130 Sir Alexander Hardinge to King George VI, 15 September [1938], RA PS/PSO/GVI/C/235/04
131 Sir Alexander Hardinge, memorandum, 29 September [1938], RA PS/PSO/GVI/C/235/06
132 Sir Alexander Hardinge, memorandum, 26 and 29 September 1938, RA PS/PSO/GVI/C/235/10
133 Laird, pp. 224–5
134 Queen Elizabeth, speech, 27 September 1938, RA QEQMH/PS/SPE
135 Laird, pp. 225–6
136 King George VI to May Elphinstone, 29 September 1938, RA QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE
137 Duff Cooper, p. 268
138 Queen Mary to King George VI, 1 October 1938, RA PRIV/RF/11
139 Queen Elizabeth to Anne Chamberlain, 30 September 1938, BUA NC 13/11/656
140 Anne Chamberlain to Queen Elizabeth, 30 September 1938, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
141 Andrew Roberts, The History of the English Speaking Peoples since 1900, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006, p. 249
142 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 2 October 1938, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/84
143 Queen Elizabeth to Osbert Sitwell, 11 October 1938, Sitwell Papers
144 Queen Elizabeth to Osbert Sitwell, 13 December 1938, Sitwell Papers
145 D’Arcy Osborne to Queen Elizabeth, 17 October 1938, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Osborne
146 Most Rev. Cosmo Lang to Queen Elizabeth, 19 December 1938, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Lang
147 Queen Mary to Queen Elizabeth, 5 October 1938, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
148 Martin Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, Minerva, 1992, p. 598
149 Ibid., p. 604
150 Queen Elizabeth to Rachel Bowes Lyon, 22 November 1938, Bowes Lyon Papers, SPW
151 Jasper Ridley to Queen Elizabeth, 29 January 1939, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Ridley
152 Lord Birkenhead, Walter Monckton: The Life of Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1969, p. 169
153 Queen Elizabeth to Sir Walter Monckton, 6 December 1938, RA GVI/OUT/MONCKTON
154 Queen Mary to King George VI, 3 February 1939, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11; King George VI to Queen Mary, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/87
155 Walter Monckton to King George VI (copy), 10 February 1939, RA GVI/OUT/MONCKTON
156 Duke of Windsor to Queen Mary, 29 March 1939, RA QM/PRIV/CC9
157 Queen Mary to Queen Elizabeth, 31 March 1939, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
158 Clement Attlee to Tom Attlee, 23 February 1939, Bodleian Library, Attlee Papers, MS Eng.c.4792
159 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 364
160 L’Ilustration, special supplement on state visit of President Lebrun, 21–24 March 1939, Archives Nationales, Paris: Papiers des Chefs de l’Etat AG/1/69
161 Wheeler-Bennett, pp. 367–8
162 Sir Alexander Hardinge, memorandum, 26 April 1939, Hon. Lady Murray Papers
163 John Wheeler-Bennett interview with second Baron Hardinge of Penshurst, January 1954, RA AEC/GG/20
164 Laird, p. 185
165 Ibid.
166 Hostage to Fortune: The Letters of Joseph P. Kennedy, ed. Amanda Smith, Viking, 2001, pp. 326–9
TWELVE: ACROSS THE ATLANTIC 1939
1 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 8 May 1939, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/93
2 Wheeler-Bennett, pp. 371, 373
3 Lord Tweedsmuir to Sir Alexander Hardinge, 17 October 1938, RA PS/PSO/GVI/PS/VISCOM/03400/001A/01
4 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 382
5 Queen Elizabeth to Princess Elizabeth, 6 May 1939, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
6 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 8 May 1939, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/93
7 Ziegler, Edward VIII, pp. 398–400
8 Duke of Kent to Queen Elizabeth, 16 May 1939, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF; Sir Alexander Hardinge to King George VI, 9 May 1939, RA PS/PSO/AH, quoted in Ziegler, Edward VIII, pp. 399–400
9 Queen Elizabeth to Princess Elizabeth, 13 May 1939, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
10 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 15 May 1939, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/94
