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302 Haste, p. 53

303 Kavanagh, p. 206

304 Francis Wyndham, interview

305 Charlotte Mosley, The Mitfords, p. 183

306 Wilson, p. 145

307 Skelton, p. 218

308 Sheldon, p. 80

309 De-la-Noy, p. 137

310 Billa Harrod, interview with Gavin Bryars

311 Haste, p. 33

312 Ibid., p. 34

313 Ibid., p. 42

314 Clarissa Eden, interview

315 Haste, p. 33

316 Lord Berners, ‘Private Opinion Poll’, Lilliput, vol. XXIV, no. 1, January 1949

317 Clarissa Eden, interview

318 Rowse, p. 61

319 David Cecil, interview with Gavin Bryars

320 Sir Thomas Armstrong, interviewed on Radio 3 on 11 December 1992

321 Michael Ratcliff, ‘Lord Berners, that Most Versatile Peer’, The Times, 3 September 1983

322 Acton, Memoirs of an Aesthete, p. 139

323 Rowse, p. 290

324 Amory, Lord Berners, p. 36

325 Prieto, Paintings and Drawings

326 Heber-Percy, p. 119

Appearing between pages 217 and 237

327 Clarissa Eden, interview

328 Rowse, p. 72

329 Clarissa Eden, interview

330 Diana Mosley, A Life of Contrasts, p. 173

331 Kahan, p. 364

332 Sweet, p. 115-16

333 Haste, p. 60

334 Vickers, Cecil Beaton, p. 248

335 Ibid., p. 217

336 Leonard Mosley, p. 183

337 Cannadine, p. 635

338 Hastings, p. 158

339 Nancy Mitford, ‘Faringdon House’, House & Garden, Aug.-Sept. 1950

340 Fielding, Mercury Presides, p. 210

341 Amory, Lord Berners, p. 194

342 Gardiner, p. 552

343 Crisp, p. 160

344 Obituary of Michael Luke, Independent, 19 April 2005

345 Luke, p. 174

346 Sheldon, p. 63

347 Lewis, p. 398

348 Letter from Elizabeth Bowen to Charles Ritchie, in Glendinning, Love’s Civil War, p. 51

349 Muggeridge, p. 104

350 Davie, p. 608

351 Rowse, p. 72

352 Oxford Magazine, 4 June 1942

353 Joy Skinner, interview

354 Dickinson, p. 17

355 Joan Wyndham, p. 45

Appearing between pages 243 and 259

356 Jack Fox, interview

357 Francis Wyndham, interview

358 Cooper, A Durable Fire, p. 310

359 Clarissa Eden, interview

360 Niven, p. 230

361 Ibid., p. 44

362 Victoria Zinovieff, interview

363 Billa Harrod, interview with Gavin Bryars

364 Charles Duff, interview

365 Hill, p. 173

366 Hastings, p. 141

367 Lees-Milne, Prophesying Peace, p. 28

368 Diana Mosley, A Life of Contrasts, p. 178

369 Ibid., p. 181

370 Ibid.

371 Sheldon, p. 115

372 Lees-Milne, Prophesying Peace, p. 53

373 Ibid., p. 54

Appearing between pages 262 and 286

374 Letter to Roy Harrod, undated, 1994, in Billa Harrod’s private papers

375 Amory, Lord Berners, p. 218

376 Obituary of Michael Luke, Daily Telegraph, 11 April 2005

377 Luke, p. 172

378 Obituary of Michael Luke, op. cit.

379 Francis Wyndham, interview

380 Clarissa Eden, interview

381 Francis Wyndham, interview

382 Amory, Lord Berners, p. 220, refers to Glendinning, Elizabeth Bowen: Portrait of a Writer

383 Cyril Connolly, Horizon, vols XV-XVI, August 1947

384 Interview with Robert Heber-Percy, in Dickinson, p. 84

385 Rachel Cecil, interview with Gavin Bryars

386 Glendinning, Love’s Civil War, p. 100

387 Constant Lambert, ‘The Musical Peer’, introduction to Osbert Lancaster’s ‘Uncommon People’, Strand, April 1947, p. 62

