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Abdülaziz I, Sultan (1830–76), 136n

Abdülmecid II, Caliph (1868–1944), 136n

Acosta, Angela de (Baba) (Mrs Frederick Shaw), 7

Acosta, Mme Ricardo de, 5, 7

Acosta, Ricardo de, 4

Acosta Lydig, Rita de see Lydig

Adams, Maude (1872–1953), 98, 230

Aherne, Brian (1902–86), 218

Akins, Zoë (1886–1958), 1, 108

Alba, Mme, 113, 119

Alice, HRH Princess, Countess of Athlone (1883–1981), 114n

Alpert, Hollis, The Barrymores, 225–6

Anderson, Dame Judith (1898–1992), 64

Anna Karenina (1947), 73, 79

Anne, HRH The Princess (Princess Royal) (b. 1950), 148–9

Anouilh, Jean (1910–87), 143

Antonioni, Michelangelo (b. 1912), 224

Arlen, Michael (1895–1956), The Green Hat, 19

Arnold-Wallinger, John, 133n

Ashton, Sir Frederick (1904–88), 143, 233,

Astaire, Adèle (Lady Charles Cavendish) (1896–1981), 36

Astaire, Fred (1899–1987), 36

Astor, Alice (1902–56), 52

Astor, Hon. Mrs Ana Inez (Chiquita) (1918–1992), 214

Astor, Mary (1906–87), 31

Atatürk (Mustafa Kemal) (1881–1938), 13

Athlone, the Earl of (1874–1957), 114n

Auric, Georges (1899–1983), 75n

Auric, Mme Georges (Nora), 75n

Baba, Sri Meher, 50, 56

Bacharach, Burt (b. 1929), 225n

Bagnold, Enid (1889–1981), 186

Bailey, David (b. 1938), 26

Bainbridge, John, 185, 186

Balanchine, George (1904–83), 17n, 63n

Balzac, Honoré de (1799–1850), 60

Bankhead, Tallulah (1903–68), 1, 19, 131

Barrymore, John (1882–1942), 2

Bath, 6th Marquess of (1905–92), 158

Beaton, Baba see Hambro

Beaton, Sir Cecil (1904–80), receives letter from Anita Loos, 1, 2, 4; early obsession with GG, 2; on Rita Lydig, 4–5; 1st meeting with GG (1932), 24–5, 37, 38–9; origins of, 26–7; early life, 27–9; breakthrough, 29; meets Mercedes (1928), 29–30; Mercedes on, 30–1; prepares Book of Beauty (1929), 31; discusses GG with Mercedes (1930), 32; on GG in Book of Beauty, 33–4; early sex life, 35–8; on homosexuality, 35–6

Affairs with: Marjorie Oelrichs, 36; Adèle Astaire, 36; Peter Watson, 1, 37; Doris Castlerosse, 37; Lilia Ralli, 37; and Coral Browne, 38

writes of GG in Scrapbook, 39–41; and Marlene Dietrich, 43, 53; career in 1930s, 54–5; and Vogue dismissal, 54–5; and royal photography, 55, 121, 136, 148–9

2nd meeting with GG (1946), 67–8; proposes to GG, 67–8; 1st photo session with GG, 68; sells GG photos to Vogue, 69; in New York and California (Sept 1946–Jan 1947), 70–3; re-establishes contact with GG, 72–3; in England (Jan–Oct 1947), 73–83, 84–5; purchases Reddish House, 74, 77–8, 80; describes Paris and Chantilly life to GG, 75–6

works on Korda films, 78–9; receives food packages from GG, 81–2; professes devotion to GG, 81–2; awaits GG in London in vain, 82–3, 84–5; invites GG to nest at Broadchalke, 84

In USA (Oct 1947–March 1948), 86–110 (New York, 86–104 and 107–10; California 104–7); contradictory desires, 86; consummates affair with GG, 87; consults Mona Harrison Williams re love strategy, 89; plays it cool with GG, 89–90; chided by GG for boorish love-making, 91; rejoices in his ‘greatest triumph’, 92; spends Christmas with GG and Mercedes, 94; and Boxing Day party, 95; joins GG on New Year’s Eve (1948), 95–6; accused by GG of keeping diary, 97; confides same to diary, 97; dines with Mercedes, 98–100; photographs GG again, 101; stalks GG and Schlee at theatre, 101; arrives in California, 104–5; idyllic days with GG, 105–7; exhausted by GG, 107; sorrowful return to New York, 107–8

Returns to England, 111–12; works on ill-fated play, The Gainsborough Girls, 112, 120, 204; adorns Reddish House, 113; visited by Christian Bérard, 115; attends Duchess of Kent’s party, 115–16; meets Tennessee Williams, 117; gives supper party for Duchess of Kent, 118; visits Paris, 118; visits stately homes, 118–19; visited by Lucian Freud, 119–20; photographs infant Prince Charles (1948), 121; goes to New York, 121; talks to GG, 121; lunches with GG, 121–2; returns to England, 122; reviews GG situation, 122–3; and death of Christian Bérard, 124; encourages GG to return to screen, 125–6; stays with Somerset Maugham, 126; receives news of Mercedes, 126–7

Visits Paris (June 1949), 134; encounters Schlee, 134; informs GG of travel plans, 135; photographs Princess Margaret, 136; holidays in Tangiers, 137–8; encounters GG and Schlee in Paris (Oct 1949), 138–142; sails to New York (Jan 1950), 143; returns to Britain (March 1950), 143; suggests Mercedes escorts GG to Europe, 144–5; encounters Schlee in Paris, 145–6; describes problems of telephoning GG, 146; visits Truman Capote in Taormina, 147; photographs infant Princess Anne (1950), 148–9; reports death of King of Sweden, 149; visits Mercedes in Paris (Nov 1950), 149–50; visits New York (Dec 1950–March 1951), 150–2

Visits Spain (1951), 153; preoccupied with his play opening, 155–6; attends Bestegui Ball in Venice, 156; whisks GG to Broadchalke, 157; with GG in England, 157–9; with GG in Paris, 159–60; regrets GG’s return to New York, 160–1; arrives in New York (Jan 1952), 161; reports news of GG to English friends, 162; major row with GG, 162–5; returns to England (April 1952), 165, 166

Visits Scotland to work on Quadrille, 166; reports on Clarissa Churchill’s marriage, 166–7; arrives in New York to find GG ‘full of sorrows’ (Nov 1952), 168; lunches with GG, 168–9; intermittent meetings with GG, 169; returns to Britain (March 1953), 169

