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Index
Abdication Act (1936) 1, 42, 142
Abetz, Otto 90, 157, 187, 225
Abwehr 105, 127, 187
Acheson, Dean 247
Adeane, Sir Michael 231, 306, 310
Aga Khan 125
Al Fayed, Mohamed 335
Albert, Prince (‘Bertie’), see George VI
Alexander, Julie Chatard 318
Alexander, Ulick, Keeper of the Privy Purse 5, 7, 26, 347
Alexandra, Princess 310, 335
Alexandra, Queen 28
Alfonso, King of Spain 111
Allen, Sir George 29, 81, 283, 298, 301
Alzheimer’s disease 316
Amiguet, Maurice 304–6
Amory, Cleveland 254–5, 297–8, 340–1, 359
Amory, Martha 298
Anderson, John 200–1
Anglo-German Agreement (1940) 141
Anglo-German Naval Agreement 39
Annan, Noel 284
antisemitism 39, 56, 107, 240, 300, 360
appeasement 124, 150, 153, 246
Arbeitersfront 36
Arden, Elizabeth 49, 259
Arlington Cemetery 53
Ashburton, Lord 305
Athlone, Lord 121, 158, 161, 210, 211
Attfield, Philip 38, 47, 51, 52, 81
Attlee, Clement 224, 226, 235, 250
Australia 88, 113
Austria:
German coup in 49, 67
Windsors and Donahue holiday in 295–6
Avon, Clarissa 322, 358
Avon, Lord 163
Bahamas:
Bay Street Boys 169–70, 175, 196, 198, 209
Oakes’s murder in 191–207
as staging post 168
Windsor as Governor of 113–220, 232–3, 264, 301–2, 326, 354, 357
Windsor Training Farms 171
Windsors visit (1947) 249–50
Baker, Edith 273
Baldridge, Letitia 257
Baldwin, Billy 271, 281, 286–7
Baldwin, Stanley 3, 11, 27, 41, 73, 345, 355, 356
Balfour, Sir John 185, 233
Balmoral 18, 19, 43–4, 73, 79
Barker, Capt. James 192–3, 195–6
Barnes, Sir Thomas 22
Bartlett, Lillian 65
Bate, Fred 81
Bates, Charles 205
Battle of Britain 131, 133
BBC 3, 82, 312, 319
Beaton, Cecil 28–9, 264, 271, 288, 291, 315–16, 318, 322, 326, 336
Beaverbrook, Lord 81–2, 95–6, 174, 204–5, 207, 253
Bedaux, Charles 21, 30, 35–8, 45, 50–1, 53–6, 75, 89–90, 98, 142, 157, 186–9, 210, 225, 235, 357
Bedaux, Fern 30, 36, 42, 53, 53–4, 357
Beigbeder, Col. Juan 107
Belgium 68, 90–1, 94–5, 98, 250
Berle, Adolf 111, 142, 153, 161, 184
Berlin, Irving 274
Bermejillo, Don Javier (‘Tiger’) 119–20, 125
Bermuda 122, 133, 141, 184, 187
Bernays, Robert 12
Bevin, Ernest 224, 247
Biddle, Margaret 289
Birkenhead, Lord 73
Bismarck, Count Edward (‘Eddie’) 344
black market 164, 304–6
blackmail 40, 60–3, 80–1
Blackwood, Caroline 64
Blair, Kitty 262
Bloch, Michael 267, 346, 358
Blum, Suzanne 267, 327, 328–9, 332, 333
Blunt, Anthony 229–32, 248
Bocca, Geoffrey 204–5
Borromean Islands 331
Borromeo, Prince 331
Boulevard Suchet 75, 77, 79, 241
Bowers, Scotty 347–8
Boyden, Maj. Hayne 161
Boyer, David 256
Brand, Robert 156
Braun, Eva 51
Brazil 35, 139
British-American Ambulance Corps 159
British Expeditionary Force (BEF) 91, 92, 100
British Legation 13, 33, 103
British Legion 39
British Union of Fascists 11, 15, 33, 95
Brockhurst, Gerald 291
Bronard, Ernest 197
Brooks, Collin 67–8
Brown, Craig 353
Brownlow, Kitty 67
Brownlow, Lord 7
Brownlow, Percy 14, 26, 297–8
Bruce, David 317
Bryan, Joseph (‘Joe’) 317, 329
Bucard, Marcel 155
Buckingham Palace 11, 15, 17, 42, 64, 69, 78, 217, 224, 261, 302, 319–20
Budd, Frank 172–3
Bullitt, William 157, 194–5, 328
Burckhardt, Dr Carl 110
Burke, Mary 21, 22
Burton, Richard 315
Burton, Sir Pomeroy 68
Byrnes, James F. 228, 246
Cadogan, Sir Alexander (‘Alec’) 96–7, 115, 121–2, 136, 151, 235, 357
Caernarfon Castle 312
Callas, Maria 288
Camacho, Gen. Maximino Avila 147
Cambridge, Bert 182
Campbell, Sir Ronald 163
Campbell (valet) 256
Canada 55, 113, 121, 143, 161, 174, 211
Windsor’s ranch in 135, 157–8
Capote, Truman 269
Carlyle, W.L. 158
Carol, King of Romania 172
Carroll, Madeleine 193–4
