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42 Duchess of Kent to Queen Elizabeth, 8 September 1942, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
43 Queen Mary to King George VI, 1 September 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11
44 Queen Mary to Duke of Windsor, 31 August 1942, RA EDW/PRIV/MAINB/156
45 Queen Mary to Duke of Windsor, 18 October 1942, RA EDW/PRIV/MAINB/161
46 Duke of Windsor to Queen Mary, 12 September 1942, RA QM/PRIV/CC9
47 Duke of Windsor to King George VI, 15 September 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/02/16
48 Queen Mary, undated note with letters from Duke of Windsor, September 1942, RA QM/PRIV/CC9
49 Queen Mary to King George VI, 15 October 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11
50 King George VI to Queen Mary, 4 December 1942, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/30
51 Ibid.
52 Queen Mary to King George VI, 4 December 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11
53 Queen Elizabeth to Osbert Sitwell, 5 March 1943, Sitwell Papers
54 Lascelles, p. 100
55 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 23 August 1943, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/62
56 Queen Elizabeth to Osbert Sitwell, 27 September 1942, Sitwell Papers
57 Osbert Sitwell to Queen Elizabeth, 20 Sepember 1942, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Sitwell; Queen Elizabeth to Osbert Sitwell, 27 September 1942, Sitwell Papers
58 Queen Elizabeth to King George VI, 30 September 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/74
59 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 13 October 1942, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/24
60 Queen Mary to Queen Elizabeth, 16 October 1942 (misdated November), RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
61 Queen Elizabeth to Osbert Sitwell, 16 October 1942, Sitwell Papers
62 Queen Elizabeth to Arthur Penn, 30 September 1942, Penn Papers
63 Queen Elizabeth to Arthur Penn, 12 October 1942, Penn Papers
64 Queen Elizabeth to Osbert Sitwell, 16 October 1942, Sitwell Papers
65 Lascelles, pp. 58, 46
66 Queen Elizabeth to Osbert Sitwell, 16 October 1942, Sitwell Papers
67 Queen Elizabeth to King George VI, 10 0ctober 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/76
68 Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, vol. VII, William Heinemann, 1986, p. 646
69 Queen Elizabeth to Eleanor Roosevelt, message in telegram from Sir Alexander Hardinge to British Ambassador in Washington, 12 September 1942, RA PS/PSO/GVI/PS/MAIN/06093
70 Queen Elizabeth to Sir Alexander Hardinge, 7 October 1942, RA PS/PSO/GVI/PS/MAIN/06093
71 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 13 and 19 October 1942, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/24, 26
72 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 19 October 1942, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/26
73 Transcript of Mrs Roosevelt’s press conference after her visit to Britain, 18 November 1942, RA PS/PSO/GVI/PS/MAIN/06093
74 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 550
75 Ibid., p. 551
76 Lascelles, pp. 66–7
77 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 551
78 Tables on the mobilization of women, sent to the Queen on Bevin’s instructions, 5 November 1942, RA QEQM/PRIV/MISCOFF
79 Transcript of Mrs Roosevelt’s press conference, 18 November 1942, RA PS/PSO/GVI/PS/MAIN/06093
80 Queen Mary to Queen Elizabeth, 2 November 1942, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
81 Lascelles, p. 69
82 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 2 November 1942, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/28
