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Abdy, Jane, Lady (née Noble), 198 & n2
Abdy, Sir Robert, 199n2
Achillopoulos, Costa, 18n2
Acton, Sir Harold, 3n2, 142–3 & n1, 346n1, 347
Agrapha range (mountains), 134 & n Agricultural Notebook, The, 247n1, 248
Airlie, David Ogilvy, 8th Earl of, 340 & n1
Alevizakis, George, 210n3
Alevizakis, Father John, 209 & n3
Alexandra, Princess, 213
Alington, Feodorovna, Lady (née Yorke), 319n4, 320
Alington, Napier Sturt, 3rd Baron, 319–20 & n4, 321n5
Almásy, Ilona, 201
Almásy, Janos von, 237n8
Alport, Cuthbert, Baron, 73n5
Alport, Rachel (née Bingham), 71 & n5
Alsop, Susan Mary, 88n2
Amory, Mark: PLF describes, 7n4; edits Ann Fleming letters, 23n5, 203 & n1, 232; edits Evelyn Waugh’s letters, 144n3, 173 & n3; DD’s friendship with, 196; PLF declines to review book for, 252
Andros, 42
Annesley, Richard Grove, 70n2
Anson, Lady Clodagh, 228 & n1, 229
Antibes, 292
Antrim, Randal McDonnell, 8th Earl of (‘Ran’): at Lismore, 9 & n4; DD meets at Lady Bridget Parsons’, 15; in Paros, 46; shooting, 50; conducts National Trust cruise round Ireland, 111; and National Trust gardens, 199
Apesteguía, Jaime Parladé, Marques de, 91n1, 144, 253, 293, 353
Apesteguía, Janetta, Marquesa de see Woolley, Janetta Armitage, Sir Arthur, 214
Ashton, Sir Frederick, 197 & n2
Asquith, Herbert Henry, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, 8n5
Asquith, Raymond, 218n1
Astaire, Adele see Cavendish, Lady Charles Astaire, Fred, 5 & n1
Astor, Michael and Pandora, 95n1
Austin, Texas: Harry Ransom Center, 178 & n3
Austria, 117
Avéroff, Evangelos, 81–2 & n1, 133, 192
Avéroff, Tatiana, 134
Baker, Richard, 204
Bannister, Sir Roger, 176 & n2
Bath, Alexander Thynne, 7th Marquess of, 301 & n1
Bath, Henry Thynne, 6th Marquess of, 3n, 12, 59 & n1, 276 & n2, 290–1, 307
Bath, Virginia, Marchioness of (née Parsons; then Tennant), 59 & n1
Batsford Park, Gloucestershire, 211 & n2
Beaton, Sir Cecil, 38 & n1, 53, 68, 119
Beaufort, Caroline, Duchess of (née Thynne), 216n4, 301
Beaufort, David Somerset, 11th Duke of, 216 & n4
Beaufort, Henry Somerset, 10th Duke of (‘Master’), 73n3, 217 & n6
Beaverbrook, William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron, 85 & n2
Beckett, Sir Martyn, 50 & n3, 153 & n8, 155–6
Beckett, Priscilla, Lady (née Brett), 51n3
Beddoes, Very Rev. Ron, Provost of Derby Cathedral, 299 & n1
Beddoes, Thomas Lovell, 299
Bedford, John Robert Russell, 13th Duke of: How to Run a Stately Home, 228
Beevor, Antony, 237n11, 360; Crete: The Battle and the Resistance, 264 & n1
Beit, Clementine, Lady (née Mitford), 119 & n2
Bell, Angelica (later Garnett), 190n1
Bell, Vanessa, 190n1 Belstone Fox, The (film), 218n6
Bence Jones, Mark: Palaces of the Raj, 149 & n3
Berlin, Sir Isaiah, 284n7
Berners, Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron, 232n2
Betjeman, Sir John, 11n3, 154n5, 300 & n3, 310, 321, 366; ‘Dumbleton Hall’ (poem), 31n1
Betjeman, Penelope, Lady (née Chetwode), 150 & n5
Biddesden Manor, Wiltshire, 205n1, 210
Bigham, Joanna (née Murray; later Viscountess Mersey), 158
Birgi, Nuri, 220
Birkenhead, Frederick Winston Furneaux Smith, 2nd Earl of, 85 & n2
Birkhall (house), Aberdeenshire, 348
Blair, Cherie (née Booth), 332
Blair, Tony, 328 & n1, 332, 356
Blake, William, 317
Blakiston, Georgiana: edits Conrad Russell letters, 247n1
Bock, Field Marshal Fedor von, 215 & n3
Bogarde, Sir Dirk, xv, 19–20 & n2, 290, 301
Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire, 49–50, 109, 210, 218, 277, 343
Bonjour Tristesse (film), 37n1
Bonnet, M. & Mme (née Dubonnet), 69
Bordeaux, 86
Borghese, Princess Pauline: portrait bust at Chatsworth, 363 & n4
Boumaza, Miranda (née Rothschild), 110 & n2
Bowles, Thomas Gibson (DD’s grandfather), 348 & n2, 355
Bowood, Wiltshire, 355
Bowra, Sir Maurice, 46 & n1, 110, 144, 284n7, 320, 365–6; New Bats in Old Belfries (ed. Henry Hardy and Jennifer Holmes), 367n2
Bragg, Melvyn, Baron, 254 & n1
Brahms, Caryl and Ned Sherrin: The Mitford Girls (musical), 189 & n3, 192, 194, 196
Brains Trust, The (radio programme), 48 & n8
Branch, Guy Rawstron, 253n1, 283 & n7
Branch, Lady Prudence (née Pelham), 284n7
Branscombe, Devon, 104
Brenan, Gamel, 122n3
British Union of Fascists, 13n2
Brock, Michael and Eleanor (eds): H. H. Asquith: Letters to Venetia Stanley, 8n5
Broughshane, Kensington Davison, 3rd Baron, 277 & n1
Brown, Lancelot (‘Capability’), 210
Brown, Tina, 292n1
Bruern Abbey, Oxfordshire, 94 & n1
Buchwald, Art: ‘Six-Minute Louvre’, 147 & n1
Buck, Edward John: Simla Past and Present, 154n7
Buckingham Palace: DD attends party, 197
Burlington, Laura, Countess of (née Roundell), 260n4
Burlington, William Cavendish, Earl of (DD’s grandson), 259 & n4, 262n1
Burn, Mary (née Booker), 306 & n3
Burrows, Tim, 213
Buxton, Derbyshire, 197n4
Caccia, Harold, Baron, 78 & n1
Campbell, Mary see Dunn, Mary, Lady Campbell, Robin, 23n7
Campbell, Thomas, 363n4
Canova, Antonio, 363n4
Cantacuzène, Elena (later Donici; ‘Pomme’), 199 & n2, 201
Cantacuzène, Princess Marie-Blanche (‘Balasha’): PLF’s correpondence with, xi; PLF attempts to evacuate from Romania, 82 & n3; home in Moldavia, 202; sings Provençal carols, 253n1; and Idina Sackville, 282–3
Cap Ferrat, France, 20
Carr, Sir Raymond (‘Professor Brainstorm’), 195 & n2
Carrington, Dora, 75n6, 121 & n3, 205, 207 & n2, 297; Letters and Extracts from her Diaries (ed. David Garnett), 205n1, 320 & n5
Carritt, Dr Christian, 313 & n1, 336, 340, 342–3
Cavendish, Lady Celina (DD’s granddaughter), 259 & n3
Cavendish, Lord Charles, 6n1
Cavendish, Lady Charles (Adele Astaire), xx, 6n1
Cavendish, Lady Elizabeth (DD’s sister-in-law; ‘Deacon’), 9 & n3, 245, 312, 321
Cavendish, Lady Emma see Tennant, Lady Emma
Cavendish, Henry, 173
Cavendish, Lady Jasmine (DD’s granddaughter), 259 & n3
Cavendish, Lady Sophia see Topley, Lady Sophia
Cecil family, 80n3
Chagford, Devon, 23, 26, 28, 90, 303, 305
Chantilly, France, 6, 15n5, 34, 38, 41, 362
Charles, Prince of Wales: wedding, 198n1; supports Norfolk Churches Trust, 264n3; visits Chatsworth, 279, 284; invites DD and PLF to Sandringham, 283–4; keeps rare breed poultry, 286; DD visits France with, 289; and Morton’s book on Diana, 290–1; at Queen Mother’s funeral, 332 & n2; DD stays with at Birkhall, 348; attends DD’s reading at carol service, 355; marriage to Camilla Parker Bowles, 356 & n6
