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Index

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Abdication crisis, 236–44

Ackroyd, Peter, 139

Acton, Harold, 133

Albert, Duke of York (later King George VI), 69, 72, 229, 233, 248, 264, 298, 306; and the Abdication crisis, 240–41

Alexander, Ulick, 243

Alexandra, Queen, 12

Alice, Princess, 215

Allen, George, 259, 261, 262

Allen, Paula and Bill, 210

Altemus, Liz, 225

Anderson, Sir John, 323, 325

Arlen, Michael, 157

Ashley, Sylvia, 119, 157

Askwith, Lady (Ellen), 178, 182, 187,
188

Asquith, Herbert Henry, 2, 32, 40, 99,
320

Asquith, Lady Cynthia (formerly Lady Cynthia Charteris), 1, 17, 42

Asquith, Margot, 5, 28, 143

Astaire, Fred and Adele, 118

Astor, Bill, 273, 276

Astor, David, 273, 277

Astor, Nancy, Viscountess: and Cliveden house parties, 23–24, 272–73, 277–78, 337; Curzon's friendship with, 23–24, 28, 31, 40; relations with the Curzon daughters, 24, 31, 41, 49–50, 54, 69–70, 78, 83–84, 113–14; and politics, 49–50, 133; and Cimmie's marriage to Tom Mosley, 56; and scandal involving Bobby Shaw, 153–55; and Grandi, 197; on Tom Mosley, 204; and Irene, 207; and Baba's children, 245; character, 272–73; and Lord Lothian, 338–39,
342

Astor, Waldorf, 2nd Viscount Astor, 23, 24, 50, 154, 155

Austria, and the Anchluss, 276

 

Baldwin, Oliver, 145–46

Baldwin, Stanley, 66, 67, 76, 95, 99, 107, 125, 220, 229, 234, 260; and the Abdication crisis, 236–37, 238, 240, 241; on Wallis Simpson, 264–65

Balfour, Arthur (later Lord), 7, 11, 13, 41, 47, 66

Balsan, Consuelo (formerly Duchess of Marlborough), 83, 96–97

Balsan, Jacques, 96

Baring, Maurice, 121

Barry, Gerald, 204

Barrymore, Blanche, 119

Beaton, Cecil, 157, 258, 333

Beaverbrook, Lord, 344

Becket, Rupert, 337

Beckett, John, 271

Bedaux, Charles, 255, 258, 259, 261–62, 268, 269, 272

Bedaux, Fern, 255, 257, 258, 259

Bedford, Gertrude, 310

Belgian royal family, 33–34

Benes, Eduard, 284

Benson, Guy, 40

Beresford, Lord Charles, 3

Bernays, Robert, 177, 200–201, 223, 273, 292; and the Abdication crisis, 238–39, 241; and the Munich crisis,
284

Bevin, Ernest, 159, 359, 385

Birdwood, Lady, 104, 109

Birdwood, Sir William, 104

Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen, 3

Bodiam Castle, Sussex, 37, 59, 100

Bonham-Carter, Violet, 345

Boothby, Robert, 108, 111, 121, 143, 145, 172, 174, 332, 335

Bowes-Lyon, Lady Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth), 72, 264, 304

Bracken, Brendan, 143, 174, 204–205, 218, 344

Brand, Bob, 114

Brand, Phyllis, 50

British Union of Fascists (later British Union), 173, 194, 203–205, 215, 220–21, 266, 324

Brown, W. J., 145, 148

Brownlow, Perry, 238, 261

Buckingham Palace: evening court, 68, 69; Garden Party (1923), 78; in wartime, 361–62

Bullock, Lady Victoria, 89

Bullock, Malcolm, 143

Burnaby, Algernon, 58–59

 

Cadogan, Sir Alexander, 273, 276, 286

Camrose, Lord, 270–71, 397

Carlton House Terrace, 10, 13, 30, 59, 67; Irene's coming-out ball at, 32–33; entertaining at, 47–48; redecoration of, 47; Baba's coming-out ball at, 69–70; Baba's impromptu party at, 75; costs of running, 82

