The Viceroy's Daughters (49 page)

Mendl, Elsie, 121, 157, 280

Mercier, Charles, 262

Messel, Oliver, 121

Metcalfe, David, 119, 140, 193–94, 253, 254, 280, 297, 334, 357, 387, 395

Metcalfe, Davina, 144

Metcalfe, Edward Dudley (“Fruity”), 72–75, 84; and Duke of Windsor (as Prince of Wales), 72–73, 74, 75, 79–81, 88–90, 95, 102–103, 110–11, 117, 133–34, 142, 202; appearance, 73, 232; character, 73, 101; in India, 72–74; courtship of Baba, 87–88, 90–93, 94–95, 100–103; riding accident, 88–89; and Lord Curzon's death, 97–98, 99; marriage to Baba, 103–104; married life, 123, 133–34, 141–43, 168, 174, 188, 201–202, 215–16, 232, 234–35, 275, 279, 283, 382; as Father Christmas, 174; and Cimmie's illness and death, 184; and Baba's relationship with Tom Mosley, 186, 191, 193, 194, 197–98, 212–13, 214, 217, 218, 317; and Baba's relationship with Grandi, 197; illness, 205; and the Abdication crisis, 239; and the Duchess of Windsor, 246, 282, 310–12, 315, 321; at Schloss Enzesfeld with the Duke of Windsor, 246–51, 252, 253; and the wedding of the Duke of Windsor, 256–57, 258, 260, 263, 264; at the Villa La Croë, 279–80, 296–97; hernia operation, 293, 296–97; and the Duke of Windsor on the outbreak of war, 300–302; wartime letters to Baba, 300–302, 325–27, 347–48; and the Duke of Windsor at the Military Mission in Paris, 306–307, 310–13, 315–17, 321, 322–23; abandoned by the Duke of Windsor in Paris, 326–28, 360–61; and Baba's relationship with Lord Halifax, 330; at Little Compton in wartime, 334, 367, 368–69; war service in Cairo, 357, 363, 364–65, 367–68; meeting with the Duke of Windsor (1946), 392; divorce from Baba, 395, 396, 397; illness and death, 397–98

Metcalfe, Lady Alexanda
see
Curzon, Lady Alexandra (“Baba”)

Metcalfe, Linda, 144

Milner, Alfred, Lord 22, 23

Mitford, Debo, 296

Mitford, Diana
see
Guinness, Diana

Mitford, Nancy, 164, 336

Mitford, Tom, 158, 221, 295

Mitford, Unity, 169, 221–22

Molyneux, Captain Edward, 157

Monckton, Walter, 224, 229, 230, 248, 321, 344, 392; and the Abdication crisis, 236, 237, 239–41, 242, 243; and the wedding of the Duke of Windsor, 260, 261, 262–63; and the Windsors on the outbreak of war, 297–98, 300, 304–306; relations with Baba, 320, 322, 336; and the Second World War, 323; at the Dorchester Hotel in wartime, 332, 341

Montacute House, Somerset, 36–37, 38, 59, 67, 82

Montagu, Edwin, 337

Montgomery, Robert, 352

Morris, Sir William, 148

Morrison, Herbert, 271–72, 330–31, 335, 358, 376

Morrow, Ed, 364

Mosley, Alexander, 286–87, 289, 292, 321, 329, 377

Mosley, Lady Cynthia
see
Curzon, Lady Cynthia (“Cimmie”)

Mosley, Lady (Maud), 168, 173, 205, 213, 295; and Cimmie's illness and death, 182, 183–84, 185; and Baba's relations with Tom Mosley, 189, 192; and Baba's relations with Diana Guinness, 190, 231; and Tom Mosley's children, 211, 226–27, 245, 266–67, 275, 278–79, 309; and Tom Mosley's marriage to Diana Guinness, 289; and Tom Mosley's imprisonment,
371

Mosley, Max, 329, 377

Mosley, Micky, 168, 192, 195, 199, 201, 204, 206, 210, 211, 212, 213, 217, 303, 309, 353–54, 371, 373, 379, 389; and the Abdication crisis, 242; and Diana Mosley, 254; and Tom Mosley's marriage to Diana Guinness, 289–90; and the Second World War, 321, 335, 363; Irene's travels with,
390

Mosley, Nicholas, 103, 106, 140, 195, 208, 210, 226, 245, 252, 275; and Tom Mosley's marriage to Diana Guinness, 288, 289; and Tom Mosley's politics, 295; and the Second World War, 298–99, 303, 309, 310, 320, 321, 370, 374; and Tom Mosley's imprisonment, 340, 377; and Irene's public speaking, 389