Hears news of GG from Mercedes, 171; in California (1954), 172–3; visits GG’s apartment, 174–5; discusses GG’s plight with Mercedes, 176; working on The Chalk Garden in New York, 177; GG lunches with, in New York (Dec 1954), 178–83; further major row with GG, 180–3; remonstrates with GG (Jan 1955), 183–4; expresses his bitterness about GG to Mercedes, 184; and Bainbridge biography of GG, 185–6; enjoys little contact with GG, 186; and My Fair Lady triumph, 187; and death of Peter Watson (1956), 188; arrives in Paris from New York, 189; steers GG round Paris, 190; smuggles GG into London, 191; with GG in England (1956), 191–6; takes GG to 10 Downing Street, 193–4; besieged by press in Pelham Place, 194–5; entertains GG at Reddish House, 195–6; again despairs of marrying GG, 196

Appointed CBE (1957), 198; visits Japan, 198; on GG’s illnesses and maltreatment of Mercedes, 199–200, 202–3; wins 1st Oscar for Gigi (1958), 203; sees GG in New York (1959), 205–7; and Victor Rothschild visit, 206–7; comments on Mercedes’s memoirs, 208; and GG’s visit to England (1960), 209–12; on Mercedes and GG (1961), 212–13; meets Valentina in Venice, 213–14; publishes The Wandering Years, 214, 232; sees GG in New York (Oct 1961), 214–15; advises Mercedes to take a more remote view of GG, 216; and death of his mother, 216; in Hollywood for ten months, 216–17; hears how Schlee died, 218

On Greek cruise with GG and Cecile de Rothschild (1965), 218, 220–5; in England for Christmas (1965), 226; telephones the ill Mercedes (1966), 229; urges GG to forgive Mercedes, 229; and his epitaph on the dead Mercedes, 230–1

Publishes his GG diaries, The Happy Years (1972), 232–5; becomes a Knight Bachelor, 233–4; encounters Valentina in Venice (1973), 235–6; suffers serious stroke (1974), 236; visited by GG (1975), 236; shunned by GG in New York (1978), 237; death of (1980), 237

His description of visiting Valentina (1970), 238–40; mentioned, 32

Letters to GG, 74–9, 81–3, 84–5, 102–4, 108–10, 113–20, 121, 123–6, 134, 135–6, 137, 138, 142–9, 153, 154–7, 160–1, 166–8, 175–6, 177, 183–4, 188, 189, 197, 201, 204

Letters to Mercedes, 168, 169, 172, 176, 177–8, 184, 185–6, 191–2, 207–15

Letters from Mercedes, 25, 171, 207, 215

Beaton, Ernest (Cecil’s father) (1867–1936), 26, 27, 28

Beaton, Etty (Cecil’s mother) (1872–1962), 26, 27, 77, 107, 112, 116, 154, 157–8, 165, 166, 198, 204, 210, 216, 233

Beaton, Nancy see Smiley

Beaton, Reginald (Cecil’s brother) (1905–33), 27

Beaton, Walter Hardy (1841–1904), 26

Beaton by Bailey (1971), 26

Beaumont, Hugh (Binkie) (1908–73), 117n, 121

Beaverbrook, Lord (1879–1964), 204

Beck, Maurice (1886–1960), 28

Becker, Baronne Renée de, 65n, 166n, 183 &n

Bedford, Sybille (b. 1911), 128, 131, 133

Beery, Wallace (1880–1949), 3

Bel Geddes, Norman (1893–1958), 16

Behrman, S. N. (1893–1973), 60

Benckendorff, John, 87n

Berar, the Princess of (b. 1913), 91, 136 &n

Bérard, Christian (‘Bébé’) (1902–49), 54, 75n, 98 &n, 115–16, 118, 124, 126

Berman, Eugène (1899–1972), 57, 58, 132

Bernadotte, Count Johann Carl (b. 1916), 215

Bernadotte Countess (Kerstin) (b. 1910), 213, 215, 216

Berners, 14th Lord (1883–1956), 37

Bernhardt, Sarah (1844–1923), 5, 11, 76

Berry, Lady Pamela (Lady Hartwell) (1914–82), 158

Bismarck, Count Albert Edward ‘Eddie’ von (1903–70), 89

Blass, Bill (b. 1922), 240

Blondie of the Follies, 2

The Blue Angel, 43

Boldini, Giovanni (1845–1931), 4

Bonjour Tristesse, 199

Bonnard, Pierre (1867–1947), 65, 105, 174, 179

Bouchène, Dimitri (1893–1993), 66

Bourdet, Mme Edouard (Denise) (1892–1967), 75n

Bousquet, Marie-Louise (1874–1967), 75n, 134

Boyer, Charles (1899–1978), 55

Braque, Georges (1882–1963), 57

Britten, Benjamin (1913–76), 143

Broadchalke: Reddish House (Wiltshire: Cecil’s home), 73, 74, 77–8, 80, 82, 87, 112–13, 115, 116, 119, 120, 148, 153, 154, 156–8, 160–1, 162, 163, 169, 175, 181, 193, 195, 209–11, 216, 236, 237

The Broadway Melody (1929), 2n

Broglie, Princesse Jeanne-Marie de, 221 &n, 223, 224

Brown, Frey, 59

Browne, Coral (1913–91), 38 &n

Buchwald, Art (b. 1925), 205

Budberg, Baroness (Moura) (1892–1974), 87 &n

Bundy, Herbert, 161

Burgess, Guy (1910–63), 38

Burnap, Wilder Luke, 201, 229

Burrell, John (1910–72), 115

Burton, Hal (1908–87), 157, 161, 162, 166, 168, 172, 173 &n, 187, 191, 195, 212

Bush, James Irving, 89

Buzzell, Eddie (1897–..), 57–8

Cecil, Lord David (1902–86), 148, 158

Chaliapin, Fedor (1873–1938), 29n

Calthrop, Gladys (1897–1980), 16

Camille (ballet), 72n, 151 &n

Capote, Truman (1924–84), 8, 26, 61, 86–7, 115 &n, 135, 138, 147, 165 &n, 168, 171, 184, 198

Carstairs, Joe (‘Toughie’) (1900–93), 59

Case, Margaret (1891–1921), 67, 68, 80, 95, 97

Castlerosse, Doris, Viscountess (1901–42), 37

The Chalk Garden, 177, 186, 187

Chamberlain, Rt Hon. Neville (1869–1940), 56

Channing, Carol (b. 1921), 130, 149n

Chaplin, Sir Charles (1899–1977), 84, 224

Charles, HRH Prince (The Prince of Wales) (b. 1948), 121, 149

Chekhov, Anton (1860–1904), 10, 106; The Cherry Orchard, 106

Cholmondeley, Marquess of (1883–1968), and Sybil, Marchioness of (1894–1989), 118

Christie, Dame Agatha (1891–1976), 13

Churchill, Clarissa (Lady Eden: later Countess of Avon) (b. 1920), 71 &n, 72, 73, 94, 104, 158, 161, 166–7 &n, 172, 179, 193–4, 195, 198

