The Queen Mother (187 page)

  
46
Wheeler-Bennett, p. 762

  
47
Queen Elizabeth to Sir Alan Lascelles, 26 October 1948, RA PS/PSO/AL/Box B

  
48
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 14 November 1948, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/211

  
49
Princess Elizabeth to May Elphinstone, 18 November 1948, RA QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE

  
50
Queen Elizabeth to Lady Salisbury, 27 November 1948, Hatfield House, Papers of Elizabeth, Marchioness of Salisbury

  
51
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 20 November 1948, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/212

  
52
Queen Mary to Queen Elizabeth, 12 December 1948, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  
53
Queen Elizabeth to Winston Churchill, 27 December 1948, RA QEQM/OUT/MISC

  
54
Lady Salisbury to Queen Elizabeth, 7 December [1948], RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Salisbury

  
55
Queen Elizabeth to Lady Salisbury, 9 December 1948, Hatfield House, Papers of Elizabeth, Marchioness of Salisbury

  
56
Isaiah Berlin,
Personal Impressions
, ed. Henry Hardy, 2nd edn, Pimlico, 1998, p. 257

  
57
Queen Elizabeth to D’Arcy Osborne, 5 March 1949, RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE

  
58
Wheeler-Bennett, p. 769

  
59
Ibid., p. 768

  
60
Queen Elizabeth to Lady Violet Bonham Carter, 27 March 1949, Bodleian Library, MS BC 169/125–6

  
61
Laird, p. 301

  
62
Queen Elizabeth to Marion Crawford, 1 January 1949, RA QEII/OUT/BUTHLAY

  
63
Marion Crawford to Queen Elizabeth, 28 January 1949, RA QEQM/PRIV/HH

  
64
Marion Crawford to Queen Elizabeth, 8 March 1949, RA QEQM/PRIV/HH

  
65
Queen Elizabeth to Marion Crawford, 4 April 1949, from a copy in Princeton University Library, quoted in Vickers, p. 283. This appears to be the only extant copy

  
66
Marion Crawford to Queen Elizabeth, 15 April 1949, RA QEQM/PRIV/HH

  
67
Queen Elizabeth to Lady Astor, 19 October 1949, quoted in Vickers, pp. 285–6

  
68
Major Thomas Harvey to Lady Astor, undated draft, RA PS/PSO/QEII/PS/19/9/00/4

  
69
Notes by Princess Elizabeth, RA PS/PSO/QEII/PS/19/9/00/4; Lady Astor to Mr and Mrs Gould, quoted in Vickers, p. 286

  
70
Major Thomas Harvey to Lady Astor, undated draft, RA PS/PSO/QEII/PS/19/9/00/4

  
71
Bruce Gould to Lady Astor, 24 October 1949, RA PS/PSO/QEII/PS/19/9/00/4

  
72
Bruce and Beatrice Gould to Lady Astor, 27 October 1949, RA PS/PSO/QEII/PS/19/9/00/4

  
73
Queen Elizabeth to Major Thomas Harvey, undated memorandum [27 October 1949], RA PS/PSO/QEII/PS/19/9/00/4

  
74
Vickers, p. 289

  
75
Correspondence with
Woman’s Own
and Cassell & Co., January-March 1950, RA PPTO/PP/GVI/MAIN/7606

  
76
Laird, p. 301

  
77
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 15 October 1950, RA QM/PRIV/CC14/15

  
78
Queen Elizabeth to Princess Elizabeth 29 December 1950, RA QEII/PRIV/RF

  
79
Ibid.

  
80
Queen Elizabeth to Princess Elizabeth, 7 April 1951, RA QEII/PRIV/RF

  
81
King George VI to Queen Mary, 26 May 1951, RA QM/PRIV/CC14/26

  
82
King George VI to Queen Mary, 31 May 1951, RA QM/PRIV/CC14/28

  
83
Wheeler-Bennett, p. 787

  
84
Queen Mary to King George VI, 6 June 1951, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11

  
85
King George VI to Queen Mary, 12 June 1951, RA QM/PRIV/CC14/30

  
86
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 10 July 1951, RA QM/PRIV/CC14/32

  
87
RA QEQM/PRIV/POEM

  
88
Wheeler-Bennett, p. 788

  
89
King George VI to Queen Mary, 11 September 1951, RA QM/PRIV/CC14/35

  
90
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 17 September 1951, RA QM/PRIV/CC14/36

  
91
Bradford,
George VI
, pp. 600–1

  
92
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 21 September 1951, RA QM/PRIV/CC14/37

  
93
Wheeler-Bennett, p. 788

  
94
Queen Elizabeth to Princess Elizabeth, 22 September 1951, RA QEII/PRIV/RF

  
95
Sir Alan Lascelles to Queen Elizabeth, 23 September 1951, RA QEQM/PRIV/MISCOFF

  
96
Queen Elizabeth to Sir Alan Lascelles, 23 September 1951, RA PS/PSO/AL/Box B

  
97
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 23 September 1951, RA QM/PRIV/CC14/38