83 File on proposed interview, RA PS/PSO/GVI/PS/MAIN/06489; Lascelles, pp. 74, 82–4
84 Transcript of Mrs Roosevelt’s press conference, 18 November 1942, RA PS/PSO/GVI/PS/MAIN/06093
85 Ibid.
86 Queen Elizabeth to Sir Alan Lascelles, 13 December 1942, RA PS/PSO/GVI/PS/MAIN/06093
87 Author’s interview with Lady Soames
88 King George VI, diary, 3 November 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY
89 Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RA QEQM/ADD/MISC; Rhodes James, p. 223
90 King George VI, diary, 3 November 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY
91 Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RA QEQM/ADD/MISC
92 King George VI, diary, 4 November 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY
93 Calder, People’s War, p. 304
94 Queen Elizabeth to Lady Halifax, telegram, 4 November 1942, Hickleton Papers, A2/279/13
95 Lady Halifax to Queen Elizabeth, 5 November 1942, Hickleton Papers A2/279/13
96 Winston Churchill’s speech at the Mansion House, November 10 1942, Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, p. 734
97 General Alexander to Winston Churchill, telegram, 4 February 1943, quoted in Wheeler-Bennett, p. 563
98 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 564
99 Queen Elizabeth to Osbert Sitwell, 3 January 1943, Sitwell Papers
100 Keegan, Churchill, pp. 145–7
101 King George VI, diary, 28 January 1943, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY
102 Queen Elizabeth to the Hon. David Bowes Lyon, 14 February 1943, Bowes Lyon Papers, SPW
103 Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RA QEQM/PRIV/ADD/MISC
104 Franklin Watts (ed.), Voices of History 1942–43, 1943, p. 121, quoted by Martin Gilbert, Auschwitz and the Allies, Michael Joseph, 1981, p. 20
105 Council of Jewish Women’s Organizations to Queen Elizabeth, 3 December 1942, RA QEQM/PRIV/MISCOFF; Harriet Cohen to Queen Elizabeth, n.d. [December 1942], RA QEQM/PRIV/MISCOFF
106 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 13 October 1942, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/24
107 Sir Alan Lascelles to Lady Airlie, 29 December 1943, British Library, Add MSS 82768
108 Queen Elizabeth to Sir Alexander Hardinge, 19 March 1943, Hon. Lady Murray Papers
109 Queen Elizabeth to Most Rev. Cosmo Lang, 4 May 1943, Lambeth Palace Library, Lang Papers 318 ff. 202–3
110 Queen Elizabeth to Sir Alan Lascelles, 5 April 1943, CAC LASL 2/3/2
111 Sir Alan Lascelles to Queen Elizabeth, 5–6 April 1943, CAC LASL 2/3/3
112 Winston Churchill to Queen Elizabeth, 8 April 1943, RA QEQM/PRIV/MISCOFF; Queen Elizabeth to Winston Churchill, 13 April 1943, CAC CHAR 20/98A/56
113 Queen Elizabeth’s broadcast, 11 April 1943, RA QEQMH/PS/SPE; RA QEQM/PRIV/MISCOFF; RA PS/PSO/GVI/PS/MAIN/03959/C
114 Queen Elizabeth to Sir Alan Lascelles, 11 April 1943, RA PS/PSO/AL/Box B
115 Lascelles, p. 122
116 Queen Elizabeth to Winston Churchill, 13 April 1943, CAC CHAR 20/98A/56
117 Winston Churchill to Queen Elizabeth, 16 April 1943, RA QEQM/PRIV/MISCOFF
118 Queen Elizabeth to the Hon. David Bowes Lyon, 17 October 1943, Bowes Lyon Papers, SPW
119 Ziegler, Osbert Sitwell, pp. 275–6
120 Osbert Sitwell to Queen Elizabeth, 7 March 1943, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Sitwell
121 Ziegler, Osbert Sitwell, pp. 275–6
122 Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RA QEQM/ADD/MISC
123 Owen Morshead’s correspondence re safekeeping of Royal Library material, RA AEC/GG12
124 Owens, p. 22
125 King George VI, instructions to Queen Elizabeth, 9 June 1943, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
126 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 12 June 1943, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/54
127 King George VI to Queen Elizabeth, 14 June 1943, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
128 Queen Elizabeth to King George VI, 14 June 1943, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/78
129 Queen Elizabeth to King George VI, 17 June 1943, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/79
130 Laird, p. 262
131 Queen Elizabeth to King George VI, 17 June 1943, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/79
132 Bradford, George VI, pp. 467–70
133 King George VI, diary, 24–25 June 1943, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY
134 King George VI to Queen Mary, 28 June 1943, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/56
135 King George VI to Queen Elizabeth, message sent in note from Sir Alan Lascelles to Queen Elizabeth, 20 June 1943, RA QEQM/PRIV/MISCOFF
136 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 578
137 Clementine Churchill to Queen Elizabeth, 19 June 1943, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
138 Queen Elizabeth to King George VI, 14 June 1943, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/78
139 Alastair Philips in G
lasgow Herald, quoted in Laird, p. 262
140 King George VI, diary, 27 May 1943, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY
141 Queen Elizabeth, conversations with Eric Anderson, 1994–5, RA QEQM/ADD/MISC
142 King George VI, diary, 25 June 1943, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY
143 Arthur Penn to Sir Alan Lascelles, 9 July 1943, CAC LASL/2/3/1
144 Queen Elizabeth to Sir Alan Lascelles, 26 June 1943, RA PS/PSO/AL/Box B
145 Lascelles, pp. 138–9
146 Vickers, p. 241
147 King George VI, diary, 6 July 1943, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY
148 King George VI, diary, 7 July 1943, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY
149 Rose, Kings, Queens and Courtiers, pp. 141–2
150 Rhodes James, p. 249
151 Helen Hardinge to Queen Elizabeth, 7 [July] 1943, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
152 Helen Hardinge, diary 8 July 1943, Hon. Lady Murray Papers
153 RA PS/PSO/GVI/PS/MAIN/06518
154 Queen Mary to Queen Elizabeth, 15 July 1943, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
155 Queen Mary to Lady Airlie, 8 August 1943, British Library, Add MSS 82748
156 Arthur Murrayto Lady Doris Vyner, 30 July 1943, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
157 Queen Elizabeth to Lady Cranborne, 31 July 1943, Hatfield House, Papers of Elizabeth, Marchioness of Salisbury
158 Queen Elizabeth to Lady Cranborne, 30 September 1943, Hatfield House, Papers of Elizabeth, Marchioness of Salisbury
159 Sir Alan Lascelles to Queen Elizabeth, 10 October 1943, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL
160 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 20 November 1943, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/74
161 Queen Elizabeth to Arthur Penn, 7 October 1943, Penn Papers
162 Queen Elizabeth to the Hon. David Bowes Lyon, 17 October 1943, Bowes Lyon Papers, SPW
163 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 25 September 1943, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/64
164 Queen Elizabeth to Osbert Sitwell, 30 November 1943, Sitwell Papers
165 Queen Elizabeth to Sir Alan Lascelles, 1 February 1944, RA PS/PSO/AL/Box B
166 King George VI, diary, 26 February and 21 April 1942, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY
167 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 20 November 1943, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/74
168 Arthur Penn to Queen Elizabeth, 20 November 1943, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Penn
169 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 12 December 1943, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/76
