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That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor

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by Anne Sebba


  Don, Revd Alan

  Donahue, Jimmy

  Donaldson, Frances, Lady

  Douw, Julia

  Dowlais Aged Comrades Choir

  Drumalis House, Larne, Co. Antrim

  Dudley, Grace, Countess of (née Kolin)

  Dudley, Laura, Countess of (née Charteris; later Duchess of Marlborough)

  Dudley Ward, Angela

  Dudley Ward, Freda

  Dudley Ward, William (‘Duddie’)

  Dudley, William Humble Eric Ward, 3rd Earl of

  Dugdale, Nancy, Lady (née Tennant; later Lady Crathorne): sends Wallis’s handwriting for analysis; on Baldwin; on US press coverage of Edward-Wallis affair; on Wallis’s divorced status; mistrusts Churchill; on effect of Bishop Blunt’s speech; on Baldwin’s wishing Edward happiness; dismisses Wallis’s renunciation statement; on Edward’s financial allowance; on Edward’s broadcast; Wallis’s effect on

  Dugdale, Sir Thomas (later 1st Baron Crathorne)

  Duke and Duchess of Windsor Society

  Dunaway, Faye

  du Pont, Renée

  Durham, Bishop of am,on see Henson, Herbert Hensley

  Dutton, E.P. (publishing house)

  Eden, Anthony (later 1st Earl of Avon)

  Edinburgh, Duke of see Philip, Prince

  Ednam Lodge, Sunningdale

  Edward VII, King

  Edward VIII, King (earlier Prince of Wales) see Windsor, Edward, Duke of

  Edward and Mrs Simpson (TV series)

  Electrolux (company)

  Elizabeth II, Queen (earlier Princess)

  Elizabeth, Queen of George VI (earlier Duchess of York; née Bowes-Lyon): marriage; skating; Wallis’s acquaintance with; antipathy to Wallis; and death of George V; Edward sees little of; Wallis impersonates; and Wallis at Balmoral; letter to Edward on husband’s need for kindness; letter to Archbishop of Canterbury after abdication; letter to Lord Lloyd; regard for traditional morality; concern for stress on husband; and husband’s coronation; telegram to Windsors on wedding day; and Windsors’ planned US trip; visit to North America; and possible return of Windsors; refers to Wallis as ‘that woman’; as Queen Mother

  Ellen (Baltimore seamstress)

  Elliott, Maxine

  Emory family

  Emory, Dr (Wallis’s great-grandfather)

  Enzesfeld, Schloss

  Esher, Reginald Baliol Brett, 2nd Viscount

  Espil, Don Felipe

  Espirito Santo Silva, Dr Ricardo de

  Evans, Police Inspector

  Evanston, Illinois

  Excalibur (ship)

  Ezra family

  Fanny Farmer Cookbook

  Fayed, Dodi

  Fayed, Mohamed al-

  Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

  Felixstowe

  Findley, Timothy: Famous Last Words

  Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Great Gatsby

  Fitzherbert, Maria

  Fletcher, Judge George Latham

  Forbes, Alastair

  Fort Belvedere: as Edward’s home; Simpsons visit; Wallis’s alterations at; Diana Cooper visits; Wallis’s rooms at; Wallis’s behaviour at; Mary Raffray visits; entertaining at; Baldwin visits; Wallis moves to for security; Wallis leaves to move abroad; Edward meets family for last time at; Edward signs Instrument of Abdication at; Monckton visits to clear up; Windsors revisit; leased to Gerald Lascelles

  Forwood, Dudley

  France: armistice with Germany

  Franco, General Francisco

  Frank, Bruno (adapted): Storm over Patsy (play)

  Freemasons

  French Red Cross: Section Sanitaire Automobile (SSA)

  Frogmore, Windsor

  Furness, Anthony, 2nd Viscount

  Furness, Marmaduke, 1st Viscount

  Furness, Thelma, Viscountess

  Furness Withy (shipping company)

  Fury, HMS

  Gaines, Charlotte (later Simpson)

  Galbraith, William

  Gallipoli: Edward calls at with Wallis on cruise

  Game, Sir Philip

  George II, King of the Hellenes

  George IV, King

  George V, King: and Edward’s birth; as disciplinarian; Edward accuses of ignorance; illness; Lascelles serves; discusses Edward’s marriage plans; Wallis presented to; Simpsons presented onsWillto; conversation with Edward on Wallis; Jubilee celebrations; death; will

