18 CHAR 13 (Admiralty Papers). Churchill to Sir John French on 11 January 1915.
19 Quoted in Martin Gilbert: Winston S. Churchill: The Challenge of War, vol. 3, p. 447.
20 John S. Churchill: A Churchill Canvas, p. 33.
21 Quoted in Earl of Birkenhead: Churchill, pp. 400–1.
22 WSC: Thoughts and Adventures, p. 326.
23 Minnie Churchill: Sir Winston Churchill’s Life through His Paintings.
24 Seymour Leslie: The Jerome Connection, p. 83.
25 Draft letter 29 October, WSC to Asquith. Quoted in Earl of Birkenhead: Churchill, p. 403.
26 Max Beaverbrook: Politicians and the War, p. 5.
27 WSC: Thoughts and Adventures, p. 105.
28 MS: Speaking for Themselves, p. 113.
29 Ibid., p. 114.
30 Ibid., p. 172.
31 Ibid., p. 118.
16
1 WSC: The World Crisis, p. 708.
2 MS: Speaking for Themselves, p. 206.
3 Anne Sebba in conversation with the author.
4 Peregrine Churchill and Julian Mitchell: Jennie, p. 261.
5 Ibid.
6 Anne Sebba: American Jennie, p. 312.
7 TKP: undated notes by Shane Leslie for AL.
8 MS: Speaking for Themselves, p. 212.
9 Ibid., p. 216.
10 Anthony Montague Browne: The Long Sunset, p. 224.
11 John Colville: Fringes of Power, vol. 2, p. 339.
12 Hugo Vickers: Gladys, Duchess of Marlborough, p. 145.
13 Ibid., pp. 147–8.
14 Ibid., p. 155.
15 Henrietta Spencer Churchill: Blenheim and the Churchill Family, p. 176.
16 Amanda Mackenzie Stuart: Consuelo and Alva, p. 362.
17 Ibid., p. 383.
18 CB: The Glitter and the Gold, p. 188.
17
1 MS: Speaking for Themselves, p. 225.
2 Ibid., pp. 236–7.
3 Ibid., p. 237.
4 Peregrine Churchill and Julian Mitchell: Jennie, p. 263.
5 Ibid., p. 264.
6 Ibid., p. 265.
7 Ibid., pp. 266–7.
8 Celia and John Lee: Winston and Jack, p. 302.
9 RSC: Twenty-One Years, pp. 24–5, and AL: Cousin Randolph, p. 7.
10 MS: Speaking for Themselves, p. 242.
11 Ibid., pp. 242–3.
12 Ibid., p. 244.
13 Ibid., p. 245.
14 Ibid., p. 250.
15 Ibid., p. 253.
16 Ibid., p. 261.
17 National Trust: Chartwell, p. 13, and MS: Speaking for Themselves, p. 262.
18 MS: Clementine Churchill, p. 319.
19 WSC: Thoughts and Adventures, p. 213.
20 National Trust: Chartwell, pp. 16–18.
18
1 John S. Churchill: A Churchill Canvas, p. 22.
2 Henrietta Spencer Churchill: Blenheim and the Churchill Family, p. 178.
3 Daphne Fielding: The Face on the Sphinx, p. 59.
4 CHAR 1/179/5.
5 New York Times, 25 November 1926, p. 1.
6 F.J. Heed: Ms: A transcript of the Tribunal hearing and Acta Apostolicae Sedis 1926, Library of Congress Card number 59–10656.
7 MS: Speaking for Themselves, p. 299.
8 AL: Cousin Randolph, p. 12.
9 Ibid., p. 13.
10 John S. Churchill: A Churchill Canvas, pp. 24–5.
11 Ibid., p. 263.
12 Ibid., p. 277.
13 MS: Clementine Churchill, p. 340.
14 AL: Cousin Randolph, p. 9.
15 Harold Nicolson: Diaries and Letters, 1930–1939, p. 154.
16 Chatsworth House archives: Tom Mitford to Lady Redesdale, 17 August 1930. Quoted in Mary S. Lovell: The Mitford Girls, pp. 115–16.
