84. Lord Beaverbrook, The Abdication of King Edward VIII, pp. 30-33
85. Entry for 29 October 1936, The Diaries of Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart, pp. 356-7
86. Chips: The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon, pp. 80-81
87. Entry for 7 November 1936, Ibid., p. 76
88. Greg King, The Duchess of Windsor, pp. 197-8
89. Quoted in Helen Hardinge, Loyal to Three Kings, p. 149
90. Wallis Simpson to Lady Londonderry, 7 November 1936, PRONI, D3099/ 3/2/604B/5
91. Michael Thornton, Royal Feud, pp. 112-14
92. Diary entry for 7 November 1936, Chips: The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon, p. 77
93. Diary entry for 7 July 1936, Ibid., p. 69
5
I had declared myself'
1. Hardinge's letter is reproduced in full in Helen Hardinge, Loyal to Three Kings, p. 133
2. The letter from Britannicus is dated 15 October 1936 and signed 'G W Johnson of East Orange, New Jersey'. The full nine pages of the letter (or a copy thereof) are held in the Dawson Papers, MS Dawson 79
3. Diary entry 26 October, Geoffrey Dawson, Abdication Diary, Dawson Papers, MS Dawson 55
4. Helen Hardinge, Loyal to Three Kings, p. 120
5. Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p. 296
6. From Wisconsin to King Edward VIII, 3 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Boxes 1-6
7. From Pennsylvania to King Edward VIII, 2 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Boxes 1-6
8. From New York to King Edward VIII, 2 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Boxes 1-6
9. P. V. Burkman to King Edward VIII, 1 December X936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 5
xo. Quoted in Helen Hardinge, Loyal to Three Kings, p. 133
Violet Milner, diary entry for 1 August 1950, Violet Milner Papers, VM 5
James Coole, 'The Private Secretary', in Lord Altrincham and others, Is the Monarchy Perfectp. 14
Lord Hardinge of Penshurst, 'Before the abdication', The Times, 29 November 1955
Ibid.
Warren Fisher to Neville Chamberlain, 7 November 1936, PRO, PREM 1/463
Enclosure I, 'Mr Baldwin with his humble duty to Your Majesty', with Warren Fisher to Neville Chamberlain, 7 November 1936, PRO, PREM 1/463
Enclosure II, 'When Your Majesty was pleased to receive me on October 20th', with Warren Fisher to Neville Chamberlain, 7 November 1936, PRO, PREM 1/463
Enclosure III, 'Secret. Copy of Memorandum by Parliamentary Counsel', 5 November 1936, with Warren Fisher to Neville Chamberlain, 7 November
1936, PRO, PREM 1/463
19. Lord Hardinge of Penshurst, 'Before the abdication', The Times, 29 November 1955
20. 'Notes by Sir Horace Wilson, at 10 Downing Street', n.d. [late December 1936 or early 1937], CAB 127/157
