25 Queen Elizabeth to Princess Elizabeth, 15 September 1939, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
26 Princess Elizabeth to Marion Crawford, 11 September 1939, RA QEII/OUT/BUTHLAY
27 Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RA QEQM/ADD/MISC
28 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 26 September 1939, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/113
29 Marion Crawford to Queen Elizabeth, 23 October 1939, RA QEQM/PRIV/CHILD; Princess Elizabeth to Georgina Guérin, 30 December 1939, RA QEII/OUT/GUERIN/13
30 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 26 September 1939, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/113
31 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
32 Professor Harold Laski to Lord Wigram, 12 September 1939, and to Sir Alexander Hardinge, 19 September 1939, RA PS/PSO/GVI/PS/MAIN/03959/2
33 Lord Tweedsmuir to Sir Alexander Hardinge, 2 October 1939 (extract), Lord Tweedsmuir to King George VI, 10 October 1939 (extract), RA PS/PSO/GVI/PS/MAIN/03959/1A
34 Lord Lothian to Sir Alan Lascelles, 25 September 1939, RA PS/PSO/GVI/PS/MAIN/03959/1B
35 Duchess of York to D’Arcy Osborne, 30 November 1932, RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE
36 Queen Elizabeth to Most Rev. Cosmo Lang, 6 November 1939, Lambeth Palace Library, Lang Papers 318 ff. 199–200
37 Queen Elizabeth’s broadcast, 11 November 1939, RA QEQMH/PS/SPE
38 Most Rev. Cosmo Lang to Queen Elizabeth, 11 November 1939, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Lang
39 Letters to Queen Elizabeth, November 1939, RA QEQM/PRIV/GEN, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL; Lord Wigram to Queen Elizabeth, 12 November 1939, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
40 Anonymous letter to Queen Elizabeth, n.d. [12 November 1939], RA PS/PSO/GVI/PS/MAIN/04298
41 Queen Elizabeth to Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, 6 December 1939, RA QEQM/OUT/PAUY
42 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
43 Ibid.
44 Vickers, p. 206
45 Augustus John to Maud (Mollie) Cazalet, 23 September 1939, RA QEQM/PRIV/PIC
46 Mollie Cazalet to Queen Elizabeth, 16 December 1939, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
47 Queen Elizabeth to Osbert Sitwell, 10 July 1947, Sitwell Papers
48 Susan Owens, Watercolours and Drawings from the Collection of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Royal Collection Publications, 2005, pp. 47–8
49 Gerald Kelly to Queen Elizabeth, 18 December 1939, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
50 Rose, Kings, Queens and Courtiers, p. 151
51 Channon, Diaries, p. 276
52 Queen Elizabeth to Lord Halifax, 9 December 1939, Hickleton Papers, A2/278/26A 2
53 Queen Elizabeth to Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, 6 December 1939, RA QEQM/OUT/PAUY
54 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 428; Colonel Hon. Piers Legh to Queen Elizabeth, 11 December 1939, RA QEQM/PRIV/OFF
55 Extract from a letter to Mollie Cazalet from a cousin in the British Expeditionary Force, enclosed with letter from Mollie Cazalet to Queen Elizabeth, 16 December 1939, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
56 Wheeler-Bennett, pp. 428–9
57 Ibid., pp. 429–30
58 Queen Elizabeth to May Elphinstone, 6 January 1940, RA QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE
59 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 27 December 1939, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/116
60 King George VI, diary, 20 January 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY
61 King George VI, diary, 24 January 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY
62 Queen Elizabeth to May Elphinstone, 26 February 1940, RA QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE
63 William Wordsworth, The Excursion, 1814, Book IV, lines in Queen Elizabeth’s hand (original in possession of Winston Churchill, grandson of Sir Winston Churchill); Sir Martin Gilliat to Kenneth Rose, 22 May 1974, RA QEQMH/PS/GEN/1974/Rose
64 Sir Alexander Hardinge to Queen Elizabeth, 15 February 1940; Sir Walter Elliot to Queen Elizabeth, 15 February 1940, RA QEQM/PRIV/OFF; Queen Elizabeth to Sir Walter Elliot, 17 February 1940, RA QEQM/OUT/MISC
65 Queen Elizabeth to Sir Alexander Hardinge, 1 April 1940, Hon. Lady Murray Papers
66 Queen Elizabeth to Lord Halifax, 1 April 1940, Hickleton Papers, A2/278/26A 4; Lord Halifax to Queen Elizabeth, 1 April 1940, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
67 Queen Elizabeth’s speech to YWCA, 13 April 1940, RA QEQMH/PS/ENGT/1940
68 Sir Alexander Hardinge, memorandum, 26 April 1939, Hon. Lady Murray Papers
69 Queen Elizabeth to King George VI, 10 October 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/76
