Read An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo Online
Authors: Richard Davenport-Hines
Tags: #Social Science, #Anthropology, #General, #Biography & Autobiography, #History, #Social History
Devlin, Patrick, Baron 290
Devonshire, Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of 9
Devonshire, Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of 41
Devonshire, Deborah, Duchess of 11
Devonshire, Evelyn (‘Evie’), Duchess of 13, 14, 118
Diana, Princess of Wales 166
Dickens, Charles 5;
Dombey and Son
227
Dilhorne, Reginald Manningham-Buller, 1st Viscount: character and career 59, 255, 273, 289–90, 302; and Profumo Affair 275, 289, 290, 296; and Denning inquiry 332; and Party leadership contest 335
Dior, Christian 90
Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield 6, 32
divorce 10, 55, 60, 116–17, 188, 332
Docker, Dudley 17
Dorchester hotel, Park Lane 12, 157, 167, 169, 252
Dors, Diana 125–8, 139
Douglas, Lord Alfred 99
Douglas-Home, Sir Alec (
earlier
14th Earl of Home) xiv, 33, 41, 83, 253–4, 256, 281, 338, 344; becomes Prime Minister 334–5; assessment of premiership 336
Douglas-Home, Robin 255–6
Downing Street, Cabinet Room 25–6
Down’s syndrome 53
Dr No
(book/film) ix, 227
Dreyfus, Alfred 320–21
Drury, Robin 293, 321, 322, 341, 342
du Maurier, Daphne,
Rebecca
92–3
Dumas, Alexandre,
Count of Monte Cristo
14
Dundee, Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn, 11th Earl of 19–20
Durham, John Lambton, 5th Earl of 336
Durrell, Lawrence,
Alexandria Quartet
112
Earle, Peter 191–2, 262, 263, 265, 295, 301, 321, 325–6
East Europe and Soviet Russia
(magazine) 104
East, Roy 235–6
Economist
(newspaper) 302, 307
Eddowes, Michael 259, 276–7
Eddy, Mary Baker 73
Eden, Sir Anthony (
later
1st Earl of Avon): as Prime Minister 3, 4, 17, 19, 28, 60, 81, 82, 211; resignation 4, 16; patient of Stephen Ward 98; and Profumo Affair 290
Edgecombe, Johnny 258–9, 261, 263, 271, 317
Edgware General Hospital 317
Edinburgh, Prince Philip, Duke of 59, 103, 344
Education Act (1944) 53
Edward VII, King (
earlier
Prince of Wales) 70, 71–2, 76
Egypt 81–2, 218;
see also
Suez crisis
Eichmann, Adolf, war crimes trial 103–4
Eisenhower, Dwight D. 226
elections
see
by-elections; general elections
Eliot, T.S. 7, 56
Elizabeth II, Queen 294; Coronation 151, 191, 213
Elizabeth, Empress of Austria 71
Elizabeth, Queen Mother 58, 276, 344
Ellerman, Sir John 199
Ellesmere, Violet, Dowager Countess of 336
Ellingham, Melvyn 67
Elliott, William (
later
Baron Elliott of Morpeth) 23
Ellis, Barry 322
Ellis, Ruth 126
Elveden estate, Suffolk 72
Elvin, Harold,
A Cockney in Moscow
221
Elwes, Dominic 314
envy 21, 23, 57, 79
Equity (actors’ union) 190
‘Establishment, the’: coinage of term 41; anti-Establishment views 41–3, 187, 210–212, 215, 292, 307–310, 315–16, 328, 336, 344–5
Eton College 5, 6, 16, 43, 74, 210, 337; Old Etonian MPs 28–30, 339; ‘Etonian mafia’ 41
Eunuch
(film) 52
European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights (1950) 198
Evans, Sir Harold 238, 239
Evans, Horace, 1st Baron 4, 60, 108
Evening Standard
52, 199, 272
exchange rates, fixed 24
Express Newspapers 187, 199–200, 212, 272; circulation figures 189;
see also
Daily Express
;
Sunday Express
Fairlie, Henry 41, 165, 213
Farouk, King of Egypt 191
Farson, Daniel 215
Federation of British Industries 17
Fenston, Felix 153, 155
Fenton, Rudolph (‘Truello’) 284–5, 293, 294, 321, 322, 323, 341
Fermoy, Maurice Roche, 4th Baron 166
Ferrers, Robert (‘Robin’) Shirley, 13th Earl 31, 115
Festival of Britain 150–51
Fienburgh, Wilfred 65, 210–211;
No Love for Johnnie
116
Financial Times
186
Fings Ain’t Wot They Used To Be
(musical) 321
Finney, Albert 39
First World War 5–6, 23, 47, 65, 73, 189, 200
Fisher, Geoffrey, Archbishop of Canterbury (
later
Baron Fisher of Lambeth) 127, 195
Fisher, (Sir) Nigel 60
Fitzgerald, Penelope,
Human Voices
145, 213
Flack, Louise 171, 172, 173
Flack, Walter 147, 160, 166, 170–73, 186, 363
n
33
Flanders, Michael 163
Fleming, Ian 60;
Dr No
ix;
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
136
Fleming, Peter 83
Fletcher-Cooke, (Sir) Charles 260, 269, 287
Floyd, David 99, 104
food 23, 157
Foot, Michael 239, 270
foreigners, registration of 23–4
Forte, Charles (
later
Baron Forte) 156–7
Foster, Reg 240–41, 267, 273, 274, 279
