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
Longford, Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of 260
Lonsdale, Hugh Lowther, 5th Earl of 71
Lorimer-Thomas, David x
Lothian, Antonella (‘Tony’), Marchioness of 129–30
Lothian, Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of 77
Lothian, Peter Kerr, 12th Marquess of 129
Lucas, Sir Jocelyn 31–2
Lucas, J.S. (private in Queen’s Royal Regiment) 67
Lucas, Norman 234
Lumley, Richard (‘Dickon’), Viscount (
later
12th Earl of Scarbrough) 172
Lumumba, Patrice 20
Lytton, Victor Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of 75, 76
McCarthy, Joseph 239, 332
McCash, May 184
MacInnes, Colin 113
McKenzie, Robert 301
Maclean, Donald 41, 191, 217, 222, 223, 224, 225, 315–16
Macleod, Iain 32, 36–7, 255; and Suez crisis 82; name-dropped by Stephen Ward 257–8; and Profumo Affair 274–5, 295, 296–7, 335; and Denning inquiry 306–7, 332
Macmillan, Arthur 10
Macmillan, Daniel 6, 15
Macmillan, Lady Dorothy: family background and relations 9, 78, 80, 92, 119, 178; marriage and children 9, 10, 27, 118–19; affair with Robert Boothby 9, 10–11, 12–14, 24, 27, 119, 266; appearance and character 11, 26–7
Macmillan, Harold (
later
1st Earl of Stockton): family background 5, 26; education 5, 6; impact of military service on personal and political development 5–6, 64; partner in family publishing company 6–7, 15; early political career 7–9, 17, 21, 51, 152, 153, 217; commitment to north-east of England 7, 22–3; marriage and children 9, 10, 26–7, 118–19; reaction to wife’s infidelity 9, 10–12, 13, 14; Nancy Astor’s intervention in marital crisis 12–14; suicide threat 13; becomes Prime Minister 3–4, 14–15, 16; choice of ministerial colleagues 16–17, 18–22, 41–2, 44, 58–9; resignation of Lord Salisbury 24–5; conduct of Cabinet and committee meetings 26, 31, 267; foreign affairs activities 26, 33, 217, 225–7, 237, 239, 267–8; public appearances 32–5, 44; ‘never had it so good’ speech 34–5, 254; 1959 general election victory 5, 26, 38–9, 44, 211; Cabinet reshuffle (July 1960) 58–9; on Cliveden 82; on campaign for refugee aid 87; Vassall spy case 217, 232, 236, 237–8, 238–40, 241, 258; urged to retire to Lords 254–5, 307; Cabinet reshuffle (July 1962) 255; ‘Modernisation of Britain’ 42, 256; learns of Profumo Affair 265–6, 267–8; handling of the Affair 11, 275, 287, 288–9, 290, 295–7, 309; reactions to Profumo’s resignation 302–5, 316; and Denning inquiry 306–7, 310, 328, 332; last months in office 327, 328, 333–4, 335; resignation 334
Character & characteristics
: admiration of Lloyd George 4, 26; ambition 3, 8, 14; appearance 4, 6; attitude to national security 216–17; clubman 26, 44; complexity 4, 14, 26; economic ideas 6; intelligence 18, 32; mannerisms 33; manners 4; political astuteness 4, 18; public persona 26–7, 32; public speaker 32–3, 34–5, 226, 239; reading 5, 6–7, 14, 227; shooting 15, 16, 18, 44; tastes in food and drink 25; temperament 4, 5, 6, 14, 14–15, 270; treatment of staff 25; views on marriage and adultery 11–12, 60; views on the Press 106, 198–9, 200, 202–3, 238–9; war wound 64; work practices 25; writings 7, 8
