I have finished The Quest for Queen Mary. There was one more especially enjoyable piece: James Pope-Hennessy’s visit to Copenhagen to meet Prince and Princess Axel of Denmark.
I enjoyed Hugo Vickers’ diaries written when he was writing Cecil Beaton’s biography (Malice in Wonderland) so it was just a step back of thirty years to James Pope-Hennessy’s diaries when he was writing Queen Mary’s biography.
There was a smutty joke at school. “What went up Judy’s Passage?” “Lupton’s Tower.” This passage connects The Green Park with a courtyard at the end of St James’s Place, previously a stable yard.