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  34 Lady Cynthia Asquith, The Duchess of York, Hutchinson, [1927], p. 45

  35 Ibid., p. 33

  36 Asquith, The Queen, Hutchinson, 1937, pp. 22–3

  37 Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RA QEQM/ADD/MISC

  38 Asquith, The Queen, p. 24

  39 Ibid., p. 25

  40 Ibid., p. 49

  41 Queen Elizabeth to Rachel Bowes Lyon, 19 July 1988, Bowes Lyon Papers, SPW

  42 Laird, p. 40

  43 Asquith, The Queen, p. 45

  44 Ibid., pp. 45–6

  45 Gordon Slade, pp. 31–2; notes on Glamis Castle by Elizabeth Leeming

  46 Leeming notes

  47 Gordon Slade, pp. 105–6

  48 Ibid., p. 76

  49 Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RA QEQM/ADD/MISC

  50 Thirteenth Earl of Strathmore, diary 2 October 1903, Glamis Archives

  51 Lady May Bowes Lyon, diary, February 1904, private collection

  52 Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RA QEQM/ADD/MISC

  53 Beryl Poignand to her mother, n.d. [20 November 1914], Poignand Papers

  54 Leeming notes

  55 Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RA QEQM/ADD/MISC

  56 Leeming notes

  57 Laird, p. 37

  58 Leeming notes

  59 Laird, p. 36

  60 Leeming notes

  61 Laird, p. 36

  62 Raymond Asquith to Katharine Horner, 25 September 1905 (copy), RA QEQM/PRIV/HIST, quoted in Raymond Asquith: Life and Letters, ed. John Joliffe, Collins, 1980, p. 134

  63 Forbes, pp. 8–9

  64 Christopher Dingwall, Glamis Castle: A History of the Designed Landscape, Strathmore Estates, 2000, pp. 40–1; the Countess of Strathmore, ‘Glamis, the Autumn Garden’, The Gardener’s Year Book, Philip Allen, 1928, p. 52

  65 Mrs Scott to Lady Glamis, 10, 16 September 1903, Glamis Archives (CH)

  66 Asquith, The Queen, p. 32

  67 Ibid., p. 29

  68 Ibid., pp. 36–7

  69 Ibid., p. 41

  70 Ibid., pp. 46–7

  71 Ibid., pp. 47–8

  72 Lord Strathmore to the Dowager Lady Strathmore, 14 February 1907, Glamis Archives

  73 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Lord Strathmore, 22 February 1907, Glamis Archives

  74 Asquith, The Queen, p. 38

  75 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Lord Strathmore, 10 February 1909, Glamis Archives

  76 Asquith, The Queen, p. 39

  77 Elizabeth’s friend Lavinia Spencer wrote several letters to her sympathizing over her troubles with Dorothy: 14 August, 17 September, 27 December 1915, 7 January 1916, 16 October 1919, Glamis Archives

  78 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 1910, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/1

  79 Ibid.

  80 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Mlle Lang, 20 [21] January 1910, Glamis Archives

  81 Elizabeth Longford, The Royal House of Windsor, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1974, pp. 51–2

  82 King George V, diary, 6 May 1910, quoted in Kenneth Rose, King George V, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1983, p. 76

  83 Lady Strathmore, diary, 7, 20 May 1910, Glamis Archives

  84 Asquith, The Queen, p. 39

  85 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to May Elphinstone, 16 July 1910, RA QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE

  86 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to May Elphinstone, 19 July 1910, RA QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE

  87 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to May Elphinstone, 5 August 1910, RA QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE

  88 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Lady Strathmore, 13 December 1910, Glamis Archives (CH)

  89 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Lady Strathmore, 29 December 1910, Glamis Archives (CH)

  90 Roberts, History of the World, p. 901

  91 Exercise book, 1911, Bowes Lyon Papers, SPW

  92 Ibid.

  93 Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RA QEQM/ADD/MISC

  94 Ibid.

  95 Asquith, The Queen, p. 42

  96 Elizabeth Leeming: Notes on shooting with the Strathmores; Elizabeth Leeming interview with Ronnie Carr, 8 February 2006

  97 Laird, p. 45

  98 Asquith, The Queen, p. 44

  99 Frederick Dalrymple Hamilton, diary, 15, 18, 19 August 1911, private collection

  100 Ibid., 20, 21 August 1911

  101 Hon. John Bowes Lyon to Lady Strathmore, 24 July [1911], Glamis Archives

  102 Hon. John Bowes Lyon to Lady Delia Spencer, 14 October 1911, Glamis Archives

  103 Mrs Scott to Lady Strathmore, 29 October 1911, Glamis Archives

  104 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 17–18 February 1912, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/1