Catling, Patrick Skene 176–7
Cavendish-Bentinck, Bill 222
Cay, Lyford 198
censorship 152, 156, 184, 187, 200–1, 226
Chamberlain, Neville 10, 73, 79, 96, 124, 140
Channon, Chips 5, 39, 67, 268
Charles I 2, 272
Charles, Prince 313, 328, 335
Investiture 312
Charlot, Count 345
Château de Candé 21–2, 27, 29–30, 187
Château de la Croë (‘Chateau des Rois’) 68–70, 77, 82–3, 94, 103, 120, 241–3, 253
Château de La Maye 60–1, 75
Cheke, Marcus 185
Chevalier, Maurice 242
China Dossier 344–6
Christie, Frank 191, 198, 204
Christie, Harold 191–2, 197–207
Chrysler, Walter, Jr (‘Mary’) 270–1
Church of England 8, 11, 26, 353
Churchill, Randolph 29
Churchill, Winston 2, 4, 13, 29, 98, 106–15, 119–22, 127, 130, 135, 145, 147, 156–7, 160, 164, 167, 210–11, 224, 292, 301, 338–9, 345, 358–9
Admiralty appointment of 86
Attlee writes to 226–7
40th wedding anniversary 253
memoirs 240
“mixing-up process” 235
telebiography 311
Windsor offered Bahamas posting 113–14
Windsor writes to 151–2
Windsor’s correspondence with 106, 174, 182–3, 216–20
Civil List 18–19, 106
Clarence House 303
Clementine, Clementine 29
Coburg, Duke of 40
Coke, Sir John 345
Colefax, Sibyl 16, 179, 250
Colis de Trianon 94
Colville, John 145
Comacho, Maximinio 200
communism 39, 42, 78, 84, 107, 115, 240, 354
concentration camps 49–50
‘The Contract’ 168
Coolidge, Constance 8, 61–2
Cooper, Duff 234, 239, 241, 243
Cooper, Lady Diana 234, 240, 254–5, 263–4, 271, 276, 339
Coronation Service 25
Court Circular 109, 312, 320
Coward, Noël 83, 242, 268, 269, 309, 347
Cranborne, Lord 171
Crawford, Lord 55, 87
Cuba 149, 161, 252
Cummings, Nathan 331, 332
Cunard, Lady Emerald 28, 39, 41, 240, 355
Curran, Charles 309
Cusick, Daniel 204
Czechoslovakia 61
Datalounge 269–70
Dauglish, John 173
Davidson, John 41
Davidson, Maj. Colin 162
Davis, Joe 252
de Courcy, Kenneth 237, 243–4, 252, 261–2, 267, 327, 339, 341, 343, 345
de Gaulle, Charles 290, 306
de Gaulle, RADM Philip 328
de Marigny, Count Alfred 192–200, 201, 203
de Tajo, Nava 185–6
de Valera, Éamon 252
de Wolfe, Elsie 60, 69, 78, 79, 94, 254, 268, 367
Dennis, Geoffrey 83
Diana, Princess of Wales 335
Dietrich, Marlene 141, 288
Dodds, Hugh 105
Donahue, Jessie 266, 273, 276, 295, 296, 299
Donahue, Jimmy 265–7, 269, 271–7, 279–81, 285, 289, 295–6, 299–300
Donaldson, Frances 267
Dormoy, Marcelle 64–5
Doubleday, Rhoda Tanner 212–13
Douglas, Lord Alfred 82
Downing Street 11, 40, 155
Doyle, Jerome 213, 214
Drian, Etienne 285
Drummond, Edwina 65–6
Drummond, George 66
Drummond, Honora 66
Drummond, Kathleen 65
Drury, Vyvyan 144–5, 296
Dudley, Eric 288
Dudley, Lady Grace 320, 335
Dugdale, Blanche 11
Dugdale, Tommy 345
Duke of Windsor Foundation 328
Dulles, John Foster 82
Dundas, Sir Charles 145, 170
Dunne, Dominick 348
Dunphie, Richard 246
Dupuch, Etienne 191–2
Dye, John 141, 149, 168
Dyot, Monsieur 75
Eastwood, Christopher 145, 147
Eccles, David 107, 113, 127, 357–8
Eden, Sir Anthony 44, 50, 107, 294, 300, 358
Edward, Duke of Windsor
30th anniversary of abdication of 309–13
Abdication speech 3–5, 11, 309, 311
affairs of 40, 63–7
BBC interview 312–13
before ascension, see Edward, Prince of Wales
biographies 34, 260, 267–8, 278, 283, 297–9, 307–8, 310–11, 314, 316, 318, 346, 354
CBS interview 299
death of 318–20
depression suffered by 13, 16, 178, 266, 272
Elizabeth II meets 310, 311, 317
exile begins 5–6
FDR meets 144–5, 175–6
financial settlement/affairs 10, 60, 106, 112, 210–11, 240, 285, 305, 311
46th birthday 104
funeral 322–3, 327
German tour (1937) 42–6, 47–57, 66
as Governor of the Bahamas see under Bahamas