  George VI, King (earlier Duke of York; ‘Bertie’): marriage; skating; acquaintance with Wallis; writes to Prime Minister questioning Wallis’s loyalty; Edward sees little of; and Edward’s refusal to attend Aberdeen hospital dedication; Edward complains of financial difficulties to; Elizabeth pleads with Edward for consideration for; financial support for Edward; regard for traditional morality; strains; Edward sends letter of advice to; coronation; and Windsors’ wedding; and Wallis’s rank and title; vulnerability in relation to Edward; visit to North America; appoints Edward governor of Bahamas; death

  George Street: 5 Bryanston Court, London

  Georgetown

  Germany

  Gif-sur-Yvette: the Mill

  Giles, Frank

  Givenchy (fashion house)

  Gloucester, Princess Alice, Duchess of

  Gloucester, Prince Henry, Duke of

  Goddard, John Theodore

  Goebbels, Josef

  Graham, Laurie

  Green Gang

  Green, Gerry

  Grosvenor Hotel, London

  Guards’ Club, London

  Gull, Sir William

  Gustaf, Crown Prince of Sweden (later King Gustaf VI Adolf )

  Gwyer, Sir Maurice Linford

  Gwynne, ‘Foxy’ see Sefton, Countess of

  Halifax, Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of

  Halsey, Admiral Sir Lionel

  Hamburg

  Harding, Warren G.

  Hardinge, Alexander, 2nd Baron Hardinge of Penshurst: on George V’s treatment of children; meets Wallis; and Edward’s infatuation with Wallis; as Private Secretary to Edward; warns Edward of press hostility to Wallis; disbelieves Wallis’s offer to withdraw; policy on Edward’s future; and Queen Mary on Wallis’s unsuitability; and Windsors’ wedding; George VI retains; and Edward’s return to England in war; reprimands Foreign Office for using ‘Royal Highness’ as term

  Hardinge, Helen, Lady (née Cecil)

  Hardoon family

  Harewood, Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl and Mary, Countess of

  Harmsworth, Esmond (later 2nd Viscount Rothermere)

  Harrison, (Sir) Rex (Reginald Carey Harrison)

  Harrow school

  Hart-Davis, Duff

  Hartington, Kathleen, Marchioness of (née Kennedy; ‘Kick’)

  Hartington, William Cavendish, Marquess of (‘Billy’)

  Haslam, Nicholas

  Hastings, Sir Patrick Gardiner

  Havil, Anthony (i.e. Dr Elliot Philipp): The Technique of Sex

  Hawke, Sir John Anthony

  Hayne, Jane Selby

  Hearst, William Randolph

  Henning, Alice

  Henry VIII, King

  Henson, Herbert Hensley, Bishop of Durham

  Herbert, Sir Alan Patrick; Holy Deadlock

  Hess, Rudolf

  Hicks, Frederick, Bishop of Lincoln

  Higham, Charles

  Himmler, Heinrich

  Hitler, Adolf

  Hogg, Ella

  Hollingsworth, Will (or Bill)

  Hong Kong

  Houghton Mifflin (US publishers)

  Howe, Captain Cecil

  Hughes (Simpson’s chauffeur)

  Hunter, George and Kitty

  Hutchinson, Jonathan

  Huxley, Elspeth

  Ine, King of West Saxons

  Inglefield, Dr Christopher

  Ipswich Assizes

  Irish Free State

  Italy

  Jackson, Howard W., Mayor of Baltimore

  Japan: attack on Pearl Harbor

  Jardine,
Revd R. Anderson

  Jenks, Sir Maurice

  Jews: in England; merchants in Shanghai

  Jones, Sir Roderick

  Jowitt, Sir William Allen (later Earl)

  Jumilhac, Constance Coolidge, Comtesse de

  Kadoorie family

  Kamp-Linfort coalmine

  Kelly , HMS

  Kennedy, Elizabeth (‘Buttercup’) see Simpson, Mary

  Kennedy, Joseph

  Kennedy, Kathleen (‘Kick’) see Hartington, Kathleen, Marchioness of

  Kent, Prince George, Duke of

  Kent, Princess Marina, Duchess of

  Kenya

  Kerr, Elizabeth Anne

  Kerr-Smiley family

  Kerr-Smiley, Elizabeth

  Kerr-Smiley, Maud (née Simpson)

  Kerr-Smiley, Peter

  King, William Lyon Mackenzie

  King’s Proctor

  King’s Story, A (documentary film)

  Kirk family

  Kirk, Anne

  Kirk, Edith

  Kirk, Edith Buckner (‘Buckie’)

