INDEX

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Abdy, Lady Diane, 60

Achillopoulos, Costa, 5, 23–4

Action Française, 32

Akritas, Digenis, 126

Albania, 349

Alcuin of York, 414

Aleppo, Syria, 344

Alevizakis, Father John, 312

Alington, Napier Sturt, 3rd Baron, 309

Almanachos, Pierre: Récits Byzantins, 114

Aly Khan, Joan, 60

Ambler family, 306

American Vogue (magazine), 66–7

Amory, Mark Heathcote: edits Ann Fleming letters, 355n4, 356; and review of Blacker’s Along the Enchanted Way, 434

Amsterdam, 391

Anagnostou, Despoina, 191

Andes: PLF writes on, 275

Anglo-Hellenic League, 295–6, 393

Annie (French hotel maid), 215

Antrim, Randal McDonnell, 8th Earl of (‘Ran’), 318–19

Apocalypse Now (film), 333

Argyropoulos, A., 234, 237

Arran, Arthur Gore, 8th Earl of (‘Boofie’), 118n1

Ashley-Cooper, Lady Lettice Mildred Mary, 196, 208

Aslan, Grégoire (‘Coco’), 156

Aspioti, Marie, 17

Asquith, Katherine Frances (née Horner; K.H.), 341

Asquith, Raymond, xviii, 341

Astor, Michael, 185, 189n3, 196, 307, 318

Athenogenis, George, 221

Athens Academy: PLF elected Corresponding member, 337, 339

Athos, Mount, 367, 384, 387

Averoff-Tossizza, Evangelos, 348

Ayer, A. J. (‘Freddie’), 136

Bacon, Francis, 407

Bagnold, Enid (Lady Jones), 347

Baïgeórgas, Charalambi, 74–5

Balfour, Frank, 71

Balfour, Patrick see Kinross, Patrick, 3rd Baron

Bandouvas, Manoli, 329

Baring, Maurice, 399

Barker, Nicolas, 54

Bashkirtzeff, Marie, 259

Bath, Henry Frederick Thynne, 10th Marquess of, xvi, 179, 183, 204, 276

Bath, Virginia, Marchioness of, 179, 204, 276

Bayley, John, 414

Beaton, Cecil, 142

Beatty, Lady Dorothy, 60

Beaumont, Graziella de, 167

Beaumont, Hugh (‘Binkie’), 136

Beevor, Antony, 413

Belchem, General David, 315

Belgrade, 113

Bell, Clive, 291

Bell, Gertrude, 345

Bell, Quentin: Virginia Woolf, 291n1

Beloyannis, Elpida, 425

Benaki Museum, Athens, 414

Bendern, Count John Gerard de, 67–8

Béraudière, Jacques Jean, Comte de la, 150

Berlin, Sir Isaiah, 136, 183, 298

Berners, Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron, 207–8, 391

Bernstein, Henri: Evangeline (play), 65

Berry family, 142

Berry, John Seymour, 60

Betjeman, Sir John, 269; PLF parodies, xiv, 85–6; stays at Chagford, xiv; stays with PLF at Kardamyli, xv, 269; PLF stays with, 83–4; at Faringdon Hall, 208; and Myfanwy Piper, 393; at Georgian Society meeting, 403; Poems in the Porch, 102; ‘Salamis in Cyprus’, 125; ‘Sun and Fun’, 129n3

Betjeman, Penelope, Lady, 83–4, 208

Between the Woods and the Water (PLF), x, 302n15, 368, 370–1, 391

Beulah, Robert, 231

Bibesco, Prince Emmanuel, 234

Bibesco, Princess Martha, 234, 315

Bielek, Ria (‘Iza’), 361

Birch, Lyndall, 160, 164, 172, 175, 178; PLF’s love letters to, xiii, xix; PLF’s relations with, 160, 164–76

Blacker, William, 413, 434; Along the Enchanted Way, 434

Bloomsbury Group, 291

Blumenthal, Cecil, 172n3

Blunt, Wilfrid, 88–9

Bogarde, Dirk, xvi, 130–1

Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire, 307

Bonham Carter, Mark, 356

Bonthorpe, George, 247

Borden, Mary see Spears, Mary, Lady

Bossuet, Jacques-Bénigne, Bishop of Meaux, 32

Boukas, Philip, 112

Boulenger, Jane, 246

Bowra, Sir (Cecil) Maurice (‘Eroica Rawbum’), 34, 72, 78, 93, 95, 155, 198, 224, 260

Box, George Herbert, 270

Bragg, Melvyn, 399

Branch, Guy Rawstron, 4, 16, 231, 307

Branch, Mamie, 231

Branch, Lady Prudence, 4, 16, 231

Brenan, Gerald, 291, 358–9, 370

British Council, x, 17, 23n5

Broken Road, The (PLF; posthumous), x, 288n2

Brooke, Rupert, 58

Bruern Abbey, Oxfordshire, 185, 199

Buccleuch, Mary (‘Molly)’, Duchess of (née Lascelles), 345

Bucharest, 354

Budapest, 353, 378–9, 387, 400

Bulgaria, 381–4

Bulmer, John, 407

Burgess, Guy, 70n13

Burlington, William Cavendish, Earl of, 403

Bush, George W., xviii, 423n5

Butler, Richard Austen (‘Rab’), 58

Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron, xvi, 57, 74–5, 89, 217, 296–7

Byron, Robert: Letters Home, 404

Callas, Maria, 180

Callimachi, Princess Anne-Marie, 5

Cameron, Samantha, 347n

Cameroon (French Equatorial Africa), xvi, 153–8

Campbell, Robin Francis and Lady Mary Sybil (née St Clair-Erskine), 142

Campbell-Gray, Diana (née Cavendish), 228

Canfield, Cass, 73, 246, 255

Canfield, Jane Sage (née White), 255

Cantacuzène family, 409–11

Cantacuzène, Princess Balasha (Marie-Blanche), 11, 230, 234, 240, 256, 263, 275, 290, 304, 309, 311; PLF’s attachment to, xii–xiii, 10; post-war life, xii–xiii, 409; stays with Branch family, 6n2; PLF revisits in Rumania, 230–3, 286, 409; PLF sends books to, 234, 276; finds PLF’s pre-war diary, 237, 286; PLF sends walk book to, 290–1; death, 355n3

Cantacuzène, Hélène (‘Pomme’), 16, 230–1, 262, 354, 409

Cantacuzène, Pamela, 417, 420, 430, 417

Cantacuzène-Spéranski Prince Michel, 410; asks PLF to write foreword to book, 410, 417, 420–1, 430; death, 417

