Number references in italics indicate illustrations
Abdication Crisis (1936), 5.1, 5.2
Air Pollution Control Act (USA, 1955)
Airlie, Mabel Ogilvy, Countess of, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 5.1, 7.1, 8.1
Albert, Prince, see George VI, King (“Bertie”)
Albert Victor, Prince (“Eddy”)
Alice of Battenburg, Princess, 1.1, 5.1
Amis, Kingsley, Lucky Jim (1954), 10.1
Andrew, Prince of Greece and Denmark
Anne, Princess, 1.1, 1.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 9.1
Annigoni, Pietro, portrait of Queen Elizabeth, 10.1, 10.2, bm2.1
Anson, William, The Law and Custom of the Constitution, 7.1, 7.2
Asquith, Lady Cynthia, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2
Atkins, Eileen (as Queen Mary), 3.1, 3.2
Attlee, Clement, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 9.1
Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS)
Bagehot, Walter, The English Constitution, 7.1, 7.2
Baillie-Hamilton, Lady Mary, 5.1
Baldwin, Stanley, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
Beaton, Cecil, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 6.1, 8.1, 10.1
Bonham Carter, Violet, 3.1, 9.1
Bowes Lyon, Elizabeth see Elizabeth, Queen (the Queen Mother)
Browning, Sir Frederick (“Boy”)
Canterbury, Archbishop of see Fisher, Geoffrey, Archbishop of Canterbury and Lang, Cosmo Gordon, Archbishop of Canterbury
Carnarvon, Henry Herbert (“Porchey”), 7th Earl of (formerly Lord Porchester), 1.1, 9.1
Chamberlain, Neville, 4.1, 4.2
Channon, Sir Henry (“Chips”), 1.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 6.1, 8.1
Charles, Prince, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 5.1
Charteris, Martin, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2
Children’s Newspaper, 7.1, 7.2
Chisholm, Sheila (Lady Loughborough)
Churchill, Clementine, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 9.6
Churchill, Sir Winston, 1.1, 3.1, 4.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 9.6; and the Abdication crisis, 3.2, 5.1; decline and resignation, 9.7; defends use of Windsor family name, 3.3, 3.4; election victory (1951), 1.2, 1.3; and George VI, 1.4, 1.5, 2.1, 3.5; and his secretaries, 4.2; ill health, 7.1; and painting, 9.8, 9.9; portraits of, 9.10, 9.11; post-war premiership, 4.3; and Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, 4.4; and the Princess Margaret–Townsend crisis, 6.1, 6.2; and Queen Elizabeth, 1.6, 4.5, 7.2, 9.12
Clean Air Act (1956), 4.1, 4.2
Clean Air Acts (USA), 4.1, 4.2
Clifford, Richard (as Norman Hartnell), 8.1
Cochrane, Michael (as Sir Henry Marten), 7.1
Colville, Sir John Rupert (“Jock”), 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1
Crawford, Marion, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.1, 10.1
crowns, worn by the Queen at her coronation
Daily Mirror, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
Eden, Sir Anthony, 10.1; as Churchill’s deputy, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 4.2, 7.1; divorced status of, 6.1; ill health, 7.2; persuades Churchill to resign, 9.1; as Prime Minister, 10.2; and the Princess Margaret–Townsend crisis, 10.3, 10.4
Edward VI, 6.1
Edward VII, King, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Edward VIII, King see Windsor, (“David”), Duke of
Eisenhower, President Dwight D., 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
Elizabeth, Queen (the Queen Mother), 1.1, 1.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3; and the Abdication crisis, 5.1; and Cecil Beaton, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4; courtship and marriage with George VI, 8.4; on her grandchildren, 1.3; and homeopathy, 1.4; on Marion Crawford, 7.1; and Princess Elizabeth’s education, 7.2, 7.3; and Princess Margaret’s relationship with Peter Townsend, 10.1; as Queen Mother, 3.1, 8.5; relations with Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, 1.5, 1.6; religious faith, 8.6; during the war, 8.7
