Game of Crowns: Elizabeth, Camilla, Kate, and the Throne (40 page)

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The Name Game

The following chapter notes have been compiled to give a general view of the sources drawn upon in preparing
Game of Crowns
, but by no means are they to be considered all-inclusive. Important sources at Buckingham Palace, Kensington Palace, Windsor Castle, Sandringham, St. James’s Palace, Clarence House, Balmoral, Highgrove, Eton, Scotland Yard, and Sandhurst—as well as close friends, relatives, acquaintances, colleagues, and employees of the Royal Family—only agreed to cooperate once it was agreed that their names would not be mentioned. Many of these are the same highly reliable sources who have provided detailed and accurate information to me over the decades for my previous books on Princess Diana and the Windsors—allowing me, for example, to learn the date of William and Kate’s wedding long before it became known to the public, and to time the publication of my book
William and Kate
to coincide with the big event in 2011. Therefore, the author continues his policy of respecting the wishes of many interviewed sources who wished to remain anonymous, and accordingly has not listed them, either here or elsewhere in the text. Obviously, the Queen, Camilla, Kate Middleton, and the rest of the Royal Family have generated untold thousands of articles and news reports. Having appeared on NBC News, CBS, ABC, CNN, Fox, and MSNBC, as well as programs such as
Entertainment Tonight/The Insider
,
Inside Edition
,
Extra
,
Access Hollywood
, and E! Entertainment to discuss the weddings of both Charles and Camilla and William and Kate as well as the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the birth of both Prince George and Princess Charlotte, I can attest to the unprecedented amount of media coverage the Royal Family has received in recent years. Among those publications in which relevant articles appeared are the
New York Times
, the
Guardian
, the
Sunday Times
(London), the
Times
(London), the
Wall Street Journal
, the
Daily Mail
, the
Washington Post
, the
Boston Globe
, the
Los Angeles Times
,
Vanity Fair
,
Time
,
People
,
Newsweek
, the
New Yorker
,
Life
,
Le Monde
,
Paris Match
, and the
Economist
, and carried over the Associated Press, Reuters, and Bloomberg wires.

Interview subjects included Alan Hamilton, Mark Shand, Dr. Frederic Mailliez, Margaret Rhodes, the late Lady Elsa Bowker, Lord Mishcon, Beatrice Humbert, Countess Mountbatten, Jeanne Lecorcher, Richard Kay, Thierry Meresse, Lady Yolanda Joseph, Richard Greene, Norman Parkinson, Peter Archer, Ezra Zilkha, Harold Brooks-Baker, Andy Radford, Mark Butt, Claude Garreck, Josy Duclos, Remi Gaston-Dreyfus, Peter Allen, Barry Schenck, Miriam Lefort, Janet Lizop, Ron Galella, Pierre Suu, Sharman Douglas, and Steve Stylandoudis. Published sources included Rob Price, “This Is What Happens When the Queen Dies: The Death of Queen Elizabeth Will Be the Most Disruptive Event in Britain in the Last 70 Years,”
Business Insider
, May 6, 2015; Tom Sykes, “What Will Happen When the Queen Dies?,”
Daily Beast
, June 2, 2015; “What Happens When the Queen Dies?,” the
Week
, June 4, 2015; Matthew Weaver, “UK Republicans Debate How to React When the Queen Dies,” the
Guardian
, July 12, 2015; Charles Moore, “An Act of National Communion—But What Will Happen at the Next Coronation?,” the
Telegraph
, May 31, 2013; Robert Lacey,
Majesty
(New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977); Adrian Higgins, “How Britain Came to Revere Elizabeth II,” the
Washington Post