Cardiff, 203

Cardiff, Maurice, 119–20

Caribbean: PLF in, xi

Carleston, Dorothy, 88

Carnock, Frederick Archibald Nicolson, 2nd Baron, 186

Carol II, King of Rumania, 285n8

Carrington (film), 412

Carritt, Dr Christian, 428

Carta, General Angelo, 312

Casey, Diana ( Joan’s sister), 316

Castiglione, Baldassare: Il Cortegiano, 179, 338

Catargi, Ina (‘Ins’), 231, 233, 258, 309, 311

Catargi, Michel, 258

Cavendish, Lady Elizabeth, 84n2

Cavendish, Lady Emma, 134

Cavendish, Lord Peregrine (‘Stoker’), 134

Cavendish, Lady Sophia, 184

Cazalis, Anne Marie, 153

Ceauşescu, Nicolae, 392

Cecil, Lord David and Rachel (née MacCarthy), 307

Central America, 24

Chagford, Devon, xiv, 135–8, 141–2, 184

Channon, Henry (‘Chips’), 96

Chantilly, 64, 69, 94, 115

Chappell, William, 327n3

Charlemagne, Emperor of the West, 347, 414

Charles, Prince of Wales, 418

Chateaubriand, René, Vicomte de, 30

Chatsworth, Derbyshire, 107, 184–5, 197, 258, 276, 280, 315, 393, 417–18, 425

Chatwin, Bruce: visits PLF at Kardamyli, xv, 372, 376; illness and death, 393, 399–400

Chatwin, Elizabeth, 399–400

Chaucer, Geoffrey, 340

Chaudhuri, Nirad C., 283

Cheshire, David, 399

Choderlos de Laclos, Pierre Ambroise François, 214

Cholmondeley, David, 7th Marquess of, 407

Cholmondeley, Sybil, Dowager Marchioness of (née Sassoon), 284, 315–16

Chrissoveloni, Nicky, 232

Christianity: PLF on, 28–9

Churchill, Pamela (later Harriman), 97

Churchill, Randolph, 372

Churchill, Winston, Jr., 97

Claudel, Paul, 53

Cobley, Tom, 186

Cohen, Yvette see Durrell, Yvette Coleman, Brian, 140

Colette: Julie de Carneilhan, 60

Communist Party: in Crete, 328–9

Conner, Angela, 299, 407

Connolly, Cressida (Mrs Charles Hudson), 428

Connolly, Cyril (‘The Humanist’): PLF invokes during stay at Saint-Wandrille, 34; and PLF’s Voodoo article, 36; and E. M. Forster’s Guide to Alexandria, 37; Smart sends essay on existentialism to, 49; newspaper article on Burgess and Maclean, 66; stays with PLF on Hydra, 72, 94; dines with PLF, 136; PLF meets in London, 204; at PLF’s wedding, 260; illness and death, 310; on autobiographical writing, 366; The Rock Pool, 224

Connolly, Deirdre, 260

Constantine, King of the Hellenes, 252–3

Constantine XI Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor, 72

Contact (magazine), 43

Cooper, Sir Alfred Duff: mistresses, 50n2, 346n8; PLF stays with at Chantilly, 64–8; death, 81; hosts reception at Paris embassy, 372; bookplate, 415

Cooper, Artemis, 351, 413; biography of PLF (Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure), xiv; PLF compares to apple, 90; on PLF’s parody poem, 272n5

Cooper, Lady Diana, 81, 83, 87, 102, 135, 225, 283, 294, 298, 319, 330, 336, 340, 343, 346, 352; PLF stays at Bognor Regis house, xii, 86; friendship and correspondence with PLF, xiii, xviii, 80, 414; borrows yacht from Niarchos, xv, 116, 133; PLF stays with at Chantilly, 64–8, 94; stays on Hydra with PLF, 72, 96, 99; in south of France, 133; visits Kardamyli, 255; holds party in London, 258; at PLF/Joan’s wedding, 260; reports death of Iris Tree, 263; sprains wrist, 283; on Marchioness of Cholmondeley’s affair with Jouvet, 315; Joan visits, 318; PLF collects and returns letters, 336–8; Ziegler’s biography of, 337–8, 352

Coote, Sir Colin, 315

Corfu, 17–19

Cornwall, Camilla, Duchess of (earlier Parker-Bowles), xvi, 418

Crabbet Park, Sussex, 86, 88

Cranborne, Marjorie (‘Mollie’)

Olein Wyndham-Quin, Lady (later Marchioness of Salisbury), 223

Craxton, John (‘Johnny’), 25, 236, 412

Crete: PLF’s wartime activities in, x, 8–9, 311–12; memorial plaque, 328–9; anniversaries of Battle, 349, 421; PLF revisits with Joan, 355–6

Crowe, Miss (of Corfu), 17, 19

Cruddas, Hugh, 208

Csernovits, xenia, 360–1

Culme-Seymour, Angela, 59, 197n3

Curzon, Robert: Visits to Monasteries of the Levant, 397

Cyprus: state of emergency, xvii, 117n2, 119–20, 122, 124–9; Durrell in, 10; British policy in, 17, 99n17, 111; and Enosis (unification with Greece), 111, 119, 122; PLF writes on, 115–16

Cyprus Review, 100, 120

Dahl, Eric, 214–15

Daily Telegraph, 433

Damascus, 343–4

Dartmoor, 137

Dawkins, Richard MacGillivray, 77

Dessès, Jean (fashion designer), 68

Devonshire, Andrew Cavendish, 11th

Duke of: marriage to Debo, 107; PLF stays with at Chatsworth, 184, 276, 280, 315; suggests title for PLF article, 224; at PLF’s wedding, 260; gives up drinking, 281n5; Angela Conner bronze of, 299; climbing with PLF, 299; PLF visits in England, 307–8; resumes drinking, 358n1; on illicit liaisons at Chatsworth, 361; dislikes visiting Sandringham, 406; death and funeral, 427–8

Devonshire, Deborah, Duchess of (‘Debo’), 108, 130, 145, 431, 435; friendship and correspondence with PLF, xiii, 107; PLF stays with at Chatsworth, 184, 276, 280, 315; at Lismore Castle, 187–8; and PLF’s search for house in Greece, 219; and PLF’s attempt to help Balasha come to West, 230; PLF visits in England, 307–8; and Ann Fleming’s final illness, 348; in America, 393; and Andrew’s death and funeral, 427–8; correspondence with PLF published, 431; moves from Chatsworth to Edensor, 431; and review of Blacker’s Along the Enchanted Way, 434

