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  61 Duchess of York to D’Arcy Osborne, 10 October 1932, RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE

  62 Duchess of York to King George V, 21 August 1929, RA GV/PRIV/AA62/86

  63 Ibid.

  64 Duchess of York to D’Arcy Osborne, 17 November 1929, RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE

  65 Ibid.; Duchess of York to Osbert Sitwell, 11 November 1929, Sitwell Papers

  66 Duchess of York to Queen Mary, 9 September 1929, RA QM/PRIV/CC11/143

  67 Duke of York to King George V, 6 October 1929, RA GV/PRIV/AA62/100; Wheeler-Bennett, p. 250

  68 Lady Helen Graham to Rev. J. I. McNair, 6 July 1929, RA QEQMH/PS/ENGT/1929: 5 October

  69 ADYH/MAIN/33/1929: 29 October

  70 Princess Elizabeth to Duchess of York, n.d. [January 1930], RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  71 Duchess of York to Nannie Beevers, 31 December 1929, private collection

  72 Duke of York to Duchess of York, 6, 7, 8 January 1930, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  73 Lady Strathmore to Beryl Poignand, 23 February 1930, Glamis Archives (CH)

  74 Duchess of York to Nannie Beevers, 4 April 1930, private collection

  75 Duchess of York to D’Arcy Osborne, 11 March 1930, RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE

  76 Queen Mary to Duchess of York, 9 February 1930, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  77 Duchess of York to Queen Mary, 14 April 1930, RA QM/PRIV/CC11/154

  78 Queen Mary to Duchess of York, 15 [April] 1930, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  79 Duchess of York to Nannie Beevers, 4 April 1930, private collection

  80 Duchess of York to Queen Mary, 21 July 1930, RA QM/PRIV/CC11/158

  81 Duchess of York to Queen Mary, 31 July 1930, RA QM/PRIV/CC11/159

  82 Dr Frank Neon Reynolds, letters to his wife, Reynolds Papers

  83 Duchess of York to Queen Mary, 5 August 1930, RA QM/PRIV/CC11/161

  84 Duke of York to Queen Mary, 5 August 1930, RA QM/PRIV/CC11/160

  85 Dr Reynolds to Mrs Reynolds, August 1930, Reynolds Papers

  86 Dr Reynolds to Mrs Reynolds, [21] August 1930, Reynolds Papers

  87 Lady Strathmore to the Hon. David Bowes Lyon, 26 August 1930, Bowes Lyon Papers, SPW

  88 Reported by Sir Clive Wigram in letter to Lady Wigram, 22 August 1930, RA AEC/GG/6

  89 Queen Mary to Duke of York, 22 August 1930, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11

  90 Queen Mary to May Elphinstone, 25 August 1930, RA QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE

  91 Colonel Herbert Spender-Clay to Rachel Bowes Lyon, 24 August 1930, Bowes Lyon Papers, SPW

  92 Asquith, The Queen, p. 168

  93 Ibid.

  94 Lady Strathmore to the Hon. David Bowes Lyon, 26 August 1930, Bowes Lyon Papers, SPW

  95 Basil Brooke to Sunday Express, 24 August 1930; statement by Sir Henry Simson, 24 August 1930, RA ADYH/MAIN/070/Birth of Princess Margaret

  96 Queen Mary to Duchess of York, 25 August 1930, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  97 Duke of York to Duchess of York, 25 August 1930, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  98 Queen Mary to Duke of York, 22 August 1930, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11

  99 Duchess of York to Queen Mary, 27 August 1930, RA QM/PRIV/CC11/163

  100 Duchess of York to Queen Mary, 6 September 1930, RA QM/PRIV/CC11/165

  101 Duke of York and Princess Elizabeth to Duchess of York, 8 September 1930, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  102 Duchess of York to Duke of York, 9 September 1930, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/70

  103 Princess Elizabeth to Duchess of York, 10 September 1930, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  104 Duchess of York to Duke of York, [12 September 1930], RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/72

  105 Duchess of York to Queen Mary, 28 August 1930, RA QM/PRIV/CC11/164

  106 Duchess of York to Most Rev. Cosmo Lang, 10 September 1930, Lambeth Palace Library, Lang Papers 318 f. 186

  107 Most Rev. Cosmo Lang to Duchess of York, 11 September 1930, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Lang

  108 Duke of York to Queen Mary, 15 September 1930, RA QM/PRIV/CC11/166; Duke of York to King George V, 29 September 1930, RA GV/PRIV/AA62/120

