29 Laird, pp. 79–80
30 Ibid.
31 Sir Frederick Ponsonby, Recollections of Three Reigns, 1952, quoted in Laird, p. 78
32 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 151; Laird, p. 78
33 Laird, p. 97
34 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 189; RA QM/PRIV/DIARY/1923: 28 June
35 Quoted in Charles Loch Mowat, Britain between the Wars, Methuen, 1966, p. 164
36 Laird, p. 76
37 Duchess of York to D’Arcy Osborne, 10 July 1923, RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE
38 Scotsman, 14 July 1923
39 Duchess of York, diary, 19 July 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3
40 RA ADYH/MAIN/8
41 Frank C. Wilson, Lord Mayor of Liverpool, to Louis Greig, 28 July 1923, RA ADYH/MAIN/8/1923/25 July
42 Ernest Pearce to Duchess of York, 1 July 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
43 Duchess of York, diary, 30 July-3 August 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3
44 Daily Telegraph, 2 August 1923
45 Duchess of York, diary, 4 August 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3
46 Prince of Wales to King George V, 21 August 1923, RA EDW/MAINA/2481
47 Duchess of York to Lady Strathmore, 10 September 1923, Glamis Archives (CH)
48 Duke of Kent to Duchess of York, n.d. [19 September 1923], RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
49 King George V to Duke of York, 20 September 1923, RA GV/PRIV/AA61/179; Queen Mary to Duke of York, 18 September 1923, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11
50 Duke of York to Louis Greig, 24 September 1923, RA ADYH/MAIN/101/1923; Wheeler-Bennett, p. 192
51 Duchess of York to Duke of York, n.d. [27 September 1923], RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/60
52 Duchess of York to Duke of York, n.d. [27 September 1923], RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/61
53 Duchess of York, diary, 11 October 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3
54 RA ADYH/MAIN/101/1923
55 Duke of York to Duchess of York, 27 September 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
56 Duchess of York to D’Arcy Osborne, 17 October 1923, RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE
57 Duchess of York to Lady Strathmore, n.d. [18 October 1923], Glamis Archives, Box 270
58 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 196
59 Duchess of York to D’Arcy Osborne, 17 October 1923, RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE
60 Duchess of York to D’Arcy Osborne, 17 October 1923, RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE
61 Duchess of York, diary, 20 October 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3
62 Duchess of York to Lady Strathmore, 21, 26 October [1923], Glamis Archives; Duchess of York, diary, 20 October 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3
63 Duke of York to King George V, 26 October 1923, RA GV/PRIV/AA61/189; Duchess of York to Lady Strathmore, 21 October [1923], Glamis Archives, Box 270
64 Duchess of York, diary, 21 October 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3
65 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 193
66 Duchess of York to Lady Strathmore, 26 October [1923], Glamis Archives
67 Ibid.
68 Duchess of York, diary, 22 October 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3; Duchess of York to Lady Strathmore, n.d. [26 October 1923], Glamis Archives
69 Duchess of York to Lady Strathmore, 26 October [1923], Glamis Archives
70 Duke of York to King George V, 26 October 1923, RA GV/PRIV/AA61/189
71 Graves and Hodge, p. 75
72 Ibid.
73 Nicolson, George V, p. 382
74 Ibid., p. 497
75 Ibid., p. 496
76 Duchess of York to Violet Cavendish-Bentinck, 21 December 1923, Glamis Archives (CH)
77 Duchess of York, diary, 22 December 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3
78 Duchess of York, diary, 25 December 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/3
79 Duchess of York, diary, 13 January 1924, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/4
80 Duchess of York, diary, 8 January 1924, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/4
81 Graves and Hodge, pp. 118–19
82 Duchess of York to King George V, 14 January [1924], RA GV/PRIV/AA61/343
83 King George V to Duke of York, 8 January 1924, RA GV/PRIV/AA61/196, quoted in Wheeler-Bennett, p. 196
84 RA GV/PRIV/GVD/1924: 22 January
85 King George V to Queen Alexandra, 17 February 1924, RA GV/PRIV/AA38/65
86 Quoted by Nicolson, George V, pp. 499–500
87 Duchess of York, diary, 21 January 1923, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/4
88 Duchess of York, diary, 26–27 February 1924, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/4
89 Duke of York to Queen Mary, 9 October 1923, RA QM/PRIV/CC11/49
90 Duke of York to King George V, 16 October 1923, RA GV/PRIV/AA61/188
91 Louis Greig to Duchess of York, 15 November [1923], RA QEQM/PRIV/HH
92 Geordie Greig, Louis and the Prince, Hodder & Stoughton, 1999, p. 214
93 Ibid., pp. 209–15
94 Duchess of York, diary, 7 March 1924, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/4
95 Duchess of York to D’Arcy Osborne, n.d. [17 March 1924], RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE
