Cassel, Maudie
Cassel, Wilhelmina, called Bobbie
Chamberlain, Neville
Channon, Sir Henry
Chaplin, Henry, later 1st Viscount Chaplin
Chavannes, Marquis de
Chimay, Princess Gilone de
Christian of Denmark, Prince, later King Christian IX
Churchill, Clementine, later Baroness Spencer-Churchill
Churchill, Lord Randolph
Churchill, (Sir) Winston, Cassel’s guest; and impending coronation; Cassel and; AK’s lunch parties; Armistice; at Ombrellino
Clifden, Nellie
clothes, AK’s; Cassel’s shirts; dress for Sonia; Duchess of Rutland; Eiffel Tower costume ball; for Investiture; of the King of Duntreath; Keppel girls’ mourning; Keppel girls’ Easter clothes; ladies’, for shooting parties; at Prince of Wales’s wedding; Sandringham gamekeepers and beaters; Sonia’s trousseau; at Sonia’s wedding; for tea at Sandringham; Violet’s trousseau; at Violet’s wedding; Vita borrows; Vita’s breeches; Vita’s ‘Julian clothes’; Vita’s wedding
Cockburn, Sir Alexander
Cocteau, Jean
Cole, Lord, later 4th Earl of Enniskillen
Colette
Cooper, Lady Diana, later Viscountess Norwich
Cooper, Duff, later 1st Viscount Norwich
Cooper, Reggie
Corbett, Sir Vincent
Cossart, Michael de
Cowans, Sir John
Cresswell, Mrs Louise
Crowder, Henry
Cubitt, Henry
Cubitt, Jeremy
Cubitt, Hon. Roland later 3rd Baron Ashcombe
Cubitt, Mrs Roland, see Keppel, Sonia
Cubitt, Rosalind
Cumming, Sir William Gordon
Cunard, Nancy
Cunard, Victor
Dambatenne
Dansey, Henry
Dansey, Pat, and Violet; postponement of Violet’s wedding; and Denys; and Vita; holidays with Joan Campbell; writes to Violet; go-between; Violet writes to; writes to Vita; in love with Vita; and AK; and Violet’s possessions; derides Violet; Morning Post shares; Challenge
Derby, Countess of
Derby, 16th Earl of
Devonshire, 8th Duke of
Dickinson, Oswald
Disraeli, Benjamin, later Earl of Beaconsfield
Dodge, Mabel
Draper, Miss, AK’s housekeeper
Duntreath Castle
Duveen, Sir Joseph
Edmonstone, Archie, later Sir Archibald, AK and; interests; and Keppel, at Duntreath; to Ceylon; migraines; to China; death of his son; Clingendaal; and Violet
Edmonstone, Eva
Edmonstone, Lady, AK’s mother
Edmonstone, Lady, AK’s sister-in-law
Edmonstone, Ronnie
Edmonstone, Sir William, AK’s father
Edward VII, King
as Prince of Wales:
AK’s gift to; paintings; and Keppel family; and AK; dines with Keppels; appearance; smoking; appetite; education; pleasures; Grenadier Guards; affair with Nellie Clifden; tour of Egypt and Palestine; marriage; expenditure; income; hectic social life; and his wife; Mordaunt divorce case; letters to AK; in India; and Aylesford scandal; and Lillie Langtry; and Cleveland Street scandal; and Daisy Warwick; Baccarat Scandal; in Paris; and Victoria Sackville-West; and Olga de Meyer
as King:
and AK; personality; health; accession; coronation; appearance; and Cassel; financial affairs; holidays in Biarritz; bridge player; receives Asquith; at Duntreath; and Violet’s French governess; in Paris; death; and Queen Alexandra; food; lying in state; funeral; Blunt on; papers burned; photographs of
Edward VIII, King
Elizabeth I, Queen
Esher, 2nd Viscount
Estvan, Horthy
Evans, Sir Samuel
Faucigny Lucinge, Prince Rodolphe de
Fauré, Gabriel
Février, Jacques
Filmer, Lady
Flanner, Janet
Gaigneron, Jean de
Gandarillas, Tony
George, Prince, see York, Duke of
Gibbs, Frederick Waymouth
Gladstone, William Ewart
Goddard, Baron
Grant, Duncan
Grédy, Jean Pierre
Grenfell, Julian
Greville, Margaret
Grimthorpe, William Becket, 2nd Baron
Grosvenor, Rosamund
Grosvenor Street, AK’s house in; Osbert Sitwell on; improvements; Grenfell at; Violet on; Violet allowed to return to; AK moves from
Hall, Radclyffe, The Well of Loneliness
Hamilton, Sir Edward
Harcourt, Antoinette, Duchesse d’
Harcourt, Duc d’
Hardinge, Sir Charles
Hastings, 4th Marquess of
Helen of Romania, Queen
Helleu, Paul
Heneage, Dorothy
Hore-Belisha, 1st Baron
Howe, Countess
Howe, 4th Earl
Hughes, Alice
Hunt, Mary
Hunter, Sir Archibald
Irons, Evelyn
Iveagh, 1st Earl of
Jacob, Max
James, Arthur
James, Henry
James, Venetia
James, Mrs Willie
Jews
Cassel; anti-semitism; and death of the King