Relations with
: the Astors 12, 13, 82; Robert Boothby 9; George Brown 224–5; Rab Butler 4, 17, 18; Winston Churchill 8; Jack Profumo 11; Lord Salisbury 24–5; Lord Swinton 18
Macmillan, Maurice 5
Macmillan, Maurice (
later
Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden) 18
Macmillan, Sarah 10
McNeill, Jane (
later
Duchess of Buccleuch) 90, 246
Madrid 277
Maida Vale 179, 183
Makarios, Archbishop 103
Make Mine Mink
(film) 146
Malawi 302
Manchester Evening Chronicle
201
Manchester United, Munich air disaster 197
Manchuria 75, 76, 83
Mancroft, Stormont, 2nd Baron, Privacy Bill 197, 198, 302
Mangold, Tom 190–91
Mann, Jessica 115
Mann, Paul 259, 262, 271, 277, 279, 342
Manningham-Buller, Sir Reginald
see
Dilhorne, Reginald Manningham-Buller, 1st Viscount
Manvers, Gervas Pierrepont, 6th Earl 128, 142
Margaret, Princess 103
Marks, George Harrison 123–4, 125, 128
Marlborough, John Spencer-Churchill, 10th Duke of 12
Marlborough House set 70
Marlowe, Patricia 134
Marples, Ernest (
later
Baron Marples) 20–22, 42, 155, 328, 329
Marshall, Sir Archie 317–18, 320, 322, 325–6
Marshall, Bill 218, 220–21
Marshall, Ethel 218, 220–21
Marshall, William 217, 218–22, 229, 230
Marylebone x–xi, 103, 150, 256, 259; police station 282; Magistrate’s Court 312, 341
Masham, John Cunliffe-Lister, 3rd Baron 17
Mass Observation 194, 365
n
9
Mathew, Sir Theobald (‘Toby’) 227–8, 265
Matthews, Gordon 28
Matthews, Joe 129, 130–31
Maude, Angus (
later
Baron Maude of Stratford-upon-Avon) 30
Maudling, Reginald 54, 254, 255, 300, 335, 336
Maugham, Robin, 2nd Viscount 260
Mayfair xii–xiv, 76, 150, 164, 176, 178, 193–4
medical profession 96, 97, 105–8
Mellor, Raie, Lady 31
Men Only
(magazine) 123
Meredith, George 6, 114
MI5: contacts with Henry Kerby 29, 223, 255; contacts with Stephen Ward 99, 245–6, 250, 251, 287–8, 330; official status 216; monitoring of Yevgeny Ivanov 245, 251, 263, 330; and Profumo’s affair with Keeler 251, 263, 266, 279, 280, 289, 292, 293, 304; contacts with William Shepherd 257, 258; file on Harold Wilson 269
MI6 216, 218
Michael X (Michael de Freitas) 184
Mikhailsky, Sigmund 230
Milford Haven, Janet, Marchioness of 166
Mills, Percy, 1st Viscount 61
Milne, Sir Berkeley 71
Milton, Ruby 284
Mirror Group Newspapers 193, 194, 202, 340; role in Profumo Affair 187, 212, 262, 292, 301, 344; attacks on Establishment in wake of Affair 187, 307–310, 315–16; circulation figures 189; offices 208–9; and 1964 general election 310, 336–8;
see also
Daily Mirror
;
People
;
Sunday Mirror
mirrors, and voyeurism xi, 126, 183–4, 319, 324, 331
Mitackis, Basil 285
Mitchell, Graham 266
Mitchell, Leslie 45
Mitford, Nancy 16
models, model girls and modelling 90, 123, 141
‘Molesworth, Nigel’ 129
Molson, Hugh (
later
Baron Molson) 55
Monkhouse, Bob 126
Monmouth School 228, 234
Monroe, Marilyn 125–6, 134
Montagu, Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu 237; trial 222, 228
Moody Blues (band) 321
Moral Rearmament movement 42, 305
More, (Sir) Jasper 254
Morris, James 57–8
Mortimer, (Sir) John 50
Morton, Fergus, Baron Morton of Henryton 116–17
