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63. E to François de Breteuil, 9 November 1915, Breteuil papers.
64. Jolliffe, John (ed.), Raymond Asquith: Life and Letters (Century 1987) p. 219.
65. In the end, however, Hamilton found working with the wayward Prince increasingly irksome, leaving his service in 1921.
66. RA GV/ADD/COPY/136, E to Bailey, 25 March 1916.
67. E to Lady Coke, 30 March 1916, quoted in Ziegler, op. cit., at p. 69.
68. Rose, Kenneth, King George V (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1986) p. 219.
69. RA GV/ADD/COPY/136, E to Bailey, 25 March 1916.
70. Ibid.
71. Storrs, Sir Ronald, Orientations (Nicholson & Watson 1943) pp. 193–5.
72. CAC ESHR 6/9, E to Esher, 4 March 1916.
73. RA GV/ADD/COPY/136, E to Bailey, 26 May 1916.
74. Ziegler, op. cit., p. 89.
75. RA GV/ADD/COPY/136, E to Bailey, 26 May 1916.
76. See Bradford, S., George VI (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1989) p. 59, (see also Giles, F., Sundry Times (John Murray 1986)).
77. Nicolson, H., Balliol College Archives 1943; Bradford, loc. cit.
78. Information from the late Dr J. A. G. F. Rose MB ChB DMR.
79. Lascelles, A., E.P. – Period 1920–1936 Only, Pope-Hennessy Papers, Getty Library, Los Angeles (quoted in Vickers, H., Behind Closed Doors (Hutchinson 2011) p. 281).
80. E to Jacques de Breteuil, 25 June 1916, Breteuil papers.
81. RA GV/ADD/COPY/136, E to Bailey, 19 July 1916.
82. RA GV/ADD/COPY/136, E to Bailey, 5 June 1916.
83. Jolliffe, op. cit., p. 277.
84. RA GV/ADD/COPY/136, E to Bailey, 1 October 1916.
85. Anonymous historian to the author, 14 October 2011.
86. Evening Standard, 10 December 1936, quoted in Shaughnessy, A. (ed.), Sarah (Peter Owen 1989) pp. 155, 158.
87. Ziegler, op. cit., p. 89.
88. Jolliffe, op. cit., pp. 292, 294.
89. NAM 2002-02-924, E to Cecil Boyd-Rochfort, 12 February 1917.
90. Ibid.
91. Vickers, op. cit., p. 276.
92. Ibid.
93. ‘Saki’ (H. Munro), Reginald at the Carlton from Reginald (Methuen 1908) p. 65.
94. Rolls, S., Steel Chariots in the Desert (Cape 1937) p. 52.
95. Georges-Michel, M., La Vie Brillante et Tragique (Emile Paul Frères, Paris) p. 30.
96. Loelia, Duchess of Westminster, Grace and Favour (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1961) p. 145.
97. TNA J77/1297.
98. Hart-Davis, D. (ed.), End of an Era (Hamish Hamilton 1986) p. 145.
99. TNA J77/2100.
100. Loelia, Duchess of Westminster, op. cit., p232
101. Georges-Michel, op. cit., p. 31.
102. Illustrated Sunday Herald, 21 October 1923 (cf. Le Petit Parisien idem).
103. Marie de Paris: extract from the records of the 14th arrondissement, 9 November 1989.
104. Information from Raoul Laurent to the author.
105. The upgrades were nonsense, but there was a connection with the law in Marguerite’s young life. Her mother may have worked for Mme Langlois (the wife of a former notaire) who lived in some style at 96 rue des Ternes.
106. Illustrated Sunday Herald, 21 October 1923.
107. Marie de Paris: extract from the records of the 14th arrondissement, 23 January 1990.
108. Illustrated Sunday Herald, 21 October 1923.
109. Information from Raoul Laurent to the author.
110. TNA MEPO 3/1589.
111. See, e.g., Adler, L., La Vie Quotidienne dans les maisons closes (Hachette 1990) at pp. 175–6.
112. Philippe, C.-L., Bubu of Montparnasse (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1952) passim.
113. Binder, P., The Truth about Cora Pearl (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1986) pp. 51–2.
114. Baldick, R. (ed.), Pages from the Goncourt Journal (Oxford UP 1962) p. 98.
115. See Chapter One.
116. Fréhel is remembered today in France for her haunting song ‘La Java Bleue’. Like Marguerite Meller, she was an ‘in-your-face’ parisienne with no time for bad behaviour in the audience, not afraid to smack the face of anyone she considered to be disparaging her performance.