Mosley, Sir Oswald Ernald (“Tom”): meets Cimmie, 45–47; appearance, 46; as Coalition MP for Harrow, 46–47, 49, 62; and the First World War, 46; love affairs, 46, 105–106, 119, 122, 155, 158, 159, 163, 172; courtship of Cimmie, 49–50, 53, 54–56, 84; marriage to Cimmie, 56–57; and Cimmie's settlement income, 62, 64; and Baba's marriage, 103; married life with Cimmie, 105–108, 122, 140–41, 158, 159; and the Labour Party, 106–108, 113, 114, 123–24, 129–33, 136–39, 145–49, 150–51, 166; family home at Savehay Farm, 114, 205, 206, 211–12, 266; and hunting 117; relations with Irene, 119, 123, 129, 171, 194, 195–96, 205, 206, 208, 227–28; relations with Baba, 123, 176–77, 186, 189–93, 194, 197–98, 200, 201, 202, 203, 208, 212–14, 215, 217, 218–20, 222, 225–26, 227, 234, 317; Memorandum, 137–38; and the New Party, 145–53, 155–56, 159–63; and fascism, 160–61, 166–67, 171, 173–74, 177–78, 194, 195, 200–201, 203–205, 207–208, 220–21, 233–34, 266, 294–96, 323–25; meets Diana Guinness, 164–65; affair with Diana Guinness, 167–68, 169, 171–72, 173, 174, 175, 200;
The Greater Britain
, 168, 173; and Irene's engagement to Miles Graham, 181; and Cimmie's death, 182–85; relations with his children, 192, 208, 210–12, 226–27, 252, 254, 266–68, 288–90, 308, 309, 310, 353–54; effect of Cimmie's death on, 194–95; health problems, 194, 195–96; character, 226; operation for appendicitis, 230–31; marriage to Diana Guinness, 233–34, 282, 286–87, 288–90; and Christmases at Denham, 244–45; loss of libel case, 270–71; birth of son Alexander, 286–87; and Nazi Germany, 291; Lord Halifax compared with, 318; imprisonment, 324–25, 328, 329, 330–31, 335, 340, 350, 352, 358–59, 370, 371; release from prison, 375–77; at Crowood House after the war, 385–86; Baba's hatred of, 399

Mosley, Vivien, 103, 105, 106, 192, 194, 195, 205, 208, 210–11, 218, 226, 245, 254; and Diana Mosley, 266; visit to Germany, 269–70; in Paris, 278; coming-out, 288, 290–91, 292, 293–94; and Tom Mosley's marriage to Diana Guinness, 288, 289; and Tom Mosley's politics, 295; and the Second World War, 298–99, 308, 314, 353, 359; and Tom Mosley's imprisonment, 324, 325, 340, 377; and Irene's drinking bouts, 362; and Baba's relations with Irene, 377

Mountbatten, Lady Edwina, 74, 75, 101, 103, 104, 112, 134, 251, 335; and the Abdication crisis, 237, 240, 241

Mountbatten, Lord Louis (“Dickie”), 73–74, 75, 103, 104, 216, 230, 251; and Brook House, 100–101; and the Abdication crisis, 239, 241; and the Windsors on the outbreak of war, 305

Munich crisis, 276–77, 283–86

Mussolini, Benito, 160, 178, 196, 214, 215, 220–21, 274, 284, 291–92; and Hitler, 269–70, 296; death, 384

 

National Government, 159, 161

Nazi Germany, 152; and Diana Guinness, 221–22, 291; Nuremberg Congress, 231–32; visit of the Duke of Windsor to, 268–69, 271–72; Irene and Vivien Mosley in, 269–70; and Lord Halifax, 274–75; and the Munich crisis, 276–77, 283–86; and Tom Mosley, 291,
see also
Hitler, Adolf; Second World War

Negri, Pola, 110

New Party, 145–53, 155–56, 159–63,
166

Nichols, Philip, 273

Nicolson, Harold, 99, 130, 131, 166, 167, 223–24, 227, 363, 397; and the New Party, 145, 152, 153, 156, 159, 160–63; and the Munich Agreement, 285–86

Nicolson, Nigel, 398–99

Norton, Mrs. Richard, 120

Novello, Ivor, 121

 

O'Connor, Terence, 265

Onslow, Lady Dorothy, 110

Otto, Archduke of Austria, 334

Owen, Frank, 277

 

Pakenham, Mrs. (later Lady Longford),
197

Palewski, Gaston, 336

Paul, Prince of Greece, 195

Peake, Charles (later Sir Charles), 319, 341–42, 369, 371–72, 374, 376, 395,
396

Phillips, Gray, 312, 355

Portal, Lord, 332

Portarlington, Winnie, 178, 179–80, 182, 187

Potts, Miss Jane, 19

Pratt, Sir John, 150

Price, Ward, 266

 

Ramsay, Captain Maule, 324

Ravensdale, Lady
see
Curzon, Lady Irene (later Lady Ravensdale)

