Fluck, Peter 181
Forsyte Sage (John Galsworthy) 80
France 10, 37, 48, 49, 50, 53, 64, 85, 104, 130, 132, 134, 141, 147, 186, 225, 246
Franco-Prussian War 49, 50, 246
Franz Ferdinand, Archduke 48
Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria-Hungary 57, 63, 231
Frederick the Great, King of Prussia 226–7
Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark 233
Frederik IX, King of Denmark 233
Frogmore burial ground 105
funeral, Queen Elizabeth’s (Queen Mother) 243
funeral, Queen Victoria’s 230
Furness, Lady Thelma 90
Gailey, Andrew 219
Gandhi, Mahatma 67, 144
garden parties 169
Geelong Grammar School 194
General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 256
General Strike (1926) 67, 70–1, 78
Gentlemen at Arms 231
George Cross medal 140–1
George I, King 13
George II, King 13
George III, King 13, 227–8
George IV, King 13, 58, 228
George, Prince, Duke of Kent 95, 142
George V, King 8–9, 10, 12, 14–15, 26–7, 28, 30–1, 75–9, 93, 230
changes family name 17–19, 22–5, 54
Christmas speeches 67–8
coronation 46
created Duke of York 38
death of Edward VII (father) 45
death of Prince John (son) 66
dress codes 77
fatherhood 43, 111
First World War 49, 50–2, 54–6, 57, 58, 79
hobbies 36, 41
ill-health and death 51, 73–4, 124
independence of Dominions 72, 73–4
Ireland 47, 49, 69–70
lifestyle 40–1, 62
marries Princess Victoria Mary of Teck 39
monument in Windsor 17
peacemaking approach to rule 46–7, 67
and Princess Elizabeth (grand-daughter) 121, 122, 153
Ramsay MacDonald as Prime Minister 70, 71, 76
relationship with ‘Bertie’ (George VI) 111, 122
relationship with ‘David’ (Edward VIII) 75, 88, 91
Royal Maundy 62–3
royals allowed to wed British citizens 27
Russian monarchy 55–6
Senior Service and naval career 31–3, 34–5
Silver Jubilee 79–80, 124
tours of the Empire 43–4
George VI, King 15, 26, 28, 68, 199–200, 246
accession to the throne 124–5
allowance cut 122
appeasement of Germany 131, 135
Battle of Jutland 114, 250
Cambridge University 115
childhood 110–11
coronation 127, 157
courtiers 124–5
death of 150
and Edward VIII ‘David’ after abdication 101, 104, 130
end of British Empire 145
as family man 110, 123, 154
First World War 108, 113–14
formation of the Commonwealth 147
George Cross medal 140–1
health 111, 113, 114, 148, 149–50, 163
industrial Britain 115–16
naval career 107–8, 111–14
and Princess Elizabeth (daughter) 108, 121, 137, 156, 157, 161, 163–4
and Princess Margaret (daughter) 121, 156
radio broadcasts 125, 136, 137
rejected as Governor-General for Canada 121–2
relationship with George V (father) 111, 122
relationship with Queen Mary (mother) 119, 126
Republic of Ireland 146–7
Royal Lodge, Windsor 121, 122
Royal Navy Air Service and Royal Air Force 114–15
Second World War 125, 133, 134–7, 138–43
speech therapist 123
sports and hobbies 115, 116, 121, 122, 123
stammer 107, 111
summer camps 116–18
tour of Australia 121
Trooping of the Colour 149
visits allies 132–3
visits East End during the Blitz 139–40
visits South Africa 148
visits war zones 142
wedding 120
wife’s wardrobe 129
and Winston Churchill 134–6, 143
see also Elizabeth, Queen (Queen Mother)
Germany
First World War 20–2, 48–9, 50, 51, 52–4, 58–9
Nazism and Second World War 93, 104, 105, 114, 126–7, 130–2, 133–5, 136, 138, 141, 142
relationship with British Royal Family 11–14, 21–2, 33–4
Treaty of Versailles 59, 60, 130
