74 Queen Mary to Duchess of York, 17 November 1936, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
75 Duchess of York to Queen Mary, n.d. [17 November 1936], RA EDW/ADD/ABD/1
76 Evelyn, Duchess of Devonshire, to Lady Airlie, 17 November 1936, British Library, Add MSS 82766
77 Duchess of York to Queen Mary, 20 November 1936, RA EDW/ADD/ABD/1
78 Ziegler, Edward VIII, p. 324
79 Duchess of York to King Edward VIII, 23 November 1936, RA EDW/PRIV/MAINB/111
80 Duchess of York to Helen Hardinge, 23 November 1936, Hon. Lady Murray Papers
81 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 283
82 Ziegler, Edward VIII, p. 302
83 Ibid., pp. 303–4
84 Ibid., pp. 305–7
85 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 284
86 Ibid., p. 284n.
87 King George VI’s account of the abdication, quoted in ibid., p. 284
88 Duchess of York to Dick Molyneux, n.d. [3 December 1936], RA QEQM/OUT/MOLYNEUX/83
89 King George VI’s account of the abdication, quoted in Wheeler-Bennett, p. 285
90 Ziegler, Edward VIII, p. 310
91 King George VI’s account of the abdication, quoted in Wheeler-Bennett, p. 285
92 Frederick Dalrymple Hamilton, diary, 3 December 1936, private collection
93 Susan Williams, The People’s King, Allen Lane, 2003, pp. 184
94 Alan Lascelles to George Allen, 19 April 1956, CAC, LASL 3/9/7
95 Lord Birkenhead, Walter Monckton, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1969, p. 138
96 Duke of York to Queen Mary, 5 December 1936, RA EDW/ADD/ABD/1
97 Duchess of York to Osbert Sitwell, 7 December 1936, Sitwell Papers
98 Owen Morshead, notes, 14 January 1937, RA AEC/GG/12/OS/1. A slightly different version of Queen Mary’s words appears in her biography by James Pope-Hennessy: Queen Mary, Allen & Unwin, 1959, p. 576
99 Ziegler, Edward VIII, p. 311
100 Ibid., pp. 311–12; Bradford, George VI, p. 255
101 King George VI’s account of the abdication, quoted in Wheeler-Bennett, p. 285
102 Duchess of York to May Elphinstone, 6 December 1936, RA QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE
103 Lady Londonderry to Duchess of York, 5 December [1936], RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL; Duchess of York to Lady Londonderry, 7 December 1936, RA QEQM/OUT/MISC
104 Helen Hardinge, diary, 9 December 1936, Hon. Lady Murray Papers
105 King George VI’s account of the abdication, quoted in Wheeler-Bennett, p. 286
106 Ibid.
107 Queen Mary’s words to Harold Nicolson, quoted in Bradford, George VI, p. 198
108 RA QM/PRIV/QMD/1936: 9 December
109 Duchess of York to Queen Mary, 10 December 1936, RA EDW/ADD/ABD/1
110 RA QM/PRIV/QMD/1936: 10 December
111 Ziegler, Edward VIII, pp. 326–7
112 Frederick Dalrymple Hamilton, diary, 10 December 1936, private collection
113 Princess Royal to Duchess of York, 10 December 1936, RA QEQMH/PRIV/RF
114 King George VI’s account of the abdication, quoted in Wheeler-Bennett, p. 287
115 Ziegler, Edward VIII, p. 331
116 Queen Elizabeth to Duke of Windsor, 11 December 1936, RA EDW/MAINA/3068
117 RA QM/PRIV/QMD/1936: 11 December
118 King George VI’s account of the abdication, quoted in Wheeler-Bennett, p. 287
119 Queen Elizabeth to Most Rev. Cosmo Lang, 14 January 1937, Lambeth Palace Library, Lang Papers 318 ff. 181–3
120 Queen Mary to Queen Elizabeth, 11 December 1936, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
121 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 288
122 Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RA QEQM/ADD/MISC
123 Lady Cynthia Asquith, The King’s Daughter, Hutchinson, [1937], pp. 96–7; Ben Pimlott, The Queen, HarperCollins, 1997, p. 41
124 Queen Elizabeth to Most Rev. Cosmo Lang, 12 December 1936, Lambeth Palace Library, Lang Papers 318 ff. 177–80
125 Rev. Alan Don, diary, 14 December 1936, Lambeth Palace Library, MSS 2864