96 Niall Ferguson, Empire, Allen Lane, 2003, p. 318
97 Duchess of York, diary, 23 April 1924, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/4
98 Wheeler-Bennett, pp. 206–7
99 King George V, speech, 23 April 1924, ‘Speeches and Replies to Addresses by His Majesty King George V’, printed for the Private Secretary’s Office, RA
100 Laird, p. 85
101 Duchess of York, diary, 23 April 1924, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/4
102 Duchess of York, diary, 7, 11 May, 4 June 1924, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/4
103 Laird, p. 90
104 Dorothy Willis to Louis Greig, 13 July 1923: RA ADYH/MAIN/9/1923: 30 November
105 J. Machell to Basil Brooke, RA/ADYH/MAIN/12/1924: 16 July
106 Duchess of York, diary, 26 April 1924, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/4
107 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 2 May 1988, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
108 Duchess of York, diary, 27 May 1924, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/4
109 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 197
110 Duke of Abercorn to Duke of York, 22 March 1924, RA ADYH/MAIN/102; Duke of York to King George V, 24 March 1924, RA GV/PRIV/AA61/201
111 Duchess of York, diary, 19 July 1924, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/4
112 Helen Hardinge, diary, 19 July 1924, quoted in Vickers, p. 84
113 Duchess of York, diary, 21 July 1924, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/4
114 Helen Hardinge, diary, 21 July 1924, quoted in Vickers, p. 86
115 Duchess of York, diary, 22 July 1924, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/4
116 Duchess of York, diary, 22–23 July 1924, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/4
117 Duchess of York, diary, 24–25 July 1924, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/4
118 Duchess of York, diary, 26 July 1924, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/4
119 Duke of York to King George V, 22 July 1924, RA GV/PRIV/AA61/213
120 Rose, George V, p. 286
121 Nicolson, George V, p. 658n.
122 Ibid., p. 658; Rose, George V, pp. 91–2; Bradford, George VI, pp. 121–2
123 Bradford, George VI, p. 122
124 Duchess of York to Lady Strathmore, Sunday n.d., [14 September 1924], Glamis Archives
125 Duke of York to Duchess of York, 29 September 1924, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
126 Duchess of York to Duke of York, Wednesday [1 October 1924], RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/63
127 Duke of York to Duchess of York, 2 October 1924, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
128 Duke of York to Queen Mary, 9 October 1924, RA QM/PRIV/CC11/64
129 Duchess of York, diary, 30 October 1924, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/4
130 Duchess of York to Lady Strathmore, Saturday [1 November 1924], Glamis Archives (CH)
SIX: ON SAFARI 1924–1925
1 Duchess of York, diary, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/4
2 Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RA QEQM/ADD/MISC
3 Winston Churchill to Duchess of York, undated, postmark 10 July 1924, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
4 Duchess of York, diary, 14 July 1924, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/4
5 Duke of York to Queen Mary, 30 November 1924, RA QM/PRIV/CC11/67
6 Duchess of York to D’Arcy Osborne, 4 December 1924, RA QEQ
M/OUT/OSBORNE
7 Author’s interview with Margaret Rhodes, 2004
8 Simon Schama, A History of Britain, vol. 3, pp. 448–9
9 Ibid., p. 463
10 Ferguson, Empire, p. 317
11 H. A. Macmichaelto Basil Brooke, 30 July 1924, RAADYH/MAIN/103/14
12 King George V to Duke of York, 28 November 1924, RA GV/PRIV/AA61/228
13 Queen Mary to Duke of York, 2 December 1924, GVI/PRIV/RF/11
14 Duchess of York to Lady Strathmore, n.d. [30 November 1924], Glamis Archives
15 Duchess of York to Lady Strathmore, n.d. [1 November 1924], Glamis Archives
16 Duchess of York to D’Arcy Osborne, 4 December 1924, RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE
17 Duchess of York, diary, 4 December 1924, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/4
18 Duchess of York, diary, 5 December 1924, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/4
19 Duchess of York, diary, 11 December 1924, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/4
20 Duchess of York to Lady Strathmore, 20 December 1924, Glamis Archives
21 Duchess of York, diary, 18, 20 December 1924, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/4; Duchess of York to Lady Strathmore, 20 December 1924, Glamis Archives; RA QEQM/PRIV/PERSONAL
22 Duke of York, diary, 22 December 1924, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY/4
23 Duchess of York to King George V, 9 February 1925, RA GV/PRIV/AA61/345
24 Duke of York to King George V, 24 December 1924, RA GV/PRIV/AA61/232, quoted in Wheeler-Bennett, p. 200
25 Duchess of York to Lady Strathmore, 29 December 1924, Glamis Archives. She was so delighted with the flowers that she asked Mrs Lamb, the wife of the District Commissioner, to send a consignment of orchids and canna lilies to White Lodge on their return (RA ADYH/MAIN/104/23)