Carrington, Lord, 399

Castlerosse, Doris, 157, 173

Castlerosse, Lord, 187

Cazalet, Thelma, 216, 344

Cazalet, Victor, 216, 221, 252, 284, 361, 362, 364, 369; and Baba's relationship with Lord Halifax, 319, 334–35, 336, 351; at the Dorchester Hotel, 332–34; proposals of marriage to Irene, 343–44, 346–47, 349–50, 370; on Lord Halifax, 349; and Irene's visits to Great Swifts, 353, 362, 369; death, 372, 373

Chamberlain, Austen, 221

Chamberlain, Neville, 107, 252, 276, 277, 278, 291; and the Munich Agreement, 284, 285, 286

Channon, Chips, 84, 143, 202, 243

Chaplin, Charlie, 110

Charteris, Evan, 41

Chevalier, Maurice, 328

Cheyney, Peter, 153

Cholmondeley, Lady, 170

Churchill, Randolph, 262, 278, 295, 305, 306

Churchill, Winston, 46, 96, 97, 153, 218, 294, 302; and Wallis Simpson, 229, 233, 234; and the Abdication crisis, 238, 241, 242; and the wartime coalition government, 323; and Lord Halifax, 342, 369; and Duke of Windsor's
Liberty
interview, 345–46; and Mosley's imprisonment, 352, 358, 376; and the Viceroy of India question, 370, 371

Ciano, Count, 296

Citrine, Walter, 159

Clerk, Sir George, 332

Cleveland, Frances, 5

Cliveden house parties, 23–24, 143, 272–73, 276–78, 337

Colefax, Sybil, 111, 293, 314, 333, 352,
363

Cooper, Lady Diana, 78, 143, 185, 332,
334

Cooper, Sir Alfred Duff, 285, 332–33,
335

Corrigan, Laura, 118

Coward, Noël, 121, 157

Crabbet Club, 3

Craven Lodge, Melton Mowbray, 85–86, 112, 113, 114, 117

Cripps, Sir Stafford, 277

Cunard, Emerald, 111, 163, 164, 253,
333

Curzon, George Nathaniel, Marquis Curzon of Kedleston, 1–8; character, 1, 2, 41–42; birth, 2; spinal defect, 2, 76; attitudes to women, 3–4, 5–6, 31–32; marriage to Mary Leiter, 6–7; as Viceroy of India, 7–8, 10–13; relations with his daughters as children, 10–11, 16–19, 20, 29–30; relations with Irene, 18, 40, 43–45, 50–52, 53–54, 58–63, 69–71, 77; love affair with Elinor Glyn, 20–23, 24–27, 28–29, 30–31; friendship with Nancy Astor, 23–24, 28, 31, 40; and the Belgian royal family, 33–34; and the First World War, 33; and financial affairs, 36, 58–63, 81–82; marriage to Grace Duggan, 37–38, 39–43, 48, 49, 57–58; as Foreign Secretary, 47, 66, 76; relations with Cimmie, 48, 53–54, 62–63, 64–65, 70; relations with his stepchildren, 48, 77, 82, 100; relations with Baba, 53, 54, 83–84; and Cimmie's marriage to Tom Mosley, 55–57; created marquess, 61–62; political career, 66–67, 95–96; illness, 67–68, 96–98; and Baba's coming-out ball, 69–70; separations from Grace, 76–77, 78; and Baba's marriage to Fruity Metcalfe, 90, 94, 97–98; death, 98–99; funeral, 99; will, 99–100

Curzon, Grace
see
Duggan, Grace (later Lady Curzon)