Dictionary of National Biography, 326–7

Dietz, Howard and Tanis, 69n5

Dionysius the Areopagite, St, 42

Dionysius, Fr, Pro-Abbot of Arkadi, Crete, 328

Doelnitz, Marc, 154

Donaldson, John George Stuart, Baron and Frances, Lady, 303

Donici, Constantin, 16

Donne, John, 291

Dossiers de l’Ecran’ (TV broadcast), 314

Douglas, Sir James (d.1330), 99

Douglas, Norman, 180

Drogheda, Garrett Moore, 11th Earl of, 198, 227

Drogheda, Henry Dermot Ponsonby Moore, 12th Earl and Alexandra, Countess of (née Henderson), 407

Drogheda, Joan, Countess of, 198, 227

Drummond, Lindsay, 47

Duff Cooper Prize, 227

Dumbleton Hall, Gloucestershire, 184–5, 197n1; see also Mill House, Dumbleton

Dunbabin, Thomas James, 153, 223, 328; The Western Greeks, 77

Dunbar, William, 272n5

Durrell, Claude-Marie, 212

Durrell, Lawrence, 20, 100, 119, 181, 210; in Cyprus, xvii, 100, 119; PLF and Xan Fielding meet, 20–1; divorce from Daphne, 121n6; PLF visits, 151; in Ischia, 181; stays in PLF’s room in London, 181; house at Uzès, 244, 277; friendship with Walter Smart, 258; Alexandria Quartet (novels), 23n1; Balthazar, 181

Durrell, Sappho, 101, 120

Durrell, Yvette (Eve; earlier Cohen), 101, 120

Eastern Court Hotel see Chagford, Devon

Easton Neston, Northamptonshire, 222

Eden, Clarissa, Lady (later Countess of Avon), 80

Edwardes, Miss (of Tivoli), 163

Egerton, Thomas, 178

Egremont, John Edward Reginald Wyndham, 1st Baron, 188

Egremont, Pamela, Lady (earlier Wyndham), 187, 368, 373, 375; friendship with PLF, 187; title, 374; visits PLF at Dumbleton, 436

Eliot, T. S.: The Waste Land, 200

Encounter (magazine), 112n2

Enrico d’Assia (Henric), 175

EOKA (Greek nationalist movement), 111, 122, 126, 128–9

Erlanger, Baroness Catherine d’, 403

Fahie, Norah, 83

Falconer, Bill, 104

Falklands war (1982), 356

Faringdon House, Oxfordshire, 206–8

Farouk, King of Egypt, 10n2, 70n22

Fedden, Robin, 39, 228, 258, 275, 307; Chantemesle, 276

Fénelon, François, Archbishop of Cambrai, 32, 166

Fenton, Francesca, 305

Fenton, Vanessa (née Fermor; PLF’s sister), 6, 260, 305

Fermor, (Muriel) Aileen (née Ambler; PLF’s mother), 260, 304–5

Fermor, Joan Leigh (earlier Rayner), 26, 34, 36, 40, 46, 48, 59, 64, 144, 147, 155, 157, 183, 190, 212, 219, 251, 254, 378; tolerates PLF’s lovers, xiii, 160; in Kardamyli house, xv; letters from PLF, xix, 414; engagement to Alan Pryce-Jones, 3; on Corfu with PLF, 17, 20; meets Durrell with PLF, 20; travels in Central America, 24; PLF meets, 25–6; qualities and character, 25; stays with brother Graham at Dumbleton, 25, 184–5, 315, 347; travels in Italy with Bowra, 78; in Middle East, 94; on Hydra, 95, 99; and difference with Katsimablis, 111; in Normandy, 112, 114; in Paris, 114, 129; buys house in Chester Row, London, 136, 141; death of mother, 182, 185; gives large cheque to PLF, 182–3; buys house in Athens, 195n1; inherits Mill House, Dumbleton, 197n1; house-hunting in Greece, 211–12; tax-free inheritance, 216n1; in Euboea, 224; PLF describes to Balasha, 232; marriage to PLF, 259–61; PLF’s mock epitaph to, 269; friendship with Connolly, 310; and PLF’s involvement with Tsangarakis family, 312; cats, 321, 408; visits Fieldings in Spain, 331–3; visits Crete with PLF, 355–6; and PLF’s promotional tour, 393; and PLF’s losing way at St Nicholas Kampinar monastery, 404–5; chess-playing, 416; fall and death, 425–6

Fermor, Patrick Leigh: walk across Europe to Constantinople, ix–x; war service, x, 3–4; British Council lecture tour, x, 17–19; anxiety over delays in delivering writings, xi, xix–xx; borrows friends’ houses, xii, 44; prospective marriage to Joan, xii, 46; love affair with Balasha Cantacuzène, xii–xiii, 10; love affairs and friendships with women, xiii, 160; retreats in French monasteries, xiv, 26–44; stays at Easton Court Hotel, Chagford, xiv, 135–8; romantic interest in aristocracy, xvi; qualities, xvii; memorises and recites poetry, xviii; letter-writing, xviii–xx; daily routine, xix, 47; transfers to Intelligence Corps and posted to Greece and Crete, 8; in Caribbean and Central America, 23–4; religious views, 28–9; poverty, 44; literary earnings and payments, 55, 58, 73, 326; awarded Heinemann Foundation Prize, 59; collects material for book on Greece, 74; stays at Chatsworth, 107, 184, 197, 258, 276, 280, 315, 393, 417, 425; horse-riding, 142–3, 148–9, 157, 185–6; writes film script for The Roots of Heaven, 145, 151, 153, 159; affair with Lyndall Birch, 160, 164–76; Joan gives cheque to, 183; injures finger, 188–9; motoring accidents in Greece, 190–1, 273; confesses to having crabs, 201–2; injures arm in hunting accident, 217; seeks house in Greece, 219–21, 228; writes on pre-war European walk (‘Great Trudge’), 223–4, 226, 266, 285–7, 290, 299–300, 360, 370; elected to Whites club, London, 229; pre-war diary discovered by Balasha, 237, 286–7; income tax, 247; orders spectacles, 253; marriage to Joan, 259–61; mock verse, 269–72; gives up smoking, 294; accepts commission unable to fulfil, 295; relations with mother, 304–5; accidentally shoots Yanni Tsangarakis and subsequent vendetta, 311–13; cancer of the tongue and treatment, 311, 317, 418; dieting and exercise, 330; elected Corresponding member of Athens Academy, 337, 339; tooth problem, 337; revisits Crete (1982), 355–6; sexual encounters on Great Trudge, 360–1; travels in Asia Minor, 368–9; Greek taxes, 370; in The South Bank Show, 398–9; writes afterword to Folio Society edition of Ill Met by Moonlight, 419; and Joan’s sudden death, 425–6; loses briefcase with personal documents, 425; finds writing difficult in later years, 430; cancer of throat and death, 437