Churchill, Rt Hon. Sir Winston (1874–1965), 71n, 166n, 204

Claire, Ina (1892–1985), 56

Cleghorn, Louann, 88, 95, 109

Clifford, Pandora (Hon. Mrs Pandora Astor) (1930–87), 83

Cocteau, Jean (1889–1963), 54, 75n, 101, 118n, 128, 199

Collier, Constance (1878–1955), 119 &n, 155

Come of Age, 64

Condé Nast publications, 31, 55, 109n

Connolly, Cyril (1903–1974), 27, 234

Constant de Rebeque, Benjamin (1767–1830), Adolphe, 125 &n

Cooper, Sir Alfred Duff (Viscount Norwich) (1890–1954), 75n, 114, 134

Cooper, Lady Diana (1892–1986), 29, 52, 63, 75–6 &n, 114, 115, 118, 134, 140–1, 145, 155, 156, 159, 206; Trumpets from the Steep, 76n

Cooper, Gary (1901–61), 31, 38, 44

Cornell, Katharine (1893–1974), 62, 63n

Coty, René, President of France (1882–1962), 204

Coward, Sir Noël (1899–1973), 16, 17, 83–4, 89n, 161n, 166, 184, 187, 198–9, 201n, 205, 218, 238

Crawford, Joan (1904–77), 187

Crocker, Harry (1894–1958), 71, 117, 144, 150, 155, 176, 177, 203, 205

Crowinshield, Frank (1872–1947), 54

Cry of the Peacock (Anouilh/Robson), 143

Cukor, George (1899–1983), 53, 106, 109 &n, 116, 217

Cunard, Emerald, Lady (1872–1948), 118 &n

Curie, Marie (1867–1934), 56

Dali, Salvador (1904–89), 57, 95

D’Alvarez, Marguerite (1886–1953), 58

Dark Victory, 2n

Daudet, Alphonse (1840–97), Sapho, 116 &n

Davidova, Lucia, 63 &n

Davies, Marion (1898–1961), 2n

Davis, Bette (1908–89), 2n

Davis, George, 95

De Acosta, Mercedes (1893–1968), affair with GG discussed by Anita Loos, 1, 2; meets GG (1931), 2, 20–1; describes GG, 3–4, 20, 23; writes Desperate script for GG, 4

Early life of, 4–5; vegetarianism of, 5; conviction she is a boy, 5–6; describes attitude to men and women and their sexuality, 6–7, 7–8; threatens brother with knife, 7; and father’s suicide, 7; grabs sister’s throat in fight, 7; and love of speakeasies, 7–8; marriage to Abram Poole, 8, 51–2; and claim: ‘I can get any woman from any man’, 8; style of, 8; poetry of, 8–9

Affairs with: Eleanora Duse, 9; Karsavina, 9; Isadora Duncan, 9; Marie Doro, 10; Nazimova, 10–11; Eva Le Gallienne, 11–17; Marlene Dietrich, 43–8, 50; Ona Munson, 56–9; Poppy Kirk, 128–33, 142, 144, 159, 160, 187

Suspected sighting of GG in Istanbul, 13–14; and her play Jehanne d’Arc, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17; and Sandro Botticelli, 15; stunned by Genthe photo of GG, 17–18; idyll with GG at Silver Lake, 21–2; appalled by GG’s attitude to insects, 22–3; comments on GG’s 1st meeting with CB, 25

Meets CB (1928), 29–30; describes CB, 30–1; talks to CB of GG (1930), 32; pursues GG to New York (1932), 43; loses job at MGM, 1, 47; GG resumes relations with, 48; grave car accident of, 49–50; visits Yosemite with GG, 50–1; visits Italy and Austria, 52; summoned to Sweden by GG, 52–3; and her memoirs, 53

Makes friends with Ram Gopal, 56; goes East, 56; introduces GG to Gayelord Hauser, 59–60; wartime activites of, 59–60; discussed by CB and GG, 92–3; Christmas Day lunch of, 94; CB dines with, 98–101; moves to Paris (1949), 127; description of, in later life, 128, 131; drives GG round Paris, 142; in New York, 144; CB lunches with, in Paris, 149; discusses GG with CB, 150

Takes CB and GG to visit Alice B. Toklas, 159–60; berates press reporters, 160; and her correspondence with CB, 168; describes row with GG, 171; reviled by GG, 181; still out of favour with GG, 186

Relies heavily on doctors, 186–7; consoled by Ram Gopal, 187; besought by Ram Gopal to arrange meeting with GG, 198; and GG’s doctor dramas, 199–200

Takes to wearing eye-patch, 200–1; threatens suicide, 201; urged to brace up by Ram Gopal, 201; suffers dreadfully over GG’s cruelty, 202; GG and CB take tea and dinner with, 203; and movie visit with GG, 204–5; discusses GG expedition with CB, 207; ‘Are we on speaking terms?’ drama with GG, 208; and publication of Here Lies the Heart, 208–9; rejected by GG due to ‘bad luck’, 209; and relationship with GG assessed by CB, 212–13; receives The Wandering Years from CB, 214; is surprised when GG flies to Sweden (1961), 215

Later life of, 227–31; illness of, 227; late friendships with: William McCarthy, 227–8; Malvina Hoffman, 228; Andy Warhol, 228; Kieran Tunney, 228–9; Luke Burnap, 229

Telephoned by CB (1966), 229, ‘dying by slow degrees’, 229; death of (1968), 229–30; CB’s epitaph on, 230–1; CB’s anger over GG’s treatment of, 232; mentioned, 63, 113, 121, 126, 134, 143, 145, 176

For letters from Mercedes to CB, and from CB to Mercedes – see under Beaton, Sir Cecil: Letters

Del Guidice, Filippo (1892–1961), 116 &n

DeLamar, Alice (d. 1982), 16–17 &n

DeLamar, Joseph Raphael (1843–1918), 17n

del Rio, Dolores (1905–83), 31

de Luzarraga, Manuel, Count (d. 1946), 75–6 &n

d’Erlanger, Catherine, Baroness (d.1959), 107

de Wolfe, Elsie (Lady Mendl) (1865–1956), 10, 59, 71, 80n, 83, 106, 118, 134

Le Diable au Corps, 103 &n

Diaghilev, Serge (1872–1929), 29 &n, 81n

Dietrich, Marlene (1902–1992), early life, 43–4; on sex, 44; bombards Mercedes with flowers, 4, 23, 45; affair with Mercedes, 43–8, 50; travels to Europe (1933), 47–8; offers to pay Mercedes’s hospital bills, 50; wears trousers, 51; on CB, 53; in Paris (1938), 56; ogles Ona Munson, 58–9; becomes lover of Joe Carstairs, 59; Alice B. Toklas on, 8, 208–209; CB’s view of, 216; GG ignores mention of, 224; later life of, 225 &n