126 Most Rev. Cosmo Lang to Queen Elizabeth, 14 December 1936, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Lang
127 Quoted in Bradford, George VI, p. 299
128 Owen Morshead, notes, 12 January 1937, RA AEC/GG12/OS/1
129 Letter to Victor Cazalet quoted in Bradford, George VI, p. 300
130 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 14 December 1936, quoted in Wheeler-Bennett, p. 296
131 Wheeler-Bennett, pp. 296–7
132 Queen Mary to King George VI, 11 December 1936, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11
133 King George VI to Queen Mary, n.d. [11 December 1936], RA QM/PRIV/CC12/39
134 Queen Mary, Message to the Nation, 12 December 1936, RA QM/PRIV/CC49/99
135 Quoted by Bradford, George VI, p. 298
136 Owen Morshead, notes, 20 December 1936, RA AEC/GG12/OS/1
137 King George VI, broadcast, 1 January 1937, quoted in Wheeler-Bennett, p. 297
138 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 2 February 1937, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/42
139 Princess Beatrice to Queen Elizabeth, 12 December 1936, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
140 Duchess of Beaufort to Queen Elizabeth, 12 December 1936, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
141 Princess Alice to Queen Elizabeth, 12 December 1936, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
142 Queen Mary to Lady Strathmore, 16 December 1936, Glamis Archives
143 Lady Strathmore to Sir John Weir, 19 December 1936, Glamis Archives
144 Owen Morshead, notes, 16 January 1937, RA AEC/GG12/OS/1
145 The Duke of Windsor, A King’s Story: The Memoirs of H.R.H. The Duke of Windsor, Cassell, 1951, p. 278
146 Jasper Ridley to Queen Elizabeth, 10 December 1936, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Ridley
147 Archibald Clark Kerr to Queen Elizabeth, 10 December 1936, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
148 Osbert Sitwell to Queen Elizabeth, 11 December 1936, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Sitwell
149 Queen Elizabeth to Osbert Sitwell, 17 December 1936, Sitwell Papers
150 Queen Elizabeth to Osbert Sitwell, 19 February 1937, RA QEQM/OUT/SITWELL
151 Queen Elizabeth to D’Arcy Osborne, 16 December 1936, RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE
152 Bradford, George VI, p. 299
153 Walter Monckton, notes, September 1941, Bodleian Library, Monckton Papers, MT 22/220–2
154 Owen Morshead, notes, 17 January 1937, RA AEC/GG12/OS/1
155 Osbert Sitwell to Queen Elizabeth, 8 February 1937, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Sitwell
156 Queen Elizabeth to Osbert Sitwell, 19 February 1937, RA QEQM/OUT/SITWELL
157 Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RA QEQM/ADD/MISC
158 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 23 March, 7 April 1937, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/45, 47
159 W. C. Johnson, Chairman, People’s Palace, to Sir Alexander Hardinge, 21 December 1936, RA PS/PSO/GVI/PS/MAIN/00616/B/03
160 Earl of Cromer to Alan Lascelles, 22 December 1936, RA PS/PSO/GVI/PS/MAIN/00616/B/19
161 Countess Spencer, diary, 16 March 1937, Althorp Archives
162 Harold Nicolson, Diaries and Letters 1930–1939, ed. Nigel Nicolson, Collins, 1966, pp. 297–8
163 Clement Attlee to Tom Attlee, 17 April 1937, Bodleian Library, MS Eng.c.4792
164 Ziegler, Osbert Sitwell, Pimlico, 1999, p. 238
165 Lady Diana Cooper, quoted in Bradford, George VI, pp. 301–2
166 Queen Mary to King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, 26 April 1937, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11
167 Pope-Hennessy, p. 584
168 Queen Mary to Queen Elizabeth, 23 February 1937, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF; Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 11 March 1937, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/44