17 The late Beryl Markham to the author.
18 Mary S. Lovell: Amelia Earhart – The Sound of Wings, pp. 115–17.
19 Lady Soames in conversation with the author, 9 September 2009.
20 AL: Cousin Randolph, p. 16.
21 John Pearson: Citadel of the Heart, p. 213.
22 MS: Clementine Churchill, p. 343.
23 MS: Speaking for Themselves, p. 344.
24 RSC: Twenty-One Years, pp. 72–85.
25 CHAR 1/188/61. WSC to CSC, 19 September 1929.
26 CHAR 1/188/61–3.
27 Winston S. Churchill (the younger): His Father’s Son: The Life of Randolph S. Churchill, p. 75.
28 MS: Speaking for Themselves, p. 353.
29 Robert Boothby: Recollections of a Rebel, p. 85.
30 AL: Cousin Randolph, p. 23.
31 Ibid., p. 25.
19
1 MS: Clementine Churchill, p. 360.
2 MS: Speaking for Themselves, pp. 359–60.
3 CSC to WSC, 12 February 1931. Quoted in MS: Speaking for Themselves, p. 351.
4 Mary S. Lovell: The Mitford Girls, pp. 159–62.
5 Ernst Hanfstaengl: Hitler: The Missing Years, pp. 184–6.
6 WSC: The Second World War: The Gathering Storm, p. 65.
7 Artemis Cooper: Mr Wu and Mrs Stitch, p. 12.
8 Hugo Vickers: Gladys, Duchess of Marlborough, p. 205.
9 Ibid., p. 207.
10 The late Diana Mosley (formerly Guinness), taped interview with the author in Paris, January 2000.
11 Time, 21 August 1933. Foreign News section.
12 WSC and C.C. Martindale: Charles, IXth Duke of Marlborough: Tributes, 1934.
13 CB: The Glitter and the Gold, p. 236.
14 AL: Cousin Randolph, p. 37.
15 RSC: Twenty-One Years, p. 117.
16 Philip Toynbee: Friends Apart (MacGibbon & Kee, 1954), p. 18.
17 MS: Clementine Churchill, p. 385.
18 MS: Speaking for Themselves, pp. 398–9.
19 Quoted in Sarah Churchill: Keep on Dancing, p. 55.
20 MS: Speaking for Themselves, p. 403.
21 Ibid., p. 412.
22 Ibid.
23 Ibid., p. 413.
24 Quoted in Sarah Churchill: Keep on Dancing, p. 67.
25 Ibid.
26 Ibid., p. 72.
27 Bracken to Moran, quoted in Lord Moran: Winston Churchill: The Struggle for Survival, p. 744.
28 MS: Speaking for Themselves, p. 426.
29 Bernard Baruch: A Birthday Letter, p. 162.
20
1 William Manchester: The Caged Lion, p. 339.
2 D.A. Wilson: Dark and Light: The Story of the Guinness Family, pp. 222, 227.
3 Martin Gilbert: Winston S. Churchill: The Wilderness Years, p. 237.
4 Ibid., p. 238.
5 H. Channon: Chips: The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon, p. 173.
6 Mary S. Lovell: The Mitford Girls, p. 205.
7 The full story of this elopement is told in Mary S. Lovell: The Mitford Girls, pp. 217–61.
8 MS: Speaking for Themselves, p. 442.
9 Ibid., pp. 443–4.
10 Ibid., pp. 444–5.
11 Ibid., p. 449.
12 Ibid., pp. 448–9.
13 Ibid., p. 448.
14 Martin Gilbert: Winston S. Churchill: The Wilderness Years, p. 261.
15 WSC: The Second World War: The Gathering Storm, p. 317.
16 Ibid., p. 318.
17 W.H. Thompson: I Was Churchill’s Shadow, p. 18.
18 Martin Gilbert: Winston S. Churchill: The Wilderness Years, p. 267.
19 Ibid., p. 267, and W.H. Thompson: I Was Churchill’s Shadow, p. 20.
20 W.H. Thompson: I Was Churchill’s Shadow, p. 21.
21 Ibid., p. 23.
22 Ibid., p. 23.
23 WSC: The Second World War: The Gathering Storm, p. 320.
21
1 Virginia Cowles: Looking for Trouble, p. 113.
2 Ibid., p. 115.
3 Ibid., p. 251.
4 Winston S. Churchill (the younger): Memories and Adventures, p. 4.
5 Author’s interview with Lord Digby.
6 Tatler, 22 June 1938.
7 PH to Lor
d Digby, 17 October 1936, Minterne Archives.
