Elizabeth the Queen (86 page)

  18.
“Hide nothing”: Sir Alan “Tommy” Lascelles,
King’s Counsellor: Abdication and War: The Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles
, edited by Duff Hart-Davis, p. 208.

  19.
“somewhat rambling structure”: Lacey,
Monarch
, p. 116. 7 “a consultative and tentative absolutism”: Ibid., p. 117.

  20.
“it was as if she were studying”: Ibid., p. 118.

  21.
“cool clear precision”: David Horbury, “A Princess in Paris,”
Royalty Digest: A Journal of Record
6, no. 3 (September 1996): 88.

  22.
“to appraise both sides”: Longford,
Elizabeth R
, p. 116.

  23.
“fresh, buxom altogether ‘jolly’ ”:
Time
, April 29, 1929.

  24.
“The way that Dame Pearl”: Shawcross,
QEQM
, p. 555.

  25.
“The arches and beams”: Jane Roberts,
Queen Elizabeth: A Birthday Souvenir Album
, facsimile reproduction of “The Coronation 12th May, 1937, To Mummy and Papa In Memory of Their coronation, From Lilibet, By
Herself
.”

  26.
“No, none”:
The Queen, by Rolf
, BBC documentary, Jan. 1, 2006.

  27.
“intelligent and full of character”: Gerald Isaaman, “A Forgotten Artist Who Had a Brush with Grandeur,”
Camden New Journal
, Jan. 15, 2004.

  28.
“horrid … He was one of those”:
The Queen, by Rolf
, BBC documentary.

  29.
The second artist to capture: Pimlott, p. 33.

  30.
“It’s quite nice”:
The Queen, by Rolf
documentary.

  31.
“horses are the greatest levelers”: Frolic Weymouth interview.

  32.
“moving carpet”: Sally Bedell Smith,
Diana in Search of Herself: Portrait of a Troubled Princess
, p. 149.

  33.
“They’re heelers”:
The Queen, by Rolf
documentary.

  34.
“It was a very inhibiting experience”: Turner, p. 11.

  35.
“Never do that to royalty”: James Ogilvy interview.

  36.
“a glass curtain”: Crawford, p. 81.

  37.
“real people”: Ibid., p. 31.

  38.
“quite fierce”: Lady Pamela Mountbatten (Hicks after her marriage to interior designer David Hicks) interview.

  39.
“was brought up knowing”: Patricia Brabourne interview.

  40.
“if you find something or somebody”: Ann Morrow,
The Queen
, p. 16.

  41.
“You must
not
be in too much of a hurry”: Crawford, p. 89.

  42.
“particularly easy and pleasant”: Shawcross,
QEQM
, p. 465.

  43.
“sometimes I have tears”: Ibid., p. 468.

  44.
“almost continually ‘on show’ ”: Ibid., p. 478.

  45.
“The Queen knows the prayer book”: George Carey, the 103rd Archbishop of Canterbury and later Lord Carey of Clifton, interview.

  46.
“She comes from a generation”: Ibid.

  47.
“sit up at a slight distance:” Clarissa Eden, the Countess of Avon, interview.

  48.
“a lady’s back should never touch”: Shawcross,
QEQM
, p. 780.

  49.
“brought up her children”: Mary Clayton interview.

  50.
“never shout or frighten”: Shawcross,
QEQM
, p. 336.

  51.
“remember to keep your temper”: Ibid., p. 583.

  52.
“She was brought up by strict”: Confidential interview.

  53.
“small, very smart, and rather peremptory”: John Dean,
H.R.H. Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh: A Portrait by His Valet
, p. 60.

  54.
“The Queen just enjoyed”: Mary Clayton interview.

  55.
“clothes tidy”: Crawford, p. 172.

  56.
“internal fast beat”: Helen Mirren interview.

  57.
who wore a tiara every night at dinner: Deborah Devonshire, the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire,
Home to Roost and Other Peckings
, p. 62.

  58.
“look anyone straight in the face”: Cecil Beaton,
Self Portrait with Friends: The Selected Diaries of Cecil Beaton
, edited by Richard Buckle, p. 264.

  59.
“Queen Mary wore tiaras like she wore her toques”: Devonshire,
Home to Roost and Other Peckings
, p. 62.

  60.
Queen Mary touchingly said: Longford,
Elizabeth R
, p. 196.

  61.
“all the people who’ll be waiting”: Ibid., pp 73–74.

  62.
“new ideas held no terrors”: Gilbert, p. 809.

  63.
“a happy childhood”: Crawford, p. 18.

  64.
“wonderful memory training”: Ibid., p. 43.

  65.
“steadfastness”: Robert Lacey,
Majesty: Elizabeth II and the House of Windsor
, p. 92.

  66.
Six weeks later: Crawford, p. 106.

  67.
Crawfie directed the princesses: Ibid., p. 108.

  68.
“purdah”: Lacey,
Majesty
, p. 105.

  69.
“I was brought up amongst men”: Longford,
Elizabeth R
, p. 122.

  70.
“the first requisite of a really good officer”: Crawford, p. 150.

  71.
“a rather shy little girl”: Ibid., p. 134.

  72.
“never forgot there was a war on”: Longford,
Elizabeth R
, p. 122.

  73.
“the whistle & scream”: Shawcross,
QEQM
, p. 527.

  74.
“looking different”: Ibid., p. 531.

  75.
“Though they are so good”: Ibid., p. 586.

  76.
“pink cheeks and good appetites”: Ibid., p. 542.

  77.
“All seemed to breathe”: Christopher Hibbert,
Queen Victoria: A Personal History
, p. 177.

  78.
shot her first stag: Margaret Rhodes interview. 19 caught her first salmon: Lascelles, p. 257.

  79.
Tommy Lascelles imitating a St. Bernard: Ibid., p. 54. 19 “young men and maidens”: Ibid., p. 184.

  80.
“the best waltzer in the world”: Frances Campbell-Preston,
The Rich Spoils of Time
, edited by Hugo Vickers, p. 221.

  81.
“confidence and vigour”: Horace Smith,
A Horseman Through Six Reigns: Reminiscences of a Royal Riding Master
, p. 150.

  82.
“What a beastly time”: Shawcross,
QEQM
, p. 576.

  83.
“and give her a little picture”: Crawford, p. 142.

  84.
“all the happiest memories”: Bradford, p. 86.

  85.
The girls earned their cooking badges: Crawford, p. 148.

  86.
With their Cockney accents: Ibid., pp. 117–18.

  87.
“I think I’ve broken the prop-shaft”: Peter Morgan,
The Queen
screenplay, p. 65.