, September 8, 2015; Robert Booth and Julian Borger, “Christopher Geidt: The Suave, Shrewd and Mysterious Royal Insider,” the
Guardian
, May 31, 2013; “Queen Honors ‘Big Paul’ in Diamond Jubilee Honors List,” the
Evening Standard
, September 13, 2012; “Sergeant at Arms Promotion for Queen’s Faithful Servant,”
Hello!,
January 9, 2008; “It Starts with Tea: A Day in the Life of Queen Elizabeth II,” the
Mail
and
Guardian
, April 16, 2006; Emily Dugan, “Michael Fagan: Her Nightie Was One of Those Liberty Prints, Down to Her Knees,” the
Independent
, February 18, 2012; “Text of Scotland Yard’s Report on July 9 Intrusion into Buckingham Palace,” the
New York Times
, July 13, 1982; Spencer Davidson, “God Save the Queen—Fast,”
Time
, July 26, 1982; “You Look Like You Need a Drink,” the
Mirror
, February 20, 2012; Pam Tobey, “Remember the Guy Who Got Into the Queen’s Bedroom?,” the
Washington Post
, September 24, 2014; Victoria Murphy, “Queen Camilla? How Once Sidelined Duchess Is Now Center-Stage . . . and Could Take Title When Charles Is King,” the
Mirror
, June 6, 2012; Anna Pukas, “Revealed: Positive Impact of Camilla
on Prince Charles After a Decade of Marriage,”
Express
, April 8, 2015; Chris Pleasance, “All Eyes on Gorgeous George!,” the
Daily Mail
, June 13, 2015; Angela Levin, “Will Prince Charles Risk Making Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, His Queen?,”
Yahoo News
, December 9, 2015; Duncan Hill, Alison Gauntlett, Sarah Rickayzen, Gareth Thomas,
The Royal Family: A Year By Year Chronicle of the House of Windsor
(New York: Parragon, 2013); Barbara Davies and Claudia Joseph, “The Extraordinary Story of How a Thrice-Married Crane Driver’s Daughter Rose to Be the Queen’s Right-Hand Woman,” the
Daily Mail
, May 23, 2014; Richard Alleyne, “Royal Chef Reveals the Queen’s Favorite Meals,” the
Telegraph
, May 3, 2012; Rachel Cooke, “What the Royals Eat at Home,” the
Guardian
, May 19, 2012; Sarah Karmali, “Angela Kelly on Dressing the Queen,”
Vogue
, November 5, 2012; Andrew Alderson, “The Queen and I, By Her Majesty’s PA,” the
Telegraph
, December 9, 2007; “Key Aides Moves to Windsor Ahead of Queen’s Retirement,” the
Evening Standard
, November 18, 2006; Maria Puente, “Prince George Makes Palace Balcony Debut,”
USA Today
, June 13, 2015; James Tapper, “Prince George Makes First Appearance on Buckingham Palace Balcony,” the
Guardian
, June 13, 2015; Ben Pimlott,
The Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth II
(New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1996); Sally Bedell Smith,
Elizabeth the Queen
(New York: Random House, 2012); Sarah Lyall, “Peter Townsend Dies at 80; Princess Margaret’s Love,” the
New York Times
, June 21, 1995; Sarah Bradford,
The Reluctant King: The Life and Reign of George VI, 1895–1952
(New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1990); “Princess Margaret and a Love Affair Denied,” the
Daily Mail
, February 9, 2002; Theo Aronson,
Royal Family: Years of Transition
(London: Thistle Publishing, 2014); Noreen Taylor, “Saying What Everyone Thinks: Private Secretary Lord Charteris, Still With a Keen Finger on the Royal Pulse,” the
Spectator
, January 7, 1995; Heather Timmons, “The Once and Future Camilla,” the
New York Times
, April 3, 2005; Roxanne Roberts, “Fairy Tale for Grown-Ups: Charles and Camilla Once Upon a Time,” the
Washington Post
, February 11, 2005; Penny Junor, “Camilla Has Won Us Over and Deserves to Become Queen,” the
Telegraph
, April 8, 2015; Angela Levin, “Will Charles Risk Making Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, His Queen?,”
Newsweek
, December 9, 2015.