  109 Duchess of York to Queen Mary, 22 October 1930, RA QM/PRIV/CC11/169

  110 Duchess of York to Most Rev. Cosmo Lang, 10 September 1930, Lambeth Palace Library, Lang Papers 318 f. 186

  111 Duchess of York to Dr Varley, 17 December 1930, RA GVI/OUT

  112 RA QM/PRIV/QMD/1930: 25 December

  113 Duchess of York to Queen Mary, 26 January 1931, RA QM/PRIV/CC11/175

  114 Nicolson, George V, pp. 580–1

  115 Graves and Hodge, pp. 254–5

  116 King George V to Duke of York, 30 September 1931, RA GV/PRIV/AA62/147

  117 Wheeler Bennett, pp. 257–9; Rose, George V, pp. 376–7

  118 RA GV/PRIV/GVD/1931: 28 October

  119 Ibid.

  120 Ibid.

  121 Graves and Hodge, p. 297

  122 Duchess of York to D’Arcy Osborne, n.d. [January 1932], RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE

  123 Duchess of York to Queen Mary, 16 September 1931, RA QM/PRIV/CC11/184

  124 Duchess of York to Queen Mary, 22 October 1931, RA QM/PRIV/CC11/189

  125 Patrick Hodgson to George Aylwen, 1 October 1931, RA ADYH/MAIN/41

  126 Lord Mayor of Cardiff to Lady Helen Graham, 30 October 1931, RA QEQMH/PS/ENGT/1932/12

  127 W. C. R. Martin to Lady Helen Graham, 18 February 1932, RA QEQMH/PS/ENGT/1932: 16 February

  128 Duchess of York to D’Arcy Osborne, n.d. [January 1932], RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE

  129 Queen Mary to Duke of York, 19 August 1931, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11

  130 Duchess of York to Queen Mary, 16 September 1931, RA QM/PRIV/CC11/184

  131 Duchess of York to Queen Mary, 21 September 1931, RA QM/PRIV/CC11/186

  132 Queen Mary to Duke of York, 22 September 1931, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11; Duchess of York to Queen Mary, 8 December 1931, RA QM/PRIV/CC11/190

  133 Duchess of York to Queen Mary, 21 October 1932, RA QM/PRIV/CC11/204

  134 Jane Roberts, Royal Landscape, Yale University Press, 1997, p. 321

  135 Duke of York to King George V, 29 April 1932, RA GV/PRIV/AA62/154

  136 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 259

  137 Roberts, Royal Landscape, p. 329

  138 Wheeler-Bennett, pp. 259–60

  139 Christopher Hussey, ‘Royal Lodge’, Country Life, 1 July 1939

  140 Miss B. Hankey to Duchess of York, n.d. [May 1932], RA QEQM/PS/GEN/1932/Blaina

  141 Queen Mary to Duchess of York, 31 July 1932, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  142 Duchess of York to King George V, 5 August 1932, RA GV/PRIV/AA62/158

  143 Ibid.

  144 Queen Mary to Duke of York, 19 May 1932, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11

  145 Queen Mary to Duke of York, 24 May 1932, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11

  146 Duchess of York to D’Arcy Osborne, 10 October 1932, RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE

  147 Duchess of York to Queen Mary, 21 October 1932, RA QM/PRIV/CC11/204

  148 Duchess of York to D’Arcy Osborne, 30 November and 20 December 1932, RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE

  149 D’Arcy Osborne to the Duchess of York, 26 January 1933, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Osborne

  150 Note by the Duchess of York on letter from Lady Londonderry to Lettice Bowlby, 27 July 1934, RA QEQMH/PS/GEN/1934/Women’s Employment Federation

  151 Lady Helen Graham to Lady Ruth Balfour, 30 November 1934, RA QEQMH/PS/GEN/1934/National Council of Women

  152 Most Rev. Cosmo Lang to Duchess of York, 27 December 1932, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Lang

  153 Duchess of York to Most Rev. Cosmo Lang, 7 January 1933, Lambeth Palace Library, Lang Papers 318 f. 169

  154 Queen Mary to Duchess of York, 5 February 1933, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  155 Duchess of York to Queen Mary, 19, 30 January 1933, RA QM/PRIV/CC11/209, 210

