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Chapter 18
“very much to heart”: PH, p. 466.
“If only one”: RA, Queen Mary to Grand Duchess Augusta, March 20, 1912.
“a revelation”: PH, p. 472.
“I think you”: Ibid.
“You scold me”: RA, George V, CC 8, 129.
“I quite understand”: RA, George V, CC 474.
“Those horrid”: RA, Queen Mary to Grand Duchess Augusta, February 21, 1913.
“There seems no end”: Ibid., March 13, 1913.
“Can these females”: PH, p. 468.
“in quite the”: Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story, p. 82.
“quite an old lady”: Ibid., p. 84.
“with his white beard”: Ibid., p. 86.
“intimidating old lady”: Sitwell, p. 42.
“Go way”: Ibid.
“That is too”: Ibid.
“I love shooting”: Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story, p. 87.
“A Father’s Advice”: Ibid.
“resolved to resist”: Gore, George V, p. 270.
“I should come”: PH, p. 476.
“Yes!”: RA, Grand Duchess Augusta to Queen Mary, July 10, 1912.
“Aunt is wonderful”: RA, George V, CC 8, 151, 152.
“Queen and yet May”: PH, p. 478.
“Next year!”: Ibid.
“God grant”: Ibid.
“royal mob”: Ibid., p. 480.
“or living”: Ibid.
“I had some talk”: Ponsonby, p. 416.
“The Emperor”: Ibid.
“more like a motor-car”: Ibid.
“A lady”: PH, p. 481.
“King George”: Harold Nicolson, George V, p. 209.
“... it behooves us”: Ibid., p. 228.
“How I hate”: PH, p. 483.
“the lowest”: Wheeler-Bennett, p. 70.
“My 18th birthday”: Ibid.
“a continual battle”: Ibid., p. 66.
“his ultimate”: Ibid.
“a bloody tyrant”: Ibid., p. 67.
“We were six”: Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story, p. 88.
“was in his element”: Ibid.
“Of course I wanted”: PH, p. 483.
“We are ready”, Tuchman, Guns of August, p. 44.
“a venture”: PH, p. 484.
“a reassuring symbol”: Ibid.
“milling round”: Ibid.
Chapter 19
“to walk”: Massie, p. 242.
“Not that way, you fool!”: Ibid., p. 243.
“Sophie!”: Ibid.
“It is nothing”: Ibid.
“Terrible shock”: Gore, George V, p. 287.
“match of fate”, Ibid.
“The horrible tragedy”: PH, p. 486.
“Austria has”: Ibid.
“God grant we may”: Ibid.
Kaiser Wilhelm’s telegram: Massie, p. 255.
“to try and avoid”: Ibid., p. 256.
“Where will it end?", Gore, George V, p. 289.
“Foreign telegrams”: Ibid.
“Everything tends”: Pelling, PB, p. 177.
“demobilise”: Tuchman, Guns of August, p. 91 (PB).
“the Kaiser”: Lloyd George, Vol. II, p. 643.
“I got up”: Gore, George V, p. 290.
“I cannot help”: Arthur, George V, p. 295.
“Germans are quite hopeful”: Ibid.
“Saw Sir Edward Grey”: Gore, George V, p. 290.
“We issued orders”: Ibid.
“We must prove,” Arthur, George V, p. 296.
“collecting, dispersing”: Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story, p. 109.
“friendly, patient”: Ibid.
“A Privy Council”: Ibid.
“I held a Council”: Gore, George V, p. 289.
“Looking into some”: Viscount Esher, Vol. III, p. 176.
“the portcullis”: Tuchman, Guns of August, p. 188 (PB).
“line after line”: Times History of the War, Vol. I, p. 336.
“200 splendid men”: Ponsonby, p. 431.
“a pygmy”: Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story, p. 111.
“What does it matter”: Ibid.
“If I were sure”: Ibid.
“a good weight!”: Ibid., p. 112.
“the British Expeditionary”: Ibid.
“I shan’t have a friend”: Ibid.
“open the way”: New York Times, August 5, 1914.
“as a sort of picnic”: Viscount Esher, Vol. III, p. 180.
“Very few people”: Lady Airlie, p. 132.
“Royal salute”: Ibid.
“Bacon for five”: Ibid.
“Queen Mary”: Ibid.
