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

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

  138 Ibid.

  139 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 26 October 1916, Glamis Archives (CH)

  140 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 3 November, 1 December 1916, Glamis Archives (CH)

  141 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 3 November 1916, Glamis Archives (CH)

  142 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 5 September 1916, Glamis Archives (CH)

  143 Wolsey, p. 20

  144 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 11 February 1917, Glamis Archives (CH)

  145 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 7 April, 19 March 1917, Glamis Archives (CH)

  146 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, n.d. [24 March 1917], Glamis Archives (CH)

  147 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 28 March 1917, Glamis Archives (CH)

  148 Autograph by W. H. Harrap, 12 March 1917, Glamis Archives

  149 Roberts, History of the World, p. 916

  150 Gilbert, First World War, p. 318

  151 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 24 April [1917], Glamis Archives (CH)

  152 Lord Strathmore to Lady Rose Leveson-Gower, telegram, 3 May 1917, Glamis Archives

  153 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 10 May 1917, Glamis Archives (CH)

  154 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 3 May 1917, Glamis Archives (CH)

  155 Lady Strathmore to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 3 May 1917, Glamis Archives

  156 Colonel A. Stephenson to Lord Strathmore, 2 May 1917, Glamis Archives

  157 Colonel A. Stephenson to Lady Strathmore, 8 May 1917, Glamis Archives

  158 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 6 May 1917, Glamis Archives (CH)

  159 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 12 May 1917, Glamis Archives (CH)

  160 Asquith, The Queen, p. 52

  161 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 22 May 1917, Glamis Archives (CH)

  162 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 25 May 1917, Glamis Archives (CH)

  163 Hon. Michael Bowes Lyon to Lady Strathmore, 4 May 1917, Glamis Archives, Box 69, bundle 9

  164 Hon. Michael Bowes Lyon to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 10 June 1917, RA QEQM/PRIV/BL

  165 Hon. Michael Bowes Lyon, diary, 23 June 1917, Glamis Archives

  166 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, [22 or 29] August 1917, Glamis Archives (CH)

  167 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 15 September 1917, Glamis Archives (CH)

  168 Hon. Michael Bowes Lyon to Lady Strathmore, 17 February, 24 April 1918, Glamis Archives

  169 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 17 June 1917, Glamis Archives (CH); Clerk of Forfar School Board to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 9 June 1917, Glamis Archives, Box 270

  170 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 20 June 1917, Glamis Archives (CH)

  171 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 28 June 1917, Glamis Archives (CH)

  172 Ibid.

  173 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 7 September 1917, Glamis Archives (CH)

  174 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 16 July 1917, Glamis Archives (CH)

  175 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, [22 or 29] August 1917, Glamis Archives (CH)

  176 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 7 September 1917, Glamis Archives (CH)

  177 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 29 September 1917, Glamis Archives (CH)

  178 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 9 October 1917, Glamis Archives (CH)

  179 Ibid.

  180 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 18, 21 October 1917, Glamis Archives (CH)

  181 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 29 September 1917, Glamis Archives (CH)

  182 Private C. Morris to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, n.d. [October 1917], RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

  183 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 26 November 1917, Glamis Archives (CH)

  184 Ibid.

  185 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 8 November 1917, Glamis Archives (CH)

  186 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 5 January 1918, Glamis Archives (CH)

  187 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 22 November 1917, Glamis Archives (CH)

  188 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 31 October 1917, Glamis Archives (CH)

  189 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 22, 26 November 1917, Glamis Archives (CH)

  190 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 13 December 1917, Glamis Archives (CH)

  191 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 7 December 1917, Glamis Archives (CH)

  192 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 5 January 1918, Glamis Archives (CH)

  193 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 9 January 1918, Glamis Archives (CH)

  194 Hon. Michael Bowes Lyon to Lady Strathmore, 17 February 1918, Glamis Archives

  195 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 7 February 1918, Glamis Archives (CH)

