Authors: Juliet Nicolson
marriage,
111
–14;
warservice,
113
;
and Diana’s drug-taking,
135
–6;
driving,
135
;
wheels invalid Diana,
136
–7;
on lark song on Western Front,
147
;
at Victory Ball,
148
;
Lloyd George confides in,
149
cosmetic surgery
see
plastic surgery
cost of living: rise,
77
Cottingly fairies,
250
country life,
131
–2
Courtaulds (company),
178
Cox, General Charles (‘Fighting Charlie’),
119
Craddock, Harry,
185
Craiglockhart War Hospital, near Edinburgh,
66
–7
Cremation Society of England,
6
crime: among returned soldiers,
67
–8
Crystal Palace, London,
225
Cunard, Sir Bache,
152
Curie, Marie,
28
Curzon, Lady Cynthia (‘Cimmie’),
35
,
228
Curzon, George Nathaniel, Marquess,
116
,
162
,
258
D×il Éireann: established,
77
Daily Herald
,
73
Daily Mail:
sends Christmas puddings to troops,
15
;
censorship,
20
;
on dances,
154
;
on jazz bands,
158
;
Ideal Home Exhibition (1920),
206
;
sponsors wireless broadcasting,
214
Daily Mail Cookbook
,
207
Daily Telegraph:
on Devonshire House ball,
227
Dalton’s (club), Leicester Square,
160
dancing: popularity,
151
–8
Dancing Times
(magazine),
154
Davidson, Emily,
2
Davies, George Llewellyn,
264
Day Lewis, Cecil
see
Lewis, Cecil Day
death: Collins on nature of,
8
debutantes,
104
Del Cot (London store),
176
demobilisation,
69
,
70
,
73
–4,
76
–7,
188
Desborough, Ethel Anne Priscilla (Ettie), Lady: loses sons in war,
5
,
14
;
and Armistice,
37
;
congratulates Violet Elliot (Astor) on remarriage,
46
de Veulle, Mr (dressmaker and actor),
133
-4
Devonshire, Evelyn Emily Mary, Duchess of,
7
,
46
,
221
Devonshire, Victor Christian William Cavendish, 9th Duke of: property and estates,
221
-9
Devonshire House, Piccadilly,
195
,
221
–2,
227
–9,
231
Dickens & Jones (London department store),
177
Didion, Joan,
4
Dinham, Sergeant Jack,
22
disablement: pensions,
47
;
treatment and compensation,
47
–8
disfigurement (ex-soldiers): repair and concealment,
48
-56;
see also
faces
disillusionment,
129
dissatisfaction,
123
–8
divorce: rise in,
44
Dormeuil, Edmée,
149
Dowson, Ernest,
241
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan,
33
,
97
,
250
–1
Doyle, Kingsley,
97
Doyle, Louisa,
97
informality,
158
-9
Dreyfus, Alfred,
220
drugs (recreational),
133
–6,
160
Drummond, Canon,
158
Drusilla’s (tea shop and zoo), East Sussex,
200
-1
Durham, Bishop of
see
Moule, Handley Carr Glyn
Earle, Lionel,
231
Education Act (1918),
201
Edward VII, King,
7
Edward, Prince of Wales: watches erotic performance in Calais,
24
;
friendship with Gladys Cooper,
45
;
meets resentful returned troops,
72
;
on murder of Russian royal family,
82
;
role and activities,
128
–9;
on Queen Alexandra’s unpunctuality,
141
;
visit to USA and Canada,
145
,
162
–4;
dancing,
153
;
and Freda Dudley Ward,
164
,
181
;
women friends,
164
;
public commitments,
166
;
on Christmas,
180
;
proposed tour of Australia,
181
;
returns from overseas tour (October 1920),
258
Edwards, John,
59
electorate (parliamentary): increased,
74
electricity: in home,
206
Eliot, Thomas Stearns,
127
-8,
179
,
189
,
218
,
236
-7;
Ellieson Carrier Electric Invalid’s Carriage,
47
Elliot (under-keeper at Beeley),
225
Endurance
(ship),
150
–1
Ennever, William Joseph,
98
Eton College: war casualties,
15
Evening Standard
,
190
Everest, Elizabeth (Churchill’s nanny),
222
Ewart, William,
100
Ex-Services Mental Welfare Society,
67
faces: and masks for disfigured soldiers,
52
-5;
repaired by plastic surgery,
56
-63
Fairbanks, Douglas,
228
Farr, Mrs (of Somerset),
19
Fascist Party: formed in Italy,
106
fashion (women’s),
173
–6
Feisal, Emir,
114
films (movies),
8
;
see also
cinema
Fingall, Elizabeth Mary, Countess of,
37
Finnigan, Alfred,
21
This Side of Paradise
,
187
Fitzgerald, Zelda,
187
Fitzhardinge, Charles Paget Fitzhardinge, 3rd Baron,
20
Fitzmaurice, Charles,
7
Fitzpatrick, Sir Percy,
140
–1
Foch, Marshal Ferdinand,
252
Follis (Scarborough hairdresser),
192
–3
food and eating,
185
-6,
202
-4,
206
,
211
Fortnum & Mason (shop),
192
France: and German war reparations,
107
Freedman, Henry,
209
Freud, Sigmund,
63
;
Mourning and Melancholia
,
5
Frohman, Charles,
186
Fry, Roger,
36
Fulham Chronicle
,
155
Gance, Abel,
219
–20
Garsington Manor, Oxfordshire,
34
,
137
,
233
-8,
249
gas (poison),
18
General Election: December 1918 (’Coupon Election’),
44
,
74
–5
George V, King: accession,
2
;
friendship with de Soveral,
11
;
on homosexuality in war,
24
;
attends Hyde Park assembly of returned soldiers,
72
;
shame and guilt over foreign relatives,
82
;
adopts surname Windsor,
83
;
anti-German sentiments,
83
;
beard turns white,
87
;
and wife’s dress,
88
;
and signing of Versailles Treaty,
108
; and Peace Parade,
110
; T. E. Lawrence offends,
116
; invitation to Lowell Thomas,
118
;
sees Lowell Thomas’s film on T. E. Lawrence,
120
;
and role for Prince of Wales,
128
;
hopes for memories of war to recede,
139
;
and act of remembrance,
141
;
attends Original Dixieland Jazz Band performance,
156
–7;
welcomes Prince of Wales back from overseas tour,
162
–3;
and burial of unknown soldier,
266
–7,
269
,
271
,
273
;
lays wreath at Cenotaph,
272
British hostility to,
83
–5;
Communism and unrest in,
83
,
106
,
219
;
post-war conditions,
83
–4,
108
,
219
;
and Versailles Treaty,
107
–8;
war reparations,
107
Gibbs, Philip,
4
,
16
,
19
-20,
67
,
83
,
127
;
Realities of War
,
127
Gillies, (Sir) Harold Delf: plastic surgery,
55
–63,
252
–3;
Prince of Wales visits,
128
;
leaves Sidcup,
252
;
Plastic Surgery of the Face
,
254
Gillies, Kathleen, Lady,
252
Giordaneo, Arturo (Arthur),
186
Gish, Lillian,
205
-6
Glasgow: shipyard strike and unrest (1919),
78
–9;
housing shortage,
80
Glorious Adventure, The
(film),
251
Gomme, Lionel (‘Tiger’),
238
–40,
249
Goodbye Winter, Welcome Summer
(Houdini’s show),
187
Gordon, Jackson,
187
Grace, Dr W G.,
105
Grafton Galleries, Piccadilly,
153