70 Wheeler-Bennett, pp. 439–43
71 Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, p. 642
72 King George VI, diary, 10 May 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY
73 Queen Elizabeth to Neville Chamberlain, 17 May 1940, BUA NCI/23/81A
74 Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RA QEQM/ADD/MISC
75 Queen Mary to King George VI, 12 May 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11
76 King George VI, diary, 11 May 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY
77 John Keegan, Churchill, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002, pp. 123–4
78 King George VI, diary, 13 May 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY
79 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 450
80 Ibid., pp. 451–2
81 Princess Juliana of the Netherlands to Queen Elizabeth, 20 June 1940, RA QEQM/PRIV/FORRF
82 Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RA QEQM/ADD/MISC
83 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 24 July 1940, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/131
84 Laird, p. 246
85 Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, p. 647
86 Queen Mary to Queen Elizabeth, 29 May 1940, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
87 Queen Elizabeth to Arthur Penn, 1 June 1940, Penn Papers
88 Leeming notes
89 Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, vol. VI, William Heinemann, 1983, pp. 418–21
90 Keegan, p. 125
91 Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, p. 651
92 King George VI, diary, 12 June 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY
93 Queen Elizabeth’s speech to the Women of France, 14 June 1940, RA QEQMH/PS/SPE
94 Andre Maurois, Mémoires, Flammarion, Paris, 1970, pp. 301–2
95 Andre Maurois to Queen Elizabeth, 26 June 1940, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
96 Anthony Eden to Queen Elizabeth, 24 January 1941, RA QEQM/PRIV/OFF
97 Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, p. 661
98 Eleanor Roosevelt to Queen Elizabeth, n.d. [early June 1940], RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
99 Swift, pp. 156–7
100 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 460
101 Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, p. 663
102 Ibid., pp. 363–4
103 Mollie Panter-Downes, London War Notes 1939–1945, ed. William Shawn, Longman, 1972, p. 70
104 King George VI to Queen Mary, 14 October 1940, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/138
105 Malcolm Macdonald to Queen Elizabeth, 27 December 1977, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
106 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 447
107 Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RA QEQM/ADD/MISC
108 Angus Calder, The People’s War: Britain 1939–1945, Pimlico, 1992, pp. 120–2
109 Owen Morshead to Queen Mary, 10 June 1940, RA QM/PRIV/CC48/914
110 Hostage to Fortune: The Letters of Joseph P. Kennedy, p. 457
111 Harold Nicolson, Diaries and Letters: 1939–1945, ed. Nigel Nicolson, Collins, 1967, p. 100
112 Ibid.
113 King George VI, diary, 18 June 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY
114 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 464
115 Ibid.
116 Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RA QEQM/ADD/MISC
117 Laird, pp. 249–50
118 Eugene Keryell to Lady Grigg, 2 August 1940, RA QEQMH/PS/ENGT/1940/41
119 Ziegler, Edward VIII, p. 423
120 Ibid., p. 434
121 King George VI to Queen Mary, 7 July 1940, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/130
122 Queen Mary to King George VI, 8 July 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/
RF/11
123 Letters from members of the public to Queen Elizabeth, September 1939 and undated, CAC GLLD/21/7A/3–6, 8
124 Notes by Queen Elizabeth, 6 July 1940 (copy), enclosed with letter from Sir Alexander Hardinge to Lord Lloyd, CAC GLLD/21/7A/1. Lord Lloyd burned the original handwritten memorandum from the Queen, but kept a typed copy which remains in the Lloyd Papers at the Churchill Archive Centre, Cambridge
125 Sir Alexander Hardinge to Queen Elizabeth, 7 July 1940, RA QEQM/PRIV/OFF
126 Ziegler, Edward VIII, pp. 428–33
127 Rhodes James, p. 219
128 Ziegler, Edward VIII, p. 435
129 King George VI to Queen Mary, 11 September 1940, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/134
130 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 13 September 1940, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/135
131 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 13 September 1940, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/135
132 Betty Spencer Shew, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, 1955, p. 76, quoted in Wheeler-Bennett, p. 469
