The Peoples King
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62. Ibid.
63. Diary entry, 6 December 1936, Parliament and Politics . . . The Headlam Diaries, pp. 101-2
64. Prime Minister of Britain to the Prime Ministers of the Dominions, 3 December 1936, PRO, CAB 21/4100/2
65. Ibid.
66. Cabinet minutes for 6 December, PRO, CAB 23/86, Vol. LIII
67. Lady Rhondda to Stanley Baldwin, 31 December 1936, PRO, PREM 1/459
68. Cosmo Gordon Lang to Stanley Baldwin, 25 November 1936, PRO, PREM 1/448
69. Quoted in A Diary of the Last Days of the Reign of King Edward VIII, p. 4
70. O. B. Stokes, Editor-in-Chief, Yorkshire Observer and Telegraph and Argus, Bradford, in letter to Editor, The Times, 9 May 1956
71. Entry for 31 October 1936, Geoffrey Dawson, Abdication Diary, Dawson Papers, MS Dawson 55
72. John Evelyn Wrench, Geoffrey Dawson and Our Times, footnote 1, p. 344
73. Entry for 1 December 1936, Geoffrey Dawson, Abdication Diary, Dawson Papers, MS Dawson 55
74. The Times, 2 December 1936
75. Lord Beaverbrook, The Abdication of King Edward VIII, p. 100
76. The Times, 30 November 1936
77. John Gunther, Inside Europe, p. 253
78. Ibid., p. 254
79. Lord Beaverbrook, The Abdication of King Edward VIII, p. 102
80. Entry for 2 December 1936, Geoffrey Dawson, Abdication Diary, Dawson Papers, MS Dawson 55; emphasis added
81. Lilian M. Shepherd to King Edward VIII, 6 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Box 3
82. H. Stanley Jevons to King Edward VIII, 6 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 3
83. Press cutting [December 1936], in Brownlow Papers, BNLW 4/4/9/7/6
84. Herman Rogers to Wallis Simpson, 28 October 1936, in Michael Bloch (ed.), Wallis & Edward Letters, p. 209
85. Duke of Windsor, A King's Story, p. 362
86. Notebook kept by Lord Brownlow, Brownlow Papers, BNLW 4/4/9/1
87. Duchess of Windsor, The Heart Has Its Reasons, p. 256
88. Notebook kept by Lord Brownlow, Brownlow Papers, BNLW 4/4/9/1
89. Duke of Windsor, A King's Story, p. 370
90. Diana Vreeland, D. V., p. 73
91. Notebook kept by Lord Brownlow, Brownlow Papers, BNLW 4/4/9/1
92. Diana Vreeland, D. V., p. 73
93. Diary of Violet Milner, 6 December 1936, Violet Milner Papers, VM 5
8
'Tell us the facts, Mr Baldwin!'
x. Duchess of Windsor, The Heart Has Its Reasons, p. 253
2. Wallis to Edward, n.d. [3 December 1936], in Michael Bloch (ed.), Wallis & Edward Letters, p. 2x5
3. Frank Owen and R. J. Thompson, His Was the Kingdom, p. 97
4. Mrs Cecilia Melville to King Edward VIII, 8 November 1936 [but most likely 8 December 1936], RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 6
5. J. C. W. Reith, 'Broadcast over Britain', 1924, quoted in Asa Briggs, The BBC, p. 107
6. Martin S. Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, Vol. 5, pp. 813-14
7. Letter to King Edward VIII, 4 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 1-6
8. From Somerset to King Edward VIII, 6 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 1-6
9. A. Y. C. Powers to King Edward VIII, 7 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 6
10. Mrs Mary Bishop to King Edward VIII, 3 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Box 4
11. Alec Roylance to King Edward VIII, 3 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 4
12. Robert Hoppock to King Edward VIII, 7 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 8
13. Fairfax M. Gifford to King Edward VIII, 4 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Box 8
14. Duke of Windsor, A King's Story, p. 361
15. Report, unsigned and undated, PRO, PREM 1/466
16. Lord Beaverbrook, The Abdication of King Edward VIII, pp. 70-71
17. Telegram from Prime Minister of Britain to Prime Ministers of the Dominions, 4 December 1936, PRO, CAB 21/4100/2
18. Copy of the broadcast proposed by the King, PRO, CAB 21/4100/2, file 7
19. For the Cabinet's discussion of the issue, see the minutes for 4 December 1936, PRO, CAB 23/86 Vol. LIII
20. Quoted in Iain Macleod, Neville Chamberlain, p. 198
21. Stanley Baldwin to King Edward VIII, 4 December 1936, PRO, PREM 1/451
22. Cabinet minutes, 4 December 1936, PRO, CAB 23/86 Vol. LIII
23. Memorandum from 'GFD' to Sir Horace Wilson, 4 December 1936, PRO, CAB 21/4100/2
24. E. A. Hughes, The Royal Naval College Dartmouth, p. 74