Johnstone, Sir Frederick
Jullian, Philippe
Keppel, Alice
pre-War life:
and Prince of Wales; and Queen Alexandra; style; relationship with King Edward; clothes; jewels; appearance; Duntreath Castle; family background; and brother Archie; marries; early married days; attitude to adultery; and Sonia; King’s letter to; at coronation; the King’s sole mistress; wealth; holidays in Biarritz; in Paris; and her daughters; home life; bank manager’s admiration; shopping and visiting; visits the sick King; the King’s death; banknotes possibly intended for; life changes after King’s death; rumours of her party-giving; Dambatenne; to China; her Grosvenor Street house; resumes life in London; and Lady Sackville; wedding present to Vita; at Clingendaal
World War I:
War; and George Keppel; and Gerard Sturt; buys clothes in Paris; Connemara; Cassel’s guest; raves about Vita; and Violet; and Keppel’s future; nurses Sonia; Armistice
between the Wars:
World War II and after:
outbreak of World War II; escape from France; at the Ritz; in poor health; appearance; wartime hardships; problem of clothes; money; summer 1946 in France; Ombrellino; death; importance of conventional standards of behaviour; her will
opinions given by:
Acton, Channon; Dansey; Lady Cecilia McKenna; Nicolson; Osbert Sitwell; Sonia; Violet; Virginia Woolf
personality:
acquisitiveness; in anger; charm; discretion; graciousness; happiness; hauteur; importance of social code; joie de vivre; kindness; munificence; persuasiveness; poise; self-confidence; sexual power; straightforwardness; wit
and Violet:
small daughter; portrait; in Paris; and Violet’s appearance; Violet’s ‘wonderful season’; wants Violet to marry; photograph; Violet’s affair with Vita; announces Violet’s engagement; Violet’s poetry; rows; gives ball for Violet’s impending marriage; clothes for Violet’s wedding; wedding present for Violet; Violet’s trousseau; rents house for Violet; Violet’s plea for a separation; buys Stonewall Cottage for; Denys’s wish for annulment; will not speak to Violet; Denys’s account of her will; Violet’s ‘momentous interview’ with; writes to Violet; will agree to annulment; at Duntreath; at Clingendaal; Violet discusses her feelings for Vita; does not reply to Violet; decides Violet
must live abroad; her coldness to Violet; and Violet’s re-launched marriage; and Violet’s relationship with Polignac; caricature in Broderie Anglaise; letters of devotion; and Violet’s novels; and Violet’s quasi-suitors; presents for Violet; finances Violet’s move to East Coker; presented with Violet’s bill
Keppel, Hon. George, personality, and Violet; appearance; money; family history; and Sonia; employed by Lipton; shooting parties at Quidenham; and death of the King; stays at home; reunited with the girls; monthly visits to Munich; Grosvenor Street; Violet’s coming-out ball; organizes hospitality at Clingendaal; club; military service; and AK; Armistice celebrations; Violet’s wedding; wedding presents for Violet; asks Macready for help; in Amiens; Dansey on; Nile cruise; takes photographs; motor car; Aids to Memory; in USA; ill; death; his obituary
Keppel, Sir Henry
Keppel, Sonia, on AK; birth; Violet and; and her father; and Cassel; and King Edward; spring wardrobe; holidays in Biarritz; jewelled Easter eggs; at Duntreath; at Crichel; and AK; and Montgomery; death of woman in Ceylon; to Munich; ill and homesick; Grosvenor Street; on AK’s guests; writer; on Grenfell; World War I; sixteenth birthday party; asthma; Violet’s bridesmaid; and Cubitt; Lady Ashcombe and; engagement; and Denys; trousseau; to Clingendaal; wedding presents; pregnant; and Violet’s possessions; at Ombrellino; ball for Rosalind; AK stays with; marriage problems; birth of granddaughter; divorce; Ombrellino; rooted in Keppel family drama
Keppel, Violet
girlhood:
paternity; Duntreath Castle; birth; letters to Vita; and Keppel; and King Edward; and Sonia; spring wardrobe; holidays in Biarritz; derides Biarritz; and Caesar; Christmas at Crichel; personality; life in Portman Square; French governess; in Paris; and Lady Sackville; and death of the King; does not enjoy Ceylon; in Munich; Grosvenor Street