Charteris, Laura (later Duchess of Marlborough), 195 & n1
Chatsworth House, Derbyshire: DD and Andrew occupy and revive, x, xix–xxi, 57, 62; Old Master drawings exhibited at National Gallery in Washington, 94n3; mock book-titles, 100–3, 256; staff, 103–4; drawings listed for insurance, 111; gift shop, 158 & n1; treasures exhibited in Fort Worth, 185n4; as charitable trust, 188; Capability Brown landscapes, 210; Raymond Asquith denigrates, 219n1; PLF spends Christmases at, 222n2, 326, 334; PLF visits, 231, 244, 331, 339; wallpaper blocks, 261; farm shop (Pilsley), 281 & n9; Frink horse sculpture at, 287; television programmes on, 288, 318 & n1; Lascelles describes, 291; branch of farm shop opened in London, 318 & n1; archives, 322; pop concerts, 344–5
Chatsworth House Trust, 287
Chatwin, Bruce, 227 & n1, 229–30, 309; On the Black Hill, 230n1
Chauvel, Jean, 284n3
Cheshire, Leonard, Baron, 212 & n4
Chester Row, London, 29, 31, 94, 108
Chesterfield Street, London, 3 & n5, 77, 100
Cholmondeley, Lady Aline, 212 & n7
Cholmondeley, David Rocksavage, 7th Marquess of, 213 & n8
Cholmondeley, Lavinia, Marchioness of (née Leslie), 212 & n6
Cholmondeley, Sybil, Marchioness of (née Sassoon), 110 & n1, 197, 205, 211–13, 239, 244, 259, 310n1
Churchill, Clementine, Lady: paternity, 346 & n3
Cicogna, Countess Anna-Maria, 57n1
Cliff Cottage, Dinas, Pembrokeshire, 83
Cobb, Carolyn Postlethwaite, 305 ‘Coccinelle’ see Dufresnoy, Jacqueline-Charlotte Codrington, Admiral Sir Edward, 112, 326
Cole, Nat King, 79
Coleman, Joan, 356
Cole’s of Mortimer Street, 261
Colonna, Prince Marcantonio, 321n4
Connolly, Cyril, 39 & n1, 143, 282, 283n2, 342
Cooleville House, Co. Tipperary, 59n2
Cooper, Alfred Duff (later 1st Viscount Norwich): in France, 7n3, 15n5; marriage, 15n5; wears medals at party, 307; Diary (ed. John Julius Norwich), 361
Cooper, Artemis (later Beevor), 235 & n11, 264, 330, 360; (ed.) Words of Mercury, xiiin, 329 & n3
Cooper, Lady Diana (née Manners): PLF’s correspondence with, xi; death, xii; PLF visits in France, 7n3, 14 & n5; DD sees at ball, 18; and Somerset Maugham, 22; at Gielgud’s Shakespeare reading in Paris, 37; dinner with Ann Fleming, 48; on cruise to Greece and Black Sea, 53; in Greece, 68, 116; attends Nancy Mitford’s launch party, 72; portrayed in Don’t Tell Alfred, 88n2; faints at cinema, 108; at cinema with PLF, 118; and PLF’s visit to England, 216; longevity, 239; in Conrad Russell letters, 247; visits Iris Tree in hospital, 265; on Russian cruise with Rose Macaulay, 304; PLF’s fondness for, 361–2
Cornwall, Camilla, Duchess of (earlier Parker Bowles), 357n6
Coward, Sir Noël, 189
Cranbrook, Caroline, Countess of (née Jarvis), 333 & n1
Creech Jones, Violet (née Tidman), 74 & n5
Crete: PLF in, x, xv, 3n; Communists oppose wartime memorial plaque, 175; battle anniversaries celebrated, 192, 208, 273, 276; PLF revisits with Joan, 202; PLF returns to for funeral, 235
Cribbins, Bernard, 93n1
Crichel, Dorset, 286
Cryssovelóni, Nicky, 82
Daily Mail: interview with PLF, 249 & n1 Daily Telegraph: PLF writes for, 261 & n1, 267, 276
Dartmoor, 24–5
de Guingand, Major-General Sir Francis (‘Freddie’), 72 & n9
Delamere, Diana, Lady (née Caldwell), 280 & n3
De La Warr, Herbrand Sackville, 9th Earl, 283 & n4
Delves Broughton, Sir John (‘Jock’), 281n3
Desmond, Michael, 47 & n1, 50, 53
de Vesci of Abbeyleix, Ivo Richard Vesey, 5th Viscount, 11n7
Devlin, Bernadette (later McAliskey), 131 & n4
Devon, 23–5
Devonshire, Amanda, Duchess of (née Heywood-Lonsdale), 250 & n2
Devonshire, Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of: engagement and marriage to DD, ix, xix; succeeds to dukedom and inherits Chatsworth, x, xx, 11n2; war service in Coldstream Guards, xix, 112 & n1; PLF’s appreciation of, xx; at Lismore, 9 & n2, 216; invents brain-sharpener, 15n1; maiden speech in Lords, 29 & n1; friendship with Cyril Connolly, 41n1; appears on Brains Trust, 48; love of walking, 49–50; friendship with Tom Egerton, 59n1; lost in Greece, 70n4; as Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Commonwealth Relations, 71 & n1; attends President Kennedy’s inauguration, 77–9; visits USA, 93; attends Kennedy’s funeral, 98; visits Kenya, 98; in Fishmongers Company, 106 & n1; loses government post, 106; complains of taxes, 111; accompanies PLF on trip to Peru, 117 & n1, 119; in hospital for alcohol cure, 119 & n1, 211; on expedition to Pindus Mountains (Greece) with PLF, 122, 124–6, 129–30, 132, 134–5, 140; colour-blindness, 132; affection for Harold Acton, 143; security guard in Ireland, 145 & n1; proposes Persia trip to PLF, 159; travels in Pyrenees with PLF, 160–9; proposes walk through southern France into Spain, 170 & n3; illness at Lismore, 188; insists on leaving Prince of Wales’s wedding, 197; PLF dedicates book to, 207, 276 & n3; recovers from alcoholism, 211; fishing in Ireland, 224; visits Constantinople with Anne Tree, 243; recovers from hip replacement, 299 & n2; at Daphne Fielding’s 90th birthday, 301; at Pratt’s Club, 313; ageing, 338, 340; final illness and death, 342 & n1, 343; funeral and service, 343–5; commemorative exhibition at Chatsworth, 362; Accidents of Fortune, 78n1
Devonshire, Deborah, Duchess of (née Mitford): upbringing, ix; PLF first meets, ix, xv, xix; apolitical stance, xi; letter-writing, xi–xiii; article on PLF’s 85th birthday, xv–xviii, 330n2; PLF’s article on 80th birthday, xix–xxiii; opens shops at Chatsworth, xxiii, 271 & n9; writing, xxiii, 16, 176, 178, 197, 238, 248, 252, 351; in nursing home after operations, 3n, 91; supposed non-reading, 3n, 60–1, 146, 243, 266; PLF’s attachment to, 9, 14; and birth of daughter Sophia, 27; visits PLF in Paris, 37; shooting, 49, 52, 78, 80, 109, 110, 211; thumb, 57 & n7; visits PLF in Italy, 58–9; at official dinners, 73–4; attends President Kennedy’s inauguration, 77–9; portrayed in Nancy’s Don’t Tell Alfred, 88n2; attends Kennedy’s funeral, 98; breeds and shows Shetland ponies, 112; as President of Royal Smithfield Show, 112n2, 147; stock-breeding interests, 117, 120; sheepdog handling, 156 & n1, 158; sends puzzles to PLF, 171–2; attends charity opera performance, 177–8; whistling, 177; book launched, 203–4; PLF dedicates