  196 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 26 February 1918, Glamis Archives (CH)

  197 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 13 March 1918, Glamis Archives (CH)

  198 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 22 March 1918, Glamis Archives (CH)

  199 Hon. Victor Cochrane Baillie to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 29 March 1918, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

  200 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 22 March 1918, Glamis Archives (CH)

  201 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 20 April 1918, Glamis Archives (CH)

  202 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 29 April 1918, Glamis Archives (CH)

  203 George Lancelot Thirkell to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 3 May 1918, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

  204 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 26, 29 May 1918, Glamis Archives (CH)

  205 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 13 June 1918, Glamis Archives (CH)

  206 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, [20 and 25] June, 5 July 1918, Glamis Archives (CH)

  207 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 25 June 1918, Glamis Archives (CH)

  208 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 12, 31 August, 15, 21 September 1918, Glamis Archives (CH)

  209 Lieutenant J. S. Reynolds to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 30 September 1918, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

  210 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 5 October 1918, Glamis Archives (CH)

  211 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 22 October 1918, Glamis Archives (CH)

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

  213 Terraine, p. 185

  214 Roberts, History of the World, p. 920

  215 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 27 November 1918, Glamis Archives (CH)

  216 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 5 January 1919, Glamis Archives (CH)

  217 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, n.d. [6 April 1919], Glamis Archives (CH)

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

  219 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, n.d. [6 April 1919], Glamis Archives (CH)

  220 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, n.d. [6 April 1919], 17 April 1919, Glamis Archives (CH)

  221 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 25 May 1919, Glamis Archives (CH)

  222 Longford, The Royal House of Windsor, p.76

  223 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 11 August 1919, n.d. [August 1919], 22 August 1919, Glamis Archives (CH)

  224 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 22 August 1919, Glamis Archives (CH)

  225 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, n.d. [late August-early September 1919], Glamis Ar
chives (CH)

  THREE: PRINCE ALBERT 1918–1923

  1 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 22 November 1916, Glamis Archives (CH)

  2 Lord Chamberlain’s Annual Report, 1919, RA LC/AR/1919/48

  3 RA QM/PRIV/QMD/1919: 17 June; RA GV/PRIV/GVD/1919: 17 June

  4 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, n.d. [1 July 1919], Glamis Archives (CH)

  5 Lady Katharine Hamilton to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 2 October 1919; Lady Lavinia White to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 16 October 1919, Glamis Archives

  6 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 28 December 1919, Glamis Archives (CH)

  7 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, Friday n.d. [9 January 1920], Glamis Archives (CH)

  8 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, n.d. [8 March 1920], Glamis Archives (CH)

  9 RA QM/PRIV/QMD/1920: 9 March

  10 Holyrood Palace menu, 5 July 1920, RA MRH/MISC/055/04; Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 13 July 1920, Glamis Archives (CH)

  11 Viscount Stuart of Findhorn, Within the Fringe, The Bodley Head, 1967, p. 57

  12 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 13 July 1920, Glamis Archives (CH)