Dior, Christian (1905–57), 118

Dishonored (1931), 44

Dolin, Sir Anton (1904–83), 151n

Donahue, James Paul Jr (‘Jimmy’) (1915–66), 170

Doro, Marie (1882–1956), 10, 58, 98, 230

Dove, Mr (Cecil’s gardener), 78 &n

Draper, Muriel (d. 1952), 29 &n, 30; Music at Midnight, 29n

Draper, Paul (b.1909), 29n

Draper, Ruth (1884–1956), 29n

du Maurier, Dame Daphne (1907–89), 136n

Duchin, Eddy (1909–51), 36

Duff, Lady Juliet (1881–1965), 81 &n, 83n, 112, 161–2, 172, 195, 208, 210, 211

Duff, Bt, Sir Michael (1907–80), 81n, 83 &n, 112, 121, 160, 162, 211

Duleep Singh, Maharajah (1838–93), 129 &n

Duncan, Isadora (1878–1927), 5, 9, 230

Duse, Eleonora (1859–1924), 9, 15, 17, 23, 30, 48

The Eagle Has Two Heads (Cocteau), 101, 103, 104, 106

Eden, Rt Hon. Sir Anthony (Lord Avon) (1897–1977), 71n, 158, 166 &n, 167, 193, 194, 195, 198

Eden, Lady see Churchill, Clarissa

Edward My Son, 116 &n

Elizabeth II, HM Queen (b. 1926), 54, 55, 90n, 116n, 121, 169, 234

Elizabeth, HM Queen (George VI’s consort, Queen Mother) (b. 1900), 38, 145

Eisner, Allan, 226

‘Emmanuele’, see de Luzarraga, Manuel, Count

An Englishman Abroad, 38

Everly, Cecil (dec. mid 1980s), 94 &n

Fairbanks, Douglas (1883–1939), 58

Fairbanks, Douglas, Jr (b. 1907), 199

Fallowell, Duncan, 83

Fellini, Federico (1920–93), 221n, 224

Fellowes, Hon. Mrs Reginald (Daisy) (1887–1962), 94n, 147–8, 170

Fellowes-Gordon, Dorothy (‘Dickie’: 1891–1991), 8 &n, 13, 16

Feyder, Jacques (1888–1948), 49

Flanner, Janet (‘Genet’) (1892–1978), 131

Fleet, Simon (1913–66), 161, 172, 210

Fontanne, Lynn (1887–1983), 64, 166

Forbes, Alastair (b. 1918), 158

Ford, President Gerald (b. 1913), 17n

France, Anatole (1844–1924), 5

Fowler, Norman, 188n

Francis, Kay (1899–1968), 31

Frenke, Eugene, 120n

Freud, Lucian (b. 1922), 119

Frohman, Charles (1860–1915), 10 &n

Gainsborough, Thomas, 112n, 113

Gandhi, Mahatma (1869–1948), 98

Garbo, Greta (1905–1990), walks out on Mercedes, 1, 2, 43; in Grand Hotel, 1, 2, 4, 43; in Queen Christina, 2n, 48, 50; ‘recluse about town’, 2; meets Mercedes, 2–3, 20; seeks Mercedes out, 3; holidays with Mercedes at Silver Lake, 3, 21–2; Mercedes on her legs, 3; described by Mercedes in Desperate, 3–4; makes As You Desire Me, 4; leaves Hollywood for New York (1932), 4; Alice B. Toklas on, 8; thought to be seen by Mercedes in Constantinople, 14; and Genthe’s photograph of, 17–18

Early career of, 18–20; in Susan Lenox, Her Rise and Fall, 20; described by Mercedes, 3, 20, 21–2, 23, 48; forges friendship with Mercedes, 21; and her cruelty to insects, 22–3; loses all her savings, 23; living with Mercedes, 24

1st meeting with CB, 24–5, 37, 38–9; sought by CB for Book of Beauty, 31–2; described by Mercedes as ‘like a boy takes long strides’, 32; described by Rosamond Pinchot, 33; described by CB in Book of Beauty, 33–4; and in his Scrapbook, 39–41; and her film career between 1932 and 1941, 42–3; speaks of her life, 42–3; sails to Sweden (1932), 43

Compared to Dietrich, 47; returns from Sweden (April 1933), 48; and friendship with Salka Viertel, 48–9; goes to Yosemite with Mercedes (1933–4), 50; in The Painted Veil, 50; wears trousers, 50–1; summons Mercedes to Sweden, 52–3; in Anna Karenina and Camille, 53; and Mercedes’s memoirs, 53; in Conquest, 55; affair with Stokowski, 55–6; makes pass at Ina Claire, 56

Moves to North Amalfi Drive, 56; plants kiss on Ona Munson, 57; in Ninoichka, 59; in Two-Faced Woman, 60; affair with Gayelord Hauser, 60–1; moves to New York, 61; meets Schlee, 61; becomes part of Schlee ménage, 61; moves to Ritz Towers, 65; and her apartment, 65–6

2nd meeting with CB, 67; proposed to by CB, 67–8; photographed by CB, 68; departs for California, 68; trip to Sweden (1946), 69–70; returns to New York (Sept 1946), 70; her home snooped on by CB, 71; eschews CB’s phone calls, 72; retreats to Hollywood, 71–2; and slender link of communication with CB, 73; as recipient of CB’s letters, angers CB by her silence, 79; at Schlee Easter Party (1947), 80; prepares to leave for London, 82; in France with Schlee (1947), 83; in London, 84; returns to New York, 84–5

Finally answers CB’s call, 86; proposes visit to CB, 86–7; visits CB and pulls mustard velvet curtains, 87; affair with CB consummated, 87; speaks of film studios to CB, 87; suffers week of illness, 88; uses CB for his body, 88; senses CB’s new disdain, 89; victim of CB’s new campaign, 90; mesmerises CB with huge eyes, 90; takes drink with CB and Princess of Berar, 91; admits to scanty reading, 91; ticks CB off for boorish lovemaking, 91; professes love for CB, 92; invites CB to Ritz Towers, 92; analyses Mercedes for benefit of CB, 92–3; shares bath with CB, 93; spends Christmas with CB and Mercedes, 94; attends CB’s Boxing Day party, 95; invites CB to see in New Year (1947–8), 95–6; cables CB, 96

Her sex-life with CB, 96; accuses CB of writing a diary, 97; falls victim to a cold, 97; forbids CB to join her in California, 97; relents, 98; advises CB how to cope with Mercedes dinner, 98; description of, by Mercedes for CB, 98–100

Sits again for CB, 101; and Elisabeth of Austria film, 101; tiring last encounter with CB in New York, 101; leaves for California, 102; meets CB at bus-stop, 105; cooks for CB and bathes naked, 105; returns to film studio with CB, 106; tells CB he has achieved prowess as a lover, 106; forbids CB to sketch her, 107; witnesses CB’s sad departure, 107

Her Scandinavian attitude to sex, 111; cables CB, 112; sends gifts to CB, 115; informs CB she might go to California, 117; drifts, 118; in news re George Sand film, 120; meets CB in New York, 120; lunches with CB, 121–2; refuses CB’s plan, 122; sees CB off to England (Feb 1949), 122–3; cables CB, 126