8 Letter signed ‘Doris’ to Lady Digby, 15 June 1935, Box 29a, Minterne Archives.
9 Deborah Devonshire: Home to Roost, p. 79, and correspondence with the author.
10 Clarissa, Countess of Avon, to the author, October 2009.
11 PH to her mother, 19 June 1937, Minterne Archives.
12 Ibid.
13 Lord Digby to the author.
14 Ibid.
15 Winston S. Churchill (the younger): Memories and Adventures, p. 5.
16 Lord Digby to the author.
17 PH to her mother, 20 March 1940, Minterne Archives.
18 Mary S. Lovell: The Mitford Girls, p. 300.
19 The Duchess of Devonshire (now the Dowager Duchess) to the author.
20 AL: Cousin Randolph, p. 48.
21 WSC: The Second World War: The Gathering Storm, pp. 525–6.
22 Martin Gilbert: Winston S. Churchill: Finest Hour, vol. 6, p. 321.
23 W.H. Thompson: I Was Churchill’s Shadow, p. 57.
24 Henrietta Spencer Churchill: Blenheim and the Churchill Family, p. 202.
25 CB: The Glitter and the Gold, p. 239.
26 WSC: The Second World War: Their Finest Hour, p. 205.
27 MS: Speaking for Themselves, p. 454.
28 John Colville: Fringes of Power, vol. 1, p. 207.
29 Charlotte Mosley: Love from Nancy: The Letters of Nancy Mitford, p. 132.
30 Mary S. Lovell: The Mitford Girls, p. 378.
31 Ibid., p. 380.
32 Hugo Vickers: Cecil Beaton, p. 244.
33 Ibid.
34 ‘Travel’, Christian Science Monitor, 28 January 2004.
35 MS: Clementine, p. 433.
22
1 Winston S. Churchill (the younger): Memories and Adventures, p. 14.
2 Evelyn Waugh: Letters, p. 150.
3 Evelyn Waugh: Diaries, p. 493.
4 Evelyn Waugh: Letters, p. 150.
5 Lord Digby to author.
6 Evelyn Waugh: Letters, p. 151.
7 Peter Howard: Beaverbrook, p. 125.
8 Ibid., p. 130.
9 Winston S. Churchill (the younger): Memories and Adventures, p. 18.
10 Elizabeth Bumiller, ‘The Remarkable Life of…Pamela Harriman’, Washington Post, Supplement, 12 June 1983, p. 1.
11 John Colville: Fringes of Power, vol. 1, p. 443.
12 Clarissa, Countess of Avon, to the author, October 2009.
13 Clarissa Eden: A Memoir, p. 59.
14 Clarissa, Countess of Avon, to the author, October 2009.
15 Quoted in Christopher Ogden: Life of the Party, p. 129.
16 Evelyn Waugh: Letters, p. 154.
17 Quoted in Winston S. Churchill (the younger): Memories and Adventures, pp. 20–1.
18 AL: Cousin Randolph, p. 54.
19 MS: Clementine, p. 445.
20 WSC: The Second World War: The Grand Alliance, p. 538.
21 Ibid., pp. 539–40.
22 Ibid., p. 551.
23 Mary S. Lovell: The Mitford Girls, p. 348.
24 Ibid., pp. 348–50.
25 Moran, Lord: Winston Churchill: The Struggle for Survival, p. 21.
26 W.H. Thompson: I Was Churchill’s Shadow, p. 84.
27 Lord Moran: Winston Churchill: The Struggle for Survival, p. 22.
28 Interview notes, Diana Guest.
29 MS: Clementine, p. 452.
30 Ibid., p. 453.
31 AL: Cousin Randolph, p. 73.
32 Ibid., p. 77.
33 Evelyn Waugh: Letters, p. 160.
34 Mary Soames to the author. Interview, October 2009.
35 Winston S. Churchill (the younger): Memories and Adventures, p. 25.
36 John Colville: The Churchillians, p. 15.
23
1 Letter to the author from Lady Soames.
2 ‘Churchill’s Memoirs’, Life Magazine, 22 October 1951, p. 103.