coming out and after:
coming-out ball; dinner parties; engagement to Wellesley; in Ravello; contempt for hypocrisy of marriage; eschews Vita’s wedding; at Clingendaal; and Grenfell; World War I; Osbert Sitwell and; Slade School of Art; and Pat Dansey; appearance; personality; and Denys before marriage; Harold hates; attitude to adultery; asks Harold for help; Armistice celebrations; writes to Harold; on Trefusis family; panic at prospect of marriage; wedding; wedding presents
as Mrs Trefusis:
Paris; crosses Channel alone; ostracized; gambling; health problems; returns to Grosvenor Street; at Sonning-on-Thames; Sonia and fiancé call; despair; and Lady Sackville; socially isolated; Denys’s mother turns her away; sees a lawyer; disposal of her possessions; writes to Vita through Dansey; at Clingendaal; and Dansey; deteriorating appearance; returns to London; her personal tragedy; and Princesse de Polignac; and de Meyers; Nile cruise; Ombrellino; La Prisonnière; in USA; St Loup; Challenge; and Orlando; calls on Woolfs, Quennell on; state of mind; novelist; Jullian on her novels; quasi-suitors; Eiffel Tower costume ball; ageing; outbreak of World War II; escape from France; life at East Coker; journalism and broadcasting; life in wartime; personality; appearance; in France, hampered by money restrictions; and Sonia; furniture; fabrications; eccentric behaviour; quasi-fiancés; and James Pope-Hennessy; servants; brittle in body and mind; death; her will; epitaph
and AK:
on AK; the child and her mother; AK stays with; and Violet’s appearance; AK wants her to marry; AK announces the engagement; fears AK’s wrath; rows; proposed annulment; sees AK in Monte Carlo; ‘momentous interview’; feelings for AK; at Duntreath; at Clingendaal; AK’s dictates; AK’s coldness; present for AK; discusses her feelings with AK; summer 1946; money matters; AK’s importance to
and Denys Trefusis:
honeymoon; tells of her relationship with Vita; married life; wants a separation; tells of elopement plan; between three perils, sex with Denys; anguish for both; motoring in France; rows; at Dower House; ‘momentous interview’ with AK; marriage worsens; in Paris; on Denys; and Denys’s last illness
and Vita Sackville-West:
doge’s ring; first meeting; falls in love; and Knole; education; declares her love; at Duntreath; jewels for Vita; in San Remo; Vita on; at Knole, on Vita; present for Vita; kisses; jealousy; Vita’s engagement; during the War; friendly meetings; her love for Vita; sexual intercourse; holidays in Cornwall; mutual infatuation; Rebellion, Eve and Julian; Paris; Riviera; Vita reneges; together during the week; urges Vita to leave Harold; Julian and Eve in France; plan the future; meets Vita and Denys in Calais; scenes in Amiens and Paris; denies having sex with Denys; Challenge, on marriage; four days at Dower House; two months in south of France; Vita’s lack of involvement; last direct letter to Vita; writes to Vita through Dansey; brief meeting at Berry’s dinner party; death of Lord Sackville; in Violet’s roman à clef; Vita sends affectionate letters; Vita renounces relationship; they discuss writing their story; asks to stay at Sissinghurst; wants Vita to inherit St Loup; Vita at St Loup; Vita’s relationship with Woolf
works:
Broderie Anglaise; Don’t Look Round; Echo; The Hook in the Heart; Hunt the Slipper; Pirates at Play; Prelude to Misadventure; Sortie de Secours; Tandem
Knoblock, Edward
Knole, its importance to Vita; Vita’s mother; Violet and AK at; Vita’s wedding; World War I; Violet at; Woolf at; Vita at; in Violet’s roman à clef; Vita’s burial
Knollys, Charlotte
Knollys, Francis, later Viscount Knollys
Knollys, Sir William
La Rochefoucauld, Comte Stanislas de
Laking, Sir Francis
Langtry, Edward
Langtry, Emilie Charlotte, called Lillie
Lansdowne, 5th Marquess of
Lasteyrie, Comte Louis de
Lavery, Sir John
Lely, Sir Peter, portraits of Quidenham
lesbianism
Lipton, Sir Thomas
Londonderry, Marchioness of
Louise, Princess
Lutyens, Sir Edwin