169 Longford, Queen Mother, pp. 63–4, and Laird, pp. 205–7
170 Robert Wood, A World in Your Ear, 1979, pp. 102–3, quoted in Bradford, George VI, pp. 278–9
171 Countess Spencer, diary, 1 May 1937, Althorp Archives
172 Countess Spencer, diary, 5 May 1937, Althorp Archives
173 Graves and Hodge, p. 367
174 Ibid.
175 Wheeler-Benne
tt, p. 311
176 Ibid. pp. 311–12
177 Ibid., p. 312
178 Graves and Hodge, pp. 367–8
179 Owen Morshead to Aunt Dora (copy), 14 May 1937, RA AEC/GG12/DIARY/1937
180 Ibid.
181 Rev. Alan Don, diary, 12 May 1937, Lambeth Palace Library, MSS 2864
182 Princess Elizabeth, ‘The Coronation, 12th May 1937’, account written for her parents, RA QEII/PRIV/PERS
183 Ibid.
184 Queen Mary to King George VI, 12 May 1937, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11
185 Queen Elizabeth to Most Rev. Cosmo Lang, 15 May 1937, Lambeth Palace Library, Lang Papers 318 ff. 184–6
ELEVEN: QUEEN CONSORT 1937–1939
1 Noble Frankland, History at War, Giles de la Mare, 1998, p. 214. Dr Frankland is the author of biographies of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, and of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught
2 Duchess of York to King George V, 5 August 1932, RA GV/PRIV/AA62/158
3 Queen Elizabeth to Princess Elizabeth, 21 December 1949, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
4 Ibid.
5 Mackenzie King, diary, 20 May 1939, LAC/BAC MG26-J13
6 Helen Hardinge, diary, quoted in Vickers, p. 76
7 Duchess of York to D’Arcy Osborne, 5 August 1931, 10 January 1936, RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE
8 Duchess of York to D Arcy Osborne, 24 November 1928, 17 November 1929, RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE
9 Duchess of York to Duff Cooper, 1 October 1935, CAC, Duff Cooper Papers
10 Duchess of York to D’Arcy Osborne, 11 March 1930, RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE
11 Osbert Sitwell to Duchess of York, 12 August 1936, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/SITWELL
12 D’Arcy Osborne to Duchess of York, 15 August 1934, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/OSBORNE
13 Owen Morshead, notes, 7 July 1940, RA AEC/GG/12/OS/2
14 Duchess of York to D’Arcy Osborne, n.d. [postmark 17 March 1924], RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE
15 Duchess of York to Duff Cooper, 20 March 1931, CAC, Duff Cooper Papers
16 D’Arcy Osborne to Duchess of York, 27 August 1935, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/OSBORNE
17 Duchess of York to D’Arcy Osborne, 28 July 1934, RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE
18 D’Arcy Osborne to Duchess of York, 23 July 1937, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/OSBORNE
19 Duchess of York to D’Arcy Osborne, n.d. [postmark 22 March 1924], RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE
20 Duchess of York to D’Arcy Osborne, 13 July 1928, RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE
21 Duchess of York to D’Arcy Osborne, 17 November 1929, RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE
22 Owen Morshead, notes, 7 July 1940, RA AEC/GG/12/OS/2
23 Lady Strathmore to Major and Mrs Colvin, 14 January 1937, Glamis Archives
24 RA QM/PRIV/QMD/1937: 18 May
25 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 318
26 Lucy Baldwin to Queen Elizabeth, 1 June 1937, RAQEQM/PRIV/PAL
27 Graves and Hodge, p. 380
28 Ibid., pp. 402–3
29 Conversation reported by Owen Morshead in a letter to Paquita Morshead, 20 September 1937, RA AEC/GG/12/OS/1
30 Queen Elizabeth to Lord Nuffield, 15 July 1937, RA QEQM/OUT/MISC
31 Laird, pp. 214–15
32 Commander Oscar Henderson to Sir Alexander Hardinge, 3 August 1937, RA PS/PSO/GVI/PS/MAIN/01000/075/A/94
33 Lieutenant Colonel Evelyn Fanshawe to Captain R. J. Streatfeild, n.d. [26 July 1937], RA QEQMH/PS/ENGT/1937: 24 July
