Acton, Harold, 142-7, 213
Alcazar, Siege of, 221-5
Alimony, HRH pays, 172, 247,
367, 453
Anaxagoras, 35, 67, 69-78, 481
Apollinaire, 98
Arden, Elizabeth, 189, 194, 376-84
Autobiography of Alice B. Tokias, The (Stein), 112
Avignon,
birthplace of HRH, 9-13;
childhood holidays, 27;
research at Pasteur Institute of Ophthalmology, 101;
attempts to restore anti-Papacy, 420-35
Bal Musette, Paris, 98
Balliol College, Oxford, 69-75, 231
Beach, Sylvia, 94-7
Berenson, Bernard,
conversations with HRH, 134;
offer of adoption, 145;
loan of DOrer etching, 146;
law-suits against HRH, 173-85
Bergman, Ingrid, 197, 234, 267
Biarritz, 123
Blixen, Karen von (Isak Dinesen),
letters to HRH, declines marriage proposal, 197
Byron, Lord, 28, 76, 98, 543
Cambodia,
HRH plans journey to, 188;
crashes aircraft, 196;
writes book about, 235;
meetings with Malraux, 239;
capture by insurgents, 253;
escape, 261;
writes second book about, 283
Cap d’Antibes, 218
Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, 78-93
Charterhouse,
HRH enters, 31;
academic distinction, 38;
sexual crisis, 43;
school captain, 44
Chiang Kai-shek,
interviewed by HRH, 153;
HRH and American arms embargo, 162;
HRH pilots to Chungking, 176;
implements land-reform proposals by HRH, 178;
employs HRH as intermediary with Chou En-Lai, 192
Churchill, Winston, conversations with HRH, 221;
at Chequers with HRH, 235;
spinal tap performed by HRH, 247;
at Yalta with HRH, 298;
‘iron curtain’ speech, Fulton, Missouri, suggested by HRH, 312;
attacks HRH in Commons debate, 367
Cocteau, Jean, 187
Fleming, Sir Alexander, credits HRH, 211
Ford, Henry, 198
Fortune (magazine), 349
Freud, Sigmund, receives HRH in London, 198;
conducts analysis of HRH, 205;
begins Civilization and its Discontents, 230;
admits despair to HRH, 279
Cunard, Nancy, 204
D-Day,
HRH ashore on Juno Beach, 223;
decorated, 242
Dalai Lama,
grants audience to HRH, 321;
supports HRH’s initiatives with Mao Tse-tung, 325;
refuses to receive HRH, 381
Darwin, Charles,
influence on HRH, 103;
repudiated by HRH, 478
de Beauvoir, Simone, 176
de Gaulle, Charles,
conversations with HRH, 319-47, 356-79, 401
Dealey Plaza (Dallas, Texas),
rumoured presence of HRH, 435
Dietrich, Marlene, 234, 371, 435
Ecclesiastes, Book of, 87
Eckhart, Meister, 265
Einstein, Albert,
first Princeton visit by HRH, 203;
joint signatory with HRH and R. Niebuhr of Roosevelt petition, 276;
second and third Princeton visits, 284;
death-bed confession to HRH, 292
Eisenhower, Gen. Dwight D., 218, 227, 232
Eliot, T. S.,
conversations with HRH, 209;
suppresses dedication of Four Quartets to HRH, 213
Ellis, Havelock, 342
Everest, Mt., 521
Fairbanks, Douglas, 281
Faulkner, William, 375
Fermi, Enrico,
reveals first controlled fission reaction to HRH, 299;
terminal cancer diagnosed by HRH, 388;
funeral eulogy read by HRH, 401
Gandhi, Mahatma,
visited in prison by HRH, 251;
discusses Bhagavadgita with HRH, 253;
has dhoti washed by HRH, 254;
denounces HRH, 256
Garbo, Greta, 381
George V,
secret visits to Chatsworth, 3, 4-6;
rumoured liaison with Mrs Alexander Hamilton, 7;
suppresses court circular, 9;
denies existence of collateral Battenburg line to Lloyd George, 45
Goldwyn, Samuel, 397
Grenadier Guards, 215-18
Gstaad, 359
Hadrian IV, Pope, 28, 57, 84, 119, 345-76, 411, 598
Hamilton, Alexander, British Consul, Marseilles, 1, 3, 7;
interest in topiary, 2;
unexpected marriage, 3;
depression after birth of HRH, 6;
surprise recall to London, 12;
first nervous breakdown, 16;
transfer to Tsingtao, 43
Hamilton, Alice Rosalind (later Lady Underwood),
private education, 2;
natural gaiety, 3;
first marriage annulled, 4;
enters London society, 5;
beats George V at billiards, 5, 7, 9, 23;
second marriage to Alexander Hamilton, 3;
dislike of Marseilles, 7;
premature birth of HRH, 8;
divorce, 47;
third marriage to Sir Richard Underwood, 48
Hamilton, Henry Rhodes,
accident-proneness, 118;
age, sensitiveness about, 476;
belief in telepathy, 399;
childhood memories, 501;
common man, identification with, 211;
courage, moral, 308, physical, 201;
generosity, 99;
Goethe, alleged resemblance to, 322;
hobbies, dislike of, 87;
illnesses, concussion, 196;
hypertension, 346;
prostate inflammation, 522;
venereal disease, 77;
integrity, 89;
languages, mastery of, 176;
Orient, love of, 188;
patriotism, renunciation of, 276;
public speaking, aptitude for, 345;
self-analysis, 234-67;
underdog, compassion for, 176;
willpower, 87
Hamilton, Indira,
meets HRH in Calcutta, 239;
translates at Gandhi interviews, 253;
imprisoned with HRH by British, 276;
marries HRH, 287; on abortive Everest expedition, 299;
divorces HRH, 301
Hamilton, Marcelline (formerly Marcelline Renault),
abandons industrialist husband, 177;
accompanies HRH to Ankor, 189;
marries HRH, 191;
amuses Ho Chi-minh, 195;
divorces HRH, 201
Hamilton, Ursula (later Mrs Mickey Rooney), 302-7,
divorces HRH, 308
Hamilton, Zelda, rescued from orphanage by HRH, 325;
visit to Cape Kennedy with HRH, 327; declines astronaut training, 328;
leads International Virgin HRH designs tomb, 478
Jesus Christ, HRH compared to by Mairaux, 476
Impostors,
HRH troubled by, 157, 198, 345, 439
