Acknowledgements

I am very grateful to those who have helped me tremendously in person: Tom Ades, Carol Anderson, Larry Ashmead, Adam Bager, Kate Balmforth, Lady Freda Berkeley, Tamsyn Blaikie, Michael Bloch, Catherine Blyth, Jennifer Bowen, Antonio Carluccio, Reverend Stephen Coles, Michael De-la-Noy, Patric Dickinson, Derek Granger, Digby Green, Geoff Green, Maggie Hambling, Selina Hastings, Ian Hay, Tim Hely Hutchinson, Mary Hendy, Gregory Hayman, Philip Hensher, Alan Hollinghurst, Joe Hunter, Sarah Hunter, Tina Jefferis MBE, Francis King, Katharine MacDonogh, Rick Mather, Kitty Morris, Patrick O’Connor, Peter Parker, Kenneth Partridge, Christopher Potter, Kit Reading, Tony Scotland, Ivan Seery, Sean Swallow, Robert Tiffler, Gill Tyler, Warris Vianni, Richard Walker, Jill White OBE, James Woollcombe CBE, Phoebe Woollcombe; to those who don’t wish to be mentioned, and to those whose information has been most useful: Theo Aronson, Jennie Bond, Craig Brown, Alan Clark, Colin Clark, Lesley Cunliffe, Cynthia Gladwyn, Kitty Kelley, Robert Lacey, James Lees-Milne, Elizabeth Longford, Ann Morrow, Laurence Olivier, Kenneth Rose, Gore Vidal, Woodrow Wyatt, Philip Ziegler.