58. Quoted in Dale McConathy, 'Mainbocher', p. 155
59. Diary entry by Duff Cooper for January 1936, published in The Times, Tz, 4 February 2003
60. Ibid.
61. Wallis Simpson to Mrs Merryman, 16 March 1936, in Michael Bloch (ed.), Wallis & Edward Letters, p. 169
62. 'Report of interviews with late servants of Mrs Simpson', for the King's Proctor, n.d. [first quarter of 1937], PRO, TS 22/1/2
63. Ibid.
64. Ibid.
65. Diana Vreeland, D.V., p. 68
66. Quoted in Michael Bloch (ed.), Wallis & Edward Letters, p. 14
67. Wallis Simpson to Mrs Merryman, 9 January 1935, in Michael Bloch (ed.), Wallis & Edward Letters, p. 145
68. Wallis Simpson to Mrs Merryman, 16 March 1936, Ibid., p. 168
69. Postscript by Edward in Wallis Simpson to Edward, Prince of Wales, 8 June 1936, Ibid., p. 122
70. Wallis Simpson to Mrs Merryman, 22 May 1934, Ibid., p. 94
71. Janet Flanner, An American in Paris, p. 17
72. Ibid., p. 29
73. Diary entry for 15 January by Jean, Lady Hamilton, quoted in Celia Lee, Jean, Lady Hamilton, p. 258
74. Margaret Case Harriman, 'The King and the Girl from Baltimore', p. 373
75. Ibid., p. 371
76. Wallis Simpson to Mrs Merryman, 9 January 1936, in Michael Bloch (ed.), Wallis & Edward Letters, p. 147
77. Wallis Simpson to Edward, Prince of Wales, n.d. [August 1935], Ibid., p. 131
78. Wallis Simpson to Mrs Merryman, 13 August 1936, Ibid., p. 188
79. Edward, Prince of Wales to Wallis Simpson, n.d. [18 January 1936], Ibid., p. 148
80. Wallis Simpson to Edward VIII, n.d. [early February 1936], Ibid., p. 156
81. Chips: The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon, pp. 82-3
82. Wallis Simpson to Lady Oxford, 18 February [1936], Margot Asquith Papers, MS Eng d 3276
83. Entry for 25 November 1936, in Geoffrey Dawson, 'Diary relating to the abdication of Edward VIII, September-December 1936, typescript, with a related letter from Robin Barrington-Ward to Cecilia Dawson, 28 May 1946', n.d., but produced shortly after the event [hereafter referred to as 'Abdication Diary'], Dawson Papers, MS Dawson 55
84. Entry for 31 January 1936, The Diaries of Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart, p. 346
85. Lord Birkenhead, Walter Monckton, pp. 125-6
86. Edward, Prince of Wales, to Mrs Freda Dudley Ward, 14 July 1918, Letters from a Prince, p. 70
87. Edward, Prince of Wales, to Mrs Freda Dudley Ward, 7 and 9 June 1919, Letters from a Prince, pp. 183-5
88. Edward, Prince of Wales, to Mrs Freda Dudley Ward, 22 May 1920, Letters from a Prince, p. 373
89. Edward, Prince of Wales, to Mrs Freda Dudley Ward, 24 May 1920, Letters from a Prince, pp. 378-81
90. Sophia Watson, Marina, p. 88
91. Steven Runciman to the Duchess of Kent, quoted in Sophia Watson, Marina, p. 87
92. The Diaries of Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart, p. 2T5
93. Sophia Watson, Marina, pp. 88-9
94. Entry for 10 December 1936, The Diaries of Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart, p. 361
95. Diary entry, 27 November 1936, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, pp. 37-8
96. Geoffrey Dawson, private diary, 2 November 1936, MS Dawson 40
97. Quoted in Celia Lee, Jean, Lady Hamilton, p. 254
98. Dugdale diary, 1937, p. 4, Nancy Dugdale Papers
99. Duchess of Windsor, The Heart Has Its Reasons, pp. 143-4
100. Quoted in James Crathorne, Cliveden, p. 169
101. Nigel Nicolson (ed.), Harold Nicolson, pp. 261-2 T02. Quoted in James Crathorne, Cliveden, p. 140
103. Duke of Windsor, A King's Story, pp. 257-8
104. 'Reports of interviews with stewards employed on the S. Y. Rosaura and with the Captain and stewards employed on the S. Y. Nahlin', for the King's Proctor, n.d. [first quarter of 1937], PRO, TS 22/1/2
105. Quoted in Philip Ziegler, Diana Cooper, pp. 177-8
106. Quoted in Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p. 285
107. An Austrian living in London to King Edward VIII's Private Secretary, 6 December [1936], RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 1-6