Reading, Stella, Marchioness of, 390

Redesdale, Lady, 289, 296

Rennell, Lady, 217

Rice, Edward, 117–18

Robeson, Paul, 121, 133

Rochfort, Cecil Boyd, 224

Roehm, Ernst, 206

Rogers, Herman, 255, 259, 260, 263

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 284, 349

Roosevelt, Theodore, 112

Rothschild, Baron Eugene de, 243,
262

Rothschild, Kitty, 244, 246, 248, 249–50, 262

Rothschild, Mrs. Leo, 334

Rubinstein, Arthur, 34–35, 111, 118, 127, 133, 140, 168–70

Russell, Mrs. Gilbert, 352

Russell, Muriel, 92, 213

 

Salisbury, Lady, 55, 83–84

Sanford, Laddie, 112

Sargent, Malcolm, 128

Scarsdale, Lord (father of Lord Curzon), 2, 6, 40

Second World War, 303–17; outbreak, 297–99; and the Duke of Windsor, 299–302, 304–307, 310–13; and upper-class social life, 313–14; and Strasbourg, 315–16; invasion of Norway, Denmark and the Low Countries, 322–23; fall of France, 325–26, 329; bombing raids, 331, 333–34, 347–48, 381–82; and the Dorchester Hotel, 331, 332–34, 335, 340–41, 351, 352; bombing of Pearl Harbor, 357–58; conscription of women 359; and Cairo, 367–68; Allied gains, 380–81, 382, 383

Sefton, Lord, 257, 280

Selby, Lady, 262, 264

Selby, Sir Wolford, 243

Senhouse, Roger, 352

Seymour, Sir Horace, 333

Shaw, Bernard, 154

Shaw, Bobbie, 23, 78–79, 117, 153–55

Shilling Theatre Company, 195

Sibley, Lena, 140, 141, 144, 151, 152

Sibley, Nanny, 17

Sieff, Israel, 171, 172–74

Sikorski, General, 343, 372

Simpson, Wallis (later Duchess of Windsor), 202, 216–17, 224; and Edward VIII as King, 224, 228–30, 232–33, 234; and the Abdication crisis, 236–38, 240; telephone calls to the Duke at the Schloss Enzesfeld, 244, 247, 249–50; and Fruity Metcalfe, 246, 282, 310–12, 315, 321; marriage to the Duke of Windsor, 255–65; appearance, 259; and the HRH question, 260–61, 264, 265; and the Second World War, 300, 301, 323; stays with the Metcalfes during the war, 304–307; Red Cross work during the war, 310, 315, 316; and Baba, 322, 360–61, 383, 392–93; visit to Washington in wartime, 355–57; and Fruity's death, 397–98

Sinclair, Sir Archibald, 106, 177, 364,
365

Sitwell, Georgia, 121, 122, 133, 137, 174, 191; and Fruity Metcalfe, 142, 163, 290, 334; on Mosley and politics, 151, 155, 161, 162; and Baba, 163, 290, 291, 323, 335; on Diana Guinness, 164, 173, 174; as Tom Mosley's mistress, 168; on Cimmie's death, 185, 186; on Baba's relations with Tom Mosley, 203; on the British Union of Fascists, 204; on the Duke of Windsor's wedding, 267

Sitwell, Osbert, 156

Sitwell, Sacheverell, 121, 122, 161, 163, 174, 185

Smith, F. E., 46

Smith, Lady Eleanor, 133

Snowden, Philip, 137

Somerville, Donald, 325

Souls, the, 3, 26, 30, 35, 39, 41, 77

Stanley, Lady Maureen, 143

Stanley, Oliver, 143, 145, 332

Stanley, Venetia, 320

Stevenson, Frances (later Lady Lloyd George), 72

Steward, Campbell, 303

Storrs, Ronald, 70–71

Strachey, John, 107, 108, 111, 121, 131,
133, 137, 145, 146, 208, 226; and the New Party, 152–53

Strasbourg, 254, 315–16

Sweeney, Bobby, 234

 

Tattershall Castle, Lincolnshire, 35, 59,
100

Thomas, J. H., 136, 137, 139, 223–24

Thompson, Edith, 16

Tiarks, Henry, 372

Tree, Nancy, 251

Tree, Ronnie, 117, 251, 276

Trotter, Brigadier Gerald (“G”), 90, 91

 

unemployment, and Mosley's politics, 136, 137, 156, 162

 

Valentino, Rudolf, 110

Vanderbilt, Gloria, 126

Vaughan, General John, 86

Verdura, Fulco di, 225

 

Walpole, Hugh, 227

Walton, William, 133

Ward, Colonel, 129, 131–32

Ward, Mrs. Freda Dudley, 71, 73, 75, 112, 125, 163, 202, 229

Wardell, Captain Michael, 85–86, 89, 282, 295

Webb, Beatrice, 107, 123–24, 136, 138, 139, 145–46, 161

Webb, Sidney, 123–24

Weidenfeld, George (now Lord), 390

Weizmann, Chaim, 344, 352, 372

Westminster, Loelia, Duchess of,
335

Whitney, Adrienne, 352