Elizabeth the Queen (89 page)

    5.
“Lilibet, your skirts are much too short”: Dean, p. 149.

    6.
“by the sudden death”: BBC, “On This Day,” Feb. 8, 1952,
news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday
.

    7.
by several accounts she was in tears: Morrow, p. 73; Bradford, p. 168.

    8.
“protection and love”: Longford,
Elizabeth R
, p. 180.

    9.
“I cannot bear to think of Lilibet”: Shawcross,
QEQM
, pp. 654–55.

  10.
“I tried to cheer him up”: Gilbert, p. 697.

  11.
“my father realized very quickly”: Mary Soames interview.

  12.
“He was impressed by her”: Brandreth, p. 217.

  13.
“Extraordinary thing”: Longford,
Elizabeth R
, p. 196.

  14.
“a fair and youthful figure”: Gilbert, p. 700.

  15.
“if, as many earnestly pray”: Shawcross,
Q and C
, p. 121.

  16.
“People need pats on the back”:
E II R
documentary.

  17.
“gallantry and utter contempt”: “Investiture at Buckingham Palace” on Wednesday, 27th February 1952, at 11 o’clock a.m.: To be Decorated: Private William Speakman, The King’s Own Scottish Borderers. Buckingham Palace Press Office.

  18.
“my little lady”: Dean, p. 60.

  19.
“I like my rooms to look really lived in”: Morrow, p. 65.

  20.
“a bureaucrat’s dream”: Turner, p. 46.

  21.
“rather personal to oneself”:
E II R
documentary.

  22.
“a piece of 300 to 900 words”: Government chief whip to Mr. R. T. Armstrong, Feb. 22, 1975, National Archives, Kew.

  23.
“low wattage”: Mr. Bernard Weatherill, His Humble Duty [to HMTQ], Parliamentary Proceedings from Monday 14th February to Friday 18th February, 1972, National Archives, Kew.

  24.
“as well informed”: Morrow, p. 158.

  25.
Michael Adeane estimated: Pimlott, p. 401. 72 “If I missed one once”: Confidential interview.

  26.
“my way of meeting people”:
E II R
documentary.

  27.
she reverted to her nursery ways: Morrow, p. 92.

  28.
“She is not particular”: Confidential interview.

  29.
In her first gesture of modernity: Jonathan Dimbleby,
The Prince of Wales: A Biography
, p. 22.

  30.
“a final romp”: Dean, p. 172.

  31.
“Why isn’t Mummy”: Ibid., p. 173.

  32.
“For a real action man”: McDonald,
The Duke
documentary.

  33.
“wielded over the Sovereign”: G. Lytton Strachey,
Queen Victoria
, p. 93.

  34.
“The Monarchy changed”: Brandreth, p. 215.

  35.
“Refugee husband”: Ibid., p. 147.

  36.
“Philip was constantly being squashed”: Ibid., p. 218.

  37.
“My father was considered pink”: Patricia Brabourne interview.

  38.
“the House of Mountbatten now reigned”: Hugo Vickers,
Elizabeth the Queen Mother
, p. 311.

  39.
“She was very young”: Patricia Brabourne interview.

  40.
“I am the only man”: Pimlott, p. 185.

  41.
“I’m nothing but a bloody amoeba”: Hugh Massingberd,
Daydream Believer: Confessions of a Hero-Worshipper
, p. 148.

  42.
“that old drunk Churchill”: Ibid.

  43.
“Churchill never forgave my father”: Patricia Brabourne interview.

  44.
“save her a lot of time”: McDonald,
The Duke
documentary.

  45.
“would submit entirely”: Dimbleby, p. 59.

  46.
“she was not indifferent so much as detached”: Ibid.

  47.
“her struggle to be a worthy head of state”: William Deedes interview (Jan. 20, 1998).

  48.
“In the first five years she was more formal”: Confidential interview.

  49.
she once attended a ball:
New York Times
, Feb. 8, 1996.

  50.
“How
much
nicer”: Nancy Mitford,
Love from Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford
, edited by Charlotte Mosley, p. 291.

  51.
“must seem very blank”: Bradford, p. 169.

  52.
“engulfed by great black clouds”: Victoria Glendinning,
Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions
, p. 299.

  53.
a small run-down castle: Author’s observations and tour by Nancy McCarthy.

  54.
“How sad it looks”:
Aberdeen Press and Journal
, Jan. 9, 2009.

  55.
“escape there occasionally”: Shawcross,
QEQM
, p. 670.

  56.
“The point of human life”: Ibid., p. 769.

  57.
“the great mother figure”: Beaton,
Strenuous Years
, p. 147.

  58.
“like a great musical comedy actress”: Roy Strong interview.

  59.
“pink cushiony cloud”: Cecil Beaton,
The Unexpurgated Beaton: The Cecil Beaton Diaries as He Wrote Them
, introduction by Hugo Vickers, p. 52.

  60.
“They were great confidantes”: Dame Frances Campbell-Preston interview.

  61.
“an Edwardian lady”: Ibid.

  62.
“A lot of the importance”: Confidential interview.

  63.
“The Queen Mother was always”: Confidential interview.

  64.
The two women deferred to each other: Margaret Rhodes interview.

  65.
“very much the Sovereign”: Nicolson,
Vita and Harold
, p. 405.

  66.
“millions outside Westminster Abbey”: The Queen’s First Christmas Broadcast, Dec. 25, 1952, Official Website of the British Monarchy.

  67.
“henceforth have, hold and enjoy”: Longford,
Elizabeth R
, p. 194.

  68.
“not those of a busy”: Beaton,
Strenuous Years
, p. 120.

  69.
“We took it for granted”: Gay Charteris interview.

  70.
“quite inappropriate for a King”: Bradford, p. 184, citing 98th and 99th Conclusions, 18 and 20 Nov. 1952, National Archives, Kew.

  71.
“What a smug stinking lot”: Michael Bloch,
The Secret File of the Duke of Windsor
, p. 279.

  72.
“like a phoenix-time”: Pimlott, p. 193.

  73.
“the emblem of the state”:
Washington Post
, June 3, 1953.

  74.
She met several times: Canon John Andrew interview.

  75.
“I’ll be all right”: Longford,
Elizabeth R
, p. 199.

  76.
“All the deposed monarchs are staying”: Mini Rhea, with Frances Spatz Leighton,
I Was Jacqueline Kennedy’s Dressmaker
, p. 162.