3 Sarah Churchill: Keep on Dancing, p. 117.
4 MS: Clementine, p. 487.
5 Sarah Churchill: Keep on Dancing, p. 121.
6 Ibid., p. 122.
7 Ibid., p. 123.
8 MS: Speaking for Themselves, p. 487.
9 Ibid., p. 493.
10 AL: Cousin Randolph, p. 93.
11 Ibid., p. 77.
12 John Julius Norwich: Duff Cooper Diaries, p. 288.
13 Winston S. Churchill: (the younger): Memories and Adventures, p. 29.
14 Evelyn Waugh: Diaries, p. 573.
15 MS: Speaking for Themselves, pp. 497–8.
16 Ibid., pp. 498–9.
17 MS: Clementine, p. 502.
18 Lady Soames in interview with the author, October 2009.
19 Evelyn Waugh: Diaries, p. 587.
20 Winston S. Churchill (the younger): Memories and Adventures, p. 32.
21 MS: Clementine, p. 518.
22 AL: Cousin Randolph, p. 102.
23 Quoted in Sally Bedell Smith: Reflected Glory, p. 124.
24 Amanda Mackenzie Stuart: Consuelo and Alva, p. 477.
25 Author’s interviews with Diana Guest Manning, Palm Beach 1991; and at Saint Georges-Motel, 1992.
26 John Colville: Fringes of Power, vol. 2, p. 242.
27 MS: Speaking for Themselves, p. 528.
28 Ibid., p. 530.
29 W.H. Thompson: I Was Churchill’s Shadow, p. 157.
30 National Archives, Kew, Secret Cabinet Papers. WSC to President Truman, 7 June 1945.
31 John Colville: Fringes of Power, vol. 2, p. 258.
32 WSC: The Second World War: Triumph and Tragedy, p. 583.
33 MS: Clementine, p. 550.
34 WSC: The Second World War: Triumph and Tragedy, p. 583.
35 Ibid., p. 584.
24
1 MS: Clementine, p. 551.
2 Ibid., p. 555.
3 Ibid., p. 557.
4 MS: Speaking for Themselves, p. 537.
5 Quoted in AL: My Cousin Randolph, pp. 109–10.
6 Interview with Mrs Kathleen Dunn (née Gilbert), 17 March 2010.
7 Ibid.
8 Mrs Kathleen Dunn to the author, 18 March 2010.
9 Sarah Churchill: Keep on Dancing, p. 142.
10 Ibid., p. 153.
11 Ibid., p. 159.
12 CV VIII, p. 308.
13 John Colville: The Churchillians, p. 29.
14 Martin Gilbert: Winston S. Churchill: Never Despair, p. 488 n.
15 Anthony Montague Browne: The Long Sunset, p. 151.
16 John S. Churchill: A Churchill Canvas, p. 247.
17 Mrs Kathleen Dunn to the author.
18 Mary S. Lovell: The Mitford Girls, pp. 410–11.
19 Lord Digby to the author, November 2009.
20 Ibid.
21 Ibid.
22 Lord Digby to the author.
23 MS: Speaking for Themselves, p. 550.
25
1 AL: Cousin Randolph, p. 116.
2 Artemis Cooper: Mr Wu and Mrs Stitch, p. 103.
3 Evelyn Waugh: Letters, p. 307.
4 MS: Clementine, p. 588.
5 AL: Cousin Randolph, p. 119.
6 Evelyn Waugh: Letters, p. 343.
7 Waugh quoted in Mr Wu and Mrs Stitch, p. 113.
8 Evelyn Waugh: Letters, p. 349.
9 AL: Cousin Randolph, p. 117.
10 John Colville: Fringes of Power, vol. 2, p. 294.
11 Ibid., p. 300.
12 Ibid., p. 303.
13 Lady Eden to the author.