  156 Correspondence with Miss Thelma Evans of Rozevale Kennels, Reigate, RA ADYH/MAIN/070

  157 Marion Crawford to Duchess of York, 21 November 1932, RA QEQM/PRIV/CHILD

  158 Dermot Morrah, Princess Elizabeth, Odhams Press, 1950, p. 50

  159 K. M. Murphy to Duchess of York, 5 April 1934, RA QEQMH/PS/GEN/Linguaphone Institute

  1
60 Marion Crawford to Lady Cynthia Colville, n.d. [8 November 1937], RA QM/PRIV/CC14/62a

  161 Ibid.

  162 Ibid.

  163 See Marion Crawford, The Little Princesses, Harcourt, Brace, New York, 1950, pp. 53, 97 for Lady Cynthia Colville’s letters to Marion Crawford relaying Queen Mary’s questions and comments

  164 Queen Mary to Owen Morshead, 26 March 1941, RA QM/PRIV/CC48/957

  165 Owen Morshead to Queen Mary, 25 July 1941, RA QM/PRIV/CC48/975

  166 Information from the family of the Vicomtesse de Bellaigue

  167 Queen Elizabeth to Princess Elizabeth, 29 December 1935, 6, 13, 27 May 1939, 27 June 1944, RA QEII/PRIV/RF, RA QEQM/PRIV/CHILD

  168 Notes by Duchess of York, n.d. [1931–6], RA QEQM/PRIV/PERS

  169 Duchess of York to Most Rev. Cosmo Lang, 12 January 1934, Lambeth Palace Library, Lang Papers 318 f. 174

  170 ADYH/MAIN/51/1934: 16 February

  171 QEQMH/PS/ENGT/1934: 21 February

  172 Captain Lionel Scott to Harold Campbell, 7 July 1934, RA ADYH/MAIN/53/1934: 5–6 July

  173 Duchess of York to Osbert Sitwell, 15 July 1934, Sitwell Papers

  174 Queen Elizabeth to Sir Robin Mackworth-Young, 3 May 1976, RA QEQM/OUT/MOLYNEUX/140

  175 Duchess of York to Hon. Richard Molyneux, 19 June 1931, 29 December 1935, RA QEQM/OUT/MOLYNEUX/46, 74

  176 Duchess of York to Hon. Richard Molyneux, 18 August 1934, RA QEQM/OUT/MOLYNEUX/71

  177 RCIN 403396

  178 Queen Elizabeth to Sir Robin Mackworth-Young, 3 May 1976, RA QEQM/OUT/MOLYNEUX/140

  179 Duchess of York to D’Arcy Osborne, 28 July 1934, RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE

  180 Duchess of York to Osbert Sitwell, 2 August 1934, Sitwell Papers

  181 King George V to Duchess of York, 7 August 1934, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  182 Duchess of York to King George V, 6 August [misdated July] 1934, RA GV/PRIV/AA62/188

  183 Duchess of York to King George V, 28 October 1934, RA GV/PRIV/AA62/200

  184 Duchess of York to Queen Mary, 6 August 1934, RA QM/PRIV/CC11/225

  185 Duchess of York to Duke of Kent, 27 August 1934, RA QEQM/OUT/GDK

  186 RA GV/PRIV/GVD/1934: 19 September

  187 Duchess of York to Beryl Poignand, 21 September 1934, Glamis Archives (CH)

  188 Queen Mary to Duchess of York, 9 November 1934, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  189 The Times, 30 November 1934

  190 Lord Strathmore to Miss Cavie, 7 December 1934, Glamis Archives

  191 Daily Telegraph, 30 November 1934

  192 Duchess of York to King George V, 18 March 1935, RA GV/PRIV/AA62/215

  193 RA GV/PRIV/GVD/1935: 6 May

  194 Nicolson, George V, pp. 669–72

  195 Prochaska, Republic of Britain, pp. 207–8

  196 Ibid., p. 208

  197 Nicolson, George V, p. 669

  198 Prochaska, Republic of Britain, pp. 208–9

  199 Nicolson, George V, pp. 662–8

  200 Käthe Kübler to Duchess of York, 1 April 1933, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

  201 Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RA QEQM/ADD/MISC. See also Vaughan Jones, Daily Express, 18 August 1946