Field, Theophilus, Bishop of Hereford, 326

Fielding, Agnes (earlier Phillips; ‘Magouche’): on PLF’s Englishness, xvii; mule journey across Arcadia, 189; at Derek Jackson’s banquet, 196; at Bruern, 199; dines with PLF and Hadjimichalis, 252; at PLF’s wedding, 260; and Xan’s illness, 317; marriage to Xan, 318n2; PLF stays with in Spain, 331, 358; Asia Minor trip with PLF, 368, 371; spends Christmas with PLF, 388; sends cutting of Francis Bacon’s death, 407; delayed on visit to Kardamyli, 411–12

Fielding, Daphne (earlier Marchioness of Bath), 60, 81, 120, 130, 276, 318n2; Mercury Presides, 101; The Rainbow Picnic, 298, 301

Fielding, Magouche and Xan, 332

Fielding, xan (Alexander), 153, 223, 243, 278, 317, 328, 350, 386; meets Lawrence Durrell with PLF, 20; and death of Duff Cooper, 81; visits Gadencourt, 120; and film of Ill Met by Moonlight, 130–1; house in Uzès, 244–5, 358; attempts to recover money on Nice house, 245n4; PLF describes to Balasha, 276; marriage to Magouche, 318n2; PLF and Joan spend Christmas 1979 with, 331; travels to Syria with PLF, 343–4; with PLF in Asia Minor, 368, 371; spends Christmas with PLF, 388; sends hoax letter to PLF, 389; PLF meets in Marseilles, 398; in The South Bank Show, 398; ashes scattered, 412; Aeolus Displayed, 335, 250; Corsair Country, 153; Hide and Seek, 101; The Stronghold, 63

Fischer, Dagmar, 379–81

Fischer, Rudolf, 323, 361, 371, 390, 391, 400, 421; letter from PLF on attack on twin towers in New York, xviii; comments on PLF’s A Time of Gifts, 323; and PLF’s memories of Great Trudge, 360–1; PLF meets in Budapest, 379, 381; sends hoax letter to PLF, 389–90; on al-Qaida attacks, 421

Fleming, Ann, 79, 93, 95, 117, 142, 184, 248, 348; friendship and correspondence with PLF, xiii, 79; meets PLF in Paris, 65–6; stays with Somerset Maugham, 132–3; at Chatsworth, 198; PLF meets in England, 204, 303, 307; PLF complains to of Bowra’s deafness, 262n8; PLF visits in Ireland, 279–80; illness and death, 348, 350; letters, 354n4, 356, 414; proposed biography, 355–6

Fleming, Caspar, 307, 319, 355

Fleming, Ian, 58, 65–6, 82n5, 142n1, 143n3, 198, 204

Flon, Suzanne, 158

Flynn, Errol, xvi, 153–5

Folio Society, 419–20

Foot, M. R. D., 419

Forster, E. M.: Guide to Alexandria, 39

Foster, John Galway, 65

Fould-Springer, Baron Max, 148

French Equatorial Africa see Cameroon

Frere-Reeves, Alexander and Patricia (née Wallace), 132

‘Friends Apart’ and ‘Friends Wide Apart’ (PLF; articles), 115n6

Fuller, Horace (‘Hod’), 372

Gadencourt (manor-house), Normandy, 48, 62, 68–9, 112, 114, 116–18, 136

Gage, Diana, Viscountess, 356

Gage, George, 7th Viscount, 341

Gaitskell, Hugh, 355

Gal, István, 324

Garibaldi, Anita, 400

Garnett, David (‘Bunny’), 291

Gary, Romain: Les Racines du ciel, 145, 153

Gendel, Anna, 284

Gendel, Judy see Montagu, Judith Venetia

Gendel, Milton, 162n5, 224, 284

Ghika, Antigone (‘Tiggie’) and Niko, 111

Ghika, Barbara (earlier Warner): PLF borrows house in Wales, xii, 198–9; lends London house to Joan, 60; attachment and marriage to Niko, 200; PLF meets in London, 200, 204; Joan stays with in London, 258; at PLF/Joan’s wedding, 259; drinking with PLF, 268; visits PLF in Kardamyli, 289; and Bloomsbury Group, 291; PLF spends Christmas with, 323; PLF visits in Corfu, 347, 356

Ghika, Niko, 273; PLF stays at Hydra house, xii, 72, 76, 99–100; returns to Hydra, 97, 110; entertaining, 103; attachment and marriage to Barbara, 200; PLF meets in London, 200, 204; PLF describes to Balasha, 242–3; Joan stays with in London, 258; builds house on Corfu, 274; visits PLF in Kardamyli, 289; PLF visits in Corfu, 293, 347, 356; PLF spends Christmas with, 323; and PLF’s election as Corresponding member of Athens Academy, 337, 339; PLF forwards Steven Runciman paper to, 377; PLF broadcasts on, 412; friendship with PLF, xvii, 267–8, 553

Ghika, Niko and Barbara, 339

Ghyka, Princess Eileen (née O’Connor), 232

Ghyka, Prince Matila, 232; The World Mine Oyster, 140n1

Gide, André, 53; Les Caves du Vatican, 50, 276; Paludes, 50

Giles, Frank and Lady Katherine (‘Kitty’), 133, 136, 283

Glenconner, Christopher Grey Tennant, 2nd Baron, 293

Gontard, Dom. Gabriel, Lord Abbot of Saint-Wandrille, 27–8, 31–2, 39, 372

Goring, Marius, 140

Gorky, Arshile, 189n3

Goschen, John Alexander, 3rd Viscount and Alvin, Viscountess, 104

Gowrie, Alexander Patrick Greysteil Ruthven, 2nd Earl (‘Grey’) and Adelheid, Countess of, 408

Goya, Francisco: Los Caprichos, 275

Grande Trappe, La (monastery), 40

Great Greek Encyclopaedia, 115n2, 116

Gréco, Juliette, xvi, 153–5, 159

Greece: Colonels’ coup (1967), xviii, 251–3; PLF’s attachment to, xvii; and trouble in Cyprus, xvii, 111, 119–22, 124–9; civil war (1946), 17