11 Ibid.
12 Sir Alan Lascelles to Joan Lascelles, 14–16 May 1939, CAC LASL 4/3/8
13 Mackenzie King, diary, 17 May 1939, LAC/BAC MG26-J13
14 Ibid.
15 Diary (translation) of Lieutenant Colonel D. B. Papineau, 17 May 1939, Archives Nationales du Quebec, P569, S1, D1, P19
16 Ibid.
17 Ibid., 18 May 1939
18 L’Abbe J.-C. Desrosiers to A. Paquette, 5 May 1937, Archives Nationales du Quebec, E4 1960–01-483/567; Dr J. Marcoux to Jean Bruchesi, 16 February, 6 May 1939, Archives Nationales du Quebec, E4 1960–01-483/268/154, 567
19 Hartnell, pp. 99–100
20 Canadian press report, 13 June 1939, RA F&V/VISOV/CAN/1939/Press cuttings/Vol. III, p. 125
21 Sir Alan Lascelles to Eric Mackenzie, Comptroller to the Governor General, 21 January 1939, RA PS/PSO/GVI/PS/VISCOM/03400/002/094
22 Sir Alan Lascelles to Joan Lascelles, 21 May 1939, CAC LASL 4/3/9
23 Molly Pulver Ungar, ‘Emile Vaillancourt and the Royal Visit of 1939’, paper given to the Canadian Historical Association, London (Ontario), 2005; Diary (translation) of Lieutenant Colonel D. B. Papineau, 21 May 1939, Archives Nationales du Quebec, P569, S1, D1, P19
24 ‘Canada: Houde for Dictators’, Time, 20 February 1939
25 Quoted in Colombo’s Canadian Quotations, Hurtig Publishers, 1974, p. 267
26 Montreal press reports cited by Ungar, ‘Emile Vaillancourt’; Diary (translation) of Lieutenant Colonel D. B. Papineau, 21 May 1939, Archives Nationales du Québec, P569, S1, D1, P19
27 Sir Alan Lascelles to Joan Lascelles, 21 May 1939, CAC LASL 4/3/9
28 Lord Tweedsmuir to Sir Alexander Hardinge, 22 May 1939, RA PS/PSO/GVI/PS/VISCOM/03400/001A/116
29 Speeches by the King and Queen during Their Majesties’ visit to Canada, 1939, booklet published by the Government of Canada, 1939
30 Letter from Lord Tweedsmuir to a friend, quoted in Wheeler-Bennett, p. 380
31 Lord Tweedsmuir to Sir Alexander Hardinge, 22 May 1939, RA PS/PSO/GVI/PS/VISCOM/03400/001A/116
32 Letter from Lord Tweedsmuir to a friend, quoted in Wheeler-Bennett, p. 380
33 Lord Tweedsmuir to Sir Alexander Hardinge, 22 May 1939, RA PS/PSO/GVI/PS/VISCOM/03400/001A/116
34 Article by F. C. Mears, Montreal Gazette, [21 May 1939], RA F&V/VISOV/CAN/1939/Press cuttings/Vol. I, p. 98
35 Lord Tweedsmuir to Sir Alexander Hardinge, 22 May 1939, RA PS/PSO/GVI/PS/VISCOM/03400/001A/116
36 Journal of Their Majesties’ Tour of Canada, USA, and Newfoundland, May and June 1939, RA PS/PSO/GVI/C/257/01
37 Georges Vanier to the Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairs, 20 May 1939, LAC/BAC RG7, G26, Vol. 93, File 2213-D General
38 Sir Percy Loraine to Viscount Halifax, 15 June 1939, RA PS/PSO/GVI/PS/VISCOM/03400/145/1
39 Canadian press report, 19 May 1939, RA F&V/VISOV/CAN/1939/Press cuttings/Vol. I, p. 97
40 Lord Tweedsmuir to Sir Alexander Hardinge, 22 May 1939, RA PS/PSO/GVI/PS/VISCOM/03400/001A/116
41 Toronto Globe and Mail, 23 May 1939, RA F&V/VISOV/CAN/1939/Press cuttings/Vol. I, p. 116
42 Sir Alan Lascelles to Shuldham Redfern, 22 March 1939, LAC/BAC RG7, G26, Vol. 93, File 2213-D(1); press release on guiding principles of Canadian tour, 5 January 1939, Archives Nationales du Quebec, R4/00022, 1994–11-013
43 Correspondence re the Queen and Toc H, March-April 1939, RA PS/PSO/GVI/PS/VISCOM/03400/093/01–12
44 A. E. Dyment to W. L. Mackenzie King, 11 November 1938, LAC/BAC RG7, G26, Vol. 93, File 2213-D General
45 Journal of Their Majesties’ Tour, RA PS/PSO/GVI/C/257/01; Wilfred Notley, diary, private collection
46 Queen Elizabeth to Princess Elizabeth, 23–24 May 1939, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
