interview.

  99. “We can’t look at the files”: David Airlie interview.

100. “We wanted the people who had benefited”: Ibid.

101. “She was very happy with the charity workers”: Malcolm Ross interview.

102. “unique funeral for a unique person”: New York Times, Sept. 2, 1997.

103. “people’s funeral”: Alastair Campbell, p. 236.

104. “She is much better with paper”: Malcolm Ross interview.

105. “shrewd and savvy”: Tony Blair, p. 144.

106. “completely au fait”: Ibid.

107. “encouraged creative thinking”: Lacey, Monarch, p. 367.

108. “at a rate of 6,000 per hour”: Wilson, p. 326.

109. They heaped flowers: Author’s observations.

110. By Wednesday night: Daily Mail, Sept. 4, 1997.

111. “from the heart not the head”: Bashir interview, Panorama.

112. “I always believed the press would kill”: New York Times, Sept. 1, 1997.

113. “Happy now?”: Ibid.

114. “If only the royals dared weep”: New York Times, Sept. 4, 1997.

115. “The media were circling”: Confidential interview.

116. “They needed to direct it”: Tony Blair, p. 144.

117. “I think the thing that impressed”: Shawcross, Queen and Country documentary.

118. “Robin had to describe”: Malcolm Ross interview.

119. “all the royal family”: New York Times, Sept. 4, 1997.

120. “the fact that I was speaking”: Tony Blair, p. 148.

121. “as blunt as I needed to be”: Ibid., p. 149.

122. “very direct advice”: Ibid., p. 148.

123. “hide away”: Ibid., p. 149.

124. “If she had come down”: Diana: The Week She Died documentary.

125. The tabloids on Thursday morning: Washington Post, Sept. 5, 1997.

126. A survey by MORI: Robert Worcester interview.

127. “dangerous and unpleasant”: Alastair Campbell, p. 240.

128. “Robin Janvrin told me”: George Carey interview.

129. more important was the persuasiveness: Malcolm Ross interview.

130. “It was an extraordinary experience”: The Guardian, Feb. 13, 2010.

131. “It was the first time I’d heard”: The Guardian, Jan. 16, 2011, excerpt from Alastair Campbell Diaries, Vol. 2, Power and the People.

132. “was now very focused”: Tony Blair, p. 149.

133. “The royal family have been hurt”: Washington Post, Sept. 7, 1997.

134. “how you kindly arranged”: Shawcross, QEQM, p. 911.

135. Philip suggested that on the eve: Alastair Campbell, p. 241.

136. “There was a very ugly atmosphere”: Marr, The Queen at 80 documentary.

137. “It wasn’t completely over with”: Ibid.

138. “Would you like me to place them”: Lacey, Monarch, pp. 378–79.

139. “Have you been queuing”: Marr, The Queen at 80 documentary.

140. “I just said how sorry I was”: Shawcross, Queen and Country documentary.

141. “spent a long time talking”: Marr, The Queen at 80 documentary.

142. “She knew it was something she should do”: Confidential interview.

143. “as a grandmother”: Alastair Campbell, p. 243.

144. “There were some last-minute discussions”: Tony Blair, p. 149.

145. “One run-through”: Wesley Kerr interview.

146. “an overwhelming expression of sadness”: Queen Elizabeth II speech following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, Sept. 5, 1997, Official Website of the British Monarchy.

147. “one of the very best speeches”: Shawcross, Queen and Country documentary.

148. “showed her compassion”: Carey, p. 409. 405 “near perfect”: Tony Blair, p. 149.

149. “unconvincing”: Alan Bennett, Untold Stories, pp. 214–15, Sept. 5, 1997, diary entry.

150. “There’s no putting on of a face”: Simon Walker interview.

151. “consumed by a total hatred”: The Guardian, Jan. 16, 2011, excerpt from