Grigorakis, Zanetbey, 401

Grivas, General Giorgios, 126–7

Gross, John, 341

Grosvenor, Robert Victor and Caroline (née Higham), 208–9

Grunne, Jean-Dominique de Hemricourt de, 138, 398

Guinness family, 185–6

Guinness, Loel, 69n5

Guiscard, Robert, 78

Guise, Jean Pierre Clément Marie d’Orléans, Duc de, 32

Hadjimichalis, Nico and Vana, 252

Hammer-Purgstall, Joseph, Freiherr von, 78

Hammersley, Mary (née Williams-Freeman), 184

Hampshire, Stuart, 136

Hardinge, Helen, Lady, 6

Hardinge, General Sir John, 111, 119, 126–7

Hare, Alan, 60

Harper’s (US publishers), 246

Harrod, Wilhelmine (‘Billa’), 404

Hart-Davis, Sir Rupert, 351

Hatterick, Dirk, 288

Haworth, Yorkshire, 308

Heber-Percy, Robert (‘The Mad Boy’), 207–8, 391

Heidsièck, Lil, 104

Heliogabalus (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus), Roman Emperor, 415

Hellespont: PLF swims, 369

Henderson, Sir Nicholas and Mary, Lady, 407, 431

Henley, Sylvia (née Stanley), 345

Hepburn, Audrey, 160

Heppenstall, Rayner: Imaginary Conversations, 189n1

Herakleion, Crete, 328–9

Herbert, Bridget, 292

Herbert, David Alexander Reginald, 82

Hesketh, Christian Mary McEwen (‘Kisty’), Lady, 95, 222–3

Heyworth, Peter, 407

Hill, Derek, 279, 407

Hinks, Roger, 120–1, 376

Hinterwälder, Franz Xaver (hoax name), 390

Hobhouse, John Cam, 57, 74

Hodgkin, Thomas: Italy and her Invaders, 414

Hofmannsthal, Elizabeth von, 66, 68

Hofmannsthal, Raimund von, 298

Holiday (magazine), 223, 230

Holland, Antony James, 6, 88

Hooley, Charles, 185

Horizon (magazine), 38

Howard, Brian, 34

Howard, Edmund Bernard Carlo (‘Mondi’) and Cécile (née Geoffroy-Dechaume), 44, 46

Howard, Philip, 341

Howard, Trevor, xvi, 153, 155–6

Hoxha, Enver, 350n3

Hrissakis, George, 192

Hubbard, Biddy, 231

Hudson, Charles, 428

Hungary, 352–3, 362–5

Huston, Allegra, 239

Huston, John, xvi, 145, 153–5, 158–9, 188, 198

Huston, Ricki (Enrica), 188, 192, 195, 197, 200, 203, 206, 238; PLF’s attachment to, xiii, 188; PLF maintains contact with, 238

Hutchinson, Jeremy, 242, 258

Hutchinson, Mary, 291

Hydra (island), xii, 72, 93–4, 97, 103–6, 110–11

Ill Met by Moonlight (film): xvi, 130–1, 139, 315; see also Moss, W. Stanley

Illyés, Gyula, 362

In Tearing Haste see Mosley, Charlotte

Ironside, Robin, 227

Jackson, Derek Ainslie, 196, 292

James, Clive, 351

Jebb, Julian, 224, 399

Jellicoe, George, 2nd Earl, 416

Jellicoe, George, 2nd Earl and Philippa, Countess, 268, 393, 407–8, 427

John XXIII, Pope, 179

Johnson, Samuel, 351, 364

Jouvet, Louis, 315

Joyce, James: Ulysses, 424

Kanellopoulos, Panagiotis, 252

Kantakuzin, General Volodia, 411

Karaiskáki, Dozia, 372

Karamanlis, Constantine, 401n4

Kardamyli, Greece: PLF and Joan buy and occupy house at, xv, 219–20; building and design, 241, 244, 248–9, 255, 268, 274; storm, 397

Katsimbalis, Aspasia (‘Spatch’), 115

Katsimbalis, George, 113, 122; friendship with PLF, xvii, 112; returns from America, 101; argument with PLF over Cyprus, 111, 113, 127, 129; praises Xan Fielding’s house, 244

Kazan defile (Danube), 377

Kazìs, Yanni, 75

Kee, Cynthia, 315

Kee, Robert, 315, 431

Kepes, Géza, 325

Khnarakis, Grigori, 280

King’s School, Canterbury, 432

Kinross, Patrick Balfour, 3rd Baron, 62; stays at Chagford, xiv; at Gadencourt, 49; PLF meets and stays with in London, 60, 204, 258, 307, 317; in France, 150; at PLF’s wedding, 259–60; The Orphaned Realm, 59, 62

Kiosse, Hará, 355

Kipling Society, 375

Kitaj, R. B. and Sandra, 407

Klobusiçky, Elemér von, 299, 324, 354, 361, 379–80, 387

Knollys, Eardley, 309

Kolokotrones, Niko, 241, 244

Korda, Sir Alexander, 68

Kranidiotis, Nikos, 120, 127

Kreipe, General Heinrich: film of capture, xvi, 55; PLF abducts in war, 8–9, 17; PLF meets after war, 281; illness, 315

Laden, Osama bin, 422

Lambert, Baroness Joanna (‘Hansi’), 138

Lambrakis, Christos Dimitrios, 252

Lancaster, Nancy, 255

Landor, Walter Savage, 223

Larbaud, Valery, 152

Last Tango in Paris (film), 289n5

Lawrence, T. E., 344

Leatham, John, 412

Ledebur, Graf Friedrich von, 156–7, 179–81, 264, 301

Lees-Milne, James, 403

Leigh, Vivien, 136

Lemar, Nellie, 392

Lemprière, John: Bibliotheca classica, 416

Leroux, Gaston: Le Mystère de la chambre jaune, 145n2

Levi, Peter, 289

Lewisham, Raine, Lady (née McCorquodale), 185

Lismore Castle, Ireland, 107–8, 187

Little, Neil, 180

Londonderry, 279

Lopez-Wilshaw, Arturo, 96

Lucas, Audrey, 292

Lycett Green, Candida, 84n2, 407

Lygon, Lady Dorothy (‘Coote’), 190, 208, 260, 289, 391

Lyttelton, George, 351

Lytton, Neville Bulwer-Lytton, 3rd Earl of, 89

Macaulay, Rose, 63, 332

McCarthy, Mary, 204

Macedonia, 396

McEwen, Rory, 94

Maclean, Donald, 70n13

McLean, Lieutenant Colonel Neil

Loudon Desmond (‘Billy’), 9

Macmillan, Harold, xvi, 276, 315–16, 338

MacNeice, Louis, 55, 227

Makarios III, Archbishop, 119, 122, 124, 126, 129

Makkai, László and Erdély Öroksége (eds.): History of Transylvania, 362

Mani (PLF), xi, 125, 140n1, 141, 160–1, 178, 213, 246, 401, 430n1

Mann, Thomas: Mario and the Magician, 22

Manning, Cardinal Henry Edward, 325

Manoussakis, Manoussos, 314–15, 386–7

Marchand, Leslie, 297

Marchant, Helen, 432

Marie of the Incarnation, 28–9

Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso, 261

Marona see Cameroon Marsh, Sir Edward, 58, 63

Massourides, Tony, 191, 202, 219–22

Mastorakis, Niko, 281

Masvoulás, Miss (Greek translator), 217

Mathias, Robert, 231

Maugham, W. Somerset, xvi, 132–3, 432

Maxwell, Sir Aymer, 228, 288; on Euboea, 224–6; PLF’s obituary tribute to, 227; stays with PLF, 277