47 The King’s Empire Day Broadcast, 24 May 1939, RA PS/PSO/GVI/PS/VISCOM/03400/033/44
48 Queen Elizabeth to Princess Elizabeth, 23–24 May 1939, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
49 Mackenzie King, diary, 25 May 1939, LAC/BAC MG26-J13
50 Ibid.; Regina press report, 26 May 1939, RA F&V/VISOV/CAN/1939/Press cuttings/Vol. I, p. 210
51 Queen Elizabeth to Princess Elizabeth, 27 May 1939,
RA QEII/PRIV/RF
52 Calgary press report, 26 May 1939, RA F&V/VISOV/CAN/1939/Press cuttings/Vol. I, p. 233
53 Wilfred Notley, diary, private collection
54 Queen Elizabeth to Princess Elizabeth, 27 May 1939, RA QEII/PRIV/RF; Journal of Their Majesties’ Tour, 27 May 1939, RA PS/PSO/GVI/C/257/01
55 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 1 June 1939, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/99
56 Sir Alan Lascelles to Joan Lascelles, 28 May 1939, CAC, LASL 4/3/11
57 Mackenzie King, diary, 19 May 1939, LAC/BAC MG26-J13
58 Mackenzie King, diary, 22, 25 May 1939, LAC/BAC MG26-J13
59 King George VI to Sir Alexander Hardinge, 28 May 1939, Hon. Lady Murray Papers
60 Information from Mrs Ted James kindly sent to the author by the Rev. Thomas M. Steel
61 Vancouver press reports, 29 May 1939, RA F&V/VISOV/CAN/1939/Press cuttings/Vol. I, pp. 252, 257
62 Ibid., p. 261
63 Victoria press report, [31 May 1939], RA F&V/VISOV/CAN/1939/Press cuttings/Vol. II, p. 12
64 R. V. D. Guthrie to Lord Airlie (extract), 13 March 1939; R. J. Streatfeild to R. V. D. Guthrie, 31 March 1939, RA PS/PSO/GVI/PS/VISCOM/03400/099/1, 2; Victoria newspaper articles, [31 May 1939], RA F&V/VISOV/CAN/1939/Press cuttings/Vol. II, pp. 14–15; Journal of Their Majesties’ Tour, 30 May 1939, RA PS/PSO/GVI/C/251/1
65 Queen Elizabeth to Lady Tweedsmuir (copy), 28 June 1939, RA QEQM/ADD/OUT/MISC
66 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 1 June 1939, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/99
67 Edmonton press reports, 2 June 1939, RA F&V/VISOV/CAN/1939/Press cuttings/Vol. II, pp. 66–7, 71
68 Canadian press reports, June 1939, RA F&V/VISOV/CAN/1939/Press cuttings/Vol. II, pp. 90, 91, 94, 98
69 Journal of Their Majesties’ Tour, 5 June 1939, RA PS/PSO/GVI/C/251/01
70 Queen Elizabeth to Princess Elizabeth, 5–6 June 1939, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
71 Canadian press reports, 6 June 1939, RA F&V/VISOV/CAN/1939/Press cuttings/Vol. II, pp. 147, 154; Journal of Their Majesties’ Tour, 6 June 1939, RA PS/PSO/GVI/C/251/01
72 Canadian press reports, 6–7 June 939, RA F&V/VISOV/CAN/1939/Press cuttings/Vol. II, pp. 213, 214; RA PS/PSO/GVI/VISCOM/03400/003/01/114
73 Mackenzie King, diary, 6 June 1939, LAC/BAC MG26-J13
74 Washington Star, 8 June 1939, RA F&V/VISOV/CAN/1939/Press cuttings/Vol. III, p. 16
75 Eleanor Roosevelt, This I Remember, 1950, pp. 183–4, quoted in Wheeler-Bennett, p. 382
76 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 375
77 William Bullitt to President Roosevelt, 9 May 1939, quoted in Will Swift, The Roosevelts and the Royals, John Wiley, Hoboken, 2004, p. 107
78 Bradford, George VI, p. 377
79 Washington Evening Star, 7 June 1939; New York Times, 8 June 1939, RA F&V/VISOV/CAN/1939/Press cuttings/Vol. III, p. 8
80 The Times leader, 8 June 1939
81 Sir Alan Lascelles to Lady Lascelles, 7 June 1939, CAC LASL 4/3/16; Journal of Their Majesties’ Tour, 7 June 1939, RA PS/PSO/GVI/C/251/01
82 Hostage to Fortune: The Letters of Joseph P. Kennedy, p. 351
83 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 11 June 1939, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/101