Curzon, Lady Alexandra (“Baba”): birth, 1–2, 12; childhood, 29–30, 33, 34, 48; relations with Irene, 48, 109, 129, 151, 152, 184, 254, 350–51, 363–64, 373–75, 377–78, 379–80, 386–87, 388–89; relations with Lord Curzon, 53, 54, 83–84; and Cimmie's marriage to Tom Mosley, 56; settlement income, 52, 63; coming-out, 66, 67, 69–70, 71–72; appearance, 71–72, 142, 232; suitors, 71–72, 77, 78–79; holds impromptu party at Carlton House Terrace, 75; and Bobby Shaw, 78–79, 155; at Melton Mowbray, 86, 87; Fruity Metcalfe's courtship of, 87–88, 90–93, 94–95, 100–103; and Lord Curzon's death, 97–98; marriage to Fruity Metcalfe, 103–104; in India, 109, 110; birth of son David, 119; married life, 123, 133–34, 141–43, 168, 174, 188, 201–202, 232, 234–35, 275, 342–43, 382, 397; relations with Tom Mosley, 123, 176–77, 186, 189–93, 194, 200, 201, 202, 203, 208, 212–14, 215, 217, 218–20, 222, 225–26, 227, 234, 317; and politics, 133, 151, 177; and Master's club, 134; character, 142–43, 201–202, 279, 291, 335, 379–80, 399; sexuality, 142; work for Save the Children, 143, 202, 396, 398–99; birth of twin daughters, 143, 149; and Irene's engagement to Miles Graham, 180, 186–87; and Cimmie's illness and death, 183–85; affair with Grandi, 196, 197, 198, 204, 208–209, 214–15, 245, 296, 318, 393–94, 395–96; and the Prince of Wales set, 202; affair with Jock Whitney, 224–25, 230; thoughts of divorcing Fruity, 225; and Fruity at Schloss Enzesfeld with the Duke of Windsor, 250–51; and the wedding of the Duke of Windsor, 258, 259, 260–62, 263–65; affair with Michael Lubbock, 279, 320, 335; at the Villa La Cröe, 279–81, 296–97; and the Munich Agreement, 286; and Tom Mosley's marriage to Diana Guinness, 286–87; and Vivien Mosley's coming-out, 290–91, 292, 293, 294; training to be a nurse, 294; Fruity's wartime letters to, 300–302, 325–27, 347–48; accommodates the Windsors during the Second World War, 304–307; war work, 313, 334; and Little Compton, 314–15, 322, 330, 344, 359, 365, 393; relations with Lord Halifax, 318–20, 322, 330–31, 334–36, 337–39, 363–64, 374, 380–81; relations with Walter Monckton, 320, 322, 336; and the Duchess of Windsor, 322, 360–61, 383, 392–93; and the Duke of Windsor, 328; and Tom Mosley's imprisonment, 330–31, 335, 340, 350, 352, 358; at the Dorchester Hotel in wartime, 332–34, 337; and Halifax's appointment as British Ambassador to Washington, 339, 340–41; Lord Halifax's letters to, 341–43, 346–47, 348, 349, 351, 352–53, 355–58, 362–63, 365–66, 369, 370, 372–73, 380–81, 395; separation from Fruity, 351; and Fruity's return from Cairo, 366; and Tom Mosley's release from prison, 375–76; post-war visit to America, 386–87; post-war life, 391–99; letter from the Duke of Windsor to, 392–93; travels, 393, 395–96, 397; affair with Viscount Feversham, 394–95, 396–97; divorce from Fruity, 395, 396, 397; and the Ionian earthquake, 396; and Fruity's death, 397–98; awarded the CBE, 399; death, 399; hatred of the Mosleys, 399

Curzon, Lady Cynthia (“Cimmie”): birth 1–2; childhood, 8, 10–11, 44; at boarding school, 19; and Elinor Glyn, 25; spinal defect, 25–26, 29, 169; and the First World War, 41; admirers, 44; appearance, 45, 130; character, 45–46; meets Tom Mosley, 46–47; coming-out ball, 48, 49; relations with Lord Curzon, 48, 53–54, 62–63, 64–65, 70; Mosley's courtship of, 49–50, 53, 54–56, 84; marriage to Tom Mosley, 56–57; birth of children, 103, 106; and Baba's marriage, 103–104; married life, 105–108, 122, 131, 134, 140–41, 159, 163, 167, 171; and Mosley's infidelities, 105–106, 119, 130, 141, 158, 159, 169, 171–72, 176; and politics, 113, 121, 129–33, 135, 136–37, 138, 173; family home at Savehay Farm, 114; relations with Irene, 122–23, 131, 140–41; visit to Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 123–24; resignation from the Labour Party, 146–47, 148–49; and the New Party, 148, 149, 150–51, 162–63; car accident, 160; and Diana Guinness, 165, 169, 171–72, 174, 185; last pregnancy and birth of Micky, 167, 168; and Irene's engagement to Miles Graham, 180; illness and death, 182–85; memorial service for, 186; will, 205; and Nanny Hyslop, 213; Kennington Day Nursery in memory of, 215, 217–18

