The Queen Mother (189 page)

  
21
Queen Elizabeth to Sir Arthur Penn, n.d., Penn Papers

  
22
Sir Arthur Penn to Queen Elizabeth (draft), 23 September 1958, Penn Papers

  
23
Queen Elizabeth to Sir Arthur Penn, 25 September 1958, Penn Papers

  
24
Rose,
Kings, Queens and Courtiers
, pp. 129–30

  
25
Ibid.

  
26
Sir Gladwyn Jebb to Selwyn Lloyd, 20 March 1956 (copy dispatch), RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1956/FRA

  
27
Report by Private Secretary to British Ambassador, attached to telegram of 20 March 1956, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1956/FRA

  
28
Lady Salisbury to Queen Elizabeth, n.d. [March 1956], RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Salisbury

  
29
The Diaries of Cynthia Gladwyn 1946–71
, ed. Miles Jebb, Constable, 1995, p. 168

  
30
Lady Jebb to Queen Elizabeth, 24 March 1956, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

  
31
Sir Gladwyn Jebb to Selwyn Lloyd (copy dispatch), 20 March 1956, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1956/FRA

  
32
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 12 April 1956, RA QEII/PRIV/RF

  
33
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 10 April 1957, RA QEII/PRIV/RF

  
34
Lady in waiting’s diary, 8 July 1957, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW

  
35
Ibid., 9 July 1957

  
36
Ibid., 10–11 July 1957

  
37
Ibid., 13–15 July 1957

  
38
Ibid., 16 July 1957

  
39
E. L. Sykes, Acting UK High Commissioner, to Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, 23 July 1957, National Archives, Treaty Royal Matters, FO 372 7449 1957

  
40
Author’s interview with Sir James Scholtens

  
41
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 9 February 1958, RA QEII/PRIV/RF

  
42
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 18 February 1958, RA QEII/PRIV/RF

  
43
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 1 March 1958, RA QEII/PRIV/RF

  
44
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 13 February 1958, RA QEII/PRIV/RF

  
45
Queen Elizabeth II to Queen Elizabeth, 20 February 1958; Princess Margaret to Queen Elizabeth, 25 February [1958], RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  
46
Queen Elizabeth to Princess Margaret, 22 February 1958, Linley Papers

  
47
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 1 March 1958, RA QEII/PRIV/RF

  
48
Ibid.

  
49
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 9 February 1958, RA QEII/PRIV/RF

  
50
Queen Elizabeth to Cecil Boyd-Rochfort, 18 February 1958, RA QEQM/OUT/BOYD-ROCHFORT

  
51
Allen Brown to Queen Elizabeth, n.d. [March 1958], RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

  
52
Sir Robert Scott, Governor of Mauritius, to the Secretary of State for the Colonies (copy dispatch), 14 March 1958, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1958/AUSNZ

  
53
Laird, p. 336

  
54
Ibid., p. 337

  
55
Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 1 March 1958, RA QEII/PRIV/RF

  
56
Queen Elizabeth II, speech to City of London, 7 June 1977

  
57
Dr Kiano to Queen Elizabeth, telegram, 30 January 1959, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1959/KENUG/I/I

  
58
Acting Governor of Kenya to the Secretary of State for the Colonies (copy dispatch), 21 January 1959, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1959/KENUG

  
59
Lady in waiting’s diary, 9 February 1959, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW

  
60
Princess Margaret to Queen Elizabeth, 11 February 1959, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  
61
Laird, p. 339

  
62
Sir Evelyn Baring to Alan Lennox-Boyd (copy dispatch), 30 May 1959, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1959/KENUG/II/7

  
63
Valentine card sent to Queen Elizabeth, RA QEQM/PRIV/GEN

  
64
Sir Evelyn Baring to Alan Lennox-Boyd (copy dispatch), 30 May 1959, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1959/KENUG/II/7

  
65
Ibid.

  
66
Ibid.

  
67
Ibid.

  
68
Lady Mary Baring to Queen Elizabeth, 5 March 1959, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

  
69
Queen Elizabeth to Princess Margaret, 21 February 1959, Linley Papers

  
70
Ibid.

  
71
Sir Frederick Crawford to Alan Lennox-Boyd (copy dispatch), 6 March 1959, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1959/KENUG/II/7