Maxwell, Gavin, 229

Mayne, Peter, 277

Meran, Hansi, 353

Meredith, George, 341

Metcalfe, Lady Alexandra (‘Baba’), 80

Metochites, Theodore, 161

Meyrowitz (Paris opticians), 253

Michael of Norgate: Agenbite of Inwit, 423–4

Mill House, Dumbleton, 195, 200, 436

Miller, Henry, 20

Mitford, Jessica (later Treuhaft; ‘Decca’), 357; Faces of Philip, 357

Mitford, Nancy, 222, 292; stays on Hydra with PLF, 72, 110; PLF lunches with, 146; at Chatsworth, 184; The Water Beetle, 222

Mitsotakis, Konstantin, 386

Mocioni de Foen (‘Mocsonyi’), Antoniu, 362

Modiano, Mario, 97

Moffat, Curtis, 264

Moffat, Ivan, 73, 161, 260, 264, 283

Moissl, Richard, 324 ‘Monasteries of the Air, The’ (PLF; article), 59n1

Moncreiffe, Sir Iain of that Ilk, 3, 6, 288

Monde, Le (French newspaper), xi, 408

Monsell, Graham Eyres, 2nd Viscount ( Joan’s brother), 25, 118, 141, 184–5, 277, 298, 307, 315, 347

Montagu of Beaulieu, Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron, 160, 170

Montagu, Judith Venetia (later Gendel; ‘Judy’), 160–1, 163, 224–5; death, 283

Montmorency, Anne, Duc de, 67, 112, 115, 341

Moore, Doris Langley, 297

Morand, Hélène (née Chrissoveloni), 234

More O’Ferrall, Elizabeth Cecilia, 60

Morris, Jan, 391

Mortimer, Raymond, 318; proposes PLF as translator of Colette, 60; at PLF’s wedding, 260; stays with PLF in Kardamyli, 309–10; PLF stays with, 318–19

Mosley, Charlotte: edits PLF/Debo letters (In Tearing Haste), xiii, 109n1, 431–2, 435

Moss, Gabriella and Pussa, 419

Moss, Natalie, 8

Moss, Countess Sophie (earlier Countess Zofia Tarnowska), 281, 419, 424, 426, 9

Moss, W. Stanley (‘Billy’), 139; and abduction of German general, x, 8–9; marriage, separation and death, 281; dislikes General Kreipe, 282; Ill Met by Moonlight, 56n6, 419

Mourouzi, Alexander, 16, 232

Müller Verlag, Salzburg, 324

Murat, Caroline, 299, 380

Murdoch, Iris, 414

Murray, Jock, 24, 54, 56, 57, 73, 116, 123, 141, 163, 177, 217, 235, 246, 266, 285, 396, 404; PLF apologises to for delays in submitting copy, xi, 266, 371; and PLF at Passerano, xiv; and PLF at Kardamyli, xv; publishes PLF, 23, 54, 125, 140n1, 142n1, 205, 392; death and obituary, 54; publishes Freya Stark, 71, 99; and PLF’s book on pre-war European journey, 296–8; and PLF’s literary earnings, 326; reads Fielding’s book on the Winds, 350; promotion campaign for PLF, 392–3; in The South Bank Show, 398

Naguib, General Muhammad, 70n22

Nahlin (steam yacht), 283

Nairne, Lady Katherine, Baroness (later Viscountess Mersey; ‘Kitty’; ‘Wife’), 134

Nasser, Colonel Gamal Abdel, 70n22

Nerval, Gérard de (pseudonym of Gérard Labrunie), 301

New York: 9/11 attacks, 422

New York Review of Books, 433

Newman, Cardinal John Henry, 325

Niarchos, Stavros, xv, 96–7, 134n11, 255

Nicepheros I, Byzantine Emperor, 346

Nicholson-Price, Lynda, 291

Nicolson, Harold, 52; encourages PLF’s writing, xi; on PLF’s Traveller’s Tree, 55; at Travellers club, 60; and tracing of Byron’s shoes, 75–6

Nicolson, Nigel, 44

Noailles, Anna, Comtesse Mathieu de, 234

Noel-Baker, Francis Edward, 127

Northern Ireland, xvi, 279

Norton, Clifford and Noel Evelyn (‘Peter’), 71

Norwich, Anne, Viscountess, 96, 99, 426, 433

Norwich, John Julius Cooper, 2nd Viscount, 325, 398, 425; PLF lunches with, 92; guitar-playing and singing, 96, 104, 258; visits Hydra, 96, 99; at PLF’s wedding, 260; annual Christmas Crackers, 325; TV interview with PLF, 392; Byzantium: The Early Centuries, 398

Nun’s Story, The (film), 160

Obolensky, Prince Dimitri, 364, 377, 383; Bread of Exile, 418

Ogilvie-Grant, Mark, 146, 190, 292

Ommanney, Francis Downes: The Shoals of Capricorn, 120

Onassis, Aristotle Socrates, 96

O’Neill, Raymond, 279 ‘Oracle, The’ (PLF), 239

Orpheus, 396

Ortega y Gasset, José, 193

Orwell, Sonia, 136

Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names, 319–20

Painter, George: Marcel Proust, 234

Pallis, Alexander Anastasius, 59

Palmer, Sir Richard, 119

Palmyra, 343

Papagos, Marshal Alexander, 113

Papandreou, Georgios, 252

Paris, 65, 114, 314; Coopers’ embassy reception, 372

Paris, Henri d’Orléans, Comte de, 32

Parker-Bowles, Camilla see Cornwall, Camilla, Duchess of

Parladé, Jaime, 224, 253, 388

Parladé, Janetta, 303, 359, 406, 411, 427; PLF tells Henry Bath story, 183; visits PLF in Greece, 194, 224; travels to Seville, 253; at Ham Spray, 291; and PLF’s missed appointment with Frances Partridge, 320–1; PLF stays with in Spain, 357–8; spends Christmas with PLF, 388; PLF stays with in London, 392; PLF describes Andrew Devonshire’s funeral to, 427