21. Warren Fisher to Neville Chamberlain, 7 November 1936, PRO, PREM 1/463
22. Duchess of Windsor, The Heart Has Its Reasons, pp. 243-5
23. Ibid., pp. 246-7
24. Margaret Case Harriman, 'The King and the girl from Baltimore', p. 378
25. Oliver Warner, Admiral of the Fleet, pp. 62-3
26. Helen Hardinge, Loyal to Three Kings, p. 133
27. Lord Birkenhead, Walter Monckton, p. 125
28. Report by A. Canning, 25 March 1935, PRO, MEPO 10/35
29. Report by A. Canning, 'Ernest Simpson', n.d. [1935], PRO, MEPO 10/35
30. 'Note of interview with Mr Simpson', by the King's Proctor, 24 February
1937, PRO, TS 22/1/2
31. Report by A. Canning, 'Ernest Simpson', n.d. [1935], PRO, MEPO 10/35
32. Ibid.
33. Report by A. Canning, 25 June 1935, PRO, MEPO 10/35
34. Report by A. Canning, 3 July 1935, PRO, MEPO 10/35
35. '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
36. Report by A. Canning, 30 June 1936, PRO, MEPO 10/35
37. Manuscript note, 1 July 1937, added to Report by A. Canning, 30 June 1936, PRO, MEPO 10/35
38. Report by A. Canning, 23 October 1936, PRO, MEPO 10/35
39. 'Particulars of press extracts in which the name of Mrs Simpson appears from 6th June to 24th October, 1936', Report by A. Canning, n.d. [26 October 1936], PRO, MEPO 10/35
40. Duke of York to Queen Mary, 4 October 1922, quoted from the Royal Archives by Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p. 171
41. Alec Hardinge to Helen Hardinge, 10 July 1923 , Hardinge Papers, U2117, C 1/189
42. Alec Hardinge to Helen Hardinge, 24 January 1925, Hardinge Papers, U2117, C 1/245
43. J. G. Lockhart, Cosmo Gordon Lang, p. 397
44. Greg King, The Duchess of Windsor, p. 171
45. Helen Hardinge, Loyal to Three Kings, p. 137
46. Quoted in Cecil Edwards, Bruce of Melbourne, p. 252
47. Ibid., p. 253
48. Violet Milner, diary entry for 2 December 1936, Violet Milner Papers, VM 5
49. Helen Hardinge, Loyal to Three Kings, p. 137
50. Lord Beaverbrook, The Abdication of King Edward VIII, pp. 36-8
51. Ibid., p. 46
52. Cabinet minutes, 27 November 1936, PRO, CAB 23/86 Vol. LIII, 69(36)
53. Duke of Windsor, A King's Story, p. 331
54. Enclosure III, 'Secret. Copy of Memorandum by Parliamentary Counsel', 5 November 1936, with Warren Fisher to Neville Chamberlain, 7 November 1936, PRO, PREM 1/463
55. The Duke of Windsor, A King's Story, p. 332
56. Ramsay MacDonald diary, 16 November 1936, PRO, PRO 30/69, 1753
57. Helen Hardinge, Loyal to Three Kings, p. 139
58. Violet Milner, diary entry for 19 November 1936, Violet Milner Papers, VM 5
59. Diary entry, 18 November 1936, Parliametjt and Politics. . . The Headlam Diaries, pp. 98-9
60. Lucy Baldwin diary entry, 16 November 1936, Lucy Baldwin Papers
61. Lucy Baldwin to Edith Londonderry, 23 November 1936, PRONI, D3099/ 3/15/8
62. Linlithgow to Dawson, 17 November 1936, Dawson Papers, MS Dawson 79, fol. 14
63. Duke of Windsor, A King's Story, p. 334
64. Ibid., p. 335
65. Hansard, 16 November 1936
66. Quoted in Thomas H. Eliot, Recollections of the New Deal, p. 91
67. Alpheus Geer to King Edward VIII, 25 November 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 4
68. Quoted in Winston Churchill, The Second World War, Vol. 1, p. 170
69. Winston Churchill, The Second World War, Vol. I, pp. 170-71
70. Leo Amery, diary entry for 12 November 1936, The Empire at Bay, p. 430
71. Leader, Daily Mail, 23 November 1936
72. Janet Flanner, An American in Paris, pp. 11-12
73. Bernard Shaw to Beatrice Webb, 4 September 1936, in Dan H. Laurence (ed.), Bernard Shaw, pp. 441-2
74. John Buchan to Edith Londonderry, 18 September 1936, PRON1, D3099/ 3/16/55
75. Duke of Windsor, A King's Story, p. 277
76. Quoted in Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p. 272
77. Duke of Windsor, A King's Story, p. 336
6
'The Battle for the Throne'