170 Ibid.
171 Princess Elizabeth to Marion Crawford, 1 January 1944, RA QEII/OUT/BUTHLAY
172 Lascelles, p. 189
173 Prince Philip of Greece to Queen Elizabeth, 31 December 1943, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
174 Prince Philip to Queen Elizabeth, 23 July [1944], RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
175 Queen Mary to King George VI, 6 March 1944, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11
176 Ibid.
177 King George VI to Queen Mary, 17 March 1944, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/84
178 Queen Mary to King George VI, 20 March 1944, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11
179 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 23 October 1943, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/69
180 Queen Mary to King George VI, 10 December 1943, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11
181 King George VI to Queen Mary, 14 December 1943, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/77
182 Queen Elizabeth to Osbert Sitwell, 4 May 1944, Sitwell Papers
183 Owen Morshead to Queen Mary, 8 May 1944, RA QM/PRIV/CC48/1184
184 Queen Elizabeth to Osbert Sitwell, 21 June 1944, Sitwell Papers
185 Keegan, p. 153
186 Queen Elizabeth to Osbert Sitwell, 21 June 1944, Sitwell Papers
187 Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, p. 781
188 King George VI, diary, 30 May 1944, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY; Wheeler-Bennett, pp. 601–6
189 Queen Mary to Queen Elizabeth, 18 May 1944, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
190 King George VI to Queen Mary, 10 June 1944, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/90; Wheeler-Bennett, p. 607
191 Queen Elizabeth to Osbert Sitwell, 21 June 1944, Sitwell Papers
192 Evelyn Waugh, Unconditional Surrender, 1961, p. 245, quoted in Calder, The People’s War, p. 560
193 Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, vol. VII, William Heinemann, 1985, pp. 812–13
194 Queen Elizabeth to Arthur Penn, 18 June 1944, Penn Papers
195 Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, p. 782
196 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 610
197 King George VI to Queen Mary, 25 June 1944, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/91
198 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 8 July 1944, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/93
199 Queen Elizabeth to Princess Elizabeth, 27 June 1944, RA QEQM/OUT/CHILD
200 King George VI to Princess Elizabeth, June 1944, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF (with letters from King George VI to Queen Elizabeth)
201 Kenneth Clark to Queen Elizabeth, 22 June 1944, QEQM/PRIV/PIC
202 Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, pp. 782–3
203 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 17 July 1944, RA/QM/PRIV/CC13/95
204 Queen Elizabeth to Sir Alan Lascelles (quoted in Sir Alan Lascelles to Queen Elizabeth, 29 March 1945), RA QEQM/PRIV/MISCOFF
205 Sir Alan Lascelles to Queen Elizabeth, 29 March 1945, RA QEQM/PRIV/MISCOFF
206 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 17 July 1944, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/95
207 King George VI to Queen Elizabeth, 22 July 1944, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
208 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 26 July 1944, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/96
