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
Herbert, David, 13 & 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, Derek, 347 & n1
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
Hockney, David, 193 & n5
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
Horton, Robert, 374 & n1
Houghton Hall, Norfolk, 205 & n1, 212–13, 259
Howard, Henry, xix
Howard, Michael, 356 & n9
Howard, Trevor, 42 & n2, 44
Howell, Brocas, 152
Hozier, Lady Blanche, 346n3
Hughes, Robert, 344 & n5
Hungary, 199–202
Huston, Anjelica, 108n3
Huston, Enrica (née Soma; ‘Ricki’), 108 & n3
Huston, John, 42 & n1, 43, 56, 108n3
Hutchinson, Jeremy, Baron, 283 & n8
Hydra (island), Greece, 4, 49, 53, 65, 69
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
Iveagh, Miranda, Countess of (née Smiley), 355–6 & n2
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
Jenkins, Roy, Baron, 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, Lynda, 148 & n1
Johnson, Lyndon Baines, 148n1
Jones, Harry, 52 & n1
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
Keith, Penelope, 210 & n1
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
Kenyatta, Jomo, 98 & n7
Kerr, Rosemary, 320 & n2
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
Knollys, Eardley, 323 & n2
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
Lehmann, John, 282 & n2
Leiris, Michel, 37 & n4
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
Lloyd, Peter, 150 & n2
London, Jack: White Fang, 229 & n2
&n
bsp; 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
Lord, Tom, 49 & 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
Lygon, Lady Mary (sometime Joannovitch), 120 & n7
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, Adam, 184 & n3
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, Sir John, 280 & n7
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
Marchant, Helen, 362 & n2
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, Arthur, 224 & n6
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
Mitchell, Leslie, 365 & n1
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
Moffat, Ivan, 85 & n1
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
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
Mortimer, Raymond, 323 & n1
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
Murray, John (‘Jock’), 146 & n2, 207, 230, 239, 242n1, 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
Nevile, Henry, 277 & 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
Niarchos, Stavros, 23n10, 69
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
Olsen, Stanley, 259 & 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
Pakenham, Michael, 153 & n9
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