84 Washington press report, 8 June 1939, RA F&V/VISOV/CAN/1939/Press cuttings/Vol. III, p. 27
85 Swift, p. 114
86 Ibid., p. 115
87 Ibid.
88 Ibid., p. 118
89 The Secret Diaries of Harold L. Ickes, vol. 2, 1954, pp. 646, 650, quoted in ibid., p. 119
90 Kenneth S. Davis, FDR: Into the Storm, 1993, p. 448, quoted in Swift, p. 119
91 Journal of Their Majesties’ Tour, 8 June 1939, RA PS/PSO/GVI/C/251/01
92 Swift, p. 121
93 Eleanor Roosevelt, ‘My Day’, 9 June 1939; press report by Emma Bugbee, 9 June 1939, RA F&V/VISOV/CAN/1939/Press cuttings/Vol. III, pp. 47–8
94 Swift, pp. 122–3
95 Joseph P. Lash, Love, Eleanor, 1982, quoted in Swift, p. 127
96 D’Arcy Osborne to Queen Elizabeth, 23 June 1939, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Osborne
97 Swift, p. 126; ‘He Came, We Saw, He Conquered’, Anglo-American Review, July 1939, Vol. 2, No. 2
98 Washington press reports, 9 June 1939, RA F&V/VISOV/CAN/1939/Press cuttings/Vol. III, p. 57
99 Wheeler-Bennett, pp. 386–7
100 Washington press reports, 10 June 1939, RA F&V/VISOV/CAN/1939/Press cuttings/Vol. III, pp. 83–5; Journal of Their Majesties’ Tour, 10 June 1939, RA PS/PSO/GVI/C/251/01
101 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 387
102 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 11 June 1939, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/101
103 Eleanor Roosevelt, ‘My Day’, [12 June 1939], quoted in press report, RA F&V/VISOV/CAN/1939/Press cuttings/Vol. III, p. 114; Swift, pp. 135–6
104 Wheeler-Bennett, pp. 388–9
105 Ibid., pp. 390–2; Mackenzie King, diary, 10 June 1939, LAC/BAC MG26-J13
106 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 11 June 1939, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/101
107 Swift, p. 139
108 Conrad Black, Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom, 2003, p. 524, quoted in Swift, pp. 140–1
109 Queen Elizabeth to Princess Elizabeth, 11 June 1939, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
110 United Press report, [11 June 1940], RA F&V/VISOV/CAN/1939/Press cuttings/Vol. III, p. 114
111 Queen Elizabeth to Princess Elizabeth, 11 June 1939, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
112 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 11 June 1939, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/101
113 Laird, p. 239
114 Washington Post special dispatch, 11 June 1939, RA F&V/VISOV/CAN/1939/Press cuttings/Vol. III, p. 115
115 Washington Evening Star leader, 12 June 1939, RA F&V/VISOV/CAN/1939/Press cuttings/Vol. III, p. 130
116 The Times leader, 12 June 1939
117 Fred Leventhal, Anglo-American Attitudes, 2000, quoted in Swift, p. 150
118 Press article by Kathleen McLaughlin, 10 June 1939, RA RA F&V/VISOV/CAN/1939/Press cuttings/Vol. III, p. 89
119 Quoted in Robert Rhodes James, A Spirit Undaunted, Little, Brown, 1998, p. 163, and in Swift, pp. 148, 122
120 Swift, p. 147
121 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 11 June 1939, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/101
122 Wheeler-Bennett, pp. 389, 390
123 Muriel Adams and A. E. Fulford, Canadian press report, 13 June 1939, RA F&V/VISOV/CAN/1939/Press cuttings/Vol. III, p. 146
124 Wilfred Notley, diary, pp. 26–7, private collection
125 Montreal Gazette report, RA F&V/VISOV/CAN/1939/Press cuttings/Vol. III, p. 224; Speech by Queen Elizabeth, 15 June 1939, RA QEQMH/PS/SPE
126 Extracts of letters from a Canadian King’s Counsel to A. G. Allen, n.d. [June 1939], RA QEQM/PRIV/MISC/OFF
127 Laird, p. 241
128 Bradford, George VI, p. 396
129 Nicolson, Diaries and Letters 1930–39, p. 405
130 Wheeler-Bennett, pp. 393–4
131 Ibid., pp. 392–4
132 Ibid., p. 392
133 Queen Elizabeth to Most Rev. Cosmo Lang, 12 December 1936, Lambeth Palace Library, Lang Papers 318 ff. 177–80
134 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 393
135 Mackenzie King, diary, 12 June 1939, LAC/BAC MG26-J13
136 Queen Elizabeth to Lady Tweedsmuir, 28 June 1939, RA QEQM/OUT/MISC
