The Horror of Love (44 page)

Paul III, Pope (Alessandro Farnese),
216

Pauline (GP’s housekeeper),
213
,
220

Peel, Beatrice Gladys, Lady,
122

Perpignan,
86–7

Pétain, Maréchal Philippe mission to Rabat,
49–50
, de Gaulle serves under,
74
, de Gaulle loses respect for,
75
, GP despises,
77
, capitulates to Germans (1940),
95
,
104
,
107–8
, hostility to de Gaulle,
101
, de Gaulle encounters at Château de Muguet,
103
, rejects union with Britain,
105
, appointed head of French state,
107
, introduces de Gaulle to brothels,
197

Petit Club Francais, St James’s Place,
122–3

Peyrouton, Marcel, III

Picasso, Pablo,
31

Pinay, Antoine,
213

Plneau, Christian,
215

Pius XII, Pope,
218
,
231

Pleven, René,
171

Poher, Alain,
256
,
257

Poincaré, Mme Raymond,
71

Poland GP discusses with Stalin,
194

Polignac, Marie-Blanche, Pnncesse de,
123

Pompadour, Madame de (Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de),
93
,
134
,
154
Pompée, Colonel,
48

Pompidou, Georges,
211
,
238
,
240
,
247
,
249
,
257

Ponsonby, Elizabeth,
41

Pope, Alexander
The Rape of the Lock
,
91

Populaire
(journal),
78

Portes, Hélène, Comtesse de,
78
,
107

Poulenc, Francis,
181
,
190

Pourtales, Charles-Maurice de,
250
,
253

Pourtales, James-Robert de,
250

Pourtales, Violette de (later-Palewski, GP’s wife),
235
,
250
,
252–4
,
260–1

Preston, Stuart (‘the Sergeant’),
199

Proust, Marcel,
31
,
68–70, 123
,
Le Temps
Retrouvé
,
154

Pryce-Jones, David,
89

Public Order Act (1936),
63
,
96

Quisling, Vidkun,
97

Rabat, Morocco,
48–50

Rabbinowicz, Michel Israel,
10
,
71

Radziwill, Dolly (Dolores Tvede),
245
,
257

Radziwill, Pnncesse Mane de
(née
Castellane),
70
,
179
,
183

Rassemblement du Peuple Français (RPF),
173
,
191
,
210–11
, collapse,
212

Redesdale, Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron (NM’s grandfather),
20–1
,
24–5
,
203

Redesdale, David Freeman-Mitford, 2nd Baron (NM’s father, ‘Farve’) succeeds to title,
20
,
25
, temper,
22
,
28
, upbringing and career,
22–3
, First World War service,
24–5
, inheritance,
26–7
, antipathy to reading,
27
, builds and occupies Swinbrook House,
34
, old-fashioned social demands on NM,
35
, consents to Rodd’s marriage to NM,
53–4
, antipathy to make-up,
58
, condemns Nazism,
59
, and appeasement,
87
,
92
, meets Hitler,
88
,
95
, purchases Inch Kenneth (island),
89
, marriage breakdown,
90
, NM portrays in fiction,
154
,
222
, gives NM money to buy partnership in Heywood Hill,
155
, death,
221

Redesdale, Sydney, Lady
(née
Bowles, NM’s mother, ‘Muv’) marriage and children,
21
,
23
,
25
, upbringing,
21–2
, Helleu portrait of,
23
, teaches children,
24
, moves to Batsford Park in Great War,
25
, country life,
27
, vagueness,
28
, on Unity’s leaving school,
29
, NM writes to from Paris,
30
, as chaperone for daughters’ coming out,
32
, on NM’s cutting hair,
35
, sexual innocence,
56
, interior decorating,
57
, accompanies Unity to Munich,
59
, and Jessica’s marriage to Romilly,
81–2
, and NM’s childlessness,
84
, NM writes to on Spanish refugee problem in France,
86
, meets Hitler,
88–9
, pro-Nazi views,
88–9
,
92
, brings back injured Unity from Switzerland,
90
, marriage breakdown,
90
, anti-Semitic sentiments,
129
, and NM’s intention to live in Pans,
153
, letters from NM on conditions in France,
165

