Index

Albert, King of the Belgians: ref1

Albert, Prince Consort of England: ref1

Alexander II, Tsar of Russia: ref1

Anderson, Marian (singer): ref1, ref2

Arthur, Prince of Connaught (cousin of King George VI): ref1

Astaire, Fred (Broadway stage dancer and singer): ref1

Astor, Helen (née Huntington, wife of Vincent Astor): ref1, ref2

Astor, Vincent (businessman): ref1

Austen, Jane (novelist): ref1

Backer, George (writer, husband of Dorothy Schiff): ref1

Baldwin, Stanley (British politician): ref1

Baltimore Sun: ref1

Beekman, William: ref1

Berengaria (liner): ref1

Blondin, Charles (acrobat): ref1

Bloom, Sol (US senator): ref1

Blum, Mlle (personal tutor to the Suckley children): ref1

Bonnet, George (French foreign minister): ref1

Borah, William (US politician): ref1

Boston Sunday Globe: ref1

Bowes-Lyon, Cecilia (Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, mother of Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, Queen Consort of England): ref1

Bowes-Lyon, Claude (14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, father of Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, Queen Consort of England): ref1

Bradford, Sarah (royal biographer): ref1

Brontës (Anne, Charlotte and Emily, writers): ref1

Bruenn, Howard (physician): ref1

Buchan, John, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir: ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5 The Thirty-Nine Steps

Buchanan, James (US president): ref1

Bullitt, William (US ambassador to Paris): ref1

Burden, James (businessman): ref1

Butler, Nicholas Murray (philosopher and educator): ref1

Byrd, Richard E. (naval officer and explorer): ref1

Canham, Erwin D. (journalist): ref1

Canning, Albert (police officer): ref1, ref2

Cannon, Arnout (architect): ref1

Cantú, Giuseppe (Italian govern ment official): ref1

Caroline, Queen Consort of England: ref1

Chamberlain, Anne (wife of Neville Chamberlain): ref1

Chamberlain, Neville (British Prime Minister): ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11

Charles, Prince of Wales: ref1, ref2

Charlotte, Princess of Wales (daughter of King George IV): ref1

Chicago Tribune: ref1, ref2, ref3

Christian Science Monitor: ref1

Churchill, Winston: ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

Cook, Nan: ref1

Coolidge, Calvin (President of the USA): ref1

Cornwallis, Charles, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (British army offi cer): ref1

Coughlin, Frank T. (police officer): ref1

Coward, Noël (actor): ref1

Cox, James M. (US politician): ref1

Crawford, Marion (governess to Princess Elizabeth): ref1

Dafoe, Allan Roy (carer of the Dionne Quintuplets): ref1

Daily Express, The: ref1, ref2, ref3

Daily Mail, The: ref1, ref2

Daily Telegraph, The: ref1, ref2

Davis, Meyer (conductor): ref1

Delano, Laura (cousin of FDR):

Delano, Sara, see Roosevelt, Sara

Dawson, Bertrand, 1st Viscount Dawson of Penn (physician to King George V): ref1

Detroit Free Press: ref1

Deutschland (battleship): ref1

Diana, Princess of Wales: ref1, ref2

Dickerman, Marion: ref1

Dionne Quintuplets, The (“The Quints”): ref1

Dixon, George (journalist): ref1

Eden, Anthony (British foreign secretary): ref1, ref2

Edward VII, King of England: ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

Edward VIII, King of England (“David”): ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13

Einstein, Albert (scientist): ref1

Elizabeth, Queen Consort of England (Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon): ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24, ref25, ref26, ref27

Elizabeth, Queen of England (previously Princess Elizabeth, “Lilibet”): ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

Empress of Australia (ship): ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

Eugénie, Empress Consort of the French: ref1

Fields, Alonzo (White House butler): ref1

Fitzgerald, F. Scott (novelist): ref1

Great Gatsby, The: ref1

Frederick, Prince of Denmark: ref1

Garner, John “Cactus Jack” Nance (US politician): ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