388 Billa Harrod, interview with Gavin Bryars

389 Diana Mosley, Loved Ones, p. 102

390 Amory, Lord Berners, p. 232

391 Vickers, Cecil Beaton, p. 462

392 Billa Harrod, interview with Gavin Bryars

393 Lewis, p. 413

394 Quennell, p. 137

395 Diana Mosley, A Life of Contrasts, p. 200

396 Amory, Lord Berners, p. 224

397 Ibid.

398 Diana Mosley, interview with Gavin Bryars

399 Francis Wyndham, interview

400 Niven, p. 247

401 Cyril Connolly, London Magazine, Feb.–March 1975

402 Lees-Milne, Diaries, 1942-1954, p. 330

403 Henry Green, p. 58

404 Treglown, p. 53

405 Feigel p. 44

406 Ibid., p. 92

407 Charlotte Mosley, The Letters of Nancy Mitford, p. 254

408 Terry Southern, ‘Henry Green, The Art of Fiction No. 22’, Paris Review, Summer 1958

409 Ross, p. 196

410 Obituary of Michael Luke, op. cit.

411 Lewis, p. 428

412 Diana Mosley, Loved Ones, p. 128

413 Berners, letter to William Plomer

414 Charlotte Mosley, The Mitfords, p. 260

415 Diana Mosley, letter to Lady Redesdale, quoted in Amory, Lord Berners, p. 235

416 Elizabeth Bowen, letter to Charles Ritchie, Glendinning, op. cit., p. 126

417 Beaton, The Happy Years, p. 130

418 Diana Mosley, Loved Ones, p. 130

419 Clarissa Eden, interview

420 Diana Mosley, letter to Lady Redesdale, quoted in Amory, op. cit, p. 235

421 Robert Heber-Percy, draft letter to unknown person, private papers

422 Diana Mosley, letter to Lady Redesdale, quoted in Amory, op. cit.

Appearing between pages 288 and 309

423 Diana Mosley, Loved Ones, p. 131

424 John Betjeman, obituary of Lord Berners, Listener, 11 May 1950

425 Obituary of Lady Dorothy Heber-Percy, Daily Telegraph, 17 November 2001

426 Daily Express, 30 November 1950

427 Skelton, p. 97

428 Ibid., p. 98

429 Betty (Garth’s widow), interview

430 Charles Duff, interview

431 Susan Hazel, interview

432 Candida Lycett Green, interview

433 Deirdre Curteis, interview

434 Richard Brain, interview

435 Francis Wyndham, interview

436 Vickers, The Unexpurgated Beaton Diaries, p. 371

437 Cyril Connolly papers, courtesy of Jeremy Lewis

438 Cressida Connolly, interview

439 Jennifer Ross, unpublished notebook

440 Thynn, p. 21

441 Zinovieff, pp. 304-305

442 Maureen Cleave, ‘The Performer at the Bottom of Mr Zinovieff’s Garden’, Evening Standard, 11 January 1968

Appearing between pages 311 and 325

443 Barbara Gilmore, interview

444 Desmond Ball, interview

445 Susanna Johnston, interview

446 Ibid.

447 Judith Webb, interview

448 Jack Fox, interview

449 James Skinner, interview

450 Jack Fox, interview

451 Candida Lycett Green, interview

452 Jonathan Burnham, interview

453 Taylor, p. 110

454 Motion, p. 336

455 ibid p. 351

456 Candida Lycett Green, ‘The Way Home’, blog: www.candidalycettgreen.co.uk, April 2010

457 Obituary of Lady Dorothy Heber-Percy, op. cit.

458 Amory, Lord Berners, p. 141

459 Mark Amory, interview

460 Interview with Robert Heber-Percy, in Dickinson, p. 86

461 Marlborough, p. 235

462 Beaton, The Happy Years, p. 130

463 Hugo Vickers, interview

464 Vickers, The Unexpurgated Beaton Diaries, p. 361

465 Martin Webb, interview

466 Vickers, op. cit., p. 374

467 Ibid.

468 Hugo Vickers, interview

Appearing between pages 328 and 342

469 Byrne, p. 163

470 Jennifer Ross, unpublished notebook

471 Cressida Connolly, interview

472 Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy, interview

473 Jennifer Ross, unpublished notebook

474 Jonathan Burnham, interview

475 Susanna Johnston, interview

476 Ibid.

477 Joy Skinner, interview

478 Victoria Zinovieff, interview

479 Candida Lycett Green, interview

480 Deirdre Curteis, interview

Appearing between pages 353 and 370

481 Nancy Mitford, ‘Faringdon House’, House &Garden, Aug.–Sept. 1950 484

482 Joy Skinner, interview

483 Mario Testino, interview

484 Rose, p. 376

Appearing between pages 376 and 383

485 Victoria Zinovieff, interview

486 Devonshire, p. 132

487 Victoria Zinovieff, interview

488 Devonshire, p. 155

489 Victoria Zinovieff, interview

490 Lady Joanna Mersey, interview

491 Francis Wyndham, interview

492 Richard Brain, interview

493 Janetta Parlade, interview

494 Sarah Gibb, interview

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