1. Quoted in Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p. 302
2. Quoted in Samuel Hopkins Adams, Alexander Woollcott, p. 272
3. Duchess of Windsor, The Heart Has Its Reasons, p. 249
4. Winston Churchill to Clementine Churchill, 27 November 1936, in Mary Soames (ed.), Speaking for Themselves, pp. 418-19
5. Entry for 23 November 1936, Geoffrey Dawson, Abdication Diary, Dawson Papers, MS Dawson 55
6. A. J. P. Taylor, Beaverbrook, p. 10
7. Enclosure III, 'Secret. Copy of Memorandum by Parliamentary Counsel', 5 November 1936, with Warren Fisher to Neville Chamberlain, 7 November 1936, PRO, PREM 1/463
8. Clement Attlee, As It Happened, p. 86
9. Robin Birkenhead, Churchill 1924-1940, p. 75
10. Zetland to Linlithgow, 27 November 1936, Linlithgow Papers, MSS Eur/ F/125.139
11. David Cannadine, In Churchill's Shadow, p. 66
12. Nancy Dugdale diary, p. 16, Nancy Dugdale Papers
13. Entry for 24 November 1936, Geoffrey Dawson, Abdication Diary. Dawson Papers, MS Dawson 5 5
14. Alexander Hardinge to Stanley Baldwin, 22 November 1936, PRO, PREM 1/448
15. Thomas Jones, A Diary with Letters, p. 288
16. For example, Sir Maurice George to Sir John Simon, 24 November 1936, PRO, CAB 21/4100/2
17. James Pope-Hennessy, Queen Mary, p. 577
18. Quoted in John W. Wheeler-Bennett, King George VI, p. 283
19. Hilda Runciman diary, 2 March 1936, Hilda Runciman Papers, WR Add 10, 21 May 193 5 to 20 March 1936
20. Duke of Windsor, The Crown and the People, p. 42
21. Duke of Windsor, A King's Story, p. 258
22. Helen Hardinge to Alec Hardinge, 27 June 1922, Hardinge Papers, U2117, C 2/188
23. Kirsty McLeod, Battle Royal, p. 23
24. Helen Hardinge, Loyal to Three Kings, p. 41
25. George V to Prince Albert, 26 April 1923, quoted from the Royal Archives by Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p. 171
26. Duff Cooper, Old Men Forget, p. 201
27. Ibid.
28. The Duke of Windsor, A King's Story, p. 343
29. Ibid.
30. Diary entry for 28 November 1936, Chips: The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon, p. 86
31. Nicholas Mansergh, Survey of British Commonwealth Affairs, p. 41
32. Duke of Windsor, A King's Story, p. 345
33. Lord Beaverbrook, The Abdication of King Edward VIII, p. 56
34. Hansard, 26 November 1936; emphasis added
35. Ibid.
36. David Kirkwood, My Life of Revolt, pp. 259-60
37. New Statesman and Nation, 5 December 1936, p. 885
38. John Rowland, Welsh Board of Health, to Sir Kingsley Wood, 21 October 1936, PRO, MH 58/309; emphasis added
39. Seaham Weekly News, 20 November 1936
40. Quoted in Philip Ziegler, Edward VIII, p. 215
41. BBC Broadcast, 6 May 1926, quoted in G. M. Young, Stanley Baldwin, p. 117
42. Stella Margetson, The Long Party, pp. 51-2
43. Wal Hannington, Never on Our Knees, p. 258
44. Ibid., p. 263
45. Diary entry for 10 November 1936, Chips: The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon, p. 78
46. Editorial, Daily Telegraph, 29 October 1936
47. John A. Owen and Carolyn Jacob, The Unconquerable Spirit, p. 21
48. Lord Wigram to Linlithgow, 5 June 1936, Linlithgow Papers, MSS Eur/ F/125.1
49. Compton Mackenzie, The Windsor Tapestry, p. 203
50. M. Watcyn-Williams, 'Communism in South Wales', Spectator, 18 September 1936, pp. 451-2
51. Idris Cox, The People Can Save South Wales!, p. 5; emphasis added
52. South Wales Slave Act Special, January 1935, front page, Merthyr Tydfil documents; capitals in original
53. Martin S. Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, Vol. 5, p. 813
54. Cabinet minutes, 27 November 1936, PRO, CAB 23/86 Vol. LIII, 69(36)
55. Duke of Windsor, A King's Story, p. 346
56. Telegram 'from Prime Minister [of Britain] for Prime Minister [of the Dominions]', 28 November 1936, PRO, DO 121/32
57. 'The abdication of His Majesty King Edward VIII, Correspondence with the Dominions, Part 1', PRO, DO 114/81