117. de Pougy, L. (ed. R. Rzewuski, trans. D. Athill), My Blue Notebooks (Century 1986) at pp. 14, 66.
118. See Illustrated Sunday Herald, 21 October 1923; Georges-Michel, op. cit., pp. 13–15.
119. Heppenstall, R., A Little Pattern of French Crime (Hamish Hamilton 1969) p. 44.
120. After the trial, she built a new life for herself in England and married the 6th Baron Abinger. She died in 1954.
121. Le Gaulois, 13 September 1923.
122. Georges-Michel would later write Marguerite’s biography: see Chapter 21.
123. Nicole’s aristocratic credentials were further boosted after the Great War, when Nicole married and became the Princess Galitzine.
124. In 1919, Jacques Lebaudy, André’s uncle, was shot dead by his wife, leaving $8,000,000.
125. Ashton-Wolfe, H., The Underworld (Hurst & Blackett 1925) p. 257.
126. ‘Saki’ The Chaplet from The Short Storires of Saki (John Lane 1930) p160.
127. ‘Sem’ La Ronde de Nuit (Fayard 1923) p37
128. Heppenstall, op. cit., pp. 144–5.
129. Ibid., passim.
130. New York Times, 10 October 1915.
131. MEPO3/1589.
132. see eg Le Dechainé 28 October 1923
133. Cupidon, 26 October 1923.
134. Georges-Michel, op. cit., p. 36. (Marguerite claimed in her 1934 memoir that she first met the Prince at Deauville. This conflicts with accounts given by both the Prince and Regie Esher. Marguerite may have considered Deauville a more romantic setting for her initial encounter.)
135. Bodleian Library, Inverchapel Papers (Box 72) Trotter, ‘G’. to Archibald Clark Kerr, 15 September 1932.
136. Wharton, E., The Custom of the Country (Oxford UP 2000) p. 177.
137. TNA MEPO 3/1589.
138. Wharton, op. cit., p. 177.
139. ‘Sem’, La Ronde de Nuit (Fayard et Cie 1923) pp. 12–14.
140. Norwich, J. J. (ed.), The Duff Cooper Diaries (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005) p. 83.
141. CAC ESHR 2/19, Esher: War Journal, 27 April 1917.
142. CAC ESHR 2/19, Esher to Lord Stamfordham, 30 April 1917.
143. RA EDW/PRIV/DIARY, 28 April 1917.
144. Ibid., 5 May 1917.
145. NAM 2002-02-924, E to Cecil Boyd-Rochfort, 28 May 1917.
146. Greig, G., The King Maker (Hodder 2009) p. 136. (Madge Saunders was also briefly involved at about this time with the Prince’s younger brother, Prince Albert, later King George VI: see Greig, op. cit., pp. 136–8.)
147. NAM 2002-02-924, E to Cecil Boyd-Rochfort, 28 May 1917.
148. Ibid., 16 June 1917.
149. Ibid.
150. Georges-Michel, op. cit., p. 34.
151. Cf. E to FDW, 1 April and 17 June 1918, Godfrey, R. (ed.) Letters from a Prince (Little, Brown 1998) pp. 13, 50.
152. E to FDW, 3 December 1918, unpublished extract.
153. Raoul Laurent to the author, 22 November 2002.
154. E to FDW, undated, 1922, unpublished extract.
155. NAM 2002-02-924, E to Cecil Boyd-Rochfort, 28 May 1917.
156. RA GV/ADD/COPY/136, E to Bailey, 1 July 1917.
157. Georges-Michel, op. cit., p. 36.
158. RA GV/ADD/COPY/136, E to Bailey, 25 July 1916.
159. Ibid., 8 July 1917.
160. Airlie, M., Thatched with Gold, p. 135 et seq.
161. CAC ESHR2/20, Esher: War Diary, 30 July 1917.
162. de la Grange, Baroness E., Open House in Flanders (John Murray 1929) p272.