Is cause of jealousy between Mercedes and Poppy Kirk, 132; writes to CB to say she is over-wrought, 135; and delays in becoming US Citizen, 135, 144, 147, 150; expected in Paris (June 1949), 135; arrives in France with Schlee, 136; proceeds to Aixles-Bains, 136–7; moves to Rome for Duchesse de Langeais negotiations, 138; meets up with CB in Paris, 139–42; reports on film fiasco in Rome, 140; sails to New York, 142; lunches with CB in New York (1950), 143; informs CB she is retreating to California (April 1950), 144; preoccupied with ill-health, 144–5, 150; exhorted to visit England by CB, 145; telephone difficulties with CB, 146; stuck in California, 147; in touch with CB (Dec 1950), 149; Mercedes dissects for CB, 150; and her meetings with CB (Spring 1951), 151–2

Sells California home (1951), 153–4; and illness of Schlee, 153–4; stays in California, 154–5; plans Europe trip, 156–7; arrives at Southampton, 157; joins CB for Broadchalke stay (Autumn 1951), 157–9; goes to Paris with CB, 159–60; escapes to New York (Dec 1951), 160; refuses CB’s call in New York (Jan 1952), 161; in ‘silly state’, 162; unable to make definite plans, 162; difficult lunch at Colony Club with CB, 162–5

‘Increasingly lost’, 166; excited by Eden marriage, 167; and no summer meeting with CB, 167; and sinus and Schlee problems, 168; lunches with CB (Dec 1952), visits Italy with Schlee (1953), 169–71; Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer on, 170; takes apartment in 450 East 52nd Street, 171; discussed by Mercedes and CB, 171–2; lost to CB, 173; and CB’s visit to apartment, 174–5; her rut discussed with Mercedes, 176; ‘very down’, 177; visits California and New Mexico (1954), 177; endures blazing row with CB (1954), 178–83; receives remonstrative letter from CB, 183–4

50th birthday of (1955), and John Bainbridge’s biography of, 185–6; little contact with CB, 186; and Schlee’s villa at Cap d’Ail (1955), 186; goes aboard Onassis yacht, 186; and rejection of Mercedes, 186–7; at Valentina’s party, 187; and her uncertain plans, 188–9; at Villa Le Roc (1956), 189; at Hotel Crillon, Paris, 189–90; smuggled into London by CB, 191; English sojourn of (Oct 1956), 191–6; at 10 Downing Street, 191, 193–4; dinner with CB at Pelham Place under press siege, 194–5; weekends at Broadchalke, 195–6; retreats to New York, 196–7

Suffers from bad foot, 198; at Villa Le Roc (1957), 198–9; visited by Noël Coward, 198–9; boards Onassis yacht, 199; visits Villa La Reine Jeanne, 199; and doctor problems, 199–200; on non-speaks with Mercedes, 199–200; cheers up Mercedes, 201; contemplates visit to Swiss doctors, 201; more doctor woes, 201–2, 208; inspected by CB, 201–3; tea and dinner with Mercedes and CB, 203; in South of France (1958), 204; dines with Churchill, 204; celebrates birthday with Schlee, 204; goes to movies with Mercedes in New York, 204–5; described by CB on his 1959 visit, 205–7; and visit from Victor Rothschild, 206–7

Observes Mercedes’s silver-buckled shoe, 208; and Here Lies the Heart, 208–9; wastes away in apartment, 209; visits London with Sydney Guilaroff (1960), 208–11; CB’s description of 1960 visit, 209–11; CB’s tolerance of wanes, 212; and CB’s assessment of relationship with Mercedes, 212–13; attends Valentina party (1961), 213; spotted shopping in Paris with Cecile de Rothschild, 214; returns to New York, 214; sees CB there, 214–15; suddenly departs for Sweden, 215; presence noted in St Moritz (1962), 216; CB tries to call in New York (1963), 217

And death of Schlee (1964), 218–20; and Valentina’s rage against, 220; on Greek cruise (1965), 220–5, 225n; passes 60th birthday, 225–6; description of her New York life, 225–6

Her letters to Mercedes, 227–8; crumples butterfly drawing, 228; refuses to forgive Mercedes, 229, 230; and Mercedes’s death ‘without a kind word’ from her, 231

CB publishes diaries relating to, 232–5; makes no comment on CB’s diaries, 236; observed shopping in New York, 236; visits the stricken CB (1975), 236; shuns CB in New York (1978), 237

Curious avoidance of by Valentina, 238; lame but defiant, 240–1; death (1990), 241; mentioned, 38, 104, 113, 113n, 148, 239

For letters from CB, see Beaton, Sir Cecil

Garson, Greer (b. 1908), 71

Gathorne-Hardy, Hon. Robert (1902–73), 35

Gaulle, General Charles de (1890–1970), 204

Gellibrand, Paula, Marquesa de Casa Maury (1898–1986), 109n

Gémier, Firmin (1865–1933), 16

Genthe, Arnold (1869–1942), 15, 17–18

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 1, 130, 149n

George VI, HM King (1895–1952), 121, 161n

George Sand, 119, 120

Ghosts (Ibsen), 57

Gielgud, Sir John (b. 1904), 38, 80, 117n, 186

Gigi, 198, 203, 209, 228n

Gilbert, John (1895–1936), 19, 24, 32, 185

Ginger and Fred, 221n

Gish, Dorothy (1898–1968), 70

Gish, Lilian (1893–1993), 70

The Glass Menagerie, 117n

Goddard, Paulette (1911–90), 64, 73

Goldschmidt-Rothschild, Eric, Baron (1894–1987), 65 &n, 166 &n, 183n, 185, 199, 202, 207