For these chapters, the author drew on conversations with Peter Archer, Jules Knight, Mimi Massy-Birch, Lady Yolanda Joseph, Emma Sayle,
Lord Bathurst, Lord Mishcon, Patricia Knatchbull, Lady Elsa Bowker, Hamish Barne, the Duchess of Alba, Hugh Massy-Birch, Charles Furneaux, Delissa Needham, Elizabeth d’Erlanger, Alice Tomlinson, Pat Charman, Richard Greene, Guy Pelly, Geoffrey Bignell, Lynn Redgrave, Penny Walker, Tess Rock, Jules de Rosee, Richard Kay, the Countess of Romanones, Farris Rookstool, Fred Hauptfuhrer, Cecile Thibaud, David McGough, Hazel Southam, Evelyn Phillips, Susan Crimp, Elizabeth Widdett, Janet Allison, and Mary Robertson.

Published sources included Matilda Battersby, “A Day That Shook The World: Windsor Castle Fire,” the
Independent
, November 18, 2010; Richard W. Stevenson, “Big Fire in Windsor Castle Raises Fear About Artwork,” the
New York Times
, November 21, 1992; “Text of the Queen’s Annus Horribilis Speech, 24 November 1992,”
www.royal.gov.uk
; Annick Cojean, “The Final Interview,”
Le Monde
, August 27, 1997; Wendy Berry,
The Housekeeper’s Diary
(New York: Barricade Books, Inc., 1995); Stephen Barry,
Royal Service: My Twelve Years as Valet to Prince Charles
(New York: Macmillan, 1983); “The Nation Unites Against Tradition,” the
Observer
, September 7, 1997; Lord Stevens of Kirkwhelpington, The Operation Paget Inquiry Report Into the Allegation of Conspiracy to Murder Diana, Princess of Wales, and Emad El-Din Mohamed Abdel Moneim Fayed, December 14, 2006; Emily Nash, “Diana: The Verdict,” the
Mirror
, December 11, 2006; “Farewell, Diana,”
Newsweek
, September 15, 1997; “Charles Escorts Diana Back to a Grieving Britain,” the
New York Times
, September l, 1997; Anthony Holden, “Why Royals Must Express Remorse,” the
Express
, September 3, 1997; Christopher Wilson,
A Greater Love: Prince Charles’s Twenty-Year Affair with Camilla Parker Bowles
(New York: William Morrow, 1994); “The Princes’ Final Farewell,” the
Sunday Times of London
, September 7, 1997; Alan Hamilton, Andrew Pierce, and Philip Webster, “Royal Family Is ‘Deeply Touched’ by Public Support,” the
Times
, September 4, 1997; “Diana, Princess of Wales 1961–1997,” the
Week
, September 6, 1997; John Simpson, “Goodbye England’s Rose: A Nation Says Farewell,” the
Sunday Telegraph
, September 7, 1997; Robert Hardman, “Princes’ Last Minutes with Mother,” the
Daily Telegraph
, September 3, 1997; “Driver Was Drunk,”
Le Monde
, September 3, 1997; Andrew Morton,
Diana: Her True Story
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997); Pascal Palmer, “I Gave Diana Last Rites,” the
Mirror
, October 23, 1997; Robert Jobson and Greg Swift, “Look After William and Harry,” the
Daily Express
, December 22, 1997; Marianne Macdonald, “A Rift Death Can’t Heal,” the
Observer
, September 14, 1997; Christopher Andersen,
The Day Diana Died
(New York: William Morrow, 1998); Tess Rock and Natalie Symonds, “Our Diana Diaries,” the
Sunday Mirror
, November 16, 1997; Simone Simmons,
Diana: The Last Word
(New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2005); “Flashback to the Accident,”
Liberation
, September 2, 1997; Howard Chua-Eoan, Steve Wulf, Jeffrey Kluger, Christopher Redman, and David Van Biema, “A Death in Paris: The Passing of Diana,”
Time
, September 8, 1997; Rosa Monckton, “Time to End False Rumors,”
Newsweek
, March 2, 1998; Jerome Dupuis, “Diana: The Unpublished Report of Witnesses at the Ritz,”
L’Express
, March 12, 1998; Thomas Sancton and Scott MacLeod,