163. Airlie, op. cit., p. 138.
164. Ibid.
165. NAM 2002-02-924, E to Boyd-Rochford, 28 May 1917.
166. CAC ESHR 2/20, loc. cit.
167. Georges-Michel, M., Quarante Ans de la Vie à Deauville (Fasquelle 1952) p. 52.<
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168. Ibid., p. 63.
169. CAC ESHR, loc. cit.
170. de Breteuil, op. cit., p. 83.
171. Georges-Michel, La Vie Brillante, p. 34.
172. TNA MEPO3/1589.
173. E to FDW, 31 August 1923, unpublished extract.
174. E to FDW, 30 November 1918, unpublished extract.
175. CAC ESHR, loc. cit.
176. NAM 2002-02-924, E to Boyd-Rochfort, 28 May 1917.
177. HRH Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (the Prince’s great-uncle by marriage) died 28 October 1917.
178. NAM 2002-02-924, E to Boyd-Rochfort, 15 November 1917.
179. Ibid.
180. RA GV/ADD/COPY136, E to Bailey, 6 January 1918.
181. Asquith, Lady Cynthia, Diaries 1915–18 (ed. L. P. Hartley) (Century 1987) pp. 416–17.
182. E to FDW, 19 February 1919; Godfrey (ed.), op. cit., p. 173.
183. Queen Mary to E, 7 September 1917, quoted in Ziegler, op. cit., p. 94.
184. Vickers, H., Behind Closed Doors (Hutchinson 2011) pp. 267–8.
185. Donaldson, op. cit., pp. 57–8.
186. Godfrey (ed.), op. cit., p. xviii.
187. A department store in Kensington, much favoured by the middle classes.
188. Quoted in Young, K. (ed.), The Diaries of Sir Robert Bruce-Lockhart (vol. I, 1915–1938) p. 227.
189. Norwich, op. cit., pp. 119, 126.
190. Ziegler, op. cit., p. 95.
191. Bowker, A. E., Behind the Bar (W H Allen 1961) p. 28.
192. Norwich, op. cit., p. 126.
193. Godfrey (ed.), op. cit., p. xviii.
194. Godfrey (ed.), op. cit., p. 10.
195. E to FDW, 1 April 1918; Godfrey (ed.), op. cit., p. 13.
196. E to FDW, 8 April 1918; ibid., p. 20.
197. E to FDW, 10 June 1918; ibid., p. 48.
198. Claud Hamilton to Marion Coke, 19 May 1918, quoted in Ziegler, op. cit., p. 74.
199. Dutton, D. (ed.), Paris 1918: the War Diary of … Lord Derby (Liverpool UP 2001) p. 143 et seq.
200. Ibid.
201. Le Figaro, 20 April 1924.
202. Godfrey, (ed.), op. cit., p. 92.
203. Ibid., p. 114.
204. See TNA MEPO3/1589.
205. E to Legh, 1 November 1918, quoted in Ziegler, op. cit., p. 90.
206. E to FDW, 1 November 1918, unpublished extract.
207. E to FDW, 3 December 1918, unpublished extract.
208. See, e.g., TNA MEPO38/151; MEPO10/35.
209. TNA CAB24/76.
210. Thomson, B., The Scene Changes (Doubleday Doren 1937) p. 421.
211. E to FDW 9 December 1918; Godfrey (ed) op.cit. p143.
212. E to Legh, 18 December 1918, unpublished extract.
213. E to FDW, 15 February 1919; Godfrey (ed.), op. cit., p. 170.
214. E to FDW, 23 May 1920, Godfrey (ed.), op. cit., p. 375..
215. E to FDW, 3 January 1920, Godfrey (ed.), op. cit., p. 299.
216. Stevenson, F., (ed. A. J. P. Taylor), Lloyd George: A Diary (Hutchinson 1971) pp. 198–9.