book to, 207, 276 & n3; stays at Sandringham, 211–12; on board of Tarmac, 224–5; visits USA, 225, 228, 249, 251; bequest from Marion Buckland, 250 & n1; speaks at literary lunch, 266; book reviewing, 275, 309; speaking voice, 275; visits France with Prince of Wales, 289; lists ‘pin-ups’ for The Oldie, 310 & n1; sends photographs of corn circles to PLF, 316 & n1; opens farm shop in London (Elizabeth Street), 318 & n1; on foot and mouth outbreak (2001), 328; stays with Prince of Wales at Birkhall, 348–9; reads extract from PLF’s A Time of Gifts at carol service, 351–2; in hospital for brain scan, 355–7; trip with Emma, 355; moves to Edensor, 358 & n1, 361, 365n2; eye trouble, 362; French TV programme on, 362–3; Counting My Chickens, 229n3, 275n, 310n1, 329, 362 & n3; The Estate: A View from Chatsworth, 238 & n1, 248, 253n1, 259, 264, 266, 267 & n1; Farm Animals, 266 & n2; The House, x, 53n2, 176 & n1, 197, 199, 203; Round About Chatsworth, 351 & n1
Devonshire, Evelyn, Duchess of (Andrew’s grandmother), 307n1
Devonshire, Peregrine Cavendish, 12th Duke of (DD’s son) see Hartington, Marquess of Devonshire, William George Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of, 244 & n1
Diana, Princess of Wales (née Spencer): wedding, 197 & n1; visits Chatsworth, 249; Morton’s book on, 290 & n1; character, 291; tiara, 307 & n1
Donaldson, Frances, Lady: life of P. G. Wodehouse, 266 & n1
Donici, Constantin, 200n2
Doundoulakis, George J., 208 & n2
Downing, Ben: ‘Philhellene’s Progress’, 328n2
Drogheda, Garrett Moore, 11th Earl and
Joan, Countess of (née Carr), 119 & n5, 259
Dublin, 159
Dudley Ward, Penelope, 145 & n3
Duff, Juliet, Lady (née Lady Juliet Lowther), 53 & n3
Duff, Sir Robert, 54n3
Dufresnoy, Jacqueline-Charlotte (earlier Jacques-Charles; ‘Coccinelle’), 36 & n2
Dumbleton Hall, Worcestershire, 31
Dunn, John, 204
Dunn, Mary, Lady (née Lady Mary St Clair-Erskine), 22 & n7, 90
Dunn, Sir Philip, 23n7
Dunphy, Jack, 47n4
Durante, Jimmy, 79
Easton Neston, Northamptonshire, 95
Eden, Anthony (later 1st Earl of Avon):` and Suez crisis, 29n1
Edensor: DD moves to and writes from, 358, 361, 362, 364–5, 370
Edensor House, Bakewell, Derbyshire, 8 & n1, 17–18, 35n1, 41n1, 47, 56, 97n1, 342
Edward VII, King, 88n3
Egerton, Lady Anne, 318
Egerton, Anne (née Cobbold), 59n1
Egremont, John Wyndham, 1st Baron, 52 & n2
Egremont, Pamela, Lady (née WyndhamQuin), 53n2
Elizabeth II, Queen, 197, 213, 245, 339–40
Elizabeth, Empress of Austria-Hungary, 349
Elizabeth the Queen Mother (‘Cake’): at Tate Gallery, 57 & n4; at film première with DD, 155; attends charity performance of opera, 177; Ashton imitates, 198n2; at Houghton Hall, 213; at Royal Smithfield Show, 278; funeral, 332
Elpida (PLF’s helper), 339
Eros II (boat), 23n10
Erroll, Josslyn Victor Hay, 22nd Earl of, 280 & n5
Esher, Reginald Baliol Brett, 2nd Viscount, 207 & n3
Esterházy, Christine, 201
Eyres Monsell, Joan see Fermor, Joan Leigh Eythimíou, Tásso, 123–4, 126
Fairweather, Eileen, 250
Faringdon House, Oxfordshire, 231
Fedden, Renée (née Catzeflis), 23n6, 122–3, 126–9, 134–6, 140, 150, 162
Fedden, Robin, 21 & n6, 111, 118, 122–3, 125, 128–30, 134, 136, 140, 150; The Enchanted Mountains, 162 & n5
Fellowes, Marguerite (née Decazes; ‘Daisy’), 22 & n9, 37
Fenton, Jack, 154n6
Fenton, Vanessa (née Leigh Fermor; PLF’s sister), 151 & n6, 157
Fermor, Joan Leigh (née Eyres Monsell; then Rayner): PLF’s devotion to, ix; settles in Greece, x, 92, 105n, 159, 184, 256; PLF’s correspondence with, xi; courtship and marriage with PLF, 11 & n9, 14; motor cars and driving, 18, 65; in France with PLF, 19; in Paros, 46; on Hydra, 50–1; in Castello di Passerano, 55; in Epirus, 81, 128; visits to England, 107–9; and Mani cats, 116; trip to Malaysia, 148; joins PLF in India, 153–4; gives up Sunday newspapers, 154; proposed trip to Petra, 171; imitates owl’s call, 177; in Spain with PLF, 181; visits Crete with PLF, 202; photographs in The Cretan Runner, 209 & n4, 235; in Turkey with PLF, 219–23; hip operation, 244 & n1; and PLF’s television interview, 254; stays with Hildyard, 277; declines invitation to Sandringham, 285; heart irregularity, 300; cracks rib, 312; hobbling, 330; death and funeral service, 334 & n1; Bowra gives poems to, 366; photograph of cat, 369
Fermor, Sir Lewis Leigh (PLF’s father), 30, 149n2
Fermor, Muriel Eileen (née Ambler; PLF’s mother), 149 & n2; death, 157
Fermor, Sir Patrick Leigh: first meets DD, ix, xv, xix; visit to DD at Lismore, ix, 3–6, 8, 216; settles in Greece, x, 92, 105 & n1; travels and travel-writing, x–xii; war record, x; apolitical stance, xi; letter-writing, xi–xiii; depicted in film Ill Met by Moonlight, xv, 19–20, 27; DD’s article on 85th birthday, xv–xviii, 330n2; qualities, xvi, xviii; schooling and career, xvi; article on DD’s 80th birthday, xix–xxiii; hurt in fight at hunt ball, 6 & n2; courtship and marriage, 11, 14; visits Pitt-Rivers in France, 19; visits Somerset Maugham, 20–2; riding and hunting, 24, 26–9, 39–41; ear trouble, 31; works on screenplay of The Roots of Heaven, 33n1, 34, 41; in Cameroon, 42–3; as non-shooter, 49; DD visits in Italy, 58–9; overland tour from France to Greece, 65–8; motoring, 88n4; acquires land in Mani, 92; breaks wrist in hunting fall, 92n2; gives up and resumes smoking, 95 & n2; nickname (‘Whack’), 97n1; provides mock book-titles, 101–3, 106–7, 256, 328 & n1; tattoo, 106; pet dog, 116; trip to Peru, 117 & n1; account of expedition to Pindus Mountains, 122–40; trip to India and Himalayas, 148–54; account of travel in Pyrenees, 160–9; answers DD’s puzzle about gooseberry and vegetable names, 172–3; travels in Spain and Portugal with Fieldings, 179–83; writing, 179; in Syria, 187; address at 40th anniversary of Crete battle, 192–3; travels to Hungary, 199–200; profile in Observer, 203; translates Strachwitz’s The Heart of Douglas, 215 & n1; travels in Turkey, 218–22; swims Hellespont, 219–23; travels in Germany and central Europe, 232–5; invited to stay at Windsor Castle, 245; interviewed by Daily Mail, 249–50; in Provence, 253; TV interview on South Bank Show, 254 & n1; in Yemen, 255; composes alliterative verse, 256–8; Daily Telegraph articles, 261 & n1; letters from Nancy Mitford, 261–2; reviews DD’s The Estate, 267 & n1; Xan Fielding