  105 Frederick Dalrymple Hamilton, diary, 3, 4 March 1912, private collection

  106 Ibid., 13–15 April 1912

  107 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 1912, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/1

  108 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Lady Strathmore, 10 May 1912, Glamis Archives

  109 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Lady Strathmore, 12 May 1912, Glamis Archives

  110 Laurel Gray to Queen Elizabeth, 1 December 1948, RA QEQMH/GEN/1948/Gray

  111 Terry Wolsey, Elizabeth of Glamis, Canongate, 1990, p. 11

  112 Joan Woollcombe, ‘A Royal Birthday’, The Lady, 31 July 1969; Vickers, p. 10

  113 Lady May Bowes Lyon, diary, 22 December 1904, private collection

  114 Asquith, The Queen, p. 56

  115 Ibid., p. 54

  116 Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RA QEQM/ADD/MISC; Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 2, 3 June 1913, Glamis Archives

  117 Author’s interview with Lady Penn

  118 Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RA QEQM/ADD/MISC

  119 School reports, 30 Sloane Street, January-February 1912, March 1913, Glamis Archives, Box 270

  120 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, April 1913, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/2

  121 Käthe Kübler, Meine Schulerin – die Königin von England, Hermann Eichblatt, Leipzig, 1937, pp. 7–8, 10 (translation)

  122 Ibid., p. 10

  123 Ibid., p. 12

  124 Ibid., p. 13

  125 Ibid., pp. 18–19

  126 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to the Hon. David Bowes Lyon, 18 July [1913], Glamis Archives

  127 Frederick Dalrymple Hamilton, diary, 19–20 July 1913, private collection

  128 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 1913, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/2

  129 Kübler, pp. 25–7

  130 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to the Hon. David Bowes Lyon, 30 November 1913, Bowes Lyon Papers (SPW)

  131 Kübler, pp. 11–12

  132 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Lady Strathmore, 25 June 1914, Glamis Archives (CH)

  133 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Lady Strathmore, 26 June 1914, Glamis Archives (CH)

  134 Beryl Poignand to her mother, n.d. [8 December 1914], Poignand Papers. The same story appeared in Lady Cynthia Asquith’s biography of the Duchess of York

  135 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Lady Strathmore, 25 June 1914, Glamis Archives (CH)

  136 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Lady Strathmore, 12 June 1914, Glamis Archives (CH)

  137 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to the Hon. Michael Bowes Lyon, Glamis Archives (CH)

  138 Kübler, p. 31

  139 King George V, diary, RA GV/PRIV/GVD/1914: 3, 4 August

  140 Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RAQEQM/ADD/MISC

  TWO: TENDING THE WOUNDED 1914–1918

  1 Quoted in Samuel Hynes, The Auden Generation, The Bodley Head, 1976, p. 18

  2 John Terraine, The First World War, Leo Cooper, 1983, p. 8

  3 Winston Churchill, The World Crisis 1911–1918, ed. Martin Gilbert, Free Press, London, 2005, p. 109

  4 King George V, diary, 3 August 1914, RA GV/PRIV/GVD

  5 Gilbert, The First World War, HarperCollins, 1995, p. 37

  6 Ibid., pp. 37, 38

  7 David Cann
adine, The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy, Yale University Press, 1990, p. 72

  8 Hon. Michael Bowes Lyon to Lady Strathmore, 8 August 1914, Glamis Archives

  9 Hon. Fergus Bowes Lyon to Lady Strathmore, 9 September 1914, Glamis Archives

  10 Asquith, The Queen, p. 59

  11 Beryl Poignand to her mother, 11 December [1914], Poignand Papers

  12 Beryl Poignand to her mother, n.d. [5/6 December 1914], Poignand Papers

  13 Beryl Poignand to her mother, 21 November 1914, Poignand Papers

  14 Asquith, The Queen, p. 59

  15 Beryl Poignand to her mother, n.d. [20 November 1914], Poignand Papers

  16 French dictations, August-September 1914, Glamis Archives, Box 270

  17 Lady Strathmore to Beryl Poignand, 16 September 1914, Glamis Archives (CH)

  18 Lady Strathmore to Beryl Poignand, 9 October 1914, Glamis Archives (CH)

  19 Beryl Poignand to her mother, n.d. [20 November 1914], Poignand Papers

  20 Beryl Poignand to her mother, 21 November [1914], Poignand Papers

  21 Beryl Poignand to her mother, 22 November [1914], Poignand Papers

  22 Ibid.

  23 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 21 October 1917, Glamis Archives (CH)