209 Ibid.
210 Queen Elizabeth to Sir Alan Lascelles, 29 July 1944, RA PS/PSO/AL/Box B
211 Betty Bowes Lyon to Queen Elizabeth, 25 July [1944], RA QEQM/PRIV/BL
212 King George VI to Queen Elizabeth, 29 July 1944, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
213 Queen Elizabeth to King George VI, 26 July 1944, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/26/80
214 Queen Elizabeth to Sir Alan Lascelles, 31 July 1944, RA PS/PSO/AL/Box B
215 D Arcy Osborne to Queen Elizabeth, 3 August 1944, RA QEQM/PRIV/PAL/Osborne
216 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 4 August 1944, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/97
217 Queen Mary to Queen Elizabeth, 30 July 1944, RA QEQM/PRIV/RF
218 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 4 August 1944, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/97
219 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 19 August 1944, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/98
220 Queen Elizabeth to Winston Churchill, CAC CHAR 1/380/52
221 Queen Elizabeth to the Hon. David Bowes Lyon, telegram, 6 November 1944, Bowes Lyon Papers, SPW
222 Hon. David Bowes Lyon to Queen Elizabeth, telegram, 6 November 1944, Bowes Lyon papers, SPW
223 Queen Elizabeth to the Hon. David Bowes Lyon, 14 November 1944, Bowes Lyon Papers, SPW
224 Laird, p. 267
225 Queen Elizabeth to the Hon. David Bowes Lyon, 14 November 1944, Bowes Lyon Papers, SPW
226 Queen Elizabeth to Winston Churchill, 14 November 1944, CAC, CHAR 1/380/52
227 Queen Elizabeth to Sir Alan Lascelles, 4 October 1944, RA PS/PSO/AL/Box B
228 Queen Elizabeth, message to Commanding Officer (Lieutenant Colonel Hon. Michael Bowes Lyon), 31 July 1944, RA QEQM/PS/ENGT/1944/43
229 Wheeler-Bennett, pp. 614–15
230 Laird, pp. 267–8
231 Queen Elizabeth’s speech at Middle Temple, 12 December 1944, RA QEQMH/PS/ENGT/1944/39
232 Queen Elizabeth to Osbert Sitwell, 18 December 1944, Sitwell Papers
233 King George VI, diary, 21–26 December 1944, RA KGVI/PRIV/DIARY
234 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 28 December 1944, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/114
235 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 26 January 1945, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/117
236 Queen Elizabeth to D’Arcy Osborne, 14 February 1945, RA QEQM/OUT/OSBORNE
237 Queen Elizabeth to Hon. Sir Richard Molyneux, 20 March 1945, RA QEQM/OUT/MOLYNEUX/113
238 Queen Mary to King George VI, 13 April 1945, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11
239 King George VI to Queen Mary, 23 April 1945, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/122
240 King George VI, diary, 8 May 1945, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY
241 David Kynaston, Austerity Britain 1945–51, Bloomsbury, 2007, p. 212
242 King George VI, diary, 8 May 1945, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY
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bsp; 243 King George VI to Queen Mary, 22 May 1945, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/124
244 Hansard, 15 May 1945
245 Queen Elizabeth to Osbert Sitwell, 14 May 1945, Sitwell Papers
FIFTEEN: WAR TO PEACE 1945–1947
1 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 18 September 1945, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/133
2 King George VI, diary, 18–20 May 1945, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY
3 Queen Elizabeth to Lady Doris Vyner, 12 May 1945, Vyner Papers
4 King George VI to Most Rev. Cosmo Lang, 19 May 1945, Lambeth Palace Library, Lang Papers 318 f. 162
5 Queen Mary to King George VI, 27 May 1945, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11
6 Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, pp. 843–5
7 Peter Hennessy, Never Again, Jonathan Cape, 1992, p. 94
8 Ibid.
9 King George VI, diary, 26 July 1945, RA GVI/PRIV/DIARY
10 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 637
11 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 26 July 1945, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/128
12 Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, pp. 854–6
13 The Noël Coward Diaries, 1982, p. 36, quoted in Kynaston, p. 78
14 Rhodes James, p. 283
15 Channon, Diaries, 15 August 1945, p. 501
16 ‘Speeches and Replies to Addresses by His Majesty King George VI’, printed for the Private Secretary’s Office, RA
17 James Lees-Milne, Prophesying Peace: Diaries 1944–1945, Chatto & Windus, 1977, 15 August 1945
18 Countess Spencer to Earl Spencer, 13 September 1945, Althorp Archives
19 Queen Elizabeth to Lady Cranborne, 7 October 1945, Hatfield House, Papers of Elizabeth, Marchioness of Salisbury
20 Owen Morshead, notes on conversation with Sir Alan Lascelles, 10 November 1945, RA AEC/GG/12/OS/2
21 Bradford, George VI, p. 594, quoting Alec Hardinge’s subsequent remark that the King ‘literally died for England’
22 Owen Morshead, notes on conversation with Sir Alan Lascelles, 10 November 1945, RA AEC/GG/12/OS/2.
23 Wheeler-Bennett, p. 654
24 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 18 September 1945, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/133
25 Winston Churchill to Duke of Windsor (copy), 31 December 1944, CAC CHAR/20/148/28
26 Queen Mary to King George VI, 27 August 1945, RA GVI/PRIV/RF/11
27 Queen Elizabeth to Queen Mary, 18 September 1945, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/133
28 King George VI to Queen Mary, 23 September 1945, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/135
29 Owen Morshead, notes on conversation with Queen Mary, 18 February 1946, RA AEC/GG/12/OS/2
30 King George VI to Queen Mary, 6 October 1945, RA QM/PRIV/CC13/137