infiltrated by CIA, 622

Pill, the, denounced by HRH, 611

Jodrell Bank Radio-telescope, 501

Joyce, James, 256

Juan Les Pins, 347

Jupiter, planet,

HRH suggests existence of extra-terrestrial observers, 331;

urges re-direction of space programme to, 342

Kennedy, Cape,

HRH leads Perfect Light Movement demonstration, 411

Kennedy, John F., President,

declines to receive HRH, 420;

ignores danger warnings, 425;

mourned by HRH, 444

Kierkegaard, Soren, 231

Koran, 118

Lancaster, Mrs Burt, 411

Lawrence, T. E.,

HRH compared to by Koestler, 334

Levi-Strauss, C., 422

Life (magazine), 199, 243, 331, 357, 432

Limited Editions Club, 345

Louis XIV, 501

Malraux, Andr, 239, 345, 399, 476

Mann Act,

HRH charged under, 345

McCall’s (magazine) 201, 234, 329, 333

Menninger Clinic,

HRH confined, 477;

receives treatment, 479-85;

discharged, 491;

re-admitted, 495

Menuhin, Yehudi, lends Palm Springs villa to HRH, 503

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, offer to HRH, 511

Miranda, Carmen, 377

Bride campaign, 331;

arrested with HRH by Miami police, 341

Frankfurt police, 359;

divorces HRH, 371;

wins Miss Alabama contest, 382;

go-go dancer, 511;

applies for writ of habeas corpus, 728

Harriman, Avereil, 432

Harry’s Bar, Venice, 256

Hayworth, Rita, 311

Hemingway, Ernest,

first African safari with HRH, 234;

at Battle of the Ebro with HRH, 244;

introduces HRH to James Joyce, 256;

portrays HRH in The Old Man and the Sea, 453

Hiroshima,

HRH observes atomic cloud, 258

Hitler, Adolf,

invites HRH to Berchtesgaden, 166;

divulges Russia invasion plans, 172;

impresses HRH, 179;

disappoint HRH, 181

Hydrogen Bomb,

HRH calls for world moratorium on manufacture, 388

NATO, 331, 356, 571

Nice, 45

Niebuhr, R.,

conversations with HRH, 270-5;

admiration for HRH, 276;

lends villa to HRH, 288;

expresses reservations about HRH, 291

Nietzsche, 99

Nobel Prize,

HRH nominated for, 220, 267, 342, 375, 459, 611

Oberammergau, 117

Oedipus Complex, 42-9, 87, 451

Old Bailey, first trial of HRH, 531;

prosecution case, 533-7;

hung jury, 541;

second trial, 555;

surprise intervention of Attorney-General, 561;

acquittal of HRH, 564

Oswald, Lee Harvey, befriended by HRH, 350;

inspired by HRH, 354; discusses failure of the Presidency with HRH, 357-61;

invites HRH to Dallas, 372

Oxford Book of Religious Verse, 98, 116

Pasternak, Boris,

conversations with HRH, 341-4

Paul VI, Pope,

praises Perfect Light Movement, 462;

receives HRH, 464;

attacked by HRH, 471;

deplores messianic pretensions of HRH, 487;

criticises Avignon counter-papacy established by HRH, 498;

excommunicates HRH, 533

Perfect Light Movement,

conceived by HRH, 398;

launched, 401;

charitable activities praised by Nehru, Lyndon B. Johnson, Pierre Trudeau, 423;

medical mission to Biafra, 456;

criticised Wight, Isle of, incarceration of HRH, 712-69

Windsor, House of, HRH challenges legitimacy of, 588

Quai d’Orsay,

expresses alarm at HRH initiatives in Third World, 651;

concludes secret accords with Britain, United States and USSR, 666

Quixote, Don,

HRH compared to by Harold Macmillan, 421

Rapallo, HRH convalesces in, 321

Reader’s Digest (magazine), 176

Rockefeller Foundation,

dissociates itself from HRH, 555

Rubinstein, Helena, 221, 234, 242

Schweitzer, Albert,

receives HRH, 199;

performs organ solo for HRH, 201;

discusses quest for the historical Jesus with HRH, 203-11;

HRH compared to by Leonard Bernstein, 245;

expels HRH, 246

Sex-change, rumoured operation on HRH, 655

Stanwyck, Barbara, 248

Stork Club, 231

Tangier, secret visit by HRH, 653-5

Technology,

HRH renunciation of, 409

Telepathy,

HRH interest in, 241;

conducts experiments,

United Nations Assembly,

seized by Perfect Light Movement, 695-9;

HRH addresses, 696;

HRH calls for world war against United States and USSR, 698

Versailles,

Perfect Light Movement attempts to purchase, 621

Vogue (magazine), 356

Westminster Abbey,

arrest of HRH by Special Branch, 704

Yale Club, 234

Younghusband, Lord Chancellor,

denies star chamber trial of HRH, 722;

denies knowledge of whereabouts of HRH, 724;

refuses habeas corpus appeal by Zelda Hamilton, 728;

refers to unestablished identity of HRH, 731

Zanuck, Daryl F., 388

Zielinski, Bronislaw,

suggests autobiography to HRH, 742;

commissioned to prepare index, 748;

warns of suppression threats, 752;

disappears, 761 349-57;

claims powers of, 666

Tenth Convocation of Perfect Light Movement, 672;

proclamation of HRH’s divinity, 685

Time (magazine), cover stories on HRH, 267, 359, 492, 578, 691

Tynan, Kenneth, 451

Within a few minutes the next attack will begin. Now that I am surrounded for the first time by all the members of my family it seems only fitting that a complete record should be made of this unique event. As I lie here — barely able to breathe, my mouth filled with blood and every tremor of my hands reflected in the attentive eye of the camera six feet away — I realize that there are many who will think my choice of subject a curious one. In all senses, this film will be the ultimate homemovie, and I only hope that whoever watches it will gain some idea of the immense affection I feel for my wife, and for my son and daughter, and of the affection that they, in their unique way, feel for me.

It is now half an hour since the explosion, and everything in this once elegant sitting room is silent. I am lying on the floor by the settee, looking at the camera mounted safely out of reach on the ceiling above my head. In this uneasy stillness, broken only by my wife’s faint breathing and the irregular movement of my son across the carpet, I can see that almost everything I have assembled so lovingly during the past years has been destroyed. My Svres lies in a thousand fragments in the fireplace, the Hokusai scrolls are punctured in a dozen places. Yet despite the extensive damage this is still recognizably the scene of a family reunion, though of a rather special kind.

My son David crouches at his mother’s feet, chin resting on the torn Persian carpet, his slow movement marked by a series of smeared hand-prints. Now and then, when he raises his head, I can see that he is still alive. His eyes are watching me, calculating the distance between us and the time it will take him to reach me. His sister Karen is little more than an arm’s length away, lying beside the fallen standard lamp between the settee and the fireplace, but he ignores her. Despite my fear, I feel a powerful sense of pride that he should have left his mother and set out on this immense journey towards me. For his own sake I would rather he lay still and conserved what little strength and time are left to him, but he presses on with all the determination his seven-year-old body can muster.