217. Lawrence, G., A Star Danced (W H Allen 1945) p. 116.
218. See Rubinstein, W., Jewish Top Wealth-holders in Britain (www.jhse.org/book/export/article/21930).
219. Hart-Davis, D., In Royal Service (Hamish Hamilton 1989) p. 20.
220. E to FDW, 30 December 1919, Godfrey (ed.), op. cit., p. 294.
221. Donaldson, op. cit., p. 63.
222. The Times, 6 March 1968.
223. Donaldson, op cit p. 103.
224. Ziegler, op. cit., p. 109.
225. Ziegler, op. cit., p. 93.
226. Hart-Davis, op. cit., p334.
227. Ibid. p. xiii.
228. Vandon, G., Return Ticket (Heinemann 1940) p. 20.
229. Balliol College Archive: Nicolson, H., Diaries 1921–3, 24 June 1922.
230. Godfrey (ed.), op. cit., p. 69.
231. Ziegler, op. cit., p. 100.
232. Ziegler, P., The Diaries of Lord Mountbatten 1920–1922 (Collins 1997) p. 10.
233. CAC LASL3/1, Alan Lascelles to Joan Lascelles 21 September 1924.
234. CAC LASL3/1, Alan Lascelles to Joan Lascelles, 25 September 1924.
235. TNA MEPO3/1589.
236. Ibid., p. 41.
237. Ibid., pp. 45–6.
238. Berque, J., Egypt: Imperialism and Revolution (Faber 1972) p332
239. TNA MEPO3/1589.
240. Illustrated London News, 14 July 1923.
241. Illustrated Sunday Herald, 30 September 1923.
242. Davenport-Hines, R., A Night at the Majestic (Faber & Faber 2006) pp. 1–2.
243. Illustrated Sunday Herald, 30 September 1923.
244. Ibid.
245. Vermeire, R., Cocktails: How To Mix Them (Herbert Jenkins 1922) pp. 26 and 38.
246. The Times, 23 August 1922.
247. Georges-Michel, La Vie Brillante, p. 48.
248. Marjoribanks, E., The Life of Sir Edward Marshall Hall (Gollancz 1929) p. 437.
249. MEPO3/1589.
250. The Tatler, 27 September 1922.
251. Lord E., The Leisure of an Egyptian Official (Hodder & Stoughton 1921) p13.
252. Yvonne, with whom Ali had been getting a little too friendly for Marguerite’s comfort, stayed only for a month, before returning – rather precipitately – to Paris.
253. Egyptian Gazette, 9 January 1923.
254. Egyptian Gazette, 19 December 1922 (Cherif was staying at the Semiramis Hotel).
255. Princeton University Collection: Maxwell, Sir J., Diary, 6 February 1923.
256. Sunday Express, 16 September 1923.
257. DPP1/74.
258. Egyptian Gazette, 22 February 1923.
259. Ibid., 23 July 1924.
260. Ibid.
261. Illustrated Sunday Herald, 21 October 1923.
262. Illustrated London News, 7 June 1923.
263. Le Gaulois, 24 June 1923.
264. TNA MEPO3/1589
265. Ibid.
266. Westminster, Loelia, Duchess of, Cocktails & Laughter (Hamish Hamilton 1983) p. 74.
267. Nichols, B., Twenty-Five (Penguin 1934) p. 180.
268. Cooper, D., Diary 25 August 1922, unpublished extract,
269. Better remembered today as ‘The Bolter’, Idina was immortalised in Nancy Mitford’s novel The Pursuit of Love and Frances Osborne’s 2008 biography of that title.