25. A. J. P. Taylor, English History 1914-1945, p. 402
26. Rhoda Anderson to King Edward VIII, n.d. [December 1936], RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 2
27. Nancy Mitford to Evelyn Waugh, 22 December 1949, in Charlotte Mosley (ed.), The Letters of Nancy Mitford, p. 293
28. Quoted in Hugo Vickers, Cecil Beaton, p. 194
29. Telegram from Prime Minister of Britain to Dominion Prime Ministers, 4 December 1936, PRO, CAB 21/4100/2
30. British Movietone News newsreel, 14 December 1936
31. Letter to King Edward VIII, 6 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 1-6
32. Hazel King Tillman to King Edward VIII, 8 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 8
33. Margaret Dickinson and Sarah Street, Cinema and State, p. 8
34. Edith Londonderry, Retrospect, pp. 251-4
35. Emma Taylor to King Edward VIII, n.d. [December 1936], RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 4
36. Olive May Neal to King Edward VIII, 4 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Box 2
37. Pamela Deverell to King Edward VIII, 4 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Box 4
38. Winston Churchill, The Second World War, Vol. 1, p. 218
39. Diary of John George Harmer, 4 December 1936, Acc. 6220/B0X 9
40. Hansard, 4 December 1936
41. 'A lover of Church & State' to Mrs Baldwin, 4 December 1936, Lucy Baldwin Papers
42. Robert Graves and Alan Hodge, The Long Week-end, p. 363
43. Mrs Greta [?]Clench to King Edward VIII, 4 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 4
44. Dennis Wheatley to King Edward VIII, 6 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Boxes 1-6
45. From South Chingford, Essex, to King Edward VIII, 4 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 4
46. Margaret Chalmers to King Edward VIII, 5 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 3
47. Letter from London to King Edward VIII, 5 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Boxes 1-6
48. James Fenton Webster to King Edward VIII, 4 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 4
49. Gwladys M. Alexander-Williams to King Edward VIII, 4 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 5
50. A. Davies to King Edward VIII, 5 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 1
51. Diary entry for 15 December 1935, quoted in Celia Lee, Jean, Lady Hamilton, p. 258
52. E. J. Rendle to King Edward VIII, 6 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 1
53. William Williamson to King Edward VIII, 9 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 6
54. Letter from Trieste, Italy, to King Edward VIII, 6 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD Boxes 1-6
55. R. D. Walton to King Edward VIII, 6 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 2
56. Entry for 4 December 1936, Geoffrey Dawson, Abdication Diary, Dawson Papers, MS Dawson 55
57. E. J. Rendle to King Edward VIII, 6 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 1
58. 'The King and a crisis. Points at issue', The Times, 4 December 1936
59. Entry for 5 December 1936, Geoffrey Dawson, Abdication Diary, Dawson Papers, MS Dawson 55
60. Robert Skidelsky,/ofc« Maynard Keynes, p. 628
61. Quoted in Ibid.
62. From Streatham Hill, London, to King Edward VIII, 9 December 1936, RA PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 7-9
63. Vera Brittain, Testament of Experience, p. 161
64. Diary entry for 9 December 1936, The Diaries and Letters of Robert Bernays, p. 279
65. Diary entry for 4 December, quoted in J. G. Lockhart, Cosmo Gordon Lang, p. 402; emphasis added
66.
James Agate, Diary entry for 4 December 1936, Ego 3, p. 57
67. Lucy Baldwin, diary entry for 5 December 1936, Lucy Baldwin Papers
68. Diary entry, 5 December 1936, Parliament and Politics . . . The Headlam Diaries, p. 101
69. Evelyn Waugh, Diaries, 4-8 December 1936, p. 416
70. S. C. Howard [PJFripp to King Edward VIII, 6 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 3
71. James Agate, diary entry for 5 December 1936, Ego 3, pp. 57-8
72. Ibid., p. 58
73. George Bernard Shaw, 'The King, the Constitution and the Lady', Evening Standard, 5 December 1936
74. Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan to Lady Mary K. Trevelyan, 8 December 1936, Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan Papers, CPT Ex 130/100
