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  50.
Through speech therapy, he had learned: Ibid., p. 430.
  51.
“When we reviewed the film”: Ibid., p. 432.
  52.
“came through as a great character”: Beaton,
Beaton in the Sixties
, p. 342.
  53.
“we must not let in daylight upon magic”: Bagehot, p. 59.
  54.
“like a middle-class family in Surbiton or Croydon”:
Evening Standard
, June 26, 1969.
  55.
“depends on mystique”: Bradford, p. 353.
  56.
“rotten idea”: William Shawcross,
Queen and Country
documentary.
  57.
“language and culture”: Dimbleby, p. 149.
  58.
“grand and simple”: BBC News interview with Lord Snowdon, June 29, 2009.
  59.
“I didn’t want red carpets”: BBC Colour TV coverage, July 1, 1969, YouTube.
  60.
“that it was her show not his”: Gladwyn, p. 346.
  61.
“By far the most moving”: Dimbleby, p. 163. 222 “She gaily shattered”: Coward, p. 678.

TEN: Ring of Silence

    1.
“Everything about her seemed smaller”: Annigoni, p. 172. 225 “At every sitting”: Ibid., p. 174.
    2.
“I see Your Majesty”: Ibid., pp. 176–77.
    3.
The Queen had become fascinated: Diaries of David Bruce, April 22, 1969.
    4.
“and to the American people”: Queen Elizabeth II message to Richard Nixon, Department of State telegram, July 1969, Nixon Library.
    5.
“it filled us with wonder”: Annigoni, p. 184.
    6.
“he was so drunk”: Ibid., p. 185.
    7.
“You must have emptied”: Shaun Plunket interview.
    8.
“people who never in the past”: Confidential interview.
    9.
“He knew everybody”: Margaret Rhodes interview.
  10.
“She realized quickly that Patrick”: Shaun Plunket interview.
  11.
“often with a smile”: Ibid.
  12.
“a great protector”: Annabel Goldsmith,
No Invitation Required: The Pelham Cottage Years
, p. 87.
  13.
“Ma’am, do you feel I ought to close”: Shaun Plunket interview.
  14.
Afterward, he would regale: Annabel Goldsmith interview.
  15.
Philip was relieved: Shaun Plunket interview.
  16.
Plunket found a kindred spirit: Gay Charteris interview.
  17.
“Martin was someone he could relate to”: Ibid.
  18.
“would have been too late”: Ibid.
  19.
“One of the pleasant things”: Diaries of David Bruce, Feb. 4, 1969.
  20.
“There are no set plays”: Confidential interview.
  21.
“She will say, ‘Can you cope?’ ”: Confidential interview.
  22.
“a glare”: Anne Glenconner interview.
  23.
“fierce whisper”: Johnson, p. 105.
  24.
“It would be ghastly”: Esme, the Dowager Countess of Cromer, interview.
  25.
“easy to relax”: Campbell-Preston, p. 270.
  26.
“We never talked”: Esme Cromer interview.
  27.
They had shared a bedroom: Crawford, p. 121.
  28.
“Bobo could say anything”: Margaret Rhodes interview.
  29.
“The sketches were put all over”: Valerie Rouse interview,
Hardyaimes.com
.
  30.
“Bobo will give me hell”:
Daily Mail
, Nov. 11, 1997.
  31.
“She knew everything”: Confidential interview.
  32.
“quite friendly when thawed”: Dean, p. 60.
  33.
Bobo wandered away: Jean Carnarvon interview.
  34.
“sound, very human, very wise”: Patricia Brabourne interview.
  35.
“ring of silence”: Turner, p. 188, quoting an anonymous former cabinet secretary.
  36.
“Those who see the private side”: Confidential interview.
  37.
“She is not someone who is enormously intimate”: Confidential interview.
  38.
“One of her greatest strengths”: Robert Salisbury interview.
  39.
“the Colonel”: Shawcross,
QEQM
, p. 626.
  40.
“There is absolutely no such thing as snobbism”: Patricia Brabourne interview.
  41.
“I nearly died of fright”: Jean Carnarvon interview.
  42.
The hostess sends her the guest list: Esme Cromer interview.
  43.
“easy and gay and ready to giggle”: Coward, p. 634.
  44.
Two years later: Columbus O’Donnell interview.
  45.
She even showed up: Duncan, p. 188.
  46.
“You have mosquitoes”:
Daily Mail
, Sept. 16, 2008.
  47.
“I get kicked in the teeth”: Prince Philip speech at Edinburgh University, May 23, 1969.
  48.
“the monarchy functions”: Prince Philip interview on Grampian Television, Feb. 21, 1969.
  49.
“The answer to this question”: Duncan, p. 65.
  50.
he even jumped into a swimming pool: Lacey,
Majesty
, p. 257.
  51.
Three years later, President Nixon organized: Dinner at the White House, guest list for Tuesday, Nov. 4, 1969, at 8:00 P.M., Nixon Library.
  52.
“I had never thought of the President”: Barbara Walters,
Audition: A Memoir
, pp. 177–78.
  53.
“Might Queen Elizabeth ever abdicate?”: Ibid.
  54.
“means of unlocking”: Ibid.
  55.
“particularly charming and intelligent”: Prince Philip to Richard Nixon, Nov. 7, 1969, Nixon Library.
  56.
“Duke of Edinburgh jousts”:
Time
, Nov. 7, 1969.
  57.
“We go into the red”:
Meet the Press
, Nov. 9, 1969.
  58.
Consumer prices had risen by 74 percent: Lacey,
Majesty
, p. 275.

ELEVEN: “Not Bloody Likely!”

    1.
The ball was a Patrick Plunket production: Beaton,
The Unexpurgated Beaton
, pp. 71–73.
    2.
“We had been expecting to put up with Wilson”: Ibid., p. 75.
    3.
“I was told that he blushed”: Ibid.
    4.
“celibate”: Philip Ziegler,
Edward Heath: The Authorised Biography
, p. 230.
    5.
“cold and uncompassionate”: Ibid., p. 231.
    6.
He described her as a patient listener: Andrew Marr,
An Intimate Portrait of the Queen at 80
, BBC, 2006.
    7.
“a good deal”: Longford,
Elizabeth R
, p. 346.

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