108. Oliver Warner, Admiral of the Fleet, p. 64
109. Quoted in Ross McKibbin, Classes and Cultures, pp. 26-7
110. Ibid.
HI. Sybil Colefax to Thornton Wilder, n.d., quoted in Kirsty McLeod, A Passion for Friendship, p. 145
112. Mark Amory, Lord Berners, p. 160
113. Entry for 31 January 1936, The Diaries of Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart, p. 346
114. Introduction by John Pearson to Osbert Sitwell, Rat Week, pp. 10-11
115. Brian Masters, Great Hostesses, p. 106
116. Ibid., pp. 100-101
117. Diary entry for 6 July 1936, quoted in Celia Lee, Jean, Lady Hamilton, p. 259
118. Diary entry for 20 January 1936, Ibid., p. 258
119. Chips: The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon, pp. 80-81
120. Wallis Simpson to Mrs Merryman, 15 June 1935, in Michael Bloch (ed.), Wallis & Edward Letters, p. 125
121. Wallis Simpson to Mrs Merryman, 16 July 1935, Ibid., p. 127
122. Wallis Simpson to Mrs Merryman, 8 June 1935, Ibid., p. 121
123. Wallis Simpson to Mrs Merryman, 18 November 1935, Ibid., p. 143
124. Wallis Simpson to Mrs Merryman, 8 June 1935, Ibid., p. 121
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1. The King Visits South Wales, Pathe Gazette newsreel, November 1936
2. Luke McKernan, Topical Budget, p. 119
3. Notebook of John Simon, n.d., John Simon Papers, MS Simon 9
4. Charles Chaplin, My Autobiography, p. 357
5. Emmeline Davy to King Edward VIII, 12 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 8
6. M. B. Taylor to King Edward VIII, n.d. [December 1936], RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 4
7. 'A mother' to King Edward VIII, 10 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 8
8. Telegram to King Edward VIII, ir December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 10
9. Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII, pp. 112-13
10. J. Evans to King Edward VIII, 8 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 1
11. Ernest Emanuel Harman to King Edward VIII, 6 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 3
12. Louis T. Harlan to King Edward VIII, 1 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 5
13. Robert W. Bingham to Roosevelt, 23 April 1934, in Edgar B. Nixon (ed.), Franklin D. Roosevelt and Foreign Affairs, p. 79