prepares obituary of, 267; awarded honorary D.Litt by University of Kent, 273–4; stays with Hildyard, 277; as guest at Sandringham, 284–5, 287; wins French literary prize for A Time of Gifts, 291; on enigmatic sign in Mayfair, 293–6; in hospital for back operation, 297–8 & n1; childhood in Northamptonshire, 302; awarded French honours, 308 & n2; spends Christmases at Chatsworth, 309, 311, 326; uses hearing aid, 312; takes balloon trip, 315; damages heel, 330; and Joan’s death, 334, 351; knighthood, 338 & n1; investiture, 339–40; writes account of Andrew Devonshire’s funeral, 344 & n6; loses walking stick, 353; eye trouble, 361, 363n1, 367; devises Kit-e-Kat advertisement, 363–4; spends New Year 2006 at Edensor, 365n2; Between the Woods and the Water, xi, xvi, 157 & n3, 190 & n1, 200, 232n5, 237n9, 241n1, 242n1, 252 & n1, 262; ‘A Cave on the Black Sea’, 107n1; Mani, xi, 81, 359; ‘Observations on a Marine Vulture’, 88n1; ‘Paradox in the Himalayas’, 150 & n1; Roumeli, xi, 108 & n1, 133; Three Letters from the Andes, xii, 119n, 121, 207 & n1, 276 & n3, 362; A Time of Gifts, xi, xvi, 146 & n1, 156, 158n2, 177 & n1, 240, 250, 291, 351; A Time to Keep Silence, xii, 17n1; The Traveller’s Tree, 17n1; Words of Mercury, xiin, 107n1, 154n, 338 & n2
ffytche, Timothy (ophthalmologist), 361, 365
Fielding, Agnes (née Magruder; then Phillips; ‘Magouche’), 3n4, 90 & n2, 110, 168–9, 179, 187, 218, 221, 231–2, 255, 265–6, 273, 293, 306, 353
Fielding, Alexander (Xan): marriage to Daphne, xi; wartime exploits in Crete, xv, 3n, 128; travels with PLF, xx, 179–81, 187, 218, 221, 232, 255–6; friendship with PLF, 3 & n3; stays with DD in London, 3; stays with PLF in France, 6, 8; letter from PLF, 9, 14; in Tangiers, 12–13; letter to DD, 18; and film Ill Met by Moonlight, 19–20; stays at Chatsworth, 62; DD misses, 76; DD’s devotion to, 89; joins PLF for Pyrenees trip, 162, 168–9; misses 1981 anniversary of Crete battle, 192; visits PLF in Mani, 231; cancer, 265–7; death and obituaries of, 267, 275 & n1, 276; attends 50th anniversary of battle of Crete, 273, 276; ashes buried in Crete, 306; sings ‘The Holly and the Ivy’, 327; Aeolus Displayed: A Book of the Winds (first published as Das Buch der Winde), 169 & n7; Hide and Seek, 18
Fielding, Daphne (née Vivian; then Marchioness of Bath): marriage to Xan, xi; stays with DD in London and Ireland, 3–4; stays with PLF in France, 6, 8; letter from PLF, 9, 14; qualities and character, 12; in Tangiers, 12; stays at Chatsworth, 62; DD misses, 76; DD meets, 89; sends Cranach postcard to PLF, 171 & n1; moves to England after divorce from Xan, 216 & n3; and PLF’s visit to England, 216; in Conrad Russell’s letters, 247–8; marriage to Henry Bath, 276 & n2; 90th birthday celebrations, 301; remembers racy youth, 312; The Duchess of Jermyn Street, 3n; Mercury Presides, 23n7
Fischer, Dagmar, 234
Fischer, Rudolf, 234 & n9, 240
Fitzgerald, Ella, 79
Flecker, James Elroy: ‘Hassan’, 187 & n, 189
Fleming, Ann (née Charteris): PLF’s correspondence with, xi; visits PLF in France, 7 & n4; stays with Somerset Maugham, 20–1; PLF visits, 31, 176; friendship with DD, 47–8, 57–8; in Switzerland, 76; and Nicky Cryssovelóni, 83; relations with Ian, 101n1; financial difficulties after Ian’s death, 106 & n5; sells Ian’s library, 115 & n3; at cinema with PLF, 118; gives party for PLF’s A Time of Gifts, 158n2; dislikes John Pearson, 173; PLF stays with at Sevenhampton, 176; cancer and death, 187–8 & n2, 191–2, 194 & n1; The Letters (ed. Mark Amory), 23, 203 & n1, 204, 232 & n1
Fleming, Ian, 7n4, 101n1, 106 & n5, 115, 173, 232
Flemming, Bridget and Andrew, 371 & n1
Flintham (house), Nottinghamshire, 277
Florence: La Pietra, 346n1, 347
Fort Lamy, French Equatorial Africa, 42
Fort Worth, Texas: Kimbell Art Museum, 185n4
Forward, Anthony, 290
Foulbé people (Cameroon), 43
Fould-Springer, Baron Max, 41n2 400 Club, London, 10
Fox, James: White Mischief, 281n1, 282
foxhunting: banned, 314 & n1, 327–8
Franz Joseph, Emperor of Austria-Hungary, 349
Fraser, Lady Antonia, 153 & n9
Frederick II (the Great), King of Prussia, 215n2
Frere-Reeves, Alexander and Patricia (née Wallace), 21 & n5
Freud, Lucian: stays at Edensor, 34 & n2; paints Chatsworth bathroom, 62; DD’s devotion to, 80; absent from Ann Fleming’s funeral, 196; aged 80, 330; DD admires, 333; works at Chatsworth, 362; Skewbald Mare (painting), 344
Frink, Dame Elisabeth, 279 & n2, 287–9, 297 & n1
Fry, Jennifer (later Heber-Percy), 217n1
Gadencourt, Pacy-sur-Eure, France, 6, 9, 13, 16
Gage, Henry, 6th Viscount, 7 & n6
Gallicano nel Lazio, Italy, 54–5
Ganay family, 289n1
Garnett, David, 190 & n1; see also Carrington, Dora: Letters
Garnett, Richard, 178 & n2, 190, 196, 238, 243, 248
Gary, Romain: Les Racines du ciel, 32 & n1
Gaulle, Charles de, 282
Gavarni, Paul, 162
Gavarnie, Hautes Pyrénées, 160, 162
Gendel, Milton, 8n5
Gere, Charlotte (née Douie), 199nn1, 2
Ghika, Barbara (née Hutchinson; then Rothschild; then Warner), 5n1, 69, 84n1, 110 & n2, 144 & n1, 175, 193, 199, 240
Ghika, Nikos, 4 & n1, 65, 69, 84n1, 110, 144, 175, 193, 199, 240, 257, 298
Gielgud, Sir John, 37 & n2 Gigi (film), 39n1
Gilbert, Brian, 287
Giles, Lady Katherine (née Sackville; ‘Kitty’), 22 & n12
Gladwyn, Gladwyn Jebb, 1st Baron, 37n3
Glenconner, Elizabeth, Lady (née Powell), 143 & n4
Goldsmith, Sir James, 248 & n2
Goldsmith, Oliver: The Deserted Village, 227n2
Goodman, Arnold, Baron, 196 & n3
Gorky, Arshile, 91n2
Goussiónis, Grigóris, 134
Grafton, Hugh Denis Charles Fitzroy, 11th Duke of, 213
Grafton, Jesse, 261
Grant, Duncan, 190n1
Gréco, Juliette, 36 & n1, 42, 44
Greece: PLF and Joan settle in, x, 92, 105 & n1; see also Mani Greenwell, Peter, 189n4
Hammersley, Violet (née Williams-Freeman; ‘Mrs Ham’), 75 & n7, 89, 100, 337, 347
Hardisty, Stanley, 150–2
Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, 9th Earl of, 320 & n5
Hare, Jill (née North), 47n1
Harlech, David Ormsby Gore, 5th Baron, 89 & n1, 98, 224
Harlech, Pamela, Lady (née Colin), 89n1
Harlech, Sylvia, Lady (née Lloyd Thomas; ‘Sissy’), 89 & n1, 98
Harold Godwinsson, King of the English, 359
Harold Haardraada, King of Norway, 359
Harrod, Wilhelmina, Lady (née Cresswell; ‘Billa’), 263 & n3, 289, 366
Hartington, Amanda, Marchioness of (née
Heywood-Lonsdale; later Duchess of Devonshire), 250n2, 351