Gatty, Harold (aviator): ref1

George II, King of England: ref1

George III, King of England: ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

George IV, King of England: ref1

George V, King of England: 2, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9

George VI, King of England: ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17

Gerard, James W. (US diplomat):

Gordon, Keith V (writer and journalist): ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

North America Sees Our King and Queen: ref1

Greenwood, Anthony (British politician): ref1

Haakon VII, King of Norway: ref1

Haggard, Godfrey (British diplomat): ref1

Halifax, Lord, see Wood, E.F.L. Hall, Mary (née Ludlow, grand mother of Eleanor Roosevelt): ref1

Harding, Warren G. (US politician): ref1

Hardinge, Alexander (King George VI’s private secretary): ref1

Harper’s Weekly: ref1

Hartnell, Norman (couturier): ref1

Harvard Crimson: ref1

Hearst, William Randolph (magnate): ref1

Helm, Edith (secretary to Eleanor Roosevelt): ref1

Henderson, Nevile (British ambassador to Berlin): ref1

Hickok, Lorena (“Hick”, journal ist and close friend of Eleanor Roosevelt): ref1

Hilton, James (writer): ref1

Hitler, Adolf: ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14

Mein Kampf: ref1

Hoover, Herbert (US president): ref1, ref2

Hoover, J. Edgar (head of the FBI): ref1

Hore-Belisha, Leslie (British war minister): ref1

Howe, Louis (journalist and politician): ref1

Howland, Rebecca (first wife of James Roosevelt Sr): ref1

HMS Collingwood: ref1

Hull, Cordell (US secretary of state): ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

Ickes, Harold (US secretary of the interior): ref1

Isaacs, Stella (Marchioness of Reading): ref1, ref2

Isaacs, Rufus (1st Marquess of Reading, British ambassador to the USA): ref1

Israels, Josef II (journalist): ref1

Jackson, Andrew: ref1

Jefferson, Thomas (US president):

Jennings, Charles (broadcaster): ref1

Kennedy, John F. (US president): ref1

Kennedy, Joseph (US ambassador to London): ref1, ref2, ref3,

Kennedy, Rose (wife of Joseph Kennedy): ref1

Kent Messenger: ref1

Kipling, Rudyard (writer): 2ii ‘Recessional’: ref1

Knickerbocker, Cholly (pseudonym of gossip columnist): ref1

Knight, Clara (“Alah”, nanny to Princess Elizabeth): ref1

Krock, Arthur (journalist): ref1

LaGuardia, Fiorello (mayor of New York): ref1, ref2, ref3

Lambert, F.J. (naval officer): ref1

Landon, Alf (US politician): ref1

Lane, Harriet (niece of President James Buchanan): ref1

Langdon, Sophie (née Montgom ery, aunt of Margaret Suckley): ref1, ref2

Langdon, Woodbury G. (husband of Margaret Suckley’s aunt): ref1

Lape, Esther: ref1

Lapointe, Ernest (Canadian politician): ref1

Lascelles, Alan “Tommy” (King George VI’s private secretary): ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

Leary, Captain (US naval officer):

Lebrun, Albert (President of France): ref1

LeHand, Marguerite (“Missy”): ref1, ref2, ref3

Lehman, Herbert (US politician): ref1

Leviathan (warship): ref1

Life (magazine): ref1

Lindbergh, Charles A. (aviator): ref1

Lindsay, Elizabeth (née Hoyt, wife of Ronald Lindsay): ref1, ref2, ref3

Lindsay, Ronald (US ambassador): ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17

Lloyd George, David (British prime minister): ref1

Lloyd Wright, Frank (architect and landscape designer): ref1

Lloyd Wright, John (son of Frank Lloyd Wright): ref1

Logue, Lionel (speech therapist to King George VI): ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