Elizabeth II, Queen: and the Abdication crisis, 5.1; accedes to the throne, 2.1, 2.2; anti-smoking policy, 2.3; childhood, 1.1, 3.1, 5.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 10.1; Christmas Broadcasts, 5.3, 5.4, 8.1; coming-of-age dedication broadcast, 1.2; coronation, 5.5, 5.6; as Defender of the Faith, 6.1; early relationship with Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5; education, 7.5, 7.6; as Elizabeth Mountbatten, 3.2; at George V’s Silver Jubilee, 3.3; in Kenya (1952), 2.4; lives in Clarence House, 3.4, 3.5; painted by Pietro Annigoni, 10.2, bm2.1; photographed by Cecil Beaton, 5.7, 5.8, 10.3; as Princess Elizabeth, 1.6, 2.5, 2.6, 3.6, 5.9, 6.2, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 7.10, 7.11, 7.12, 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, 10.7; and Princess Margaret’s relationship with Peter Townsend, 6.3, 10.8; and racehorses, 9.1; and royal fashion, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5; on tour in Australia (1953-54), 8.6, 8.7; at the Trooping the Colour (1951), 1.7; during the war, 10.9, 10.10, 10.11, 10.12; wedding, 1.8, 1.9, 5.10; and Winston Churchill, 7.13, 9.2, 9.3
Ernst August of Hanover, Prince
First World War, 3.1, 4.1, 6.1, 9.1
Fisher, Geoffrey, Archbishop of Canterbury, 5.1, 10.1
Foy, Claire (as Queen Elizabeth II), 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.2, bm4.1
George V, King: on acceding to the throne, 1.1; approval of Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 8.1; on Edward VIII, 5.1; during the First World War, 3.1; makes “Bertie” Duke of York, 8.2; marriage to Princess May of Teck, 3.2; regnal name, 2.1; on the Russian Revolution, 3.3; Silver Jubilee, 3.4; and smoking, 2.2; sporting life, 1.2
George VI, King (“Bertie”), 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 10.1; and the Abdication crisis, 1.4, 3.2, 10.2; choice of regnal name, 2.3; courtship of Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 8.3; creates the George Cross, 1.5; death, 2.4, 6.2; on his daughters, 6.3; ill health, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8; and marriage of Princess Elizabeth to Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, 1.9, 1.10; memorial, 10.3; operated on in Buckingham Palace, 1.11; and Peter Townsend, 6.4; and Princess Elizabeth’s education, 6.5; serves in the First World War, 3.3; and smoking, 2.5; sporting life, 1.12; stutter, 1.13, 1.14, 8.4, 8.5
Glenconner, Colin Tennant, 3rd Baron
Gloucester, Princess Alice, Duchess of
Gordon, Caryl, Flight-Lieutenant
Graham, Lady Helen, 7.1
“Great Smog,” 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6
Hadden-Paton, Harry (as Martin Charteris), 2.1, 2.2
Hailstone, Bernard, portrait of Churchill, 9.1, 9.2
Halifax, Edward Wood, 1st Earl of
Hamilton, Lady Moyra, 5.1
Hamilton, Victoria (as the Queen Mother), 3.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
Harlech, David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron
Harris, Jared (as George VI), 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 10.1
Hartnell, Norman, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, Lady Jane, 5.1
Hicks, Lady Pamela (formerly Mountbatten), 2.1
Highclere Castle, 9.1
Home, Alec Douglas, 1st Baron Home, 7.1, 7.2
Jennings, Alex (as the Duke of Windsor), 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 5.2
Jowitt, William, 1st Earl Jowitt
Kirby, Vanessa (as Princess Margaret), 2.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 8.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2
Knatchbull, Patricia (formerly Mountbatten), 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma, 1.2, 1.3
Ladies’ Home Journal, 7.1, 7.2
Lang, Cosmo Gordon, Archbishop of Canterbury
Lascelles, Sir Alan (“Tommy”): and Edward VIII, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1; as George VI’s Private Secretary, 1.1, 1.2, 8.1; and the House of Windsor, 3.3; and Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, 1.3, 2.1, 3.4; and the Princess Margaret–Townsend crisis, 6.1, 6.2, 8.2, 10.1; and Winston Churchill, 4.1, 7.1
Laurenson, James (as Dr. Weir), 1.1
Lebrun, Albert, President of France
Lithgow, John (as Winston Churchill), 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1, 9.2
MacDonald, Margaret (“Bobo”), 7.1, 8.1, 8.2
Macmillan, Harold, 2.1, 4.1, 9.1
Malta, Philip, Duke of Edinburgh serves in
Manchester Guardian (newspaper), 4.1, 10.1
Margaret, Princess: character and upbringing, 6.1; childhood, 1.1, 5.1, 5.2, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 10.1; at the coronation, 5.3, 6.3; on Marion Crawford, 7.3; in Paris, 10.2; relationship with Peter Townsend, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 10.3; and smoking, 2.1