“hundreds and thousands”: Battiscombe, p. 293.
“I like a lot”: Ibid.
“If I get into debt”: Ibid.
Chapter 20
“devotion and warm hearted”: Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story, p. 110.
“the Royal Family”: Ibid.
“this fine woman”: Ibid.
“finest and most able”: Ibid.
“in his tired, lined”: PH, p. 497.
“dull despair”: Ibid.
“Please let me”: Battiscombe, p. 284.
“bitterly resented”: Ibid.
“and ran the steam”: Wheeler-Bennett, pp. 94–95.
“We opened fire”: Ibid.
“At the commencement”: Ibid.
“The hands behaved”: Ibid.
“When I was on top”: Ibid., p. 97.
“rendezvous with history”: Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story, p. 119.
“being kept”: Ibid.
“It moved and”: Ibid.
“Oh to be fighting”: Ibid., p. 124.
“firm neutrality”: Lloyd George, Vol. II, p. 657.
“trained to hatred”: Ibid., p. 660.
“highly respected, diligent”: Ibid.
“The feeling in America”: A. Cooper, p. 51.
“nearly a thousand men”: Pelling, p. 221 (PB).
“ever-increasing demand”: Harold Nicolson, George V, pp. 269–270.
“wearing a very light”: A. Cooper, p. 54.
“[looking] ominous”: Ibid.
“[looking] like an officer”: Ibid.
“A most important”: Ponsonby, p. 443.
“the Prince of Wales”: Ibid.
“the President and M. Millirand”: Ibid., p. 446.
“untold pain”: Ibid., p. 447.
“the enemy’s aeroplanes”: Ibid.
“You can tell French”: Ibid., p. 452.
“You can’t think”: PH, p. 501.
“... my boys are”: Gore, George V, p. 298.
“Nicky must have”: Battiscombe, p. 291.
“It is the shallow”: Winston Churchill, World Crisis, pp. 95–97.
“His Majesty’s”: Massie, p. 439.
“[We] inquired”: Ibid.
“One of the most”: Lady Airlie, pp. 136–137.
“were old and grimy”: Ibid.
“a vast stretch”: Ibid., pp. 138–139.
“We climbed over a mound”: Ibid.
“He kept us out of the War”: Ibid.
“elicit from the allies”: Harold Nicolson, George V, p. 296.
“America would enter”: Ibid.
“a sufficient number”: Ibid.
“the sundered provinces”: Ibid.
“The American people”: Times, April 7, 1917.
“the time has come”: Ibid., April 21, 1917.
“There are some who”: Harold Nicolson, George V, p. 308.
“alien and uninspiring”: Ibid.
“I may be uninspiring”: Ibid.
Chapter 21
“started and grew pale”: Harold Nicolson, George V, p. 309.
“unsuitably comic”: Longford, The Royal House of Windsor, p. 21.
“as English”: Ibid.
“going to the theatre”: Ibid., p. 23.
“The only person”: Charles Hardinge, p. 219.
“the military ardour”: Lloyd George, Vol. V, p. 2448.
“at the earliest”: Ibid.
“only a comparatively small”: Ibid.
“Not very good news”: PH, p. 508.
“... I shall never”: Ibid.
“So far”: Lady Cynthia Asquith, Diaries, 1914–18, p. 416.
“Saw the Prince”: Ibid., p. 421.
“fairly full”: Viscount Esher, Vol. IV, p. 183.
“thronged”: Ibid.
“pompous than usual”: Ibid.
“The boy looked”: Ibid.
“Amid this world-changing”: Ibid.
“a wooden body”: Lady Cynthia Asquith, Diaries, 1914–18, p. 393.
“going round a hospital”: Ibid., p. 322.
“King George, yes,”: Ibid.
“laughed together”: Lady Airlie, p. 128.
“Oh George”: Princess Marie Louise, p. 186.
“Yes; but it”: Ibid.
“It’s too horrible”: PH, p. 507.
“Yurovsky ordered three”: Massie, p. 49.
“the distant drifting”: Harold Nicolson, George V, p. 324.
“triumphant hilarity”: Ibid.
“increasingly to”: Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story, p. 126.
“Dearest Papa”: Ibid.
“Some day there”: PI.
“indescribably intense”: Charles Hardinge, p. 229.