  Kirk, Henry Child

  Kirk, Mary see Simpson, Mary

  Kirk, Samuel and Son

  Kirkwood, Dr William

  Kitchener, Field Marshal Horatio Herbert, 1st Earl

  Kitzbühel

  Knole Park, Kent

  Ladbroke, George

  Lang, Cosmo Gordon, Archbishop of Canterbury: on George V’s Jubilee speech; lunches with Ribbentrop; Yorks invite to Brickhall; and Baldwin’s proposal that Edward keep Wallis as mistress; and Edward’s plans to marry Wallis; and Bishop of Bradford’s speech; Queen Elizabeth writes to; denounces Edward in broadcast; believes Edward obsessed

  Lascelles, Sir Alan (‘Tommy’): on Edward’s mental state; career in royal service; and Edward’s reaction to report of dying father; on George V’s will; on Wallis’s manner; on Edward’s poor relations with father; on Edward’s infatuation with Wallis; on Nahlin yacht trip with Edward; on Wallis’s influence on Edward; on Wallis’s offer to withdraw; wishes Edward to break neck; and Simpson divorce; and Edward’s appointment as governor of Bahamas

  Lascelles, Gerald

  Lascelles, Joan, Lady

  Lees, Major Walter

  Lees-Milne, James

  Leigh, Sir Piers (‘Joey’)

  Leigh, Vivien,

  Lemarchand, Peter

  Letts, Courtney Louise

  Leveson-Gower, Avril

  Levine, Jack: Reception in Miami (painting)

  Lewis, Ethel, Lady (née Noyes)

  Lewis, Sir Willmott (‘Bill’)

  Ley, Dr Robert

  Liberty (magazine)

  Life (magazine)

  Lincoln, Bishop of see Hicks, Frederick

  Lincoln, Ignaz Trebitsch

  Lindbergh, Charles and Anne

  Lindsay, Edith

  Lindsay, Sir Ronald Charles

  Linlithgow, Victor Alexander John Hope, 2nd Marquess of

  Little, Colonel Louis

  Lloyd, George Ambrose, 1ste Aind Baron

  Lloyd George, David (later 1st Earl)

  Lockhart, Sir Robert Bruce

  Lonsdale, Frederick

  Lothian, Philip Henry Kerr, 11th Marquess of

  Lou Viei villa see Cannes

  Lowndes, Marie Adelaide Belloc

  Lutyens, Eva (dress designer)

  Lyons, Joseph

  McAuliffe, Nichola

  MacColl, René

  McCulloh, Anna (’Miss Nan’)

  MacDonald, Malcolm

  MacDonald, Ramsay

  McGovern, John

  Mackenzie, (Sir) Compton

  McLemore, Henry

  McNamee, Dorothy

  Madrid: British Embassy; Ritz Hotel

  Mainbocher (i.e. Main Rousseau Bocher; fashion house)

  Margaret Rose, Princess

  Marías, Javier: Your Face Tomorrow

  Marigny, Alfred

  Marlborough family

  Marlborough House, London

  Marlborough, Rosita, Duchess of

  Martin, Ralph

  Martin, Señora

  Marvell, Andrew

  Mary, Princess Royal

  Mary, Queen of George V: and rumoured ‘China Dossier’ on Wallis; and Edward’s birth; cold behaviour to Edward; and Edward’s social conscience; Wallis curtseys to; teaches needlepoint to sons; Simpsons presented to; and Silver Jubilee; and death of George V; blames Lady Cunard for mischief; on Edward’s infatuation with Wallis; on Edward’s craving for personal happiness; on Wallis’s controlling drinking; and Edward’s determination to marry Wallis; and abdication; post-abdication letter; jewellery; and Windsors’ German trip; and possible return of Windsors; correspondence with Wallis; memorial plaque; and death of George VI, ; death

  Mason, Mrs (royal housekeeper)

  Massey, Charles Vincent and Alice

  Matrimonial Causes Act (1937)

  Maugham, Syrie (née Barnardo)

  Maugham, William Somerset

  Maurice, Sir Frederick

  Maxim’s (restaurant), Paris

  Maxwell, Dominic

  Maxwell, Elsa

  Melton Mowbray

  Mendl, Elsie, Lady (Elsie de Wolfe)

  Mensdorff-Pouilly-Dietrichstein, Count Albert

  Merryman, Bessie (née Montague; Wallis’s aunt; Mrs D. Buchanan-Merryman): Wallis named for; Wallis lives with; as adviser to Wallis; and Wallis’s first marriage and divorce; Wallis accompanies to Europe; and Wallis’s determination to meet Edward; and Wallis’s stomach trouble; pays for Wallis’s return to USA; letters from Wallis on relations with Edward; travels to Biarritz with Wallis and Edward; on Edward’s infatuation with Wallis; correspondence with Wallis; Wallis requests family tree from; and Wallis’s confidence in Edward as king; sends US newspaper cuttings to Wallis; in London; attends Wallis-Edward wedding; and Wallis’s dislike of Bahamas; death