Logue, Mark (grandson of Lionel Logue): ref1

The King’s Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy: ref1

Longworth, Alice (née Roosevelt), see Roosevelt, Alice

Los Angeles Times: ref1

Lucas, William: ref1

Mackenzie King, William Lyon (Canadian Prime Minister): ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19

Macmillan, Harold (British prime minister): ref1

Mallet, Victor (British diplomat): ref1

Margaret (Rose), Princess of Snowdon: ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

Marie Antoinette, Queen of France: ref1

Märtha, Princess of Norway: ref1, ref2

Mary, Queen Consort of England: ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

Mayflower (ship): ref1

McDermott, Michael J. (US government officer): ref1

McGarrity, Joseph (leader of an Irish-American society): ref1

McKinley, William (US president): ref1

Meikle, A.R.: ref1

Mercer, Lucy: ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

Mieville, Eric (King George VI’s assistant private secretary): ref1

Milwaukee Journal: ref1

Minneapolis Tribune: ref1

Montgomery, Elizabeth, see Suckley, Elizabeth

Montgomery, Sophie, see Langdon, Sophie

Moore, Arthur Harry (US politi cian): ref1

Morgan, J.P “Jack” (financier): 49 ref1, ref2

Morse, Ellie (lover of Lorena Hickok): ref1

Mouton, Robert (US politician): ref1

Mussolini, Benito: ref1, ref2, ref3

Nahlin (luxury yacht): ref1

Napoleon, Emperor of the French: ref1

Napoleon III, Emperor of the French: 2

Nero (battleship): ref1

Nesbitt, Mrs (housekeeper at the White House): ref1, ref2, ref3

Newman, John (chauffeur): ref1

New York Daily Mirror: ref1

New York Daily News: ref1, 147, ref2

New York Herald: ref1

New York Post: ref1, ref2

New York Sun: ref1

New York Times: ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13

New York World Telegram: ref1

Nurnburnholme, Lady: ref1

Olav, Prince of Norway: ref1, ref2

Olson, Culbert (US politician): ref1

Ostaghen, Henry (US government official): ref1

Parker, Colonel (US army officer): ref1

Patton, Net (US politician): ref1

Persico, Joseph E. (writer): ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

Franklin and Lucy: 6, ref1

Philip, Prince Consort of England: ref1

Phipps, Eric (British ambassador to Paris): ref1

Pittman, Key (US senator): ref1

Post, Wiley (aviator): ref1

Prince of Wales: ref1

Princess Marguerite (steamer): ref1

Prochaska, Frank (historian): ref1

The Eagle and the Crown: ref1

Qualters, Tommy (FDR’s “walking partner”): ref1

Rankin, Jeannette (US politician): ref1

Read, Elizabeth: ref1

Reagan, Ronald (US president): ref1

Reeves, Mr (head gardener at Hyde Park on Hudson): ref1

Repulse (ship): ref1, ref2, ref3

Revere, Paul (one of the heroes of the US War of Independence): ref1

Reynolds, Robert Rice (US senator): ref1

Rodney (ship): ref1

Rogers, Archibald: ref1

Roosevelt, Alice (daughter of Theodore Roosevelt): ref1

Roosevelt, Anna (née Hall, mother of Eleanor Roosevelt): ref1

Roosevelt, Anna (daughter of FDR): ref1

Roosevelt, Anna (“Bamie”, “Aunt Bye”, sister of Theodore Roosevelt): ref1

Roosevelt, Edward (cousin of Eleanor Roosevelt): ref1

Roosevelt, Eleanor: ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22

This Is My Story: ref1

Roosevelt, Elizabeth (née Riley, “Betty”, second wife of James Roosevelt Roosevelt): ref1, ref2

Roosevelt, Elliott (brother of The odore Roosevelt and father of Eleanor Roosevelt): ref1

Roosevelt, Elliott (son of FDR): ref1, 2, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