  202 D’Arcy Osborne to Duchess of York, 7 February 1934, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Osborne

  203 D’Arcy Osborne to Duchess of York, 14 March 1935, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Osborne

  204 Nicolson, George V, p. 665; Rose, George V, p. 388

  205 Sir Eric Phipps to King George V, 12 September 1934, RA PS/PSO/GV/C/P/586/200

  206 Sir Clive Wigram to Sir Eric Phipps, 16 January 1935, RA PS/PSO/GV/C/P/586/216, quoted in Nicolson, George V, p. 666

  207 Rose, George V, p. 387

  208 Ibid., p. 389

  209 Norman Hartnell, Silver and Gold, Evans Bros, 1955, pp. 90–1

  210 RA GV/PRIV/GVD/1935: 6 November

  211 Sir Ian Malcolm to Duchess of York, 9 April 1935, RA ADYH/MAIN/58/1935: 30 November

  212 Sir Basil Brooke to Sir Ian Malcolm, 24 July 1935, RA ADYH/MAIN/58/1935: 30 November

  213 Sir George Clerk to Sir Basil Brooke, 5 November 1935, RA ADYH/MAIN/58/1935: 30 November

  214 Sir George Clerk to Sir Clive Wigram, 2 December 1935, RA PS/PSO/GV/C/P/1273/67

  215 Duchess of York to D’Arcy Osborne, 10 January 1936, RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE

  216 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 264

  217 Princess Margaret to Duchess of York, 17 December 1935, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  218 Jean Bruce to Duchess of York, 22 December 1935, RA QEQM/PRIV/CHILD

  219 Alah Knight to Duchess of York, 24 December [1935], RA QEQM/PRIV/CHILD

  220 Duchess of York to Princess Elizabeth, 29 December 1935, RA QEII/PRIV/RF

  221 Princess Margaret to Duchess of York, 1 January [1936], RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  222 Duchess of York to Princess Elizabeth, 6 January 1936, QEII/PRIV/RF

