Elizabeth the Queen (91 page)

  44.
“The Queen suffered through that”: Ibid.

  45.
“the Crown is not merely”: Queen Elizabeth II Christmas Broadcast, Dec. 25, 1953, Official Website of the British Monarchy.

  46.
Two keen listeners: Vickers,
Elizabeth the Queen Mother
, p. 329.

  47.
“He is intensely affectionate”: Shawcross,
QEQM
, p. 692.

  48.
by one count, three quarters: Shawcross,
Q and C
, p. 59.

  49.
“world’s sweetheart”: Pimlott, p. 222.

  50.
“The level of adulation”: Brandreth, p. 181.

  51.
“How moving & humble making”: Shawcross,
QEQM
, p. 691.

  52.
“I remember her complaining”: Pamela Hicks interview.

  53.
“never … a superfluous gesture”: Beaton,
The Strenuous Years
, p. 144. 103 “she has no intermediate”: Pimlott, p. 250.

  54.
“The trouble is that unlike”:
Daily Mail
, Sept. 16, 2008, excerpt from
Killing My Own Snakes
, by Ann Leslie.

  55.
“Don’t look so sad, sausage”: Longford,
Elizabeth R
, p. 209–10.

  56.
“What meaneth then”: Morrow, p. 44.

  57.
“One plants one’s feet”: Susan Crosland,
Tony Crosland
, p. 346.

  58.
“It was almost like a lady’s prop”: Phil Brown interview.

  59.
“is a very practical down-to-earth lady”: Confidential interview.

  60.
“I watched the Queen open her handbag”: Confidential interview.

  61.
“I’m always fascinated by their toes”: Morrow, p. 92.

  62.
“a way of relieving the boredom”: Turner, p. 63.

  63.
“Do come in, you have nothing to do”: Pamela Hicks interview.

  64.
To a gathering of scientists: HRH the Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh,
Selected Speeches, 1948–1955
, p. 82.

  65.
Her attendants noticed: Pamela Hicks interview.

  66.
“We were all pouring sweat”: Debbie Palmer interview.

  67.
“There are certain people whose skin runs water”: Pamela Hicks interview.

  68.
the new 412-foot royal yacht: Author’s observation;
The Royal Yacht Britannia Official Guidebook
.

  69.
“country house at sea”:
The Royal Yacht Britannia Official Guidebook
, p. 17.

  70.
“truly relax”: Ibid., p. 14.

  71.
“You may find Charles much older”: Shawcross,
QEQM
, p. 692.

  72.
“No, not you dear”: Holden,
Charles Prince of Wales
, p. 88.

  73.
The private reunion was warm: Pamela Hicks interview.

  74.
“enchanting”: Shawcross,
QEQM
, p. 692.

  75.
“No, Not You Dear”: Anthony Holden,
Charles: A Biography
, p. 15.

  76.
“One saw this dirty commercial river”: Gilbert, p. 976, citing Queen Elizabeth II reflections in
Queen and Commonwealth
, television documentary produced by Peter Tiffin, April 22, 1986.

  77.
“seemed less truculent”: Eden, p. 168.

  78.
“dragged out longer and longer”: Gilbert, p. 1124.

  79.
The Queen remained patient: Ibid., p. 1115.

  80.
“felt the greatest personal regrets”: Ibid., p. 1117.

  81.
“young, gleaming champion”: Ibid., p. 1121.

  82.
“never be separated”: Ibid., p. 1123.

  83.
“wished to die in the House of Commons”: Ibid., p. 1124.

  84.
“will ever, for me, be able to hold”: Ibid., p. 1127.

  85.
“to keep Your Majesty squarely confronted”: Ibid.

  86.
“the case was not a difficult one”: Ibid., p. 1125.

  87.
“Well, Ma’am?”: Eden, p. 190.

  88.
“the best looking politician”: Ibid., p. 122.

  89.
“odd and violent temper”: Cynthia Gladwyn,
The Diaries of Cynthia Gladwyn
, edited by Miles Jebb, p. 198.

  90.
“Anthony was telling her”: Eden, p. 215.

  91.
“They were chatting away and laughing”: Clarissa Eden interview.

  92.
“It is only by seeing him”:
Daily Telegraph
, Nov. 7, 2009.

  93.
“COME ON MARGARET!”: Christopher Warwick,
Princess Margaret: A Life of Contrasts
, p. 197.

  94.
In early October the Edens visited: Eden, p. 219.

  95.
“high place”:
The Times
, Oct. 24, 1955.

  96.
Although her sorrowful statement: BBC, “On This Day,” Oct. 31, 1955,
news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday
.

  97.
“in a cottage”: Rose, p. 189.

  98.
“selfish and hard and wild”: Bradford, p. 287.

  99.
captured her in seven sessions: “1954 Sir William Dargie: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II,”
artistsfootsteps.com
.

100.
“straight back … never slumped once”: Ibid.

101.
“a nice friendly portrait”: Laura Breen, “Dargie’s Wattle Queen,”
reCollections: A Journal of Museums and Collections
,
Nma.gov.au
.

102.
The only other portrait:
The Queen, by Rolf
documentary.

103.
“kind, natural and never aloof”: Pietro Annigoni,
An Artist’s Life: An Autobiography
, p. 84.

104.
“watching the people and the cars”: Ibid., p. 82.

105.
“alone and far off”: Ibid., p. 83.

106.
Margaret praised the artist’s success: Ibid., p. 86.

107.
The following year Margaret sat thirty-three times: Ibid., p. 96.

108.
“Mine was better than hers”: Frolic Weymouth interview.

109.
she visited the Oji River Leper Settlement: Gaumont British Newsreels (Reuters), “Royal Tour of Nigeria 1956.”

110.
“qualities of grace and compassion”: Barbara Ward, “The Woman Who Must Be a Symbol,”
New York Times Magazine
, Oct. 13, 1957.

111.
On May 11, 1956: Andrew Duncan,
The Queen’s Year: The Reality of Monarchy: An Intimate Report on Twelve Months with the Royal Family
, p. 152.

112.
which some participants liken: Morrow, p. 91.

113.
Once one of her corgis had an accident: Oliver Everett interview.

114.
“looking very smart”: Eden, p. 230.

115.
“She was dressed”: Nikita Khrushchev,
Khrushchev Remembers
, translated and edited by Strobe Talbott, p. 406.