14. Samuel Hopkins Adams, Alexander Woollcott, p. 307
15. John Grigg, 'Edward VIII', p. 344
16. Kenneth Edwards in the Saturday Review, quoted in Compton Mackenzie, The Windsor Tapestry, p. 447
17. Viscount Templewood, Nine Troubled Years, pp. 218-9
18. Ibid.
19. Miss G. H. Howarth to King Edward VIII, n.d. [December 1936], RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 8
20. Diana Mosley, The Duchess of Windsor, pp. 38-9, 70-73
21. Prince Albert to Prince Edward, 16 May 1920, quoted from the Royal Archives by Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p. 99
22. The President of Magdalen College, The Times, 18 November 1914
23. Duke of Windsor, A King's Story, p. 415
24. Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII, pp. 58, 76
25. Quoted in Ibid., pp. 60-61
26. Ibid., pp. 66-7
27. Quoted in Ibid., p. 75
28. Ibid., p. 67
29. Quoted in Ibid., p. 58
30. A. Clayton to King Edward VIII, n.d. [December 1936], RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 6
31. The Memoirs of Aga Khan, p. 245
32. J. Graham Jones, 'Lloyd George and the abdication of Edward VIII', p. 91
33. Walter B. Beals, Judge at the Supreme Court, State of Washington, Olympia, to Colonel Wedgwood, 13 September 1937, Dep Monckton Trustees 15, fol. 268