75. Diary entry, 5 December 1936, Parliament and Politics .. . The Headlam Diaries, p. 101
76. From Selsdon, Surrey, to King Edward VIII, 3 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 1-6
77. Charles Nelson Stewart to King Edward VIII, 3 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 1-6
78. From Cheltenham to King Edward VIII, 4 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Boxes 1-6
79. From Colne, Lancashire, to King Edward VIII, 4 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 1-6
80. A. J. Knights to Winston Churchill, 6 December 1936, Churchill Papers, CHAR 2/597-B
81. 5 December 1935, Daily Mirror
82. 5 December 1936, Daily Express
83. Telegram from Zetland to Linlithgow, 7 December 1936, Linlithgow Papers, MSS Eur/F/125.15
84. Diary entry, 7 December 1936, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, pp. 39-40
85. 'King and country - An anxious week-end', The Times, 7 December 1936
86. Daily Mirror, 5 December 1936
87. Ibid.
88. Telegram to King Edward VIII, 6 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD Box 10
89. Olwen Herbert-Jones to King Edward VIII, 5 December 1936, RA, PS/ GVI/ABD, Box 3
90. J. Reeve to King Edward VIII, 4 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 3
91. Telegram to King Edward VIII, 6 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 10
92. W. Wain to King Edward VIII, 7 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 1
93. Mrs Gerald Hervey to King Edward VIII, 7 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 6
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'Cavaliers and Roundheads'
1. Lord Beaverbrook to Roy W. Howard, 8 December 1936, quoted in Lord Beaverbrook, The Abdication of King Edward VIII, p. 122
2. Diary entry for 7 December, Chips: The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon, p. 94
3. Diary entry for 6 December, Ibid., p. 93
4. Telegram to King Edward VIII, 4 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 10; Mrs R. H. Wheeler to King Edward VIII, 8 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 1
5. Letter from London to King Edward VIII, 4 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Boxes 1-6
6. Diary entry, 7 December 1936, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, pp. 39-40
7. Telegram from Zetland to Linlithgow, 7 December 1936, Linlithgow Papers, MSS Eur/F/iz5.i5
8. Diary of Violet Milner, 3 December 1936, Violet Milner Papers, VM 5
9. Winston Churchill, 'The abdication crisis: Mr Baldwin's shrewdness', Yorkshire Post, 30 April 1948
10. Lord Citrine, Men and Work, p. 328
11. Quoted in David Cannadine, In Churchill's Shadow, p. 63
12. Mary Soames (ed.), Speaking for Themselves, p. 423
13. Hugo Vickers (ed.), Cocktails & Laughter, p. 68
14. Martin S. Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, Vol. 5, p. 811
15. Quoted in Ibid., p. 811
16. Robin Birkenhead, Churchill 1914-1949, p. 74
17. Martin S. Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, Vol. 5, p. 812
18. Hansard, 3 December 1936
19. Evening Standard, 3 December 1936
20. Quoted in Philip Guedalla, The Hundredth Year, p. 276
21. Malcolm Muggeridge, The Thirties, p. 284
22. Martin S. Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, Vol. 5, p. 814
23. Norah Thompson and D. Edwards to Winston Churchill, 6 December 1936, Churchill Papers, CHAR 2/598-B
24. F. S. Harvey to Winston Churchill, 12 December 1936, Churchill Papers, CHAR 2/598-B
25. Phyllis Bowes to Winston Churchill, 6 December 1936, Churchill Papers, CHAR 2/597-A
26. Miss M. D. Boston to Winston Churchill, 7 December 1936, Churchill Papers, CHAR 2/597-A
27. A. P. Hamilton to Winston Churchill, 5 December 1936, Churchill Papers, CHAR 2/597-B
28. Oswald Gregson to Winston Churchill, 5 December 1936, Churchill Papers, CHAR 2/597-B
29. Quoted in Martin S. Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, Vol. 5, p. 814
30. 'Notes by Sir Horace Wilson, at 10 Downing Street', n.d. [late December 1936 or early 1937], CAB 127/157
31. Neville Chamberlain to Stanley Baldwin, 5 December 1936, PRO, CAB 21/4100/2
32. Martin S. Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, Vol. 5, p. 814
33. Ibid., p. 815
34. Ibid., p. 817
35. Winston Churchill to Stanley Baldwin, 5 December 1936, PRO, PREM 1/448
36. Letter from Menston, near Leeds, to King Edward VIII, 6 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 1-6
37. J. Evans to King Edward VIII, 8 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 1
38. 'A Loyal Subject' to King Edward VIII, 5 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Boxes 1-6
39. Cabinet minutes for 4 December 1936, PRO, CAB 23/86 Vol. LIII
40. Sydney Morning Herald, 7 December 1936
41. Earl de la Warr to Stanley Baldwin, 4 December 1936, PRO, PREM 1/448
42. The Times, 5 December 1936
43. Winston Churchill to Geoffrey Dawson, 9 December 1936, Dawson Papers, MS Dawson 79, fols 52-3
