Born to Rule: Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters of Queen Victoria
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Queen Marie to Loie Fuller, 16 January 1922, MSS 1982.04.48, Maryhill Museum of Art, Goldendale, Washington.
Pakula, Last Romantic, p. 317.
Prince Christopher, Memoirs, p. 192.
C. H. Bentinck to Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, 5 December 1923, P.R.O., F.O. 286/862/ No. 962, The National Archives.
Sir John W. Wheeler-Bennett, King George VI: His Life and Reign (London: Macmillan, 1965), p. 194.
Nichols, 25, p. 114.
Ibid., p. 115.
Ibid., p. 116.
Ibid., p. 117.
Ibid., p. 118.
Ibid., p. 135.
Ibid., pp. 118, 114.
Queen Marie to Loie Fuller, 24 May 1921, MSS 1982.04.44, Maryhill Museum of Art, Goldendale, Washington.
Elsberry Marie of Romania, p. 174.
Rodney, Joe Boyle, p. 305.
Elsberry, Marie of Romania, p. 187.
TWENTY-SIX: “I WOULD NEVER LEAVE ENGLAND”
Infanta Eulalia, Memoirs, p. 231.
Ismael Saz, “Foreign Policy Under the Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera,” in Balfour and Paul Preston, eds., Spain and the Great Powers, p. 53.
Santos, Victoria Eugenia, p. 269.
Ibid., p. 298.
Noel, Ena, p. 195.
Santos, Victoria Eugenia, p. 298.
Sir Horace Rumbold to Sir Austen Chamberlain, 30 January 1925, in Christopher Seton-Watson, Kenneth Bourne, and Donald Cameron Watt, eds., British Documents on Foreign Affairs, Part II, Series F, Europe, 1919–1939. Vol. 25: Spain, March 1919–June 1931, ed. Antony Adamthwaite (Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1990), Document 76, pp. 149–50.
Noel, Ena, p. 172.
Margrete, Landgravine of Hesse, to Hilda Cochrane, 11 October 1924, MSS 364/215, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
Martineau, Roumania, p. 196.
Wheeler-Bennett, King George VI, p. 194.
Interview with Lady Katherine Brandram, 2 May 2001, Marlow, Bucks.
Van der Kiste, Crowns in a Changing World, p. 173.
Queen Sophie to the Rev. R. W Cole, 14 August 1928, MSS 8783/1, University of Cambridge.
Queen Sophie to the Rev. R. W Cole, 1 September 1928, MSS 8783/2, University of Cambridge.
Queen Sophie to the Rev. R. W Cole, 12 October 1928, MSS 8783/3, University of Cambridge.
Queen Sophie to the Rev. R. W Cole, 22 March 1929, MSS 8783/5, University of Cambridge.
Queen Sophie to the Rev. R. W Cole, 1 August 1931, MSS 8783/16, University of Cambridge.
Pakula, Last Romantic, p. 334.
Elsberry Marie of Romania, p. 190.
Paul of Hohenzollern-Roumania, King Carol II, pp. 94, 93.
Ibid., p. 97.
Ibid., pp. 97–98.
Queen Marie to Prince Nicholas of Romania, 4 January 1926, Queen Marie of Romania Papers, Kent State University.
Paul of Hohenzollern-Roumania, King Carol II, p. 104.
Adrian-Silvan Ionescu, ed., America Seen by a Queen: Queen Marie’s Diary of Her 1926 Voyage to the United States of America (Bucharest: Romanian Cultural Foundation, 1999), pp. 35, 37.
Ibid., p. 40.
Constance Lily Morris, On Tour with Queen Marie (New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1927), pp. 43–44.
Ionescu, ed., America Seen by a Queen, pp. 169, 177.
Ibid., pp. 95–96.
John E. Tuhy, Sam Hill: The Prince of Castle Nowhere (Goldendale, WA: Maryhill Museum of Art, 1992), p. 244.
Ibid., p. 245.
Queen Marie to Loie Fuller, 3 July 1927, MSS 1982-04-60, Maryhill Museum of Art.
Queen Marie to Mr. Barron, 20 October 1927, George Duca Papers, Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
Martineau, Roumania, p. 201.
Queen Marie to Mr. Barron, 20 October 1927, George Duca Papers, Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
Elsberry, Marie of Romania, p. 234.
Interview with King Michael I of Romania, 26 September 2000, Versoix, Switzerland.
Queen Sophie to the Rev. R. W. Cole, 1 September 1928, MSS 8783/3, University of Cambridge.