34 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 18 August 1937, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/54
35 Letters from Chamberlain to his sister Hilda, Chamberlain Papers, quoted by Bradford, George VI, pp. 347–9
36 King George VI to Queen Mary, 30 August 1937, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/55
37 Most Rev. Cosmo Lang to Queen Elizabeth, 4 September 1937, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/LANG
38 Ziegler, Osbert Sitwell, pp. 238–9
39 Countess of Moray to Queen Elizabeth, n.d. [autumn 1937] RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
40 Hon. Sir Richard Molyneux to Queen Elizabeth, 12 September 1937, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Molyneux
41 Ziegler, Edward VIII, p. 348
42 Ibid., p. 349
43 Ibid., p. 351
44 Bradford, George VI, p. 318
45 Lord Wigram to Most Rev. Cosmo Lang, 5 April 1937, Lambeth Palace Library, Lang Papers 318 ff. 136–7
46 Owen Morshead, diary, 3 June 1937, RA AEC/GG/12/DIARY/1937
47 Lord Wigram to Most Rev. Cosmo Lang, 5 April 1937, Lambeth Palace Library, Lang Papers 318 ff. 136–7
48 Queen Mary to King George VI, 10 April 1937, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11
49 King George VI to Duke of Windsor, 11 April 1937, RA EDW/MAINB/116, quoted in Ziegler, Edward VIII, p. 355
50 Ibid., p. 357
51 Queen Mary to King George VI, 4 February 1937, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11
52 Lord Wigram to Sir John Simon, 11 March 1937, RA PS/PSO/GVI/C/019/207
53 Lord Wigram, memorandum, n.d. [May 1937], RA PS/PSO/GVI/C/019/216
54 Ziegler, Edward VIII, p. 359
55 Lord Wigram, memorandum, n.d. [May 1937], RA PS/PSO/GVI/C/019/216; The Times, 29 May 1937
56 Queen Mary to Queen Elizabeth, 21 May 1937, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
57 Ibid.
58 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 21 May 1937, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/49
59 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 3 June 1937, RA QM/PRIV/CC14/74
60 Queen Mary to Queen Elizabeth, 3 June 1937, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
61 King George VI to Queen Mary, 14 September 1937, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/57
62 Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RA QEQM/ADD/MISC
63 Queen Mary to Queen Elizabeth, 30 September 1937, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
64 Ziegler, Edward VIII, p. 376
65 Walter Monckton to Queen Elizabeth, 18 September 1937, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
66 Queen Elizabeth to Walter Monckton, 21 September 1937, RA GVI/OUT/MONCKTON
67 Ziegler, Edward VIII, p. 376
68 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 28 September 1937, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/59
69 King George VI to Walter Monckton, 5 October 1937, RA GVI/OUT/MONCKTON
70 King George VI to Queen Mary, 4 October 1937, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/60
71 Sir Ronald Lindsay to Lady Lindsay, 11 October 1937, quoted in The Crawford Papers: The Journals of David Lindsay, 27th Earl of Crawford, ed. John Vincent, Manchester University Press, 1984, pp. 616–21
72 Ziegler, Edward VIII, p. 392
73 Crawford Papers, pp. 616–21
74 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 26 October 1937, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/61
75 William Walton to Queen Elizabeth, 22 December 1937, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
76 Queen Elizabeth to Osbert Sitwell, 18 December 1937, Sitwell Papers
77 Queen Elizabeth to Hon. Sir Richard Molyneux, 7 December 1937, RA QEQM/OUT/MOLYNEUX/91
78 Queen Elizabeth to Duke of Windsor, 23 December 1937, RA EDW/MAINB/130
79 Duke of Windsor to Queen Elizabeth (copy), 12 January 1938, RA EDW/MAINB/127
