An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo (63 page)

Bonham Carter, Mark (
later
Baron Bonham-Carter) 30–31, 305

Boodle’s (club) 26, 44

Boothby, Robert (‘Bob’), Baron: political views 4; background, appearance and character 9–10, 28; affair with Dorothy Macmillan 9, 10–11, 12–14, 24, 27, 119, 266

Bootsie and Snudge
(television programme) 63–4

Bosdari, Count Cosmo de 53

Boudin, Stéphane 56

Bowden, Herbert (
later
Baron Aylestone) 288, 310

Bowen, Elizabeth 167

Bowlby, John,
Childcare and the Growth of Love
121–2

Bowra, (Sir) Maurice 237

Boyd-Carpenter, John (
later
Baron Boyd-Carpenter) 20, 54–5, 83, 335

Boyle, Edward (
later
Baron Boyle of Handsworth) 28

Bracken, Brendan, 1st Viscount 4, 163

Bradbury, (Sir) Malcolm 44, 214

Braine, John 68

Brasenose College, Oxford 50, 51

Brief Encounter
(film) 117–18

Brighton 132

British Empire 34, 39–40

British Medical Association (BMA): and osteopathy 96, 97; and homosexuality 107–8

British Shoe Corporation 164

British Transport Commission 21

Brixton prison 295

Brocket Hall, Hertfordshire 97

Bromley 17, 365
n
14

Brook, Sir Norman
see
Normanbrook, Norman Brook, 1st Baron

Brooke, Henry (
later
Baron Brooke of Cumnor): Home Secretary 260, 272–3, 317; and Profumo Affair 274, 280–81, 282, 287–8, 289, 290, 318; character and views 281

Brooks’s (club) 43

Brown, George (
later
Baron George-Brown) 224–5, 236–7, 238, 239, 240, 271, 302

Bruce, David 267

Buccleuch, William Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 6th Duke of 70

Buccleuch, John Scott, 9th Duke of 90, 246

Buccleuch, Jane, Duchess of 90, 246

Buchman, Frank 42

Bulganin, Nikolai 223

Burgess, Guy 41, 191, 217, 222, 223, 224, 225, 235

Burnham, Edward Levy-Lawson, 1st Baron 189

Burrows, John 263–4, 282–4, 286, 287, 289, 293–4, 306

Burton, Michael Bass, 1st Baron 70

Busby, (Sir) Matt 197

Butler, Richard Austen (‘Rab’;
later
Baron Butler of Saffron Walden): defeated for premiership (1957) 3, 4, 16–17; appeaser 4, 16; relations with Macmillan 4, 17, 18; ‘Butler Boom’ 57; patient of Stephen Ward 98; and Profumo Affair 296; defeated for premiership (1963) 334, 335, 336

buttons 37, 46, 163

by-elections 30, 66–7, 119, 167, 199, 223, 255; Kettering (1940) 50; Orpington (1962) 254

