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Dorrell, Stephen 233
Douglas, Lord Alfred 195–7, 202–3
D’Oyly Carte Company 141
Dr Dolittle 148–9
Drabble, Margaret 148, 211
The Dresser 411
dressing up 110, 111–20, 151, 408
Driberg, Tom 354
drugs 250, 295–6, 344
Dufort, Antony 305
Durrell, Lawrence 220, 418
Durrell, Sappho 220–1
dyslexia 74, 241
Earl’s Court Exhibition Centre 117–18
Earnshaw, Judith 262
Eden, Anthony 134
Edinburgh, Duke of (Prince Philip) 4–5, 65, 156, 208, 397, 409–10, 418; GB’s books about 4, 88, 90–1
Edwards, Hilton 198
Edwards, Jimmy 136, 150, 325–6, 410
Ehrlich, Michael ‘Syphilis’ 267
Eichmann, Adolf 179
Eisenhower, Dwight D. 286–7
elections 174, 216, 218, 257, 321, 363, 405–6
Eleven Plus 170
Eliot, T. S. 129, 220
Engelmann, Frank 43
Engler, Kosha 417
L’Escargot 353
Esmond, Jill 238
Eugénie, Empress of France 13, 409
European Union 305, 330, 364
Evans, Edith 36, 230, 274, 323–4
Evans, Simon 417
executions 11, 279–80, 288
fame 132–50, 220, 369, 398–9, 475; handshakes with celebrities 119, 192–3, 197, 280
Farson, Dan 354
Father Christmas 63
Fellowes, Julian 98–101, 183
female impersonators 114–16
Field, Rachel 216, 270
Fielding, Henry 126, 271
First World War 53, 56, 57, 102
Fletcher, Cyril 380
food 72, 123, 366
Foot, Michael 353, 354
football 104, 231
Formby, George 300
Forsyth, Bruce 309
Fox, Paul 352
France: holidays in 248–51
Fraser, Antonia 411
Freud, Anna 91
Freud, Clement 370–2
Freud, Sigmund 90–1, 371
Frost, David 210, 365–6
Frost, Robert 58
Fry, Stephen 212
The Full Monty 4–5
funerals 16–17, 58–9, 282–5, 401
Gaitskell, Hugh 244
Gamage’s 63
Gambon, Michael 197
Garbo, Greta 301, 400
Garden, Graeme 380
Gardeners’ Question Time 43
Gardiner, Harold (HEG) 270–1, 275
Garland, Judy 97
Garrick Club 36–7, 81–2, 178, 243, 385–6
Garson, Greer 138
Gate Theatre (Dublin) 198
The Gay Hussar (restaurant) 354
gay marriage 210
Germany 245–6
Ghora Gali 59–61
Gielgud, John 36–7, 106, 138, 204, 214, 236, 381
Gigi 149, 149–50
Gilbert and Sullivan 141–2, 146
Gillingham, Anthony 269
Glading, Mr 172–6, 178–9, 181, 186–90, 233, 246
Gogglebox 2, 261
Goodliffe, Michael and Nicholas 153–4, 400
Goolden, Richard 101–2
Gough, Wilfred 30–1
Graham, David 305, 350
Graham, Virginia 25
Grahame, Kenneth 102
Graves, Tomás 220
Gray, Dulcie 140
Greenacre, Phyllis 91–2
Greig, Wallace 72, 79
Grossmith, George 141–2
Guinness, Alec 381
Guinness Book of Records 106
Gyles (name) 9–10, 302
Hall, Edward Marshall 85
Hall, Peter 129, 366
Hamilton, Charles (Frank Richards) 105–6, 108–9
Hamlet 139, 146, 230, 273, 416–17
Hampton, Christopher 343–4
Hancock, Sheila 260–1, 411–12
Hancock, Tony 137
Handel, George Frideric 127
Harriman, Pamela 132–3
Harris, Peter 266
Harrison, Rex 146–8
Harrods 61–3, 71
Harwood, Ronald 411
Hayter, Lady 347
Heath, Ted 265, 363–4, 381
Hemingway, Ernest 231
Henson, Jim 410
Heston, Charlton 168–9
Hinge and Bracket 114–15
Hitchens, Christopher 332
Hitler, Adolf 85, 247
Ho Chi Minh 310
Holden, Anthony 306
holidays 70, 106–10, 244, 246–52; alone 121–2, 159, 248–9
Holland, Cyril, Merlin and Vyvyan 201–2
Holloway, Stanley 147
homosexuality 195–8, 203–10, 389