34. Duke of Windsor, A King's Story, p. 280
35. Edward, Prince of Wales to Freda Dudley Ward, 22 December 1918
, Letters from a Prince, p. 147
36. Harold Macmillan, Winds of Change, p. 100
37. Geotdie Greig, Louis and the Prince, pp. 87-90
38. Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p. 64
39. Quoted in Sarah Bradford, King George VI, p. 61
40. Sir Almeric Fitzroy, Memoirs, Vol. II, pp. 802-3
41. The Prince of Wales in North Wales, Pathe Gazette newsreel, n.d.
42. William Coates to King Edward VIII, 11 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 9
43. F. J. Corbitt, Fit For a King, pp. 202-4
44. John W. Wheeler-Bennett, King George VI, pp. 160-61
45. Margaret Brasnett, Voluntary Social Action, p. 76
46. South Wales Argus, 19 November 1936
47. Ibid.
48. Hansard, 20 November 1934
49. Letter from Portsmouth to King Edward VIII, 5 December 1936, RA, PS/ GVI/ABD, Boxes 1-6
50. Quoted in Dave Colledge, Labour Camps, p. 19
51. South Wales Argus, 19 November 1936
52. Western Mail & South Wales News, 20 November 1936
53. South Wales Argus, 19 November 1936
54. John Rowland to Kingsley Wood, 20 November, PRO, MH 58/309
55. W. F. Deedes, Dear Bill, p. 40
56. Daily Mirror, 28 November 1936
57. Daily Mail, 23 November 1936
58. Ibid.
59. New Statesman and Nation, 5 December 1936, p. 880
60. Quoted in Compton Mackenzie, The Windsor Tapestry, p. 453
61. E. E. Chapman and H. Lavers to King Edward VIII, 7 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 1
62. Elsie M. Hayward to King Edward VIII, 5 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 3
63. 'Foreign Comment', Literary Digest, 28 November 1936
64. Diary of Ramsay MacDonald, 21 November 1936, PRO, PRO 30/69, 1753
65. Quoted in Philip Guedalla, The Hundredth Year, p. 276
66. Ross McKibbin, Classes and Cultures, p. 3
67. Lord Beaverbrook, The Abdication of King Edward VIII, p. 97
68. Entry for 23 November 1936, Geoffrey Dawson, Abdication Diary, Dawson Papers, MS Dawson 55
69. The Times, 24 November 1936
70. Duke of Windsor, A King's Story, p. 338
71. Ibid.
72. Interview with Mr John Lawrence ofPenarth, 1986, in The Experience of the Depression in Wales, p. 42(b)
73. A 'wife and mother' to the Daily Mirror, 5 December 1936
74. Western Mail & South Wales News, 20 November 1936
75. According to J. C. C. Davidson: see Robert Rhodes James, Memoirs of a Conservative, p. 410
76. Clement Attlee, As It Happened, p. 85
77. H. Montgomery Hyde, Neville Chamberlain, pp. 83-4
78. Entry for 12 November 1936, Geoffrey Dawson, Abdication Diary, Dawson Papers, MS Dawson 55
79. Ellen Wilkinson, Peeps at Politicians, p. 99
80. Harold Macmillan, Winds of Change, pp. 92, 101
81. Mrs F. Howe & family to King Edward VIII, 5 December 1936, RA, PS/ GVI/ABD, Box 3
82. Anonymous to King Edward VIII, 6 December [1936], RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 1-6
83. Yvonne Arthur to King Edward VIII, 6 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Box 1
84. Vera Brittain, Testament of Experience, p. 162
85. C. H. Rolph, Kingsley, p. 252
86. Walter Welsh to King Edward VIII, 3 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 4
87. K. (Mrs Philip) Hendy to King Edward VIII, 7 December 1936, RA, PS/ GVI/ABD, Box 1
88. Mrs Greta Tench to King Edward VIII, 3 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 4
89. Daily Mirror, 28 November 1936
90. Western Mail & South Wales News, 20 November, 1936
91. A. Blacklock to F. N. Tribe, 27 November [1936], PRO, LAB 23/146
92. F. N. Tribe to T. S. Chegwidden, 2 December 1936, PRO, LAB 23/146
93. Geoffrey Dawson, Private diary, 1 December 1936, MS Dawson 40
94. F. N. Tribe to A. Blacklock, 30 November 1936, PRO, LAB 23/146
95. John Grigg, 'Edward VIII', p. 337
96. Jarrow Crusade, British Movietone newsreel, 8 October 1936
97. ]arrow Marchers, British Movietone newsreel, 2 November 1936
98. Quoted in W. F. Deedes, Dear Bill, pp. 39-40
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x. Diary entry, 4 December 1936, Parliament and Politics .. . The Headlam Diaries, pp. 100-101
2. Diary of Duff Cooper, January 1936, published in The Times, Tz, 4 February 2003
3. Ramsay MacDonald diary, 13 February 1936, PRO, PRO 30/69, 1753
4. Diary entry, 18 November 1936, Parliament and Politics . . . The Headlam Diaries, p. 98
5. This Week, 11 November 1936
6. 'Notes by Sir Horace Wilson, at 10 Downing Street', n.d. [late December 1936 or early 1937J, CAB 127/157
7. Quoted in Philip Ziegler, Edward VIII, p. 258
8. Quoted in J. G. Lockhart, Cosmo Gordon Lang, p. 395
9. Oliver Warner, Admiral of the Fleet, p. 60
10. Ibid.
11. Diary entry for 2 March 1936, Hilda Runciman Papers, WR Add 10, 21 May 1935 to 20 March 1936
12. Christopher Hibbert, Edward: The Uncrowned King, p. 16
13. Piers Brendon and Philip Whitehead, The Windsors, pp. 78-9
14. Dina Wells Hood, "Working for the Windsors, p. 14
15. [Prince] Albert to Londonderry, 18 November 1920, PRONI, D3099/3/ 13/3
16. F. J. Corbitt, Fit For a King, p. 199
17. Ibid., p. 204
18. Ibid., p. 206
19. South Wales Argus, 19 November 1936
20. Duke of Windsor, A Family Album, pp. 8, 60
21. Alexander Hardinge to Helen Cecil, 23 August 1922, Hardinge Papers, U2117, Ci/161
22. Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p. 242
23. Helen Hardinge, Loyal to Three Kings, p. 59
24. Quoted from his notes in J. G. Lockhart, Cosmo Gordon Lang, p. 392
25. John Gunther, Inside Europe, p. 250
26. William Abbs, Principal of the Abbs School of Sight Training, to King Edward VIII, 6 December [1936], RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 3
27. South Wales Argus, 19 November, 1936
28. Compton Mackenzie, The Windsor Tapestry, p. 207 2,9. Diana Mosley, The Duchess of Windsor, p. 74
30. Stanley Jackson, The Sassoons, p. 194
31. Helen Hardinge, Loyal to Three Kings, p. 116
32. Ibid., p. 117
33. 'Notes by Sir Horace Wilson, at 10 Downing Street', n.d. [late December 1936 or early 1937], CAB 127/157
34. Notebook by John Simon, n.d., John Simon Papers, MS 9
35. H. Montgomery Hyde, Norman Birkett, p. 455
36. Lord Hardinge of Penshurst, 'Before the Abdication', The Times, 29 November 1955
37. News Review, 5 November 1936
38. Oliver Warner, Admiral of the Fleet, pp. 62-3
39. Duke of Windsor, A King's Story, p. 317
40. Ibid., pp. 317-8
41. Prefatory section in Geoffrey Dawson, Abdication Diary, Dawson Papers, MS Dawson 55
42. Helen Hardinge, Loyal to Three Kings, p. 116
43. Ibid., p. 124
44. J. G. Lockhart, Cosmo Gordon Lang, p. 395
45. Ibid., pp. 398-9
46. Ibid., p. 398
47. John Grigg, 'Edward VIII', p. 340
48. F. Crowsley to King Edward VIII, 3 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 4
49. Miss Denham Young to G. S. Edlin, 3 December 1936 [attached to letter to King Edward VIII from Edlin, 4 December 1936], RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 4