270. Olivier Choppin de Janvry, Musée Sem, to the author, 2 August 2011.
271. TNA MEPO3/1589.
272. The Times, 1 June 1923.
273. Daily Mail 23 April 1923.
274. Punch, 2 July 1919.
275. Daily Mail, 17 September 1923.
276. Ibid., 9 July 1923.
277. Illustrated Sunday Herald, 29 July 1923.
278. Daily Graphic, 23 July 1923.
279. Lloyd’s Sunday News, 5 August 1923.
280. Hibberd, S., This is the BBC (Macdonald & Evans 1950) p. 4.
281. Bennett A Imperial Palace (Cassell 1930), p. 84.
282. Daily Mirror, 2 July 1923.
283. See Chapter Twenty-Four.
284. Balliol College Archive: Nicolson, H., Diaries 1921–3, 4, 5 July 1923.
285. Daily Mirror, 5 July 1923.
286. Daily Mirror, 7 July 1923.
287. Marguerite gave two versions of this story. Giving evidence at the trial, she said that the incident took place at lunchtime. In written statements, she claimed that it was at supper, after visiting Daly’s Theatre later that day.
288. Daily Telegraph, 13 September 1923.
289. New York Times, 14 October 1921.
290. Rhodes James, R. (ed.), ‘Chips’: The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon (Phoenix 1996) p. 405.
291. Airlie, op. cit., pp. 146–7.
292. Bennett, op. cit., p. 292.
293. Liddell Hart Archive Centre, King’s College, London: Hamilton, Lady J., Diary, 10 July 1923.
294. The Star, 10 July 1923.
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296. See Rose, A., Stinie: Murder on the Common (Bodley Head 1985).
297. See also Burt, L., Commander Burt of Scotland Yard (Heinemann 1959) p. 173.
298. Aberdeen Press & Journal, 11 July 1923.
299. Evening News, 11 July 1923.
300. Ibid.
301. See Chapter Six.
302. Ziegler, King Edward VIII p. 143.
303. BL F112/797 136-7, George Curzon to Grace Curzon, 9 September 1923.
304. See Hart-Davis, D. (ed.), In Royal Service (Hamish Hamilton 1989); CAC Lascelles papers.
305. BL [©British Library Board] Add MS EUR F112/797 136-7, George Curzon to Grace Curzon, Ibid.
306. The Times, 24 August 1923.
307. CAC LASL II 1/4, Alan Lascelles to Joan Lascelles, 14 August 1923.
308. Another Garrick Club member was Sir Edward Marshall Hall who, as will be seen, defended Marguerite at her trial.
309. Jackson, R., The Case for the Prosecution (Arthur Barker 1962) p. 171.
310. TNA FO39/3989.
311. The Metropolitan Police Service stated in 1989 and in 2012 that these papers could not be traced in police archives.
312. TNA MEPO3/1589.
313. TNA, Ibid.
314. TNA CRIM1/244.
315. By early September, the fissure had almost healed and Marguerite had responded well to treatment for anaemia.
316. Illustrated Sunday Herald 23 September 1923, Le Petit Parisien 23 September 1923.
317. Oddie, S, Coroner (Hutchinson 1941) p. 106.
318. Ibid.
319. Mme Said, unimpressed by these crocodile tears, seems to have passed on the photo to the DPP: see TNA DPP1/74.
320. Hart-Davis, (ed.), op. cit., p. 3.
321. Kuhn W., Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford University Press, 2004) Vol. 5, p. 69 (quotation from the Marquess of Lincolnshire).
322. CAC ESHR12/10, Stamfordham to Esher, 16 December 1923.
323. Pocheska, F., Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004) vol. 58, p. 855.
324. Lang, T., My Darling Daisy (Michael Joseph 1966), p. 290.
325. Magnus, Sir P., King Edward the Seventh (Penguin 1975) p. 565.
326. ‘Saki’ (H. H. Munro), The Complete Short Stories of ‘Saki’ (Bodley Head 1930) pp. 351–2.
327. Ross, M., Robert Ross: Friend of Friends (Jonathan Cape 1952) p. 44.
328. Brock M and E (ed.), op. cit., p. 428.
329. The urge to conceal unpleasant truths was not confined to the King. In 1911, Queen Mary had been instrumental in securing a court order to seal the will of her brother, Prince Francis of Teck, in order to prevent the public discovering that he had left valuable property to a mistress. The feckless Prince (aptly described as ‘a bit of an ass’ by an Englishman who met him during the elk-hunting season in Wyoming), unwittingly established the current practice by which certain royal wills are exempt from public inspection at the Probate Registry.