Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch

    4. “Less dressy!” Ibid.

    5. “feisty”: Ibid.

    6. “an appropriate mood”: Ibid., p. 184.

    7. “The Queen examined them closely”: Washington Post, April 5, 2007.

    8. “Do you play football too?”: Kevin Sullivan interview.

    9. “You should have some things like that!”: Daily Telegraph, May 5, 2007.

  10. Now her new bloodstock adviser: Michael Oswald interview.

  11. “Nobody pays any attention”: Confidential interview.

  12. Anticipating the Queen’s interest: Amy Zantzinger interview.

  13. “She gave me a look”: CBS News, March 31, 2009.

  14. “it was sad that security was so tight”: Confidential interview.

  15. “So glad to see you”: Frolic Weymouth interview.

  16. “the sweetest thing”: Laura Bush, Spoken from the Heart, p. 390.

  17. “vital wartime alliance”: White House Press Office transcript of remarks by President Bush and Queen Elizabeth II at a White House state dinner, May 7, 2007.

  18. “It was the perfect retort”: George W. Bush interview.

  19. “a lacuna”: Tony Blair, p. 608.

  20. “some good information”: Robert Hardman, Monarchy: The Royal Family at Work, p. 170.

  21. “tremendously respectful of the royal family”: Simon Lewis interview.

  22. “what works and what doesn’t”: Hardman, p. 170.

  23. “she’ll be talking about things”: Ibid.

  24. When the Queen was with friends: Anne Glenconner interview.

  25. “brought a certain amount of heavy weather”: Margaret Rhodes interview.

  26. “With the absence of her mother and sister”: Confidential interview.

  27. When he was away: Margaret Rhodes interview.

  28. “They are not physically demonstrative”: Confidential interview.

  29. “His approach is much more restless”: George Carey interview.

  30. “not a sweet old Darby and Joan”: McDonald, The Duke documentary.

  31. “I don’t read the tabloids”: Paxman, p. 237.

  32. After Philip took one too many: Daily Express, May 2, 2010.

  33. “on Her Majesty’s instruction”: Tony Parnell interview.

  34. “incredibly stupid birds”: McDonald, The Duke documentary.

  35. “Her taste was very modest”: Tony Parnell interview.

  36. “He wore a cap like a taxi driver”: Frolic Weymouth interview.

  37. “That speech contained more jargon”: Chris Mullin, A View from the Foothills: The Diaries of Chris Mullin, p. 429.

  38. The Queen appeared in the same double strand: Daily Mail, Nov. 19, 2007.

  39. “Let us love one another”: BBC News, Nov. 19, 2007.

  40. “a life where duty spoke”: Daily Telegraph, Nov. 20, 2007.

  41. As they had with his older sister: Daily Mail, April 21, 2008.

  42. Since the invasions: Gen. Charles Guthrie interview.

  43. “The royal family has pride and joy”: Ibid.

  44. Once she helpfully sent: Ibid.

  45. “Do the Welsh Guards have new uniform”: Johnny Martin-Smith interview.

  46. “The Queen has an eagle eye”: Confidential interview.

  47. “wouldn’t read a three-volume history”: Charles Guthrie interview.

  48. “You could tell her what you thought”: Ibid.

  49. “She knew we had too many regiments”: Jonathan Powell interview.

  50. Speaking to one of the army chiefs: Confidential interview.

  51. “It is a traditional thing to do”: Charles Guthrie interview.

  52. despite the well-documented fact: Smith, p. 212.

  53. He was determined: Daily Telegraph, Feb. 28, 2008.

  54. Army Chief of Staff Sir Richard Dannatt vetoed: Prince Harry deployment update, PrinceofWales.gov.uk, May 15, 2007.

  55. “turn to the right and carry on”: BBC News interview with Prince Harry, Feb. 28, 2008.

  56. They decided to deploy Harry: Sky News, Feb. 28, 2008.

  57. “I think she’s relieved”: BBC interview with Prince Harry, Feb. 28, 2008.

  58. “ ‘mucking in’ with every other soldier”: Daily Telegraph, Feb. 29, 2008.

  59. “All my wishes have come true”: Ibid.

  60. “it’s very nice to be sort of a normal person”: BBC News interview with Prince Harry, Feb. 28, 2008.

  61. an opsimath, she calls herself: Bennett, p. 48.

  62. “had a much better bite at the carrot”: Ibid. 482 “by analysis and reflection”: Ibid., p. 113. 482 “Oh do get on!”: Ibid., p. 49.

  63. “offered yet another reason to think warmly”: New York Times Book Review, Sept. 30, 2007.

  64. “It was shared, it was common”: Bennett, p. 31.

  65. “It’s very informal”: Mark Collins interview.

  66. At the invitation of a conservation group: Confidential interviews.

  67. The following July she watched: BBC News, July 20, 2009.

  68. She even started taking: Daily Mail, Dec. 17, 2009; Daily Telegraph, Feb. 8, 2010.

  69. “We have seen less of them”: Confidential interview.

  70. The children of her longtime friends: Confidential interview.

  71. When one of her bridesmaids: Elizabeth Longman interview; Freddy Van Zevenbergen interview.

  72. “a wall”: Daily Telegraph, June 21, 2008.

  73. “I’ve done it!”: Ibid., June 19, 2008; Ian Balding interview.

  74. “I wouldn’t have been invited”: Helen Mirren interview.

  75. “I expect you think”: The Guardian, Nov. 24, 2006.

  76. “For Prince Philip and me”: BBC News, Nov. 12, 2008.

  77. “All her programs are done with great cleverness”: Malcolm Ross interview.

  78. “she instantly spots it”: Confidential interview.

  79. “Why did no one see it coming?”: The Guardian, Nov. 18, 2008.

  80. “The general feeling is she is more approachable”: Confidential interview.

  81. Philip began writing letters: Daily Mail, April 17, 2009.

  82. Elizabeth II eventually took up cell phones: The Times, Oct. 17, 2008.

  83. At the suggestion of Prince Andrew: Daily Telegraph, April 1, 2009.

  84. “a great googler”: Confidential interview.

  85. “Just come back from jogging?”: Daily Mail, Oct. 17, 2008.

  86. “Lovely little thing isn’t it?”: The Times, Oct. 17, 2008.

  87. During a shooting weekend: Confidential interview.

  88. “At long last my grandparents are reunited”: Ashe Windham, “A Fitting Memorial to Queen Elizabeth,” Friends of the Castle of Mey Newsletter, April 2009. p. 5.

  89. Elizabeth II was only scheduled: Elizabeth Anson interview.

  90. “She knows every inch”: Charles Powell interview.

  91. “few dogged bastions of republicanism”: The Times, April 29, 2011.

  92. “I am very pleased to be in Kingston”: David Pogson, senior press officer, Buckingham Palace Press Office.