Queen Sophie to the Rev. R. W. Cole, 12 October 1928, MSS 8783/3, University of Cambridge.
Queen Sophie to the Rev. R. W. Cole, 1 September 1928, MSS 8783/2, University of Cambridge.
TWENTY-SEVEN: “I THOUGHT I HAD DONE WELL”
R. G. Howe to Sir Arthur Henderson, 21 October 1929, British Documents on Foreign Affairs, Part II, Series F, Europe, 1919–1939. Vol. 8: Italy and South-Eastern Europe, January 1929–June 1931, Document 84, pp. 118–19.
Lee, Helen, p. 135.
Elsberry, Marie, p. 232.
Queen Sophie to the Rev. R. W. Cole, 15 July 1930, MSS 8783/12, University of Cambridge.
Lee, Helen, p. 145.
Michael Palairet to Arthur Henderson, 3 December 1930, BDFA, Part II, Series F, vol. 8, Document 231, p. 325.
Noel, Ena, p. 198.
Ibid., p. 205.
Kjellberg, Dronning Maud, p. 54.
Noel, Ena, p. 216. According to Noel, the king “knew nothing” of Sánchez Guerra’s plan. Ibid.
Rafael Borràs Betriu, Cambio de Régimen: Caída de lea Monarquía y Proclamación de la República (Barcelona: Flor del Viento Ediciones, 2001), p. 169.
Pilapil, Alfonso XIII, p. 179.
Sir George Grahame to Arthur Henderson, 19 February 1931, BDFA, Part II, Series F, vol. 25, Document 105, p. 205.
María Teresa Puga, La Vida y la Época de Alfonso XIII (Barcelona: Editorial Planeta, 1999), p. 160.
Pilapil, Alfonso XIII, p. 187.
Daily Mail, 13 April 1931.
New York Times, 14 April 1931.
The Times, 16 April 1931.
Emilio Mola Vidal, Memorias (Barcelona: Editorial Planeta, 1977), p. 25.
New York Times, 16 April 1931.
Margrete, Landgravine of Hesse, to Hilda Cochrane, 10 May 1931, MSS 365/76, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
Santos, Victoria Eugenia, p. 281.
Ferer, Victoria Eugenia, p. 196.
Santos, Victoria Eugenia, p. 285.
Pilapil, Alfonso XIII, pp. 195–96.
Sencourt, Spanish Crown, p. 369.
New York Times, 16 April 1931.
Claude G. Bowers, My Mission to Spain: Watching the Rehearsal for World War II (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1954), p. 220.
New York Times, 16 April 1931.
Ibid.
Pedro Sainz Rodríguez, Testimonio y Recuerdos (Barcelona: Editorial Planeta, 1978), p. 12.
Eugenio Vegas Latapie, Memorias Políticas: El Suicidio de la Monarquía y la Segunda República (Barcelona: Editorial Planeta, 1983), p. 265.
TWENTY-EIGHT: “THE GOD WITHIN US”
Grand Duke Alexander, Twilight of Royalty (New York: Ray Long & Richard R. Smith, 1932), p. 21.
Ibid., p. 23.
Noel, Ena, p. 240.
Michael Palairet to Sir John Simon, 16 November 1931, in BDFA, vol. 8, Document 43.
Queen Marie to Loie Fuller, 8 March 1926, MSS 1982-04-54, Maryhill Museum of Art, Goldendale, Washington.
Queen Marie to Loie Fuller, 15 March 1927, MSS 1982-04-59, Maryhill Museum of Art, Goldendale, Washington.
Morris, On Tour, p. 71.
Diary entry of Queen Marie, 24 October 1926, in Ionescu, ed., America Seen by a Queen, p. 69.
Queen Sophie to the Rev. R. W Cole, undated, 1929, MSS 8783/6, University of Cambridge.
Queen Sophie to the Rev. R. W Cole, 3 January 1930, MSS 8783/10, University of Cambridge.
Queen Sophie to the Rev. R. W Cole, 1 September 1928, Add. MSS 8783/2, University of Cambridge.
Queen Sophie to the Rev. R. W Cole, 3 January 1930, MSS 8783/10, University of Cambridge.
Queen Sophie to the Rev. R. W Cole, 12 October 1928, MSS 8783/3, University of Cambridge.
Queen Sophie to the Rev. R. W Cole, 1 September 1928, MSS 8783/2; 22 March 1929, MSS 8783/5; and undated, 1929, MSS 8783/6, University of Cambridge.