  Merryman, Buck (Wallis’s uncle)

  Metcalfe, Lady Alexandra (‘Baba’)

  Metcalfe, Captain Edward (‘Fruity’)

  Métral, Leah (‘Midget’; ‘The French Hussy’)

  Metropolitan Police; see also Special Branch

  Meurice, Hôtel, Paris

  Miami

  Milford Haven, Nada, Marchioness of

  Miller, Gilbert

  Molyneaux (fashion house)

  monarchy (British): reverence for

  Monckton, Bridget Helen, Lady

  Monckton, Sir Walter (later 1st Viscount): on Edward’s feelings for Wallis; as Edward’s legal adviss t Her; and opposition to Edward’s intended marriage; on Edward’s remoteness from public opinion; and Wallis’s denial of permanent relations with Edward; and Wallis’s divorce from Simpson; and Edward’s determination to stay with Wallis; drives Edward to Portsmouth; on Edward’s devotion to mother; clears up at Fort Belvedere; knighthood; tact; and Windsors’ wedding; on old Harrovians; at Candé; and refusal of HRH title to Wallis; and Edward’s financial situation; remains loyal to Edward; and Edward’s trip to Germany; on royal opposition to Windsors’ return; as channel of communication for Windsors; and Edward’s return for war work; and Windsors’ return from France in war; and ostracism of Wallis in England; and Edward’s posting to British Military Mission in France; and Edward’s appointment to Bahamas; and Edward’s request to take leave from Bahamas; Wallis’s correspondence with; and Edward’s pessimism over losses in Europe; visits Windsors in Paris

  Monroe, Marilyn

  Montague family

  Montague, Mary Anne (Wallis’s grandmother)

  Montague, Peter

  Montague, William (Wallis’s grandfather)

  Montecucolli (ship)

  Morgan sisters

  Morley, Sir Godfrey

  Morrell, Lady Ottoline

  Mortimer, Linda

  Mosley, Diana, Lady (née Mitford)

  Mosley, Sir Oswald

  Mothers’ Union

  Mountbatten, Lord Louis (later Admiral 1st Earl; ‘Dickie’)

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p; Mountbatten, Lady Pamela (later Hicks)

  Moyne, Walter Edward Guinness, 1st Baron

  Muick, Loch

  Murphy, Charles

  Murray, Lieut. Commander

  Mussolini, Benito

  Mussolini, Edda

  Mustin, Corinne see Scanlon, Corinne

  Mustin, Henry

  Nahlin (yacht)

  Napoleon I (Bonaparte), Emperor of the French

  Nassau see Bahamas

  Nassau, Bishop of see Dauglish, John

  National Archives (British)

  Nazis and Nazism

  Netherlands

  New Statesman (journal)

  New York

  New Zealand

  Nicolson, Sir Harold

  Nicolson, Nigel

  Noland, Charlotte and Rosalie

  Noyes, Ethel see Lewis, Ethel, Lady

  Oakes, Sir Harry

  Octavians, Society of

  O’Donnell, Ada

  Oesterreicher, Gusti

  Oldfield girls’ boarding school, Maryland

  Orient Express (railway train)

  Orwell, George

  Osborne: Royal Naval College

  Osborne (butler)

  Osburn, Carter

  Oswald, Dr Iain

  Oursler, Fulton

  Oxford: Magdalen College; Bodleian Library

  Pall Mall, London

  Paris: Wallis visits; British Embassy; threatened by Germans; Edward buys jewels in for Wallis; haute couture shows; Elizabeth II’s state visit to (1972); Princess Diana’s death in

  Parliament: state opening (1936)

  Parsons, Chief Justice Theophilus (of Massachusetts)

  Pascal, Blaise

  Patten, Susan Mary (later Alsop)

  Patterson, Elizabeth (sometime Bonaparte; ‘Betsy’)

  n>

  Peacock, Sir Edward

  Pearl Harbor

  Peking (Beijing)

  Pensacola, Florida

  Pétain, Marshal Philippe

  Philip, Prince, Duke of Edinburgh

  Philipp, Dr Elliot

  Phillips, Major Gray

  Phipps, Sir Eric

  Pick, Charles

  Pillsbury Grand National bake-off competition

  Pirie, Val

  Pittsburgh

  Plymouth

  Polignac, Princesse Edmond de (née Winnaretta Singer)

  Pope-Hennessy, James

  Portsmouth

  Portugal

  Powell, Anthony: Casanova’s Chinese Restaurant

  Press Association

  Prochaska, Frank

 

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