Gone With the Wind, 56, 58, 109n

Gopal, Ram (b. 1920), 56, 160, 187, 189, 198, 201

Gordon, Ruth (1896–1985), 63n, 93, 106

Gorky, Maxim (1868–1936), 87n

Gottfried, Dr, 188 &n, 196, 204

Goulding, Edmund (‘Eddie’) (1891–1959), 1, 2 &n, 24, 25, 38, 42

Goulding, Mrs Edmund (Marjorie Moss) (1894–1935), 24, 25, 38, 42

Green, Julien (1900–?), L’Ombre, 190

Green, Samuel Adams, 235, 236, 238

Griffith, Richard, 226

Grimes, Tammy (b. 1934), 239 &n

Gronowicz, Antoni (1913–85), Garbo, Her Story, 219n

Guilaroff, Sydney (b. 1910), 209, 211, 212

Gumpel, Max, 69

Gunther, John (1901–70), 108 &n, 156, 178, 189, 196, 215

Gunther, Mrs John (Jane), 108 &n, 156, 178, 189, 196, 226

Gustav V of Sweden, HM King (1858–1950), 149

Gustav Adolf, HRH Crown Prince (later Gustav VI of Sweden) (1882–1973), 100 &n

Hambro, Alec (1910–43), 27

Hambro, Baba (née Beaton) (Cecil’s sister) (1912–73), 27

Harlow, Jean (1911–37), 1

Harper, Allanah (1901–1992), 131 &n

Harris, Sam (1872–1941), 15

Harrison, Miss (Cecil’s secretary), 123

Harrison, Sir Rex (1908–90), 169–70, 238

Hauser, Gayelord (1895–1984), 59, 60–1, 185, 193

Hayes, Helen (1900–93), 118

Hayworth, Rita (1918–87), 214

Head, Anthony, Viscount (1906–83), 158

Hearst, William Randolph (1863–1951), 2 &n

Hedda Gabler (Ibsen), 10

Helpmann, Sir Robert (1909–86), 234

Henckel von Donnersmarck, Bina (Baroness Rothschild), 65n, 166 &n

Hepburn, Katharine (b. 1909), 64, 119n, 155, 236

Herbert, Hon. David (b. 1908), 77, 83, 112, 121, 137

High Spirits, 239 &n

Hitchcock, Sir Alfred (1899–1980), 98 &n

Hitler, Adolf (1889–1945), 56

Hoffman, Malvina (1887–1966), 13, 29, 56, 228

Hofmannsthal, Raimund von (1906–74), 52

Hofmannsthal, Lady Elizabeth von (1916–80), 197

Hog’s Blood and Hellebore, 144

Hold Everything, 57

Hose, Eileen (Cecil’s secretary) (1919–87), 233, 236

Hoyos, Countess Alice, 221n

Huxley, Sir Julian (1887–1975), 158

Huxley, Lady (Juliette) (1896–1994), 158

Ibsen, Henrik (1828–1906), 10, 15

An Ideal Husband, 73, 78–9

Idiot’s Delight, 64

Les Illuminations (ballet), 143

The Importance of Being Ernest, 79

James, Charles (1906–78), 36

James, Henry (1843–1916), 29n

Janis, Elsie (1898–1956), 31

Jessie, Aunt see Suarez, Jessie

Jeans, Isabel (1891–1985), 228 &n

Joffre, Marshal Joseph (1852–1931), 16

John, Augustus (1878–1961), 148, 158

Jones, Jennifer (b. 1919), 118n

Kahn, Otto (1867–1934), 17

Kanin, Garson (b. 1912), 93, 106

Karsavina, Tamara (1885–1978), 9, 15–16

Kemble-Cooper, Greta, 63n

Kemsley, 1st Viscount (1883–1968), 72

Kennedy, President John F. (1917–63), 80n

Kent, HRH The Duke of (1902–42), 37

Kent, HRH Princess Marina, Duchess of (1906–68), 37, 116, 118, 134

Kerr, Deborah (b. 1921), 116n, 199

Kilmuir, the Earl of (1900–67), 194

Kin (b. 1934), 220

Kirk, CMG, Geoffrey (1907–75), 128, 130–1, 132, 133

Kirk, Mrs Geoffrey (Maria Annunziata) ‘Poppy’ (1899–1986), 127, 128–33, 134, 142, 144, 159, 160, 187, 227

Kirstein, Lincoln (b. 1907), 143

Knight, Arthur, 19–20

Kochno, Boris (1903–90), 81 &n, 126

Korda, Sir Alexander (1893–1956), 71n, 72, 73, 79, 8on, 83, 86, 98n, 101, 103–4, 106, 109, 118

Kosleck, Martin (1907–1994), 46

Kraly, Hans, 58 &n

Kreutzberg, Harald (1902–68), 43

Kirishnamurti, Jiddu (1895–1986), 5

Lady Windermere’s Fan (Wilde), 70, 86

Lagerlöf, Selma (1858–1940), 18

Lambert, Eleanor, 61

Lambton, Viscountess, 232 &n

Laszlo, Dr Erno, 80 &n, 151 &n, 205–6

Lawrence, Gertrude (1898–1952), 87, 136

Le Bas, Edward (Boy) (1904–66), 35

Le Gallienne, Eva (1899–1991), 11–13, 14–17 &n, 230; The Mystic in the Theatre, 17 &n

Le Gallienne, Richard (1866–1947), 11

Ledebur, Count Friedrich (1900–1987), 221 &n, 224, 225 &n

Leigh, Vivien (1913–67), 73, 79, 121, 125

Leng, Kyrle (d. 1958), 35

Liberman, Alexander (b. 1912), 68

Lieberson, Goddard, 226

Liliom (Molnar), 11, 13, 14, 15

‘Linda’ (Mercedes’s Siamese cat), 133, 227

Linklater, Eric (1899–1974), 234–5 &n

Logan, Joshua (1908–1988), 134 &n

Look After Lulu, 205

Loos, Anita (1888–1981), 1, 2 &n, 4, 25, 31, 55, 93, 149n, 172, 227

Lopez, Arturo (1900–62), 83, 94n

Lopez, Patricia, 83

Lubitsch, Ernst (1892–1947), 48, 56–7, 58 &n, 59

Lubitsch, Mrs Ernst, 58 &n

Lunt, Alfred (1893–1977), 166

Lydig, Philip, 23

Lydig, Mrs Rita de Acosta (1880–1929), 4–5, 7, 98

Lynn, Olga (1882–1961), 71

McCarthy, Senator Joseph (1909–57), 29n

McCarthy, William (d. 1965), 227, 228

MacGregor, Helen, 28

McKeever, Billie, 12, 14–15

Macmillan, Harold (1st Earl of Stockton) (1894–1986), 194, 204

The Madwoman of Chaillot, 236

Maharshi, Ramana, 56

Mamoulian, Azadia, 119 &n

Mamoulian, Rouben (1897–?), 48, 119n

Marbury, Elisabeth (d. 1933), 10

Margaret, Princess (b. 1930), 114, 136

Marie of Roumania, HM Queen (1875–1938), 5

Marie of Russia, HH Grand Duchess (1890–1958), 65

Markova, Dame Alicia (b. 1910), 151n

Martin, Mary (1913–90), 64

Martini, Dr Umberto di (d. 1979), 89

Mary, HM Queen (George V’s consort) (1867–1953), 114 &n

Mason, James (1909–84), 134n

Maugham, William Somerset (1874–1965), 10, 50, 81, 121, 126; The Painted Veil, 50; The Razor’s Edge, 56