Parsons, Lady Mary Bridget, 80, 82, 404

Partridge, Frances, 320, 370; friendship with Joan, 194; friendship with Janetta Parladé and Brenan, 291, 358–9

Partridge, Ralph, 194, 291

Passerano castle, Italy, xiv

Paterakis, Eleni, 386

Paterakis, Manoli, 140, 281–2, 313–15; death, 386–7

Patten, Susan Mary, 96

Peake, Catherine, Lady, 102–4

Peake, Sir Charles, 89, 102–3

Pecci-Blunt, Countess Anna Laetitia (‘Mimi’), 165

Perowne, Stewart, 71

Perrone, Nathalie, 167

Peters, A. D. (literary agent), 292

Petrakis, Petro, 313

Petronius, 322

Petworth House, West Sussex, 187

Phaliréa, Socrates, 221

Phikoura, Angela, 220

Phillips, Anthony, 392

Piper, John and Myfanwy, 393

Pitt-Rivers, Julian, 214

Pol Roger, Odette, 151

Pope-Hennessy, James, 297

Portland, William Arthur Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of (‘Bill’), 231

Portugal, 332

Postlethwaite-Cobb, Caroline, 135, 141

Powell, Columbus, 140

Powell, Josephine, 160–1

Powell, Michael Latham, 55, 140

Poynter, Sir Edward: Faithful Unto Death (painting), 322

Pressburger, Emeric (‘Imre’), 56n5, 140

Pritchett, V. S., 359

Proust, Marcel, 234

Pryce-Jones, Adrian, 3

Pryce-Jones, Alan, 3, 5, 133, 152n3, 374; death, 418

Pryce-Jones, David, 418

Psychoundakis, George, 73, 117, 313, 335, 386; The Cretan Runner, 101

Quennell, Sir Peter: friendship with PLF, 25n3, 38, 48–9, 55, 66, 68, 71, 136; and Byron’s shoes, 75–6; and Nathalie Perrone, 167; PLF meets in London, 204; letter from Cyril Connolly, 224; lectures on Byron, 296; improvising, 341; on prospective book on Ann Fleming, 355

Quinton, Antony, Baron, 373

Ralli, Jean (Lilia), 68, 97

Rayner, Joan see Fermor, Joan Leigh

Reade, Arthur, 101

Reade, Patrick, 388

Resafa, Syria, 343

Ridley, Cressida (née Bonham Carter), 407

Robinson, Hamish, 432

Rodd, Gustaf (‘Taffy’), 73

Rodd, Peter, 60

Rodocanachi, Constantine Pandia (‘Tanty’), 96, 104

Roots of Heaven, The (film), 145, 153, 173, 183

Rosenberg-Redé, Oskar Dieter Alex von (Baron de Redé), 98n10

Rosse, Anne, Countess of (née Messel), 82

Rosse, Michael Parsons, 6th Earl of, 82, 404

Roth, Joseph: The Radetzky March, 381, 385

Rothschild, Baroness Cécile de, 150

Rothschild, Jacob, 349

Rothschild, Serena Mary (née Dunn), 350n4

Roumeli (PLF), xi, 86, 178n1, 232, 235–6, 242–3, 246, 423

Rouphos, Rhodis, 120

Rousseau, Henri (‘Douanier’), 101, 159

Ruhemann, Marie-Lyse, 409

Rumania, 230, 233, 352, 354

Runciman, Steven, 377; PLF meets, 376; The Kingdom of Acre, 377

Rutland, Charles John Robert Manners, 10th Duke of, 288–9

Ryan, Desmond Francis and Mary

Rose (née Pulham), 65

Rylands, George (‘Dadie’), 322, 394; stays with PLF on Hydra, 72; stays with PLF in Kardamyli, 309–10; on PLF’s mock entry on judges, 327; reads Trollope, 349, 356; PLF misses birthday party, 394

Sackville-West, Edward, 144, 224, 309

St Clair-Erskine, Hamish, 46, 133, 374

Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 50n2

St Jean de Solesmes monastery, France, 40–2

St Nicholas Kampinar monastery, Mani, Greece, 404–5

Saint-Wandrille monastery, Normandy, xiv, xix, 26–39, 41, 144

‘Saki’ (H. H. Munro): ‘The Interlopers’, 373; The Unbearable Bassington, 368, 375

Salonica, 384–5

Sandoe, John, Ltd (Chelsea bookshop), 234, 276

Sandringham, 406

Sarakatsans, 114

Schey von Koromla, Baron Philipp (‘Pips’), 300

Schneider, Maria, 289

Schoissbauer, Alois, 389

Scott-James, Anne, 299

Sedgwick, Alexander ‘A. C.’ (Shan), 252

Seferis, George, 110, 124; friendship with PLF, xvii, 109, 111; poetry collection (. . . Cyprus, Where it was Decreed for Me . . .), 122, 124; on Cyprus crisis, 124, 130n3; and Colonels’ coup in Greece, 252

Selznick, David O., 161

Selznick, Jeffrey, 172n9

Senhouse, Roger, 60

Shane’s Castle, Northern Ireland, 279

Shawe-Taylor, Desmond, 309, 407

Sheffield, 6th Baron see Stanley, Edward John

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 298

Sherrard, Philip, 224; The Marble Threshing Floor, 122

Shirley, Sir Robert, 326

Shōnagon, Sei, 203

Sigerus, Emil: Siebenbürgisch-Sächsische Burgen und Kirchenkastelle, 362

Sikelianos, Angelos, 55–6

Simeon Stylites, St, 30, 38–9, 269, 344

Simper, Caleb, 318

Sitwell, Sir Osbert, 289

Sitwell, Sir Sacheverell and Georgia, Lady, 8n7, 60, 231, 403

Skelton, Barbara, 94

Smart, Amy, Lady: PLF stays with in Normandy, xii, 35, 48–9, 65, 68–9, 112, 114, 136, 151, 163; PLF borrows cottage, 57, 63; and Xan Fielding’s attempt to recover money on Nice house, 245; background and character, 258; teases PLF over delay in marrying, 259

Smart, Sir Walter: PLF stays with in Normandy, xii, 48–9, 68–9, 112, 114, 136, 163; submits essay on existentialism to Connolly, 49; death, 258