Curzon, Lady Irene (later Lady Ravensdale); birth, 1–2, 7; childhood, 10–11; relations with Lord Curzon, 18, 40, 43–45, 50–52, 53–54, 58–63, 69–71, 77; and hunting, 18–19, 41, 58–59, 290, 291, 292; education, 29; and music, 29, 292, 344, 390; coming-out ball, 32–33; appearance, 33, 108, 123, 179, 205, 227, 379; and Arthur Rubinstein, 34–35, 118, 127, 133, 140, 168–70; suitors, 40, 70–71; coming-of-age dance, 41; and the YMCA, 45; relations with Baba, 48, 109, 129, 151, 152, 184, 254, 350–51, 363–64, 373–75, 377–78, 379–80, 386–87, 388–89; and Cimmie's marriage to Tom Mosley, 56, 57; character, 70, 118–19, 123, 379; at Melton Mowbray, 76, 84, 111–13, 114, 117, 123, 139–40; social life, 78, 111–12, 113, 114, 121, 128, 139–41, 201, 293–94, 314, 363; and Lord Curzon's death, 97, 98–99; love affairs, 108–109, 113, 115, 118–19, 120–21, 127–29; love for Gordon Leith, 109, 111, 113, 114, 115, 119, 120, 121, 127–29, 133, 143, 157–58, 168, 188; travels, 109–10, 143, 160, 200–201, 214, 227, 292, 390; on Valentino's funeral, 110; relations with Tom Mosley, 119, 123, 129, 171, 194, 195–96, 205, 206, 208, 227–28; literary and theatrical friendships and interests, 121, 133, 140, 195; relations with Cimmie, 122–23, 131, 140–41; and politics, 131–33, 148, 204, 205, 290; in Antibes, 134, 157–58; relations with nephews and nieces, 140, 189, 193–94, 198, 199, 203, 210–12, 213–14, 217, 252, 266–68; at Cliveden, 143, 196, 204–205, 272–74, 276–78; health problems, 168, 170–71, 194, 196, 210, 291, 320, 374, 377, 382–83; and Mosley's fascism, 173–74; and Diana Guinness, 176, 289; engagement to Miles Graham, 178–82, 185–88, 198; and Cimmie's illness and death, 183–85; and Baba's marriage to Fruity Metcalfe, 188, 232; and Baba's relations with Tom Mosley, 189, 192, 194, 203, 205, 206, 209, 211, 212–14, 217, 219, 222, 230, 234–35; public works and good causes, 195, 282; and Grandi, 196, 197, 198, 209, 218; and Nevile Henderson, 199–200, 201, 206–207, 291, 292; Christmases with the Mosley children, 210–11, 244–45, 275, 320–21; holidays with the Mosley children, 213, 219, 231, 268, 282–83; and Kennington Day Nursery, 215, 217–18, 313, 314; and Tom Mosley's politics, 226, 295, 323; and Nazi Germany, 231–32, 276–77, 283–84, 285, 286; and Wallis Simpson, 233; and the Abdication crisis, 242; and Tom Mosley's marriage to Diana Guinness, 287, 288–90; and Vivien Mosley's coming-out, 288, 290–91, 292, 293, 294; and Diana Guinness's children, 292–93; and the outbreak of the Second World War, 298–99, 303–304; and the Mosley children in wartime, 308–10, 349, 350, 353–54; and the Windsors, 310; war work, 313–14, 320–21, 328, 334, 343, 344–45; and Baba's relations with Lord Halifax, 319, 334–35, 374–75, 380; drinking bouts, 320, 345, 362, 373, 382–83, 389; and Tom Mosley's imprisonment, 324–25, 370, 371; and the guardianship of the Mosley children, 328, 329; at the Dorchester Hotel in wartime, 332, 333–34, 337–38, 341; proposals of marriage from Victor Cazalet, 343–44, 346–47, 349, 370; public speaking, 348, 357, 363, 379, 389; visits to Victor Cazalet at Great Swifts, 353, 362, 369; and Victor Cazalet's death, 372, 373; and Tom Mosley's release from prison, 375, 376; post-war charity work, 385; post-war life, 386, 388–91; and Fruity Metcalfe, 387;
In Many Rhythms
, 390; life peerage, 390–91; death, 391