Byron, George, 6th Baron 114

Caccia, Sir Harold (
later
Baron Caccia) 254

Cadogan, Sir Alexander 80

Cadogan, George, 5th Earl 72

Cadogan, William, 7th Earl 86

Caldecote, Robert (‘Robin’) Inskip, 2nd Viscount 296

Camacchio, Clarence (‘Pete’) 284–5, 293, 294, 321, 322, 323, 341

Camber, Bernard 158

Cameron, James 309

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) 215

Campbell-Walter, Fiona (
later
Baroness Thyssen-Bornemisza) 90–91

Camrose, William Berry, 1st Viscount 339

Canford School 97

cannabis 252, 253, 331

Cannes 133

Cap Ferrat 133, 173

capital punishment
see
death penalty

Card, The
(film) 53–4

Cardiff 201

Carrington, Peter Carington, 6th Baron 59, 232, 238, 240, 261

Carry On Constable
(film) 124

Casement, Sir Roger 300

Castle, Barbara (
later
Baroness Castle of Blackburn) 270, 274, 276, 278

Castlerosse, Valentine Browne, Viscount (
later
6th Earl of Kenmare) 12

Castro, Fidel 104–5

Cayman Islands 178

Cellophane 51

censorship 125, 131, 142–3, 160–61

Chamberlain, Neville 7, 51, 58, 76, 167

Channon, Paul (
later
Baron Kelvedon) 335

Chapman-Walker, Mark 265–6

Charecroft Estate, Shepherds Bush 176

chartered surveyors 156

Chelmsford, Corin Thesiger, 4th Viscount 97

Cheltenham, parliamentary constituency 167

Cheltenham College 167

Chenonceaux 54

Chesworth, Donald 184

childcare 121–2

China 75, 76, 84;
see also
Manchuria

Christian, Prince of Hanover 98

Christian Science 73, 121–2

Christiansen, Arthur 233

Christie, John 195

Churchill, Randolph 95, 108

Churchill, Sir Winston 5, 26; as Prime Minister 8, 17, 41, 152, 211, 213, 220, 225, 261; relations with Macmillan 8; patient of Stephen Ward 98, 100; 1945 election defeat 194

Clacton-on-Sea 140

Clark, Douglas 238

Clark, Robert 156

Cleaver, Leonard 28

Clifton-Taylor, Alec 342
n

Cliveden: Astors’ purchase 70, 72; park and terrace 70, 72, 77, 185; pre-war guests 76, 79, 253; given to National Trust 77, 327; post-war guests 80, 82–3, 92, 93–4, 104, 245, 246–8; estate cottages 84, 101, 185, 273, 284, 305; running costs 93; July 1961 house party 246–50; swimming pool 247

Clogg, Derek 263, 265, 269, 275

Clore, (Sir) Charles: birth and childhood 160; character 158, 160, 163, 164–5, 166, 168; early career 160–61; police investigations 161–2, 280; property developer xiii, 149–50, 153, 155, 156, 160, 161, 162, 164, 170, 172, 173; contested takeovers and acquisitions 162–3, 164; retailing empire 62, 159, 162–3, 164; marriage 164, 165; in Society 164, 165, 166, 256; relations with Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies xiii, 135, 160, 283, 319; and Ward trial 135, 160, 319, 325; philanthropy 343; death 343

clubs
see
Athenæum; Beefsteak; Boodle’s; Brooks’s; Garrick; Murray’s; Other; Pratt’s; RAC; Raymond Revuebar; Turf

CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) 215

Cochran, Steve 129

Cockburn, Claud 76

Cocteau, Jean,
L’éternel retour
125

Coleridge, Lady Georgina 130

Collis, Maurice 80, 102, 314–15

Colville Estate, Notting Hill 177, 178–9

Common Market 42, 67, 89

communists 42, 76, 84, 221

conformity: in clothes and appearance 15–16, 31–2, 36–7, 163; in opinions 15; in public schools 48

Congo crisis 20

Connolly, Cyril 190, 215

conscription 66

Conservative Party: 1922 Committee 3, 31; constituency associations 24, 27, 30, 167; Maxwell Fyfe reforms 27–8; parliamentary candidate selection 27–9, 60, 167; dominance of Old Etonians 28–30, 41; Party whips 30; public school ethos 30–32, 309; chairmanship 60; Party conferences 256, 334, 335, 342; repercussions of Profumo Affair 328, 334–5, 344; leadership contest (1963) 334–5

consumerism 24, 132–3, 159, 212

contraception 23, 119–20

Cooper, Derek 84–5

Cooper, Pamela 79, 84–5, 102, 326–7, 328

Coote, Sir Colin 98, 100, 103–4, 245

Corbally, Thomas 267, 268

Cordle, John 299–300

Corkery, Michael 313

Coronation (1953) 151, 191, 213

Cotton, Jack xiii, 149–50, 153, 157, 166–70, 172–3, 186

Courtaulds (textile company) 163

Covent Garden 151

Coward, Sir Noël 117

Craig, Christopher 191

Crane, Lionel 240

Crippen, Hawley Harvey 108

Cripps, Sir Stafford 57

Critchley, (Sir) Julian 28, 31–2, 32–3

Crosland, Anthony 163, 237

Crossman, Richard xv, 43, 109, 211, 302, 308–9; and Vassall spy case 237, 239, 240; and Profumo Affair 270–71, 273–4, 276, 278, 279–80, 294, 328