Honey magazine 346–7, 355
Hoos, Jane Sarah Dorothea 97–8
hopscotch 97–8
Hordern, Michael 216
Hostler, George 408
House of Commons 133–4, 308, 325; Library 198–200; Whips’ Office 263–5
housewives 13, 102–3, 260
Howerd, Frankie 137, 148, 154, 209, 410; propositions GB 324–5
Hoylake 28, 50
Hulbert, Jack 137
Humbugs of the World 26
The Importance of Being Earnest 116, 193
India 20, 53–61, 65, 86, 146, 194
Isham, Gyles 301–2
Isis 301–4, 306, 308–10, 315, 328
Jack the Ripper 19, 200
Jack the Ripper: Case Closed 47, 409
Jackson, Robert 330, 336
Jacobi, Derek 417
Jaipur, Maharajah of 61
James, Henry 321
Jarvis, Martin 197, 230
Jenkins, Charles 305
Johnson, Boris 10, 335–6
Johnson, Celia 167
jokes 16, 29–30, 32
Jones, Aled 145
Jones, Shirley 71, 95, 116
journalism 346–7, 355, 364, 382–3; on school and student publications 215–16, 301–4, 306, 308–13, 328; see also writing
Josephy, Irene 353–5
jumpers 2, 3, 408–9
Jung, Carl 33–4
Just a Minute 369–72
Kahr, Brett 91–2, 94, 111
Kannenberg, Arthur 85–6
Kaye, Danny 138
Kempson, Rachel 323, 413
Kennedy, John F. 179, 189
Kennedy, Robert 291
Kensington Mansions 117–18
Kent, Duchess of 402
Kenyon’s (undertaker) 16–17, 59, 235, 403, 404
Kerr, John 330
A Kid for Two Farthings 167–8
Kidd, Bob 344
King, Cyril 268
King, Hetty 142
King, Martin Luther 278
King, Michael 243
King Edward VII 28
La Rue, Danny 114
Labouchère, Henry 203–4
Lady Chatterley’s Lover 185–6
Lancelyn Green, Richard 319
Lancelyn Green, Scirard 318–19
Landen, Dinsdale 129–30
Landor, Mr 162, 169
Langford, Bonnie 160
Langton, Stephen 126
Larkin, Philip 213
laundry 73, 259
Lawrence College (Ghora Gali) 59–60, 65
Leach, Mary (Mary Addison, GB’s grandmother) 54–7, 76; dances on husband’s mistress’s grave 58
Lean, Geoff 320
Leigh, Vivien 278
Lerner, Alan Jay 149, 215
Lidell, Alvar 135
Lincoln, Abraham 67
Lipman, Maureen 260–1
lists 285–6, 289–93
Liverpool 22, 42
Lloyd-Webber, Andrew 147–8
Lolita 246, 380
London, Laurie 140
London Wetlands Centre 127–8
Longford, Elizabeth 353
Longford, Lord (Frank) 384–7, 390–5, 400
Loren, Sophia 375
Lourdes 14–15
LSE strike 308
Lucie-Smith, Edward 342
Luddites 12
Lumley, Joanna 81–2, 342–3
Lycée Français 95–6, 122–5, 152–3, 167, 170, 213, 265
Maby, Tim 315
Mac Liammóir, Micheál 198
Macbeth 235, 324
MacDonald, Ramsay 269
Maclean, Donald 100, 101
Macleod, Iain 353, 363
Macmillan, Harold 174, 297
MacShane, Denis (Denis Matyjaszek) 306
Major, John 112, 199; affair with Edwina Currie 331–2
Mame 379
Manchester Evening News 355
Mandelson, Peter 199
Mann, Thomas 281
Manning, Bernard 383
Manningham-Buller, Eliza 319–20
Mansfield, Laurie 106
Mao Zedong 364
Marceau, Marcel 237
Margaret, Princess 176
marketing 26–7
Marley, Bob 101
marriage 366, 377–8; sex outside 261–2, 266, 378, 394
Marriage Act 414–15
Marshall, George C. 287
Mary Poppins 231
Marylebone Register Office 76, 377
Masefield, John 5, 50, 220
masturbation 185
Matthews, Stanley 104–5
Maugham, Somerset 340
Max, The Boy Who Made a Million 47
Maxwell, Robert and family 306–8, 418
McCartney, Paul 343–4, 377
McComas, Carlie (GB’s great aunt) 43
McConnachie, Rory (GB’s grandson) 159