  
98
Queen Elizabeth to Sir Alan Lascelles, 23 September 1951, RA PS/PSO/AL/Box B

  
99
Owen Morshead, notes of conversation with Sir Richard Molyneux, 30 March 1953, RA AEC/GG/12/OS/2

100
Sir Alan Lascelles to Queen Elizabeth, 23 September 1951, RA QEQM/PRIV/MISCOFF, and Queen Elizabeth to Sir Alan Lascelles, 23 September 1951, RA PS/PSO/AL/Box B

101
Queen Elizabeth to Duke of Windsor, 25 September 1951, RA EDW/PRIV/MAINB/182

102
Queen Mary to King George VI, 17 November 1951, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11

103
Bradford,
George VI
, p. 601

104
Queen Elizabeth to May Elphinstone, 5 October 1951, RA QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE

105
Princess Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth, 16 October 1951, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

106
Princess Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth, 4 November 1951, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

107
Queen Elizabeth to Princess Elizabeth, 15 October 1951, RA QEII/PRIV/RF

108
Princess Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth, 4 November 1951, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

109
King George VI to Queen Mary, 14 October 1951, RA QM/PRIV/CC14/40

110
Queen Elizabeth to Princess Elizabeth 15 October 1951, RA QEII/PRIV/RF

111
Bradford,
George VI
, p. 605

112
Ibid.

113
King George VI to Queen Mary, 23 January 1952, RA QM/PRIV/CC14/42

114
Wheeler-Bennett, p. 605

115
Queen Elizabeth to Princess Elizabeth, 2 February 1952, RA QEII/PRIV/RF

116
Ibid.

117
King George VI to Sir John Weir (copy, enclosed with letter from Sir John Weir to Queen Elizabeth, 21 February 1952), 3 February 1952, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL; King George VI to Lord Halifax, 4 February 1952, Hickleton Papers, A2/278/26/7

118
John Wheeler-Bennett, interview with James Macdonald, 20 October 1954, RA AEC/GG/20

119
Queen Elizabeth to Lady Delia Peel, 11 February 1952, Althorp Archives

120
Queen Elizabeth to Edward Seago (extract), n.d. [February 1952], RA QEQMH/PS/GEN/1989/Seago

121
John Wheeler-Bennett, interview with James Macdonald, 20 October 1954, RA AEC/GG/20

122
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 6 February 1952, RA QM/PRIV/CC14/44

123
Bradford,
George VI
, pp. 607–8: author’s interview with Edward Ford

124
Ibid., p. 608

125
Ibid., pp. 607–8: author’s interview with Edward Ford

126
RA QM/PRIV/DIARY/1952: 6 February

127
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 6 February 1952, RA QM/PRIV/CC14/44

128
Queen Mary to Queen Elizabeth, 7 February 1952, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

129
Commander Michael Parker quoted in Bradford,
Elizabeth
, p. 66

130
Author’s interview with Countess Mountbatten of Burma

131
Pope-Hennessy, p. 619

132
Queen Mary to Queen Elizabeth, 7 February 1952, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

133
Queen Elizabeth II to John Elphinstone, 13 February 1952, RA QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE

134
Queen Elizabeth to Sir Alan Lascelles, 12 February 1953, RA PS/PSO/AL/Box B

135
Sir Alan Lascelles to Queen Elizabeth, 13 February 1952, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

136
Queen Elizabeth to Sir Alan Lascelles, 15 February 1952, RA PS/PSO/AL/Box B

    
1
Notes by Lady Elizabeth Basset, ‘Living Her Faith’, June 1990, RA QEQMH/PS/PRIV

    
2
Winston Churchill to Queen Elizabeth, 14 February 1952, RA QEQM/PRIV/DEATH/GVI

    
3
Clementine Churchill to Queen Elizabeth, 12 February 1952, RA QEQM/PRIV/DEATH/GVI

    
4
General Eisenhower to Queen Elizabeth, 7 February 1952, RA QEQM/PRIV/DEATH/GVI

    
5
Eleanor Roosevelt to Queen Elizabeth, 7 February 1952, RA QEQM/PRIV/DEATH/GVI

    
6
Ziegler,
Edward VIII
, p. 537

    
7
Ibid.

    
8
Queen Mary to Queen Elizabeth, 10 February 1952, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

    
9
Queen Mary to the Earl of Athlone and Princess Alice, 23 February 1952, RA QM/PRIV/CC53/1566

  
10
Duke of Windsor to Queen Elizabeth, 18 February 1952, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  
11
Queen Elizabeth to Sir Alan Lascelles, 19 February 1952, CAC LASL 2/2/8