Cuba, Bay of Pigs invasion 104–5

Cuban missile crisis 232, 233, 237, 239, 256, 279

Cudlipp, Hugh (
later
Baron Cudlipp): family background 201; character 202–3, 207, 208; early life and career 193, 201; military service 201; editorial director of
Daily Mirror
and
Sunday Pictorial
196, 201–2, 209, 262; marriages 206, 207–8; political exploitation of Profumo Affair 187, 192–3, 301, 307–8; and 1964 general election 336;
At Your Peril
202, 207;
Publish and Be Damned!
202

Views on
: the Establishment 187, 210–212; homosexuality 223; role of the Press 188–9, 196, 202; sex 194, 207; women 206, 20

Culford Park, Suffolk 72

Cumming, Malcolm 287–8

Cumming-Bell, Anne (
later
Duchess of Rutland) 90

Cunliffe, Marcus 228

Cunningham, Sir Charles 280, 317

Cunningham-Reid, Noel 342
n

Cust, Harry 71

Cyprus 26

Czechoslovakia 76

Dachau concentration camp 161

Daily Express
xi, 67, 89, 100, 136, 157, 169, 191, 200, 233, 238, 270; circulation figures 189, 199; coverage of Profumo Affair 271–3, 277, 278, 307, 327, 344;
see also
Express Newspapers

Daily Herald
202, 274

Daily Mail
189, 201; coverage of Vassall case 232–3

Daily Mirror
185, 186, 271; coverage of sex and crime 123, 138, 196; political influence 186, 193, 194, 210–212; circulation figures 189, 199; founding and development 193, 201; coverage of espionage cases 220, 315–16; coverage of Profumo Affair 300–301, 315–16; and 1964 general election 310, 336–8; on Ward trial 325;
see also
Mirror Group Newspapers

Daily Sketch
342, 365
n
10

Daily Telegraph
39, 103, 189, 245, 280, 333

Dalhousie, Simon Ramsay, 16th Earl of 33

Dalkeith, John Scott, Earl of
see
Buccleuch, John Scott, 9th Duke of

Dalrymple, Melisande 178

Darlow, Tom 206

d’Avigdor-Goldsmid, Sir Henry (‘Harry’) 28

Dawnay, Jean (
later
Princess George Galitzine) 90, 141

Dawson, Richard (‘Dickie’) 127

de Freitas, Michael (Michael X) 184

de Gaulle, Charles 227

de Lisle, Julian March Phillips 185

Deakin, (Sir) William 83

death penalty 22, 77, 82, 299

Deauville 166

Deedes, William (
later
Baron Deedes) 237, 275, 332

Defence of the Realm Act (1914) 23

deference 23, 30, 31, 48, 64, 213, 215, 344, 345

Delaney, Shelagh,
A Taste of Honey
56

Delavigne, Doris (Viscountess Castlerosse) 12

Delfont, Bernard (
later
Baron Delfont) 123

Denning, Alfred (‘Tom’), Baron: career and character 65, 147, 306, 310–311, 318, 331–2; inquiry into Profumo Affair 272, 292, 306–7, 310, 311, 324, 328–9, 330, 331; Denning Report (1963) 36, 108, 126, 252, 261, 263, 272, 287, 329–31, 332–3, 341, 344; later comments on the Affair 331–2

Derby, Edward Stanley, 18th Earl of 83

d’Erlanger, (Sir) Gerard (‘Pop’) 45