Margery Bennett to t
he Rev. R. W Cole, undated, MSS 8783/13, University of Cambridge.
Queen Sophie to the Rev. R. W Cole, 13 April 1930, MSS 8783/11, University of Cambridge.
Queen Sophie to the Rev. R. W Cole, 31 March 1931, MSS 8783/15, University of Cambridge.
Longford, Queen Victoria, p. 419.
Della L. Marcus, Her Eternal Crown: Queen Marie of Romania and the Bahá’í Faith (Oxford: George Ronald, 2000), p. 54.
Fotescu, ed., Americans and Queen Marie, p. 92.
Elsberry Marie of Romania, p. 241.
Queen Marie to Lavinia Small, 24 August 1933, Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
Fotescu, ed., Americans and Queen Marie, p. 92.
Van der Kiste, Crowns in a Changing World, pp. 177–78.
Ibid., p. 178.
Beverly Nichols, All I Could Ever Be: Some Recollections (London: Jonathan Cape, 1949), p. 259.
Queen Marie to Georges Duca, 25 October 1933, Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
Queen Marie to Lavinia Small, 19 June 1933, Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
Fotescu, ed., Americans and Queen Marie, p. 104.
Ibid., p. 105.
Marcus, Her Eternal Crown, p. 233.
Fotescu, ed., Americans and Queen Marie, p. 108.
TWENTY-NINE: “I BLESS YOU WITH MY LAST BREATH”
Queen Marie to Lavinia Small, 2 April 1934, Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
Ibid.
Princess Ileana, I Live Again, p. 41.
Fotescu, ed., Americans and Queen Marie, p. 109.
Ibid., pp. 111–13.
Van der Kiste, Edward VII’s Children, p. 171.
Rose, George V, p. 293.
Van der Kiste, Crowns in a Changing World, p. 174.
Kaiser Wilhelm II to Poultney Bigelow, Poultney Bigelow Papers, New York Public Library.
Prince Christopher, Memoirs, p. 260.
Margrete, Landgravine of Hesse, to Hilda Cochrane, 24 May 1926, MSS 365/23, University of Cambridge.
Queen Sophie to the Rev. R. W. Cole, 22 March 1929, MSS 8783/5, University of Cambridge.
Queen Sophie to the Rev. R. W. Cole, 15 July 1930, MSS 8783/12, University of Cambridge.
Queen Alexandra of Yugoslavia, For Love of a King (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1956), pp. 21, 27.
Ibid., p. 21.
Interview with Lady Katherine Brandram, 2 May 2001, Marlow, Bucks.
Queen Sophie to the Rev. R. W. Cole, 28 December 1929, MSS 8783/8; 15 July 1930, MSS 8783/12, University of Cambridge.
Queen Sophie to the Rev. R. W. Cole, 12 October 1928, MSS 8783/3; 16 December 1930, MSS 8783/14, University of Cambridge.
Margrete, Landgravine of Hesse, to Hilda Cochrane, 17 December 1931, MSS 365/82, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
Ibid.
Margrete, Landgravine of Hesse, to Hilda Cochrane, 23 February 1932, MSS 365/88; 20 December 1932, MSS 365/94–95; and 17 November 1935, MSS 365/140, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.
Eulalia, Courts and Countries, p. 240.
Interview with Lady Katherine Brandram, 2 May 2001, Marlow, Bucks.
Princess Irene of Greece to Irina Procopiu, 21 March 1932, Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
Fotescu, ed., Americans and Queen Marie, pp. 96–97.
Ibid., p. 130.
Ibid., pp. 117–18.
Interview with King Michael I of Romania, 26 September 2000, Versoix, Switzerland.
Queen Marie to Baroness Ines Taxis Damenstofft, 20 March 1936, Folder 70017-10.V, Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
Ibid.
Van der Kiste, Edward VII’s Children, p. 175.
Fotescu, ed., Americans and Queen Marie, pp. 128, 130.
Queen Marie to Baroness Ines Taxis Damesnstofft, 20 March 1936, Folder 70017-10.V, Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
Princess Ileana of Romania to Ray Baker Harris, 9 September 1938, Queen Marie of Romania Papers, Kent State University.
Fotescu, ed., Americans and Queen Marie, p. 125.
Ibid.
Ibid., p. 122.
Aldo Castellani, Of Microbes, Men and Monarchs: A Doctor’s Life in Many Lands (London: Victor Gollancz, 1960), pp. 122–23.
Fotescu, ed., Americans and Queen Marie, pp. 139–40.
Ibid., p. 141.
