101. M. [?]Bland to King Edward VIII, 6 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 2
102. Duke of Windsor, A King's Story, p. 385
103. Gaston L. D. de Vere to King Edward VIII, 4 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 3
104. Edith Londonderry, Retrospect, p. 255
105. Durham County Advertiser, 20 November 1936, pp. 3, 7
106. Evelyn Webb Summer to King Edward VIII, 6 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 1-6
107. Telegram to King Edward VIII, 6 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 10
108. Letter from London to King Edward VIII, 6 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 1-6 109. Joan Sexton to King Edward VIII, 4 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 4
no. J. G. Lockhart, Cosmo Gordon Lang, p. 403
IO
'Don't abdicate!'
1. Wallis Simpson to Edward VIII, n.d. [6 December 1936], in Michael Bloch (ed.), Wallis & Edward Letters, pp. 219-21
2. Entry for 28 January 1937, in Susan Lowndes (ed.), Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, p. 153
3. Report, unsigned and undated, PRO, PREM 1/466
4. 'Note of interview with Mr Simpson', by the King's Proctor, 24 February 1937, PRO, TS 22/1/2
5. 'Crowded benches', The Times, 8 December 1936
6. Diary of Edgar Procter, 6 December 1936
7. Miss E. M. Small to King Edward VIII, 9 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Box 6
8. Diary of Violet Milner, 7 December 1936, Violet Milner Papers, VM 5
9. Hansard, 7 December 1936
10. 'Crowded benches', The Times, 8 December 1936
11. Beaverbrook learned this from the Lloyd George Papers: see Lord Beaverbrook, The Abdication of King Edward VIII, p. 78, footnote 2
12. G. M. Young, Stanley Baldwin, p. 242
13. J. R. O'Brien to Winston Churchill, 8 December 1936, Churchill Papers, CHAR 2/597-A
14. Francis N. Beaufort-Palmer to Winston Churchill, 8 December 1936, Churchill Papers, CHAR 2/597-A
15. Philip Guedalla, The Hundredth Year, p. 282
16. Duchess of Windsor, The Heart Has Its Reasons, p. 217
17. Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p. 269
18. Quoted in Ibid., p. 271
19. Francis Hugo Meynell, abdication journal, 112A-B
20. Alan Turing to his mother, 11 December [1936], Alan Turing Papers, AMT/K/1/50
21. Gerald Bullett to Winston Churchill, 8 December 1936, Churchill Papers, CHAR 2/597-A
22. Ibid.
23. Janet Trevelyan to George M. Trevelyan, 6 December 1936, Mary Moorman Papers, 2/2/9
24. B. Abbott to King Edward VIII, 4 December 193 6, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 3
25. Quoted in Diana Mosley, The Duchess of Windsor, p. 116
26. Frances Lloyd George, The Years That Are Past, p. 258
27. Quoted in J. Graham Jones, 'Lloyd George and the abdication of Edward VIII', p. 94.
28. Frances Lloyd George, The Years That Are Past, p. 258
29. Blanche Dugdale, diary entry for 8 December 1936, quoted in Martin Gilbert, Companion to Winston S. Churchill, Vol. 5, p. 466
30. Violet Bonham Carter to Geoffrey Dawson, 9 December 1936, Dawson Papers, MS Dawson 79, fols 48-9
31. Robin Birkenhead, Churchill 1914-1940, p. 78
32. Winston Churchill, The Second World War, Vol. 1, p. 172
33. Winston Churchill to Geoffrey Dawson, 9 December 1936, Dawson Papers, MS Dawson 79, fols 52-3
34. John Gunther, Inside Europe, p. 257
35. Diary entry for 9 December 1936, The Diaries and Letters of Robert Bernays, p. 277
36. Mrs Nellie Bagg to King Edward VIII, 9 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Box 5
37. Eileen Lane, Kay Dick and F. D. Lingham Burley to King Edward VIII, 9 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 5
38. Miss Edith Lowndes to King Edward VIII, 9 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 5
39. Telegram from Stanley Baldwin to the Prime Ministers of the Dominions, 4 December 1936, PRO, CAB 21/4100/2
40. 'The abdication of His Majesty King Edward VIII, Correspondence with the Dominions, Part 1', PRO, DO 114/81
41. Telegram to King Edward VIII, 4 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 10
42. Telegram from Constitutional Association of New South Wales to Winston Churchill, 7 December 1936, Churchill Papers, CHAR 2/599