McKenna, Lady Cecilia, née Keppel
McKenna, David
Manners, Lady Diana, see Cooper, Lady Diana
Marlborough, Duchess of
Marlborough, 9th Duke of
Mary, Queen
Massigli, René
Matheson, Hilda
Melba, Dame Nellie
Mensdorff, Count
Meyer, Olga de
Millais, Sir John Everett
Mitford, Nancy
Moiselle, Violet’s French governess, becomes Violet’s governess; and the King; with Violet in Paris; with Violet in Florence; death of the King; to Ceylon; at Dambatenne; to Munich; critical of AK; ‘a sort of gaoler’
Molyneux, Edward
Montgomery, Watty
Mordaunt, Sir Charles
Mordaunt, Harriet
Morley, Arthur
Mortimer, Raymond
Nannie, and death of the King; to Ceylon; at Dambatenne; critical of AK; Grosvenor Street; Sonia’s wedding
Nicolson, Benedict, birth; his godmother; Armistice celebrations; presents from Dansey; Vita writes about Violet; and Carritt; marriage
Nicolson, Hon. Gwen
Nicolson, Hon. Harold, later Sir Harold, doge’s ring; and Keppel; Vita meets; invitation from Vita; Vita on; unofficially engaged; Vita and; on Violet; history; personality; and Lady Sackville; military exemption; venereal infection; Vita’s and Violet’s holiday in Cornwall; and Violet; his solution; and Vita’s affair with Violet; and Vita’s and Violet’s Paris trip; homosexual affairs; Christmas 1918; Paris Peace Conference; writes to Vita; reparation of marriage; no sex between Vita and; to Amiens; scenes in Amiens and Paris between Vita and Violet; cocker spaniel for Vita; does not want Violet at Long Barn; buys a statue; and Vita’s affair with Dorothy Wellesley; holiday with Wellesleys; his marriage; and Raymond Mortimer; Pat Dansey and; stays with Scotts in Florence; Orlando; money
Nicolson, Nigel
Norfolk, 15th Duke of
Northumberland, 8th Duke of
Nouailles, Anna de
Ostrorog, Comte Jean
Paget, Lady Florence
Palewski, Gaston
Paris, Violet in; Prince of Wales in; Violet and Vita in; liberation of; Violet returns to
Parker-Bowles, Camilla
Pepita
Phillips, John
Polignac, Armande de
Polignac, Prince Edmond de
Polignac, Winnaretta, Princesse de, and Violet; personality and appearance; marriages; Palazzo Polignac, Venice; patron of the arts; love of music; and Denys; lifestyle; Nile cruise; at Ombrellino; La Prisonniere; in USA; La Tour de St Loup; at East Coker; dines with Harold
Poniatowski, Prince Josef
Ponsonby, Sir Frederick
Ponsonby, Ria
Pope-Hennessy, James
Portland, 6th Duke of
Poulenc, Jean
Proust, Marcel
Pucci, Orazio, Marquis
Quidenham Park
Ravel, Maurice
Reynaud, Paul
Richards, Betty
Robert III, King of Scotland
Rolfe, Mr AK’s butler
Rosenburg, Adolphus
Rubens, Olive
Rutland, Duchess of
Sackville, 2nd Baron
Sackville, Thomas, 1st Earl of Dorset
Sackville-West, Charles
Sackville-West, Lionel, later 3rd Baron Sackville; marries; and his wife; humiliation; and Olive Rubens; Christmas 1918; writes to Vita; death
Sackville-West, Lionel the elder
Sackville-West, Victoria, later Lady Sackville, excludes AK; at coronation; Violet on; history; early married life; Vita’s birth; Seery and; and Vita; capricious with money; eccentric behaviour; AK and; eschews Vita’s wedding; court case; extravagant expenditure; menopause; World War I; Sackville and; unhappy; and Violet; Armistice; attitude to homosexuals; and Vita’s affair with Violet; sends for Harold; on Denys and Harold to Amiens; Challenge; on Violet; Denys and; Vita’s unorthodox marriage; concern for grandsons; and Vita’s friendship with Dorothy Wellesley; and Dansey; and Geoffrey Scott; and Woolf; death of her husband; caricatured in Broderie Anglaise
ackville-West, Hon. Vita, at coronation; and AK; Knole; birth; and Seery; and her mother; in Florence; and Rosamund Grosvenor; pleasures; appearance; attitude to society; affair with Dorothy Wellesley; wedding; and Ben; houses; and Denys; personality; Lady Carnock and; buys a statue; and Dorothy Wellesley; Italian holiday with Wellesleys; Pat Dansey and; homosexuality; attitude to her lovers; in love with Geoffrey Scott; Morning Post shares; and Virginia Woolf; death of her father; Orlando; Sissinghurst; and Carritt, averse to parties, dresses, social occasions, death