That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor
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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’)
&nbs
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’)
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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