McCowen, Alec 154
McKellen, Ian 114, 209, 301, 417
Melly, George 355
Melville, Herman 26
mental illness 89–90, 294
Menuhin, Yehudi 308, 372–4
Mermaid Theatre 235–6
Middlemarch 44
A Midsummer Night’s Dream 154, 162
Miles, Bernard 235–6
Milligan, Spike 137
Milligan, Stephen 112–13, 330
Mills, Hayley 169–70, 410
Mills, Juliet 141, 162, 169
Milne, A. A. 98, 102, 116, 410, 418; GB’s musical about 144–5
Milton, John 102, 271
Minnelli, Liza 97
missionaries 54, 56–7
Monopoly 52, 63, 83, 381
Montagu, Edward (Lord Montagu of Beaulieu) 204–6, 338, 418
Moody, Ron 149
Moore, Roger 183–4
Morley, Peter 353
Morley, Robert 367
Morris, William 192
Mortimer, John 94–5, 417
Moscow State Circus 119
Motor Show 118
Mountbatten, Lord 207
Much Ado About Nothing 233
Muggeridge, Malcolm 388
Muir, Frank 135–6, 325–6, 352–3
Munich Air Disaster 134
museums 83, 118, 126, 159, 410
music 139–40, 148, 182, 213–14, 351
music halls 19, 137, 142
musicals 113, 142–3, 147–8, 150
Muswell Hill 376
My Fair Lady 145–7, 149
Nabarro, Gerald 308
Naked Attraction 261, 389
National Heritage, Department of 139, 233–4, 415
National Playing Fields Association 4, 65, 409
National Theatre 230, 233, 348, 366, 411
Natural History Museum 126–7
New Statesman 381
New York 23–5
Newley, Anthony 148
Newtown, Derbyshire 22
Nicholls, Stewart 210
Nichols, Beverley 301, 340–1, 355, 418
Nixon, Richard 321
Norden, Denis 135–6
Norton, Graham 338
Oakley Street 101, 116
Oberammergau Passion Play 244–5
obituaries 332
Oh, What a Lovely War! 230
Old Vic Theatre 154, 215, 230,, 236, 348, 411
Olivier, Laurence 138–9, 151, 234–9, 348, 411, 417
Olivier, Richard 417–18
Oman, Charles 337
One Pair of Eyes 349
The One Show 372, 398
Orwell, George 109
Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight Murders 137
Ossining 40, 47, 286–7
Othello 36, 48, 129, 152, 234–6
OUDS (Oxford University Dramatic Society) 301–2, 315–16, 328, 355
Oxford Union 117, 297, 302, 328–30, 332–5, 341; GB as president 334–6, 347, 356–7, 367
Oxford University 49, 65, 169, 274, 297, 300–6, 327–8, 359–60, 364–5; New College 301, 304–5; tutor system 360
Paice, John and Peter 245–6, 380
Paisley, Ian 333–4
Pakenham, Kevin 348, 353, 400
Pakistan 53–4
Palliser, Anthony 305, 360–1, 363
Palmer, Tony 342
pandemics 55, 57, 245
pantomime 116, 143, 309, 316–17, 381
Panya, Ekarath 152
Paris, 1968 protests 309–12
Parkin, Molly 355
Parkinson’s Disease 322–3
Parris, Matthew 211
parrots 62–3
Parsons, Nicholas 303, 369, 372
parties 125, 359; spoof 347–8
Patrick, Nigel 229
Pavilion on the Sands 160–1
Pegden, Sue 390, 395
Pepys, Samuel 127, 171, 184
Perfect, Canon 401
Perry, Grayson 111, 113
Peters, Arnold 15
Philby, Kim 100
Pinter, Harold 411
Pitt-Rivers, Michael 207
Players’ Theatre 142–3, 243, 316
Pleasence, Donald 230
Plowright, Joan 230
podcasts 408
Poe, Edgar Allan 26
poetry 131, 203, 216–17
Pont-y-Pant 28–32
Poole (GB’s grandparents’ home) 42–3, 45–6, 49
Popov the Clown 119, 237
Pornography Commission 384–95
Portillo, Michael 335
Portman Mansions 158–9, 240–1
Powell, Anthony 80–2
Pratchett, Terry 379, 398
Prescott, John 408–9
Present Laughter 229