Marie Louise, Princess, 7.1, 8.1
Marlborough, John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of (formerly “Sonny” Blandford), 6.1
Mary, Queen, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2; and the Abdication crisis, 5.1, 5.2; approval of Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 8.1; during the First World War, 3.3, 3.4; influence on Elizabeth II, 3.5; and Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, 1.2, 1.3; on Princess Margaret, 6.1; on the Princesses’ education, 6.2, 7.1; on Queen Elizabeth’s accession, 2.1; and smoking, 2.2; and the Windsor family name, 3.6
McMillan, William, George VI memorial
Miles, Ben (as Group Captain Townsend), 2.1, 4.1, 6.1, 6.2, 10.1
Moran, Charles, 1.1, 4.1, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1, 9.2
Morrah, Dermot, 1.1, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 10.1, 10.2
Mountbatten, Lieutenant Philip see Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Mountbatten, Louis Alexander, 1st Marquis of Milford Haven (formerly Prince Louis of Battenberg), 1.1, 3.1
Mountbatten, Louis (“Dickie”), 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1
Mountbatten, Patricia see Knatchbull, Patricia (formerly Mountbatten), 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma
Nahum, Sterling Henry (“Baron”), 5.1, 5.2
Nicolson, Harold, 1.1, 8.1, 8.2, 10.1
Order of the Garter, 1.1, 1.2, 10.1
Osborne, John, Look Back in Anger (1956), 10.1
Parker, Michael, Commander, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1
Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 3.1, 5.1, 8.1; birth and background, 1.5; in Clarence House, 3.2; and the coronation, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6; early relationship with Princess Elizabeth, 1.6, 1.7; ennobled prior to marriage with Princess Elizabeth, 1.8; pilot training, 4.1; and the Princess Margaret–Townsend crisis, 6.1; relationship with the Queen Mother, 5.7; serves in Malta, 1.9; on tour in Australia (1953-54), 8.2; wedding, 1.10; and the Windsor family name, 3.3
Pickup, Ronald (as the Archbishop of Canterbury), 5.1
Pompidou, Georges, President of France
Porchester, Lord see Carnarvon, Henry Herbert (“Porchey”), 7th Earl of
republican sentiment, 3.1, 5.1
Rowe, Nicholas (as Jock Colville), 7.1
Royal Marriages Act (1772), 6.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3
Royal Naval College, Dartmouth
Salisbury, Frank, painting of George V’s Silver Jubliee
Salisbury, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil (“Bobbety”), 5th Marquess of, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 4.1, 7.1, 10.1, 10.2
Sandringham, Norfolk, 1.1, 1.2
Schiller, Friedrich, Maria Stuart, 1.1
Scott, Venetia (fictional character), 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4
Simpson, Wallis see Windsor, Wallis, Duchess of
Smith, Matt (as Philip, Duke of Edinburgh), 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2, bm3.1
Spencer-Churchill, Lady Rosemary, 5.1
Stewart, Lady Jane, 5.1
Strathmore, Cecilia Bowes Lyon, Countess of
Strathmore, Claude Bowes Lyon, 1st Earl of
Sutherland, Graham, portrait of Churchill, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
Televised broadcast, of the coronation, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4
Times, The (newspaper), 1.1, 5.1, 7.1, 10.1
Torrens, Pip (as Sir Alan “Tommy” Lascelles), 3.1
Townsend, Peter, Group Captain, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 10.1
Victoria, Queen, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2
Vyner, Lady Doris (née Gordon-Lennox), 8.1, 8.2
Walter, Harriet (as Clementine Churchill), 1.1, 9.1, 9.2
War Artists’ Advisory Committee (WAAC)
William IV, King, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2
Williams, Lia (as the Duchess of Windsor), 5.1, 5.2
Windsor (“David”), Duke of (formerly Edward VIII), 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2; abdication, 1.1, 3.2, 5.3; on Queen Elizabeth’s coronation, 5.4; dislike of field sports, 1.2; opinions on the Royal Family, 3.3; and the Princess Elizabeth, 5.5, 7.1; regnal name, 2.3; and smoking, 2.4; “Tommy” Lascelles on, 3.4; and Wallis Simpson, 5.6
Windsor, House of, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 8.1
Windsor, Wallis, Duchess of (Wallis Simpson), 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7