26 Duchess of York to Prince of Wales, 13 January 1925, RA EDW/PRIV/MAINB/76
27 Duchess of York to Lady Strathmore, 29 December 1924, Glamis Archives
28 Duchess of York to the Hon. David Bowes Lyon, 6 January 1925, Glamis Archives
29 Duchess of York, diary, 21 January 1925, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/5
30 Duchess of York to D’Arcy Osborne, 31 January 1925, RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE
31 Duchess of York, diary, 23 January 1925, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/5
32 Duchess of York, diary, 24 January 1925, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/5
33 Duchess of York to King George V, 9 February 1925, RA GV/PRIV/AA61/345
34 Duke of York, diary, 29 January 1925, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY/4
35 Duchess of York, diary, 4, 5 February 1925, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/5
36 Duchess of York to Lady Strathmore, 16 January 1925, Glamis Archives
37 Duchess of York to Prince of Wales, 13 January 1925, RA EDW/MAINB/76
38 Ibid.
39 Prince of Wales to Duchess of York, 27 February 1925, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
40 Duke of York to King George V, 31 January 1925, RA GV/PRIV/AA61/239
41 Duke of York to Queen Mary, 31 January 1925, RA QM/PRIV/CC11/71
42 Duchess of York to King George V, 9 February 1925, RA GV/PRIV/AA61/345
43 Duke of York, diary, 14 February 1925, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY/4
44 Duke of York, diary, 15, 16 February 1925, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY/4; Duchess of York, diary 15, 16 February 1925, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/5
45 Duchess of York to Lady Strathmore, 14 February 1925, Glamis Archives
46 Sir Geoffrey Archer to Captain Basil Brooke, 13 October 1924, RA ADYH/MAIN/103/10
47 Captain Roy Salmon to his mother, 19 February 1925, private collection
48 Ibid.
49 Duke of York, diary, 20 February 1925, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY/4
50 Duchess of York to Lady Strathmore, 27 February 1925, Glamis Archives
51 Duchess of York, diary, 22 February 1925, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/5
52 Duchess of York, diary, 24 February 1925, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/5
53 Duchess of York to Lady Strathmore, 27 February 1925, Glamis Archives
54 Captain Roy Salmon to his mother, 25 March 1925, private collection
55 Duchess of York, diary, 25 February 1925, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/5
56 Duke of York, diary, 25 February 1925, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY/4. According to the Duchess’s diary, there were ‘about 60 huge crocodiles!’
57 Address from Mukama of Bunyoro, 26 February 1925, RA ADYH/MAIN/103/3
58 Captain Roy Salmon to his mother, 25 March 1925, private collection
59 Duchess of York, diary, 27, 28 February 1925, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/5
60 Captain Roy Salmon to his mother, 25 March 1925, private collection
61 Duchess of York to Lady Rose Leveson-Gower, n.d. [March 1925], Glamis Archives
62 Captain Roy Salmon to his mother, 25 March 1925, private collection
63 Duke of York, diary, 2 March 1925, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY/4
64 Captain Roy Salmon to his mother, 25 March 1925, private collection
65 Duke of York, diary, 3 March 1925, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY/4
66 Captain Roy Salmon to his mother, 25 March 1925, private collection
67 Duchess of York, diary, 4 March 1925, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/5
68 Captain Roy Salmon to his mother, 25 March 1925, private collection. Although the Yorks did not return, Salmon did indeed meet the Prince of Wales, accompanying him on safari in Uganda in 1928 and 1930 and writing equally lively accounts to his mother
69 Ibid.
70 Geoffrey Archer, Personal and Historical Memoirs of an East African Administrator, Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh and London, 1963, p. 192; Vickers, p. 95
71 Telegrams from Colonial Office to Basil Brooke, 16 December 1924, 29 January 1925, RA ADYH/MAIN/103/4
72 Duchess of York to Lady Rose Leveson-Gower, n.d. [March 1925], Glamis Archives
73 Duke of York, diary, 21 March 1925, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY/4
74 Duke of York to Duchess of York 7 March 1925, QEQM/PRIV/RF
75 Duke of York to Prince of Wales, 6 March 1925, RA EDW/MAINA/2506
76 Duchess of York to May Elphinstone, 6 March 1925, RA QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE
77 Ibid.; Duchess of York to Lady Strathmore, 30 March 1925, Glamis Archives, Box 270/II
78 Duke of York, diary, 14 March 1925, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY/4
79 Duke of York, diary, 15 March 1925, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY/4
80 Duchess of York to Lady Strathmore, 30 March 1925, Glamis Archives, Box 270/II
81 Duke of York, diary, 17 March 1925, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY/4
82 Duchess of York, diary, 20 March 1925, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/5
83 Duchess of York to Major R. H. Walsh, 24 October 1925, RA QEQM/OUT/WALSH
84 Account of Nuba gathering by D. A. D. L., 25 March 1925, RA ADYH/MAIN/103/4
85 Duke of York to Lady Strathmore, 21 March 1925, Glamis Archives
86 Duchess of York, diary, 31 March 1925, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/5; Duchess of York to Lady Strathmore, 30 March-1 April 1925, Glamis Archives, Box 270/II
87 Duchess of York, diary, 2, 4 April 1925, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/5; Duke of York, diary, 2 April 1925, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY/4
