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The Queen Mother

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by William Shawcross


  125 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Duke of York, 16 December 1921, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/21

  126 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Duke of York, n.d. [December 1921], RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/22

  127 Glamis Visitors Book, Glamis Archives

  128 Vickers, pp. 47–8

  129 Princess Margaret to Queen Elizabeth II, 8 March 1954, RA QEII/PRIV/RF

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

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

  132 Princess Mary to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 5 January 1922, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  133 Duke of York to Queen Mary, 19 January 1922, RA QM/PRIV/CC11/23

  134 Queen Mary to Duke of York, 22 January 1922, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11

  135 Duke of York to Queen Mary, 25 January 1922, RA QM/PRIV/CC11/24

  136 Duke of York to Prince of Wales, 2 February 1922, RA EDW/PRIV/MAIN/B/67

  137 Duke of York to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 6 February 1922, Glamis Archives, Box 270; Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Duke of York, n.d. [7 February 1922], RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/24

  138 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, n.d. [6 February 1922], Glamis Archives (CH)

  139 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Duke of York, 23 February 1922, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/25

  140 Longford, Queen Mother, p. 23

  141 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Duke of York, n.d. [8 March 1922], RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/26

  142 Duke of York to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 8 March 1922, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  143 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Duke of York, n.d. [12 March 1922], RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/27

  144 Duke of York to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 16 March 1922, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  145 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Duke of York, 18 March 1922, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/28

  146 Duke of York to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 26 March 1922, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  147 Hon. James Stuart to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 24 March 1922, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

  148 Vickers, p. 50

  149 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, n.d. [May 1922], Glamis Archives (CH)

  150 Queen Mary to Lady Strathmore, 6 May 1922, Glamis Archives

  151 Lady Strathmore to May Elphinstone, 16 May 1922, RA QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE

  152 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Duke of York, n.d. [16 May 1922], RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/29

  153 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to May Elphinstone, n.d. [12 May 1922], RA QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE

  154 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, n.d. [14 May 1922], Glamis Archives (CH)

  155 Lord Gage to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 26 May 1922, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

  156 Lord Glenconner to Duchess of York, 7 May [1931], RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

  157 Lord Davidson to Queen Elizabeth, 26 February 1952, enclosing account of conversation with Duke of York, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

  158 Duke of York to Queen Mary, 12 January 1923, RA QM/PRIV/CC11/21

  159 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Duke of York, n.d. [26 July 1922], RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/30

  160 Information from Donald Gillies, biographer of Lord Inverchapel. Donald Gillies suggests that Clark Kerr may have met Lady Elizabeth first the previous autumn in Scotland, but if so there is no evidence of this in her papers

  161 Archibald Clark Kerr to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 3 December 1922, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

  162 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to D’Arcy Osborne, [26] October 1922, RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE

  163 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Duke of York, 12 September 1922, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/31B

  164 Duke of York to King George V, 30 September 1922, RA GV/PRIV/AA61/128; Duke of York to Queen Mary, 30 September 1922, RA QM/PRIV/CC11/28

  165 ‘Chips’: The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon, ed. Robert Rhodes James, Penguin, 1967, p. 483

  166 Rev. Dr John Stirton, diary, RA AEC/GG/026

  167 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Duke of York, 3 October 1922, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/34

  168 Duke of York to Queen Mary, 4 October 1922, RA QM/PRIV/CC11/29

  169 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Duke of York, 7 November 1922, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/36

  170 Duke of York to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 8 November 1922, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  171 Duke of York to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 27 November 1922, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  172 Duke of York to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 30 November 1922, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  173 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Duke of York, n.d. [6 and 7 December 1922], RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/42–43

  174 Duke of York to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 16 December 1922, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  175 Lady Airlie to Lady Strathmore, draft, 23 December 1922, British Library, Add MSS 82763

  176 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Duke of York, 25 December 1922, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/47

  177 Duke of York to Lady Airlie, 30 January 1923, British Library, Add MSS 82751

  178 Duke of York to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 29 December 1922, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  179 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Duke of York, 30 December 1922, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/48

  180 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 2 January [1923], Glamis Archives (CH)

  181 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Duke of York, 4 January 1923, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/49

  182 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 4 January 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  183 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 5 January 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  184 Bradford, George VI, p. 137; Vickers, p. 58

  185 Bradford, George VI, p. 137

  186 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 5 January 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  187 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 8 January 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  188 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Duke of York, n.d. [8 January 1923], RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/50

  189 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 11 January 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  190 Queen Mary to Lady Airlie, 9 January 1923, British Library, Add MSS 82748

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

  192 Duke of York to Queen Mary, 12 January 1923, RA QM/PRIV/CC11/21

  193 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 12 January 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  194 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 13 January 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  195 Lady Strathmore to May Elphinstone, 16 January 1923, RA QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE

  196 RA GV/PRIV/GVD/1923: 15 January; QM/PRIV/QMD/1923: 15 January

  197 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Arthur Penn, n.d. [15 January 1923], Penn Papers

  198 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 15 January 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  FOUR: A ROYAL WEDDING 1923