Regulation 18B (of Emergency Powers Act),
98–9

Reinhardt, Max,
63

Rémy, Colonel (1 e Gilbert Renault),
173

Rennell, James Rennell Rodd, 1st Baron,
51
,
53–4.
57

Rennell, Lilias, Lady
(née
Guthne),
51
,
53–4
,
58
,
84

Reynaud, Paul,
72–3
,
76–8
,
100–5
,
107
,
115

Ribbentrop, Joachim von,
55

Richelieu
(French battleship),
113
,
116

Rodd, Francis,
1
,
52
,
55
,
85

Rodd, Peter (‘Prod’) meets GP in Addis Ababa,
3
, character and appearance,
51–2
,
58
,
157
, marriage to NM,
51–3
,
255
, career,
52
,
79
,
85
, portrayed in NM’s fiction,
55
,
93
,
154
, financial circumstances,
57–8
, NM dedicates
Wigs on the Green
to,
60
, and Fascism,
61–2
,
64
, takes mistress,
79
, and Jessica’s elopement,
81
, in France to help Spanish Republican refugees,
86
, opposes appeasement policy,
87
, war service,
91
,
98
, in wartime London,
128
, marriage to NM collapses,
130–1
, affair with Adelaide Lubbock,
131
,
156
, sexual inadequacy,
135
, refuses divorce to NM,
156–7
, on
Rothschilds’ treatment of Louise de Vilmonn’s brother,
180
, agrees to divorce,
221

Rome NM honeymoons in,
54–5
, GP appointed ambassador to,
215–19
, NM visits GP in,
220
, DG’s entertaining at embassy,
233
, Farnese Palace interior restored and refurnished,
234

Rome, Treaty of (1956),
217

Romilly, Esmond elopement and marriage to Jessica,
80–2
, paternity,
203

Romilly, Nellie,
203–4

Roosevelt, Franklin D mistrust of de Gaulle,
73
,
117
,
121
, and US neutrality,
93
, supports Giraud,
137–8
, de Gaulle declines to meet,
143–4
, and de Gaulle’s reaction to invasion plans,
144
, de Gaulle meets,
147–8
, on France as decadent country,
230

Ross, Arthur,
189

Rosse, Ann (née Messel),
133

Rosslyn, James St Clair Erskine, 5th Earl of (Hamish’s father),
36
,
39

Roth, Philip
I Married a Communist
,
228

Rothermere, Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount,
64

Rothschild, Victor,
180

Roussel, Eric,
105–6

Roussin, André
The Little Hut
,
192–4

Rowse, A L,
228

Roy, André
see
Desplats-Pilter, Roy Andre

Rubio y Alatorre, Gloria,
201

Rumbold, Anthony,
63

Rumbold, Sir Horace,
63

Russia
see
Soviet Russia

Rutland Gate, London,
129

Rzewuski, Father,
245

Sackville-West, Edward,
84

Sackville-West, Vita (Lady Nicolson),
199
,
236

Sagan, Hélie de Talleyrand-Péngord, Prince de,
251

St Clair Erskine, Hamish engagement to NM,
36–9
,
43
, homosexuality,
36–8
,
56
, breaks with NM,
45–6
,
52
, Peter writes to,
53
, in NM’s fiction,
54
, and Romie HopeVere,
181

