An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo (64 page)

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