43. George Fairbanks, 'Australia and the abdication crisis', p. 301
44. Telegram from Australian High Commissioner to Dominions Office, 9 December 1936, PRO, HO 144/21070
45. Sydney Morning Herald, 10 December 1936 (quoted in Compton Mackenzie, The Windsor Tapestry, pp. 494-9)
46. George Fairbanks, 'Australia and the abdication crisis', p. 302
47. Australian Parliamentary Debates, Vol. 152, 11 December 1936
48. 'Opinion in the Dominions', The Times, 4 December 1936
49. Copy of statements by Reuters to King Edward VIII, 5 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box xo
50. Ottawa Citizen, 8 December 1936
51. Telegram to King Edward VIII, 5 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 10
52. Telegram to King Edward VIII, 7 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 10
53. I hid.
54. Letter from North Vancouver to King Edward VIII, 5 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 1-6
55. Letter from Toronto to King Edward VIII, 11 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 7-9
56. Telegram to King Edward VIII, 7 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 10
57. Wallis Simpson to Duke of Windsor, 21 [January 1937], in Michael Bloch (ed.), Wallis & Edward Letters, p. 248
58. Duke of Windsor, A King's Story, p. 378
59. High Commissioner, Pretoria, to Resident Commissioners of Maseru, Mafeking and Mbabane, 5 December 1936, PRO, DO 119/1077
60. Resident Commissioner, Maseru, to High Commissioner, Pretoria, 5 December 1936, PRO, DO 119/1077
61. Resident Commissioner, Mbabane, to High Commissioner, Pretoria, 7 December 1936, PRO, DO 119/1077
62. 'The Empire', Daily Herald, 4 December 1936
63. Copy of statements by Reuters to King Edward VIII, 5 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 10
64. Telegram from Linlithgow to Zetland, 8 December 1936, Linlithgow Papers, MSS Eur/F/125.15
65. Report on meeting of ministers, 8 December 1936, PRO, CAB 127/155
66. Telegram from Zetland to Linlithgow, 10 December 1936, Linlithgow Papers, MSS Eur/F/125.15
67. Telegram from Governor of Bengal to Linlithgow, 8 December 1936, No. 210, Linlithgow Papers, MSS Eur/F/125.116
68. Telegram from Governor of Madras to Linlithgow, 8 December 1936, No. 210, Linlithgow Papers, MSS Eur/F/125.116
69. Governor of Punjab to Linlithgow, 7 December 1936, No. 210, Linlithgow Papers, MSS Eur/F/125.116
70. Telegram from Governor of Assam to Linlithgow, 8 December 1936, No. 210, Linlithgow Papers, MSS Eur/F/125.116
71. Telegram from Governor of Central Provinces to Linlithgow, 9 December 1936, No. 214, Linlithgow Papers, MSS Eur/F/125.116
72. Fredoon Kabraji to King Edward VIII, 4 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 5
73. Mohammed Ally Khan to Piers Legh, 6 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Box r
74. Telegram to King Edward VIII, 4 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 10
75. Quoted in Philip Ziegler, King Edward VIII, p. 137
76. Ibid.
77. Telegram to King Edward VIII, 7 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 10
78. Ibid.
79. Copy of statements by Reuters to King Edward VIII, 5 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 10
II
'Our cock won't fight'
I. Quoted in S. M. Cretney, 'The King and the King's Proctor', p. 600, note 112 z. Lord Beaverbrook, The Abdication of King Edward VIII, p. 79
3. Ibid., p. 80
4. Martin S. Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, Vol. 5, p. 820-21
5. Lord Beaverbrook, The Abdication of King Edward VIII, p. 81
6. Francis Meynell, abdication journal, Fra
ncis Hugo Meynell Papers, 112A-B
7. Duke of Windsor, A King's Story, pp. 401-2
8. Quoted in John W. Wheeler-Bennett, King George VI, p. 286
9. Duke of Windsor, A King's Story, p. 402
10. Nancy Dugdale diary, p. 71, Nancy Dugdale Papers
II. Diary of Violet Milner, 8 December 1936, Violet Milner Papers, VM 5
12. Duchess of Windsor, The Heart Has Its Reasons, p. 272
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. Duke of Windsor, A King's Story, p. 403
16. Duchess of Windsor, The Heart Has Its Reasons, p. 273