St Paul, Rudi von,
89

Sargent, Sir Orme,
115

Sarraut, Albert,
76

Sauveterre, Fabnce, Due de (fictional)
see
Palewski, Gaston

Save Venice programme,
241–2

Schneider, Marcel,
191

Schuman, Robert,
211
,
213

Seafield, Nina,
35
,
38

Selby, Sir Walford,
114

Sewell, Mary,
79–80

Shaw, Irwin
The Young Lions
,
122

Shilson, Edward,
223

Sidos, Pierre,
257

Simon, Sir John,
63

Sitwell, (Dame) Edith,
38

Sitwell, Georgia (later “Lady),
136
,
206

Sitwell, Sir Osbert,
132

Sitwell (Sir) Sacheverell,
132

Smiley, Sir Hugh,
38

Snow, Carmel,
187

Somalia, French,
125

Somerville, Admiral Sir James Fownes,
112

Soustelle, Jacques,
171
,
173
,
212

Soviet Russia and German threat,
76–7
, GP in,
194
,
211
, NM visits,
194

Spalding, Miss (headmistress),
29

Spanish Civil War Republican refugees in France,
86

Spears, Sir Edward,
101
,
103–4
,
107
,
108–9

Spears, Mary, Lady
(née
Borden),
122

Spectator
(journal) NM writes for,
248

Spencer-Churchill, Ivor,
18

Sptegel, Der
(German newspaper),
65

Stalin, Josef,
194

Stanley, Ed,
197

Steeg, Theodore,
50

Stein, Gertrude,
186

Strand-on-the-Green, near Kew Rose Cottage,
54
,
57

Suez crisis (1956),
214

Sunday Times
NM’s column in,
190

Sutro, John,
34

Swinbrook House, Oxfordshire,
34

Swinton, Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl,
98

Talleyrand-Péngord, Hélène-Violette
see
Pourtales, Violette de

Talleyrand-Péngord, Howard,
251

Tangiers,
113–14

Taylor, A J P,
154

Temple de la Gloire, La, Orsay,
259

Tennant, Lady Emma
(née
Cavendish, Deborah Devonshire’s daughter),
187

Thomas, Hugh, Baron,
189

Thompson, Laura,
157

Thorez, Maurice,
167
,
171

Tillon, Charles,
171

Toklas, Alice B,
186

Toynbee, Philip,
80

Trefusis, Violet,
188
,
198–9
,
236
,
Don’t Look
Round
,
199

Truest Truth About Adolf Hitler, The
(film),
66

U and non-U,
3
,
193

United States of America neutrality in early part of war,
92–3
, NM’s antipathy to,
92–3
,
117
,
202
,
225–7
,
229–30
, recognizes Vichy France,
117
, de Gaulle visits,
146–8
, attitude to de Gaulle,
147–8
, supports Europe with Marshall Plan,
172
, opposes Communism in France,
173
, women’s style,
188
, and British hostility,
223
, accused of immaturity,
225–8

Vandegnft, General Alexander,
147

Vanguard
(magazine),
62

Vaughan, Olwen,
122–3

Venice campaign to preserve,
241–2
, GP visits with de Gaulle,
243
, NM stays in,
243–4
, NM’s final visit to (1970),
256

Versailles NM moves to,
245–6

Vienot, Pierre,
144–6

Vilmorin, Louise de (‘Lulu’),
154
,
179–83
,
196
,
201
,
205
, death,
257

Vogue
(magazine) NM contributes to,
35

Waugh, Evelyn friendship with NM,
3
,
34
, on unhappy generation,
15
, on NM’s honorific,
20
, homosexual experiences,
36
, lectures NM on homosexual men,
37
, in Pans with NM and Guinnesses,
39
, NM’s anxiety in relationship,
40
, first marriage breakdown,
42
, on Peter Rodd,
51
, on NM’s marriage to Rodd,
56
, and NM’s need for beauty,
77
, and NM’s childlessness,
83
, and NM’s
Pigeon Pie
,
91
, patronizes Heywood Hill bookshop,
132–3
, and NM’s openness about sex,
134
, describes NM’s Pans flat,
158
, scepticism of GP’s anti-collaborationist views,
178–9
, loathes Louise de Vilmorin,
181
, NM’s correspondence with,
192
, fictional characters’ names,
193
, entertains Susan Mary Alsop,
202–3
, and GP’s appointment as ambassador to Rome,
215
, letter from NM on father’s death,
221
, praises NM’s
Don’t Tell Alfred
,
222
, NM discusses reading with,
224
, on New York skyscrapers,
241
, death,
244–5
,
257
Basil Seal Fades Again
,
57
,
Black Mischief
,
56
,
Bndeshead Revisited
18
,
33
,
40
,
244
,
Labels
,
40
,
Put Out More Flags
,
56
,
230
,
Vile Bodies
,
40
,
42