Authors: William Shawcross
110
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111
Princess Margaret to Queen Elizabeth II, 14 September 1997, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
112
Bogdanor, passim; Shawcross, p. 214
113
Rowan Williams,
Lost Icons: Reflections on Cultural Bereavement
, T. & T. Clark, 2000, pp. 65–6
114
Author’s interview with Dr Ian Campbell
115
Ted Hughes to Queen Elizabeth, 1 June 1997, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Hughes
116
Ted Hughes to Queen Elizabeth, 26 May 1998, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Hughes
117
Queen Elizabeth’s copy of
Birthday Letters
, dedicated by Ted Hughes, 15 May 1998, RCIN 1167528
118
Lady Penn, diary, Penn Papers
119
Ted Hughes to Queen Elizabeth, 26 May 1998, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Hughes
120
Ted Hughes to Hilda Farrer, 19 October 1998,
Letters of Ted Hughes
, ed. Christopher Reid, Faber & Faber, 2007, pp. 736–7
121
Carol Hughes to Queen Elizabeth, 18 November 1998, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Hughes
1
Note by Sir Hugh Roberts, ‘Tea at Royal Lodge’, 20 February 1999
2
Ibid.
3
Queen Elizabeth to Lady Katharine Farrell, 26 January 1999, Farrell Papers
4
Queen Elizabeth to Lady Katharine Farrell, 12 May 1999, Farrell Papers
5
Author’s interview with Sir Michael Oswald
6
Tom Stoppard to Queen Elizabeth, 18 June 1999, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
7
Rev. Anthony Harbottle to Queen Elizabeth, 3 February 2000; Queen Elizabeth to Rev. Anthony Harbottle, 7 February 2000, Harbottle Papers
8
Lady Angela Oswald, diary compiled for the author
9
Ibid.
10
Hansard, 3 April 2002
11
Hansard, 11 July 2000
12
Interview with Sir Michael Parker on behalf of the author
13
Ibid.
14
Queen Elizabeth to Major Michael Parker, 2 August 2000, Michael Parker Papers
15
Queen Fabiola to Queen Elizabeth, 29 July 2000, RA QEQM/PRIV/FORRF
16
Andrew Motion to Sir Alastair Aird, 13 August 2000, RA QEQMH/PS/GEN/2000/Motion
17
Campbell-Preston, p. 309
18
Prince of Wales to Queen Elizabeth, 6 August 2000, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
19
Elizabeth Basset,
Moments of Vision
, Ledburn Press, 2004, p. 140
20
Author’s interview with Lady Angela Oswald
21
Sermon preached by the Rev. John Robson LVO, Chaplain of the Savoy Chapel, Sunday 7 April 2002
22
Prince of Wales to Queen Elizabeth, 29 July 2001, Clarence House Archives
23
Lady Angela Oswald, diary compiled for the author
24
Author’s interview with Lucy Murphy
25
Prince of Wales to Queen Elizabeth, 8 August 2001, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
26
Author’s interview with Mrs Timmy Munro
27
Prince of Wales to Queen Elizabeth, 8 September 2001, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
28
RA QEQMH/PS/ENGTPRIV/2001: 11 October
29
Author’s interview with Charlie Wright
30
Author’s interview with the Duke of Kent
31
Navy News
, 27 November 2001
32
Rev. Robert Beaken to Queen Elizabeth, 4 December 2001, RA QEQMH/PS/GEN/2001/Beaken; Sir Alastair Aird to Mrs Coryne Hall, 4 December 2001, RA QEQMH/PS/GEN/2001/Hall
33
Author’s interview with Sir Michael Oswald
34
Campbell-Preston, pp. 309–10
35
Author’s interview with Leslie Chappell and Jacqui Meakin
36
Prince of Wales to Queen Elizabeth, 12 February 2002, Clarence House Archives
37
Lady Angela Oswald to author, 14 May 2009
38
Author’s interview with Gillian Frampton
39
Sir Alastair Aird, account of the last days of Queen Elizabeth, RA QEQM/ADD/MISC
40
Author’s interview with Canon Ovenden;
The Oxford Book of Prayer
, ed. George Appleton, Oxford University Press, 1985, p. 101
41
In Tearing Haste: Letters between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor
, ed. Charlotte Mosley, John Murray, 2008, p. 332
42
Author’s interview with lady in waiting
43
Guardian
, 2 April 2002
44
Daily Telegraph
, 9 April 2002
1
J. M. Roberts,
Twentieth Century
, Allen Lane, 1999, pp. 848–56
2
The Queen to Most Rev. Cosmo Lang, 12 December 1936, Lambeth Palace Library, Lang Papers 318, ff. 177–80
3
Nicolson,
Diaries and Letters 1930–1939
, p. 405
4
The Queen to Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, 2 October 1939, copy enclosed with letter from Prince of Wales to Queen Elizabeth, 1 September 2000, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
5
John Wheeler-Bennett, draft obituary of Queen Elizabeth for
The Times
, October 1967, RA AEC/GG/20
6
Duchess of York to D’Arcy Osborne, 13 July 1928, RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE
7
Most Rev. Cosmo Lang to Queen Elizabeth, 5 September 1939, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Lang
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