44. Quoted in Iain Macleod, Neville Chamberlain, p. 198
45. Thomas Jones, A Diary with Letters, p. 291
46. 'ACD' to Geoffrey Dawson, 6 December 1936, Dawson Papers, MS Dawson 79, fol. 34
47. Quoted in Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p. 275
48. Christopher Hibbert, Edward: The Uncrowned King, p. 15
49. Cabinet minutes for 6 December 1936, PRO, CAB 23/86 Vol. LIII
50. Cabinet minutes for 4 December 1936, PRO, CAB 23/86 Vol. LIII
51. Hilda Runciman diary, 11 December 1936, Hilda Runciman Papers, WR Add 10, 21 March 1936 to 26 January 1937
52. Telegram to King Edward VIII, 7 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 10
53. John Ridley to King Edward VIII, 5 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 3
54. Robert Graves and Alan Hodge, The Long Week-end, p. 364
55. Walton Newbold to Winston Churchill, 6 December 1936, in Martin S. Gilbert, Companion to Winston S. Churchill, Vol. 5, p. 460
56. Kingsley Martin, The Magic of Monarchy, p. 77
57. Robert Skidelsky, Oswald Mosley, p. 329
58. Diary of Anthony Heap, 3 December 1936, Acc. 2243/9/1
59. Kingsley Martin, The Magic of Monarchy, p. 77
60. Telegram to King Edward VIII, n December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box ro
61. Telegrams to King Edward VIII, December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 10
62. Telegram to King Edward VIII, 7 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 10
63. Saturday Review, 12 December 1936
64. Kingsley Martin, The Magic of Monarchy, pp. 78-9
65. Ulick Alexander to The Times, 24 December 1965
66. Frank Owen and R. J. Thompson, His Was the Kingdom, p. 69
67. H. Montgomery Hyde, The Londonderrys, p. 238
68. Mary Finch to King Edward VIII, 8 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 1
69. Diary of David Strain, 7 December 1936, PRONI, D285/3/16
70. Letter from Sunderland to King Edward VIII, n.d. [December 1936], RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 1-6
71. 'One of your country men' to King Edward VIII, 6 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 3
72. Hansard, 8 December 1936
73. Telegram from Cloudesley Brereton to King Edward VIII, 7 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI
/ABD, Box 10
74. Letter from Paris to King Edward VIII, 5 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Boxes 1-6
75. Letter from London to King Edward VIII, 4 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Boxes 1-6
76. Duke of Windsor, A King's Story, p. 385
77. Telegram to King Edward VIII, 3 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 10
78. M. J. Davis to King Edward VIII, 9 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 6
79. Annie E. Mead to King Edward VIII, 5 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 3
80. F. M. Toovey to King Edward VIII, 7 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 1
81. Herbert Barnes to Winston Churchill, 6 December 1936, Churchill Papers, CHAR 2/597-A
82. 'Public opinion' to King Edward VIII, n.d. [December 1936], RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 5
83. W. K. Leslie and H. H. Bland to King Edward VIII, 5 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 3
84. C. Bacon to King Edward VIII, n.d. [December 1936], RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 2
85. Letter from London to King Edward VIII, 6 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Boxes 1-6
86. J. A. Godley[?J to King Edward VIII, 5 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 3
87. Letter from Brighton to King Edward VIII, 3 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 1-6
88. H. Stanley Jevons to Winston Churchill, 8 December 1936, Churchill Papers, CHAR 2/597-B
89. Arthur Thurbon to King Edward VIII, 3 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Boxes 1-6
90. Marjorie Deans to Winston Churchill, 5 December 1936, Churchill Papers, CHAR 2/597-A
91. A. Jackson to King Edward VIII, 3 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 4
92. John T. Drew to King Edward VIII, 3 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 4
93. D. Howard Edwards to King Edward VIII, 3 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 4
94. J. H. Squire to King Edward VIII, n.d. [December 1936], RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 3
95. W. W. Hitching to King Edward VIII, n.d. [December 1936], RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 5
96. Herbert M. A. Richards to King Edward VIII, December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 6
97. Martin S. Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, Vol. 5, p. 820
98. Vera Brittain, Testament of Experience, p. 161
99. Diary of Florence Turtle, 8 December 1936
100. Diary entry, 7 December 1936, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, pp. 39-40