Elsberry Marie, p. 279.
Pakula, Last Romantic, p. 416. Pakula understands these letters written by Stirbey to mean “I love you my Marie, I love you.”
Ibid.
Elsberry, Marie of Romania, p. 280.
Princess Ileana to Ray Baker Harris, 6 August 1938, Queen Marie of Romania Papers, Kent State University.
Lucian Boia, History and Myth in Romanian Consciousness (Budapest: Central European University Press, 2001), p. 208.
Queen Marie, “A Mon Pays et à Mon Peuple,” Collections of the Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.
Møller, Dronning Maud, p. 130.
Van der Kiste, Edward VII’s Children, p. 167.
Ibid., p. 176.
Ibid.
Queen Maud to Grand Duchess Xenia, undated, private collection.
Queen Maud to Grand Duchess Xenia, undated, private collection.
New York Times, 21 November 1938.
Ibid.
Extracts from the House of Lords Debates, 22 November 1938, P.R.O., F.O. 372/3301, The National Archives.
King Haakon VII to Grand Duchess Xenia, 16 January 1939, private collection.
THIRTY: FROM EXILE TO “VIVE LA REINA !”
Van der Kiste, Crowns in a Changing World, p. 172.
Ferrer, Victoria Eugenia, p. 205.
Sir George Grahame to Sir Robert Vansittart, 4 October 1934, P.R.O., F.O. 120/61/34, The National Archives.
Draft Letter to His Eminence Cardinal Pacelli by Lord Howard of Penrith and Lady Howard, 3 December 1934, DHW9/23/3, Sir Esme Howard Papers, Cumbria Record Office, Carlisle.
Ibid.
Queen Victoria Eugenie to Lord Howard of Penrith, 3 December 1934, DHW9/23/3, Sir Esme Howard Papers, Cumbria Record Office, Carlisle.
New York Times, 22 October 1936.
Alexander Hardinge to Air Vice-Marshall Sir Philip Game, Metropolitan Police Office, New Scotland Yard, 5 April 1938, P.R.O., MEPO 2/3290, The National Archives.
Queen Victoria Eugenie to Mr. Paget Cooke, 5 October 1938, private collection.
Julián Cortés-Cavanillas, Alfonso XIII: Vida, Confesiones y Muerte (Barcelona: Editorial Juventud, 1966), p. 361.
de la Cierva, Alfonso y Victoria, p. 377.
Arthur Yencken to R. A. Butler, 28 March 1941, P.R.O., F.O. 371/26974/13/18/41, The National Archives.
Queen Victoria Eugenie to Lord Mottistone, 3 November 1944, MSS 6/144, Mottistone Papers, Nuffield College, University of Oxford.
José Luis de Vilallonga, El Rey: Conversaciones con D. Juan Carlos I de España (Barcelona: Salvat Editores, 1995), p. 54.
José Antonio Gurriarán, El Rey en Estoril: Don Juan Carlos y su Familia en el Exilio Por-tugués (Barcelona: Editorial Planeta, 2000), pp. 134, 133.
Noel, Ena, p. 268.
Gonzalez-Doria, Las Reinas de España, p. 604.
Sir George Grahame to Mr. Bates, 7 March 1934, P.R.O., F.O. 185/1753/120/8/34, The National Archives.
Sir George Grahame to Sir Robert Vansittart, 14 February 1934, P.R.O., F.O. 185/ 1753/120/4/34, The National Archives.
Queen Victoria Eugenie to Sir George Grahame, 14 July 1934, P.R.O., F.O. 120/46e/34v, The National Archives.
Juan Antonio Pérez Mateos, El Rey Que Vino del Exilio (Barcelona: Editorial Planeta, 1981), p. 31.
de la Cierva, Alfonso y Victoria, pp. 383–84.
Pilar Urbano, La Reina (Barcelona: Plaza y Janés, 2001), p. 139.
de la Cierva, Alfonso y Victoria, p. 388.
Santos, Victoria Eugenia, p. 307.
Urbano, La Reina, p. 217.
Gabrielle Ashford Hodges, Franco: A Concise Biography (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000), p. 243.
Juan Balansó, La Corona Vacilante: Historia Vida de los Borbones en España (Barcelona: Plaza y Janés, 1996), p. 285.
de la Cierva, Alfonso y Victoria, pp. 389–90.
Urbano, La Reina, p. 222.
Queen Marie to Loie Fuller, 3 July 1927, MSS 1982-04-60, Maryhill Museum of Art, Goldendale, Washington.
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