17. Tom Driberg, Ruling Passions, p. 106
18. Entry for 8 December 1936, Geoffrey Dawson, Abdication Diary, Dawson Papers, MS Dawson 55
19. 'Constitutional crisis. Attitude of the British press', n.d. [December 1936], PRO, PREM 1/446
20. Entry for 8 December 1936, Geoffrey Dawson, Abdication Diary, Dawson Papers, MS Dawson 55
21. G. E. Buckle et al., History of The Times, p. 905
22. John Evelyn Wrench, Geoffrey Dawson and Our Times, p. 336
23. Diary of Anthony Heap, 8 December 1936, Acc. 2243/9/1
24. Diary of Florence Turtle, 8 December 1936
25. Letter from Cumberland to King Edward VIII, n December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 7-9
26. Mrs May Henderson to King Edward VIII, 8 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 6
27. Doreen Kendall-Bradley to King Edward VIII, 8 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 6
28. Elsa Staunton to King Edward VIII, 8 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 6
29. F. Broadbent to King Edward VIII, 8 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 5
30. Frances Horton to King Edward VIII, 7 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 5
31. Robert Spence Robertson to King Edward VIII, 8 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 5
32. Kathleen Marshall to King Edward VIII, 10 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 8
33. 'Poor working woman' to King Edward VIII, n.d. [December 1936], RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 1-6
34. R. A. Carrington to King Edward VIII, 6 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Boxes 1-6
35. Lord Beaverbrook, The Abdication of King Edward VIII, p. 89
36. Diary of Lucy Baldwin, 8 December 1936, Lucy Baldwin Papers
37. Diary of Ramsay MacDonald, 13 February 1936, PRO, PRO 30/69
38. 'Notes by Sir Horace Wilson, at 10 Downing Street', n.d. [late December 1936 or early 1937], CAB 127/157
39. Violet Milner, diary entry for 9 December 1936, Violet Milner Papers, VM 5
40. Statement by Lord Brownlow, 9 December 1936, Brownlow Papers, BNLW, 4/4/9/4
41. Telegram from Baldwin to leaders of the Dominions, 8 December 1936, PRO, HO 144/21070
42. Lord Beaverbrook, The Abdication of King Edward VIII, p. 118
43. 'Notes by Sir Horace Wilson, at 10 Downing Street', n.d. [late December 1936 or early 1937I, CAB 127/157
44. Duchess of Windsor, The Heart Has Its Reasons, p. 235
45. Duke of Windsor, A King's Story, p. 404
46. 'Narrative of Mr Theodore Goddard, Solicitor of Mrs Simpson', July 19 51, Appendix C of Lord Beaverbrook, The Abdication of King Edward VIII, pp. 116-20
47. Duchess of Windsor, The Heart Has Its Reasons, pp. 274-7
48. Diary of Nancy Dugdale, p. 75, Nancy Dugdale Papers
49. Quoted in John W. Wheeler-Bennett, King George VI, p. 286 (see also footnote b)
50. Quoted in R. T. E. Latham, The Law and the Commonwealth, Appendix: 'The abdication of King Edward VIII in Commonwealth law and convention', p. 625
51. Duke of Windsor, A King's Story, p. 404
52. Diary of Lucy Baldwin, 9 December 1936, Lucy Baldwin Papers
53. Francis Hugo Meynell to Lady Meynell, 11 December 1936, Francis Hugo Meynell Papers, D859/2/11/2
54. Diary of Nancy Dugdale, p. 76, Nancy Dugdale Papers
55. Diary of Cecil Scott Turner, 10 December 1936, Acc/1385
56. Diary of Edgar Procter, 10 December 1936, D222/13
57. Vera Brittain, Testament of Experience, p. 162
58. Notes by King Edward VIII and by Horace Wilson, n.d. [10 December 1936], PRO, PREM 1/455
59. 'Historic day in Parliament', The Times, 11 December 1936
60. Diary entry for 15 December 1936, The Diaries and Letters of Robert Bernays, pp. 279-80
61. Diary of Nancy Dudgale, p. 80, Nancy Dugdale Papers
62. Diary entry for 15 December 1936, The Diaries and Letters of Robert Bernays, pp. 279-80
63. Philip Guedalla, The Hundredth Year, p. 289
64. Diary entry for 15 December 1936, The Diaries and Letters of Robert Bernays, p. 279
65. G. M. Young, Stanley Baldwin, p. 56
66. Diary of Lucy Baldwin, 10 December 1936, Lucy Baldwin Papers
67. 'M.P.', inside Westminster', Tribune, 1 January 1937, quoted in Michael Foot, Aneurin Bevan, pp. 241-2