80 Queen Elizabeth to Duke of Windsor, 15 January 1938, RA EDW/MAINB/129
81 Duke of Windsor to Queen Elizabeth (copy), 22 January 1938, RA EDW/MAINB/131
82 Queen Elizabeth to Princess Elizabeth, 4 January 1938, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
83 Queen Elizabeth to Princess Elizabeth, 5 January 1938, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
84 Queen Elizabeth to D’Arcy Osborne, 5 January 1938, RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE
85 D’Arcy Osborne to Queen Elizabeth, 27 January 1938, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Osborne
86 Duff Cooper, p. 241
87 Queen Elizabeth to Arthur Penn, 30 June 1938, Penn Papers, and Queen Elizabeth to Neville Chamberlain, 2 July 1938, BUA NC 7/4/8
88 Queen Elizabeth to Most Rev. Cosmo Lang, 23 June 1938, Lambeth Palace Library, Lang Papers 318 ff. 188–9
89 Duke of Windsor to Queen Elizabeth, telegram, 23 June 1938, RA QEQM/PRIV/DEATH/STRATH
90 Queen Elizabeth to Neville Chamberlain, 2 July 1938, BUA NC 7/4/8
91 Arthur Penn to Queen Elizabeth, 23 June 1938, RA QEQM/PRIV/DEATH/STRATH
92 Queen Elizabeth to Arthur Penn, 30 June 1938
, Penn Papers
93 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 28 June 1938, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/73
94 Laird, p. 220
95 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 28 June 1938, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/73
96 Ibid.
97 Address by the Archbishop of Canterbury, The Times, 28 June 1938; Glamis Archives
98 Queen Elizabeth to Archbishop Lang, 1 July 1938, Lambeth Palace Library, Lang Papers 318 ff. 191–2
99 Arthur Penn to Queen Elizabeth, 28 June 1938, RA QEQM/PRIV/DEATH/STRATH
100 Queen Elizabeth to Arthur Penn, 30 June 1938, Penn Papers
101 Queen Elizabeth to Princess Elizabeth, 28 June 1938, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
102 Longford, Queen Mother, pp. 70–1
103 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 13 July 1938, RA GV/CC12/75
104 Laird, p. 221
105 Bradford, George VI, p. 359
106 ‘Les Souverains Britanniques en France’, special issue of L’Iüustration, July 1938; Sir Eric Phipps to Sir Alexander Hardinge, 15 March 1938, RA PS/PSO/GVI/PS/SV/02718/1/038
107 Longford, Queen Mother, p. 71
108 Bradford, George VI, p. 360
109 Interview with Bertrand du Vignaud de Villefort on behalf of the author
110 Rev. Dr John Stirton, diary, 27–29 August 1938, RA AEC/GG/026
111 Longford, Queen Mother, p. 72
112 L’Oeuvre, June 1939
113 Quoted in Wheeler-Bennett, p. 343
114 Hartnell, p. 94
115 Bradford, George VI, p. 361
116 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 343
117 Lady Diana Cooper, The Light of Common Day, 1959, p. 223, quoted in Bradford, George VI, p. 361
118 Laird, p. 222
119 Neville Chamberlain to King George VI, 13 August 1938, BUA NC 7/3/25
120 Duff Cooper to Queen Elizabeth, 2 August 1938, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
121 Duff Cooper, diary, 23 July 1938, John Julius Norwich Papers
122 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 5 August 1938, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/77
123 Georgina Guérin to her parents, 31 August 1938, RA QEII/OUT/GUERIN/31
124 Rev. Dr John Stirton, diary, 27–29 August 1938, RA AEC/GG/026
125 Paul Berman, Terror and Liberalism, W. W. Norton, 2003, pp. 124–8
126 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 345
127 Queen Mary to King George VI, 15 September 1938, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11
128 King George VI to Queen Elizabeth, 19 September 1938, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
129 Queen Elizabeth to May Elphinstone, 24 September 1938, RA QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE
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