Smiley, Colonel David de Crespigny, 9

Smith, Revd Sydney, 88

Smyth, Dame Ethel, 289

Snowdon, Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of, 82n4

Sofia, 381–4

Solesmes see St Jean de

Solesmes Sound Barrier (film), 68

‘Sounds of the Greek World’ (PLF; article), 112n2

Soupault, Philippe, 150–1

South Bank Show, The (ITV programme), 398

Soutzo, Prince Constantin, 282, 410

Soutzo, Princess Ioanna, 410

Souza Lage, M. de, 147–9

Spain, 331–5

Spears, Mary, Lady (Mary Borden; ‘May’), 8

Spectator, The (magazine), 388

Spender, Sir Stephen and Natasha, Lady, 112, 204

Spiller, ‘Bunny’, 185

Staercke, André de, 138, 150

Stanley, Edward John, 6th Baron Sheffield, 66, 120

Stark, Freya, 71, 77, 99; stays on Hydra with PLF, 72; friendship with PLF, 117, 414; Ionia: A Quest, 99

Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle), 193

Stephanéa, George, 220

Stewart, Damaris, 267

Stewart, Mary, Lady (née Rainbow): The Ivy Tree, 327

Stewart, Michael, 295, 355, 397, 402; friendship with PLF, 267; sends Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names to PLF, 319; transports PLF’s Diana Cooper letters, 338; gives watch to PLF, 355; PLF visits, 407

Stewart, Olivia, 436; visits Kardamyli, 426, 436

Stewart-Richardson, Gladys, 104

Stirling, Lieutenant-Colonel William Joseph, 288

Stoppard, Tom, 340

Storrs, Sir Ronald, 60

Stourton, James, 394

Strásser, Mrs (sculptress), 324

Strauss, Minka, 300

Sturdza, Ileană (née Ghika), 234

Stylites, 30–1, 36

Sunday Times, 143n3, 184, 202

Sykes, Christopher, 110n1

Synge, John Millington: Deirdre of the Sorrows, 189

Syria: PLF visits, 343–5

Széchényi, Count István, 377

Taafe family, 306

Tailleferre, Françoise, 150

Tailleferre, Germaine, 150–1

Taillis, Lucienne Gourgaud du (née Haas), 257

Talleyrand, Charles-Maurice de, 316

Tarnowska, Countess Zofia see Moss, Countess Sophie

Tarnowski, Count Andrew, 283n3

Tarnowski, Jan, 283n3

Tennant, Colin, 283

Tennant, Lady Emma, 423, 293

Tennant, Stella, 428

Teresa, St, 28–9

Thorneycroft, Carla, 172n10

Three Letters from the Andes (PLF), 275

Thubron, Colin, 433; and PLF’s status as writer, xi; praises PLF, 433; To the Last City, 433

Time of Gifts, A (PLF): writing, x–xi, 225n2, 365–6, 377; title, 227, 237; publication, 323; false Hinterwälder praises, 389; translations, 392, 421

Time to Keep Silence, A (PLF), 141, 144

Topley, Lady Sophia (née Cavendish), 428

Toynbee, Philip: and PLF’s stay at Saint-Wandrille monastery, 34; PLF visits, 198, 204, 280; approach to women, 215; death, 351; Jessica Mitford publishes memoir of, 357–8

Traveller’s Tree, The (PLF), xi, xiv, 23, 47, 52, 56, 59n2

Tree, Lady Anne Evelyn Beatrice, 196, 255

Tree, Arthur Ronald Lambert Field, 198

Tree, Iris, 162n1, 175–6, 179–81, 183, 194, 227, 260, 263–5, 298

Tree, Marietta, 198

Treuhaft, Jessica see Mitford, Jessica Trevor-Roper, Patrick, 310n1, 347–8, 407

Tsangarakis, Ioanna, 314

Tsangarakis, Kanaki, 311–14

Tsangarakis, Yanni, 311–12

Tsangarakis, Yorgo, 312–14

Turgenev, Ivan: Smoke, 376

Tyrakis, George, 281–2

Tytler, William, 326

Tzannetakis, Tzannis, 429; friendship with PLF, xviii; government posts and premiership, 402; PLF praises speech, 429; translates Mani, 430n1

Ubaldini, Petruccio, 326

Valery, Paul, 258

Venizelist revolution, 237, 287, 367

Verschoyle, Derek, 64, 66

Vesey, Colonel Thomas, 8

Vilmorin, Marie Louise Lévêque de, 49

Violins of Saint-Jacques, The (PLF), x, 65–6, 73, 326

Vivian, George, 4th Baron, 277

Voigt, Jochen, 407–8

Vyner, Henry, 95

Wade, Miss (Lady Diana Cooper’s maid), 92

Wales, 198–9, 223, 307

Walker, Rita, 432

Walpole, Horace, 326

Walters, Catherine (‘Skittles’), 89

Ward, Aileen: wins Duff Cooper Prize, 227n4

Warner, Barbara see Ghika, Barbara Warner, Rex, 242

Warwick, Charles Guy Fulke Greville, 7th Earl of, 97

Watson, Sir Francis John Bagot, 303

Waugh, Evelyn: stays at Easton Court Hotel, Chagford, xiv; on Hugh Cruddas, 210n6; memoirs and letters, 338; Black Mischief, 62n9; Sword of Honour (trilogy), 250

Waugh, Laura, 292, 338

Webb, Norman, 135, 141

Wedgwood, Dame Cicely Veronica: Thirty Years War, 293

Weidenfeld, George, Baron, 44n8

Wentworth, Lady ( Judith Anne Dorothea Blunt-Lytton), xvi, 74–5, 86, 88–90

Whistler, Rex, 415n5

Wilde, Oscar: Ravenna, 400

Williamson, Malcolm, 327n3

Wilson, Edmund, 204

Wilson, Reuel, 204

Winn, Rowland Denys Guy (‘Rowley’) and Laurian (née Jones), 65

Woodhouse, C. M. (‘Monty’), 297

Woolf, Virginia: on Ethel Smyth, 289n4; Quentin Bell biography, 291; The Common Reader, 322n

Woolley, Janetta see Parladé, Janetta Wyatt, Sir Thomas, 341

Wyndham, Pamela see Egremont, Pamela, Lady

Wyndham, Violet (‘Auntie Nose’), 319

Yannakea, Lela, 251, 255, 274, 295, 320

Zanuck, Darryl Francis, 145, 153–5, 158

Ziegler, Philip, 337–8

Zinnemann, Fred, 160