Foux, Cyril 176, 183, 185
Foux, Leila (
née
Leigh) 183
Fraser, Bill 63
Fraser, Sir Hugh (
later
1st Baron Fraser of Allander) 159
Fraser, (Sir) Hugh 59, 255
Frayn, Michael 215, 256
Freeth, Denzil 328–9
Freud, Lucien 284
Freud, Sigmund 139
Frost, (Sir) David 256
Fry, Christopher 56, 342
n
Fulham 76, 77, 102
Gaitskell, Hugh 64, 98, 237
Galbraith, (Sir) Thomas (‘Tam’): Vassall affair 231–3, 237–8, 267, 271; resignation 238, 240, 265, 272, 275, 276, 295
Galitzine, Prince George 90
Galsworthy, John 47
Galton, Ray 215
Garbo (double agent) 216
Gardner, Ava 98
Garrick Club 15, 104, 245
General Council of the Press 195
general election 1929 9
general election 1945 51, 77, 99, 194, 210
general election 1950 27, 54, 65, 77
general election 1951 27, 65, 77
general election 1955 27, 65, 211
general election 1959 x, 5, 26, 27, 38–9, 44, 61, 211
general election 1964 xiv–xv, 186, 310, 336–8, 339
General Medical Council 95
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
(film) 126
George V, King 73
Getty, J. Paul 98, 100
Ghana 203
Gide, André,
The Immoralist
99
Gilliatt, Penelope 114
Gladwyn, Cynthia, Lady 98, 101
Glasgow Herald
341
Gloucester, Prince Henry, Duke of 103
Glyn, Sir Richard 198, 252
Golitsyn, Anatoliy 232
Gollancz, Sir Victor 195–6
Goodman, Arnold, Baron 332
Gordon, Aloysius (‘Lucky’): appearance, character and early life 252–3; relations with Christine Keeler 252–3, 258; knifed by Johnny Edgecombe 258, 271; Keeler’s false accusations against 284–5, 321, 322, 341; arrest and prosecution 285; trial and conviction 285, 291, 293–4, 322, 341; conviction quashed 322–3, 324
Gordon, Charles 158, 164–5, 168, 171, 172
Gordon, John 89, 327
Gordon Walker, Patrick (
later
Baron Gordon-Walker) 240
Gorer, Geoffrey viii, 49, 79
Gowrie, Grey Hore-Ruthven, 2nd Earl of 79–80, 88, 92, 102
Gowrie, Zara, Countess of 84, 85, 88, 305
Graham, Billy 300
Grand Cayman Island 178
Grantley, Deirdre, Lady 104–5
Grantley, Richard Norton, 6th Baron 52, 78
Greatorex, Wilfred 214
Green, Pamela 123–4, 125, 139
Greenall, Benson 177–8
Grenfell, Gerald William (‘Billy’) 73
Grenfell, Joyce 128
Griffith-Jones, Mervyn 312–14, 318–20, 322, 323–4
Grigg, John (2nd Baron Altrincham) 22, 26–7
Groom, Vera ix, xii, xv
Gropius, Walter xiii
Guinness, Sir Alec 53
Gulbenkian, Nubar 98, 248
Gunning-Parker, Anne (
later
Lady Nutting) 90
Gurden, Harold 28
Gustav VI, King of Sweden 80
Habsburg, Archduke Otto von 172
Haigh, John 190, 191
Hailey, Malcolm, 1st Baron 80
Hailsham, Quintin Hogg, 2nd Viscount: views and opinions 26, 37–8, 301, 328; appearance and character 36–7; prime ministerial ambitions 36, 335, 336; appointment as Conservative Party chairman 60; and Profumo Affair 273–4, 292, 300–301, 328
Haley, Sir William 296
Hall, Roger 277
Hallowes, Odette 130
Hamburg 97
Hamilton, Dennis 125–7, 183
Hamilton, Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of 199
Hamilton-Marshall, John 283, 284, 285, 293, 322, 323, 340, 341, 342
n
Hamilton-Marshall, Paula: friendship with Christine Keeler 145, 268; Devonshire Street flat 284, 293, 321; charged with perjury 341
Hampstead Garden Suburb 182, 183, 336
Hanbury-Williams, Sir John 163
Hancock, Tony 215
Hardy, Thomas 6, 9
Hare, John (
later
1st Viscount Blakenham) 250
Harmsworth, Sir Alfred 200
Harmsworth, Vere 200
Harmsworth, Vyvyan 200
Harriman, Averell 98
Harris, Richard Reader 132, 133, 135
Harrisson, Tom 194
Harrod, Sir Roy 247–8
Harrod, Wilhelmine (‘Billa’), Lady 247–8
Harrow School 46–50, 59
Hartington, William (‘Billy’) Cavendish, Marquess of 78
Hartnell, (Sir) Norman 90
Harvey, Ian 18, 261
Haslam, Nicky 93–4
Hatcher, Valerie 132, 133, 134, 135–6
Havelock-Allan, (Sir) Anthony 52–3, 54, 55, 78, 117
Havelock-Allan, Simon 53
Hayter, Marie, Lady 229–30
Hayter, Sir William 229–30
Hayworth, Rita 174
Head, Antony (
later
1st Viscount Head) 261
Headlam, Sir Cuthbert 7, 8
Heath, Sir Edward 15, 31, 315
Heathcoat-Amory, Derick (
later
1st Viscount Amory) 19, 22
Henderson, Dickie 128
Hendon 17, 54
Herbert, Samuel 282–4, 285, 286–7, 306, 312, 340
Hertford, Hugh Seymour, 8th Marquess of 61
Heydrich, Reinhard 161–2
Hicks, David 246
Hicks, Lady Pamela 246
High Wycombe 77, 79
Hilton, Conrad 164
Hilton hotel, Park Lane xiii–xiv, 164, 169
Hilton, June 184
Hinchingbrooke, Victor Montagu, Viscount (
later
10th Earl of Sandwich) 28, 255