A substantial mystery still remains. Is it conceivable that all traces of his activities could be erased from our records of the period? Is the suppressed autobiography itself a disguised roman a clef, in which the fictional hero exposes the secret identities of his historical contemporaries? And what is the true role of the indexer himself, clearly a close friend of the writer, who first suggested that he embark on his autobiography? This ambiguous and shadowy figure has taken the unusual step of indexing himself into his own index. Perhaps the entire compilation is nothing more than a figment of the over-wrought imagination of some deranged lexicographer.

Alternatively, the index may be wholly genuine, and the only glimpse we have into a world hidden from us by a gigantic conspiracy, of which Henry Rhodes Hamilton is the greatest victim.

Acapulco, 143

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

Inchon, Korea, HRH observes landings with Gen. MacArthur, 348

Interlaken, Bruno Walter lends vill to HRH, 401

International Congress of Psychoanalysis, HRH stages anti psychiatry demonstration, 357

Ives, Burl, 328

Jerusalem,

HRH establishes collegium of Perfect Light Movement, 453;

attempted intercession by HRH in Arab-Israeli war, 444;

by International Red Cross, 477;

denounced by World Council of Churches, 499;

criminal prosecution of, 544;

disbandment, 566;

reconstituted, 588;

designated a religion by HRH, 604;

first crusade against Rome, 618;