Hitler has tea with 51–2
honeymoon of 33–46, 60
ill health 310, 314–18
illegitimate children claims 63–7, 364
as king, see Edward VIII
King’s post-Abdication meeting with 87
lavish lifestyle 256–8
Liberty Magazine article 144, 150–2, 153, 162
Life articles 260, 274, 283
‘Little Man’ sobriquet 307
low attention span 260–1, 277
McCall’s articles 297, 307–8, 337
memoirs 278, 283–4, 285, 297, 310
mother’s correspondence with 173, 178–9
New York Daily News articles 311
paranoia of 14, 93
peace movement ambitions of 36, 56, 95–6, 107, 111, 120, 122–3, 137–8, 142–6, 150, 360
permanent exile 237, 239–64
Prince Charles visits 313–14, 317
as Prince of Wales, see Edward, Prince of Wales
pro-German sympathies 2, 15–16, 38–40, 39, 46, 51, 54–7, 67, 78–9, 90, 95, 107–8, 113–15, 117–31, 133–4, 142–3, 150, 151, 156, 165, 172, 185, 231–2, 355–6, 359, 360 (see also Marburg File)
protection detail 5, 10, 38, 47, 51–2, 76, 81, 125, 367, 368
rose in honour of 288
roving ambassadorship sought by 174, 211
‘Second Abdication’ 219
seen as security risk 40–2, 52
sexuality 62–3, 267–71, 340–8, 350
style consciousness 307–8
suicide threats 2, 339
tax affairs 20, 59, 76, 96, 106, 109, 210, 237, 240, 253, 256, 285, 290, 326
trust/security issues 9, 35–8, 71, 81, 87, 89–91, 105–8, 133–4, 142–52, 153–65, 172, 174, 184–5, 356, 357–8
US address given by 81–2
US surveillance of 153–65
US tour (1937) 53–6
Wallis engaged to 28
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Wallis reunited with 25
withdraws from public life 56
Edward, Prince of Wales (‘David’) 8–9, 37, 39, 65–6, 69, 70, 137, 159, 209, 212, 232–3, 259, 290–1, 305, 307, 336, 339, 347, 352, 355–6, 360
after abdication, see Edward, Duke of Windsor
Indian tour (1922) 16
as king, see Edward VIII
sexuality 269
Edward VIII 22, 37, 39, 40, 48, 137, 210, 233, 243, 264, 280, 290, 299, 315, 339, 352, 355
abdication of 1, 4, 10–13, 15, 18, 27, 34–5, 42, 72, 82–3, 87, 142, 154, 158, 217, 260, 284, 287, 304, 309–11, 336, 350, 353, 356, 359–61, 363
coronation planning 25
death of 318–20
funeral 322–3, 327
German plan to reinstate 154–5, 355–6, 355–8
Rhineland Crisis 40, 294
sexuality 268
Wallis introduced to 8
Eisenhower, Dwight D. 227, 232, 292
Eldridge, Mona 267, 340, 342, 350, 351
Elizabeth II 262, 298, 310–11, 317, 334, 360
before ascension, see Elizabeth, Princess
coronation of 289
Windsor’s meetings with 285, 310–11, 322
Elizabeth, Princess:
Africa tour (1952) 285
Philip marries 251
as queen, see Elizabeth II
riding lessons 66
Elizabeth, Queen 17, 44–5, 71–3, 81–2, 89, 109, 113, 152, 186, 218
as Queen Mother, see Queen Mother
Ellsworth, Lincoln158
Elphinstone, Lord 229
Erskine, Helen Worden 8
Erskine-Lindop, Reggie 175, 191, 198–9
Espil, Courtney de 350
Espil, Courtney Letts de 137
Espil, Felipe de 350
etiquette 281, 308
Europa 53
Farkas, Alexander 330–1
FBI 138–48, 153–5, 160–1, 164, 176, 186–9, 192–8, 202–6, 212–15, 271, 344, 365
Field, Leslie 246
financial settlement 10, 17–21
First World War 16, 35, 39, 64, 103, 104, 112, 260, 287, 354
Ford, Henry 160, 271
Fort Belvedere 4, 10, 12, 17, 41, 69, 237, 244, 286
Forwood, Dudley 33, 37, 48, 50, 52, 269, 343, 346
Fowler, John 286
Foxworth, Percy 153, 155
France 72, 317
France 91–2
Germany invades 98–101
relief organisations 94
secret service 280
Vichy government 176, 186
Windsor Liaison Officer in 98–9, 138
Windsors exiled to 5–6, 71, 88–9
Windsors surveilled in 280–1, 329
Franco, Gen. Francisco 104, 107, 125, 223
Franco, Nicolas 125–8, 130
Frazier, Brenda 139
Frederick, Evans 65
Frederick III of Prussia 229
Traitor King Page 35