Hartington, Kathleen, Marchioness of (née Kennedy; ‘Kick’), 78n1, 97n1, 322 & n1
Hartington, Peregrine Andrew Morny Cavendish, Marquess of (later 12th Duke of Devonshire; DD’s son; ‘Stoker’): at Lismore, 9 & n1; shooting, 50; exchanges Christmas presents with DD, 76; suggests mock book-title, 100; in Paris with DD, 104; marriage, 250n2; and Elisabeth Frink horse sculpture, 287; in Las Vegas, 338
Hartington, William Cavendish, Marquess of (‘Billy’), 11n2, 78n1, 322 & n1, 343 & n4
Hartwell, Pamela, Lady (earlier Lady Pamela Berry), 366 & n1
Hastings, Sir Max, 262n1
Hastings, Lady Selina: Nancy Mitford, 232 & n2
Hayworth, Rita, 18n1
Head, Antony, 1st Viscount, 361 & n3
Heber-Percy, Robert, 51n5, 216 & n1, 231 & n1, 250
Hedly, Priscilla B., 302
Hellespont: PLF swims, 219–23
Henderson, Mary, Lady (née Cawadias), 225n4, 319
Henderson, Sir Nicholas (‘Nicko’), 224–5 & n4, 228, 248, 251, 318, 343, 358, 365n2
Henry IV (the Pious), Duke of Saxony, 171 & n1
Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, 322 & n3
Hesketh, Christian, Lady (‘Kisty’), 95n1
Hesse, Margaret (‘Peg’), Princess of (née Geddes), 232 & n4
Hildyard, Myles, 150 & n4, 277–8
Hill, Heywood (bookshop owner), 63 & n5; literary prize, 344 & n1; correspondence with Nancy Mitford, 346 & n2, 347, 350
Hillary, Richard, 303 & n1, 306
Himalayas: PLF visits, 148, 150–4
‘Hinterwälder, Franz Xaver’, 241
Historic Houses (magazine), 275 & n2
Hitler, Adolf: Diana Mosley’s friendship with, 13n
Hoare, Lucy, Lady (née Cavendish-Bentinck), 277 & n3
Hoare, Sir Reginald, 278n3
Holkham Hall, Norfolk, 285 & n3, 305
Holroyd, Michael: The Pursuit of Power, 266 & n1
Home, Alexander Douglas-Home, 14th Earl of (later Baron Home of the Hirsel), 74 & n1, 98 & n1
Home, Elizabeth, Countess (née Alington), 74 & n1, 98
Honorius, Roman Emperor, 81
Hopkins, Rev. John Henry, Jr, 327n1
Hore-Belisha, Leslie (later Baron), 342 & n1
Hornby, Lesley (‘Twiggy’), 155 & n1
Horner, Katherine, 218n1
Houghton Hall, Norfolk, 205 & n1, 212–13, 259
Howard, Henry, xix
Howell, Brocas, 152
Hozier, Lady Blanche, 346n3
Hungary, 199–202
Huston, Anjelica, 108n3
Huston, Enrica (née Soma; ‘Ricki’), 108 & n3
Huston, John, 42 & n1, 43, 56, 108n3
Ill Met by Moonlight (film), x, xv, 19–20, 27, 284n6
Inch Kenneth (island), Hebrides, 60 & n1, 95 Indecent Proposal (film), 298 & n2
India: PLF visits, 149–54
Ioannidis (mayor of Papigo), 128
Irish Times, 160
Istanbul (Constantinople), 219, 243
Iveagh, Benjamin Guinness, 3rd Earl of, 356n2
Jackson, Derek: marriage to Pamela Mitford, 73n7, 185n1; marriage to Janetta Woolley, 91n1; unidentified at conference, 185–6 & n1, 231
Jackson, Pamela (née Mitford; ‘Woman’): correspondence with DD, xi; at unveiling of memorial to father, 72 & n7; marriage to Derek, 73n7, 185n1; visits Chatsworth, 75; with dying mother at Inch Kenneth, 96–7; in TV film on Nancy, 183 & n2; reads PLF’s Between the Woods and the Water and A Time of Gifts, 243, 252; advice on cutting pigmeat, 319; birth at Wilbury, 355
Jarvis, Ralph and Coney, 333
Jebb, Julian, 110 & n1, 170, 183
Jellicoe, George, 2nd Earl, 273 & n2, 298, 370
Jenkins, Dame Jennifer, 251 & n2
Joannovitch, Prince Vsevolode, 120n7
John, Augustus, 48, 119n3, 320
John, Sir Caspar, 119n3
John, King of England, xx
Johnson, Lady Bird (née Claudia Taylor), 148 & n1
Johnson, Lyndon Baines, 148n1
Jones, Inigo, 263
Jones, Tom, 344
Jousselin, Bertrand de La Haye, 64n1
Jousselin, Laure de La Haye (née Noailles), 64n1
Juan Carlos I, King of Spain, 332
Judah, Cynthia, 48n3
Kahn, Otto, 321n7
Kalamata: earthquake (1986), 241
Kantorowicz, Ernst, 47n3
Karaïskákis, Georgios, 138
Karvoúnis, Chrístos, 132–3
Katounia, Limni, Greece, 97, 99, 101
Keats, John: ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’, 139 & n7
Kee, Kate (née Trevelyan), 48n3
Kee, Robert: at Lismore, xxii; at Chatsworth, 48 & n5, 224, 263, 322, 358; PLF invites to Hydra, 50; DD’s devotion to, 76, 80, 198; and Nicky Cryssovelóni, 83; marriage to Janetta Woolley, 91n1; and Ann Fleming’s death, 194–6; and Oonagh Guinness, 301 & n2; ageing, 348; plans biography of Mitterrand, 348 & n1; war service and imprisonment, 358 & n2; A Crowd Is Not Company, 359n2; The Green Flag, 121 & n2, 133; Ireland: A History, 199 & n3
Kennedy, Edward (‘Teddy’), 224 & n3
Kennedy, John F.: inaugurated as President, 77 & n1, 79; DD admires, 78–9; DD visits in USA, 89; sends message to DD, 94n2; unveils Mona Lisa in Washington, 94; assassination and funeral, 97–9; visits Ireland, 97 & n; and Cuban crisis, 332
Kennedy, Joseph P., 78n1
Kennedy, Sir Ludovic: In Bed with an Elephant, 289 & n1
Kent, Katharine, Duchess of (née Worsley), 213
Kent, Marina, Duchess of, 274
Kent, University of: awards honorary doctorate to PLF, 273–4
Kenward, Betty: Jennifer’s Diary, 216 & n2
Kenya: DD visits, 98
Khan, Dr Aijaz, 356
Khan, Prince Aly, xxii, 18 & n1, 225n2
King Edward VII’s Hospital, London, 298n1
King’s School, Canterbury, xvi, 273 & n5
Kinross, Angela, Lady (née Culme-Seymour), 305 & n1
Kinross, Patrick Balfour, 3rd Baron, 304–5 & n1
Kipling, John Lockwood, 369–70
Kipling, Rudyard: Kim, 369
Klobusiçky, Caroline von (née Princess Caroline Murat), 235 & n10
Klobusiçky, Elemér von, 202 & n4, 233–4, 240, 349
Klobusiçky, Juliana von, 202n4
Klobusiçky, Miklos von, 235 & n10
Knight, Guy and Hester (‘Heck’), 171n1
Korn, Eric, 256
Kreipe, Major-General Heinrich, x, xv, 22n1, 121 & n1, 123, 138, 209n1, 236
Lady, The (magazine), 349n2
Lambert, Tony, 50
Lambton, Antony, Viscount: Elizabeth and Alexandra, 232 & n5
Lambton, Lady Lucinda, 108 & n2
Lansdowne, Charles Petty-Fitzmaurice, 9th Marquess and Fiona, Marchioness of (née Merritt), 356 & n1
La Rochelle, 86
Lascelles, Sir Alan, 291
Lasnet, David, 368n1
Lear, Edward, 124
Ledebur, Count Friedrich, 60n2, 61 & n1, 146
Lee-Potter, Lynda, 250n1
Lees-Milne, Alvilde ( formerly Chaplin), 208n3, 217
Lees-Milne, James, 73n3, 207 & n3, 217, 259, 301, 311, 335; The Bachelor Duke, 244 & n1; Fourteen Friends, 309 & n1
Leon, Sonia (later Quennell; ‘Spider’), 14 & n4
Lewis, Jeremy: Cyril Connolly: A Life, 283n2
Liaut, Jean-Noël, 363n3
Lismore Castle, Co. Waterford, ix, xix–xxii, 4 & n2
London, Jack: White Fang, 229 & n2
Londonderry, Alexander Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 9th Marquess and Doreen, Marchioness of (née Wells), 355 & n3