  24 Beryl Poignand to her mother, 22, [25] November, [5/6], 11 December [1914], 13 July [1915], Poignand Papers

  25 Beryl Poignand to her mother, 22 November [1914], Poignand Papers

  26 Beryl Poignand to her mother, n.d. [November 1914], [8], 9, 14/15 December 1914, Poignand Papers

  27 Beryl Poignand to her mother, n.d. [8 December 1914], Poignand Papers

  28 Beryl Poignand to her mother, 22 November [1914], Poignand Papers

  29 Beryl Poignand to her mother, 14–15 December [1914], Poignand Papers

  30 Asquith, The Queen, p. 61

  31 Beryl Poignand to her mother, n.d. [5/6 December 1914], Poignand Papers

  32 Asquith, The Queen, p. 61

  33 Beryl Poignand to her mother, 11 December [1914], Poignand Papers

  34 Asquith, The Queen, p. 62

  35 Beryl Poignand to her mother, n.d. [5/6, 8 December 1914], Poignand Papers

  36 Asquith, The Queen, p. 60

  37 Beryl Poignand to her mother, n.d. [8 December 1914], Poignand Papers

  38 Beryl Poignand to her mother, 14/15 December [1914], Poignand Papers

  39 Lines by J. Chadwick Brooks, 1st Battalion The London Scottish, January 1915, autograph book, RA QEQM/PRIV/PERS

  40 Beryl Poignand to her mother, 14/15 December [1914], Poignand Papers

  41 Lady Rose Bowes Lyon to Lady Delia Peel, undated [December 1915], Glamis Archives

  42 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 26 December 1914, Glamis Archives (CH)

  43 Frederick Dalrymple Hamilton, diary, 31 December 1914, private collection

  44 Lady Strathmore to May Elphinstone, 3 January 1915, RA QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE

  45 Lady Strathmore to May Elphinstone, 1 March 1915, RA QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE

  46 Frederick Dalrymple Hamilton, diary, 17 January 1915, private collection; Beryl Poignand to her mother, 23 [February 1915], Poignand Papers

  47 Lady Lavinia Spencer to the Hon. Cecil Spencer, 8 February 1915, Althorp Archives

  48 Beryl Poignand to her mother, 31 March [1915], Poignand Papers

  49 Beryl Poignand to her mother, n.d. [20 February 1915], Poignand Papers

  50 Lady Strathmore to May Elphinstone, 24 February 1915, RA QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE

  51 Lady Strathmore to May Elphinstone, 6 March 1915, RA QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE

  52 Elizabeth Leeming interview with Lady Mary Clayton

  53 Beryl Poignand to her mother, 9 March [1915], Poignand Papers

  54 Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RA QEQM/ADD/MISC

  55 Beryl Poignand to her mother, 30 May, 2 June [1915], Poignand Papers

  56 Beryl Poignand to her mother, 15 May [1915], Poignand Papers

  57 Beryl Poignand to her mother, 12 [May 1915]; 31 March [1915], Poignand Papers

  58 Beryl Poignand to her mother, 13 July [1915], Poignand Papers

  59 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 9 August 1915, Glamis Archives (CH)

  60 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 26 August 1915, Glamis Archives (CH)

  61 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 16 April 1916, Glamis Archives (CH)

  62 Lady Lavinia Spencer to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, n.d. [12 August 1915], Glamis Archives, Box 270

  63 Lady Lavinia Spencer to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 17 September 1915, Glamis Archives, Box 270

  64 Lady Katharine Hamilton to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 6 September 1916, Glamis Archives

  65 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 31 July 1915, Glamis Archives (CH)

  66 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 6 August 1915, Glamis Archives (CH)

  67 Ibid.

  68 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 9 August 1915, Glamis Archives (CH)

  69 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 9 August 1915, Glamis Archives (CH)

  70 Asquith, The Queen, p. 67

  71 Information from Clare Elmquist, daughter of Lydie Lachaise

  72 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Lady Strathmore, 14 September 1915, Glamis Archives, Box 270/II

  73 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 16 September 1915, Glamis Archives (CH)

  74 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Lady Strathmore 19 September 1915, Glamis Archives, Box 270/II