  13 Mabell Airlie, Thatched with Gold, ed. Jennifer Ellis, Hutchinson, 1962, p. 166

  14 John Wheeler-Bennett, King George VI, Macmillan, 1958. p. 4

  15 RA VIC/MAIN/QVJ/1895: 14 December

  16 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 8

  17 Harold Nicolson, King George V, Pan Books, 1967, pp. 473–4

  18 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 17

  19 Sarah Bradford, George VI, Penguin, 2002, p. 47

  20 Nicolson, George V, p. 154

  21 Bradford, George VI, p. 62

  22 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 60

  23 Ibid., p. 57

  24 Ibid., p. 76

  25 Ibid., p. 77

  26 Bradford, George VI, p. 87

  27 Wheeler-Bennett, pp. 95–6

  28 Ibid., p. 117

  29 Robert Graves and Alan Hodge, The Long Weekend, Faber & Faber, 1940, pp. 23–4

  30 Frank Prochaska, The Republic of Britain 1760–2000, Allen Lane, 2000, p. 178

  31 Ibid., p. 174

  32 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 157

  33 Ibid., p. 164

  34 Ibid., pp. 165–72

  35 Ibid., pp. 126–32

  36 Bradford, George VI, p. 92

  37 Airlie, pp. 162–3

  38 Princess Dimitri, ‘Waltzing Matilda’ (unpublished memoirs of Lady Loughborough), 1948, p. 38, private collection

  39 Ibid., p. 39

  40 Prince Albert to Prince of Wales, 7 April 1920, RA EDW/PRIV/MAINB/50

  41 Prince Albert to Prince of Wales, 13 April, 16 May 1920, RA EDW/PRIV/MAINB/51, 53

  42 King George V to Prince Albert, 7 June 1920, quoted in Wheeler-Bennett, p. 140

  43 Prince Albert to King George V, 6 June 1920, RA GV/PRIV/AA61/27

  44 Prince Albert to Prince of Wales, 25 May 1920, RA EDW/PRIV/MAINB/54A

  45 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand n.d. [in envelope with postmark 9 March 1920], Glamis Archives (CH)

  46 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, n.d. [29 March 1920], Glamis Archives (CH)

  47 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, n.d. [7 April 1920], Glamis Archives (CH)

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

  49 Forbes, p. 117

  50 Ibid., p. 125

  51 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, n.d. [22 March 1919, November 1919], Glamis Archives (CH)

  52 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 11 June and 13 July 1920, Glamis Archives (CH)

  53 Helen Cecil to Captain Hardinge, n.d. [18 September 1920], Hardinge Papers, Centre for Kentish Studies, Maidstone, U 2117-C2/33

  54 Prince Albert to Prince of Wales, 21 July 1920, RA EDW/PRIV/MAINB/57

  55 Longford, Queen Mother, p. 18

  56 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, n.d. [14 September 1920], Glamis Archives (CH)

  57 Helen Cecil to Lady Milner, 15 September 1920, Bodleian Library, VM28/C 103/74

  58 Captain Hardinge to Helen Cecil, 11, 13 September 1920, Hardinge Papers, Centre for Kentish Studies, U 2117-C1/19, 21

  59 Helen Cecil to Captain Hardinge, n.d. [14 September 1920], Hardinge Papers, Centre for Kentish Studies, U 2117-C2/28

  60 Helen Cecil to Captain Hardinge, n.d. [18 September 1920], Hardinge Papers, Centre for Kentish Studies, U 2117-C2/33

  61 Helen Cecil to Captain Hardinge, n.d. [18 September 1920] and 20 September 1920, Hardinge Papers, Centre for Kentish Studies, U 2117-C2/35, 36

  62 Helen Cecil to Captain Hardinge, n.d. [19 September 1920], Hardinge Papers, Centre for Kentish Studies, U 2117-C2/34

  63 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, n.d. [23 September 1920], Glamis Archives (CH)

  64 Helen Cecil to Captain Hardinge, n.d. [19 September 1920], Hardinge Papers, Centre for Kentish Studies, U 2117-C2/34

  65 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, n.d. [23 September 1920], Glamis Archives (CH)

  66 Helen Cecil to Captain Hardinge, n.d. [19 September 1920] and 20 September 1920, Hardinge Papers, Centre for Kentish Studies, U 2117-C2/34, 36

  67 Helen Cecil to Captain Hardinge, 20 September 1920, Hardinge Papers, Centre for Kentish Studies, U 2117-C2/36

  68 Helen Cecil to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 21 September 1920, Glamis Archives, Letters from friends

  69 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, n.d. [23 September 1920], Glamis Archives (CH)

  70 Duke of York to Lady Strathmore, 21 September 1920, Glamis Archives

  71 Hon. James Stuart to Lady Strathmore, 21 September 1920, Glamis Archives

  72 Lady Doris Gordon-Lennox to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 21 September 1920, Glamis Archives, Letters from girlfriends; Helen Cecil to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 21 September 1920, Glamis Archives, Letters from friends

