receives HRH, 464;
attacked by HRH, 471;
deplores messianic pretensions of HRH, 487;
criticises Avignon counter-papacy established by HRH, 498;
excommunicates HRH, 533
Perfect Light Movement,
conceived by HRH, 398;
launched, 401;
charitable activities praised by Nehru, Lyndon B. Johnson, Pierre Trudeau, 423;
medical mission to Biafra, 456;
criticised Wight, Isle of, incarceration of HRH, 712-69
Windsor, House of, HRH challenges legitimacy of, 588
Quai d’Orsay,
expresses alarm at HRH initiatives in Third World, 651;
concludes secret accords with Britain, United States and USSR, 666
Quixote, Don,
HRH compared to by Harold Macmillan, 421
Rapallo, HRH convalesces in, 321
Reader’s Digest (magazine), 176
Rockefeller Foundation,
dissociates itself from HRH, 555
Rubinstein, Helena, 221, 234, 242
Schweitzer, Albert,
receives HRH, 199;
performs organ solo for HRH, 201;
discusses quest for the historical Jesus with HRH, 203-11;
HRH compared to by Leonard Bernstein, 245;
expels HRH, 246
Sex-change, rumoured operation on HRH, 655
Stanwyck, Barbara, 248
Stork Club, 231
Tangier, secret visit by HRH, 653-5
Technology,
HRH renunciation of, 409
Telepathy,
HRH interest in, 241;
conducts experiments,
United Nations Assembly,
seized by Perfect Light Movement, 695-9;
HRH addresses, 696;
HRH calls for world war against United States and USSR, 698
Versailles,
Perfect Light Movement attempts to purchase, 621
Vogue (magazine), 356
Westminster Abbey,
arrest of HRH by Special Branch, 704
Yale Club, 234
Younghusband, Lord Chancellor,
denies star chamber trial of HRH, 722;
denies knowledge of whereabouts of HRH, 724;
refuses habeas corpus appeal by Zelda Hamilton, 728;
refers to unestablished identity of HRH, 731
Zanuck, Daryl F., 388
Zielinski, Bronislaw,
suggests autobiography to HRH, 742;
commissioned to prepare index, 748;
warns of suppression threats, 752;
disappears, 761 349-57;
claims powers of, 666
Tenth Convocation of Perfect Light Movement, 672;
proclamation of HRH’s divinity, 685
Time (magazine), cover stories on HRH, 267, 359, 492, 578, 691
Tynan, Kenneth, 451
The Intensive Care Unit
Within a few minutes the next attack will begin. Now that I am surrounded for the first time by all the members of my family it seems only fitting that a complete record should be made of this unique event. As I lie here — barely able to breathe, my mouth filled with blood and every tremor of my hands reflected in the attentive eye of the camera six feet away — I realize that there are many who will think my choice of subject a curious one. In all senses, this film will be the ultimate homemovie, and I only hope that whoever watches it will gain some idea of the immense affection I feel for my wife, and for my son and daughter, and of the affection that they, in their unique way, feel for me.
It is now half an hour since the explosion, and everything in this once elegant sitting room is silent. I am lying on the floor by the settee, looking at the camera mounted safely out of reach on the ceiling above my head. In this uneasy stillness, broken only by my wife’s faint breathing and the irregular movement of my son across the carpet, I can see that almost everything I have assembled so lovingly during the past years has been destroyed. My Svres lies in a thousand fragments in the fireplace, the Hokusai scrolls are punctured in a dozen places. Yet despite the extensive damage this is still recognizably the scene of a family reunion, though of a rather special kind.
My son David crouches at his mother’s feet, chin resting on the torn Persian carpet, his slow movement marked by a series of smeared hand-prints. Now and then, when he raises his head, I can see that he is still alive. His eyes are watching me, calculating the distance between us and the time it will take him to reach me. His sister Karen is little more than an arm’s length away, lying beside the fallen standard lamp between the settee and the fireplace, but he ignores her. Despite my fear, I feel a powerful sense of pride that he should have left his mother and set out on this immense journey towards me. For his own sake I would rather he lay still and conserved what