14 John Colville: Fringes of Power, vol. 2, pp. 309–10.
15 AL: Cousin Randolph, p. 121.
16 John Colville: Fringes of Power, vol. 2, p. 316.
17 Ibid., p. 328.
18 Sarah Churchill: Keep on Dancing, p. 235.
19 John Colville: Fringes of Power, vol. 2, p. 330.
20 Ibid.
21 John Colville: The Churchillians, p. 44.
22 John Colville: Fringes of Power, vol. 2, p. 330.
23 MS: Speaking for Themselves, p
p. 572–3.
24 Ibid., p. 572.
25 Ibid., p. 573.
26 AL: Cousin Randolph, p. 129.
27 MS: Speaking for Themselves, p. 575.
28 John Pearson: Citadel of the Heart, p. 368.
29 Quoted in Waugh: Mr Wu and Mrs Stitch, p. 190.
30 Evelyn Waugh: Diaries (refers to an earlier letter from June Churchill), p. 732, and AL: Cousin Randolph, p. 133.
31 AL: Cousin Randolph, p. 133.
32 Cynthia Gladwyn: Diaries, p. 229
33 MS: Clementine, pp. 626–7.
34 Ibid., p. 627.
35 Clarissa Eden: A Memoir, p. 181.
36 John Colville: Fringes of Power, vol. 2, p. 377.
37 Ibid., p. 379.
38 Ibid.
26
1 MS: Clementine, p. 593.
2 Clarissa Eden: A Memoir, p. 217.
3 MS: Clementine, p. 653.
4 Ibid., p. 654.
5 CHAR 2/386.
6 MS: Speaking for Themselves, p. 601.
7 Private information.
8 MS: Clementine, p. 657.
9 MS: Speaking for Themselves, p. 603.
10 Ibid., p. 605.
11 Graham Payne and Sheridan Morley, The Noël Coward Diaries, p. 323.
12 Duchess of Devonshire (now the Dowager Duchess) to the author, 25 August 2009.
13 Anthony Montague Browne: The Long Sunset, p. 218.
14 Ibid., p. 220.
15 MS: Clementine, p. 716.
16 MS: Speaking for Themselves, p. 612.
17 Ibid., p. 611.
18 Barry Day: The Letters of Noël Coward, p. 626.
19 MS: Speaking for Themselves, p. 616.
20 Sarah Churchill: Keep on Dancing, p. 257.
21 MS: Clementine, p. 660.
22 Lord Moran: Winston Churchill: The Struggle for Survival, p. 741.
23 AL: Cousin Randolph, p. 151.
24 Ibid., p. 152.
25 Ibid., p. 154.
26 Ibid., p. 155.
27 Lady Mosley to the author.
28 Martin Gilbert: Winston S. Churchill: Never Despair, p. 1313.
29 MS: Clementine, p. 656.
30 AL: Cousin Randolph, p. 145.
31 Artemis Cooper: Mr Wu and Mrs Stitch, p. 271.
32 Cynthia Gladwyn: Diaries, p. 229.
33 Ibid.
34 MS: Speaking for Themselves, p. 629.
35 Martin Gilbert (ed.): Winston Churchill and Emery Reves: Correspondence 1937–1964 (University of Texas) 1997, p. 387.
36 CHUR 2/532 a-b.
37 Ibid.
38 Martin Gilbert: Winston S. Churchill: Never Despair, p. 1315.
39 MS: Clementine, p. 656.
40 Ibid., p. 657.
41 Lord Moran: Winston Churchill: The Struggle for Survival, p. 768.
42 MS: Clementine, p. 681.
43 Ibid., p. 678.
44 Ibid., p. 659.
45 Ibid., p. 680.
46 Sarah Churchill: Keep on Dancing, p. 315.
47 MS: Clementine, p. 682.
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