Maxwell, Elsa (1883–1963), 5, 8 &n, 60

Mayer, Louis B. (1885–1957), 18

Mendelssohn, Eleanora von (1899–1951), 52 &n, 131–2

Mendl, Sir Charles (1871–1958), 59, 106

Mendl, Lady see de Wolfe, Elsie

Messel, Oliver (1904–78), 37, 156, 191

Meyer, Baron de (1868–1946), 29

Miller, Henry (1891–1980), 10

Millstein, Gilbert, 185

Mitford, Nancy (1904–73), 83n

Molnar, Ferenc (1878–1952), 11, 13, 15

Molyneux, Captain Edward (1891–1974), 66

Monroe, Marilyn (1926–62), 187

Monticelli, Adolphe (1824–86), 66

Montrezza, Mario (1884–?), 128

Montrezza, Victor (b. 1923), 128, 133

Moore, Kieron (b. 1925), 101, 104

Moreau, Jeanne (b. 1928), 224

Morley, Robert (1908–92), 116n

Morocco, 44, 216

Mourning Becomes Electra (O’Neill), 10

Munson, Ona (1906–55), 56–9, 132 &n, 184

Murdock, Mrs (Cecil’s housekeeper), 160, 161

My Fair Lady, 65n, 166n, 186, 187, 203, 204, 216–17, 220, 228n

Myers, John Bernard (1920–87), 122 &n

Nazimova, Alla (1879–1945), 10–11, 15, 57, 58, 230

Negri, Pola (1894–1987), 3, 18, 20, 21

Neill, Barbara, 133n

Neill, Jennifer, 133 &n

Nelson, Maud, 38, 71, 77, 156, 158

New York Times, 83, 170–1, 185, 204, 219

Newhouse, S. I., 109n

Nichols, Beverley (1898–1963), 234

Niehans, Dr Paul (d. 1971), 201 &n

Niven, David (1909–83), 199

Nørregaard, Julie, 11

Novarro, Ramon (1899–1968), 23

Nureyev, Rudolf (1938–93), 217

Obolensky, Prince Serge (1890–1978), 88 &n, 93

Oelrichs, Marjorie (Mrs Eddy Duchin) (d. 1937), 36

O’Higgins, Patrick (d. 1980), 236

Olga, HRH Princess (Princess Paul of Yugoslavia) (b. 1903), 37, 116

Olivier, Laurence, Lord (1907–89), 79, 121, 125

Onassis, Aristotle (1906–75), 86, 189, 199, 204, 205, 206

Onassis, Mrs Tina (1929–74), 199

O’Neill, Eugene (1888–1953), 10

Orwell, George (1903–50), 27; Such, Such Were the Joys, 27

Osborn, Franz, 206n

Osborn, June (Lady Hutchinson of Lullington) (b. 1920), 206 &n

Pabst, G. W. (1885–1967), 18

Paley, William S. (1901–90), 93

Paley, Princess Natasha (later Mrs Jack Wilson) (1905–81), 89 &n, 95

Palmer, Lilli (1914–86), 169, 170

Parker, Dorothy (1893–1967), 65

Parsons, Louella (1893–1972), 144, 202

Patcevitch, Iva Voidato- (1901–93), 109 &n

Les Patineurs (ballet), 72 n

Pavlova, Anna (1885–1931), 15–16

Pecci-Blunt, Cecil, 94n

Pembroke, Sidney, 16th Earl of (1906–69), 211

The Philadelphia Story, 64

Philip, HRH Prince, Duke of Edinburgh (b. 1921), 90n, 116

Philipe, Gérard (1922–1959), 103 &n

Picasso, Pablo-(1881–1973), 5, 57, 160 n

Pickford, Mary (1893–1979), 58, 106

Pick-Up Girl (Elsa Shelley), 114 n

Pierrot, Henriette, 136–7

Pinchot, Rosamond (1904–1938), 33 &n

Platt Lynes, George (1907–55), 107

Poole, Abram (1882–1961), 8, 11, 12, 13, 51–2, 63 &n, 227, 230

Pope-Hennessy, James (1916–74), 71, 86, 114n, 159, 161

Porter, Alan, 95

Porter, Katharine Anne (1890–1980), 107

Portrait of a Lady, 118n

Powers, Tom (1890–1955), 63

Presle, Micheline (b. 1922), 103 n

Proust, Marcel (1871–1922), 24

Pushkin, Alexander (1799–1837), 219

Quadrille (Coward), 166

Radiguet, Raymond (1903–23), 103 n

Ralli, Mme Jean (Lilia) (d. 1977), 37, 142

Rambova, Natacha (1897–1966), 11

Rasputin and the Empress, 5, 47, 50

Rattigan, Sir Terence (1911–1977), 90, 121, 234

Reagan, Nancy (b. 1924), 11

Reagan, President Ronald (b. 1911), 17 n

Redgrave, Sir Michael (1908–85), 234

Red-Headed Woman, 1

Reinhardt, Max (1873–1943), 52

Remarque, Erich Maria (1898–1970), 108 &n

Renoir, Auguste (1841–1919), 65, 105, 160n, 174, 179, 224

The Return of the Prodigal, 120–1

Richardson, John (b. 1924), 8

Richardson, Ralph (1902–83), 73, 121

Richardson, Tony (1928–91), 224 &n

Riva, Maria (Marlene Dietrich’s daughter) (b. 1924), 46, 47, 48

Robson, Cecil, 143

Rodin, Auguste (1840–1917), 5, 160 n

Rohan, Prince Carlos de (1895–1931), 129

Rohan, Princess (Alis) Dilkusha de (1899–1978), 129 &n, 130

Rorem, Ned, 131 n

Rosmersholm (Ibsen), 15

Rostand, Edmond (1868–1918), 76 &n; Cyrano de Bergerac, 76

Rostand, Maurice (d. 1968), 76 n

Rostand, Rosemond Gérard (1866–1953), 76 &n; La Tour de St Jacques, 76 n

Rothschild, Cecile de (b. 1913), 189–90, 191, 192, 195, 196, 218 &n, 219, 220–1, 222, 223, 224, 234

Rothschild, Eric see Goldschmidt-Rothschild

Rothschild, Victor, Lord (1910–90), 195, 206–7

Ruffer, Nada, 109n

Russell, Rosalind (1908–76), 64

Salisbury, 5th Marquess of (1893–1972), 158

Sargent, John Singer (1856–1925), 4

Sartori, Victor (d. ante 1935), 128

The Scarlet Empress, 47

Schiaparelli, Elsa (1896–1975), 128, 131, 133

Schlee, Georges Matthias (1896–1964), meets GG, 61; origins, 62; early career, 62–3; at East 52 St, 65–6; at Margaret Case’s party with GG, 67; Easter party (1947), 80 & n; GG bored by, 90; GG speaks of, 93; at CB’s Boxing Day party (1947), 95; and his threat to CB, 97; Mercedes on, 99; acts as GG’s agent, 101; CB fears sudden arrival of, 104; and his relationship with GG, 111, 164, 165, 172, 176, 206, 211; CB visits in Paris (1949), 134; (1950), 145–6; advises GG, 151–2; in hospital (1951), 153, 154, 155; CB’s letters for eyes of, 156–7; GG flies back to, 160; depression of, 162; GG dines with, 169; and his taste, 174, 182, 186; goes to Europe alone (1954), 177; telephones GG, 180; and villa at Cap d’Ail, 185–6 & n, 189, 198–9, 204, 205, 213; on Bainbridge biography of GG, 185, 186; sees less of GG, 202; upset by GG, 216

Travels with GG: to Sweden (1946), 69, 70; to France (1947), 82–3, 84, 85; to France (1949), 136–8, 140, 141–2; to Europe (1951), 157; to Italy (1953), 170–1