68. Hansard, 10 December 1936
69. Diary entry, 10 December 1936, Parliament and Politics. . . The Headlam Diaries, p. 103
70. Mrs Baldwin to Nancy Dugdale, Z4 December 1936, diary of Nancy Dugdale, pp. 103-4, Nancy Dugdale Papers
71. Winston Churchill, 'The abdication crisis: Mr Baldwin's shrewdness', Yorkshire Post, 30 April 1948
72. Ibid.
73. Entry for 10 December 1936, The Diaries of Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart, p. 361
74. Peter Gornall and Robert Bradley to Stanley Baldwin, 17 December 1936, Baldwin Papers Vol. 146
75. Dorothy M. Povah to Stanley Baldwin, iz December 1936, Baldwin Papers Vol. 146
76. Agnes Fulton to Stanley Baldwin, 14 December 1936, Baldwin Papers Vol. 145
77. Wm J. Cooper to Stanley Baldwin, 15 December 1936, Baldwin Papers Vol. 145
78. Edith Londonderry to Stanley Baldwin, 12 December 1936, Baldwin Papers Vol. 143
79. Sir F. Maurice to Stanley Baldwin, iz December 1936, Baldwin Papers Vol. 148
80. Diary of Hilda Runciman, zo November 1936, Hilda Runciman Papers, 21 March 1936 to 26 January 1937
81. F. G. Watton to the Duke of Windsor, 12 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Box 8
82. A. G. Griffith to King Edward VIII, 5 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 2
83. British Legion, Birmingham, to King Edward VIII, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 1-6
84. W. Graham to King Edward VIII, 4 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 4
85. G. R. Garner to King Edward VIII, Sunday [most likely 6 December 1936], RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 2
86. Vera Brittain, Testament of Experience, p. 162
87. Diary of Jan Longley, 10 December 1936, Acc. 35694/21
88. Diary of Anthony Heap, 10 December 1936, Acc. 2243/9/1
89. Diary of Mary Elizabeth King, 6 December 1936, MS 1547/15
90. Anonymous to King Edward VIII, n.d. [December 1936], RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 8
91. Mrs Rose Carter to King Edward VIII, n.d. [December 1936], RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 8
92. 'A mother' to King Edward VIII, 10 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 8
93. George A. Wright to King Edward VIII, 10 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 8
94. 'A Loyal Subject' to King Edward VIII, n.d. [December 1936], RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 9
95. D. D. Davies to King Edward VIII, 10 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 9
96. Letter from Kent to King Edward VIII, 10 December [1936], RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Boxes 7-9
97. Letter to King Edward VIII, 10 December [1936], RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 7-9
98. Letter to King Edward VIII, 10 December [1936], RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 7-9
99. Bernard Shaw to John G. Moore, 23 June 1937, in Dan H. Laurence (ed.), Bernard Shaw, p. 469
100. Lascelles to Dawson, 13 December 1936, Dawson Papers, MS Dawson 79, fol. 80
101. Edward, Prince of Wales, to Mrs Freda Dudley Ward, 28 April 1920, in Letters from a Prince, p. 3 59
102. Duke of Windsor, A King's Story, p. 278
103. J. Graham Jones, 'Lloyd George
and the abdication of Edward VIII', p. 93
104. Ibid., p. 91
105. Duke of Windsor, A King's Story, p. 280
106. Oliver Warner, Admiral of the Fleet, p. 65
107. Ross McKibbin, Classes and Cultures, p. 7
108. Quoted in J. Graham Jones, 'Lloyd George and the abdication of Edward VIII', pp. 89-90
109. Hazel King Tillman to King Edward VIII, 8 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 8
no. Diary of Nancy Dugdale, pp. 70-1, Nancy Dugdale Papers
in. Quoted from John Aird's unpublished diaries in Geordie Greig, Louis
and the Prince, p. 257
112. Parliamentary Counsel, Treasury Chambers, to Sir Horace Wilson, 7 December 1936, PRO, PREM 1/466
113. Diary of Anthony Heap, 11 December 1936, Acc. 2243/9/1
114. Letter to King Edward VIII, 10 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 7-9
115. Letter from Kent to King Edward VIII, 10 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Boxes 7-9
116. Eric W. Sykes to King Edward VIII, 10 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ ABD,Box 9
117. Letter from Tottenham, London, to King Edward VIII, 5 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 1-6
118. 'Miss Wales' to King Edward VIII, n.d. [December 1936], RA, PS/GVI/ ABD, Box 8
119. Doris M. Devereux to King Edward VIII, n.d. [December 1936], RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 8
120. Geo. H. Buckland to King Edward VIII, 11 December 1936, RA, PS/ GVI/ABD, Box 8
121. Harry Wild to Winston Churchill, 12 December 1936, Churchill Papers, CHAR 2/598-B
122. Note by Walter Monckton, 'Secret 8c Confidential', 2 November 1937, Dep. Monckton Trustees 15, fol. 313
12
'God bless you both'
1. Diary of Edgar Procter, 11 December 1937, D222/13
2. Duke of Windsor, A King's Story, p. 409
3. Martin S. Gilbert, Companion to Winston S. Churchill, Vol. 5, p. 511
4. Duke of Windsor, A King's Story, p. 409
5. J. Bryan III and Charles J. V. Murphy, The Windsor Story, p. 281
6. Lilian Shepherd to King Edward VIII, 6 December 1936, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Box 3
7. J. Bryan III and Charles J. V. Murphy, The Windsor Story, p. 281
8. Letter to King Edward VI11,3 December 19 3 6, RA, PS/GVI/ABD, Boxes 1 - 6
9. Sibyl Colefax to Bernard Berenson, n.d. [1936], Berenson Papers, File CS 1936-1938
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