Roosevelt, Elliott Jr (brother of Eleanor Roosevelt): ref1

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (FDR): ref1, 2, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24, ref25, ref26, ref27, ref28, ref29, ref30, ref31

Roosevelt, Franklin Jr (son of FDR): ref1, ref2, ref3

Roosevelt, James (“Jimmy”, son of FDR): ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

Roosevelt, James Roosevelt (“Rosey”, half-brother of FDR): ref1, ref2

Roosevelt, James Sr (father of FDR): ref1, ref2

Roosevelt, Sara (née Delano, FDR’s mother): ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16

Roosevelt, Theodore: ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

Roosevelts, The (family): ref1, ref2

Royal Blue (train used by the royal couple in their tour of Canada): ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10

Russell, Sean (Irish republican leader): ref1

Rutherford McCormick, Robert (owner of the Chicago Tri bune): ref1

Rutherfurd, Lucy, see Mercer, Lucy

Rutherfurd, Winthrop (husband of Lucy Mercer): ref1

San Jose News: ref1

Schiff, Dorothy (owner of the New York Post): ref1

Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr (historian): ref1

Scribner’s (magazine): ref1, ref2

Shoumatoff, Elizabeth (painter): ref1

Simpson, Wallis: ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9

Smith, Alfred E. (US politician): ref1, ref2

Smith, Ellison D. (“Cotton Ed”, US senator): ref1

Smith, Kate (singer): ref1

Souvestre, Marie (headmistress of Allenswood Academy): ref1

Spectator, The: ref1

Springwood (FDR’s summer retreat): ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14

Streitmatter, Rodger (writer): ref1

Suckley, Arthur (brother of Mar garet Suckley): ref1

Suckley, Elizabeth (neé Mont gomery, mother of Margaret Suckley): ref1

Suckley, Margaret (“Daisy”): ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

Suckley, Robert (brother of Mar garet Suckley): ref1

Suckley, Robert Brown (father of Margaret Suckley): ref1

Suckleys, The (family): ref1

Swift, Will (writer): ref1

The Roosevelts and the Royals: ref1

Telford, James Lyle (mayor of Vancouver): ref1

Thompson, Walter Scott (journal ist): ref1

Tibbett, Lawrence (singer): ref1

Time (magazine): ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

Titanic (ship): ref1

Toombs, Henry J. (architect): ref1

Tucker, Henry St George (head of the US Episcopal Church): ref1, ref2

USS Potomac: ref1

Valentine, Lewis J. (police offi cer): ref1

Van Buren, Martin (US presi dent): ref1

Van Buren, John (son of Martin Van Buren): ref1

Vanderbilt, Cornelius (financier, grandfather of Frederick William Vanderbilt): ref1

Vanderbilt, Frederick William (financier): ref1

Van Wagner, Elmer (Hyde Park supervisor): ref1

Victoria, Queen of England: ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

Victoria and Albert (royal yacht): ref1

Ward, Geoffrey C. (writer): ref1, ref2

Closest Companion: ref1

Warrington (US destroyer): ref1

Washington, George (first US president): ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

Washington Post: ref1, ref2, ref3

Washington Star: ref1

Watteau, Antoine (painter): ref1

Whalen, Grover (police officer): ref1

Wheeler-Bennett, John W. (royal biographer): ref1, ref2, ref3

Wilderstein (the Suckleys’ family residence): ref1

Wilhelm II, Kaiser of Germany: ref1

Wilson, Frank (priest): ref1, ref2

Wilson, Hugh (US ambassador to Berlin): ref1

Wilson, Woodrow (US president): ref1, ref2

Wood, E.F.L. (1st Earl of Halifax, British foreign secretary): ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

Woods, Helen (friend of Stella Isaacs and niece of J.P. Morgan): ref1

Young, Gordon (Reuters correspondent): ref1, ref2

Voyage of State: ref1