Long Crichel House, Wimborne, Dorset, 59n2, 297, 322–3, 325
Longford, Elizabeth, Countess of: biography of Wellington, 314
Longleat estate, Wiltshire, 60n1, 301
Loraine, Sir Percy and Louise, Lady (née Stuart-Wortley), 320 & n1
Lubbock, Adelaide (later Lady Avebury; née Stanley), 14 & n3
Lubbock, Maurice (later 1st Baron Avebury), 15n3
Lubow, Arthur, 292n1
Lygon, Lady Dorothy (later Heber-Percy; ‘Coote’): on Hydra, 50–1 & n5, 53; with PLF in Greece, 82, 128; car stolen, 157; PLF visits in England, 216; marriage to Heber-Percy, 217n1, 231 & n1; at Chatsworth ball, 263; in Prague with PLF, 293; at Daphne Fielding’s 90th birthday, 301; celebrates 85th birthday, 312 & n1; in Julian Jebb’s film, 319
Macaulay, (Dame) Rose, 8n8, 53, 303–4, 305
McCabe, Charles, 23n7
McCall, Peter, 122 & n2, 133–4, 140
McConnell, Primrose: edits The Agricultural Notebook, 247n1
Mackenzie, Anne, 306
Macmillan, Lady Dorothy (née Cavendish), 51n2, 244
Macmillan, Harold (later 1st Earl of Stockton; ‘Uncle Harold’): government, xx; shooting, 50 & n2, 57; conversations with DD, 52; appoints Harlech ambassador to Washington, 89n1; President Kennedy meets, 97n1; resigns premiership, 107n1; as chairman of Macmillan Publishers, 173 & n2; awarded Onassis International Prize, 184 & n1; and DD’s book (The House), 197; 90th birthday party, 214; at Chatsworth, 225; death, 243; on introduction of pheasants to Britain, 244–5
Macmillan (publishers), 173n2, 264
Magruder, Agnes (‘Magouche’) see
Fielding, Agnes Magruder, Essie, 169
Major, Norma, Lady (née Johnson), 280 & n7
Mani: PLF settles in, 29, 92; house constructed, 109; floods, 299; PLF bequeathes house to Benaki Museum, 309; thunderbolt, 310
Margadale, Alastair Morrison, 3rd Baron, 286n1, 311
Margaret, Princess: death, 331
Marlborough, Sarah, Duchess of (née Jennings), 318 & n1
Maroua (Cameroon), 45
Maroua, Lamido of, 43
Marriott, Sir John, 321n7
Marriott, Maud (née Kahn; ‘Momo’), 321 & n7
Marshall, Ray (later Garnett), 190n1
Marten, Lieut-Commander George (‘Toby’) and Mary Anna (née Sturt), 286n2, 320 & n6
Martin, Margaret, 302
Mary, Queen of George V, 307n1
Massigli, Odette (née Boissier), 282 & n3
Massigli, René, 284n3
Matsas, Aleko, 282–3
Maugham, Syrie, 22n4
Maugham, William Somerset, 20–2, 25, 142, 329
Maxwell, Sir Aymer, 99 & n1, 116
Mayall, Sir (Alexander) Lees, 224 & n2
Mayfair, London, 293–4
Melba, Dame Nellie, 33n4
Mellors, Keith and Stella, 356 & n8
Meran, Count Johann (‘Hansi’), 200–1 & n2
Mersey, Edward Bigham, 3rd Viscount, 11n5
Mersey, Katherine, Viscountess (née Petty-Fitzmaurice; then Lady Nairne; ‘Kitty’; ‘Wife’): correspondence with DD, xi; death, xii; at Lismore, 9 & n5; dress, 17; bereaved, 26; sees Evelyn Waugh’s blank book for DD, 61; DD sends book to, 76; unwell, 89; DD reads book openings while staying with, 178; at preview of The Mitford Girls at Chichester, 192; DD stays with, 214, 266; trees damaged by gale, 251; finds error in DD’s The Estate, 264; ageing, 296; at Bowood, 355
Metsovo, Epirus, 80
Metternich-Winneburg, Princess Tatiana (née Vassiltchikov), 232 & n3
Meyers, Jeffrey: Somerset Maugham: A Life, 329 & n4
Middleton, William (‘Bay’), 346 & n3, 348–9
Mill Cottage, Swinbrook, 150 & n1, 266
Mitford, Clement (DD’s uncle), 120n2
Mitford, Dorothy (DD’s aunt), 251n1
Mitford, Jessica see Treuhaft, Jessica Mitford, Mary Russell: Our Village, 170 & n1
Mitford, Nancy: on Mitford upbringing, ix; correspondence with DD, xi; reproaches DD at Lismore, xxii; teases DD, 3 & n2, 15n6, 58n7; PLF visits in France, 6, 14, 25, 33, 38, 105; on ‘Hons’ Cupboard’, 8n2; infatuation with Hamish St Clair-Erskine, 23n8; DD meets in London, 29; correspondence with Mark Ogilvie-Grant, 53; in Venice, 56; and Gaston Palewski, 57 & n6; in England, 72; with dying mother at Inch Kenneth, 95–6; DD visits in Paris, 104; sixty-first birthday, 110; moves to Versailles, 111 & n1; illnesses and death, 117 & n3, 141, 142 & n1, 191, 345; letters, 142–3; TV documentaries on, 170, 183, 319 & n2; correspondence with Evelyn Waugh, 173, 300 & n1, 303; Selina Hastings’ biography of, 232 & n2; letters published, 261; letters to DD, 262; winter walk with PLF, 311; wit, 336; correspondence with Heywood Hill, 346 & n2, 347, 350; adopts foreign accent for childhood game, 352n3; letters to Robert Byron, 358; letters from Bowra, 365; Don’t Tell Alfred, 72 & n6, 86 & n2; Frederick the Great, 215 & n2; Highland Fling, 170 & n2; Love in a Cold Climate, 183n2, 189 & n5; Love from Nancy (letters; ed. Charlotte Mosley), 261 & n1; The Pursuit of Love, 189n5
Mitford, Thomas, 85n2, 119 & n3
Mitford, Unity (‘Bobo’), 145 & n2
Mitterrand, François, 348 & n1
Mlinaric, David and Martha (née Laycock), 224 & n5, 261, 358
Moffat, Curtis, 60n2
Moncreiffe, Diana, Lady (née Hay), 284n6
Moncreiffe, Sir Iain of that Ilk, 283 & n6
Monsell, Bolton Eyres Monsell, 1st Viscount ( Joan’s father), 31n1
Monsell, Graham Eyres Monsell, 2nd Viscount ( Joan’s brother), 64 & n2, 118, 144, 148, 217, 235; death, 300
Monsell, John S. B., Canon of Worcester, 300 & n3
Montagu, Judy (later Gendel), 8 & n5, 14, 48, 331
Montague, Hermione, 152
Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh, 276 & n1
Moore, Demi, 298n2
More O’Ferrall, Angela, 281n4
More O’Ferrall, Frank, 280 & n4
Morrison, Declan (DD’s grandson), 311n1
Morrison, Nancy (DD’s granddaughter), 311n1
Morton, Andrew: Diana: Her True Story, 290 & n1
Mosley, Alexander: portrayed in Don’t Tell Alfred, 88n2
Mosley, Charlotte (ed.): The Letters of Nancy Mitford and Evelyn Waugh, 300n1, 303; Love from Nancy, 261 & n1; The Mitfords: Letters between Six Sisters, 226n7, 345 & n1
Mosley, Diana, Lady (née Mitford; then Guinness): correspondence with DD, xi; David Herbert disparages, 13; at unveiling of memorial to father, 72; with dying mother at Inch Kenneth, 95–6; sixty-first birthday, 117; appearance, 120; and Nancy’s illness, 141; and biography of Unity Mitford, 145; and husband’s death, 188; recovers from brain tumour operation, 204 & n1; first marriage to Bryan Guinness, 205 & n1; at Biddesden, 210; visits Chatsworth, 280; visits Sophy in Wiltshire with DD, 286; death and obituaries, 335–6 & n1; Anne de Courcy biography of, 336n2; letter from DD on visit to La Pietra, 346n1, 347; on Kee’s proposed biography of Mitterrand, 348; A Life of Contrasts, 154–5 & n1; Loved Ones: Pen Portraits, 208n2, 231
