Elizabeth the Queen (109 page)

  55.
“It’s not just a question of knowing”: Marr,
The Queen at 80
documentary.

  56.
“He was always working flat-out”: Confidential interview.

  57.
“very to the point … very direct”:
The Times
, May 22, 2002.

  58.
Cherie was impressed by: Cherie Blair, p. 304.

  59.
“I think he’s in the wrong party”: Confidential interview.

  60.
“not for the sake of buggering about”: Brandreth, p. 225.

  61.
“the first thing they talked about”: Gay Charteris interview.

  62.
“felt part of this rugged”: Queen Elizabeth II Sydney Opera House speech, March 30, 2000, Official Website of the British Monarchy.

  63.
“The Queen was always wondering”: Pamela Hicks interview.

  64.
The list of more than eight hundred guests: Program: Reception and Dance to Mark the Decade of Birthdays of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, the Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, the Princess Royal, the Duke of York, State Apartments, Windsor Castle, Wednesday, 21st June 2000.

  65.
There had been grumbling: Shawcross,
QEQM
, pp. 907–8.

  66.
the £643,000 allocated: Civil List Annual Report 2009, p. 60. 426 a cast of thousands: Shawcross,
QEQM
, pp. 1–2, 922.

  67.
“It was three years after”: Simon Lewis interview.

  68.
“Only one person can decide”: Confidential interview.

  69.
As they talked, one of the Queen’s corgis: Simon Walker interview. 427 “There was definitely a subtlety”: Ibid.

  70.
“Under-promise and over delivery”: Simon Walker, speech to PR Week Conference, March 2002.

  71.
emphasizing instead inclusiveness: Simon Walker interview.

  72.
The idea for the painting had come: BBC News, Dec. 20, 2001.

  73.
“the interior life or ‘inner likeness’ ”: Jane Roberts,
Royal Treasures: A Golden Jubilee Celebration
, catalogue entry 36, p. 110.

  74.
“a polar expedition”: Ibid.

  75.
he painted her in fifteen sittings: Oliver Everett interview.

  76.
a source of frustration for the artist: Richard Salmon interview; Jan. 25, 2011, email from Sarah Howgate, curator of Lucian Freud exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery.

  77.
She told the artist: Lucian Freud and Nicholas Haslam interview.

  78.
“I consider we got to know each other”: Ibid.

  79.
He had been fascinated:
Daily Telegraph
, March 13, 2004.

  80.
“Lucian had a whale of a time”: Clarissa Eden interview.

  81.
She said none of those things:
News of the World
, April 8, 2001.

  82.
“President Blair because”: Ibid.

  83.
“I have been reduced to tears”: Ibid., April 1, 2001.

  84.
“Sophie first of all respects her as the Queen”: Elizabeth Anson interview.

  85.
As the forty-third president and the Duke:
The Times
, July 20, 2001. 430 “natural connection”: George W. Bush interview. 430 “growing disbelief and total shock”:
The Guardian
, Aug. 18, 2002. 430 Malcolm Ross called Balmoral: Malcolm Ross interview.

  86.
the Queen had authorized the same gesture: Simon Walker interview.

  87.
Ross also made the novel suggestion: Malcolm Ross interview.

  88.
“Would you call the Queen?”: Jean Carnarvon interview.

  89.
“The Queen was devastated”: Ibid.

  90.
“When our National Anthem was played”: Jackie Davis interview.

  91.
“stunning sentence”: Shawcross,
Q and C
, p. 233.

  92.
“Grief is the price we pay for love”: Christopher Meyer,
DC Confidential: The Controversial Memoirs of Britain’s Ambassador to the U.S. at the Time of 9/11 and the Iraq War
, p. 199.

  93.
they were carved in stone: Ibid., p. 201.

  94.
“Obviously there was a huge focus”:
The Times
, May 22, 2002.

  95.
“extremely unflattering … a travesty”: BBC News, Dec. 21, 2001.

  96.
“You gaze at it for half a minute”: Clarissa Eden interview.

  97.
“This is a painting of experience”: BBC News, Dec. 21, 2001.

  98.
“It could not have been painted ten years earlier”: Sandy Nairne interview.

  99.
Freud said the Queen looked: Lucian Freud interview.

100.
“remarkable work”:
The Scotsman
, Dec. 21, 2001.

101.
“feels real and earthy”: Jennifer Scott,
The Royal Portrait: Image and Impact
, p. 185.

102.
“What a good idea!”: Anne Glenconner interview.

103.
“Her quality of life was not good”: BBC News, Feb. 9, 2002.

104.
“carried out the family tradition”: Shawcross,
QEQM
, p. 929.

105.
But to mark the fiftieth anniversary: BBC News, Feb. 6, 2002.

106.
“had probably been a merciful release”: Shawcross,
QEQM
, p. 930.

107.
“depart without a fuss”: Carey, p. 415.

108.
“rooted and firm”: Ibid., p. 413.

109.
“It was the saddest I have ever seen”: Reinaldo Herrera interview.

110.
she had regained her composure: Confidential interview.

111.
“She went as scheduled”: Confidential interview.

112.
“Missis Queen … The Queen Lady”: BBC News, Feb. 19, 2002.

113.
“Most people much prefer to have a Queen”: Reuters, Feb. 26, 2002.

114.
“Oh, my mother is only 101!”:
Daily Telegraph
, March 4, 2002.

115.
“constantly”: Ibid.

116.
but she had been lucid enough: Shawcross,
QEQM
, p. 931.

117.
On the morning of March 30, 2002: Ibid., p. 932.

118.
The two women exchanged a few private words: Margaret Rhodes interview.

119.
At 3:15 in the afternoon: Ibid.

120.
“very sad but dignified”: Alastair Campbell, p. 611.

121.
“the original life enhancer”: Shawcross,
QEQM
, p. 935.

122.
The Queen and her advisers were concerned: Alastair Campbell, p. 610.

123.
“UNCERTAIN FAREWELL REVEALS”: BBC News, April 9, 2002.

124.
“It was very emotional for her”: Confidential interview.

125.
“one of the most touching things”: Shawcross,
QEQM
, p. 935.

126.
“beloved mother”: BBC News, April 9, 2002.

127.
“the most magical grandmother”:
The Guardian
, April 2, 2002.