133 King George VI to Queen Mary, 14 October 1940, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/138
134 Myrtle Farquharson to Queen Elizabeth, 26 September 1940, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
135 Bradford, George VI, p. 430
136 Lord Woolton, diary, 11 October 1940, Bodleian Library, MS Woolton 2
137 Ibid.
138 Mrs Walter Elliot to Lettice Bowlby, 30 October 1940, RA QEQMH/PS/ENGT/1940/53
139 Edna Healey, The Queen’s House, Michael Joseph, 1997, p. 306
140 Hartnell, pp. 101–2
141 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 467
142 Hartnell, pp. 101–2
143 King George VI to Queen Mary, 11 September 1940 RA QM/PRIV/CC12/134
144 Owen Morshead, notes, 12 November 1940, RA AEC/GG/12/OS/2
145 Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RA QEQM/ADD/MISC
146 Queen Elizabeth to May Elphinstone, 25 October 1940, RA QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE
147 Owen Morshead, notes, 12 November 1940, RA AEC/GG/12/OS/2
148 Anne Chamberlain to Queen Elizabeth, 16 October [1940], RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
149 Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, p. 683
150 Queen Elizabeth to May Elphinstone, 25 October 1940, RA QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE
151 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 19 October 1940, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/139
152 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 31 October 1940, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/141
153 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 19 October 1940, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/139
154 Laird, p. 253
155 Queen Elizabeth to May Elphinstone, 25 October 1940, RA QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE
156 Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RA QEQM/ADD/MISC
157 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 31 October 1940, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/141
158 Ibid.
159 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 7 January 1941, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/147
160 Marion Crawford to Queen Mary, 23 February 1941, Lambeth Palace Library, Lang Papers 318 ff. 67–9
161 King George VI, diary, 21–22 December 1940, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY
162 Queen Elizabeth to George Duke of Kent, 14 January 1941, RA QEQM/OUT/MISC
163 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 7 January 1941, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/147
164 Queen Elizabeth to Winston Churchill, 21 January 1941, CAC CHAR/20/29A/38
165 King George VI, diary, ‘Retrospect of 1940’, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY
166 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 7 January 1941, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/147
167 Roberts, History of the English-Speaking Peoples since 1900, p. 286
168 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 7 January 1941, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/147
169 Queen Elizabeth to the Hon. Elizabeth Elphinstone, 7 February 1941, RA QEQM/OUT/ELPHINSTONE
170 Queen Elizabeth to George, Duke of Kent, 14 January 1941, RA QEQM/OUT/GDK
171 Keegan, p. 131
172 President Roosevelt to King George VI (copy), 22 November 1940, RA PS/PSO/GVI/C/243/34
173 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 4 February 1941, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/151
174 Longford, Queen Mother, p. 80
175 Laird, pp. 251–2
176 Lord Wigram to Lady Airlie, 24 February 1941, British Library, Add MSS 82768
177 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 17 February 1941, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/153
178 Robert Menzies, Dark and Hurrying Days, National Library of Australia, 1993, pp. 66–7
179 King George VI to Queen Mary, 17 March 1941, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/157
180 Queen Elizabeth to Princess Elizabeth, 8 March 1941, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
181 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 21 March 1941, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/158
182 Marion Crawford to Queen Mary, 23 February 1941, Lambeth Palace Library, Lang Papers Papers 318 ff. 67–9
183 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 21 March 1941, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/158
184 Queen Elizabeth to Lady Astor (copy), 23 March 1941, RA QEQMH/GEN/1990/Wasley
185 Keegan, p. 133
186 Queen Mary to Queen Elizabeth, 10 April 1941, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
187 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 13 April 1941, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/161
188 Queen Elizabeth to Lord Halifax, 23 April 1941, Hickleton Papers A2/278/26A/5
189 Nicolson, Diaries and Letters 1939–1945, p. 137
190 Churchill to King George VI, 5 January 1941, RA PS/PSO/GVI/C/069/07
191 Churchill to Queen Elizabeth, 3 February 1941, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
192 Queen Elizabeth to Churchill, 21 January 1941, CAC CHAR 20/29A/38
193 Churchill to Queen Elizabeth, 9 May 1941, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
194 Queen Elizabeth to Churchill, 12 May 1941, RA QEQMH/PS/GEN/1997/Gilbert
195 King George VI, diary, 13 May 1941, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY
196 Roberts, History of the English-Speaking Peoples since 1900, p. 287
197 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 12 May 1941, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/164
198 Calder, People’s War, p. 223
199 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 1 August 1941, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/170
200 Roberts, History of the English-Speaking People since 1900, pp. 286–7
201 Hon. David Bowes Lyon to Queen Elizabeth, n.d. [June 1941], RA QEQM/PRIV/OFF
202 File on Queen Elizabeth’s broadcast to America, RA QEQMH/PS/GEN/1941/America
203 Queen Elizabeth to Churchill, 2 August 1941, CAC CHAR 20/20/32
204 Queen Elizabeth’s broadcast, 10 August 1941, RA QEQMH/PS/GEN/1941/America
205 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 530
206 Queen Mary to Queen Elizabeth, 3 August 1941, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
207 Rt Rev. Michael Furse to Queen Elizabeth, 3 August 1941, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
208 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 28 August 1941, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/173
209 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 5 September 1941, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/174
210 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Elizabeth II, 3 September 1982, RA QEII/PRIV/RF
211 J. W. Pickersgill (ed.), The Mackenzie King Record, vol. I: 1939–44, University of Chicago Press and University of Toronto Press, 1960, pp. 254–7
212 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 9 December 1941, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/179