Gilbey, James 185
Girl Guides 156–7
Glasgow riots (1919) 61, 66
Gloucester, Duchess of 221
Golden Jubilee, Queen Elizabeth’s 187
Gordonstoun School 192–4, 195
Edward VIII’s abdication 103
during reign of Edward VII 45–6
during reign of George V 47, 49, 60–1, 67, 69, 70, 71
State Opening of Parliament 174, 230
subject of monarchical abolition 258
see also individual Prime Ministers by name
Great Exhibition 229
Greek monarchy 56, 160–1, 246
Grenadier Guards 159
Grieg, Louis 115
Grigg, John, Lord Altrincham 168
Guildhall, Windsor 186, 215
Haakon VII, King of Norway 138, 231–2
Habsburg dynasty 48, 246
Hague, the 48, 138
Hahn, Kurt 170
Haig, Sir Douglas 52
Halifax, Lord 135
Halsey, Admiral 92
Hankey, Sir Maurice 59
Harald V, King of Norway 232
Haraldsen, Sonja 232
Hardie, James Kier 81
Hardy, Oliver 109
Harry, Prince 188, 217, 218, 220, 224, 235, 250, 251
Hartnell, Norman 129
Harvard University 210
Haskins, Minnie Louise 137
Hélène, Princess of Orléan 37
Henry, Prince (Duke of Gloucester) 95
Henry, Prince (Prince of Wales) 212
Heseltine, William 172
Het Loo palace 226
Hill House Preparatory School 191
Hitler, Adolf 93, 104, 126–7, 130–2, 133, 135, 141
Hoares, Sir Leslie 76
Hodges, Frank 116
Hohenzollerns 24, 35
Hollywood 128
homeopathy 207
homosexuality 36, 78
Hong Kong 216
honours, Royal 64–5, 125–6, 172, 230
horses 88, 156
Hungary 57, 61
Hussars, 10th 36
income tax 186
India 44, 46, 64, 125, 144, 147
Industrial Welfare Society 116
Instrument of Abdication 100
Investitures of Prince’s of Wales
Prince Charles 174, 196, 245
Prince Edward (David) 83–4
Ireland 72, 134
hostilities during reign of George V 47, 49, 60–1, 63, 67, 68–70
Northern 174
Republic of Ireland (Eire) 145–7
Irish Guards 5
Irish Republican Army (IRA) 174
Italian monarchy 45, 57, 246
Italy 85, 142
It’s a Royal Knockout 180
Jack the Ripper 36
James I, King 212
Japan 143, 144, 232
Jesus College, Cambridge 179-80
John, Prince 66
Johnson, Boris 188
Jordan 232
Jutland, Battle of (1916) 53, 114, 250
Karl I, Emperor (Austria-Hungary) 57
Kensington Palace 227
Kent, Duche
ss of (Queen Victoria’s mother) 13
Kent, Duke of (Prince George) 95, 142
Kew palace 227
kidnap attempt 175
King George’s Jubilee Trust for Youth 89
King’s Flight 92
Knatchbull, Amanda 200
Kut, fall of 19
Lang, Cosmo Gordon, Archbishop of Canterbury 98
Lansbury, George 79
Laurence, Timothy 235
Law, Roger 181
Lloyd George, David 26–7, 51, 56, 59, 65, 79, 83, 85, 109
Logue, Lionel 123
Louis IV, King of France 59, 225
Low Countries 134
Lusitania, RMS 20–1
Lutyens, Sir Edwin 17, 46
Luxembourg 138
MacDonald, Ramsay 67, 70, 76
Macmillan, Harold 167, 181
magazines 5, 26, 153, 181, 201, 250
see also newspapers/press coverage; television coverage
Magdalen College, Oxford 84, 87
Magpie, HMS 163
Malta 35, 141, 148–9, 162–3
Margaret, Princess 111, 121, 123–4, 147, 148, 154, 155, 156–7, 165–6, 172, 187, 190, 232, 250
Margarete of Denmark, Queen 233
Marie Louise, Princess 63
Marie of Romania, Queen 35, 55–6, 211
Marina, Princess of Greece 95
Marlborough, HMS 56
Marten, Henry 158
Mary, Princess (Viscountess Lascelles) 152
Mary, Queen 25, 28, 38–9, 40–3, 47, 49, 63, 68, 76, 98, 105, 119, 126, 129, 135, 139, 145, 152, 155
Maundy 62–3, 102
media see magazines; newspapers/press coverage; radio; television
Metropolitan police 174–5
Middle East 19, 61, 85, 207