“A day full”: PH, p. 509.
“One will at last”: Lady Cynthia Asquith, p. 480.
“It has all been”: PH, p. 515.
“no stone”: Wheeler-Bennett, p. 159.
“I think David”: PH, p. 515.
“I shall never forget”: Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story, p. 128.
“blood-stained shreds”: Ibid.
Chapter 22
“At 5.30”: PH, p. 511.
“... as his malady was”: Ibid.
“an old lady”: Nichols, p. 235.
“mummied thing”: Lawrence, The Mint, p. 221.
“The ghosts of all”: Ibid.
“the little graces”: Ibid.
“Her bony fingers”: Ibid.
“She does not”: Nichols, p. 235.
“roses flaming”: Ibid.
“dismal bloodhound”: Jenkins, p. 54.
“Mama, I must”: Lady Airlie, p. 165.
“I don’t know”: Ibid.
“Hats off”: Jenkins, p. 53.
“The war has made it”: Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story, p. 134.
“The idea that”: Ibid.
“The Monarchy must”: Ibid.
“Be like Mrs. Keppel”: Donaldson, p. 73.
“madly, passionately”: Ibid.
“A Room with a View”: (verse), Noël Coward.
“and assuming the”: Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story, p. 138.
“pretty little fluff”: Donaldson, p. 75.
“Don’t you want”: Ibid.
“I don’t know why”: Ibid.
“Mary’s wedding”: PH, p. 519.
“the one girl”: Cathcart, The Queen Mother Herself, p. 67.
“daily growing more anxious” Lloyd George, Vol I, p. 34.
“begets riot”: Ibid.
“the Irish Free State”: Ibid.
“The wonderful day”: Ibid.
“I went up”: Harold Nicolson, George V p. 366.
“night after night”: PH, p. 521.
“alone together”: Ibid.
“over the port wine”: Ibid.
“never sat more than”: Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story, p. 187.
“[the Queen] loved them”: Ibid.
“with all speed”: Lady Airlie, p. 129.
“a radical movement”: Morris, p. 281.
“tragic miscalculation”: Ibid.
“as a Liberal”: Times, October 17, 1922.
“to cooperate freely”: Ibid.
“As a matter of fact”: PH, p. 523.
“The Queen stayed in bed”: Ibid.
Chapter 23
“I must write”: Wheeler-Bennett, p. 140.
“Dearest Bertie”: Ibid.
“I venture to trouble”: Ibid., p. 147.
“Perturbed and abstracted”: Cathcart, p. 71.
“that winter”: Ibid.
“All Right Bertie”: Wheeler-Bennett, p. 150.
“... dream which has at last”: Lady Airlie, p. 168.
“one wedding”: Times, April 27, 1923.
“whilst the Princes of Wales”: Ibid.
“So unromantic”: Wheeler-Bennett, p. 154.
“I miss you very much”: Ibid.
“little Duchess”: Jenkins, p. 55.
“I’ve done with Communism!”: Ibid.
“It is hard to see”: PH, p. 537.
“I feel completely”: Ibid.
“Went to tea”: Ibid., p. 538.
“country Sunday best”: Colville, p. 113.
“their attitude to each”: Ibid.
“everlasting pain”: Battiscombe, p. 299.
“your poor old blind”: Ibid.
“May God grant him”: Ibid.
“beloved Bertie ... were walking”: Ibid.
“Did you know”: Ibid., p. 301.
“Think of me”: Ibid., p. 302.
“as a figure of”: Colville, p. 116.
“You never saw”: PH, p. 540.
“I am delighted”: Ibid., p. 541.
“... I am glad”: Ibid.
“The pictures want”: Ibid.
“All the rooms”: Ibid.
“would enable future”: Ibid., p. 532.
“in a very”: Princess Marie Louise, p. 201.
“Charlotte had the freedom”: Colville, p. 120.
“... spent a morning”: Lady Airlie, p. 178.
“a great scurrying”: Ibid.
“business as usual”: Ibid.
“At 2.30”: Wheeler-Bennett, p. 209.
“Of course poor baby”: Ibid.
Chapter 24
“but a case of”: Harold Nicolson, George V, p. 431.
“There is a”: Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story, p. 225.
“You will find”: Ibid.
“[The Prince of Wales]”: Donaldson, p. 148.