Mosley, Sir Oswald: marriage to Diana, 13n2; death, 188
Moss, William Stanley: helps kidnap Kreipe in Crete, xv; Ill Met by Moonlight, x, xv, 22n1
Moumaza, Boudjemma, 110n2
Moumaza, Da’ad, 110
Mountbatten of Burma, Admiral Louis, 1st Earl, 74 & n2, 146n1
Murray, Diana, 274
Nancy Mitford: A Portrait by her Sisters (TV film), 170, 183n2
Napier, Phyllis: I Have Sind, 273n1; Raven Castle, 272 & n1
Napoleon I (Bonaparte), Emperor of the French: portrait bust at Chatsworth, 363 & n4
Natar, Carl, 122 & n1, 124–6, 128–9, 134, 140, 150
National Gallery, London: Sainsbury wing, 280 & n6
National Trust Manual of Housekeeping, 275
Navarino Bay, battle of (1827), 326
Neidpath, Catherine, Lady (née Guinness), 210 & n2
Neidpath, James, Lord, 210 & n2
New York: PLF visits, 208–9
New Yorker (magazine): aborted article on Jessica, 292
Newmarket, 113
Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire, 288
Niarchos, Athina ( formerly Onassis; née Livanos), 69–70 & n7
Niarchos, Eugenia (née Livanos), 69 & n7
Nicolaïdis (Yanina mountaineer), 123
Nicolson, Sir Harold, 48 & n3; Good Behaviour, 354
Nightingale, Florence, 279
Nîmes, France, 85
Nimr, Fares, 7n1
Noailles, Viscount Charles de, 63 & n1, 65, 92n1, 319
Noailles, Viscountess Marie-Laure (née Bischoffsheim), 64n1
Normandy, 7
Norwich, John Julius Cooper, 2nd Viscount, 231 & n3, 256, 362n2
Norwich, Mollie, Viscountess (née Makins; then Philipps), 231 & n3
Obolensky, Chloë (née Georgakis), 241 & n2
Obolensky, Prince Dimitri, 241 & n3
Obolensky, Leonid, 242n2 Observer (newspaper): profile of PLF, 203
Ogilvie-Grant, Mark, 32 & n4, 46, 50–1, 53, 67–8, 70n4, 82, 143, 240, 367
Oldie, The (magazine), 310 & n1
Onassis, Aristotle, 70n7
Onassis, Jacqueline (earlier Kennedy), 93, 224, 227
Onassis Prize, 185n1, 199 & n1
O’Neill, Shane Edward Robert, 3rd Baron, 83n4
Oranmore and Browne, Oonagh, Lady (née Guinness), 301 & n2
Ormsby Gore, Mary (Lady Mayall), 224 & n2
Osmond, Donny, 344
Ovindoli, Italy, 56
Paget sisters (Lady Caroline, Lady Elizabeth, Lady Rose), 119–20 & n4
Palewski, Gaston (‘Colonel’), 57 & n6, 347
Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi, 74 & n3
Paris: PLF in, 6, 14, 25, 32–3, 35–9; DD visits, 37, 104
Parker Bowles, Andrew, 356 & n7
Paros, 46
Parsons, Lady Bridget, 11 & n5, 15, 31, 83, 120, 367
Parthénios, Theodore, 137
Partridge, Frances (née Marshall), 74 & n6; Friends in Focus, 251 & n4, 252; Life Regained, 316 & n1
Passerano, Castello di, 54
Paterakis, Manoli, 208–9 & n1, 235–6
Pau, 161–2
Pearson, John: Façades, 173 & n1; Stags and Serpents, 206 & n2
Pembroke, William Herbert, 18th Earl of, 356 & n5
Perrone, Natalie (née Noailles), 64n1, 65 & n1, 331
Perrone, Sandro, 64n1
Peto, Rosemary (earlier Countess of Sandwich), 150 & n3
Petra, 171
Petre, Mildred Mary (Mrs Bruce), 155 & n4
Philip, Prince, Duke of Edinburgh, 71, 98, 210
Phillips, John C., Jr, 90 & n2
Pindus Mountains, Greece: PLF’s account of expedition to, 122–40
Pitt-Rivers, Margarita (formerly Primo de Rivera), 19n1
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 149
Pompadour, Hôtel de (Perrones’ house), 65, 70n1
Portland, William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of: Men, Women and Things, 178 & n4, 190
Portugal, 180–1
Potter, Beatrix: The Tale of Pigling Bland, 265n1
Poussin, Nicolas: Holy Family (painting), 188
Powell, Michael, 22n1
Prague, 293
Preminger, Otto, 37n1
Presley, Elvis, 310n1
Pressburger, Emeric, 22n1
Price, Lynda, 122n3
Pryce-Jones, Alan, 23 & n11, 40, 50–1
Pryce-Jones, David: Unity Mitford: A Quest, 145–6 & n2, 212
Pryce-Jones, Thérèse (née Fould-Springer), 23n11, 41n2
Psychoundakis, George, 254 & n3; The Cretan Runner, 209 & n4
Pyrenees: PLF travels in, 160–9
Rackham, Arthur, 31
Raleigh, Sir Walter, xx
Rare Breeds Survival Trust, 292
Raven, Simon, 189n5
Rayner, William John, 11n9
Redesdale, Algernon Bertram Mitford, 1st Baron, 214n2, 346 & n3
Redesdale, David Mitford, 2nd Baron (DD’s father): marriage, 64n3; portrayed by Nancy in Don’t Tell Alfred, 88n2; reads Jack London’s White Fang, 229 & n2
Redesdale, John Mitford, 4th Baron (‘Jack’), 86 & n3
Redesdale, Sydney, Lady (née Bowles; DD’s mother): at Inch Kenneth, 61n1, 159; and Jessica’s book Hons and Rebels, 63 & n3; at unveiling of memorial to husband, 72; illness and death, 95–6 & n1; poultry farm, 106 & n3; suggests title for Nancy’s first book, 170
Redford, Robert, 298n2
Redwood, Philip, 302
Renishaw Hall, Derbyshire, 143
Renta, Annette de la, 343 & n1
Renta, Oscar de la, 343 & n1, 368
Richard, Sir Cliff, 344
Ripon Cathedral, 351–3
Rita (PLF’s cook/housekeeper in Dumbleton), 370
Ritsa (PLF’s cook/housekeeper in Mani), 310 & n3, 330
Robinson, Hamish, 337 & n1, 370
Rodd, Peter, 7n2
Romania, 82, 108, 199, 202, 262
Romilly, Esmond, 64n2
Roots of Heaven, The (film), 33n1, 41, 45nn1, 2
Rose, General Sir Michael, 343 & n3, 345
Rosse, Beatrice, Countess of (later Viscountess Vesci), 11n7
Rothenstein, Sir John, 57 & n5
Rothschild, Baron Elie and Baroness Liliane (née Fould-Springer), 212–13 & n5
Rothschild, Jacob, 4th Baron, 144 & n1, 193, 196 & n4
Rothschild, Miranda see Boumaza, Miranda Rothschild, Serena, Lady (née Dunn), 145n1, 193, 197n
Rothschild, Victor, 3rd Baron, 84n1, 110n2
Roualle, Marquis Jean de, 40–1 & n3
Royal Smithfield Show, 112 & n2, 147, 278
Rubirosa, Porfirio and Odile (née Rodin), 69 & n6
Rudnay de Rudnó et Divék Ujfalu, Maria (née Countess Maria Meran; ‘Marsci’), 201 & n3
Runciman, Sir Steven, 212 & n3
Sabine Women, 314
Sackville, Edward Sackville-West, 5th Baron, 58 & n2, 64, 88n2, 91n1, 323–5
Sackville, Lady Idina, 280 & n2, 282–3, 285
Sainsbury, Alan John, Baron, 280 & n8
Sainsbury, John, Baron, 280 & n6
Sainsbury, Simon, 282n6
Sainsbury, Sir Timothy, 280 & n6
St Clair-Erskine, James Alexander (‘Hamish’), 22 & n8
Sandringham, Norfolk, 211–12 & n1, 284–5, 287
Sandys, Diana (née Churchill), 71n2
Sandys, Duncan (later Baron Duncan-Sandys), 71–2 & n2
Sangorski (bookbinders), 106 & n4
Sarakatsáns, 125, 127, 129–30, 132–3, 137–8
‘Schoissbauer, Alois’, 240
Sedgwick, Alexander, 51n6
Sedgwick, Roxane (née Sotiriadi), 50 & n6
Sevenhampton Place, Swindon, 176, 195