58. Duke of Windsor, A King's Story, p. 347
59. Telegram 'from Prime Minister [of Britain] for Prime Minister [of the Dominions]', 28 November 1936, PRO, DO 121/32
60. Entry for 29 November 1936, Geoffrey Dawson, Abdication Diary, Dawson Papers, MS Dawson 55
61. Ibid.
62. Oliver Warner, Admiral of the Fleet, p. 69
63. Quoted from Time magazine in the Daily Mirror, 5 December 1936
64. Duchess of Windsor, The Heart Has Its Reasons, p. 251
65. Quoted in Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII, pp. 276-7
66. Wallis Simpson to Sibyl Colefax, n.d. [30 November 1936], Sibyl Colefax Papers, MS Eng c 3272, fols 11-12
67. Wallis Simpson to 'Foxy' Gwynne, n.d. [30 November 1936], in Michael Bloch (ed.), Wallis & Edward Letters, pp. 213-14
68. Duchess of Windsor, The Heart Has Its Reasons, p. 252
69. Report of meeting of Ministers, 2 December 1936, PRO, CAB 127/156
70. 'Notes by Sir Horace Wilson, at 10 Downing Street', n.d. [late December 1936 or early 1937], CAB 127/157
71. Cabinet minutes, 2 December 1936, PRO, CAB 23/86 Vol. LIII, 69(36)
72. Ramsay MacDonald, diary entry for 2 December 1936, Ramsay Mac- Donald Papers, PRO, PRO 30/69, 1753
73. Statement by Lord Baldwin in 1947 to J. G. Lockhart, quoted in Cosmo Gordon Lang, p. 404
74. Telegram 'for Prime Minister [of Britain| from Prime Minister [of New Zealand], 2 December 1936, PRO, DO 121/35
75. Governor-General of New Zealand to the Dominions Office, 2 December 1936, PRO, CAB 21/4100/2
76. Telegram 'from Prime Minister [of Canada] to Prime Minister [of Britain]', 30 November 1936, PRO, DO 121/33
77. Sir Francis Floud to Dominions Office, 1 December 1936, PRO, CAB 21/4100/2
78. Record of an interview between Mr de Valera and Sir Harry Batterbee at Dublin, 29 November 1936, PRO, CAB 127/156
79. Ibid.
80. Duke of Windsor, A King's Story, pp. 354-5
7
'The People want their King'
1. Frank Owen and R. J. Thompson, His Was the Kingdom, pp. 49-50
2. 'The coronation service. A bishop's reply to Dr Barnes', The Times, z December 1936
3. Frank Owen and R. J. Thompson, His Was the Kingdom, p. 50
4. Diary of David Strain, 1 December 1936, PRON1, D2585/3/16
5. Lydia Bruce Siebenhaar to 'Sir', 2 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 4
6. James Wilson to King Edward VIII, 3 December [1936], RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 4
7. Charles Nelson Stewart to the Bishop of Bradford, 3 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 4
8. W. F. Deedes, Dear Bill, pp. 41-2
9. Malcolm Muggeridge, The Thirties, p. 283
10. Diary entry, 2 December 1936, Parliament and Politics . . . The Headlam Diaries, p. 100
11. Diary entry, 7 December 1936, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, pp. 39-40
12. Diary of Violet Milner, 3 December 1936, Violet Milner Papers, VM 5
13. Marie C. Stopes to King Edward VIII, 3 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Box 3
14. British Science Service, Fleet Street, to King Edward VIII, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Box 5
15. Lord Beaverbrook, The Abdication of King Edward VIII, p. 78
16. Frank Owen and R. J. Thompson, His Was the Kingdom, p. 61
17. Diary entry, 7 December 1936, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, p. 39
18. Diary of Florence Turtle, 8 July 1936
19. Evening Standard, 3 December 1936
20. TfceCottsWMf/o«fl/Cn'sis,UniversalTalkingNewsnewsreel,December 1936
21. Diary of Nancy Dugdale, p. 5, Nancy Dugdale Papers