  223 Duchess of York to Queen Mary, 27 December 1935, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/18

  224 Duchess of York to King George V, 30 December 1935, RA GV/PRIV/AA62/241

  225 Duchess of York to Dick Molyneux, 29 December 1935, RA QEQM/OUT/MOLYNEUX/74

  226 Owen Morshead to Paquita Morshead, 14 January 1936, RA AEC/GG/12/OS/1 (Morshead Papers)

  227 Rose, George V, p. 400

  228 Hon. Jean Bruce to Duchess of York, 10 January 1936, RA QEQM/PRIV/CHILD

  229 RA GV/PRIV/GVD/1936: 16 January

  230 Alan Lascelles to Joan Lascelles, 16 January 1936, CAC LASL 4/2/1

  231 Alan Lascelles to Joan Lascelles, 18 January 1936, CAC LASL 4/2/4

  232 Duchess of York to Queen Mary, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/22

  233 Queen Mary, diary, RA QM/PRIV/QMD/1936: 19 January

  234 Ziegler, Edward VIII, p. 241

  235 Hardinge, p. 59

  236 RA QM/PRIV/QMD/1936: 20 January

  237 Rose, George V, p. 403

  238 RA QM/PRIV/QMD/1936: 27 January

  239 RA QM/PRIV/QMD/1936: 28 January

  240 Arthur Penn to Duchess of York, 22 January 1936, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Penn

  241 Rose, George V, p. 406

  TEN: ABDICATION 1936–1937

  1 Laird, p. 160

  2 Channon, Diaries, p. 53

  3 Kenneth Rose, Kings, Queens and Courtiers, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1985, p. 73

  4 Ziegler, Edward VIII, p. 202

  5 Ibid., p. 203

  6 Bradford, George VI, pp. 178–9

  7 Ibid., pp. 179–80

  8 Ziegler, Edward VIII, pp. 227–8

  9 Bradford, George VI, p. 183

  10 Ibid., p. 190

  11 Ziegler, Edward VIII, p. 233

  12 Rose, George V, p. 392

  13 Airlie, p. 197, quoted in Ziegler, Edward VIII, p. 199

  14 Ziegler, Edward VIII, pp. 236–7

  15 Ibid., p. 243

  16 Ibid.; Sir Alan Lascelles to A. G. Allen, 19 April 1956, CAC LASL 3/9/7

  17 Owen Morshead, note, 20 December 1936, RA AEC/GG/12/OS/1

  18 Ziegler, Edward VIII, p. 247

  19 Ibid., p. 245

  20 Helen Hardinge, diary, Hon. Lady Murray Papers

  21 Francis Watson, Dawson of Penn, Chatto & Windus, 1950, p. 285

  22 Kenneth Clark to Duchess of York, 28 March 1936, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

  23 Duchess of York to Queen Mary, 11 March 1936, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/24

  24 RA QM/PRIV/QMD/1936: 10–12 April

  25 Duchess of York to Queen Mary, 21 May 1936, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/26

  26 RA QM/PRIV/QMD/1936: 25 May; Morning Post, 26 May 1936

  27 Duchess of York to Dick Molyneux, 12 June 1936, RA QEQM/OUT/MOLYNEUX/79

  28 D’Arcy Osborne to Duchess of York, 5 June 1936, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Osborne

  29 RA QEQMH/PS/ENGT/1936/7

  30 RA ADYH/MAIN/060/9 June 1936

  31 Roger Lumley to Sir Basil Brooke, 21 July 1936, RA ADYH/MAIN/060/1936: 28 July

  32 Duchess of York to Duff Cooper, 3 August 1936, CAC, Duff Cooper papers; Duff Cooper to Duchess, 14 August 1936, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL

  33 Duke of York to C
lare Vyner, 3 August 1936, Vyner Papers

  34 Queen Mary to Duchess of York, 9 August 1936, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  35 Helen Hardinge, diary, 28 March 1936, Hon. Lady Murray Papers

  36 Lord Wigram, memorandum, 13 March 1936, RA PS/PSO/GVI/C/019/315

  37 Duchess of Devonshire to Lady Airlie, 25 February 1936, British Library, Add MSS 82766

  38 Ziegler, Edward VIII, p. 281

  39 Ibid., p. 291

  40 Hardinge, pp. 101–3

  41 Ziegler, Edward VIII, pp. 266–72, 273–5

  42 Ibid., p. 273

  43 Helen Hardinge, diary, 25 November 1936, Hon. Lady Murray Papers

  44 Ziegler, Edward VIII, p. 274

  45 Ibid., pp. 282–6

  46 Ibid., p. 287

  47 Duchess of York to Queen Mary, 14 September 1936, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/31

  48 Queen Mary to Duke of York, 13 August 1936, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11

  49 Edward W. Watt, Lord Provost, to Sir Basil Brooke, 11 August 1936, with marginal notes by the Duke of York, RA ADYH/MAIN/060/23 September 1936

  50 Duchess of York to Queen Mary, 19 September 1936, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/32

  51 Ziegler, Edward VIII, p. 288 (see also Bradford, George VI, p. 225)

  52 Ziegler, Edward VIII, p. 287, quoting Sir Walter Monckton

  53 Ibid., pp. 287–8, quoting Sir Alan Lascelles

  54 Queen Mary to Duke of York, 13 August 1936, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11

  55 Duke of York to Queen Mary, 13 October 1936, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/35

  56 Duchess of York to Queen Mary, 11 October 1936, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/34

  57 Ibid.

  58 Queen Mary to Duchess of York, 14 October 1936, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF

  59 Ziegler, Edward VIII, p. 291

  60 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 277

  61 Ibid.

  62 Duchess of York to Queen Mary, 21 October 1936, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/36

  63 Queen Mary to Duke of York, 22 October 1936, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11

  64 Rev. Alan Don, diary, 24 November 1936, Lambeth Palace Library, MSS 2864

  65 Duchess of York to King Edward VIII, 29 October 1936, RA EDW/MAINA/3024

  66 Duke of York to Queen Mary, 6 November 1936, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/38

  67 Queen Mary to Duke of York, 8 November 1936, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11

  68 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 280

  69 Ibid., p. 281

  70 Duff Cooper, p. 229

  71 Queen Mary to Lord Wigram, 15 July 1938, commenting on King Edward VIII’s letter to her of 20 November 1936, quoted in Ziegler, Edward VIII, p. 324

  72 Ziegler, Edward VIII, pp. 323–4

  73 King Edward VIII to Queen Mary, 20 November 1936, RA EDW/ADD/ABD/1, quoted in ibid., p. 324

 

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