88 Duchess of York, diary, 6 April 1925, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/5
89 Ibid.
90 Archibald Clark Kerr to Duchess of York, 10 March 1925, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
91 Duchess of York to Queen Mary, 8 April 1925, RA QM/PRIV/CC11/74
92 Duke of York, diary, 7 April 1925, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY/4; Duchess of York, diary, 7 April 1925, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/5
93 Duchess of York, diary, 10, 11 April 1925, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/5
94 Duchess of York to Major R. H. Walsh, 14 April 1925, RA QEQM/OUT/WALSH
95 Duchess of York to May Elphinstone, 15 April 1925, RA QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE
96 Duchess of York to D’Arcy Osborne, 4 May 1925, RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE
97 Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RA QEQM/ADD/MISC
SEVEN: BIRTH OF A PRINCESS 1925–1927
1 Duchess of York, diary, 28 April 1925, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/5
2 Extract from the Introduction to Lord Radcliffe, Not in Feather Beds: Some Collected Papers, Hamish Hamilton, 1968,
pp. xvi-xvii
3 Graves and Hodge, p. 172
4 See Osbert Lancaster, Progress at Pelvis Bay, 1936, and Pillar to Post: The Pocket Lamp of Architecture, 1938, quoted in Graves and Hodge, pp. 173–4
5 Graves and Hodge, p. 185
6 Duchess of York, diary, 28 April 1925, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/5
7 Duke of York to Prince of Wales, 27 May 1925, RA EDW/MAINA/2516
8 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 206
9 Ibid., p. 208
10 Duke of York to Prince of Wales, 27 May 1925, RA EDW/PRIV/MAINA/2516
11 Duchess of York, diary, 9 May 1925, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/5
12 Duke of York to Prince of Wales, 27 May 1925, RA EDW/PRIV/MAINA/2516
13 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 208
14 See for instance Queen Mary to Duke of York, 30 May 1925, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11
15 Harry Lench to Basil Brooke, 8 June 1925, RA ADYH/MAIN/14/1925: 4 June
16 James Gough to Basil Brooke, 8 June 1925, RA ADYH/MAIN/14/1925: 4 June
17 F. S. Dutton to Basil Brooke, 16 July 1925, RA QEQMH/PS/ENGT/1925/1A
18 Duchess of York, diary, 15 July 1925, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/5; speeches by Duchess of York and Lady Astor in the Woman Engineer, Vol. II, No. 4, September 1925, RA QEQMH/PS/GEN/1934/E; Caroline Haslett to Basil Brooke, 20 July 1925, RA QEQMH/PS/ENGT/1925/1A
19 Daily Telegraph, 27 April 1926
20 Duke of York to Prince of Wales, 9 August 1925, RA EDW/MAINA/2528
21 Duchess of York’s, diary, 17 July 1925, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/5
22 Duchess of York’s diary, 16 July 1925, RA QEQM/PRIV/DIARY/5; Duchess of York to Major R. H. Walsh, n.d. [summer 1925] and 21 June 1926, RA QEQM/OUT/WALSH
23 Duchess of York to Duke of York, 10 September 1925, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/65
24 Duke of York to Duchess of York, 11 September 1925, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
25 Duke of York to Prince of Wales, 9 August 1925, RA EDW/MAINA/2528
26 RA QM/PRIV/QMD/1925: 16 October
27 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 208
28 Nicolson, George V, pp. 529–30
29 Duchess of York to King George V, 24 November 1925, RA GV/PRIV/AA56/105
30 Duke of York to Prince of Wales, 9 August 1925, RA EDW/MAINA/2528
31 Duchess of York to Duke of York, 10 September 1925, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/65
32 Duke of York to Lady Strathmore, 18 October 1925, Glamis Archives
33 Queen Mary to Duke of York, 20 October 1925, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11
34 Duke of York to Queen Mary, 27 October 1925, RA QM/PRIV/CC11/81
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