Price, Ki and Ronnie 87–8
Price, Vincent 301
prisons 250–2, 279, 286, 288, 315, 331, 381
Private Eye 381
Profumo, John 301, 381
prostitutes 162, 247, 250–1, 292, 203
psychoanalysis 89–92, 240
Punch 382
Purves, Libby 34
Queen Elizabeth II 2–5, 297–300, 386, 414
Queen Victoria 28
Queensberry, Marquess of 195–6
Queer Eye 389
Quick, Diana 315–16, 347
Quinton, Anthony 80–1, 274–5
quotations 219–20
racism 308
Radcliffe, Julian 305
radio 135–6, 150, 355–6, 369, 380–1
Ramsey, Michael 372–3
Redgrave, Corin 412–13
Redgrave, Michael 72, 162, 230, 236, 320–5, 358, 381, 416, 417; death 412–13
Redgrave, Vanessa 323, 412
Rees-Williams, Elizabeth 147
religious faith 22, 31, 33–4, 54, 121, 179–80, 403
A Rhyme in Time 380
Rice, Tim 147–8
Richard, Cliff 384–5, 389
Richard III 139, 168
Richards, Frank see Hamilton, Charles (Frank Richards)
Richardson, Ralph 214, 358
Rippon, Angela 377
Robertson Justice, James 325
Robson, Flora 115
The Rocky Horror Show 113
Rogers, Ginger 138, 379
Romain, Yvonne 148–9
Rome 378
Rosen, Michael 34, 347
Rosko, Emperor 342
Round Britain Quiz 81
Round the Horne 145
Rowse, A. L. 336–8
Royal Tournament 118
Royal Variety Performance 4
RSPCA 44
Rumpole of the Bailey 73
running 182–3
RuPaul’s Drag Race 114
Sacks, Jonathan 400
Sainsbury, Lady 226
St John-Stevas, Norman 333–5
St Lawrence College 49, 59, 401
Salad Days 143, 145, 241, 423–4
Sanders, Colin 400–1
Saville, Christine 390–1
Sayre, Jessie 288–9
school uniform 64
Scofield, Paul 230
Scott, Peter 127
Scott, Robert Falcon (Scott of the Antarctic) 101, 127
Scouts 117
Scrabble 241, 275; National Championships 193, 381, 408
Secombe, Harry 137
Second World War 78–80, 83–4, 194
sex 90, 124, 185, 213, 324–5, 349–50, 370, 386; outside marriage 261–2, 266, 378, 394; see also Pornography Commission
sexual abuse 186–90, 206, 221, 364, 370
Shakespeare, William 34–5, 48, 139, 152, 154, 182, 234, 271
Shand, Neil 357
Shaw, Bernard 20, 146, 194–5
Sherrin, Ned 338–9
Simpson’s: tipping the carver 227–8
Sims, George R. 18–21, 47, 142, 354, 409
Sinden, Donald 35–8, 202–3, 214
Sinden, Jeremy 35
Sinden, Marc 377
Sing Sing 25, 286
Singer, Aubrey 352
Slack, Tim 267–8
Slade, Julian 143–4, 145
Slater, John 268
Smiley, Xan 305, 321
Smith, Charles F. 36
Smith, Frederick Edwin (‘FE’) 50–1, 85
Smith, George 268
Smith, Greg 106
Smith, Maggie 233, 236, 411
smoking 68–9, 72, 295, 371, 402
Soames, Mary 132–3
Soames, Nicholas 124, 134
Socrates 397–8
Something Rhymes with Purple 408
son et lumière shows 256, 381, 400
Spain, Nancy 136
Sparrow, John 336–8, 348
sport 104–5, 268
Sproat, Iain 81–2
SS City of Benares 80, 82, 274
Stalin, Joseph 280
Starr, Ringo 345
Steadman, Ralph 381
Stein, Rick 305
stockings 113–14
Stoker, Bram 354
Stowe School 268, 271, 273
Stradivarius violins 372–3
Straw, Jack 363
Streisand, Barbra 292
Strictly Come Dancing 160
Stride, John 154
A Study in Sherlock 213, 241
Swinging Sixties 344–5
Switzerland 121–2, 253–8
Symonds, H. Gardiner 287–8
Symonds, Quita (Susan) 288
Tackley’s 359
Tagore, Rabindranath 194
Take It From Here 135–6, 150, 326
talent contests 159–60
Tatcho hair tonic 20–1
Tavistock Clinic 89, 294