  73 Lady Doris Gordon-Lennox to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, n.d. [14 October 1920], Glamis Archives, Letters from girlfriends

  74 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, n.d. [November 1920], Glamis Archives (CH)

  75 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, n.d. [November or December 1920], Glamis Archives (CH)

  76 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Duke of York, Monday, n.d. [13 December 1920], RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/01

  77 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Duke of York, n.d. [23 December 1920], RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/02

  78 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, Friday, n.d. [31 December 1920], Glamis Archives (CH)

  79 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Duke of York, n.d. [6 January 1921], RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/03

  80 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, Sunday, n.d. [9 January 1921], Glamis Archives (CH)

  81 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Duke of York, 10 January 1921, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/04

  82 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, n.d. [1 February 1921], Glamis Archives (CH)

  83 Airlie, p. 167

  84 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Duke of York, n.d. [17 February 1921], RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/05

  85 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Duke of York, 28 February 1921, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/07

  86 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Duke of York, n.d. [7 March 1921], RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/08

  87 Lady Strathmore to Lady Airlie, 5 March 1921, British Library, Add MSS 82762

  88 Queen Mary to Lady Airlie, 9 March 1921, British Library, Add MSS 82748

  89 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Duke of York, n.d. [25 March 1921], RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/08

  90 King George V to Queen Alexandra, 10 April 1921, RA GV/PRIV/AA38/20

  91 Duke of York, engagement diary, 9 April 1921, RA PS/PSO/GVI/C 352/1921

  92 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 12 April 1921, Glamis Archives (CH)

  93 Nicolson, George V, p. 444

  94 Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII, Collins, 1990, pp. 111–12

  95 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, Wednesday n.d
. [18 May 1921], Glamis Archives (CH)

  96 Helen Hardinge, Loyal to Three Kings, William Kimber, 1967, p. 23

  97 Prince Paul of Serbia to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 8 May 1921, Glamis Archives, Box 270

  98 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Duke of York, 28 May 1921, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/10

  99 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 28 May 1921, Glamis Archives (CH)

  100 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Duke of York, 28 May 1921, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/10

  101 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Duke of York, 9 June 1921, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/11

  102 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Duke of York, n.d. [18 July 1921], RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/12

  103 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Duke of York, 6 August 1921, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/13

  104 Ibid.

  105 RA QM/PRIV/QMD/1921: 9 September

  106 Airlie, p. 167

  107 Queen Mary to Duke of York, 28 September 1921, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11

  108 Duke of York to Queen Mary, 29 September 1921, RA QM/PRIV/CC11/19

  109 Duke of York to King George V, 2 October 1921, RA GV/PRIV/AA61/88

  110 Duke of York to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 2 October 1921, Glamis Archives, Box 270

  111 Lady Airlie to Queen Mary, 2 October 1921, RA QM/PRIV/CC47/684

  112 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, Friday, n.d. [7 October 1921], Glamis Archives (CH)

  113 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Duke of York, 4 October 1921, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/15

  114 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Duke of York, 11 October 1921, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/16

  115 Duke of York to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 12 October 1921, Glamis Archives, Box 270

  116 Undated note from Lady Strathmore to Mollie Cazalet, enclosed with letter from Mollie Cazalet to Queen Elizabeth, 8 August 1938, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

  117 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Duke of York, 8 November 1921, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/18

  118 Duke of York to Queen Mary, 18 November 1921, RA QM/PRIV/CC11/20

  119 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Duke of York, n.d. [23 November 1921], RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/20

  120 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, n.d. [28 November 1921], Glamis Archives (CH)

  121 Stuart, Within the Fringe, pp. 44–57

  122 Queen Mary to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 19 October 1921, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  123 Queen Mary to Lady Strathmore, 26 November 1921, Glamis Archives

  124 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Duke of York, n.d. [23 November 1921], RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/20

 

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