213 Ibid.
214 Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RA QEQM/ADD/MISC
215 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 533
216 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 9 December 1941, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/179
217 Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RA QEQM/ADD/MISC
218 Ibid.
219 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 533
220 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 28 December 1941, RA QM/PRIV/CC12/182
FOURTEEN: YEARS LIKE GREAT BLACK OXEN 1942–1945
1 The story of John Piper and Windsor Castle is recounted in Owens, pp. 34–41. See also Susan Owens, ‘ “Evocation or Topography”: John Piper’s Watercolours of Windsor Castle, 1941–44’, Burlington Magazine, September 2005, pp. 598–605
2 Owens, p. 34
3 Ibid., p. 107
4 Ibid., p. 37
5 Ibid.
, p. 38
6 Ibid.
7 Ibid., p. 41
8 Ibid.
9 Ibid., p. 13
10 The Times, 5 April 1938
11 Owens, p. 19
12 Ibid., p. 30
13 Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RAQEQM/ADD/MISC
14 Queen Elizabeth to J. P. Morgan (incomplete draft), 19 January 1942, RA QEQM/OUT/MISC
15 King George VI, diary, 19 January 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY, quoted in Wheeler-Bennett, p. 535
16 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 14 February 1942, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/5
17 Queen Elizabeth to the Hon. Elizabeth Elphinstone, 27 February 1942, private collection
18 Queen Mary to Queen Elizabeth, 13 January 1942, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
19 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 10 April 1942, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/10
20 Ibid.
21 King George VI, diary, 3–4 May 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY
22 Rt Rev. Edward Woods to Queen Elizabeth, 4 May 1942, RAQEQM/PRIV/PAL/Woods
23 Rt Rev. Edward Woods to Queen Elizabeth, 28 August 1942, RAQEQM/PRIV/PAL/Woods
24 Rt Rev. Edward Woods to Queen Elizabeth, 6 November 1942, RAQEQM/PRIV/PAL/Woods
25 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 540
26 Gladys Saunders, Mayoress of Exeter, to Queen Elizabeth, 10 May 1942, RA QEQMH/PS/ENGT/1942/41
27 Raymond Leppard, On Music, Pro/Am Music Resources, New York, 1993, pp. 442–3
28 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 10 June 1942, RAQM/PRIV/CC13/16
29 Lieutenant Colonel Tom Draffen to Arthur Penn, 21 February 1942; Arthur Penn to Tom Draffen, 30 April 1942, RAQEQMH/PS/ARMFOR/Former Regiments/Queen’s Bays
30 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 10 June 1942, RAQM/PRIV/CC13/16
31 King George VI to Queen Mary, 22 June 1942, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/18
32 Sir Alan Lascelles, King’s Counsellor: The Wartime Diaries, ed. Duff Hart-Davis, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006, p. 33
33 Ibid., p. 34
34 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 20 July 1942, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/20
35 Ibid.
36 Queen Elizabeth to Lady Doris Vyner, 5 June 1942; King George VI to Lady Doris Vyner, 7 June 1942, Vyner Papers
37 King George VI to Queen Elizabeth, n.d. [25 August 1942], RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
38 Bradford, George VI, p. 456
39 King George VI, diary, quoted in Wheeler-Bennett, p. 548
40 Queen Elizabeth to Osbert Sitwell, 13 September 1942, Sitwell Papers
41 Queen Elizabeth to the Hon. David Bowes Lyon, 31 August 1942, Bowes Lyon Papers, SPW
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