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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

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