Death, 218–20, 238; funeral, 220, 226n

Mentioned, 94, 122, 135, 144, 168, 179, 188, 214, 235, 239

Schlee, Valentina see Valentina

Schlesinger, Henry J., 89

The School for Scandal (Sheridan), 125

Schulberg, Budd, 44

Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth (b. 1915), 114

Seberg, Jean (1938–79), 199

Seligman, Eustace, 226 &n

Sellers, Peter (1925–80), 211

Selznick, David O. (1902–65), 80, 118 &n

Selznick, Irene (1907–90), 55, 64, 177, 180, 186

September Tide (du Maurier), 136n

Shearer, Norma (1900–83), 64

Sheean, Vincent (1899–1975), 119 &n

Shelley, Elsa, 114n

Sitwell, Bt, Sir Osbert (1892–1969), 30

The Sleeping Beauty, 11

Smiley, Bt, Sir Hugh (1905–90), 27

Smiley, Bt, Sir John (b. 1934), 157

Smiley, Nancy, Lady (Cecil’s sister) (b. 1909), 27

Snow, Carmel (d. 1961), 92

Soudeikine, Sergei, 66

Soutine, Chaim (1893–1943), 174, 179

Spry, Constance (1886–1960), 193

Stein, Gertrude (1874–1946), 160n

Stendhal (Henri Beyle) (1783–1842), 37

Sternberg, Josef von (1884–1969), 43–4, 46, 47

Steward, Samuel M., 118

Stiller, Mauritz (Maurice) (1883–1928), 13, 14, 18, 32, 123

Stokowski, Leopold (1882–1997), 55–6, 64, 99, 185, 234

Strader, Travis, 89

Stravinsky, Igor (1882–1971), 5, 29, 59, 60

A Streetcar Named Desire, 93

Strickling, Howard, 31, 32

Studlar, Gaylyn, In the Realm of Pleasure, 44

Sullivan, Ed (1901–74), 143

Suarez, Jessie (Cecil’s aunt) (1863–1950), 27, 112, 233

Sutro, John (1904–85), 80 &n, 118 &n

Svenson, Julia, 42

The Swan (Molnar), 15

Swanson, Gloria (1899–1983), 64, 227

A Tale of Two Cities, 118

Tchelitchew, Pavel (1898–1957), 54

Tennant, Hon. Stephen (1906–1987), 29, 73 &n, 158, 205 &n

Terry, Paulina (1887–?), 129 &n

Tess of the D’Urbervilles, 118

Teyte, Dame Maggie (1888–1976), 239

Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811–63), Vanity Fair, 27

Thalberg, Irving (1899–1936), 4, 5, 47, 49, 50, 55

That Certain Woman, 2n

Thomas, Benjamin C. (1902–75), 35

Thorndike, Dame Sybil (1882–1976), 228

Toklas, Alice B. (1872–1967), 8, 118, 129, 134, 159–60, 208–9

Toone, Geoffrey (b. 1910), 86, 102

Toscanini, Arturo (1867–1957), 52

Tracy, Spencer (1900–67), 116n

Tree, Iris (1892–1968), 19, 52, 221n

Tunney, Kieran, 228–9 &n

Turner, E. S., 234–5

Twardowsky, Hans von, 46

Tynan, Kenneth (1927–80), 19, 44, 111

Ulanova, Galina (b. 1910), 191 &n, 194

Valentina (Madame Georges Schlee) (1899–1989), early life of, 62–5; fashion career of, 62–5; her art collection, 66; and 1947 Easter Party, 80 &n; visited by Noël Coward, 83–4; GG takes cocktails with, 97; Mercedes on, 99; GG at cocktail party of, i6in; GG at Easter party of, 184; summers in Venice, i86n; GG at small cocktail party of, 187; GG at farewell summer party of, 213; GG’s loathing of and by, 217; and Schlee’s death, 219–20; meets CB in Venice (1973), 235–6; feud with GG, 238–41; death, 241

Valentino, Rudolph (1895–1926), 10–11

Vanderbilt, Gloria (b. 1925), 56, 238, 240

Van Vechten, Carl (1880–1964), 149

Victoria, HM Queen (1819–1901), 129n

Viertel, Berthold (1885–1953), 2n, 18, 49, 106

Viertel, Salka (1889–1978), 2 &n, 20, 21, 48–9, 50, 55, 60, 61, 104, 106, 119, 138, 209, 225n

Vilmorin, Louise de (1906–1969), 76 &n

Vogue magazine, 2, 29, 54–5, 67, 68, 69, 71n, 85, 89, 104, 106, 109n, 143, 186, 234

Vollard, Ambrose, 160 &n

The Vortex (Coward), 16

Vreeland, Diana (1903–89), 26, 61, 220, 240

Wachtmeister, Count and Countess, 52, 215

Wallis, Minna, 180

Wanger, Walter (1894–1968), 60, 120n, 138, 141

Warhol, Andy (1926–87), 228

Watson, Peter (1908–56), in, 37, 54, 72, 137, 158, 188 &n

Waugh, Auberon (b. 1939), 235

Waugh, Evelyn (1903–66), 27, 115 &n, 220

Waverley, Ava, Lady (1896–1974), 115

Webb, Clifton (1893–1966), 80, 106

Webb, Nella, 124, 135, 167

Weiller, Commandant Paul-Louis (1893–1993), 83 &n, 134n, 199

Wells, H. G. (1866–1946), 10, 66, 87n

Westminster, Loelia, Duchess of (1902–93), 90n

Wetherill, Ada, 129n

Wharton, Edith (1861–1937), 5

Wilbourn, Phyllis, 119n

Wilde, Oscar (1854–1900), 10, 11

Williams, Harrison (d. 1953), 89, 95

Williams, Mona Harrison (Countess

Bismarck) (neé Strader) (1897–1983), 68, 89–90, 91, 94, 95, 117, 162

Williams, Tennessee (1911–83), 117 &n

Wilson, John C. (Jack) (1899–1961), 89n

Wilson, Natasha see Paley, Princess

Winchell, Walter (1897–1972), 2

Windsor, The Duchess of (1896–1986), 54, 96, 134 &n, 170, 238

Windsor, HRH The Duke of (1894–1972), 54, 94, 96, 134 &n, 170

The Winslow Boy (Rattigan), 90

Wolf, Dr Max, 144, 208

Wood, Christopher (1901–30), 77

Wood, Clara Dolores (d. 1946), 77

Woollcott, Alexander (1887–1943), 15, 65

Wray, Fay (b. 1907), 31

Wren, Sir Christopher (1632–1723), 77

Wrench, Major A. T., 129

Wyndham, Francis (b. 1924), 47

Youssoupoff, Prince Felix (1887–1967), 47, 50

Youssoupoff, Princess Irena (1895–1970), 5, 47

Zerbe, Jerome (1904–?), 80 &n