  1 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 16 January 1923. RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  2 King George V to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 15 January 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  3 Queen Mary to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 15 January 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  4 Queen Mary to Lady Strathmore, 15 January 1923, Glamis Archives (CH)

  5 Lady Strathmore to Queen Mary, 16 January 1923, RA QM/PRIV/CC47/737

  6 Duke of York to Queen Mary, 16 January 1923, RA QM/PRIV/CC11/22

  7 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to King George V, 17 January 1923, RA GV/PRIV/AA61/342

  8 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Queen Mary, 17 January 1923, RA QM/PRIV/CC 11/34

  9 Lady Strathmore to May Elphinstone, 16 January 1923, RA QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE

  10 Evening News, 17 January 1923

  11 Charles Graves, The Bad Old Days, Faber & Faber, 1951, pp. 70–1

  12 Queen Mary to Duke of York, 18 January 1923, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11

  13 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 16–18 January 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  14 Prince of Wales to Duchess of York, 15 January 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  15 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Arthur Penn, n.d. [18 January 1923], Penn Papers

  16 Lady Strathmore to Arthur Penn, 18 January 1923, Penn Papers

  17 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to D’A
rcy Osborne, 17 January, 1923, RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE

  18 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 19 January 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  19 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 20 January 1923. RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  20 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 151

  21 RA GV/PRIV/GVD/1923: 20 January; RA QM/PRIV/QMD/1923: 20–21 January

  22 Queen Elizabeth to Charles, Prince of Wales, n.d. [1960s], Clarence House Archives, 10086–600

  23 RA QM/PRIV/QMD/1923: 20 January

  24 Duke of York to Lady Leicester, 21 January 1923, Glamis Archives

  25 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to May Elphinstone, n.d. [20 January 1923], RA QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE

  26 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 21 January 1923, Glamis Archives (CH)

  27 Michael Bowes Lyon to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 20 January 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/BL

  28 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 1 February 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  29 Lord Gage to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 19 January 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

  30 Archibald Clark Kerr to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 24 January 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

  31 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 21 January 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  32 Duke of York to Queen Mary, 23 January 1923, RA QM/PRIV/CC11/35

  33 Queen Mary to Duke of York, 24 January 1923, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11

  34 King George V to first Lord Hardinge of Penshurst, 27 January 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL (enclosed with letter from Lord Hardinge to Queen Elizabeth, 22 July 1937)

  35 Queen Mary to Lady Strathmore, 25 January 1923, Glamis Archives

  36 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 22 January 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  37 Queen Mary to Duke of York, 24 January 1923, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11

  38 Wheeler-Bennett, pp. 187–8

  39 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 23 January 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  40 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Queen Mary, 25 January 1923, RAQM/PRIV/CC11/36

  41 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 26 January 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  42 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Duke of York, n.d. [25 January 1923], RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/51

  43 Duke of York to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, n.d. [25] and 26 January 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  44 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 27 January 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  45 King George V to Prince George, 31 January 1923, RA GV/PRIV/AA61/152

  46 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 4 February 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  47 Duke of York to Lady Strathmore, 30 January 1923, Glamis Archives

  48 Lady Strathmore to Duke of York, 1 February 1923, RA GVI/PRIV/PAL/S/32

  49 Duke of York to Lady Airlie, 30 January 1923, pencil copy by Lady Airlie, British Library, Add MSS 82751

  50 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Beryl Poignand, 4 February 1923, Glamis Archives (CH)

  51 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 6 February 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  52 RA QM/PRIV/QMD/1923: 8 February

  53 Laird, p. 72

  54 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 8 February 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  55 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 9 February 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  56 Duke of York to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 11 February 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  57 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 12 February-2 March, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  58 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 5 March 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  59 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Duke of York, n.d. [13 March 1923], RA/GVI/PRIV/RF/26

  60 Duke of York to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 14 March 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  61 Duke of York to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 13 March 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  62 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Duke of York, n.d. [13 March 1923], RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/54

  63 Jock Smith to Louis Greig, 19 March 1923, RA ADYH/MAIN/8

  64 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 21 March 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  65 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 23 March 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  66 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 24 March 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  67 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 28 March 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  68 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Duke of York, [2 April 1923], RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/59

  69 Archibald Clark Kerr to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 31 March 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

  70 Gordon George to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 17 April 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

  71 Duke of York to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 29 March 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  72 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Duke of York, n.d. [29 March 1923], RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/57

  73 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to Duke of York, n.d. [31 March 1923], RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/58

  74 Duke of York to Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, 1 April 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  75 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 4 April 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  76 Laird, p. 53

  77 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 5–7 April 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  78 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 10, 11 April 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  79 Graphic, 21 April 1923, and Wedding Number

  80 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to D’Arcy Osborne, 12 April 1923, RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE

  81 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon to D’Arcy Osborne, n.d. [28 June 1923], RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE

  82 Laird, p. 57

  83 Correspondence between Lord Stamfordham and H. R. Boyd, April-May 1923, RA PS/PSO/GV/C/O/1852/1–2

  84 Gunter & Co. Ltd to Sir Derek Keppel, 13 February 1923, RA MRH/GV/FUNC/039/2A/01

  85 Lord Cromer to Sir Frederick Ponsonby, 9 April 1923, RA LC/LCO/SPECIAL/1923/GVI WEDDING/20

  86 Lady Strathmore to Sir Douglas Dawson, n.d. [21 April 1923], RA LC/LCO/SPECIAL/1923/GVI WEDDING/20

  87 Lady Strathmore to Sir Douglas Dawson, 17 April 1923, RA LC/LCO/SPECIAL/1923/GVI WEDDING/20

  88 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 13–20 April 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  89 Laird, p. 51; Morning Post, 19 April 1923; RA ADYH/MAIN/8/1923

  90 Daily Telegraph, 26 April 1923

  91 Laird, p. 49; Morning Post, 24 April 1923

  92 Laird, p. 50; The Times, 24 April 1923

  93 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 22 April 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  94 H. H. Asquith, Letters to a Friend, Geoffrey Bles, 1934, vol. 2, pp. 50–1

  95 Frederick Dalrymple Hamilton, diary, 23 April 1923, private collection

  96 RA QM/PRIV/DIARY/1923: 23 April

  97 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 23 April 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  98 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 24 April 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  99 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 25 April 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  100 Dundee Advertiser, 22 February 1923, quoted in Laird, p. 49

  101 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, diary, 25 April 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  102 RA QM/PRIV/DIARY/1923: 26 April

  103 Lord Stamfordham to Sir John Baird, 18 April 1923; Lord Stamfordham to Rear Admiral Hugh Watson, 23 April 1923, RA PS/PSO/GV/PS/MAIN/38428/3–4

  104 Laird, p. 55

  105 The Times, 27 April 1923; Yorkshire Post, 27 April 1923; Laird, p. 58

  106 Will Thorne to Lord Stamfordham, 23 April 1923, RA PS/PSO/GV/PS/MAIN/38428/8

  107 Asquith, Letters to a Friend, vol. 2, pp. 52–3

  108 Duff Cooper, Diaries 1915–1952, ed. John Julius Norwich, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005, pp. 174–5

  109 Memorandum and list, n.d., in RA LC/BP/Marriage of the Duke of York/1, 2

  110 RALC/LCO/SPECIAL/1923/GVI WEDDING/2

  111 Morning Post, 27 April 1923

  112 Descriptions from Illustrated London News, quoted by Laird, pp. 59–60

  113 Frederick Dalrymple Hamilton, diary, 26 April 1923, private collection

  114 Ibid.

  115 Laird, pp. 63–4

  116 Lady Strathmore to Beryl Poignand, 10 May 1923, Glamis Archives (CH)


  117 Laird, p. 65

  118 RA F&V/WED/1923/GVI/MENU

  119 RA ADYH/MAIN/1/G; Daily Telegraph, 26 April 1923

  120 Duff Cooper, p. 175

  121 Laird, p. 67

  122 Ibid.

  123 Duchess of York to Lady Strathmore, 26 April 1923, Glamis Archives (CH)

  124 Duchess of York, diary, 26 April 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  FIVE: DUCHESS OF YORK 1923–1924

  1 Duchess of York to Lady Strathmore, n.d. [27 April 1923], Glamis Archives

  2 Ibid.

  3 Lady Strathmore to Duchess of York, 27 April 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/BL

  4 Duke of York to Lady Strathmore, 28 April 1923, Glamis Archives

  5 Lady Strathmore to Duke of York, 1 May 1923, RA GVI/PRIV/PAL/S/33

  6 Duke of York to King George V, 27 April 1923, RA GV/PRIV/AA61/155

  7 Duke of York to Queen Mary, 27 April 1923, RA QM/PRIV/CC11/40

  8 Queen Mary to Duke of York, 28 April 1923, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11

  9 King George V to Duke of York, 29 April 1923, quoted in Wheeler-Bennett, pp. 154–5

  10 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 155

  11 Duchess of York, diary, 27–29 April 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  12 Duchess of York, diary, 3 May 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  13 Duchess of York, diary, 7 May 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  14 Duchess of York, diary, 8 May 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  15 Duchess of York to Beryl Poignand, 22 May 1923, Glamis Archives (CH)

  16 Duchess of York, diary, 16, 17 May 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  17 Duchess of York, diary, 18–22 May 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  18 Duchess of York, diary, 23–25 May 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  19 Dowager Lady Bradford to Queen Mary, 4 June 1923, RA QM/PRIV/CC47/750

  20 Duke of York to Queen Mary, 25 May 1923, RA QM/PRIV/CC11/42

  21 Duchess of York, diary, 5 July 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  22 Duchess of York to Lady Strathmore, n.d. [18 October 1923], Glamis Archives, Box 270

  23 Queen Mary to Duke of York, 16 June 1923, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11

  24 Duchess of York to D’Arcy Osborne, n.d. [28 June 1923], RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE

  25 Owen Chadwick, Britain and the Vatican during the Second World War, Cambridge University Press, 1986, p. 14

  26 Duchess of York, diary, 4 July 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3

  27 Hardinge, p. 39

  28 Helen Hardinge, diary, quoted in Vickers, p. 72

 

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