A Brief History of the House of Windsor (39 page)

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

Victoria, Queen
9
,
10
,
11
,
12
,
13–14
,
18
,
30
,
31
,
37
,
38
,
39
,
76
,
82
,
116
,
227
,
228–30

Wales
83–4
,
96
,
196–7
,
245

walkabouts introduced
175

Wallace, Anna
200

weddings

Edward Windsor and Wallis Simpson’s
104

Prince Albert and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
120–1

Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson
179

Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles
205

Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer
176–7
,
202

Prince William and Kate Middleton
1–5
,
7

Princess Anne and Mark Philips
174–5

Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip
144
,
161–2

Wellesley, Lady Jane
200

Wells, H. G.
79

Welsh Guards
86

Welsh National Opera
210

Welsh nationalists
196–7

Wessex, Countess of
see
Sophie, Countess of Wessex

Westminster Abbey
2
,
63
,
120
,
127–8
,
162

Westminster Bridge
21

Westminster Hall
243

Whitehall palace
227

Whiting, Audrey
165

Wilhelm II, Kaiser
11–12
,
48
,
54
,
78

William IV, King
13

William, Prince
27
,
188
,
213–14
,
258

armed forces
215
,
220–1
,
249
,
251

charities
214

childhood
214
,
215–17

death of mother
217

education
216–20
,
223
,
236

lifestyle
221
,
251

and Prince Charles (father)
223

sports and hobbies
215
,
217
,
235

St Andrews University
218–20

wedding
1–5
,
7

Willingdon, Lord
122

Wilson, Harold
144
,
195
,
242

Wimbledon Tennis Championships (1928)
115
,
123

Windsor Castle
16
,
17
,
24
,
43
,
227

bombings
141–2

Chapel Royal
39

Edward VIII laid in state
105

Edward VIII’s abdication speech
101

fire and costs of repair
185–6

George IV’s embellishments
228

the Guildhall
186
,
215

under Oliver Cromwell
256

Royal Library
155
,
185

Royal Lodge
121
,
122
,
154

Second World War
139
,
141–2
,
158
,
159

St George’s Chapel
21–2
,
55
,
150

Windsor, Duchess of
see
Simpson, Wallis

Windsor, Duke of (formally Edward VIII)
see
Edward VIII, King

Windsor name adopted
18–19
,
22–5
,
54

wireless
see
radio

Wood, Robin
193

Yahoo! Sports
251

Yeoman of the Guard (Beefeaters)
92
,
231

York Cottage
40–1
,
66
,
82–3
,
110–11

York, Duke of (later George VI)
see
Albert, Prince (Bertie - later George VI); George VI, King

Yugoslavia
246