Death of a Princess: The Investigation
(New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998); James Hewitt,
Love and War
(London: Blake Publishing Ltd., 1999); Warren Hoge, “Queen Breaks the Ice: Camilla’s Out of the Fridge,” the
New York Times
, June 5, 2000; Sarah Ferguson,
Finding Sarah: A Duchess’s Journey to Find Herself
(New York: Atria Books, 2011); Richard Kay and Geoffrey Levy, “Camilla and the Blonde Private Secretary Who’s Paid the Price for Being Too Close to Prince Charles,” the
Daily Mail
, June 13, 2008; Peter Foster, “Has the Puppet-Master of St. James’s Palace Finally Pulled One String Too Many?” the
Daily Telegraph
, December l, 2001; P. D. Jephson,
Shadows of a Princess
(New York: HarperCollins, 2000); Robert Hardman, “Just (Call Me) William,” the
Daily Telegraph
, June 9, 2000; David Leppard and Christopher Morgan, “Police Fears Over William’s Friends,” the
Sunday Times
, February 27, 2000; Claudia Joseph,
Kate
(New York: Avon, 2009); Michelle Tauber, “Speaking His Mind,”
People
, October 16, 2000; Barbara Kantrowitz, “William: The Making of a Modern King,”
Newsweek
, June 26, 2000; Andrew Pierce and Simon de Bruxelles, “Our Mother Was Betrayed,” the
Times
, September 30, 2000; Alex O’Connell, “Prince Chases Adventure in Remotest Chile,” the
Times
, September 30, 2000; Bob Colacello, “A Court of His Own,”
Vanity Fair
, October 2001; Stephen Glove, “The Royals Must Change . . . or Die,” the
Daily Mail
, November 11, 2003; Warren Hoge, “Charles’s Response to Use of Drugs by Son is Praised,” the
New York Times
, January 14, 2002; Paul Henderson, “I Was Raped by Charles’s Servant,” the
Mail on Sunday
, November 10, 2002; Christopher Andersen, “The Divided Prince,”
Vanity Fair
, September 2003; Warren Hoge, “Palace Is Roiled Again by New Round of Revelations,” the
New York Times
, November 11, 2002; Christopher Morgan and David Leppard, “Party Girl in William’s Circle Snorted Cocaine,” the
Sunday Times
, February 26, 2000; J. F. O. McAllister, “Once Upon a Time, There Was a Pot-Smoking Prince,”
Time
, January 28, 2002; Ben Summerskill,
“The Trouble with Harry,” the
Observer
, January 13, 2002; Antony Barnett, “Prince Taken to Drink and Drugs Rehab Clinic,” the
Observer
, January 13, 2002; “The Queen Mother Dies Peacefully, Aged 101,” the
Guardian
, March 30, 2002; Nicola Methven, “Hypno-Di-Sed: Hewitt Put in Trance,” the
Mirror
, September 19, 2005; Robert Hardman,
Her Majesty: Queen Elizabeth II and Her Court
(New York: Pegasus Books, 2012; Deirdre Fernand, “The Girl Who Would Be Queen,” the
Sunday Times
, December 31, 2006; Christopher Wilson, “Kate, the Coal Miner’s Girl,” the
Daily Mail
, December 22, 2006; Claudia Joseph, “The Making of the Middletons,” the
Mail on Sunday
, December 30, 2007; Richard Kay, Geoffrey Levy, and Katie Glass, “Wild Side of Kate’s Family,” the
Daily Mail
, August 9, 2008; Mazher Mahmood and Amanda Evans, “I Called Wills a F***er,”
News of the World
, July 19, 2009; John Elliott, “Charles Plans a Mansion Fit for Lovebirds,” the
Sunday Times
, December 17, 2006; Susan Schindehette and Allison Adato, “Princes in Love,”
People
, August 8, 2005; Michelle Green, “Is She the One?,”
People
, October 17, 2005; Alex Tresniowski and Ashley Williams, “Will & Kate: The Perfect Match,”
People
, December 11, 2006; Caroline Davies, “ ‘Blackadder’ Keeps Close Ties to Camilla,” the
Telegraph
, January 6, 2003;
Dickie Arbiter, On Duty with the Queen: My Time as a Buckingham Palace Press Secretary
(London: Blink, 2014).