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I have been fascinated by the Windsors from the age of 5 when, as the
precocious child of Sir Charles Higharn, the advertising tycoon and a mem-
ber of Parliament (who would die when I was 7 and who had marr ed
like Henry VIII, six times), I was brought from the nursery by my German
nanny to the enormous, ugly drawing room of The Mount, our family
home, to attend what I was informed was to be a momentous occasion.
The men were in black tie, wreathed in clouds of smoke from expensive
cigars; the women were in backless evening gowns, their shoulders van-
ishing in explosions of raffles.
The combination of perfume and tobacco smoke made me feel ill; the
decor of red, plush furniture and Chinese carpets swarming with dragons
and exotic birds made me feel even worse. I sat on the edge of a Victorian
chair, having been told that I must fix my attention on a speckled walnut
cabinet that stood under a gothic landscape paint ng The cabinet was
the family shrine: a radiogramophone.
Father turned on the switch, and everyone at last stopped talk ng. We
heard a voice announce the advent of the king I understood nothing of
what he said, in an American cockney voice adopted partly from his
ladylove and partly from a succession of nannies. (Some fifty years later,
1 discovered that the only language he spoke with a perfect modulation
was German.)
When the speech was over, the abdication speech which would be-
come one of the half-dozen most famous broadcasts in history, there was
a murmur of conversation I am told that my godfather, the best-selling
novelist Gilbert Frankau, broke into tears, that the staff was sobbing in
the background, and that more than one visiting European aristocrat had
mist on his monocle. I had no idea what "abdication" meant 1 was prob-
ably thinking about my pet goldfish,whether my father would continue
to keep me a kidnap victim (I had been snatched from Mother in a Silver
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