  
72
Ibid.

  
73
Ibid.

  
74
George Thomas MP to Leiutenant Colonel Martin Gilliat, 7 April 1959, RA QEQM/PS/VIS/1959/KENUG/II/8

  
75
Queen Elizabeth to D’Arcy Osborne, 30 January 1959, RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE

  
76
Ibid.

  
77
Ashley Clarke to Selwyn Lloyd, 30 April 1959, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1959/ITAL/3

  
78
Lady Jebb to Queen Elizabeth, 25 January 1959, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

  
79
Diaries of Cynthia Gladwyn
, pp. 235–8

  
80
Major General Sir John Kennedy to Queen Elizabeth, 2 January 1961, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

  
81
Sir R. P. Armitage to Iain Macleod (copy report), 25 June 1960, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1960/RHONY/III/4

  
82
Major General Sir John Kennedy to Queen Elizabeth, 2 January 1961, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

  
83
Queen Elizabeth to Princess Margaret, 22 May 1960, Linley Papers

  
84
Sir R. P. Armitage, to Iain Macleod (copy report), 25 June 1960, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1960/RHONY/III/4

  
85
Lieutenant Colonel Martin Gilliat to Sir R. P. Armitage, 1 June 1960, RA QEQMH/PS/VIS/1960/RHONY/III/3a

  
86
Princess Margaret to Antony Armstrong Jones, 27 October 1958, Snowdon Papers

  
87
Princess Margaret to Antony Armstrong Jones, 31 October 1958, Snowdon Papers

  
88
Princess Margaret to Antony Armstrong Jones, 19 April 1959, Snowdon Papers

  
89
Princess Margaret to Antony Armstrong Jones, 14 August 1959, Snowdon Papers

  
90
Princess Margaret to Antony Armstrong Jones, 22 August 1959, Snowdon Papers

  
91
Princess Margaret to Antony Armstrong Jones, 29 August 1959, Snowdon Papers

  
92
Ibid.

  
93
Princess Margaret to Antony Armstrong Jones, 9 October 1959, Snowdon Papers

  
94
Princess Margaret to Antony Armstrong Jones, 6 December [1959], Snowdon Papers

  
95
Duchess of Gloucester to Queen Elizabeth, n.d. [28 February 1960], RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  
96
Queen Elizabeth to Most Rev. Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, 2 March 1960, RA QEQM/OUT/MISC

  
97
Lady in waiting’s diary, 5 April 1960, RA QEQMH/QEQM/DIARY/LIW

  
98
Longford,
Elizabeth R
, p. 202

  
99
Queen Elizabeth to Princess Margaret, 22 May 1960, Linley Papers

100
Lord Snowdon to Queen Elizabeth, 19 May 1960, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

101
Princess Margaret to Queen Elizabeth, 16 May 1960, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

    
1
Asa Briggs,
A Social History of England
, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1994, p. 319

    
2
Ibid., pp. 317–19

    
3
Ibid., p. 324

    
4
William Shawcross,
Queen and Country
, BBC Worldwide, 2002, p. 77

    
5
Queen Elizabeth to Rachel Bowes Lyon, 1 October 1961, Bowes Lyon Papers, SPW

    
6
Richard Crossman, ‘The Role of the Volunteer in the Modern Social Service’, in
Traditions of Social Policy
, ed. A. H. Halsey, 1976, p. 283, quoted in Prochaska,
Royal Bounty
, pp. 249–50

    
7
Sir Arthur Penn to Dr Percy Dunsheath, 18 February 1954, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/University of London/Box I/MAIN/I

    
8
Queen Elizabeth’s speech, 24 November 1955, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/University of London/Box I/University of London Gazette

    
9
Longford,
Queen Mother
, p. 143

  
10
Note by Queen Elizabeth on first report of University Consultative Committee on Murray Report, February 1974, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/University of London/Box II

  
11
Longford,
Queen Mother
, p. 147

  
12
Noel Annan in
The Queen Mother Remembered
, p. 125

  
13
Ibid., pp. 126, 128

  
14
Times Literary Supplement
, 23 January 2004, pp. 11–13

  
15
Duchess of York, diary, 2 September 1924, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/4

  
16
Lady Katharine Seymour to Miss May McKinlay, 16 September 1939, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Girls Brigade

  
17
Duchess of York’s speech, 24 April 1934, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/British Legion (Women’s Section)

  
18
Information from Lucy Murphy

  
19
Queen Elizabeth’s message, 18 October 1947, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Church of England Children’s Society