Sevki (Turk), 219–21
Shah of Iran (Muhammad Reza Pahlavi), 159n1
Shaw, George Bernard: Holroyd’s biography of, 266 & n1
Shawe-Taylor, Desmond, 241, 323
Shriver, Eunice (née Kennedy), 94 & n4
Silcock, Lieut-Colonel John, 26 & n1, 291 & n1
Sinatra, Frank, 79
Sitwell family, 173
Sitwell, Georgia, Lady, 367n1
Sitwell, Sir Osbert, 143 & n2, 178, 215
Sitwell, Sir Sacheverell, 367 & n1
Sloane, Sir Hans, 313
Smart, Amy, Lady (née Nimr), 7n1, 65
Smart, Sir Walter, 7n1
Smith, Christian, Lady (née Carnegy), 229
Smith, Jack, 116
Smith, Sir John (Lindsay Eric), 229 & n3
Smith, John Saumarez: The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street, 346n2, 347
Smyrna, 113–14
Soames, Mary, Lady: Clementine Churchill, The Biography of a Marriage, 346 & n3
Society of Hons, 8n2
Somerset, Lady Anne: Ladies-in-Waiting, 217 & n5
Somerset House, London, 322 & n3
Somerville, Edith Oenone and Martin Ross (Violet Martin), 360
Soulbury, Herwald Ramsbotham, 1st Viscount, 74 & n4
South Bank Show, The (TV programme), 254n1
Spain: PLF travels in with Fieldings, 179–82; see also Pyrenees
Special Operations Executive (SOE), 3n4, 129 & n3, 132, 192
Spectator ( journal), 267n & 1
Spencer House, London, 197n4
Spender, Natasha, Lady (née Litvin), 193 & n4
Spender, Sir Stephen, 193 & n4
Spetsai (island), 69, 109, 116
Stanley, Venetia, 8n5
Starás, Cléarchos, 130
Stephens, Ellen (‘Diddy’), 57 & n3
Stergios (Vlach), 123
Stewart, Beatrice, 350–1
Stewart, Damaris, Lady (née du Boulay), 113 & n1
Stewart, Sir Michael, 113 & n1, 184, 199, 235, 331
Stewart, Olivia, 331
Stewart-Richardson, Gladys, 53 & n4, 63
Stirling, Colonel David, 73n8, 370
Stirling, Colonel William, 72 & n8, 78, 200
Stoppard, Sir Tom, 330n1
Strachey, Julia, 205
Strachey, Lytton, 144, 205 & n1, 207 & n2
Strachwitz, Moritz, Graf: ‘The Heart of Douglas’, 215 & n1
Sturford Meade (house), near Longleat, Wiltshire, 12
Suez crisis (1956), 29n1
Sunday, Bloody Sunday (film), 118
Sunday Times, 290
Sutherland, Colonel David, 273 & n3, 370
Swann, Donald, 48n9
Swinbrook House, Oxfordshire, 8n2, 336 & n1; see also Mill Cottage
Swindon see Sevenhampton Place
Swiss Cottage, Chatsworth, 52 & n1
Syria, 187
Talassius, 314
Tamarón, Santiago de Mora-Figueroa y Williams, Marqués and Isabella, Marquesa de, 322 & n2
Tangiers, 12–14
Tarmac (company), 224–5, 228, 248
Tássos see Eythimíou, Tásso
Tennant, Edward (DD’s grandson), 141, 143, 356
Tennant, Isabel (DD’s granddaughter), 106 & n2, 259
Tennant, Lady Emma (née Cavendish; DD’s daughter): at Lismore, 9 & n1; PLF gives vasculum to, 30 & n1; proposes giving skeleton to St Elphin’s, 48; shooting, 50; teenage rebelliousness, 57; lost in Greece, 70n4; marriage and child, 106 & n2; in Scotland, 117; at Oxford, 196n2; at Buckingham Palace party, 197; appointed head of National Trust gardens, 199; letter to PLF, 215; makes hooked rugs, 251 & n3; and foot and mouth crisis, 328 & n2; mother’s trip with, 355; calls Bowra ‘Old Tragic’, 365
Tennant, Stella (later Lasnet; DD’s granddaughter), 117 & n2, 218, 259, 368 & n1
Tennant, Toby (Emma’s husband), 107n2, 117, 328 & n2
Theodore (drover/guide), 125–6, 130
Thompson, Ernest: Wild Animals I Have Known, 100 & n2
Thompson, Hamilton, 152
Thrapsanó, Grigóris Khnarákis de, 137
Thynne, Lord Christopher, 312 & n2, 313
Thynne, Lady Christopher (née Antonia Palmer), 312n2
Topley, Lady Sophia (née Cavendish; then Morrison; DD’s daughter): birth, 27 & n1, 29; Epstein bust of, 56 & n2; visits Greece with mother, 109; schooling, 117; in Florence, 143; DD stays with in Wiltshire, 286 & n1; marriage to Morrison, 286n1; Christmas 1966 at Chatsworth, 311
Toronto, 209
Toynbee, Philip, 192 & n2, 195–6, 207 & n1, 309
Treasures from Chatsworth, The Devonshire Inheritance (exhibition), 184 & n4
Tree, Lady Anne (née Cavendish; DD’s sister-in-law; ‘Tig’), 69 & n5, 109, 243
Tree, Iris (later Moffat; then Ledebur), 59 & n2, 61, 84, 265
Tree, Michael, 70n5
Treuhaft, Jessica (née Mitford; then Romilly; ‘Decca’): correspondence with DD, xi, 278; invents Society of Hons, 8n2; attends Philip Toynbee’s funeral, 196; confounds US telephone company, 206; visit to PLF, 207; aborted New Yorker article on, 292 & n1; death, 309; Faces of Philip, 207 & n1; A Fine Old Conflict, 154–5 & n2; Hons and Rebels, 63 & n2; Kind and Usual Punishment, 178; The Trial of Dr Spock, 178
Treuhaft, Robert (‘Bob’), 64n2
Trevor-Roper, Patrick, 192 & n1, 194, 196, 311, 323
Turkey, 218–22
Twiggy see Hornby, Lesley
United States of America: DD and Andrew visit, 77–9, 89; DD visits with Sir Nicholas Henderson, 225, 228, 249, 251
Vanity Fair (magazine), 348 & n2
Varanasi, India, 150
Varro, 314
Vasiliki (cook), 53
Vaux-le-Vicomte chateau, near Paris, 163n2, 289
Versailles, 111
Vesci see de Vesci Vlachs, 122–3, 132–5, 139
Wallace, Barbara (née Lutyens), 284n9
Wallace, Edward, 284n9
Wallace, Captain Euan, 281n2, 284n9
Wallace, Gerard, 284n5
Wallace, John, 284n9
Wallace, William (‘Billy’), 283 & n9
Walpole, Horace, 213
Walton, Susana Gil, Lady (née Passo), 59n3
Walton, Sir William, 58 & n3, 79
Wantage, 160
Ward, Leslie (‘Spy’), 348 & n2
Warner, Rex, 84n1
Washington, DC, 89, 93; National Gallery, 94nn3, 1
Waugh, Evelyn: stays at Edensor, 34 & n1, 143, 342; correspondence with Nancy Mitford, 173, 300 & n1, 303; papers at Austin, Texas, 178; at Carolyn Cobb’s funeral, 305; Brideshead Revisited, 51n5, 303; Letters (ed. Mark Amory), 144n3, 173 & n3; The Life of the Right Reverend Ronald Knox, 60 & n2; Put Out More Flags, 7n2; Vile Bodies, 170
Waugh, Laura, 305
Webb, Norman, 305
Welles, Orson, 108
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of, 314
Wells, John, 194 & n2, 295 & n1
White Mischief (film), 280 & n1, 282
White’s Club, London, 216, 230, 245, 298
Whyte-Melville, George John, 38n5, 178
Wilbury, Wiltshire, 355
William I (the Conqueror), King of England, 359
Wilson, Harold, Baron, 98 & n2, 197 & n4
Wimborne, Dorset see Long Crichel House
Windsor Castle, 245–6
Wodehouse, Sir P. G.: Frances Donaldson’s biography of, 266 & n1
Woodhouse, Christopher Montague (5th Baron Terrington), 136 & n6
Woolf, Virginia, 215n4
Woolley, Janetta (later Marquesa de Apesteguía), 48n3, 90 & n1, 110, 169, 253, 267, 273, 293, 353
Wrightsman, Jayne (née Larkin), 322 & n3, 343
Wyndham, John see Egremont, 1st Baron
Yemen, 255