Moscow 225–6; British embassy 217, 218, 219, 221–2, 229–30, 234
Mosley, Nicholas,
Meeting Place
306
Moss, Sophie 246
Mount, Ferdinand 269
Mount Stephen, George Stephen, 1st Baron 97
Mountbatten, Louis, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma 246
moustaches xii, 16, 142
Muggeridge, Malcolm 226, 308
Mulholland, Brendan 232–3, 240–41, 267, 273, 274, 279
Munich air disaster (1958) 197
Murray, David 143
Murray, Oswald (‘Percy’/‘Pops’) 143
Murray’s Club 143–4, 146, 257
Mussolini, Benito 7
Naked as Nature Intended
(film) 125
Nasser, Gamal Abdel 81
National Health Service (NHS) 96, 105–6
National Service, abolition of 66
National Trust 77, 327
National Union of Journalists 190
National Union of Railwaymen 21
New College, Oxford 74
New Statesman
57, 241
New York 71
News of the World
95, 107, 127, 139, 188, 191–2, 235, 273; circulation figures 189, 194; coverage of Profumo Affair 247, 249–50, 262, 263, 273, 295, 321, 330; profile of Stephen Ward 325–6
newspapers
see
Press
NHS
see
National Health Service
Niarchos, Stavros 164
Nicholson, Sir Godfrey 253–4
Nicolson, Sir Harold 10, 76
Nigeria 203
nightclubs 142–4, 182
Norie, Sally 313–14
Normanbrook, Norman Brook, 1st Baron 251, 252, 307–8, 316, 334
Northcliffe, Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount 189, 193, 200, 210, 339
Norton, Jean 272
Norton, Sarah
see
Astor, Sarah, Viscountess
Norway 51, 58
Norwood, Sir Cyril 48–50
Notting Hill 150, 168–9, 181, 252; Colville Estate 177, 178–9; race riots 180
Nottingham University 84
nuclear and atomic weapons 67, 69, 213, 253, 262; nuclear disarmament 69, 215
Nutting, Anne, Lady 90
Nutting, Sir Anthony 28, 90
Nyasaland 302
‘nymphomaniac’, use of term 112
Oates, Titus 239
Observer
(newspaper) x, 72, 74, 100, 103, 114, 207, 315; David Astor’s editorship 77, 82, 89, 294; circulation figures 190; coverage of Profumo Affair 294, 296
O’Casey, Sean 6
Ockenden Venture 84
O’Donovan, Patrick 294
Oldham 142
Olympic
, RMS 75
Onassis, Aristotle 164
Orpington by-election (1962) 254
Osborne, John,
Look Back in Anger
56
osteopathy 95–7, 108
Oswald, Lee Harvey 259
Other Club 26
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
113–14
Oxford University 50, 74, 84
Oxford University Air Squadron 50
Paddington 175–6, 182
Paget, Reginald (
later
Baron Paget of Northampton) 274, 301
Palestine 167, 218
Pall Mall Gazette
71
Panorama
(television programme) 255, 278
Paplinski, Serge 183, 184
‘parenting’ 121–2
Paris 45, 90, 97, 132; Four Power Summit (1960) 217, 226–7
Paris to Piccadilly
(revue) 123
Park Lane, Mayfair xii–xiii, xiv, 150, 164;
see also
Dorchester; Hilton
Parker, Hubert, Baron Parker of Waddington 322–3, 324, 325
Parkin, Ben 316–17
Parnell, Bunny 206
Parnell, Val 123
Paterson-Morgan, John 86
Patmore, Derek 246
Payne, Reg 190–91, 262, 301
Peeping Tom
(film) 123, 124–5
Pennells, Herbert 329
People, The
(newspaper) viii, 189, 202, 311, 326, 340–41
Perth, John Drummond, 17th Earl of 19
Peter, King of Yugoslavia 98, 100
Philby, Kim 273, 296, 315
Phillips, Jack 155–6
Phipps, John 139
Photo Studio
(magazine) 125
Pickfords (haulage firm) 23
Picture Post
90
Pinter, Harold,
The Caretaker
56