“After”: PH, p. 358.
“This is unfair”: Flanner, London Was Yesterday, p. 22.
“a new design of woollen”: Ibid.
“The King and Queen”: Ibid., p. 17.
“gusseted, gored”: Ibid., p. 28.
“worn high on her head”: Ibid., p. 32.
“dresses in the height”: Ibid.
“She’s the spit”: Ibid.
“What an airy room”: Michael McDonagh, Illustrated London News, May 4, 1935, p. 717.
“It really looks”: Ibid.
“a row of tall”: Flanner, London Was Yesterday, p. 11.
“a nice cut off”: Ibid., p. 24.
“Now George”: Ibid.
“one of the best”: Ibid., p. 22.
“I will not be left”: PH, p. 550.
Chapter 25
“had loved him more”: Donaldson, p. 110.
“Anything to please”: Ibid.
“What could you possibly”: Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story, p. 237.
“I want to”: Lady Airlie, p. 207 (footnote).
“selected because of”: Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story, p. 238.
“from the top of”: Ibid.
“I arrived at York House”: Vanderbilt, p. 296.
“A little shy”: Ibid.
“It was our enchanted”: Ibid.
“Oh, Thelma, the little man”: Ibid.
“classically separated”: Flanner, London Was Yesterday, p. 33.
“We don’t want to be”: Vanderbilt, p. 298.
“I told you”: Ibid.
“Darling is it”: Ibid.
“I have something”: Donaldson, p. 170.
“Haven’t you noticed”: Ibid., p. 171.
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p; Chapter 26
“the biggest”: Flanner, London Was Yesterday, p. 25.
“ ... time must be”: Harold Nicolson, George V, p. 521.
“dreaded the day”: Ibid.
“fortifications were”: Ibid.
“we must not be”: Ibid.
“a corridor”: Ibid., p. 523.
“Now you”: Frankland, p. 117.
“Of course”: Ibid.
“Mrs. Simpson”: Channon, p. 30.
“The Yorks in a”: Ibid.
“Twenty-five years”: Silver Jubilee Special Edition, Illustrated London News, May 8, 1935.
“How can I express”: Harold Nicolson, George V, p. 525.
“Most moving”: PH, p. 555.
“A never-to-be-”: Harold Nicolson, George V, p. 525.
“after the King”: Duchess of Windsor, p. 216.
“I’d no idea”: Harold Nicolson, George V, p. 525.
“a symbol of”: Ibid., p. 526.
“strong benevolent”: Ibid.
“Well, it was”: Channon, p. 473.
“saw Alice Scott”: Frankland, p. 123.
“The Prince”: Channon, p. 33.
“more American”: Ibid.
“It doesn’t look”: Ibid., p. 35.
“alleged Nazi”: Ibid.
“the arch-Hitler”: Ibid.
“snuff boxes”: Flanner, London Was Yesterday, p. 25.
“Don’t buy a lot”: Frankland, p. 123.
“This is indeed”: Ibid.
Chapter 27
“Now all the”: Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story, p. 261.
“After I am dead”: Middlemas and Barnes, p. 976.
“I pray to God”: Lady Airlie, p. 197.
“complete understanding”: Donaldson, p. 206.
“too one-sided”: Ibid.
“He fully understood”: Ibid.
“a deputation”: Times, June 12, 1935.
“warm sympathy”: Ibid., p. 210.
“deep-rooted and strong”: Donaldson, p. 207.
“must never speak”: Ibid.
“My brothers”: Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story, p. 262.
“I think you”: Ibid., p. 263.
“It will do us”: Ibid., p. 264.
“G. about the”: Pope-Hennessy, p. 561.
“a sad quiet”: Ibid.
“My children were”: Ibid.
“God save the King”: Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story, p. 265.
“I could not”: Ibid.
“Such a sad day”: PH, p. 561.
“ ... solemn, grave, sad”: Channon, p. 54.
“a fleeting”: Ibid.
“swept by conflicting”: Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story, p. 267.
“a large black car”: Channon, p. 54.
“a most terrible omen”: Harold Nicolson, Diaries, 1930–1939, p. 241.
“The sound of”: Lindbergh, p. 14.
“boyish, sad”: Channon, p. 55.
“First we fetched”: PH, p. 562.
“incredibly magnificent”: Channon, p. 57.