The Duchess Of Windsor (84 page)

Donaldson, 263.

 

Birmingham, 97.

Lockhart,
Cosmo Gordon Lang,
398.

David, 330.

Middlemas and Barnes, 994.

Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates
, 10 December 1936.

Jones,
Ponsonby,
217.

Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates
, 10 December 1936.

David, 333.

Middlemas and Barnes, 995.

Wheeler-Bennett,
King George VI,
281.

Alice of Gloucester, 114.

Bryan and Murphy, 220.

David, 334.

Airlie, 198.

Bloch,
Reign
, 87.

Pope-Hennessy,
Queen Mary
, 577.

Ibid., 576.

David, 339—40.

Duff, 201.

Hardinge, 116; Middlemas and Barnes, 987.

David in
Sunday Express,
(London), 10 June 1962.

WW, 238.

Channon, 104.

Newsweek
, 26 November 1936.

Times
(London), 20 November 1936.

Quoted, Martin, 220.

Channon, 255.

The exact date of the luncheon meeting remains something of a mystery. Michael Thornton places it two days after the King’s return from Wales, on November 21. This date is also what Beaverbrook himself recalled. Michael Bloch, who had access to unpublished documents in the Windsor Archive in Paris, suggests that it occurred on November 18 or 19. Chips Channon wrote about the luncheon in his diary on November 23 and reported that it had taken place a few days earlier. Wallis herself declared in her memoirs that the meeting had taken place on November 19, the same day on which the King returned, and there seems little reason to question her memory in this respect.

 

WW, 238-39.

Ibid., 240.

As is the present duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip, consort of Queen Elizabeth II.

Incidentally, Mary became a Royal Highness not through the issuance of special letters patent, but through accepted custom on her marriage. Such, however, would not be the case when Wallis married David.

Hough,
The Mountbattens
, 8.

Brook-Shepherd, 109-111.

Taylor, 10.

Rhodes, 416.

Quoted in Donaldson, 275.

Rhodes, 417.

Birkenhead, 125.

Ibid., 137.

Attlee, 123.

David, 343.

WW, 240—41.

Sunday Times
(London), 24 April 1966.

Taylor, 370.

Beaverbrook, 50—51.

Channon, 109-110.

Nicolson,
Diaries
, 280.

Macleod, 197.

Montgomery-Hyde,
Baldwin
, 568.

David, 346.

Channon, 110.

Nicolson,
Diaries
, 280.

Montgomery-Hyde,
Baldwin
, 477.

Ziegler, 256.

Leighton, 378.

Ibid., 378.

New York Herald Tribune
, 28 November 1936.

Associated Press article, 17 December 1936.

Baltimore News-Post
, 9 December 1936.

WW, 242.

Colville, 716.

WW, 242.

WW, 242.

 

Ibid., 242.

Ibid., 242—43.

David, 340.

WW, 243.

Ibid., 243.

Bloch,
Letters
, 254—55.

Times
(London), 3 December 1936.

Freemantle, 178.

David, 353.

Quoted in Young,
Baldwin
, 137.

WW, 244.

Washington Star
, 17 December 1936.

Ibid.

WW, 244.

Ibid., 244.

Ibid., 244.

Ibid., 244—45.

Ibid., 245.

Crawford,
Crawford Papers
, 573.

Channon, 114.

Lockhart,
Diaries
, 359.

Times
(London) 3 December 1936.

London Daily Telegraph
, 3 December 1936.

London Daily Express
, 3 December 1936.

London Daily Mail
, 3 December 1936.

WW, 245.

Ibid., 246.

Ibid., 246.

Birkenhead, 141.

WW, 246—47.

Ziegler, 269.

WW, 248.

Ibid., 248.

Ibid., 249-50.

Ibid., 250.

Ibid., 250-51.

Ibid., 252.

Ibid., 252.

Vreeland, 97—98.

WW, 252—53.

Ibid., 253-54.

Martin, 252.

Vreeland, 98.

WW, 256.

Ibid., 257-58.

Ibid., 259.

Ibid., 290.

WW, 261.

 

Bloch,
Letters,
261—62.

Churchill,
Gathering Storm
, 218.

Young, 239—40.

Time
, 7 November 1936.

Quoted, De-la-Noy, 35—36.

David, 365.

Wheeler-Bennett,
King George VI
, 285.

Channon, 117.

Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates
, 4 December 1936.

Beaverbrook, 78.

Martin, 296.

Taylor, 370-71.

Interestingly, almost precisely this same path had been taken by the mistress of the present Prince of Wales, who, trying to ingratiate herself with a largely hostile public in anticipation of a larger role in the Prince’s life, took on a visible role in a charity and planned to make appearances with the Prince before this was cut short by the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.

Birkenhead, 145.

David, 379.

Nicolson,
Diaries
, 282-83.

David, 381—82.

Ibid., 385-86.

Crawford,
Crawford Papers
, 573.

New York Times
, 6 December 1936.

London Daily Herald
, 6 December 1936.

Literary Digest
, 12 December 1936.

New York Times
, 7 December 1936.

Channon, 120.

Information from Dame Barbara Cartland to author.

Cross, 164—65.

Time
, 14 December 1936.

Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, 7
December 1936.

 

Nicolson,
Diaries
, 282.

Times
(London), 8 December 1936.

Nicolson,
Diaries
, 282.

Cited, Bradford,
Reluctant King
, 192.

Wheeler-Bennett,
King George VI,
285.

Times
(London), 8 December 1936.

Birkenhead, 149.

Ibid., 149-50.

Ibid., 150.

Cited, Pope-Hennessy,
Queen Mary
, 579.

Quoted, Pope-Hennessy,
Queen Mary
, 579.

Daily Telegraph
(London), 21 April 1984.

WW, 262.

Birkenhead, 147.

WW, 263.

Washington
Herald
, 8 December 1936.

Birkenhead, 146.

WW, 264.

Ibid., 264—65.

Ibid., 266.

Ibid., 267.

Ibid., 268.

Middlemas and Barnes, 1013.

WW, 267—68.

New York Times
, 22 January 1939.

Private information.

WW, 267.

Ibid., 269.

Nicolson,
Diaries
, 285.

Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates
, 10 December 1936.

Nicolson,
Diaries
, 285.

Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates
, 10 December 1936.

Nicolson,
Diaries
, 285-86.

Bloch,
File
, 44—45.

Bloch,
File
, 46. This figure is equivalent to roughly $40 million or £25 million in 1998 rates.

Bloch,
File
, 47.

Birkenhead, 151—52.

Sitwell, 76.

New York Times
, 12 December 1936.

WW, 269.

David, 412.

Vreeland, 99.