A Brief History of the House of Windsor (38 page)

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

government, British

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, Duchess 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