50. B. Abbott to King Edward VIII, 4 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 3
51. Oswald Gregson to King Edward VIII, 5 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 3
52. E. B. Walker to King Edward, n.d. [December 1936], RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 3
53. Diary entry for 11 November 1936, Hilda Runciman Papers, WR Add 10, 21 March 1936 to 26 January 1937
; 54. Michael Thornton, Royal Feud, pp. 44-7
55. Edward, Prince of Wales to Freda Dudley Ward, 19 February 1919, Letters from a Prince, p. 173
56. Ibid.
57. Edward, Prince of Wales to Wallis Simpson, 1 January 1936, in Michael Bloch (ed.) Wallis & Edward Letters, p. 145
58. Wallis Simpson to Edward, Prince of Wales, n.d. [early February 1936], in Michael Bloch (ed.), Wallis & Edward Letters, p. 156
59. Ralph G. Martin, The Woman He Loved, p. 12
60. Helen Hardinge, Loyal to Three Kings, p. 142
61. Quoted in J. Bryan III and Charles J. V. Murphy, The Windsor Story, p. 144
62. 'Note of interview with Mr Simpson', by the King's Proctor, 24 February 1937, PRO, TS 22/1/2
63. Quoted in Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, p. 8ro
64. Quoted in Christopher Warwick, George and Marina, p. 55
65. Duke of Windsor, A King's Story, p. 82
66. Quoted in Celia Lee, Jean, Lady Hamilton, p. 305
67. Quoted in Christopher Warwick, George and Marina, p. 75
68. Quoted in Celia Lee, Jean, Lady Hamilton, p. 305
69. Penelope Mortimer, Queen Elizabeth, p. 112
70. Wallis Simpson to Edward, Prince of Wales, Tuesday [spring 1935], in Michael Bloch (ed.), Wallis & Edward Letters, pp. 118-19
71. Edward, Prince ofWales to Wallis Simpson, n.d. [autumn 193 51,/bid., p. 139
72. Duchess of Windsor, The Heart Has Its Reasons, p. 223
73. Wallis Simpson to Mrs Merryman, 11 May 1936, in Michael Bloch (ed.), Wallis & Edward Letters, p. 177
74. Wallis Simpson to Mrs Merryman, 1 January 1936, Ibid., p. 170
75. 'Report of interviews with late servants of Mrs Simpson', for the King's Proctor, n.d. [first quarter of 1937], PRO, TS 22/1/2
76. Wallis Simpson to Mrs Merryman, 4 May 1936, in Michael Bloch (ed.), Wallis & Edward Letters, p. 176
77. Edward VIII to Wallis Simpson, n.d. [r 6 September 193 6], Ibid., pp. 193-4
78. 'Report of enquiries at Felixstowe', for the King's Proctor, n.d. [early 1937], PRO, TS 22/1/2
79. Wallis Simpson to Edward VIII, n.d. [14 October 1936], in Michael Bloch (ed.), Wallis & Edward Letters, p. 200
80. Edward VIII to Wallis Simpson, n.d. [24 October 1936], Ibid., p. 203
81. 'Report of enquiries at Felixstowe', for the King's Proctor, n.d. [early 1937], PRO, TS 22/1/2
82. H. Montgomery Hyde, Norman Birkett, p. 454
83. Quoted in W. F. Deedes, Dear Bill, p. 42
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