Elizabeth the Queen (92 page)

116.
“The Queen said to me”: Eden, p. 231.

117.
“Nothing was kept from her”: Pimlott, p. 253.

118.
“she understood what we were doing”: Lacey,
Majesty
, p. 212. 115 He began taking Benzedrine: Gladwyn, p. 198.

119.
“edgy”: Pimlott, p. 255.

120.
“I think the Queen believed Eden was mad”: Ibid.

121.
“Are you sure you are being wise?”: Ibid.

122.
“nor would I claim that she was pro-Suez”: Lacey,
Majesty
, p. 212.

123.
“I don’t think she was really for it”: Gay Charteris interview.

124.
“in such a bad way”: Gladwyn, p. 198.

125.
Churchill, who criticized: Gilbert, p. 1222.

126.
“the real enemy”: Ibid.

127.
“it is most interesting”: Ibid., p. 1223.

128.
“highly valued”: Shawcross,
Q and C
, p. 74.

129.
“wise and impartial reaction”: Pimlott, p. 273.

130.
“choose the older man”: Lacey,
Majesty
, p. 215.

SIX: Made for Television

    1.
“it would have been much simpler”: HRH Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh,
Prince Philip Speaks: Selected Speeches by His Royal Highness the Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, K.G., 1956–1959
, edited by Richard Ollard, p. 38.

    2.
“remote communities”: McDonald,
The Duke
documentary.

    3.
“by profession a sailor”: Prince Philip,
Selected Speeches, 1948–1955
, p. 105.

    4.
“allegiance to another”: Ibid., p. 148.

    5.
He pursued his fascination: Prince Philip,
Selected Speeches, 1956–1959
, p. 137.

    6.
“full set”: British Pathé newsreel, “The Duke Visits the Outposts.”

    7.
In a nostalgic touch: Pamela Hicks interview; McDonald,
The Duke
documentary.

    8.
“Philip’s Folly”: Longford,
Elizabeth R
, p. 225. 120 although he did send the Queen white roses: Ibid.

    9.
“willing to serve others”: Prince Philip,
Selected Speeches, 1956–1959
, p. 38.

  10.
“He has one of those minds”: Confidential interview.

  11.
“whole man”: Prince Philip,
Selected Speeches, 1956–1959
, p. 131.

  12.
“sub-health”: Ibid., p. 95.

  13.
The story of the “party girl”: Brandreth, p. 254.

  14.
“very hurt, terribly hurt, very angry”: Pimlott, p. 271, citing Brook Productions,
The Windsors
, interview transcript.

  15.
“It is quite untrue”:
Irish Times
, Feb. 12, 1957.

  16.
“nothing at all”: Prince Philip,
Selected Speeches, 1956–1959
, p. 43. 122 The idea had come: Pimlott, p. 272.

  17.
“Most of our people have never had”: Alistair Horne,
Harold Macmillan
, Vol. 2,
1957–1986
, p. 64.

  18.
although she sometimes became irritated: Charles Williams,
Harold Macmillan
, pp. 293, 319.

  19.
“instinctive reverence”: Horne, p. 169.

  20.
“We all knew about it”: Woodrow Wyatt,
The Journals of Woodrow Wyatt, Vol. 2
, p. 546.

  21.
“a mask of impenetrable calm”: Williams, p. 474.

  22.
“Victorian languor”: Horne, p. 308.

  23.
astonished him from the outset: Ibid., p. 14.

  24.
“a great support”: Ibid., p. 168.

  25.
“She never reacted excessively”: Lacey,
Majesty
, p. 217.

  26.
“be made to smile more”: Ibid., p. 218.

  27.
“had always assumed people wanted”: Ibid.

  28.
Dickie Mountbatten blamed the delay: Massingberd, p. 148.

  29.
“just as calm and composed”: Eleanor Roosevelt,
My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt’s Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936–1962
, p. 247.

  30.
“haven of security”: Dimbleby, p. 40.

  31.
“She let things go”: Gay Charteris interview.

  32.
Six-year-old Charles flopped onto: Eden, p. 201.

  33.
Clarissa Eden was mildly amused: Clarissa Eden interview.

  34.
“the natural state of things”: McDonald,
The Duke
documentary, quoting Pamela Hicks.

  35.
that Charles make his bed: Lacey,
Majesty
, p. 235.

  36.
“a very gentle boy”: Bradford, p. 329.

  37.
“not a vessel to be filled”: Hill House International Junior School Website.

  38.
being in a classroom with other boys: Dimbleby, pp. 32–33.

  39.
educating the “whole” child: Cheam School Website.

  40.
“Children may be indulged at home”: Dimbleby, p. 43.

  41.
“I always preferred my own company”: Ibid., p. 44.

  42.
He had no idea what was coming: Ibid., p. 49.

  43.
“dread”: Queen Elizabeth II to Anthony Eden, Jan. 16, 1958, Lord Avon Papers.

  44.
“not necessarily fitted to serve”:
Time
, April 8, 1957.

  45.
“tight little enclave”: “The Monarch Today,”
National and English Review
, Aug. 1957, pp. 61–67.

  46.
“efficient public relations set-up”:
New Statesman
, Oct. 22, 1955.

  47.
“to pit his infinitely tiny”: Pimlott, p. 281.

  48.
“a very silly man”:
Time
, Aug. 19, 1957.

  49.
“95 per cent of the population”: Ibid. In 1963 after Parliament passed a law allowing peers to renounce their titles, Altrincham would disclaim his and become known as John Grigg.

  50.
“real watershed”: Roy Strong,
The Roy Strong Diaries, 1967–1987
, p. 430.

  51.
By some accounts, Prince Philip:
Sunday Graphic
, Nov. 17, 1957.

  52.
With help from her husband:
Sunday Times
, Dec. 22, 1957.

  53.
The following year marked the last: Fiona MacCarthy,
Last Curtsey: The End of the Debutantes
, pp. 1, 17–18.

  54.
“those who mix socially”: Malcolm Muggeridge, “Does England Really Need a Queen?,”
Saturday Evening Post
, Oct. 19, 1957.

  55.
He was harassed: Longford,
Elizabeth R
, p. 229.

  56.
She used a TelePrompTer for the first time:
Washington Post
, Oct. 14, 1957.