  
20
L. R. Shapley to A. S. Greenacre, 29 July 1939, letter forwarded to Queen Elizabeth by Rev. P. B. Clayton, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Toc H

  
21
Sir Martin Gilliat to Sir Alexander Giles, 20 December 1972, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Toc H

  
22
Sir Arthur Penn to Colonel Parkes, 18 March 1948, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/St Mary’s Hospital Paddington

  
23
RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/St Mary’s Hospital Paddington

  
24
Keeper of the Privy Purse to Comptrollers and Ladies-in-Waiting to members of the Royal Family, 29 October 1948, RA QEQMH/PS/CSP/Hospitals

  
25
RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/PS/St Mary’s Hospital Paddington

  
26
Duchess of York’s speech, 27 June 1935, RA QEQMH/PS/ENGT/1935/23

  
27
RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Queen Elizabeth’s Foundation for the Disabled

  
28
Queen Elizabeth’s speech, 1943, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Sandringham WI

  
29
Queen Elizabeth’s speech, 1945, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Sandringham WI

  
30
Queen Elizabeth’s speech, 1951, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Sandringham WI

  
31
Queen Elizabeth’s speech, 1954, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Sandringham WI

  
32
Queen Elizabeth’s speech, 1976, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Sandringham WI

  
33
Queen Elizabeth’s speech, 1987, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Sandringham WI

  
34
Dr William Beaver to Nicholas Assheton, 27 June 2002, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/British Red Cross

  
35
RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/SSAFA

  
36
W. M. Morgan to Sir Ralph Anstruther, 19 May 1993, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Royal College of Music

  
37
RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Middle Temple

  
38
RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/King’s Lynn Festival

  
39
RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Friends of St Paul’s Cathedral

  
40
Sir Ralph Anstruther to Angus Critchley-Waring, 1 August 1972, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Queen Mary’s Clothing Guild

  
41
Statement of accounts, 11 January, 2002, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Queen Mary’s Clothing Guild

  
42
Note by Queen Elizabeth on letter from Angus Stirling to Sir Martin Gilliat, 29 October 1987, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/National Trust

  
43
Queen Elizabeth’s speech, 19 October 1967, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/University of Dundee

  
44
Peter Ustinov in
The Queen Mother Remembered
, pp. 212–15

  
45
RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Injured Jockeys Fund; RA QEQMH/PS/ENGT/2001: 6 December

  
46
Peter Pears to Queen Elizabeth, 7 April 1974, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Aldeburgh Festival

  
47
Peter Pears to Lady Fermoy, 27 September 1974, RA QEQMH/PS/ENGT/13 June 1975

  
48
Régis Cochefert to Sir Alastair Aird, 6 June 2002, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Aldeburgh Festival

  
49
Queen Elizabeth, note to Sir Ralph Anstruther, n.d. [January 1977], RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Sandringham Fur & Feather

  
50
Queen Elizabeth to Sir Ralph Anstruther, n.d. [21 May 1980], RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Sandringham Fur & Feather

  
51
Poultry World
, January 1999, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Poultry Club

  
52
RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Victoria Cross and George Cross Association

  
53
Queen Elizabeth, message sent with letter from Hon. Nicholas Assheton to Earl of Caithness, 21 March 2000, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Clan Sinclair Trust

  
54
Hon. Nicholas Assheton to Bernard Evans, 18 September 2001, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Longhope Lifeboat Museum Trust

  
55
RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/Sir Peter O Sullevan Charitable Trust

  
56
Dr Walter James, article in
Times Higher Education Supplement
, 12 September 1980, RA QEQMH/PS/PAT/St Catharine’s

  
57
Author’s interview with Eric Anderson

  
58
Message from Queen Elizabeth to Lieutenant Colonel John H. Christie, accompanying a bowl of violets sent to the Officers’ Mess, 27 April 1941, illustrated in ‘
Proud to be Your Colonel-in-Chief’, 1937–2002
, Toronto Scottish Regiment, Toronto, 2003

  
59
Queen Elizabeth, annotations on Light Infantry annual reports, 1997, 1998; annotation on letter from Major General Peter Bush to Sir Martin Giliat, 30 December 1981, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/Light Infantry

  
60
Arthur Penn to General Sir Archibald Cameron, 5 July 1940, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/Black Watch

  
61
Queen Elizabeth’s speech, 20 November 1941, RA QEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/Black Watch