22. Cosmo Lang to Geoffrey Dawson, 3 December 1936, Dawson Papers, MS Dawson 79, fol. 25
23. Francis Williams, Nothing So Strange, p. 141
24. Quoted in Kingsley Martin, The Magic of Monarchy, p. 66
25. Evening News, 3 December 1936
26. Star, 3 December 1936
27. News Chronicle, 3 December 1936
28. Diary of Violet Milner, 3 December 1936, Violet Milner Papers, VM 5
29. Lord Beaverbrook, The Abdication of King Edward VIII, p. 72
30. Entry for 4 December 1936, The Diaries of Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart, p. 360
31. Sir Charles Petrie, The Modern British Monarchy, p. 176
32. F. J. Riley to King Edward VIII, 8 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 6
33. S. Underwood to King Edward VIII, n.d. [December 1936], RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 4
34. 'Memo from Lady Williams with regard to advisory leaflets', 1936, N
ational Birthday Trust Fund Papers, F2/5/2(4)
35. Claude Davis to King Edward VIII, 6 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 1-6
36. Letter from London to King Edward VIII, 6 December X936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Boxes 1-6
37. Grace Walker to King Edward VIII, 3 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 4
38. Miss M. Naylor to King Edward VIII, 3 October 1936 [but most likely
3 December 1936I, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 4
39. Eve Home to King Edward VIII, 4 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 4
40. Dougal Duncan to King Edward VIII, 7 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Box 6
41. Mrs E. Bartlett to King Edward VIII, n.d. [December 1936], RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Box 3
42. G. S. Edlin to King Edward VIII, 4 November 1936 [but most likely
4 December 1936I, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 4
43. Clara Rohnn to King Edward VIII, 4 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 4
44. Alan W. Elphick to King Edward VIII, 3 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 4
45. These letters are in RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 1-9
46. Telegram from Caledon Shipyard Workers to King Edward VIII, 4 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 10
47. John Watson to King Edward VIII, 9 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 6
48. David Dale to King Edward VIII, 4 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 3
49. E. H. to King Edward VIII, 7 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 4
50. Diary of Geoffrey H. Wells, 3 December 1936
51. Alan Turing to his mother, 3 December [1936], Alan Turing Papers, AMT/ K/1/48
52. 'Opinion in the Dominions', The Times, 4 December 1936
53. From Newport, Virginia to King Edward VIII, n.d (December 1936], RA, PS/GVI/ABD Boxes 1-6
54. Frank B. Hubin to King Edward VIII, n.d. [December 1936], RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Box 7
55. Rudolph Durbar to King Edward VIII, 8 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 1
56. V. Hardie to Sir John Simon, 9 December 1936, PRO, HO 144/21070
57. Diary of John George Harmer, 3 December 1936, Acc. 6220/B0X 9
58. Diary of Herbert M. Willmott, 3 December 1936
59. Diary of Florence Turtle, 3 December 1936
60. Diary of John George Harmer, 7 and 11 December 1936, F/Wlm/16
61. Entry for 4 December 1936, The Diaries of Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart, p. 360
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