  75 Elizabeth Leeming interview with Lady Mary Clayton

  76 Hon. Fergus Bowes Lyon to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 26 April 1911, Glamis Archives (CH)

  77 Hon. Fergus Bowes Lyon to [Lady Strathmore], 16 February 1914, Glamis Archives (CH)

  78 Hon. Fergus Bowes Lyon to [Lady Strathmore], n.d., Glamis Archives

  79 Reported in letter from Beryl Poignand to her mother, 23 June [1915], Poignand Papers

  80 Terraine, p. 91

  81 Ibid., p. 92

  82 A. J. P. Taylor, English History 1914–45, Oxford University Press, 1961, p. 46

  83 Daily Mail (overseas edition), 23 October 1915, quoted in Lyn Macdonald, 1914–1918: Voices and Images of the Great War, Penguin, 1988

  84 Lieutenant G. B. Gilroy to Lady Strathmore, 30 September 1915, Glamis Archives

  85 Notes by Lady Strathmore of accounts of the death of Capt. The Hon. Fergus B. Lyon by Lance Corporal Andrew Ross, 10 November 1915, and Sergeant Lindsay, [10 December 1915]; Lieutenant G. B. Gilroy to Lady Strathmore, 30 September 1915; Cameron of Lochiel to Lady Strathmore, 10 October 1915, Glamis Archives

  86 Lady Strathmore to Private William Vanbrick, 25 October 1916, Glamis Archives

  87 Asquith, The Queen, p. 72

  88 Leeming notes

  89 Lady Lavinia Spencer to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 5, 17 October 1915, Glamis Archives; Beryl Poignand to her mother, [October 1915], Poignand Papers

  90 Gilbert, First World War, pp. 224–5

  91 Ibid., p. 200

  92 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Mrs Poignand, 23 October 1915, Glamis Archives (CH)

  93 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 30 October 1915, Glamis Archives (CH)

  94 Gilbert, First World War, p. 203

  95 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 1 November 1915, Glamis Archives (CH)

  96 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 23 December 1915, Glamis Archives (CH)

  97 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 26 December 1915, Glamis Archives (CH)

  98 Gilbert, First World War, p. 201

  99 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 31 December 1915, Glamis Archives (CH)

  100 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Mrs Poignand, 6 February 1916, Glamis Archives (CH)

  101 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Lady Strathmore, 17 March 1916, Glamis Archives (CH)

  102 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Lady Strathmore, 24, 25 March 1916, Glamis Archives (CH)


  103 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Lady Strathmore, 25 March 1916, Glamis Archives (CH)

  104 Henry Ainley to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 19 March 1916, Glamis Archives, Box 270

  105 Printed form signed by Margaret E. Goodman, Local Secretary, Oxford Local Examinations Board, 1916, RA QEQM/PRIV/PERS/Education

  106 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 26 April 1916, Glamis Archives (CH)

  107 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Lady Strathmore, 28 March 1916, Glamis Archives (CH)

  108 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Lady Strathmore, 4 April 1916, Glamis Archives (CH)

  109 Beryl Poignand to her mother, n.d. [4–5 April 1916], Poignand Papers

  110 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Lady Strathmore, 4 April 1916, Glamis Archives (CH)

  111 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 1 May 1916, Glamis Archives (CH)

  112 Elizabeth Leeming interview with Lady Mary Clayton

  113 Frederick Dalrymple Hamilton, diary, 3 April 1916, private collection

  114 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 27 April 1916, Glamis Archives (CH)

  115 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 26 April 1916, Glamis Archives (CH)

  116 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 11 May 1916, Glamis Archives (CH)

  117 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 21 May 1916, Glamis Archives (CH)

  118 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 4 June 1916, Glamis Archives (CH)

  119 Terraine, p. 106

  120 Gilbert, First World War, p. 258

  121 Ibid., p. 275

  122 Terraine, pp. 116–17

  123 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 21 July, 11 August 1916, Glamis Archives (CH)

  124 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 22 September 1916, Glamis Archives (CH)

  125 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 17 September 1916, Glamis Archives (CH)

  126 Ibid.

  127 Ibid.

  128 Asquith, The Queen, p. 78

  129 Forbes, p. 84

  130 Hon. Michael Bowes Lyon to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 24 September 1916, Glamis Archives

  131 Lady Strathmore to Beryl Poignand, 22 September 1916, Glamis Archives (CH)

  132 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 1 October 1916, Glamis Archives (CH)

  133 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 22 September 1916, Glamis Archives (CH)

  134 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 10, 20 October 1916, Glamis Archives (CH)

  135 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 10, 25 October 1916, Glamis Archives (CH)

 

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