Middleton, Catherine ‘Kate’ see Cambridge, Catherine (Kate), Duchess of
Middleton family 5–6
Middleton, Pippa 6
military, British see armed forces; individual forces by name
Monckton, George 100
Monckton, Walter 125–6
monument to George V, Windsor 17
morganatic marriages 81, 98, 99
Mori opinion poll (2012) 238
Morton, Andrew 184, 203–4, 251–2
Mountbatten, Lord Louis 87, 104, 111–12, 114, 115, 145, 158, 162–3, 173, 199–201
Mountbatten, Philip see Philip, Prince, Duke of Edinburgh
Muggeridge, Malcolm 167–8
Murdoch, Rupert 181
Murray, Edmund 190
Nahlin (yacht) 94
Napoleon Bonaparte 58, 64, 231
Nation Decides, The 238
National Gallery, Trafalgar Square 208
National Health Service 143, 145
Netherlands 138, 147, 226, 234
New Guinea 61
New Zealand 5, 72, 73, 134, 149, 175, 194
newspapers/press coverage 5, 6, 26, 85, 89
1990s royal divorces 204
beginnings of criticism in print 167–8
birth of Prince Andrew 171
death of Queen Mother 243
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge 222–3
Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson 94
fire at Windsor Castle 185
George VI and Queen Elizabeth 110, 120, 127, 129
Princess Elizabeth (later Elizabeth II) 121, 128
Rupert Murdoch 181
Second World War 140
Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia 12, 48, 49–50, 55–6
Nicolson, Harold 129
Norway 134, 138, 231–2
Ogilvy, James 219
O’Kelly, Sean T 146–7
Olaf V, King of Norway 232
Olympic Games (1948) 144
Olympic Games (2012) 188, 235, 251
opera 210
opinion polls 238, 258
Order of Merit 230
Order of the British Empire 65–6
Order of the Indian Empire 147
Orders, Royal see honours, Royal
Osborne House 112, 228
Oxford Centre of Islamic Art 206–7
Oxford University 84, 87, 232
Olympic games, Princess Anne in 196
Parachute Regiment 199
Parker Bowles, Camilla see Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
People’s Budget 45–6
Philip, Prince, Duke of Edinburgh 28, 56, 148, 149, 158–9, 160–1, 162, 170, 178, 181–2, 190, 192, 235, 249, 250
Philips, Mark 185, 235
Phoney War 134, 137
Piper, John 142
Poland 132, 133, 225
polo 36, 163, 198, 217
Pop (Eton prefectorial society) 217, 236
Portugal 147
Post Office Archives 182
Potsdam 211
Presentation at Court 168–9
Prince of Wales (Edward VII) 30
Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII) see Edward VIII, King
Prince of Wales (Prince Charles) see Charles, Prince
Prince of Wales (Prince Henry) 212
Prince of Wales, Investitures 83–4
Prince’s Charities 209
Prince’s Foundation for Integrated Health 207
Prince’s Trust 209–10
Private Eye 181, 201, 250
Privy Council 18, 27, 74, 93
Profumo scandal 171
Prussia 11–12, 34, 35, 49, 226–7, 246
Punch 22
Queen and I, The (Sue Townsend) 182–4
racism 241
radio (wireless) 26, 67–8, 92
Edward VIII’s abdication speech 101
Elizabeth II’s speeches 159, 161
George VI’s speeches 125, 136, 137
Raleigh International 218
rationing 144
Reagan, Ronald 210
Regent, Prince see George IV, King
Reith, Sir John 67
republican see alternatives to monarchy; anti-Royalists
Rhys-Jones, Sophie see Sophie, Countess of Wessex
Ribbentrop, Joachim Von 93
Richard, Cliff 180
river pageant, Diamond Jubilee 239, 240
Romania 35, 55, 57, 211, 246
Romanov dynasty 55–6, 246
Roosevelt, Franklin 132–3, 138
Royal Air Force 5, 108, 114–15, 140, 142, 198, 211, 215, 220, 221, 258
Royal Family 173–4
Royal Horse Guards 249
Royal Lodge, Windsor 121, 122, 154
Royal Marines 179–80, 199