137 RA QM/PRIV/QMD/1939: 19 July
138 Frederick Dalrymple Hamilton, diary, 23 July 1939, private collection
139 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 397
140 King George VI to Arthur Penn, 8 July 1939, Penn Papers
141 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 8 August 1939, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/106
142 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 400
143 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 8 August 1939, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/106
144 Queen Mary to Queen Elizabeth, 23 August 1939, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
145 King George VI to Queen Elizabeth, 25 August 1939, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
146 Mackenzie King, diary, 26 August 1939, LAC/BAC MG26-J13
147 Sir Alexander Hardinge, memorandum, 27 August 1939, RA PS/PSO/GVI/C/111/3; Wheeler-Bennett, pp. 402�
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148 King George VI to Queen Mary, 28 August 1939, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/108
149 Queen Mary to Queen Elizabeth, 1 September 1939, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
150 Lady Granville to Queen Elizabeth, 6 September 1939, RA QEQM/PRIV/BL
151 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 31 August 1939, RAQM/PRIV/CC12/110
152 Sir Alexander Hardinge, memorandum, 27 August 1939, RA PS/PSO/GVI/C/111/3
153 Queen Elizabeth, notes, 4 September 1939, RA QEQM/PRIV/PERS
THIRTEEN: THE QUEEN AT WAR 1939–1941
1 Arthur Penn to Queen Elizabeth, 27 September 1939, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Penn
2 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 26 September 1939, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/113
3 Queen Elizabeth to Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, 2 October 1939, photocopy enclosed with letter from Prince Charles to Queen Elizabeth, 1 September 2000, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
4 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 17 October 1939, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/114
5 Queen Elizabeth to Lord Halifax, 15 November 1939, Hickleton Papers, A2/278/26A 1
6 Laird, pp. 243–4
7 Ibid., p. 243
8 Most Rev. Cosmo Lang to Queen Elizabeth, 5 September 1939, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Lang
9 Queen Elizabeth to Most Rev. Cosmo Lang, Lambeth Palace Library, Lang Papers 318 ff. 196–8
10 Peter Clarke, Hope and Glory: Britain 1900–1990, Penguin, 1990, p. 191
11 RA QM/PRIV/QMD/1939: 3 September
12 Queen Mary to King George VI, 3 September 1939, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11
13 King George VI to Queen Mary, 6 September 1939, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/111
14 Pope-Hennessy, p. 596
15 Ibid.
16 Ziegler, Edward VIII, pp. 402–3
17 Queen Elizabeth to Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, 2 October 1939, photocopy enclosed with letter from Prince Charles to Queen Elizabeth, 1 September 2000, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
18 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 26 September 1939, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/113
19 King George VI to Duke of Kent, 26 September 1939, quoted in Ziegler, Edward VIII, p. 404
20 King George VI to Neville Chamberlain, 14 September 1939, quoted in Wheeler-Bennett, p. 417; King George VI, diary, 14 September 1939, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY
21 Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart, Diaries 1915–1938, ed. Kenneth Young, Macmillan, 1980, p. 413
22 Queen Elizabeth to Duke of Kent, 5 October 1939, RA QEQM/OUT/MISC
23 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 420
24 Hostage to Fortune: The Letters of Joseph P. Kennedy, pp. 376–7
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