  
12
Michael Bloch,
The Secret File of The Duke of Windsor
, Bantam Press, 1988, pp. 264–5

  
13
Duke of Windsor to Queen Elizabeth, 18 May 1952, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  
14
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 28 June 1953, RA QEII/PRIV/RF

  
15
Queen Elizabeth’s message, 18 February 1952, RA QEQMH/PS/RF/DEATH/GVI

  
16
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, undated [1952], RA QEII/PRIV/RF

  
17
Queen Mary to Queen Elizabeth, 21 February 1952, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  
18
Sir John Weir to Queen Elizabeth, 21 February 1952, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

  
19
Rt Rev. Edward Woods to Queen Elizabeth, 28 February 1952, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Woods

  
20
Queen Elizabeth to Sir Alan Lascelles, 25 February 1952, RA PS/PSO/AL/Box B

  
21
Sir Alan Lascelles to Queen Elizabeth, 26 February 1952, RA QEQM/PRIV/MISCOFF

  
22
Sir Alan Lascelles to Queen Elizabeth, 1 April 1952, RA QEQM/PRIV/MISCOFF

  
23
Queen Elizabeth to Sir Alan Lascelles, 25 February 1952, RA PS/PSO/AL/Box B; Lascelles to Queen Elizabeth, 26 February 1952, RA QEQM/PRIV/MISCOFF

  
24
Elizabeth Longford,
Elizabeth R
, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1983, p. 155; John Colville,
The Fringes of Power
, Hodder & Stoughton, 1985, p. 641

  
25
The Macmillan Diaries: The Cabinet Years 1950–1957
, ed. Peter Catterall, Macmillan, 2003, p. 150

  
26
Lord Airlie to Queen Elizabeth, 8 May [1952], RA QEQM/PRIV/HH

  
27
Queen Elizabeth to Arthur Penn, 1 April 1952, Penn Papers

  
28
Queen Elizabeth to the Hon. David Bowes Lyon, 20 March 1952, Bowes Lyon Papers, SPW

  
29
Queen Elizabeth to Sir Alan Lascelles, 25 February 1952, RA PS/PSO/AL/Box B

  
30
Queen Elizabeth to Lord Salisbury, 14 March 1952, Hatfield House, Papers of fifth Marquess of Salisbury

  
31
Owen Morshead, notes of conversation with Sir Richard Molyneux, 30 March 1953, RA AEC/GG/12/OS/2

  
32
D’Arcy Osborne to Queen Elizabeth, 11 March 1952, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Osborne

  
33
Betty Bowes Lyon to Queen Elizabeth, 7 March 1952, RA QEQM/PRIV/BL

  
34
Queen Elizabeth to the Hon. David Bowes Lyon, 20 March 1952, Bowes Lyon Papers, SPW

  
35
Lady Katherine Seymour to Countess Spencer, 26 March 1952, Althorp Archives

  
36
Queen Elizabeth to Lady Delia Peel, 22 April 1952, Althorp Archives

  
37
Queen Elizabeth to Osbert Sitwell, 3 May 1952, Sitwell Papers

  
38
Lord Davidson to Queen Elizabeth, 26 February 1952, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

  
39
Queen Elizabeth to Lord Davidson, 31 March 1952, RA GVI/ADD/MISC/COPY

  
40
Queen Elizabeth to Arthur Penn, 1 April 1952, Penn Papers

  
41
Queen Elizabeth to Lady Salisbury, 28 April 1952, Hatfield House, Papers of Elizabeth, Marchioness of Salisbury

  
42
Queen Elizabeth to Cecil Boyd-Rochfort, 14 May 1952, RA QEQM/OUT/BOYD-ROCHFORT

  
43
Osbert Sitwell to Queen Elizabeth, 7 May 1952, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Sitwell

  
44
Queen Elizabeth to Osbert Sitwell, 3 May 1952, Sitwell Papers

  
45
Oliver Dawnay to Major General R. K. Arbuthnott, 28 April 1952, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/Black Watch

  
46
Laird, pp. 315–16

  
47
Sir Miles Thomas,
Out on a Wing
, Michael Joseph, 1964, p. 313

  
48
Hugh Massingberd, ‘She derived much pleasure from all that she did’,
Daily Telegraph,1
April 2002; Squadron Leader J. P. Meadows to Oliver Dawnay, 24 May 1952, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/600 City of London Squadron RAAF

  
49
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 22 June 1952, RA QM/PRIV/CC14/55

  
50
The Queen Mother Remembered
, ed. James Hogg and Michael Mortimer, BBC Worldwide, 2002, p. 161

  
51
Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RA QEQM/ADD/MISC

  
52
Lady Doris Vyner to Queen Elizabeth, n.d. [20 August 1952], RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

  
53
Commander Clare Vyner to Queen Elizabeth, 23 August 1952, RA QEQM/PRIV/RES

  
54
Lady Doris Vyner to Queen Elizabeth, n.d. [3 December 1952], n.d. [December 1952], RA QEQM/PRIV/RES