Royal Marriages Act 91, 165
Royal Maundy 62–3, 102
Royal Mint 102
Royal Navy 10, 31, 32–3, 53, 56, 83, 114, 197, 199, 221
George VI 107–8, 111–14, 140
Royal Navy Air Service 114–15
Royal Opera 210
Royal Palaces of Britain, The 173
Royal Proclamation (family name change) 18, 54
Royal Shakespeare Company 210
Royal Warrants 237
Runcie, Robert, Archbishop of Canterbury 202
Russia 11, 12, 19–20, 48, 50, 226, 231, 246
revolutions 26, 37, 54, 55–6, 61–2
Soviet 61, 64, 132, 154, 171, 245
Sandhurst military academy 220
Sandringham Estate 22, 38, 40–1, 74, 123, 149–50, 154
satirists 181–2, 201, 228, 250
Saturday Evening Post (US magazine) 167
Save the Children 209
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha name dropped 22, 23, 24–5
Scotland 61, 66, 256
Second World War 60, 104, 113–14, 133–43, 159
security service 1, 93
Serbia 48, 49, 50
Shand, Camilla see Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
Silver Jubilee, Elizabeth II’s 176, 199
Silver Jubilee, George V’s 79–80, 124
Silver Stick-in-Waiting 231
Simpson, Wallis (Duchess of Windsor) 90–1, 93, 94, 96–100, 101, 103–4, 106
, 129–30
Sinn Féin 68, 69
Skaggerak, Battle of (1916) 114
Smuts, General Jan 69, 134, 148
Snowdon, Lord (Anthony Armstrong-Jones) 172, 174, 196, 232
Somme, Battle of the (1916) 19, 53
Sophie, Countess of Wessex 187–8, 221–2
South Africa 10, 72, 73, 148, 241
souvenirs 102, 237, 253
Spain 46
Spanish monarchy 4, 231
Spencer, Diana see Diana, Princess of Wales
Spencer, Lady Sarah 202
spies, British 171
Spitting Image 181–2
‘Squidgygate’ 185
St Andrews University 218–20
St George’s Chapel, Windsor 21–2, 55, 150
St James Palace 162, 243
St Paul’s cathedral 176, 187
Stalin, Joseph 132
Stamfordham, Lord 24, 65, 77, 88
stamp collection, George V’s 36, 41
stamps and currency, Edward VIII’s 92, 102
Stansgate, Lord 145
Statute of Westminster (1931) 72
Storkholm, Katja 233
Stormont Parliament, opening of (1921) 69–70
Strutt, Lieutenant Colonel Edward Lisle 57
Sudetenland 130–1
suffragettes 45, 46
summer camps, George VI’s 116–18
Sweden 226, 231
Switzerland 256
Tanner, Lawrence 63
Tatchell, Peter 240–1
tattoo, George V’s 33
television coverage
Christmas speeches 169–70
Diamond Jubilee coverage 238, 240
Elizabeth R documentary 184
The Nation Decides 238
Prince Charles interviewed 186, 204
Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding 1, 2–3, 4, 5
Princess Charles and Lady Diana Spencer’s wedding 177
Princess Diana interviewed 186, 204
Queen Elizabeth II’s 1960s documentaries 173–4
Queen Elizabeth’s coronation 164
tennis 115, 123
terrorism 174, 201
Thatcher, Margaret 178
The Times 63, 75
Time magazine 153
Titles of Deprivation Act (1919) 54
Townend, Colonel and Mrs 191
Townsend, Group Captain Peter 165–6
Townsend, Sue 182–4
Travolta, John 180
Treaty of Versailles 59–60, 130
Trinity College, Cambridge 193
Trooping of the Colour 149, 168, 174, 179, 230
Truman, Harry S. 163
Tryon, Dale 201
Tsarskoe Seloe 226
Tweedsmuir, Lord 134
Ulster Volunteer Force (UFS) 47
United States of America 5, 10, 20–1, 54, 57, 58, 86, 90, 91, 104, 130, 132, 144, 163, 209, 235–6
university Chancellors, royal family as 249
van der Post, Laurens 206
VE Day 142–3
Verdun, Battle of (1916) 53
Versailles, Palace of 59, 225
Victoria Mary, Princess of Teck (May) 38–9, 40–3
see also Mary, Queen
Victoria Memorial 230
Victoria, Princess 38